Today’s new music Friday has been dominated by one question alone: dónde está Donda? Following the listening party he held last night in Atlanta, Kanye is yet to press the Spotify upload button on his latest album (and here’s a selection of the best memes while we wait).
Luckily, there‘s lots of other great music out today. For fans of the Amapiano sound, NTS has put together a compilation drawing together the best of the South African club sound igniting dancefloors around the world. For even more summertime heat, London via Lagos’s Kida Kudz has dropped an essential mixtape that expands on his ‘jiggy’ dancehall and afrobeats-fuelled sound.
Elsewhere, there’s atmospheric, Ginuwine-interpolating footwork from veteran producer DJ Manny, cosmic dancefloor transmissions from Locked Groove, while Dave tackles knife crime, immigration, and more on his second album.