Ndagga Rhythm Force

Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force is a collaboration between Berlin (dub-)techno pioneer and Hardwax founder Mark Ernestus and eight musicians from Senegal. It includes some of that country’s best musicians, including drummers Bada Seck and Modou Mbaye and guitarist Assane Ndoye Cisse. The music is centered around the repetitive sound of the sabar drum. The airy and trance-y West African polyrhythms are blended with an electronic aesthetic to create global club music for the 21st century. Its collision with techno sounds highlights the latter’s origins in African-American music and gives the genre exciting impulses for its continued evolution. Since 2013, he has been releasing records together with musicians from the Senegalese collective Jeri-Jeri Musik, which specialises in the West African Mbalax sound. Out of this grew the much larger and much more powerful Ndagga Rhythm Force, which put out the album »Yermande« in 2016 and has been shaking the foundations of stages around the world with their Sabar drums ever since. Expect polyrhythmic, psychedelic grooves as lush as the bass lines are energetic, and over it all Mbene Diatta Seck’s reverby vocals. Mark Ernestus' Ndagga Rhythm Force brings dub and techno back to their roots—and lets the world listen.

About Ndagga Rhythm Force

Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force is a collaboration between Berlin (dub-)techno pioneer and Hardwax founder Mark Ernestus and eight musicians from Senegal. It includes some of that country’s best musicians, including drummers Bada Seck and Modou Mbaye and guitarist Assane Ndoye Cisse. The music is centered around the repetitive sound of the sabar drum. The airy and trance-y West African polyrhythms are blended with an electronic aesthetic to create global club music for the 21st century. Its collision with techno sounds highlights the latter’s origins in African-American music and gives the genre exciting impulses for its continued evolution. Since 2013, he has been releasing records together with musicians from the Senegalese collective Jeri-Jeri Musik, which specialises in the West African Mbalax sound. Out of this grew the much larger and much more powerful Ndagga Rhythm Force, which put out the album »Yermande« in 2016 and has been shaking the foundations of stages around the world with their Sabar drums ever since. Expect polyrhythmic, psychedelic grooves as lush as the bass lines are energetic, and over it all Mbene Diatta Seck’s reverby vocals. Mark Ernestus' Ndagga Rhythm Force brings dub and techno back to their roots—and lets the world listen.

Genres: Electronic

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