00 · Launch
A studio that makes one music at a time.
Congolese rumba for a year now, with real customers. This week Haitian kompa, Nigerian afrobeat and South African amapiano open in turn.
We are not opening four versions of one tool. Each studio knows the sub-styles of its music by name — and knows, for instance, that a ndombolo is not a slowed-down soukous.
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The four studios
One genre each, one home city.
The list of sub-styles a studio genuinely tells apart — the argument of the group, made checkable.
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Kinshasa · DR Congo
Congolese rumba
Running for a year · active customers
A family of musics built on two guitars answering each other, then tipping into the sébène. That tip happens on a precise bar — and it is exactly what a general-purpose model misses.
- classic rumba
- sébène
- ndombolo
- mutuashi
- soukous
- cavacha
- kwassa-kwassa
rumbami.com→
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Port-au-Prince · Haiti
Kompa
Opens September 2026
A bass-and-drum footing you recognise instantly, from the straightest kompa dirèk to the drums of mizik rasin. What separates them is how the tempo is held and where the horns sit.
- kompa dirèk
- kompa love
- rabòday
- mizik rasin
kompami.com→
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Lagos · Nigeria
Afrobeat
Opens September 2026
Two families people keep confusing: the afrobeat of horn sections, and the afrobeats on today's radio. Treat them as one genre and you produce something that is neither.
- classic afrobeat
- modern afrobeats
- afro-fusion
- highlife
- naija-pop
- fuji
afrobeatmi.com→
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Johannesburg · South Africa
Amapiano
Opens September 2026
The log drum and the breath of the pads carry the whole thing. Between private school and sgija the tempo barely moves — the density and the placement do.
- amapiano classic
- private school
- bacardi
- sgija
- soulful
amapianomi.com→
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The angle
Four national languages of the DRC.
The fact that sets RumbaMi apart from other tools claiming to make rumba.
RumbaMi writes and sings in the four national languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo — Lingala, Swahili, Kikongo, Tshiluba — as well as French, English and Spanish.
These are not translations laid over a melody written in French: the words are written in the language, in its own register. That is the difference between a tool that talks about a music and a tool that speaks it.
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The films
Free to broadcast, unmodified.
One film per studio. For press and partners, with no conditions.
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Going further
Three pages on the way out.
The press kit, the positions we hold, the catalogue in detail.
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Press kit →Facts, figures, contacts, in French and in English.
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What we refuse →Four positions, and what makes them checkable.
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The catalogue →The sub-styles each studio covers, in detail.