Afrorack is back with cheap DIY modules, from African percussion to MS-20 filters

Afrorack continues to make richly textured polyrhythmic music and share secrets for cheaply producing powerful modular instruments with open tools. Here are some tantalizing updates from Uganda.

Make a DIY velocity-sensitive e-drum kit with Brian Bamanya aka Afrorack

No budget for an electronic drum kit? No problem. Brian Bamanya reports from Uganda on how to DIY the whole kit with readily sourced parts – and even adds velocity.

Peter Kirn - July 26, 2021

Watch Afrorack play his modular and home-built instruments live

Raw, fierce electric sounds emanate from this more abstract set by Afrorack, aka Brian Bamanya, of Uganda. Now you get a rich video from Berlin’s CTM Festival earlier this year.

Peter Kirn - July 27, 2020

An urgent music broadcast from Palestine draws an epic worldwide lineup in protest

Peter Kirn - July 10, 2020

Alternate African Reality: reorient your listening with this terrific electronic compilation

Peter Kirn - January 31, 2020

Afrorack and Africa’s first DIY modular synth make some wild, delicious grooves

Peter Kirn - January 30, 2020

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