Category archive: Music
Viral Wednesday
Kenyan Acrobats on America Got Talent as Almasi Machachari cusses out those people that are misinformed about Africa. Finally, we’re still on the Lipala bandwagon but take a left turn with Hapa Kule and their hilariously drunk parody.
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Ain’t no party like a Coke Studio Party: Coke Studio Season 2 launch party review
There was an invite only launch party for coke studio season 2 and you’re invited to the review.
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Top 10 Kenyan Children Games
Remember Bano? rounders? Chobo Uwa? Or learning the words for By shot?
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Stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place
This year’s RVF was great but it was also plagued by a series of “unfortunate incidents” that left some of the revellers out of pocket and in one case a man discovering that his entire tent and its contents had been disappeared. UP Magazine caught up with David Cecil, aka DJ Ska Face, to hear about what can be done to avoid such mishaps in future.
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Catching Up With Shoe Shine Boy at RVF
Shoeshine boy has no secrets to his success. Only his belief in Jah Almighty and his love for reggea.
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Slim Emcee at RVF- An Experience
“I enjoyed the festival and also served the beautiful people of RVF.” UP’s exclusive on Kabubi Hermans RVF experience
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Yellow Light Machine at RVF: An Artist’s Perspective
Participating in festivals like RVF is to find hordes of people who remind you of the dream, and finding people who need reminding. Doing what you love for the sake of the love is everything and having people to share this love with you, and to share it with the world is everything and more.
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Official DJ profile for Rift Valley Festival: Moritz Kasper a.k.a Momo.
Moritz Kasper, more fondly known by his eclectic mix of fans as a DJ through his stage name Momo. He’s been rocking crowds in Nairobi and he’s now set to put you into a raving frenzy at the Rift Valley Festival. Here’s a little taste of what you should expect from him during the festival.
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Three Nights, Two Days, 10 songs: YLM in the Studio
Recording with YLM is fantastic because the music is a journey through thoughts, feelings and sounds every time. and the people are an adventure of colour and wonder every time.
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Viral Wednesdays
In this weeks VW KIU sing to us about boys, Milege jazz us from Uganda, we are enticed by the trailer of the upcoming movie Veve, and cheer JKUAT students spreading computer knowledge.
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Top Ten Tuesdays: Top Ten Tunes
This Tuesday, we bring you the top ten songs that will have you jamming all day long.
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60 seconds with: AFROLOGIC
Ade Oyedele a.k.a Afrologic a.k.a Nigeria’s most far out music producer, was happily raving at Treehouse this last saturday when we cornered him to get the lowdown on Nairobi, Kenyan music vs. Nigerian music and of course … what it feels like to be part of this year’s Coke Studio Africa show (no we did not talk about Ebola).
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Generation of Pirates
How many of you actually buy music? The young demographic in Kenya rarely buys music. But why is this? UP magazine finds out more about how you guys get your music.
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Guru Gang on being a G and the Nazizi gun incident.
We caught up with Guru gang who was in the vicinity of the alleged gun toting incident which Nazizi was implicated. Here is his first witness account of the story.
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We heart H_art (the band)
H_art the band creates buzz over their fusion of music and spoken word clearly showcasing their talent. Here’s why we at UP love them so much.
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The Nairobi Music industry is Getting Hotter by Mwas Mahugu aka Gas Fyatu
With almost twenty years in the music industry Gas Fyatu is the perfect person to tell us about what it’s like producing bands in the notoriously fickle Nairobi environment and to regale us with the highlights of his career so far
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RVF kicks off in Style at the Kuona Launch party
Check out how it went down at the RVF Launch party on Saturday!
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Santuri Safari to rock RVF Launch tomorrow
RVF 2014 Launch parties will feature Santuri Safari. Want to know more about them? Read on…
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RVF Launch Party - 6 reasons not to miss it!
This Saturday come and dance up a storm at the RVF Launch Party as we celebrate five years of RVF, the start of the Kuona Trust and Santuri Safari partnership and the first ever Nairobi Fambula.
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Viral Wednesdays
Check out this week’s viral vids here. From the colourful isikuti love to dance tutorials from Sauti Sol, there’s much to cheer up the gloomy days.
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