According to Mad Decent’s blog, “Secousse,” Radioclit’s monthly DJ party, is a “jungle beast.” The beatmaker behind my favorite electro-tribal-African-hip hop outfit, The Very Best, has been hosting monthly events in London that have become notorious for creating “unrelenting tribal riots.”
Known for inducing unholy tropical mayhem with the biggest of smiles, Secousse brings white hot [...]

If i had to try and imagine what the warm heart of Africa would sound like, it would be Esau Mwamwaya singing over Radioclit beats. The bi-continental mash-up of the Malawian born vocalist and the British Dj duo is still by far the most interesting thing I’ve heard ever. The Very Best’s debut album, Warm Heart [...]

You may remember The Very Best from having the Songofthecentury and making my Top 10 Albums of 2008 as an honorable mention. Or, you might just remember them from being incredible.
The band, consisting of UK based DJ group, Radioclit, and Malawian born vocalist, Esau Mwamwaya (who sings better than God), are still working towards the [...]

I’m still battling with the decision of whether or not I should have included The Very Best’s debut mixtape in my Top 10 Albums of 2008 (as opposed to the honorable mention it has now). The band recently added this video to their myspace, and changed their username to “THE VERY BEST – Kamphopo Video [...]

Fuck me.
This is called The Very Best for a fucking reason. As I’ve mentioned before, Radioclit and Esau Mwamwaya have joined forces to create some of the most incredible, original music I’ve ever heard. GvB recently blessed my life with a leak of the band’s first mixtape (officially out Nov. 1). “Hide and Seek” is [...]

Esau Mwamwaya, the East Afrian born traditional Malawian vocalist (on the cover of FADER issue 52) has been working with English producers Radioclit (Santogold, M.I.A., TV on the Radio, Buraka Som Sistema, etc.), and as well as the M.I.A. blessed track, “Rain Dance” (which leaked from their upcoming full length collaboration, The Very Best, feat. [...]