Jimmy Bosch is a trombonist who cha-chas with the biggest names in salsa, and his flaring melodies and frantic rhythms energize fans in 35 countries.
The choppy punk-funk guitars have been filtered through Franz Ferdinand, the frantic rhythms and dashes of ska come via the Libertines.
Mixing punk attitude and spacey electronics with frantic rhythms and weaving soukous guitar lines, it messes with your preconceptions of what Congolese music is/can/should be.
He got the cool thing from jazz musicians, hanging around the 52nd Street nightclubs during his brief stint as a benched football player at Columbia, transforming the laid-back-even-when-frantic rhythm of bebop -- the beat -- into Beat Generation prose, writing lovely poetic tributes to Charlie Parker's Buddha-eyes.
Opening track From Kinshasa to the Moon points up the similarity between the basslines of Congolese rumba and reggae, while Suzanna takes a frantic, tribal rhythm track and distorts it until it sounds like something that might have been released on German techno label Basic Channel.
Switching out the source material's soulful slow burn for pedal-to-the-metal adrenaline, LH4L's remix is carried by a frantic dembow rhythm intermeshed with synths that spew out lightbeams.
During Ben UFO's Rinse FM show you're as likely to hear him play frantic African rhythms as jungle – and his club sets are even more unpredictable.
For almost a decade, the producer has been busy pioneering the genre's sound, which mixes frantic dance rhythms with high-pitched electronics, Afro-futurist flavours and the soulful melodies of traditional South African music.
Dough, presented in partnership with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, is a choral text with a frantic and hectic rhythm, which addresses our relationship with money, and crosses different stages of life, from early childhood to adulthood.
