After moving to Berlin, Refuge Worldwide and The Lot Radio resident and Panorama Bar regular Gabrielle Kwarteng found her musical tastes expanding. Ria Hylton meets her to learn how eclectic radio shows, her hometown of New York, and life in Europe have influenced her DJing
Read MoreGabrielle Kwarteng is a unique musical voice with an ever-growing, varied range of genres and sounds.
Read MoreSpend enough time at (or listening to) The Lot Radio, and chances are all you'll find Gabrielle Kwarteng. Even though she lives in Berlin now, the American DJ wears New York on her sleeve, repping for the station that helped make her name (she won a Mixcloud award for "Best Eclectic Show" pretty early on). Sure, you could call her sound eclectic—she jumps from house to Afrobeat to Jersey club and beyond—but it seems like intuitive might be a better word. She has the taste of someone raised by musical parents on a diverse diet of albums, of someone who eats, breathes and sleeps records.
Buoyed by her success in the US, Kwarteng moved to Berlin in 2019, not too long before the pandemic. Like so many other up-and-coming DJs, her momentum almost stalled as a result. But here we are in 2022 and Kwarteng is more successful than ever, with a string of upcoming festival dates highlighting her wide, transatlantic appeal. Her RA Podcast is equally welcoming, with a taste for house music that feels perfectly pitched between the classic and the new. You can hear an old soul, but she also has cutting-edge tracks from the likes of NIkki Nair, and a gutsy, fantastic edit of "Can You Feel It?" by Tom Carruthers. The mix also reflects her recently getting back in touch with her roots, featuring smatterings of East Coast club music and ballroom, all wrapped up with an exquisite finishing touch courtesy of a long Moodymann play-out.
Read MoreIn this series, Selections, we invite DJs, producers and label heads to dig into their digital crates and share the contents of their collections. This week, Panorama Bar regular Gabrielle Kwarteng spotlights jacking and enchanting house tracks for the dancefloor
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Read MoreBen Klock, Paramida, Gabrielle Kwarteng and more will play the Berlin club on Saturday and Sunday.
Read MoreThis week, we have New Yorker Gabrielle Kwarteng delivering a thrilling podcast. Gabrielle is known for mixing up soul, funk, disco, and house with finesse. Her repertoire includes everything from ‘80s South African kwaito, Chicago house, broken beats, Japanese funk, & acid records. Gabrielle masters a variety of genres and always has the perfect track ready to be played at the right moment.
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Time for a dose of much needed dance floor positivity from the eclectic mind of NYC native, now Berlin based DJ Gabrielle Kwarteng! Born in Brooklyn and raised in the Bronx, Gabrielle’s unique musical appreciations stem from a early diet of Ghanaian highlife and Nigerian Afrobeat cassettes, alongside the American disco, funk and jazz her Ghanaian parents had on heavy rotation at home.
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The New York DJ delivers a mix the channels the dance music legacy of her home city.
Read MoreSTATE OF INDEPENDENCE is an intimate documentary short following DJ Ghanaian-American Gabrielle Kwarteng. With the backdrop of Paris, London, and New York City, the film is a personal look into her beginnings as a music curator and how she is breaking the mold and defining her own life path through her art.
Read MoreGabrielle Kwarteng is an award-winning DJ based here in Brooklyn, NY. Soul, funk, and disco are her areas of expertise and she seriously knows how to make you forget about your troubles and transport you to a nightclub in the '70s. I was lucky enough to ask her a few questions about her musical background and experiences breaking into the DJ scene.
Read MoreIn this week’s episode we interview Gabrielle Kwarteng (Qwar-ting), a DJ hailing from NYC. Her skills take listeners on a trip around the world as she invokes Japanese disco, Brazilian funk, and Ethiopian jazz. She also mixes today’s most identifiable disco, funk and soul hits. Gabrielle's mission is to teach listeners about the different forms of music from around the world. And the last thing you want to do is put Gabby in a box. She plans on taking her skills to the big screen.. But you will have to listen to hear more about that...
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Read MoreLors de son dernier séjour à Paris, nous avons rencontré la jeune DJette de New-York qui a grandi dans les célèbres quartiers de Brooklyn et du Bronx. Gabrielle Kwarteng s’est naturellement intéressée à la musique depuis son plus jeune âge grâce à des parents ghanéens qui l’ont bercé dans la musique de ce charmant pays ou encore avec de la funk des années 80. Elle nous explique dans la suite de l’article son parcours, sa passion pour la musique et ses débuts en tant que DJ. (Translation in English found on website)
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