They’re best known for creating a contemporary aesthetic all their own by rewiring and upcycling materials such as metal, cans, engine parts, and plastic containers found in the streets into vital sculptural resonant dance music. Their distorted fast rhythms and spontaneous lo-fi electric sounds provide the chaotic soundtrack for the city's harsh yet abundantly creative realities.

It’s a brand new scene: radical, dangerous, and thriving in a country whose political instability is felt first and most urgently on the streets. In an urban patchwork stretching further than the eye can see, KOKOKO! is the spectacular sonic backdrop: the new, no-holds barred aesthetic emanating from the downtown clubs (in between the government-imposed power cuts).

After five incredible world tours and a forced hiatus, the KOKOKO! collective will return under a new guise for a summer 2022 tour. Their next EP follows a more percussive and electronic style and will reflect the atmospheres of night time Kinshasa, when the city is getting dark, the streets crowded in an ambiance of blasting distorted sound system powered by generators noises and smoke, necessary to bring lights, and music here and there fighting the blackouts of the busy capital. Lead by Xavier Thomas aka Débruit and the self-titled « eigneur de l’ambiance» Makara Bianko, this special configuration focuses on one of the many underground branches of the Kinshasa sound, inspired by infinite electronic loops, distorted by an overpowered PA and serving as an hypnotic background for the growling voice of Makara. Built from scratch and defying musical categorization, these new sounds are the beating heart of the shady downtown clubs, celebrating to help forget as much as possible the harsh realities of everyday life in Kinshasa.