Keleketla!   Keleketla!
3.8
excellent
Release Date: 2020
Tracklist

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4.0 excellentBedex | March 17th 22

A colourful, goddamn fun album that mixes a bunch of styles from African folk song to *~*electronica~*~ and jazz in quite a cohesive yet always evolving way. 1-3 are baller songs, but I have to concede I agree with most of the comments here that things fall down a bit afterwards, even when skipping the 'Edit' versions. Whilst still cool, the weirder 4 and the more rap electronic 5, and even 6 struggle to maintain the excitement, fun and patchwork coloured groove of the earlier tracks. The album starts finding its footing again on 7, but it's truly on 8 that the banger energy comes fully back. The transition from that dancey banger to the calm and contemplative 9 is a bit awkward I must say, and whilst I do think the track is a great way to conclude I find it's not integrated with the rest in the best way. 1-3 and 8 are perfect tracks to play in the back with your cool friends, and the album does a baller job of making you want to check its many featured artists. Super cool 4.0

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4.0 excellentdidnt ask to be staff, was made staff anyway, then got demoted for not doing staff stuff | January 26th 21

I feared that this album's song-writing might turn repetitive and upon subsequent listens exhilarating, but with every spin it gets tighter and the great effort of every party becomes more and more apparent. My only issue is that the runtime did eventually wearied me after a few spins.

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4.0 excellentChino smoking it up! | January 22nd 21

Dedex doing the deeds! I'm an absolute mad about first 3/4 tracks with afro vibe. Keeping in mind its colab with such different artists, the album picks it up again towards the end with Papua Merdeka. Awesome listen. Fave track is International Love Affair.

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3.5 greatGamamJ | December 14th 20

A very innovative and interesting alcum. A collab between african world music, jazz and electronic musicians, it leads to all sorts of interesting musical choices and sounds that surprisingly (at least to me) mesh really well. Not overly complicated on the jazz side or overly electronic, the african music seems to be the base. Jazz improvs and harmonic changes supplement the tracks which often have an electronic backbeat. Lovely.

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4.5 superbnotagenius | August 3rd 20



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3.9 excellentErwann S. EMERITUS | July 16th 20

Just read this: https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/coldcut-keleketla-interview. Southern African music + Coldcut + Tony Allen + Shabaka + Antibalas = epic win.

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4.0 excellentbrother the shit is classic | February 4th 23
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4.0 excellentYou should pay me to tell you what to listen to, really | July 8th 20
4.5 superbghworin | July 8th 20

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