FFTANG! FFTANG!

Scorching line-up down in Camden this Friday…

The Silver Bullet in Finsbury Park have got our Huskiii on their NYE line-up alongside The Herbaliser DJs. Time Out recommended yo! Click here to bag yourself an earlybird ticket for only six quid.

After a hiatus due to the birth of l’il Huskiii we’re back once again with the ill tropical bass behaviour… Obee and Huskiii man the decks at New Cross’s Amersham Arms for a one off FFTANG! FFTANG! event with live percussion this Saturday. Global party music for the carbon footloose generation. And it’s FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

This Easter weekend will be your last chance to get your FFTANG! on for a while as we’re taking an extended hiatus after three packed years of tropical mashup fiestas. We’ve got the Amersham Arms in New Cross locked and loaded for our blow-out party. Check out the Facebook event here.

After that? Who knows? There’ll be one more set from Huskiii this year at Camino on April 20 and we’re not ruling out the possibility [...]

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Champeta evolved from Colombian soundsystems playing African Soukous records. Electro Champeta is the genre delving into more electronic waters and while Soukous guitars buried under a ton of samples (including a yapping dog leitmotif) may not be to everyone’s taste I can’t get enough of it.

Here’s a mix that I did last month… [...]

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Ahead of tomorrow’s party. Big Chill quiz FFTANG! FFTANG!’s Huskiii and Marsali about this new darn fangled ‘Tropical Bass’.

Could you tell us a bit about Tropical Bass as a genre?

Marsali: Tropical bass is about taking the [...]

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The second act we’ve got lined up for Friday is the high octane Gypsy Hill. This band fuse together balkan, surf-rock, massive bass-lines, Mediterranean guitars and a whole heap of electronics, scratching and beats. Keep your eyes peeled for their debut album which is set to drop this year.

Poznash (Äl Jawala vs Gypsy Hill) – Remix by Gypsy Hill
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The headline act at our upcoming Big Chill House party comes in the form of the scorching Yaaba Funk.

Combining fat analogue basslines, blazing horns and gritty rock guitars this floor-filling ten piece play a red hot mix of Ghanian hi-life, afrobeat and low down dirty funk. Pure fire. Here’s them performing at the capital’s recent Seun Kuti gig [...]

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We got a massive party coming up in Jan. FFTANG! FFTANG! take over The Big Chill House in Kings Cross on Friday 13th and we’ve got a hell of a line-up, including a scorching headline performance from the amazing Yaaba Funk and live electronics, scratching and balkan surf-rock from Gypsy Hill. All for the price of nada, nothing, Freeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

Info HERE
Facebook listing HERE

The pun’s so good I’m surprised no-one’s done it before: Fela Soul is an album of De La Soul vocals over Fela Kuti loops. The perfect salve after hearing the entire Beatles back catalogue played at the same time.

Download the whole comp (with liner notes) for free HERE