“JOY (As an Act of Resistance)’ is a sunny trip-hop at its finest: warm, uplifting, and defiant. It’s a song about resilience — coming in from the cold, finding shelter, and choosing joy no matter the circumstance. With bouncy basslines, hopeful horns, and a steel drum melody that beams with light, this track is designed to lift spirits and move feet.
While the album Shades of Sunshine is a celebration of diversity in sound — a vibrant journey through Trip-Hop, House, UK Garage, and Jungle. With rich instrumental layers, soulful vocal samples, global percussion, and bold basslines, this is dance music for the mind, body, and soul.
Myriad plans to drop each track from the album will drop weekly over the next 10 weeks.
Angolan artists Satélite and DJ Gali present Raízes, their new collaborative album, on April 24, with a digital release on all platforms and a live event at Duro de Matar in Lisbon.
The album features 28 tracks and includes contributions from artists across three continents, including Afro Wav (Zimbabwe), Boddhi Satva (Central African Republic), Drunky Daniels and Jessica Gaspar (Brazil), Kaysha (France/Congo), Riwo (Nigeria), Sokhana and Lilly Randy (South Africa), as well as artists from the PALOP countries such as Alex Kasion, Edlasio Alves, Melvi, Kelly Gomez, Peter Rodrigues, Danny Boy, and Leriggo.
Raízes completes the trilogy started with Horizonte and Caminho, and marks a new creative phase for the two Angolan producers. The album blends traditional sounds with the electronic pulse of afro house, maintaining a focus on cultural identity and the international potential of the genre.
According to the artists, the record reflects the maturity of a journey that began years ago.
“We’ve arrived at the sound that defines us. It’s like saying: We’ve been here for ten years,” they say. With a more defined and structured approach, Raizes
marks a new chapter in their discography, solidifying collaborations with key figures in the African and Afro-diasporic electronic scene.
For the artists, the album is a statement of Angolan musical identity within the global African electronic music landscape. “Our batucada has a different energy. It brings us peace. And you can feel it within kuduro, afro house, even semba,” explains DJ Satélite, renowned for his pioneering role in the development of modern kuduro.
DJ Satélite, internationally recognized as one of the pioneers of afro house, is behind historic moments in Angolan music, such as producing Estado Maior do Ku-Duro by Lambas (2006) and Batida Única by Bruno M (2007). He has worked with artists like Smal do Arraso, Pai Diesel, Boddhi Satva, Branko, and Cee ElAssaad. His productions are regularly featured in the playlists of DJs like Black Coffee.
DJ Gálio, originally from Cabinda and currently based in Portugal, started out in rap before establishing himself in kuduro and afro house. In 2022, he released Quibuala, an album that positioned him in the international electronic scene, with performances at events like Enchufada, invited by Branko, and releases on labels like Offering Records and Seres Produções.
American singer and songwriter Fabian Starr has announced his sophomore album Prism out May 14th, 2025.
This follows the release of the lead single off the album “Electric Hearts” a summer anthem that captures that magical moment when two people who are meant to be together find their way back to each other.
The production on “Electric Hearts” blends nostalgic retro dance-pop elements with contemporary electronic textures, creating something that feels both delightfully familiar and refreshingly current.
Flushed cheeks usually come in pairs. Your cheeks sync up and fill with pigment, providing non-verbal bodily cues that your body temperature has been spiked by something: nerves, embarrassment, heat, arousal.
Their flush blows your social cover and broadcasts that what you want is near enough to touch.
When only one cheek flushes, this could be the result of a slap, self-administered or coming from someone who mo- mentarily lost their cool.
Or it is not at all about you or your body, but about the eyes of your beholder, affected by a form of myo- pic vision, a shortness of depth that only allows for one cheek to be seen at a time.
It may be just an anomaly, like a body without organs, a film without images, or a song that erases words and, in this way, generates waves of anti-climaxes that come exactly when they’re supposed to, as if according to the grid.
What is there to “pop” in a song that simultaneously has and doesn’t have lyrics, a song that ends before it finds its way to its hypothetical-yet-absent anthemic chorus, a song that while broody and loopy, still worms up into not one, but both of your ears?
These conceptual questions underlie “One Flushed
Cheek,” the newest album from Sadie Siegel, Seth Weiner’s music project and alter ego.
For over a decade now, Sadie Siegel & Seth Weiner have explored the sculptural qualities of sound, thinking of the latter as a tactile expression of material and an architectural act.
“One Flushed Cheek” is a continuation of this practice.
Some of the album’s songs bring the artist’s characteristically fleeting chants and recordings of his domestic life, blended with synthetically generated beats and vocal fragments.
At the same time though, with this new collection of compositions, the artist veers into a distinctly different creative place.
It’s the first album where. Sadie Siegel & Seth Weiner tackle conventional pop song. Structures through a series of simultaneous pushes and pulls, as if both resisting and succumbing to the music genre’s insistence on narrative language.
Sadie Siegel & Seth Weiner do not usually perform their music live, opting instead for creating an immersive, deep-listening ex- perience.
Imagining what form a physical record may take in a post-digital world, this project is set in the presentational form of a multimedia installation, accompanied by the album “give- aways,” i.e. the small, holdable textile sculptures pointing to a digital download of the songs and videos.
Each track has a video made by Rafał Morusiewicz, a visual artist and Weiner’s longtime friend.
The videos function less as a mere illustration of the album’s compositions, and more as an affective call-and-response to the endless creative-listening sessions that both artists had around the ephemeral and sculptural pop songs.
Compulsive and col- lage-based, Morusiewicz’s practice consists in engaging, through editing and digital image-manipulation technologies, with audio- visual material drawn from online-based film archives and shad- ow libraries, and mixing it with original footage, shot in ongoing collaboration with their life partner, Guilherme Maggessi.
The latter is the author of the album’s visual design and the producer of the ex- hibition’s setting, in which the project will be presented.
Weiner, in turn, has expanded the core album by compiling a companion piece, “B-Sides,” a distant cousin to the album, which forms a self-standing record. All these are the core components of “One Flushed Cheek.” Stream One Flushed Cheek
The media agency FunFillage have dropped their collaborative EP, titled” SOS Vol. 1.”
The primary goal of this release is to support and elevate the emerging artists that are a part of it.
With its platform, FunFillage hopes to positively influence artists and brands. The amazing roster of twelve gifted artists for this endeavour is impressive. Seeing such a diverse and cooperative effort come together is amazing.
The project features talented artistes from Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa, which includes Ella Gometi, D-Ennay, Ego, kurntian, Vinn Luka pryce, Adam Srae, Sean Ayce, Chibbs, Hanomalee, Dipcrazy, and Emaxee.
By fusing the idea of sofas with artistic genius, the project aims to revolve around the emotions, comfort, and sentiments that surround the cosmos on a cosy sofa. It also uses the Fun Village platform to highlight the incredible skills in the project.
BNXN has released his hugely anticipated debut album, Sincerely Benson which includes the singles Gwagwalada” “Pray” and “Sweet Tea (Aduke).
2 Baba, Kizz Daniel, Seyi Vibez and PopCaan all feature on the project, which shot to the top of the albums chart on Apple Music Nigeria. While five songs from the album presently occupy the top posts on the top songs chart.
The 26-year-old had earlier made it clear that the collaborations on the album were deliberate and essential to its theme and vision.
“There are a couple of collaborations on the album, I wanted them to be really specific to the message I was passing across. Like I have Headie One on the project, that is Headie One’s best verse internationally. When it drops you can take it to the bank – they will give you 100k,” he told the Ghanaian outlet , My Joy Online.
“Everybody that’s on this project came in with their A game, not even their A game, their A star game, I’m super excited about it.”
As expected, there’ve been comparisons between BNXN’s album and that of his rival Ruger which dropped last month.
Never one to miss an opportunity to take a swipe at his hottest rival, BNXN boasted about his collaboration with one of the OGs in the world of Afrobeats.
“ And some might never get to song with 2Baba,” he tweeted.
Me I’ve sha turned on Ruger’s notifications because I know he’ll surely respond.
