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Daily Discovery: Alex Pertout – L'Oya / Longo Ito


Chilean-born, Melbourne-based percussionist Alex Pertout grew up listening to Mongo Santamaría's Yambú. "L'Oya/Longo Ito" takes two Yoruba invocations to Oyá and records them across Melbourne, Havana & Buenos Aires
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Daily Discovery: Lo Poloko – Primo Lychee


Rotterdam nine-piece Lo Poloko release Primo Lychee via AudioMaze. Cumbia rhythms, full brass section, Big Tropical Bang. Produced by Jori Collignon. Released on 20 February.


#LoPoloko #PrimoLychee #cumbia #Rotterdam
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Daily Discovery: Doe Paoro – For All the Generations (Chancha
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Daily Discovery: Espanglish – Como Tú


Mexican band Espanglish release "Como Tú", a song about laughter and the bond with someone who understands your jokes. Traditional Mexican music with electronic production. Released 6 June 2025.


#Espanglish #ComoTú #Mexico
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Daily Discovery: Balkalar – Grad Se Beli


Zagreb band Balkalar record "Grad Se Beli", a traditional song from Međimurje in northern Croatia. From their 2024 self-titled album via JeboTon with MOST Music support.


#Balkalar #GradSeBeli #Croatia #Balkan
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Daily Discovery: Natty Campbell & King Yoof – Hey My Selecta


London MC Natty Campbell and Lewisham producer King Yoof release "Hey My Selecta", a soundsystem track about selectors. Out via Easy Vibes.


#NattyCampbell #KingYoof #HeyMySelecta #London #Reggae
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Daily Discovery: Mel Semé – 20AÑOS


Cuban drummer Mel Semé records "Veinte Años" as "20AÑOS". Written in 1935 by María Teresa Vera about love lost to time, one of the most recorded habaneras in Cuban music. Solo album forthcoming.


#MelSemé #20AÑOS #Cuba #Trova
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Daily Discovery: Niño Fantasma – Cumbia Underground


Stockholm six-piece Niño Fantasma mix cumbia with dub, electronica and punk on "Cumbia Underground". Born from street energy and traditional rhythms in an urban context. Released 15 November


#NiñoFantasma
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Daily Discovery: Reb & the Good News – Pressure


Portland band Reb & the Good News take 1970s Nigerian afrobeat on "Pressure", from album Silver Lining. Written during 2020 as reaction to Oregon fires. Live video from Doug Fir Lounge 2022.


#RebAndTheGoodNews
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Daily Discovery: Estilo Y Gracia – El Jamaiquino


Estilo Y Gracia rework "El Jamaiquino" in Los Angeles with a small Afro-Cuban line-up, featuring a rare bongo solo from Giancarlo Anderson and flugelhorn from Jay Jennings.


#EstiloYGracia #ElJamaiquino #Salsa
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Daily Discovery: Alum Alu – Ederlezi


Latvian folk-rock group Alum Alu build their new double single around the Roma spring song Ederlezi, first as a slow live-recorded ballad, then as Neizturami, a Latvian folk rock track with drums, bass and lyrics about unbearable
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Daily Discovery: Sonora Tukukuy – CTRL Z


On "CTRL Z", Miami sextet Sonora Tukukuy set bolero vocal phrasing over son rhythm & cumbia's double beat. 6 musicians from Peru, Venezuela, Colombia & Argentina. Debut album coming, produced by Delusion Bay
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Daily Discovery: Bahati Mabanza – Benga DJ


French-Congolese singer Bahati Mabanza moves from Amapiano debut to Congolese ndombolo on second single "Benga DJ." Born 2005 in Savigny-le-Temple. Out 12 February.


#BahatiMabanza #BengaDJ #France #Congo #Ndombolo
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Daily Discovery: Arnaldo Prete – Chakabacunga


Italian singer, guitarist and composer Arnaldo Prete, now in Brussels, shares “Chakabacunga”, a cumbia de mezcla rooted in Peruvian cumbia and Cuban guajira, following his albums Danze, Toboggan Cassé and the Iroko EP.
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Daily Discovery: Parlor Greens – Drop Top


Drop Top is the second single from Emeralds, with Parlor Greens’ organ, guitar and drums line up easing into a slower soul jazz, funk and R&B tune on Colemine Records.


#ParlorGreens #DropTop #Emeralds #ColemineRecords
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Daily Discovery: BashElán – Shej Sukár (Live from Fono)


BashElán play "Shej sukár" at Fonó Budai Zeneház in Budapest. The Transylvanian Roma dance song closes Titkon, their second album. Winners of the 2025 Fonó Discovery Award.


#BashElan #ShejSukar #Hungary
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Daily Discovery: Kokoroko – Express Your Love


Kokoroko record Express Your Love in one take at Metropolis Studios, taken from the Live From Metropolis EP ahead of spring and summer shows across the UK, Europe and North America.


#Kokoroko #ExpressYourLove
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Daily Discovery: Arp Frique & The Perpetual Singers – Alpha & Omega


Arp Frique & The Perpetual Singers line up Rocq-E Harrell and Brandon Delagraentiss on Alpha & Omega, the title track from a four-song gospel funk EP on Colorful World following The Gospel Of Jesamy.
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Daily Discovery: Tinariwen – Imidiwan Takyadam (feat. José González)


Colonial borders cut Tuareg territory into Mali, Algeria, Libya, Niger. Tinariwen address that history with José González on this acoustic track from Hoggar, out 13 March via Wedge.


#Tinariwen
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Daily Discovery: Rodrigo Ciampi – Ciranda Rainha (feat. Batanga & Cia)


São Paulo singer Rodrigo Ciampi records a ciranda with Afro-Cuban percussion from Batanga & Cia. Dedicated to Iemanjá, out 6 February.


#RodrigoCiampi #CirandaRainha #Brazil #Ciranda
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Daily Discovery: I Made Subandi – Cecek Megelut


The late Balinese composer I Made Subandi rewrites "Cecek Megelut" for semar pegulingan. Performed by Sanggar Ceraken on Insitu Sessions Volume 7 via Insitu Recordings


#IMadeSubandi #CecekMegelut #Indonesia
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Daily Discovery: Mr. Poetivist – dɔ me a bra


Ghanaian poet Mr. Poetivist’s track dɔ me a bra comes from debut album kumbaya – the elegy of distant relatives on Jinn Records, written after the loss of a brother figure.


#MrPoetivist #dɔmeabra #Ghana #SpokenWord
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Daily Discovery: Marcus Gad & Tamal – Where Mi Come From


Marcus Gad, born and raised in New Caledonia's Kanaky, addresses penal colony and indigenous history on this roots reggae single with Tamal. Out via Gadda Productions, High Records and Big Scoop Records.
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Daily Discovery: Mbira Renaissance Band – Zvichapera


On Roto (30 January), Mbira Renaissance Band rework Shona song "Zvichapera", setting mbira and voice against guitar, keys, drums and horns between Zimbabwean roots and Edmonton life.


#MbiraRenaissanceBand
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Daily Discovery: Etaf – Ambeh امبيه (acoustic)


Kuwaiti singer-songwriter Etaf strips this to voice and guitar. The title is a Kuwaiti exclamation for "really?" and the lyrics call out an inflated ego. Out via EMPIRE.


#Etaf #Ambeh #Kuwait #Acoustic #ArabicMusic
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Daily Discovery: Ras Rabbi x Rafat Ampadu – Keep On Groovin'


Roots and conscious reggae from Sweden and Ghana, "Keep On Groovin'" links Ras Rabbi’s rotmusik with Rafat Ampadu’s soundsystem work, built on 70s & 80s Jamaican rhythms and a shared vocal lead.


#RasRabbi
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Daily Discovery: Mondocane – Ayawaska


Rome-based DJ and producer Mondocane turns a 2021 ayahuasca ceremony recording from the Pacaya Samiria reserve in the Peruvian Amazon into Ayawaska, the downtempo opener to his field recording-based EP Semillas on Latinambient.
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Daily Discovery: Tremor – Chala & Brasa


"Chala & Brasa" is the 3rd single taken from Tremor’s album Takuy on ZZK Records, built from bombo legüero, tambor chico, cowbells, shakers, slide guitar, berimbau & processed violin over a fixed club-tempo percussion pattern
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Daily Discovery: Bru-Kin - Moto Ya Mama


Lingala vocals on Moto Ya Mama trace the bond between mother and child over hiphop drums & Ray S Zimbabwe’s guitar, taken from the debut album BRU-KIN and tied to their Brussels-Kinshasa mix of soukous, dub, house & R&B
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Daily Discovery: Mina & Bryte - Pockets


Mina & Bryte stay fast on "Pockets", a 150bpm Earth Kicks single built from Ghanaian rhythm patterns, distorted early-dubstep bass and lyrics on money and Accra life.


#Mina #Bryte #Pockets #EarthKicks #Accra #Ghana
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