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When Kenya’s Just a Band isn’t busy making 70′s action hero movie spoof viral videos, they’re making original remixes to play at their shows and DJ sets. Kudish! The Sound of Soup is a collection of those remixes going back to 2009 and features mixes/mashups/megamixes of their own music, other Kenyan favorites, Daft Punk, Madonna, [...]

I posted yesterday about the fictional hero, Makmende, created by Kenyan electronic/pop act, Just a Band, for their “Ha-He” video. Well, he is officially a big deal. CNN reported from Nairobi, above, for a World News video feature on TIME’s Man of the Year. The band’s latest album, 82, is out now on Akwaaba.

Makmende doesn’t wear a watch. He decides what time it is. Electronic/pop band, Just a Band, based out of Nairobi, Kenya, spoof 70′s action films of various genres in their new video for “Ha-He” (former Song of the Day) from their Akwaaba debut, 82. The video features the character, Makmende, in a fictional film called [...]

‘Fresh from Nairobi,’ Kenyan band and recent Akwaaba signees, Just a Band, released their debut album, 82, earlier this month via the LA based African digital music label. Been streaming the single, “Ha-He” for about an hour trying to figure out exactly how to describe it. Turns out it’s indescribable, and it’s clear that the [...]