Release Date: January 20, 2026
Album: Single
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Humanity’s first algorithm was written in rhythm. KÖD honors this legacy.
BEYOND THE SKY is an Afrofuturistic take on reggae dub meeting Mbalax.
Stonebwoy enters highly experimental and spiritual land invited by Afrotronix musical mastery, allowing both to extend the reggae dub genre thanks to afro tech and afro electro elements.
Beyond the Sky is an African reggae dub track that incorporates Mbalax and invites introspective dance through an Afrofuturist dub soundscape. The theme is a call to meditation on the concept of tribe, revisited and explored. It delves into the quest for reality within simulated realities, the value of our efforts in combat, how to assert our lives, and the choices we make in our struggles and their meaning. All of this is underpinned by a riddim that refuses to fade into the background despite deconstructed, glitchy passages.
Afrotronix being the first Chadian Electro band is pushing musical innovation in popular genres by introducing global audiences to the most ancient Sahelian rhythms.
Stonebwoy, Ghana’s most decorated dancehall/Afrobeats architect, bridge Caribbean bass to African soul. Meet the future of African reggae dub.
Afrotronix, the Chadian‑born artist whose music fuses ancestral rites and Sara, Gourane and Arabic vocal traditions with cutting‑edge electronic production, presents KÖD, a new album that reimagines the future of music. Reinventing popular genres, KÖD is proof that the most futuristic sound is also the oldest.
KÖD in Sara means the tam-tam. The talking drum represents one of humanity’s earliest forms of coding: rhythm as language, sound as data, drum as transmitter.
The talking drum required both technical skill (the drummer) and cultural literacy (the listener) — a perfect parallel to today’s relationship between human creativity and digital technology.
The album’s opening track captures machines in the act of learning — attempting to decode linguistic patterns and melodic structures.
“My work teaches digital systems the languages and rhythms of our ancestors,” says Afrotronix.
I’ve fed these machines my life’s work: years of collecting and archiving Sahelian musical traditions, voices preserved on worn cassettes from my childhood, now digitized and made legible to algorithms.
Through the vocoder, I’ve created what I call “the voice of an African robot”. For the first time, a robot speaks Sara and Goulay.
KÖD is built on two foundational elements: the ever-present drum, and traditional vocal techniques reimagined as organic synthesizers.
Artificial intelligence can learn our languages, reproduce our melodies, even compose for us. But there is a language it will never understand: that of ancestral gestures, sighs laden with stories, ritual silences that speak the unspeakable.
KÖD is a meditation on what eludes machines.
An ode to our secret codes—passed down skin to skin, gaze to gaze, from generation to generation.
KÖD celebrates these sacred spaces that make us irreplaceable.
We remain the guardians of the invisible, the masters of our own codes.
BEYOND THE SKY is an Afrofuturistic take on reggae dub meeting Mbalax.
Stonebwoy enters highly experimental and spiritual land invited by Afrotronix musical mastery, allowing both to extend the reggae dub genre thanks to afro tech and afro electro elements.
Beyond the Sky is an African reggae dub track that incorporates Mbalax and invites introspective dance through an Afrofuturist dub soundscape. The theme is a call to meditation on the concept of tribe, revisited and explored. It delves into the quest for reality within simulated realities, the value of our efforts in combat, how to assert our lives, and the choices we make in our struggles and their meaning. All of this is underpinned by a riddim that refuses to fade into the background despite deconstructed, glitchy passages.
Afrotronix being the first Chadian Electro band is pushing musical innovation in popular genres by introducing global audiences to the most ancient Sahelian rhythms.
Stonebwoy, Ghana’s most decorated dancehall/Afrobeats architect, bridge Caribbean bass to African soul. Meet the future of African reggae dub.
Afrotronix, the Chadian‑born artist whose music fuses ancestral rites and Sara, Gourane and Arabic vocal traditions with cutting‑edge electronic production, presents KÖD, a new album that reimagines the future of music. Reinventing popular genres, KÖD is proof that the most futuristic sound is also the oldest.
KÖD in Sara means the tam-tam. The talking drum represents one of humanity’s earliest forms of coding: rhythm as language, sound as data, drum as transmitter.
The talking drum required both technical skill (the drummer) and cultural literacy (the listener) — a perfect parallel to today’s relationship between human creativity and digital technology.
The album’s opening track captures machines in the act of learning — attempting to decode linguistic patterns and melodic structures.
“My work teaches digital systems the languages and rhythms of our ancestors,” says Afrotronix.
I’ve fed these machines my life’s work: years of collecting and archiving Sahelian musical traditions, voices preserved on worn cassettes from my childhood, now digitized and made legible to algorithms.
Through the vocoder, I’ve created what I call “the voice of an African robot”. For the first time, a robot speaks Sara and Goulay.
KÖD is built on two foundational elements: the ever-present drum, and traditional vocal techniques reimagined as organic synthesizers.
Artificial intelligence can learn our languages, reproduce our melodies, even compose for us. But there is a language it will never understand: that of ancestral gestures, sighs laden with stories, ritual silences that speak the unspeakable.
KÖD is a meditation on what eludes machines.
An ode to our secret codes—passed down skin to skin, gaze to gaze, from generation to generation.
KÖD celebrates these sacred spaces that make us irreplaceable.
We remain the guardians of the invisible, the masters of our own codes.
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