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TRAPfrica Records Presents ‘INSTINCT’: G TEMPOH’s New Mixtape

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1 year ago

February 10, 2025

TRAPfrica Records presents the latest milestone from G TEMPOH, the first American Afrobeats duo, as they drop their highly anticipated mixtape, ‘INSTINCT’. This six-track project blends Afrobeats, AfroTrap, and global influences, redefining contemporary African music.

Featuring tracks like “MOTTOH,” “Welcome to TRAPfrica!,” “HONEST,” “PROSPER,” “CALL BACK,” and “NAYA,” each song showcases the duo’s versatility and signature TRAPfrican sound, capturing the essence of African rhythms while infusing elements of trap and drill.

The duo, consisting of OG Picasso and G’Latto Osei, brings a fresh perspective to the Afrobeats scene by integrating energetic rap flows, soulful melodies, and high-energy beats that cater to a global audience. Their innovative approach to music production and storytelling has positioned them as pioneers in the evolving AfroTrap genre.

Fresh off winning Ghana Entertainment Awards’ Discovery of the Year, OG Picasso continues making an impact following collaborations with Wyll Power, Edem, and Gambo on the global hit “DRIP” remix. G TEMPOH has performed on major stages, including Kuami Eugene’s Toronto Caribana show and Ghana Music Awards USA. Their high-energy stage presence and dynamic performance style have captivated audiences, solidifying their reputation as one of the most exciting new acts in the Afrobeats scene.

The duo is set for collaborations with Grammy-winning producers LeriQ and Herb Middleton, Nigerian hitmaker UCee, and Ghanaian Afrobeats stars Edem and Gambo. These upcoming releases are expected to push their sound even further into international markets, expanding their reach and establishing their brand as a force in the industry.

G TEMPOH embodies more than music—it’s a movement redefining TRAP as “Those Representing African Prosperity.” Their mission is to bridge the gap between Africa and the diaspora through music, culture, and storytelling.

‘INSTINCT’ is available on all streaming platforms. Listen Here.

Stay connected via www.trapfrica.com, Instagram, and YouTube to follow their journey and witness the rise of AfroTrap’s next global superstars.

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Michele Ducci teases new album with uplifting indie single ‘Woman Like You’

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1 day ago

April 17, 2026

Don Reed

Michele Ducci has unveiled the second single, ‘Woman Like You’, from his forthcoming album and animated film ‘Snail in the Clouds’.

‘Woman Like You’ pairs bright distorted electric guitar with an electronic drumbeat, adding in Ducci’s soulful vocals and a catchy uplifting chorus with Letizia Mandoleisi’s sweet vocal harmonies. A vintage organ pedalboard operated by Ducci simultaneously generates chords, bass and rhythm, like a one-man band. Shane Kennedy (Girl in the Year Above) joins in on guitar. Simon Milner (Is Tropical, Ysing) recorded and produced the track at his 4am Studios in London.

The album and film tell the story of a planet called ‘Snail’, inhabited by hybrids – primarily a mixture between scorpions, snails and humans – who lead a life according to the style of Pythagoras, devoted to music. There is also a cloud man named Agostos, a writer of musical operettas, who together with a talking smoke machine called Doctor Subtilis, begins to kill all hybrids, targeting in particular the hybrid musician Diodoros and his band, in an effort to steal the ark of melodies, an ancient ship that allows the whole planet to survive with music and joy.

The video for the single, created and animated by Ducci and Mandoleisi, delves further into the realm of planet ‘Snail’:

Says Ducci, “The ark of melodies, after various attempts, finally starts to work and fly in the planet Snail, while the shady Doc. Sub. and Agostos, with their platoon of soldiers made of foggy smoke, spy the miracle, planning to steal the ark for their evil and tyrannical purposes.”

About the track, Michele says, “I wrote this song for my love Letizia. Love seen from the mind is the sound we make. Sound is the love of matter.

We used a Technics synthesizer organ from a flea market. I tried to find a mood that was right for the song and I started using the bass of the pedal board together with the synth and the drums, and it was magical to hear the song reveal itself all coming from a single instrument. Leti was singing with me and we recorded everything live in one shot. Then we made Shane do the guitar flight, as if he came out of the window. The idea was to maintain disproportions, guitar thrust and synth drum thinness a la Haroumi Hosono, so as to create an estrangement, but naturally: it’s about how I listen, with close up something that captures me in its nuance as element of a larger orchestra somewhere. I’m glad we decided in the studio with Simon to use the layers of arrangement as the close-ups in the cinema; they look like strange enlargements that perch on parts of a mutated orchestra. I’m happy to come back with this love song at a time when everything seems to opt, even my labor in managing the flows of selfishness that have poured out on me while doing this album, for the sound of war. I’m here happy to be able to say that the sound of love always wins as did for me. Snail in the clouds is one of the most important works in my life and I am glad to start from pure love for this album that is my son.”

The album and full-length film will be released on the 5^th of June on Monotreme Records.

Michele and Letizia’s previous musical short film, ‘The Great Book of Nature’, is an official selection for the 2026 Venice Shorts Film Festival.