The Urban Retro Playlist

One of my favorite tapes this year so far has been Leap of Faith by Juls, which is a wonderful blend of laid back but still very progressive and considerably upbeat music ironic right ? Anyway the song of the day is actually not from that tape but it wouldn't be hard to believe if it was just one of those songs you...

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So it's sometime in December 2016 and its mind blowing news to me that two relatively unknown upcoming nigerian artists have songs on the billboard charts. I mean I was already acquinted with previous bodies of work they had put out and I just wondered "what if these guys actually realize the platform they've been able too get to and decide to work...

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Uhm I need to work on how I name stuff, that being said this isn't an album album I mean it has just four songs but we move. One thing I enjoy about music is an apparent development in individuals sounds. I've been listening to Dusten Truce for a while and watched how he's working and is creating a "voice that's very distinct....

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I can't explain why exactly i've found it difficult to write for a while and i'm not even going to lie and say stuff like "i'm back" or "expect more from me from now." I'm just going to take it one day at a time and see how it goes.  Uhm I'm writing this for two main reasons,  One, (obvs) so my friends...

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This is one of the songs from my featuring Odunsi post I wrote recently and the tape it's off of would have made my 2016 favorite Nigerian projects if I had the opportunity to listen to it earlier. I'm going to say AYLØ is pioneering and properly sitting on a new sound. The music is very skillful excuted and it was effortlessly exhudes...

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In the time I stopped writing (for reasons unknown to me as well) I haven't stopped listening to music, in fact I've discovered so much more music and I've opened my mind  so many new thing I didn't know and my not ordinarily accept. I also decided screw my data constraints, Seun be like: " I will open my SoundCloud more often."  I've...

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A couple days ago I had control of the speakers at my friends house and for some reason I decided to play "Let The Groove Get In" from Justin Timberlake's masterpiece of an album "The 20/20 experience". I guess it was something in the atmosphere that I can only categorize as euphoric, but the groove really got in. Everyone actually danced for the...

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2016 was a year with a lot of music and the nigerian music scene wasn't left out, there was a decent amount of full length projects out from different genres. It came to my notice that there were a lot more extended plays as opposed to the orthodox long plays. I was actually cool with that and I experienced a lot more nigerian...

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