Ugandan producer Afrorack presents his homemade synthesizer

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He is one of the actors of a booming East African electronic music scene. The young Ugandan Afrorack from the Nyege Nyege collective explains how he himself created his own modular synthesizer and what he claims to be the first on the whole continent.

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Multicolored wires, LED lamps, and lots of buttons ... It took Brian Bamanya alias Afrorack, years of research and a year of intensive DIY at home to come up with this entirely handcrafted synthesizer with which he was playing in January at Hasard Ludique in Paris: “ I made everything myself, cut panels for example from old discarded computers, used a lot of recycled parts, to make it as cheap as possible. "

If he studied computer science at the University of Kampala, this young Ugandan has always been passionate about electronics: " When I was at school, I was always at the library with my nose in books e. I ended up knowing pretty well how to create sounds. And then I got a lot of inspiration from the internet, where we see people doing crazy things in electronic music. "

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Then he just had to play his instrument himself: " I don't know if you hear these rhythms. This comes from Africa. I put it in my music to give it an African color. "

After creating its YouTube channel , Afrorack intends to record its first album this year.

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