Electronic dance music from Nairobi, which bridges the gap between tradition and Modernity beats. In the growing Kenyan scene for electronic underground music DJ Raph has already made a name for himself. a respectable reputation. With his debut album "Sacred Groves" the musician, producer and DJ from Nairobi to extend it to Europe. With the know-how of the Teichmann brothers and whose release platform Noland in the back are already once the best conditions for the international breakthrough. On the ten tracks of "Sacred Groves" DJ Raph stratifies rich electronic textures on top of each other, which he extracted from pan-African-ethnographic field recordings. This mixture of dancefloor-driven bass music, traditional rhythms and The traditional chants of the tribes give it an equally backward-looking and futuristic touch. Fortunately, the whole thing seems extraordinarily authentic and kitsch-free. The album production took place in Nairobi and Bayreuth. The final mix was provided by Hannes Teichmann, the mastering was done by Mike Grinser in Berlin. The fieldrecordings come from a database of UNESCO.
