Triple Kinshasa vinyl release event: Orakle Ngoy/Lunatic Beudo feat. Zebede, Bouba & G BOY with EP + Atelier Kamikazi with LP Loketo + Ngwaka Son Systeme with LP Iboto Ngenge

As on their first EP “Mokili Na Poche” on Seismographic Records, ATELIER KAMIKAZI’S collaborative lyrics are dedicated to their spectrum of life as street kids. They struggle with the exhausting and dangerous beauty of life in Kinshasa by encouraging themselves and promising never to give up. Neither in the face of lying politics, nor in the face of a religion whose representative they call “Priest Cat’s Heart”, nor in the face of that great power to which they dedicate several songs, the drug called “Bomb”, made from car catalyst deposits mixed with a wild cocktail of ingredients. They warn against using this drug to see “the nakedness of the turtle”, because the only thing that could really be seen would be the ridiculousness of those consuming the drug. They counter that they are on a mission to conquer the future with their weapons: the weapons of speech, their knowledge and Loketo, the hip swing of dance.
A deep thank you from the heart goes to Cedrick Tshimbalanga & ATELIER KAMIKAZI for enabling this vinyl record with their trust in our work. Without their cooperation and exceptional minds this record would not exist. Thanks go also to AcudMachtNeu (Berlin) and LabKontempo (Kinshasa) as well as to DHBW Ravensburg for supporting our research in Kinshasa.

https://seismorecords.bandcamp.com/album/loketo > vinyl out on May 23, 2025

Lunatic Beudo features the young rappers Zébédé, Bouba and G BOY from Kinshasa. These kids are surviving life on the streets. Yet, they all make fun of U.S. American gangsta sh*t hip-hop because they know when it comes to real street life nobody will tell them nothing.
How can anger, clarity of social analysis, the experience of pressure and pain as well as mystery be reconciled? In the flow of Congolese rapper Orakle Ngoy. Which she uses for a feminist critique of the (capitalist) system, being one of the very few female rap stars from Kinshasa. Decolonized beats based on exotica samples were provided for Orakle by German producer Martin Georgi, a son of English-Sinhalese immigrants.
A deep thank you by heart goes to Lunatic Beudo and Peter Miyalu for enabling this vinyl record project. Without their cooperation and helpful minds this record would not exist.
Thanks goes also to AcudMachtNeu (Berlin) and LabKontempo (Kinshasa) as well as to DHBW Ravensburg for supporting our research in Kinshasa.

https://seismorecords.bandcamp.com/album/orakle-ngoy-lunatic-beudo-feat-z-b-de-bouba-g-boy > vinyl out since February 18, 2025

Ngwaka Son Systéme – Music for right here right now straight from the megacity of Kinshasa, DRC. Follow at www.instagram.com/ngwakasonsysteme/
NSS is led by musicians Love Lokombe and Bom’s Bomolo, having previously founded KOKOKO. This new project continues the contemporary Congolese tradition of reinventing electronic music by shaping and crafting music instruments made of household objects.
Iboto Ngenge means “power struggle” or “seizing the opportunity” but while words can only be roughly translated, the music reaches listeners unambiguously: A potent mixture of techno, rumba, soukous, zagué and dancehall with the unique “Kinoise” brand – the city that never stops innovating in the music landscape worldwide.
As a means to continue strengthening the links between Africa and Latin America, Eck Echo has tasked Colombian dub engineer Diego Gomez (Dub de Gaita) with the analog mixing of the stems, originally recorded by Levy David at Timbela Ba Studio in Kinshasa. With the aim to bring the lexicon of shared Colombian and Congolese music into the next chapter, we proudly present to the world the magnificent music of Ngwaka Son Systéme.
https://eckecho.bandcamp.com/album/iboto-ngenge > vinyl out since February 2024
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More information: 
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Release event in cooperation with After and Eck Echo.