"Let the wisdom of the past guide us to the incredible vision of the future"
AFROTRONIX
BIO
Afrotronix is one of the first Chadian personality to experience international success, becoming at the same time a leading figure in Chadian culture.
Saharan Electro Blues is Afrotronix's signature and it brings Afro-futurism in urban fashion, dance, and digital art. Afrotronix is the experience of very avant garde electronic music holding space to unleash the soul of African best performers’s voice, electric guitare, percs and drums.
It is the Sound of a Future based on ancestral values.
Originating from Chad, based in Canada, Afrotronix is holding a pan-African storytelling ambition. Heir and builder of a long sahelian musical tradition, Afrotronix has won several international prizes including best African DJ (2018) at the All Africa Music Awards, best African electro (2019) and best artist at the Hollywood and African Prestigious Awards (2022).
Driven by Chadian guitarist and Montreal-based producer Caleb Rimtobaye, his collaborations include artists like Baaba Maal, Youssou N’dour, Salatiel, Lorenzo Jovanotti and Mbongwana star Brian Kennedy (Rihanna, Chris Brown).
Performing at festival like ROCK al Parque in Colombia, LOULE 20 years in Portugal, MTN Bushfire in Eswatini, JOVA Beach Party in Italia, at Amsterdam Roots Festival in Netherlands, at REC BEAT in Brésil, at WOMAD Festival in Chile, at Afropunk in Paris, Afrotronix is actively changing the narrative about Chad and initiating international collaborations with Africa.
Afrotronix is the experience of avant garde electronic sounds holding space to the best music performers’s voice, electric guitare, percs and drums that Africa has to offer.
Laboratory for the future tribe genesis, Afrotronix merges electronic music with African rhythms, while subtly calling in Amapiano, Konpa, Cumbia, or Nganja and ultimately connecting people and territories on an electric dancefloor. The results is a show pushing bounderies of electronic music, electric blues, African reggae, Afro Pop, and Dubstep. Dubstep, afro urban fashion and digital art.
Recognized for these daring musical mixtures and wearing the DOM, the helmet is a symbol of an updated ancestral knowledge, his next album, Future Tribe, create a new stream in Saharan Electro showcasing an avant garde image of Africa and Canada.
CALEB RIMTOBAYE
Cultural entrepreneur, producer, composer, creative director, songwriter
Founder, director, creator, co-manager of the group AFROTRONIX, LES AUNTIES.
Founder and conductor of the group H’SAO.
Producer and director for several artists including Bongwana Star, Sarahmée, Djely Tapa.
Guitarist and singer, two decades of experience
Director of the Juno Award-winning album "Barokan" by Djely Tapa, recognized as Best World Album in 2020.
Album productions:
#1 FUTURE TRIBE Afrotronix
#2 IYA Les Aunties
#3 BAROKAN Djely Tapa
#4 NOMADIX Afrotronix
#5 TAAR Elété
#6 SAOTRONIX Afrotronix
#7 SAAR H’Sao
#8 ORIA H’Sao
#9 VOL 235 H’Sao
#10 H’Sao H’Sao
Film score composer:
DIYA, Fiction, 120 minutes, directed by Achille Ronaimou (Chad-France)
NOMADIC'S REVIEWS
50 best albums of the year:
AfrotroniX - Nomadix : "... An inventive, brilliant and dancing album, bordering on reality." ICI Radio
"Does the future of mass African pop also pass through Montreal? We will know very soon with the album produced by AfrotroniX"
Alain Brunet La presse
"The singer-guitarist Caleb Rimtobaye adds to it with this project claiming Afro-futurism and which integrates electro in a magnificent way" Le devoir
You also won’t get enough of those guitar solos that are prevalent throughout the album. OkayAfrica
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