Kiru Stars (Julius Kangethe)

Family Planning / Mumbi

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“One of the best Kikuyu disco tracks I’ve ever heard…!” Rickard Masip said having found few copies of ‘Family Planning’ on his last trip to Kenya in 2013. Often the continuing search for something fresh and original can be a striving fare, especially when you have to look through thousand and thousands of dirty old singles. Even though there are many Kikuyu Benga singles, few have the magnitude of By Law’s KIRU1 and KIRU6. Over a hypnotizing groove with a heavy backbeat, Family planning tells us the story of a family dispute between husband and wife, set in a traditional Kikuyu rural setting. The bone of contention in the marriage is that the wife has had enough with giving birth to more kids. They have 8 kids so far but the arrogant and rude husband is still not satisfied and wants more. Though grim it may seem the outfall is the man accept the humble argument of the wife. Notice the slight shift to a more Soukouss driven beat towards the end of the track. The bass heavy ‘Mumbi’ is in more positive fashion a classic love song about the authors passion for a woman he named the song after. He goes on tour to Nyeri where she is from and tells all the other guys to lay off his true love. Both these tracks are now officially licensed and available as 12 inch through our own in-house label Afro7 records, limited to 350 copies in heavy custom slik pressed sleeve reworked by Finnish supreme Didier Selin A: Family Planning (Didier Selin 12" Extended mix) B1: Mumbi (Didier Selin 12" rework) B2: Mumbi (Original mix)

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Afro Beat

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14.11.2015

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