MASAKA MASAKA - Barely Making Much (2024)

Growing up in Uganda, multi-disciplinary artist Ian Nnyanzi (aka Masaka Masaka) always knew he wanted to make music, he just needed enough time and breathing room to figure out what exactly his contribution had to be. He cut his teeth fashioning rudimentary hip-hop beats at a friend's studio on Makindye, a hill that overlooks Kampala's balmy Murchison Bay, and quickly realized that he wanted more. "Out here, everyone seems okay to listen to the same thing," he explains, and Nnyanzi wasn't interested in following the crowd. During regular commutes across the city, his mind was being cracked open by sounds from Dean Blunt, Slauson Malone, Arca, Jpegmafia and Vegyn; he knew he needed to show Kampala something similarly distinct.

Tracklist
01 - Mental Construct
02 - Before I Go
03 - Come with me to Goma
04 - Cut Right Through
05 - 6pm Waiting on You
06 - Days of Nothingness
07 - Let Me Out
08 - Elv8t
09 - Barely Making Much
10 - Gone
11 - Nothing Makes Sense
12 - NRG
13 - Sacrifice
14 - It's Okay to Dance Alone