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It’s the sound from South Africa that went global during lockdown: Amapiano mixes deep house with traditional music to create a sound that is spiritual and celebratory, and for some its a way of life. Tracks went to find out more about it.

Amapiano: The Sound of South Africa

House music was born in Chicago but South Africa has given the genre its own spin: Amapiano.

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What do The Strokes, Daft Punk and King Krule have in common? They've all contributed to making Mount Kimbie the group they are today. Tracks invited the British duo to a Parisian record shop to pick out ten vinyl records that have influenced their sound. 

Mount Kimbie

What do The Strokes, Daft Punk and King Krule have in common? They've all contributed to making Mount Kimbie the group they are today. 

Tracks: Record Box

Born long before the internet age, these tech-savvy seniors are taking TikTok and other social media by storm. Tracks meets Granfluencers in Spain, France and the UK.

Granfluencers on Tiktok

Born long before the internet age, these tech-savvy seniors are taking TikTok and other social media by storm.

Some people who hold religious beliefs feel excluded from organised religion and are finding new ways of reaching God, ways that traditional churches may find blasphemous. Tracks meets artists who are reinventing Christian iconography and creating inclusive queer religious spaces.

Blasphemy: The Way to Faith?

Tracks meets artists who are reinventing Christian iconography and creating inclusive queer religious spaces.

British Booker Prize winning writer Bernardine Evaristo is Jagoda Marinić’s guest. They discuss life, literature and cultural politics.

With Bernardine Evaristo

British Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo talks to Jagoda Marinić about her life and literature.

The Book of My Life

Jagoda Marinić meets exiled Turkish journalist Ece Temelkuran. After publishing articles critical of the government, she had to leave her country overnight. What books have influenced her and stayed with her? What can books do against autocracy, state repression and the absence of freedom?

With Ece Temelkuran

Jagoda Marinić meets exiled Turkish journalist Ece Temelkuran and talks about the power of the written word.

Although "kinky" images are present in our collective imagination, enthusiasts of specific sexual practices have taken a long time to embrace their preferences. Through art and spaces where kink is celebrated, the community now normalises practices that were once considered perverse. Kink fans are experiencing their coming-out and openly embracing their preferences.

Free to Be Kinky

Kink fans are experiencing their coming-out and openly embracing their preferences.

Artificial intelligence can now clone artists' voices. And nothing can compete with your favourite singer... quite like your favourite singer. Tracks meets out-of-the-box thinkers trying to tame the technology before it swallows them whole.

The Voice of AI

Artificial intelligence can now clone artists' voices.

Behind the dangerous and illegal urban rodeos lies a discipline that influences pop culture, from rap videos to movies. Tracks explores this subculture and sport, from Bike life and motorcycle acrobatics to intense clandestine carmeets.

Bike Life

Behind the dangerous and illegal urban rodeos lies a discipline that influences pop culture.

Berliner Abed Hassan, 27, went to Gaza in early October to visit his family. When the massacre on 7th October happened, he was trapped. He began documenting his time in Gaza, the surrounding destruction, the loss of loved ones, and his struggle for survival on social media.

Surviving Gaza: A Berliner's Story

Berliner Abed Hassan went to Gaza to visit family. When the massacre on 7th October happened, he was trapped.

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Amapiano: The Sound of South Africa

Tracks: Record Box

Mount Kimbie

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Granfluencers on Tiktok

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Blasphemy: The Way to Faith?

The Book of My Life

With Bernardine Evaristo

The Book of My Life

With Ece Temelkuran

Tracks

Free to Be Kinky

Tracks

The Voice of AI

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Bike Life

Tracks East

Surviving Gaza: A Berliner's Story

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Tracks

Amapiano: The Sound of South Africa

Tracks: Record Box

Mount Kimbie

Tracks

Granfluencers on Tiktok

Tracks

Blasphemy: The Way to Faith?

The Book of My Life

With Bernardine Evaristo

The Book of My Life

With Ece Temelkuran

Tracks

Free to Be Kinky

Tracks

The Voice of AI

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Bike Life

Tracks East

Surviving Gaza: A Berliner's Story

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