Society HAE has teamed up with Nigerian hip hop collective and production company Str8buttah to release “Fela Kuti + Ginger Baker: LIVE! Remixed,” the second of a series of mixtape collaborations with African artists, the first being the AFRIKA21 Mixtape Vol. 3produced by Spoek Mathambo.
“Fela Kuti + Ginger Baker: LIVE! Remixed” is produced by Teck-Zilla of Str8buttah Productions. “Inspired by the urgency and need to share Fela’s legacy from a Nigerian’s point of view,” Teck-Zilla combines snippets of rare interviews with Fela, Ginger Baker and Fela`s musicians with sound bites and remixes of the live recordings from his 1971 “LIVE!” album, which featured Africa70 and Ginger Baker. Original soundscapes by Teck-zilla are also present on the DocuMixtape`s featured tracks.
“With every project or initiative we put forward our goal is always to tell a story,” states Ngozi Odita, Creative Director at Society HAE, “When approached by Teck-Zilla regarding the Fela Kuti + Ginger Baker project we were really excited to have an opportunity to share Fela`s inspiring story and music in an innovative and fun way.”
