FlexFab & Ziller Bas | They Hate Change

FlexFab & Ziller Bas

Electronic/bass producer FlexFab and Kenyan rapper Ziller Bas storm into 2022 with their highly anticipated debut album “MUGOGO!”, out on the 23rd March 2022!

Launched in 2020 under the MUGOGO! banner, FlexFab & Ziller Bas rapidly captured attention for their solid and singular mix of modern club African music, bass/electronic and rap. The prolific duo made waves with two successful Eps (“MUGOGO! part 1” & “MUGOGO! part 2”) and a documentary showcasing the recording of the album in Kilifi, Kenya.

The “MUGOGO!” album contains 22 tracks, a very rich album that highlights FlexFab’s bewitched-hybrid bass sound signature and genre-bending production style, while Ziller Bas raps in his very own dialect called “Sweng Flow”; a combination of English, Swahili and his native language the Kigiriama.

From the spiritual chants of “Nisamehe”, to the dark soundscapes of “TSAPI”, to the next level club banger “Haya Wee!”, to the African club anthem “MUGOGO!”, to the gimmicky “Sawa Sawa”,… “MUGOGO!” is an ambitious album that unifies different cultures and influences into the unique musical territory that FlexFab & Ziller Bas occupy.

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Dre and Vonne first came together in front of the apartment complex where they both lived as teens. Dre (he/him) had just moved down from Rochester, NY; Vonne (they/them) was trying to sell him bad weed. It was clear from the start that the two listened to music differently from most people—they’re sonic omnivores, obsessive deep-divers, lovers of rare and radical sounds. Starting as kids trawling the internet for tracks, they’ve been collecting music from around the world and across the decades, amassing a shared sonic knowledge so deep that “encyclopedic” barely begins to cover it—not just the East Coast hip-hop that Dre grew up on, or the hyperlocal bass-music variants like jook (the Gulf Coast’s twerkably raunchy answer to house) and crank (think “Miami bass meets NOLA bounce”) that Vonne grew up on, but also drum ‘n’ bass, Chicago footwork, post-punk, prog, grime, krautrock, emo, and basically any genre on the map.