Don Zilla – Bujingo

Pre-order: Video artist Dyllan Zain collaborated with Don Zilla to make this video, originally commissioned by No Bounds Festival. A few years ago, Don Zilla was sat alone in an internet cafe teaching himself FL Studio, dreaming of becoming one of Africa’s greatest music producers. These early experiments evolved into 2019’s “From the Cave to the World”, an EP that showcased Zilla’s rare fusion of eerie industrial electronics, lurching bass and constantly shifting East African rhythms. Now the manager of Kampala’s Boutiq Studios, Zilla returns to Hakuna Kulala with his eagerly-awaited debut album “Ekizikiza Mubwengula”, a labyrinthine album that weaves freewheeling dance sub-genres into a bejewelled tapestry, signalling a path to the future. There’s the cybernetic ‘nuum funk of dBridge, Empty-set’s overdriven, cacophonous anxiety, the hyper-paced airlock club of Shanghai’s Hyph11E and the confrontational intensity of Dreamcrush