I create music under the alias mabafu—a genre-hopping journey from dub to Latin to ska, depending on where life takes me. My passion sparked during childhood travels with my mom, digging up ragga muffin tapes in the Caribbean. By ’99, I was spinning records at parties and playing bass with Dialektik Optimal.
Since then, it’s been all about the offbeat: producing, writing melodies, and jamming live with incredible guests. Albums drop every few years—when the stars (and my schedule) align.
From Italy to the USA, France, Ukraine, Jamaica, and the UK.Mabafu travels the world full of wanderlust forming the Bombini Sound System.I started to get the songs together and started contacting the musicians in the second year of lockdown trying to get that around-the-world vibe into the music to escape the weekly routine. I am…
I am very proud of another mabafu release called “Little Boy”. The release is on Mike Gregoire’s bloc sonic netlabel.
My third album of the latin influenced phase. A strong melancholic – electro – bass vibe featuring one of my favourite songs “Sun Junkie”.
Two remixes which i produced 2007 for the band Cashma Hoody which have been published on the album Soundpool.
Studio Album from 2006 with 12 tracks featuring various guests spreading from dub to hip hop and reggaeton.
Studio Album from 2005 with 7 tracks featuring Alin and a lot of trombone. I found and defined my style with this album.
The first mabafu album recorded in Weimar/Germany in 2003. Featuring 13 songs ranging from trip hop to electro to offbeat.
Dialektik Optimal was a crossover band founded in 1996 in Hofheim am Taunus/Germany in which I played bass guitar and did vocals in one song. You might be surprised by the genre but it was a huge passion for me and i still love bands like Dub War which mix dub and reggae vibes with…
