With up to 300 beats per minute, singeli could be the world’s most frenetic music. In Dar es Salaam, its creators explain how it helps to create a better life On a neon-lit jetty overlooking the River ...

In a fragmented global music landscape dominated by micro-scenes and hyper-production, the moments that we can truly celebrate as defining are few and far between. The release of the 2017 compilation ...

NTS have released a mini-documentary to support the release of a double-vinyl compilation from Nyege Nyege Tapes showcasing artists working within the genre of singeli. The style, which originated in ...

Nyege Nyege Tapes is releasing a second double-vinyl compilation of Tanzanian singeli music, Sounds Of Pamoja. Due out next month, the release takes in 11 tracks and covers the work of seven rappers, ...

Nyege Nyege’s latest snapshot of Tanzanian singeli pairs an avant-garde producer with a local keyboardist; the high-BPM results sound like a loose, extremely weird jam session. Drum-machine loops ...

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Nyege Nyege Tapes! is probably the most famous label introducing today's African electronica to the European independent scene. A cinematic context now comes to the unique sound. Polish filmmakers ...

Singida — It is a campaign season and Presidential candidates are going around the country as they sell their party manifestos to the electorate for consideration come October 28. Yesterday, however, ...

Singeli is a style of electronic dance music that developed in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in the mid-2000s. The genre fuses incredibly rapid beats, with MCing and more traditional Tanzanian music. It ...