{"id":5160,"date":"2012-09-18T11:29:15","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T11:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/?p=5160"},"modified":"2012-09-18T11:29:15","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T11:29:15","slug":"afrique-3d-by-dj-boula-one-slick-rick-living-the-highlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/afrique-3d-by-dj-boula-one-slick-rick-living-the-highlife\/","title":{"rendered":"Afrique 3D by dj Boula One – Slick Rick living the highlife"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When we saw the announcement for Boula One’s upcoming recording project, his name rang a bell. Indeed a few years ago, the French producer – also releasing projects under the Ben Bella Jazz<\/a> banner – contributed a couple of productions to the world of African hip hop in 2008 on the first album ‘Metaphor za Mtaa’ by Kenyan rapper Goreala<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On his plate now is something new. Boula One reinterpreted afrofunk and afrobeat classics and rare grooves from the 70s and 80s, something done by other producers in recent years – think Madlib’s ‘Beat Konducta in Africa’ excursions or the many Fela interpretations floating around the web. His approach is a bit different though, the teasers released for the upcoming ‘Afrique 3D’ don’t merely sound like quickly cut loops or instrumentals with a drum added. They are well crafted beats, and the hip hop vocals added on top often work well – what about Slick Rick meets Ghanaian highlife band Vis a Vis<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Listen to more of what’s supposed to come later this year in this Mixcloud show<\/a> courtesy of Belgian online station Laid Back Radio. The pre-release mixtape includes re-edits of Goreala songs and collabos with Dudley Perkins, Sandra Nkake (the voice in the teaser video above), dj Grazhoppa and many more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When we saw the announcement for Boula One’s upcoming recording project, his name rang a bell. Indeed a few years ago, the French producer – also releasing projects under the Ben Bella Jazz banner – contributed a couple of productions to the world of African hip hop in 2008 on the first album ‘Metaphor za […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}