Since drums were banned on most of the N.Amerian slave plantations during the 1600s, after the masters discovering that the slaves organized revolts with talking drums, the expression of poly-rhythms in Afro N.American music has primarily been through use of the voice. Thus US music became typified by the simple 1-2 “dupple” rhythm, in contrast to complex beat patterns in S.America or the Caribbean.

Now in the 21st Century a renewed sense of rhythmic complexity returns to N.America dance music in the form of Juke/Footwork in Chicago.

Juju-Juke demonstrates the epic reconnection between Nigerian Juju/Fuji music and Chicago Juke/Footwork, between Ethiopian dance styles and Detroit Ghetto-Tech, between Iberian trad-modern street sounds and American R’n'B/Pop, between Afro-Punk and Club Music, between Congolese Mbira workouts and Hiphop, between Ghanaian and Senegalese drumming and Urban Bass Pressure.

DL: http://ngomasound.wordpress.com/2012/07/04/ngoma-mix-13-juju-juke/