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AFRIKLUB FRIDAY 5th–AFRIKLUB @ THE BIG CHILL HOUSE AFRIKLUB –MAJOR NEW URBAN AFRICAN DANCE MUSIC RESIDENCY AT A BRAND NEW KING’S CROSS CLUB – THE BIG CHILL HOUSE 257-259 PENTONVILLE ROAD, KINGS CROSS, N1 9NL (NEXT DOOR TO THE THAMESLINK RAIL STATION, ON PENTONVILLE ROAD) Wherever in Europe urban Africans chose to settle in the last quarter century, the ‘local’ dancefloors would never subsequently be the same. London developed thriving hilife (later, hiplife) and afrobeat(later, naija-hop) scenes with artists like Osibisa, Abdul Teejay, Tic Tac; Paris absorbed a cornucopia of wonderful future-afro sounds, from Congolese soukouss to Antillean zouk and compas; Madrid spiced its extant hip-jondo scene with North African, Cuban and Brazilian flavours; Lisbon’s massive Angola/Bissau/Cabo Verde/Mocambique/Sao Tome community took over the vibrant Bairro Alto clubdance scene…. Afriklub celebrates all of this and more with a bi-monthly, two-floor Afroparty. On the main floor, resident DJ John Armstrong (who ran the legendary Bass Clef weekly Afro sessions for a decade in pre-trendy 80s Hoxton, and is currently resident also at Guanabara, Notting Hill Arts Club and The Big Chill Bar, as well as an occasional residency at Paris’ Batofar Club) plays out of a crate that covers 70s Fela, 80s soukouss, 90s hiplife and kwaito and 00s Uganda Dancehall and Nigerian hip hop (for starters) – from scratchy Kenyan 7” 45s and unheard-of 70s Malian mandingo beats to unreleased MP3s and laptop nu-drops. There’s also a touch of homage to all the above scenes on a modern tip – coupe-decale from Paris, kizomba and kuduru from Lisbon, Afro-Spanish hip-flamenco out of Madrid, and London’s naija and hiplife soundtracks. Plus the occasional, ‘natural’ partners to the theme sound: Cuban timba and monero beats, Brazilian baile-funk, Ragga Kreyol, etc. Live performances and visuals will add to the total Afriklub experience. And if the Big Chill people are running the place you can be sure that the sound-system, the bar, the service and the ambience will be second to none. More info: john@latinvibe.co.uk ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
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