Kasai Allstars are a band from Kishasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa that makes amazing hand-built electronic music.

From the Crammed Discs website:

Using a spectacular mixture of acoustic instruments, electric guitars, distortion-laden thumb pianos and soulful vocals, Kasai Allstars include musicians all based in Kinshasa, DR Congo, but originating from five different ethnic groups, each with their own language and musical tradition.

They draw their songs from festive and ritual music played in the bush before being banned by the Europeans, who considered the highly erotic dances and the pagan trance ceremonies as “satanic”.

Check them out in this video:

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