My Space Trips
Companion Site to: “‘My space trips from Chimoio’. Notes about space and temporality in sampling”, Quentin Williams and Jaspal Naveel Singh (eds., 2023): Global Hiphopography. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Milton Conqui
Janne Rantala
‘My space trips from Chimoio’. Notes about space and temporality in sampling
Welcome to the companion site to our chapter about sampling space and time in Chimoio Hip Hop production. It makes a part of Global Hiphopography book focusing on methodology of Hip Hop studies, which aims to rehumanise artists as research participants. In the table below you’ll find links to all the instrumentals and original recordings to go along with the article. Please do read along with these beats at hand, because it is your own listening to these instrumentals and music itself that are more important elements of Hip Hop knowledge than ours. Our chapter simply seeks to show just one route among unlimited number of other possible ones to listen to this music and find oneself. Please find your own routes in the Mar da Música, Ocean of Music.
Peace, Milton and Janne
Table: ‘My space trips to Chimoio’ beats and original recordings
| The Beat | Region(s) of reference | Original record of the main sample |
|---|---|---|
| ‘Onanaria’, produced by MD Akas, in Soulnoridade Nativa: Mozambeats (beat tape), 2017. | Nampula/ Indian Ocean | ‘Masikini’ (a song) in Eyuphuru: Yellela (album), 2001. |
| ‘Moza Woza’, produced by IMBLGK, in Mozambeats (beat tape), 2017. | Beira | ‘Minha Terra Mãe’ (a song) in XS Zouk: Mozambique In The House (album), 1996. |
| ‘#HipHopGhorwane’, produced by EO, in Soulnoridade Nativa: Mozambeats (beat tape), 2017. | Maputo/ Gaza province | ‘Sathuma’ (a song) in Ghorwane: Majurugenta, 1993. |
| ‘Aprenda com Quem Sabe’ (a track), produced by IMBLGK, in III Brigada: Vila Poética (album), 2014. | Zimbabwe | ‘Buka Tiende’ (a song) in Thomas Mapfumo & the Blacks Unlimited: Hondo (album), 1991. |
| ‘Tributo à Lokua Kwanza’, prod. by MD Akas, in Soulnoridade Nativa: Irmandade Sonora (beat tape), 2016 | Congo | ‘Meu Amor’ (a song) in Lokua Kanza: 3 (album), 1998 |
| ‘Os Makakanas do Kau’, produced by Dedecco, in Soulnoridade Nativa: Irmandade Sonora (beat tape), 2016 | Cabo Verde | ‘Gira Sol’, (a song) in Bana: Gira Sol (album), 1997 |
| ‘Xibubu’ (an unpublished beat), produced by IMLGK | Inhambane | ‘Chibhudhu’ (a song) in Venâncio Mbande Orchestra: Timbila Ta Venâncio (album), 2001 |
| ‘O Poder dos Fracos’ (a track and a music video), produced by Az Pro, in Interligados: O Poder dos Fracos (album), 2020 | Indian Ocean/ Arabic | ‘El Bent Elli Sahrana’ (a song and a music video), composed by Mustafa Al-Assal and performed by Hanan Mady at the Millennium, 2014 |
| ‘Futuro’ (a track), produced by Az Pro in Interligados: O Poder dos Fracos (album), 2020 | Indian Ocean/ Arabic | ‘We are the Champions’ (a song), in Queen: News of the World (album), 1977 |
Other music mentioned in the chapter is below.
- Youngsta CPT’s album, “3T”, which samples Islamic prayer call to represent real Cape Town
- Parliament Funkadelic’s Afrofuturistic funk album Mothership Connection
- Mestre Pastinha’s fascinating ladainha Eu já vivo enjoado about his desire to leave the Earth and move to the Moon can be listened to by clicking the picture.
As a bonus, we present a music video Mic (2019) from Chimoio (click the picture below), which is based on a same lineage of instrumentals that the instrumentals addressed in the chapter.
Main sample of the track of Chimoio rapper Função Inversa (featuring Matswa Boy and Tuz Mc, prod. IMBLKG) is Haruna by Thomas Mapfumo from neighbouring Zimbabwe.
Read a preprint version of the chapter.
Thank you for professor J. Griffith Rollefson’s CIPHER (International Council for Hip Hop Studies) unit at University College Cork to provide space for this media companion.
Rantala's contribution to this chapter is partially supported by funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska–Curie grant agreement number 101033296 (Performing Political Memory as Hip Hop Knowledge in Mozambican Rap).