2016 Soundcity MVP Awards: Full Nominations List Released

The Soundcity MVP Awards is set o take place in Lagos, December 29th 2016 and the nominations have been released.

Nigeria’s Wizkid is leading the way with a record-breaking eight nominations,including four nods to his continent wide smash hit ‘Baba Nla’ for Best Song, Best Video, Viewers’ Choice and Listeners’ Choice with South Africa’s Emtee and Nigeria’s Olamide at a second close. The 2016 Soundcity MVP will broadcast live across the globe on Thursday, 29 December from the Expo Center of the Eko Hotel & Suites, in Lagos Nigeria.

Man of the moment Davido is up for Digital Artiste of the Year alongside Tekno, A.K.A, P-Square, Tiwa Savage and Tekno. The 2016 Soundcity MVP would see Kenya’s Victoria Kimani, Tanzania’s Vanessa

Announcing GPUs for Google Cloud Platform

CPU-based machines in the cloud are terrific for general purpose computing, but certain tasks such as rendering or large-scale simulations are much faster on specialized processors. Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) contain hundreds of times as many computational cores as CPUs and are great at accelerating risk analysis, studying molecular binding or optimizing the shape of a turbine blade. If your CPU-based instance feels like a Formula One race car but you’re in need of a rocket, you’re going to love our new cloud GPUs.

Early in 2017, Google Cloud Platform will offer GPUs worldwide for Google Compute Engine and Google Cloud Machine Learning users. Complex medical analysis, financial calculations, seismic/subsurface exploration, machine learning, video rendering, transcoding and scientific simulations are just some of the applications that can benefit from the highly parallel compute power of GPUs. GPUs in Google Cloud

Comedy Video: Who is a Yahoo boy ?

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Reekado Banks — Spotlight [Review]

As everyone knows the modern Nigerian singer is a hit-making machine. Hit making is no crime but at some point it becomes difficult to tell songs apart.

It is perhaps counter-intuitive that it is mostly in the non-obvious hit song that an artist's personality gets a chance to show. If the gods smile, the same song may be an outright hit. A few examples: Wizkid's 'Ojuelegba', Reminisce's 'Kako bi Chicken', even Yemi Alade's 'Johnny'. It is one reason the album is important:. Within an album, an artist can have the obvious hit; she can also demonstrate a identity.

With Reekado Banks, member of the group Mavins and purveyor of the hit songs 'Oluwa Ni' and 'Katapot' and 'Standard', the identity part of his pop stardom has been elusive. All that can be said be certainty is that he's Don Jazzy's protegee. But no true artist wants to be described using another person's name. Even Don Jazzy doesn't

Second edition of Fela book released

First published in 2009, the book ‘Fela: Kalakuta Notes’ has received a fresh release. Written by journalist and musician John Collinswho spent time with the afrobeat maestro in the seventies, the book

How to set up a music archive

By Santie de Jongh

This article draws partially from practical experience setting up the archive of the Documentation Centre for Music (DOMUS) at Stellenbosch University[i]. Established with little funding in August 2005 as a research project of South African musicologist Stephanus Muller, DOMUS gradually grew into a functioning music archive (collecting and preserving various genres) accessed by researchers globally.

Why an archive?

Setting up an archive is broadly motivated by

Anticipate a new single from SA's Mafikizolo and DRC's Tresor

South African music outfit Mafikizolo and DRC artist Tresor are set to release a new single titled ‘Soar’.

The artists met at Universal's studios to assign parts and record the final song. Produced by Tyron Woods, a South African house music producer, the single was premiered at Creative Week in Durban. It was specifically written for the Loeries — a non-profit company that administers awards for the brand communications industry in Africa and the Middle East.

The song was inspired by the Loeries 2016 theme, Creativity Unites. Tresor, who wrote and composed the song, said in a statement: "When creativity comes

2016 review: Phyno/Olamide — Fada Fada

When Olamide came on the Nigerian music scene with his 2011 rap single 'Eni Duro', no one thought he’ll compete with pop artists. He was rap's messiah to the streets; the children of the streets of Ajangbadi, Orile and Okokomaiko, Lagos underclass neighbourhoods, had found a rapper worthy of adulation.

Today, Olamide, a rap star, is mentioned alongside Wizkid and Davido, who are pure pop artists.

Then came Phyno, the "Beast of the East". Quickly, Phyno shot to the top of the genre along with his Penthauze Records label and debut album No Guts No Glory (2014).

He did this all the time acknowledging Olamide's influence—an influence

On Yemi Alade and Afrobeats as genre

Yemi Alade, in an interview with Fader, spoke about her career and in response to one of the questions posed commented on afrobeats and the position of other musicians from the continent to it as a genre.

The idea of afrobeats as a foreign nomenclature produced out of necessity to classify contemporary music that is out of Africa and influenced by western musical traditions and African culture is known and generally agreed upon. The name was used to describe that broad class of music by UK’s DJ Abrantee, who needed an umbrella term to describe the predominantly Nigerian and Ghanaian music he was playing for audiences at the time—2011. Reading the 9 November

Reminisce — El-Hadj

The Reminisce album is a soup of three ingredients. Sex, threats, and autobiography—delivered in English, slang and Yoruba. The soup may end up tasty; the sex, though, is never in good taste.

All three items have shown up in his first three albums. The last two albums mostly featured the fist two items because Reminisce belongs to the group that believes a rapper must not appear too vulnerable. Except in discussing how hard life was, how poor his family was.

This, of course, sets the stage for the mandatory celebration of excess: the long queue of easy women, the popping of champagne, the wads of money. Like other rappers, Reminisce works