sahelsoundscompilations.bandcamp.com/album/music-from-saharan-cellphones

This is dope af imma dig deeper tomorrow

Thanks for the gem @op

I believe Death Grips sampled something off this on Punk Weight

I'm all the way the f*** in goddamn

This sounds really cool

@op HOLY S*** THIS IS AMAZING OFF GO

THEY GOT WHATSAPP MUSIC TOO

Man I can't tell you the last time something spoke to me this immediately

I remember this, very influential tape

I think they put out a second one a couple years later?

Wait this is so interesting I'm in

Thank you so much @op stumbling into this is gonna be one of the highlights of my year

I've had nothing but cellphone for the last 2.5+ years and didn't even have headphones for most of that time so the description spoke to me immediately

I stay sending VMs on Whatsapp too

The label this is from being named after the Sahel is powerful for me too as part of my homeland is in the Sahel

Wish I hadn't been sleep for a decade plus smh

Never a bad time to get familiar dawg

Tons of tracks on The Money Store sample stuff from it

Absolutely

Some of this stuff kind of reminds me of my people's music too

I haven't had access to WiFi in over two years too, yeah I had to hear this

Damns i remember this back in the tumblr days. I stil listen to some tracks here n there

Love this label, first got put onto them when I found Mdou Moctar's stuff

its cool that more people are being put onto them, they deserve all the love

Were you following the label during the EP run that culminated in Music From Saharan Whatsapp?

"Responding to an open call from our network of artists, musicians recorded a handful of tracks on their cellphone and sent them over the popular mobile app WhatsApp. Each session was hosted for a month on Bandcamp and sold on a sliding scale, with all profits wired directly to the musicians. After a month, the EP would disappear, replaced by another one."

Looking for information regarding this and considering hitting up the label about the deleted EPs soon

Very cool

fr?

real street music

I knew I recognized the name from somewhere

Yeah and that's only a small annoyance considering all the mud I've had to keep my head above

If you want to hear more about not having Wi-Fi or anything else I'm up to talk about it but I don't want to do that here (it's no problem for me to do so but I'm trying to be more mindful of how I share my troubles and who's actually hearing me)

We’re getting Arab money