{"id":75987,"date":"2025-08-19T23:17:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T21:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sodwee.com\/blog\/?p=75987"},"modified":"2026-04-16T00:19:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T22:19:06","slug":"ata-kak-yasi-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sodwee.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/ata-kak-yasi-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Ata Kak &#8211; Yasi Town"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 id=\"ata-kak-crashes-back-into-our-lives-with-yasi-town-and-yes-its-still-weirdly-perfect\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br>A<strong>ta Kak crashes back into our lives with Yasi Town and yes, it\u2019s still weirdly perfect<\/strong>.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Our favorite left-field wizard,\u00a0Ata Kak, just dropped\u00a0\u201cYasi Town\u201d\u00a0today via Awesome Tapes Of Africa. Imagine a 90s drum machine taking a detour through a time portal: it\u2019s highlife on steroids, lo-fi funk, and Twi rap running wild with quirky electronic jolts. It\u2019s got that unmistakable Ata Kak recipe \u2014 rough edges, infectious grooves, and pure, unfiltered joy. Basically, it\u2019s like finding your uncle\u2019s old cassette, except this one still makes people lose it on the dancefloor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3592345949\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/track=3189371019\/transparent=true\/\" seamless><a href=\"https:\/\/atakak.bandcamp.com\/album\/batakari\">Batakari by Ata Kak<\/a><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Ata Kak (Yaw Atta-Owusu), born in Kumasi, Ghana, 1960, is the man who accidentally became a cult hero. First a bar performer, then a reggae band drummer in Germany, later a Stevie-and-MJ-loving beat-tinkerer in Toronto. In 1994, he recorded\u00a0Obaa Sima\u00a0in his living room with scavenged gear, pressed 50 tapes, sold about three, and promptly vanished into obscurity. Enter cassette-archaeologist Brian Shimkovitz, who stumbled upon a copy in a Cape Coast market and reissued it through\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/awesometapes.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Awesome Tapes From Africa<\/a>. Suddenly, Ata Kak was crowned the lo-fi king of global dance floors. His sound? A kaleidoscopic mash of Ghanaian highlife, raw rap, jittery funk, and early house \u2014 weird, wonderful, and utterly addictive. Now in 2025, he\u2019s back with\u00a0Yasi Town\u00a0\u2014 still cryptic, still electric, still brilliantly himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-center has-gray-200-background-color has-background\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atakak.bandcamp.com\/album\/batakari\"><img data-dominant-color=\"a69f80\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #a69f80;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"940\" data-attachment-id=\"75989\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sodwee.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/ata-kak-yasi-town\/a4162523489_10\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/sodwee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/a4162523489_10.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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id=\"batakari-out-november-7-2025-via-awesome-tapes-of-africa\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"font-family: -webkit-standard; white-space: normal;\">\u201cBatakari,\u201d out November 7, 2025 via Awesome Tapes Of Africa<\/span>.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atakak.bandcamp.com\/album\/batakari\">Buy\/stream album<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-6 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-dominant-color=\"906d6b\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #906d6b;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"857\" height=\"1200\" data-attachment-id=\"75988\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sodwee.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/ata-kak-yasi-town\/0006410636_10\/\" 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