Category: Music
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![POWER UP [@TimeToPowerUp_] is back for its second year of empowering Black music creators and industry professionals](https://guap.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/pexels-luis-quintero-2833037-scaled-1.jpeg)
Following on for their strong first year POWER UP have announced the deadline for applications for their second year. Starting in 2021 aiming to break down barriers for Black music creators and industry professionals POWER UP is back again for its 2022 programme. POWER UP invites 20 Black music creators (artists, songwriters, composers and producers who are…
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Trace Made In Africa is set to be the biggest celebration of Afro-Caribbean music and culture this Summer taking place from June 24th-26th 2022 in Porto, Portugal. Last week Trace officially revealed Trace Made In Africa which is set to take over Portugal for a 72 hour non-stop celebration of Afro-Caribbean culture in partnership with…
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![Five For Friday Ft. [@faveszn], [@adekunleGOLD], [@pipergraceb] + more](https://guap.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/PIPERGRACE_CU_PRESS_01-e1642773341352.png)
Five For Friday is back again with 5 releases from the past week you should pay attention to. Five For Friday is back again giving you 5 great tracks/projects for your Friday. Friday is essentially the most important day of the week musically, and typically a lot of music drops on Friday’s. With it being another…
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Words By: Matthew Griffiths Have you ever had a dream that was so visually intense, it seemed more vivid than reality? DPR’s music videos seem to evoke a similar feeling. It’s in the name – DPR, or Dream Perfect Regime are an independent, multi-genre music and video group who want to “perfect” their dreams. “We’re…
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January 18th, 2022 – Today, GUAP can proudly announce that we are joining the Apple Music family as an official curator and are kicking off the New Year with five exclusive playlists launching this week: Icons, ALT/RAP, Alté Sounds, Emerge: UK and Rhythm & Bangers. Icons is a time capsule of the culture. It is…
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![Five For Friday Ft. [@TommySaint_], [@lashanalatrice], [@KojeyRadica] + more](https://guap.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/182238954_3671657502961798_2980538500742152578_n.jpeg)
Five For Friday is back again with 5 releases from the past week you should pay attention to. Five For Friday is back again giving you 5 great tracks/projects for your Friday. Friday is essentially the most important day of the week musically, and typically a lot of music drops on Friday’s. With it being another…
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Words by: Matthew Griffiths What’s your go-to anxiety relieving music? Some listen to classical music. Others listen to movie soundtracks. There are those who don’t listen to music for anxiety at all, but rather listen to “nature sounds” like the sound of falling rain in a storm (although possibly laid over the top of an…
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![JG, LZee [@LZEE_01] and GW [@gwtheproducer] breathe new life into Drake’s “Champagne Poetry” for new track “Life I Live”](https://guap.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Jared-X-Lzee-Life-I-Live_Art-v2_-scaled-1.jpeg)
“Life I Live” is a testament to the power of sampling and how creativity can breathe new life into anything. Firstly “Life I Live” should be doing huge numbers, everyone involved delivers their respective contributions with a flair and confidence that can’t be downplayed. Producer GW in particular has to get a shout for flipping…
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![GUAP 25 – The Alté Edition: The Evolving Sounds Of Africa & Its Diaspora [@BojDRB] [@iamodeal] [@itsgabzy]](https://guap.co/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Copy-of-GUAP25-ALTE-EDITION-INSTAGRAM-FEED-COVER-1-scaled-1.jpg)
If you want to see the future of music from the African continent look no further than Alté. Nigeria has been a powerhouse in music from the African continent for a while and as such was home to some of Africa’s biggest musical stars across the years. This year however we saw a surge in…
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![Ladipoe, A True Leader Of The Nigerian Afro-Rap Scene [@LadiPoe]](https://guap.co/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/image0-scaled-1.jpeg)
Words by: Robert Solomon Ladipoe displays no shortage of bravado. With a voice that seamlessly oscillates between euphonious and blunt, and with his music marked by witty one-liners which he tags “lifelines,” the Lagos-based rapper is on the verge of taking rap to a whole new beat. For Ladipoe, consistency has been an invaluable trait…