Top 20 electronic music albums of 2022: DJ Travella – Mr Mixondo

I'm back at it. Blogging my bestest fave electronic music albums of 2022 until either you stop reading or I'm crying too much to type. I'm parping out the top 20, with the final top 10 following later today. Let's pop to East Africa, shall we?

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DJ Travella: Mr Mixondo (Nyege Nyege Tapes)

Suck the citrus from Fruity Loops and instead infuse it with spicy rave nuts and the dripping sweat from an Afrofuturist festival. This is maximalist rave delivered by an energetic East African teenager. Such energy. Frantic rhythms hadron-collided into oblivion, hypercolour synth stabs blatted in your face, crack cocaine drum fills that will make you fall off your seat. 

Chapa Bakola Music Bass feels like we’re on a merry-go-round toppling off its axis while its plastic horses are trying to hump us. Not often I get to type that. The always fascinating Nyege Nyege Tapes call this “Timbaland conjuring a Thunderdome soundtrack for a Tanzanian street party”. Whatever genre DJ Travella has invented, young Hamadi Hassani, take a bow.

From another website: With Mr Mixondo, DJ Travella presents one of the most striking debuts of the year. At just 19, he’s already propositioning himself as a visionary. (The Playground)

This is part of a series of the Best Electronic Music Albums of 2022. Read it all here.