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Egyptian Hip Hop go Malian Pop Rock

African pop influences shine through on the new EHH release

Egyptian Hip Hop have come with a new single, Yoro Diallo, heavily influenced by 80s African pop. The single is named after a Malian musician the band discovered through the Awesome Tapes From Africa blog, as Egyptian Hip Hop’s Alecsander Pierce explains:

“There’s something about the West African, and particularly Malian, use of rhythm that really gets me going. I'm not a dancer but it’s pretty hard not to get infected by some of the grooves that these musicians create: in particular, a Malian musician by the name of Yoro Diallo. His tracks tend to have a fluid rhythm, seeming both on-beat and off-beat. There is no four to the floor. Even if the track is in 4/4, it's also in 6/8 and someone else is playing 3/4 too. We wanted to create something with this fluid sense of pulse, that was still very danceable, and also poppy. People forget that this 'world' music is pop just as much as anything western and current.”