There is something deeply satisfying about hearing a song you already love wearing an entirely new set of clothes. Salatiel, the Cameroonian hitmaker and founder of Alpha Better Records, has taken his 2018 fan favourite "Weekend" and rebuilt it from the ground up with an Amapiano pulse. The "Weekend Amapiano Remix" feels like a conversation between two eras of African music, one rooted in the Afrobeat...

There is something deliciously conspiratorial about Hidden Shores and the release of the "Neon Silence" EP. I find myself picturing the artist wiping chalk dust off their hands after a day of teaching elementary schoolers, only to go home, dim the lights, and converse with algorithms. It’s not your typical moonlighting gig; while most are decompressing with reality TV, Hidden Shores is out there...