Afro EDM – Music Matters

DJ KosGabby & Waade Release single ‘Easy’

There are so many people really working hard each day to get out of hardships, pain and various miserable situations. But there’s come a point where we feel like quitting , tired of that life and all you can think of is killing oneself – hoping it will make one free from all the burdens. Waade and DJ KosGabby just want to remind you that you’re not alone, it’s not your fault – take it Easy.
DJ KosGabby

Trust God and continue to ask him “akyusa embeera ” – for he knows what comes before and after us , there’s no need to stress nor fuss over worldly things. Do not think of taking your life for that alone will only bring more problems to you, and those you leave behind.

#MentalHealth #Strongwill #conqueror
Waade

Waade, a Ugandan Rapper — Waade continues to sharpen his pen and mind with thoughtful lyrics and emotional stories to inspire younger artists in the rap game.

Starting with a loud thump, signifying the burden of the perils around you, Waade makes his entrance with a wailing battle cry, calling on KosGabby to come and tackle these demon of depression. KosGabby lays heavy and depressed bouncy Diva pluck single key notes in E minor. Waade‘s vocals continue to ride up on top describing the perils as they lead to a succulent Moombahton cocktail of kick and snare drums with some reggaeton bias, symbolizing the several obstacles that keep hitting you from every side, every now n then.

Waade glides the chorus with deeply inciting vocals hoping you listen to the advice before it comes to the next verse, filled with ethereal vocal chops insinuating all the voices In your head that are pushing you to do away with your life. Waade is observed wailing together with thee “No, no, no” just to restrain you from going forward. He then shuts them out with a strong symbolic cry of “Do not kill yourself” just before KosGabby lays down heavenly airy piano keys that lead down to the outro. The drums die down and the diva pluck continues to play over surrounded by the keyscape piano before Waade seals of the track.

Easy Art Work, Waade & DJ KosGabby — ‘Easy’ is one of a kind

They say they made this AfroMoombahton stylicized simply because depressed people do not need to listen to depressing related music, so it’s why we put the message in a bouncy track.

Gabriel Herniel Kitutu popularly known as DJ KosGabby is a Gospel Trapper, Record Producer and DJ specialising in Trap, EDM, Gospel, and Afro-Beat Dancehall. His debut album BlackThunder , a Trap Gospel album, hit the waves in 2017 when he was only 16 years old. He did the majority of the production for the tracks and coursing the lyrics through most of them. The album features rappers Metrican , Malcolm De Urban, Saint Ella and various other producers.

The new DJ KosGabby Logo

Waade “formerly known as Brian Wade IP ” is a Ugandan rapper,Singer ,Producer touted to have a rap flow as slick as Lecrae (American hip hop artist) or Trip Lee (American hip hop artist).With a unique style and a smooth flexible flow. Waade cuts across the complexity of genres and eras with his music. On the journey to become one of the world’s best Artists and Africa’s finest . WAADE , is prolific and has worked on numerous music projects. He has collaborated with artists from Zambia,Nigeria, Malawi and South Africa. When it comes to music production, Waade has played a big part in his music production by producing, mixing and mastering most of his music

Stream Easy by DJ KosGabby & Waade here: https://songwhip.com/waade/easy

DJ KosGabby’s Kyosiga Song

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DJ Arta Releases Mumbah

Mumbah is an electronic dance song with a reggaeton vibe to it, more like tropical music. The song features a moombarton drum pattern which is quite a common sound in Latin music from South American continent. This track encompasses a variety of sounds that can appeal to various cultures across Europe, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. One would typically describe it as a fusion between tropical house music and reggaeton as it contains elements that are characteristics of both styles.

A Ugandan EDM DJ & Producer — DJ Arta is a Ugandan EDM Artist

I started making this song at a point in life where I was feeling so empty, I felt like the whole world was crushing down on me so I had all this anxiety and feelings of haste and worry. Nonetheless, it was those very moments that gave me this push to try again and do something better with my life. So I decided to start spending my nights in my bedroom music studio creating music and sometimes studying music. This is when I began producing Mumbah where I spent about a week composing the song. Once I was finished with the track, I was greatly pleased with my creation and so was eager to share with the DJ Arta community which is my fan base.
DJ Arta

I definitely would love them to hear the story behind this song and how it was created. Surprisingly, I now believe that it is at your lowest that you can produce or be your best and I think Mumbah is one of my best and favorite tracks. I would love to hear feedback from everyone who thankfully attempts to listen to this track as I love to hear comments about my artistic creations. I hope this song surprises you and makes you feel good in many ways.

Mumbah song cover — A DJ Arta song album art

DJ Arta born Arthur Okuta is a Ugandan Independent EDM Artist, Producer & DJ. His music is characterized under the genres of Afro Dancehall, Moombahton & House. Having been inspired by Progressive House music, he finds a way to make happy dance music that is slowed down which he calls Afro EDM.

Stream the Mumbah track right here: https://songwhip.com/djarta/mumbah

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https://itsthemusicmatters.music.blog/2022/10/31/dj-arta-releases-mufumbira/

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Tera Nitric Releases Bujagali

Tera Nitric, a budding electronic music artist from East Africa is set to release yet another track titled ‘Bujagali’ which is a cultural and heritage site in the pearl of Africa.

The creative process for Bujagali was actually a thought I had for weeks. The title kept ringing in my head and I felt there was need to have a project depicting a short story/ tale or whatever it is I had heard about Bujagali during my years in Primary schools from various people. The deep male vocal in the second breakdown is actually an Artificial Intelligence (AI) generated vocal from texts he typed giving a brief story about Bujagali and it gave me good results. Instinctively, He convinced that this is his best Bigroom Track this year regarding the versatility and the dynamics within the track and that is all he can tell us.
Tera Nitric

Bujagali was believed to be a vessel of the spiritual and physical realm. A man that protected that walked on the Waters of the Nile. Bujagali died in 2019 at approximate age of 100 years old. He is believed to be the last of his lineage to have lived as a protector of the Bujagali Falls that form Part of River Nile. Bujagali Falls has been from the past years till present times a Tourist Attraction in Uganda.

Tera Nitric, Ugandan EDM Artists — Tera Nitric in his performance armour

Ideally, Tera Nitric made the track following a line of having gothic sounds as well as dark chords slapped within the track. So that is why people will listen to some goroovy breakdowns as well as the drop. The drop is heavy and filled with various elements that give the track a dark tone to portray the symbolism he wanted to achieve with this record. Additionally, he like to have a certain progression with my music so the first break down will be more of an intro with soft elements while gradually moving into the build up and drop and then the rest is really history.

Bujagali is dropping off Shift Axis Records which is to be his second single dropping off the label this year after the release of another Bigroom Track titled “Better Than You” Shift Axis Records has categorised the track as a Mainstage Bigroom track because of the unique sounds developed with in the project. I totally agree because I love Bigroom house as a sub-genre under EDM.

Tera Nitric Bujagali song cover/album art. — Bujagali draws its title from a cultural and heritage site in Uganda

As an EDM Artist, he follows a certain procedure while making his tracks especially when creating the drop. From time to time, he follows a “Call & Response” kind of melodic pattern so as to keep the listeners interested in the various sounds communicate with each other as though the instruments are holding a conversation. Since he cannot sing, making instrumental music is the way he communicates. Meanwhile, he believes he can sing and is waiting for the time to do so which may be soon. I hope you all like this song.

Stream Bujagali on all your favourite stores: https://songwhip.com/teranitric/bujagali-the-nile-tale

Stream Tera Nitric’s music catalogue here: https://songwhip.com/teranitric

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Uganda’s EDM DJ, Tera Nitric

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Spotify introduces the Ootz Editorial Playlist

An insight into Spotify’s editorial East Afro EDM playlist

The birth of the Afro EDM playlist

Early in the month of August 2020, Spotify editors made a reckoning in the urban music scene in East Africa through creation of the ‘Oontz’ playlist that encompasses the best blends of Electronic music across East Africa. Artists from all over the world feature in this playlist including but not limited to Europe and America, though majority are African EDM artists. East African countries feature the most artists and these are Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Other noticeable countries with acts on the playlists are South Africa and Morocco.

Spotify introduces playlist for East African Electronic music

Given that Africa is the mother of Afro House music which is a subgenre of house music which is classified under EDM. In a way, it is nice to notice that the genre has spread and diversified all around the globe with creators sprouting from South America and European countries such as Netherlands where a DJ known as Adrian Noble is known and recognized for playing and promoting Afro EDM. Other deejays are DJ Ayane from France, DJ Arta from Uganda, to mention but a few. Afro EDM is still a bit underground but with time as all the stakeholders work tirelessly towards the promotion of the sound, it will find its way up to the mainstream just like Amapiano.

The mood of the playlist

Just like any other Spotify editorial playlist, there is a particular mood presented by the tracks placed onto this playlist. Descriptively, the vibe from the tracks can be termed as chill, relaxing, uplifting. Afro EDM makes your soul want to dance and the music certainly is good for a drive as well as other events and this is just the way electronic music is described in accordance to mood or emotion. Furthermore, the music is rich in Afro percussion styles as well as rhythms which are all infused with modern electronic sounds to give it the unique nature and feel.

Spotify playlist for East Afro EDM — Best blends of Electronic music across East Africa

In terms of the tempo (speed) of the music, Afro EDM is moderately fast with the range of BPM between 100 and 125. Some styles of Afro EDM may have a slower or faster BMP number depending on the particular style of the songs. Nevertheless, this beauty of African music sounds amazing and very nice as well therefore, the fans would love to hear more of it and new listeners should not miss out on tapping the amazing masterpieces created by these ingenious Afro EDM producers and deejays. Notably, female deejays support and play Afro EDM and they are at the center of the promotion of the music.

About East Afro EDM

Not long ago the movement of electronic music started in east Africa, events such as Nyege nyege festival in Uganda started giving Afro EDM artists a platform to present and showcase the electronic music made in east Africa with headlining acts from Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. The event pulls crowds from all the east African countries and happens annually in the pearl of Africa (Uganda) just at the source of the Nile River. MTN Uganda is the main sponsor of the event who should be applauded for the efforts in promotion of Afro EDM in the East African region. Other Afro EDM events are held periodically in Kampala and Nairobi such as Urban Flow Vibu event and Underground Kampala events. All I can say, the music is slowly by slowly gaining traction across the region and all over the world.

Listen to the Ootz Spotify playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DWY7SO3HC2gxu?si=TuEuBUhORlmW-9KS1wntxA&utm_source=copy-link

Listen to Afro EDM mixes here:DJ ARTA SESSIONS (DJ Mixes): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyI4QtGDLQjwTM3-rCOERm23Y-Sgi-mss

Uganda’s EDM Scene

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DJ KosGabby’s Kyosiga Song

Song Description

Like all large beings were once mere embryos, all living elements have a defined growth pattern that they follow to yield into a purposeful composite. Being inspired by the power of how a small sacrifice into someone’s life can grow into a titanic load of good in the most unexpected way, Kyosiga by DJ KosGabby was created. Using melodies, she describes the nature of growth of those particular elements presented into the life of any being.

Kyosiga Album Art, a song by two African EDM producers & DJs — Kyosiga Album Art

Starting off with a simple coursing ambient melody complemented with euphoric vocals, the pre-hook entry is layered with filtered trombones made of heavenly synths that transcends one into a cheerful array of carefully plastered purity piano key notes that symbolize the planting of seed whilst watering the same – the act of giving.
There is an immediate bridge buildup of upbeat UG-X Bounce drum percussions leading into the hook to showcase the excitement of the seed undergoing germination with all the inner components rushing and gushing and bringing life to the recipient. The chorus hits with a mad Stub followed by a dexterous aromatic mixture of House based effects and dance plugin sounds. One can’t fail to skip and jump to the arousing relay of the UG-X kadoodi, hi hats, congas, claps and heart lifting kicks. It totally takes one to a whole new level of embracement for Dance music.
The second verse comes in with a somewhat vibrant energy showcasing the youth stage of growth tailored with the anxious desire for diversity from the kin. The simple gliding organ notes accompanied by a resounding Reese Bass symbolizes the friends and the elements that the key subject picks up along the way, moulding its definition as a whole.
“Thinking about those days,” a statement that will live to be remembered in that, there was a genesis from where this all begun, oathing to always remember those days. Chaperoned with harmonious keyscape notes, the second verse transitions into the chorus with a lightrous drum build up followed by a short preview of the chorus for about 4 bars. There then, she drops into a trap sensation symbolizing the agile near adult life of the element. Filled with atmospheric mars sounds, its late transition into actual maturity is followed by an artfully saturated chord progression demonstrating the now true aging adult life of the element ready to give back, yielding to thee that sowed. That’s the power of Kyosiga.

DJ KosGabby

Gabriel Herniel Kitutu popularly known as DJ KosGabby is a Gospel Trapper, Record Producer and DJ specialising in Trap, EDM, Gospel, and Afro-Beat Dancehall. His debut album BlackThunder , a Trap Gospel album, hit the waves in 2017 when he was only 16 years. He did majority of the production for the tracks and coursing the lyrics through most of them. The album features rappers Metrican , Malcolm De Urban, Saint Ella and various other producers.

He grew up in Jinja-Uganda alongside two siblings learning piano, drums and guitar from Church. It’s from where he began his journey as a DJ in 2012 for a gospel dance crew where he also was a crew dancer. His unprecedented creative mixing skills got him noticed by club and events managers, careering as an amateur DJ doing gigs and parties.

He continued up with the skill through to College from where he started his production career in 2015 during his Ordinary Level Education. He released his first track, a Remix of Million Stylez’s Miss Fatty which remains unpublished to date. He continued to become the shadow Entertainment minister (KosGabby) and college DJ, upping both his mixing and production skills through to the birth of BlackThunder. In 2019, he retired from turntabling to focus more on Production being inspired by gated synth producers like Timbaland, Alesso, Marshmello, John De Sohn and Nicky Romero causing him to develop a unique emotional dance music style showcased in his tracks Burnt Water, You or Me, False Awakening and most of his latest releases.

Tera Nitric

An EDM Producer/DJ from Uganda, with a couple of releases on underground EDM international labels. Not only is he talented but also hardworking. One cannot talk about Electronic Dance Music in Uganda and fail to hear his name surface or mentioned by someone in the crowd or crew. He has worked his way up and successfully released music with various underground EDM record labels in the US and Europe. Versatility is also one of his strengths as he can make various genres of music ranging from Bigroom house to Afro EDM, to even anything like Amapiano and UGX-bounce.

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The Story behind Kyosiga

Starting as a soundtrack intended for a feature film by the same name – that never made it out of the production house, DJ KosGabby conjured Kyosiga to fit the pleasure of giving. Intending to sound different from all other sound tracks created before, he intended to give it an African taste of production by building up the percussions being inspired by the kadoodi music artistry. Having cancelled release of the film, he cast the project upon the shelves to be long forgotten or so he thought.
On one of his endeavors working with DJ Arta, KosGabby crossed paths with EDM Guru Tera Nitric, Epaphroditus Kerim – and after sharing a lot amongst each other, Tera revealed that he was working on developing a new sound in the EDM vicinity that would change and bridge a lot of music ethnicities world over. But little did DJ KosGabby know that what he had put away long gone on the shelves was exactly what Tera was talking about. Still unaware, the two planned to work together on several projects and after sharing production files including the Kyosiga project, Tera was so surprised to find a producer who understood exactly what he wanted to bring out to the world. Thus after some short excitement and a few late night activities, Kyosiga was born. The song will be released on 12th August, 2022.

Listening to Kyosiga by DJ KosGabby ft. Tera Nitric — Releases on 12/08/2022

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The YouTube link
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Uganda’s EDM DJ, Tera Nitric

Tera Nitric Story

In this music era today, Tera Nitric born Clyde Epaphroditus is taking the music waves in Uganda by storm. Not only is he talented but also hardworking. One cannot talk about EDM (Electronic Dance Music) in Uganda and fail to hear his name surface or mentioned by someone in the crowd or crew. He has worked his way up and successfully released music with various underground EDM record labels in the US and Europe. Versatility is also one of his strengths as he can make various genres of music ranging from Bigroom house to Afro EDM, to even anything like Amapiano and UGX-bounce.

Ugandan EDM DJ & producer. Tera Nitric from East Africa. — Tera Nitric Logo

This budding artist actually started making music in 2015 in his senior five class while at Macos. The artist name Tera Nitric, initially was his rap name. Writing rhymes and raps is what he used to do but still had a hidden love for EDM music. And neither did he have any idea about deejaying and making EDM music back then. All he recalls is that he had a lot of that music on his laptop. Thereafter, he then promised himself to learn an instrument when band guys in school were actually having short breaks. After that, he got to know the basics in Keyboard from band buddies “Glenn & Kulo” and that is when he actually decided to switch from rapping to making music(producing) because there were honestly many rappers and aspiring rappers in Macos. By then it was Mainests, EyezClosed, Drillz and many more. But there were fewer producers so he asked himself, “why not start with basics in Piano”. So by the time his form six vacation started he was already out and pretty sure that all he wanted was to make music. Initially, he felt the urge to make Hiphop and trap music.

Hearing from Tera Nitric

“2016, which was my vacation was a year of making a choice, so nothing big happened. Until fast-forward to 2018 which was like First Year 2nd Semester of campus when got this roommate ‘Canaan’ aka ‘Crums’ who had LMMS and FL Studio which are production software brands. So I joined a room and he was my roommate. I discovered Crums made music on his laptop by then we both were into Hip-Hop and trap so I used to make trap beats and he made some trap and EDM. So later while making trap, we all decided why not switch it up to EDM mostly. Maybe because we just felt that trap beat makers were also too many in Uganda. There was that urge to be unique, even when we were new to making music, which was actually hilarious now that I think about it. Oh, by the way Crums really disliked me the first time I was his roommate because I used to stay up later than him and he liked his lights off by like 9pm. Honestly I found it weird that he slept at 9pm. So I used to stay up either making short notes for law school or trying to learn how to make EDM music.”

“So after being so affiliated with the EDM genre, Crums introduced me to DJ Arta his OB who is also an EDM Producer and DJ. The link up was immediately strong because somehow by that time we all made Progressive House music actually in 2020 me and DJ Arta had progressive House Tracks released on the same label Wolfrage Records based in Netherlands. Crums made more tropical house because of Kygo’s influence on him. But one thing in common is that I, DJ Arta and Crums were all inspired by Avicii (RIP). So DJ Arta is the founder of Electronic Wave and he took me up to be part of it. Electronic Wave is a Group of Ugandan EDM Producers and DJ’s. From then I never looked back. I became more indulged with this music. It has been a good journey from 2018 to date. Actually four years since I started Producing Music.”

“In 2020, I got more inspiration from a Kenyan friend and Talented Producer and DJ ‘Moses Gitua’ aka ‘KeyRai’. To me, he is the African ‘Nicki Romero’. His music and DJ sets inspired me to keep growing my craft. His hard work and work ethics is just high up there. You can realize that in 2020, my soundcloud and YouTube pages had alot of Progressive House tracks because of some of my inspirations, “Moses Gitua ” and “Avicii”. In 2021, I decided to diversify my creativity to other different subgenres like Bigroom House, Future Bass, Afro EDM, Trap EDM and more. Last year honestly was a good year. I got to make music that was signed by labels I never thought would sign my music. I had music released on labels based in the US which are Shift Axis Records, NoFace Records by Max Vangeli who was an associate to Swedish House Mafia. The tracks I released last year off labels were majorly Bigroom House tracks that I made with my Colleague and good friend in Kenya named ‘DRUE’. His a real bigroom fan just like me so we decided to make tracks together. We had 3 releases and had one this year off Seal Network and many more in the kitchen. This year I have already released tracks off labels like Seal Network based in Germany and Mafia Family Crew based in Sri Lanka. More music with diversity is yet to drop off.”

Kampala EDM DJ Tera Nitric. — Tera Nitric Brand

UG-X Bounce.
What is UG-X Bounce?
This is an EdM genre that was first thought of by DJ Mericorn, a fuse of EDM with african elements like percussions, and instruments. In 2020 she asked that we should dive into the sound design of the genre and we alluded from the kadodi music, ‘Bagisu Music’ of Eastern Ugandan. The genre has been in the works for nearly two years now and finally one can testify that it is ready and many tracks are going to be released under the genre by Tera Nitric and Afriki Wave. You will soon know what Afriki Wave is all about in no time. The genre was first started with the 3rd step pattern and the rest was histroy. We just felt the need to come back to the African routes and own our sound as EDM creatives from Uganda. The sound so far has received personal support and good feedback from various artists like DJ Arta, DJ KosGabby, ItsMdnyt, DJ Ronnie, Maerco (Moses Gitua, Drue, Sktr4, Ndunda, DJ Bismarck these are DJ’s from Kenya). Right now, Tera Nitric’s story hasn’t yet ended, stay tuned for more music.

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Uganda’s EDM Scene

EDM from Uganda

Uganda’s EDM Scene

Then and Now

Back in the time at the beginning of the 21st century while I was in primary school, I had a preferential ear for unique sounds and even up to date, I still do. I would sometimes here music at events that was composed of strange sounds that were sounding different from the common known musical instruments. Little did I know I was enjoying electronic music and that was at a time when Electronic Dance Music (EDM) was exploding into a global music genre with hit songs reaching Africa and other parts of the world. The music was just so beautiful and so nice, it just made me happy even without hearing the singers.

Most prominent EDM DJ in Uganda — DJ Kampire

At the time, the trouble was how one would hear such melodies and rhythms again as it was something new to the society and minimally consumed by the people. Most radio stations played the local music as well as music from the international stars like Rihanna and Beyoncé. One only had the chance to listen to EDM at select few radio stations that had weekly programs which played that type of music specifically, and that particular radio station was Vision FM which is the current day popular X fm. The other place to grab hold of the music was at social events especially the social events as the songs were played as celebratory songs. Today, the music is quite known and many of the people and club deejays play and enjoy this music only that, a majority of them do not even know it is called EDM.

The events

Uganda is home to various music festivals that celebrate the music cultural diversity in the whole of East Africa. A decent number of cities host such events with a majority happening in the capital city, Kampala. The most prominent festival with a lot of buzz is the Nyege Nyege festival which is sponsored by MTN Uganda and usually held in Jinja. Interestingly, this festival is home to various local EDM deejays that play music rich in electronic elements. Female deejays also play at the festival and it seems like the biggest supporters of EDM music in Uganda are the female deejays like DJ Kampire and DJ Mericorn of which, this is a surprise since this deejay sector is largely dominated by men.

EDM party and rave in Kampala, Uganda — Underground Kampala EDM rave

Not to mention, there are other events that happen around Kampala notably underground Kampala, which has had a series of raves held each month ever since the start of the calendar year 2022. Also, we have the rooftop transit raves that occur almost every month and just like the name, the event occurs at rooftop venues in Kampala. All these events are influencing the promotion and penetration of EDM right here in Uganda. The EDM community in Uganda is small but potentially growing day by day with more people being introduced to these events and the emergence of Ugandan electronic music artists/producers who began making the music since they love it. All these artists, organizers and promoters are pioneering the blistering EDM revolution in the pearl of Africa.

The Artists

Literally known as producers, we have so many budding EDM acts in our community. These are mainly influenced by electronic popular deejays as they seek to create their own music brands. A number of EDM styles are made by the upcoming youthful deejays of which some are popular and others less popular such as Amapiano, House and Afro EDM. Some of the names of the talents behind the tracks are DJ Arta, Tera Nitric, Izaya the composer, Arche, Crums, Maerco, DJ KosGabby, Buccura and the Winter Trillionaire.

Promotion of these independent artist largely lies in their own hands as they try to do creatively to acquire commercial exposure and dominance. Most of the artists want to make it international just like their inspirations and role models and this not only shows that they have big dreams, but also aspire to overcome the challenges preventing Ugandan music have a deep international foothold. West Africa has done it, so has South Africa therefore, Uganda can do it too and this time round it could be so with their own musical style which could be termed as Ugandan EDM.

Listen to EDM made in Uganda on this Spotify playlist courtesy of Urban Flow: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5ej6S4dCpeS3UuvlmBDi6l?si=49aBIx7tR3OgCg_Is9QiDQ&utm_source=copy-link

Catch the latest Afro EDM DJ Mixes right here: DJ ARTA SESSIONS (DJ Mixes): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyI4QtGDLQjwTM3-rCOERm23Y-Sgi-mss

Uganda’s Music Scene

Current Ugandan Music Scene