As heard on Mary Anne Hobbs’ BBC 6 Music show, London afrobeat ones to watch Raz & Afla have dropped a flavourful remix package for Batida apresenta IKOQWE’s addictive new single ‘VaiVai’.
IKOQWE =
Ikonoklasta (Iconoclast) a rapper who became an iconic activist known as Luaty Beirão +
Pedro Coquenão, who has been into music, dance, visual, plastic and radio arts under the Batida alias.
‘VaiVai’ is a vibrant bass loaded afrobeat track that tantalizes the senses with a non-stop array of sounds and a heavy groove. Taking root from Angola & Portugal, it’s impossible to not get sucked into the layered shuffling backdrop of beats and organic percussion peppered with computer-game style blips and bleeps. Raz & Afla turn things up a notch further with a stellar remix.
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