Loose Egusi Afro Disco #8

The Loose Egusi Afro Disco is a Pan-African radio, research, and dancefloor project, using African music as a prism to understand and remake the world by bridging the continental & diasporic, the traditional & experimental, and the past, present, and futures of African music and African people.
Loose Egusi has reached audiences worldwide on dancefloors and airwaves; featuring at the London Jazz Festival, the BBE Store, and experimentla London club experience 'lost', as well as NTS Radio (UK), Lusophonica (Portugal) and Lumbung Radio (Berlin), while holding monthly residencies on The Boat Pod and Soho Radio (NYC/London).

Expect shimmering soukous and soca, intricate afrobeat and Congolese polyrhythms, anthemic highlife and afro-jazz melodies, along with choice cuts of funk, jazz, soul, reggae, disco, Hip Hop, gospel, house, and beyond. Keep it Loose Egusi.

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Dr. Telefunk is a London based DJ, and the founder of Grand Funk, a community driven club night raising funds for Refugee Community Kitchen. His sound is grounded in 70s and 80s Jazz Funk, Soul, and Disco, branching into Latin, African and Caribbean influences, with a focus on feel, flow and connection on the dancefloor.

Mr. Loose Egusi (The Boat Pod / Soho Radio) - AKA the Repeat Beat Poet is a queer, neurodivergent, British-born Ghanaian writer and DJ working with poetry, music, and histories from Black & Pan-African perspectives. Armed with his stacks of vinyl, a library of liner notes, zines, and artwork, Mr. Loose Egusi shares his infectious energy, curated information, and potent funk wherever he plays, embodying and encouraging those core human freedoms; to dance, to sing, to feel, and to dream through African music.

Bridget Ekelectic - Queen of Zamara and inventor of the ‘Suitelife’ genre, the musical movement birthed at Hotel Zamara, Bridget Ekelectic promises nothing short of a good time. Content babe, curator, creator: the only thing she can’t do is decide on one sole thing to do. Bridget can be found spinning Afrobeats, Alte and Afrohouse (AAA Duracell energy settings).

Arrangör: Loose Egusi

Åldersgräns: 18+