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EDM in Nigeria: Pioneering A New Era of Sound

Music that gets your soul dancing: One big fan, Dara Oluwatoye, writes about the great but unexpected growth of electronic dance music in Africa’s most populous country, Nigeria. There was…

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5 min

Interviews

CALIX: The EDM DJ Taking Nigeria By Storm

CALIX is a 26-year-old Anambra State-bred EDM act who moved to Lagos at the age of 14. Calix’s journey with electronic music started as an undergraduate of the North American…

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3 min

Interviews

DysleX: Challenging The Norms of Nigerian Music

DysleX is a 21-year-old undergraduate of the University of Lagos whose journey to EDM started like every other person with the radio. He started off making remixes to Nigerian songs,…

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3 min

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Tropical Kenny: The EDM Producer Making Music Against All Odds

Born Fafi Kenesuomei Kennedy, Tropical Kenny is a 22-year-old Chemical Engineering graduate. The music producer formerly made afro-pop music but got into electronic music through Sigag Lauren. Speaking with Netng,…

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3 min

Interviews

Weird Tyler: Fanning The Flames of EDM in Nigeria

Born Arinze Ononye, Weird Tyler is a 19-year-old EDM artist who is also an undergraduate at Babcock University. The fast-rising artist found electronic music through the radio and from then…

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4 min

Interviews

Neutron: The Nigerian-Russian Producer Championing A New Sound

For this 20-year-old Nigerian-Russian DJ/producer, EDM was not love at first sight. It was more of a ‘hi let’s get to know each other’ process. He fell in love with…

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EDM in Nigeria: Pioneering A New Era of Sound

CALIX: The EDM DJ Taking Nigeria By Storm

DysleX: Challenging The Norms of Nigerian Music

Tropical Kenny: The EDM Producer Making Music Against All Odds

Weird Tyler: Fanning The Flames of EDM in Nigeria

Neutron: The Nigerian-Russian Producer Championing A New Sound

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