Polyriddim

Across African music scenes, there are radical innovations in house (like South Africa’s kwaito, qgom and amapiano), there are areas where local songs are remixed in an internationalist style (common in East African countries like Kenya and Tanzania) – and then there are individualists who create their own entire sound. Ghana’s Gafacci is one such, and his tracks are relentless fun. Everything is stripped down to galloping rhythm, with crisp clips of chants, shouts, whistles, micro-melodies integrated into the beat rather than sitting on top of it. There’s strong hints of transatlantic dialogue with Latin carnival music, Gafacci has also worked with UK artists like Sam Interface, but really, at heart this is 100% his own sound.