How DJs Helped Take Afrobeats Global

Afrobeats DJ PSmoove behind Pioneer decks as a dark club raises hands and drinks, his name card taped to the laptop

Trill Xoe, a Lagos-raised DJ and producer who studied in Mauritius and has worked with Native Records, remembers hearing Afrobeats there, thousands of miles from home. Hearing the sound playing loudly from a DJ set felt like more than a surprise. “Just being in a foreign man’s land where they don’t speak English, and just […]