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Raz & Afla Launch MoBlack Records – “AfroZone” with new EP Benwa Marafi

Raz & Afla reunite for forward-thinking Afro House EP ‘Benwa Marafi’ First release on MoBlack Records’ newest annex AfroZone.

Welcome to AfroZone, the newest annex to MoBlack Records’ expanding house, a creative space dedicated to the essence of Afro. For AfroZone’s debut release, Raz & Afla reunite with an inimitable two-tracker that resounds the sub-label’s vision in perfect elocution. AZ001 is the label’s genesis as they always imagined it to be. Educing from their tried, tested, and proven transcontinental chemistry, the Hackney-based producer and Ghanian musical maestro render their Benwa Marafi EP, a forward-thinking manifestation of Afro House that breathes the past in unison with the present. 

Organic percussion, convictive tribal drumming, and bright, gritty strings pulsate life into the 7:12 minute journey, while Senegalese inspired vocals siphon soulfulness that ground man to earth, and earth within the body. Quixotic melodies, airy riffs tread Benwa Marafi’s sensual rhythm while elegant electronic tweaks and effervescent synths lend a subtle cosmic touch that unravels a celestial perspective from which earth is one entity.  An impassioned plea out of love and despair, a deliberate chorus of hope into syncretic conviction, Benwa Marafi’s exudes rich tapestries of ethnic sounds, made by man, some, machine, echoing the universality of Afro House and the universe within Afro House. 

 

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Shake It Mama rounds off the EP, shaking loose and breaking beat in a vast acoustic space, wallowing in a kaleidoscope of Afro-infused raw materials, mechanical modulations, and funky sonic juxtapositions. This 4:03 minute track is a mental trip for locomotive desires, teeming with faded reverberations, ominous harmonies, and glossy resonance self-fulfilling on ecstatic bass lines and body-binding rhythms.

 

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Cash Every Denomination unveils latest EP release “Hustlers Haven 2.0 – Legacy Edition [Ace The Beat God remix]”

Cash Every Denomination is back with “Hustlers Haven 2.0 – Legacy Edition.” The Beat God remix is a four-track project on survival, family, struggle, and ambition. A sound influenced by hip-hop, R&B, rap, pop, and dance. The remix edition was done in Gat 3 Studios with Ace. The remixing and engineering were done by The Beat God, and the project was mixed and mastered by Ken Lewis. The result is a record grounded in a certain sense of the present-day reality and the pressures of trying to move forward.

The opening track “Real Talk” bluntly tackles the emotional approach to hardship, focusing on struggles like mothers having the hard time of feeding their children. The song is about survival, not as an abstract idea but as something that is connected to banal situations and tough decisions. “Ingredients Of Life” moves into resilience, bass line, subtle shakers, and beat. It provides the rhythmic base of the track. In the vocals, the message is one of holding on and staying strong, with the basic ingredients of life being repeatedly stressed.

The EP’s lead single, “My Family,” touches on themes of hustling, loyalty, bloodline, and a complicated relationship with law enforcement, while “I Get It In” closes out the project with a determined attitude of “perseverance in the face of not yet being rich.” Across the four tracks, Every Denomination and Ace The Beat God deliver a unified movement of struggle and determination.

What’s interesting to me about Hustlers Haven 2.0 – Legacy Edition is that it is not simply about celebrating success but looking at the mindset of survival. The project makes listeners ask themselves who wins, who loses, and what people will do when the priority is to get ahead.

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Kaciny looks back at love, memory and loss with latest release “Rewind”

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Kaciny’s latest release, “Rewind” is a deeply personal song about heartbreak, memory, and the desire to change what has already happened, laying bare the raw shock of a relationship ending. Whereas the end of a relationship is often something distant or easily explained, this track comes from a difficult place where memories are fresh, and the past can feel impossible to leave alone.

There’s something instantly relatable about the concept behind “Rewind.” When a relationship ends, the mind replays conversations, moments, and choices, imagining how things might have turned out differently. Kaciny takes that emotional instinct and makes it the center of the song, giving the track a personal quality that comes from facing the aftermath of love instead of acting as if it can just be forgotten.

“Rewind” feels grounded in the uncomfortable space between acceptance and a desire for another chance. Heartbreak is its subject, but the real power of this book comes from the memories that surround it and the human desire to rewrite an ending that hurts. Kaciny takes the final chapter of a relationship and turns it into a reflection of what we hold on to when someone is gone, writing a song that speaks to anyone who’s ever, even in a moment, wanted a rewind button in life.

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