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Late Junction: Lord Spikeheart's mixtape

Lord Spikeheart's mixtape

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Verity Sharp shares a dark and heavy Valentine’s mix by Kenyan producer Lord Spikeheart.

Verity Sharp shares a heavy Valentine’s mix by Kenyan vocalist and producer Lord Spikeheart, plus archive radio adverts for ravers' datelines and tracks for hopeless romance.

Verity Sharp shares two hours of adventurous music for lonely hearts, with the heaviest Valentine’s mix from Kenyan artist Lord Spikeheart, plus archive radio adverts for ravers' datelines from the 90s and tracks for hopeless romance. 

Nairobi-based vocalist, lyricist and producer Lord Spikeheart, aka Martin Kanja, is a huge presence in Africa’s heavy music scene, as well as electronic and metal underground worlds internationally. Best known as half of the electro-dystopian grindcore duo DUMA, Kanja has recently started his own label HAEKALU records, which he says focuses ‘on the heaviest unconventional sounds from the Continent’, and will soon release his solo debut album. 

As a nod to this week’s romantic holiday, Lord Spikeheart has made Late Junction an alternative Valentine’s mixtape, blending together heavy sounding ‘ballads’ and music from the darkest underground. 

Elsewhere in the show, Verity shares joyful and sensual salsa from Venezuela, new contemporary music for a cappella voices by New York ensemble Ekmeles, and a melancholic serenade from the father of Trinidadian Chutney music, Sundar Popo.

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