“Keep Talkin,” represents a meeting of international minds an creatives between Saudi Arabia’s fairly new electronic music world as represented by producer Bader and Lewisham, London-based vocalist Colz. The latter’s musical style is a mix of reggaeton and afro swing he calls “Afroton” and the collaboration as “Bader x Colz” is the debut release on Bader’s label SoundsBader. The video, filmed in Dubai, stikes one as incredibly subversive for the swagger and sentiments and celebration of lighthearted hedonism and references to ganja in and out of a place where such things are, at least in the public sphere, not just taboo but subject to severe criminal penalties. Nevertheless the jaunty rhythm and infectious melody of “Keep Talkin” is irresistible and its genre crossover from South London “Afroton” and Bader’s finely sculpted, dub-like bass warble accenting Colz’s deft wordplay sound is an exciting, natural and inevitable synthesis of Middle Eastern and African polyrhythms and poetry (which have so much in common sonically and culturally) and modern club music. Check out the video below and follow the artists through their UK based imprint Tenwest.
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