Along with Molière and Les Mercenaires, Les Patrons lead the next generation of zouglou music. Zouglou is a style developed in the late 1990s at the height of the Ivorian crisis, the backdrop for songs of protest by Abidjan’s students. It’s also one of the roots of coupé décalé, its party stepchild. Like hip hop, zouglou is a social and cultural reality-check. In C’est la Vie, Les Patrons talk about death, singing in nouchi, the French-based creole slang spoken in Abidjan.
the tendency in a lot of modern electronic music to go for high-tech production can be nice, but stuff like this shows that there are still plenty of bangers to be made without spending five hours trying to get the perfect bass sound. Watching Nebula
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A rediscovered gem. Big around the time that Kuduro, Kwaito and more African electronic sounds began to infect the Global scene. UNLIMITED FREAKOUT IS LOVE.