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Congolese Music on Muxtape

postedby ericnguyen on April15th,2008 tagged goma

Fred over at ExtraExtra just posted a playlist of Congolese music that you can listen to right in your browser: http://fredr.muxtape.com/

This former post has an awesome video of Congolese kids grooving out to this stuff, plus some history of the music. I’ve embedded the video here, too:

Muxtape.com looks like a great idea, by the way. I seem to remember several similar companies choking on copyright lawyer effluent, back in the boom. I wonder how these guys are surviving.

N’Dombolo (September, 2007)
Video from the Mugunga Camps (January, 2008)
Donated Lappys (August, 2007)
Congolese Plane Crashes (April, 2008)
Live from Goma (August, 2007)

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watson Says:
April 17th, 2008 at 2:35 am
holy shiyaz … good time to randomly decide to come check your blog out!

these kids can freakin dance yo. i’m going to have to watch this video a few more times to pick up some moves. i like that out-of-the-blue drop that 3rd dude does.

serious hip action in here.

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