Evolution Of Music Production In Kenya

It's not doubt that music production in Kenya is continuing to grow tremendously. Unlike before when there was few production houses in the country, these day there are many production studios and a lot of highly talented producers that have come up in the past.

In the early 90s, the Kenyan Music Download was at a very low point. This was because of diminishing sales and competition from pirates. Existence of the pirates meant as a singer you couldn't get the a reimbursement from the recorded music. This discouraged many people from recording and for that reason just a couple of songs were produced. In the mid-90s, numerous factors came to exist and altered the Kenyan music scene. One of the many factors that brought on modifications could be the lift off of business Radio stations. Because radio stations came out, there was clearly high demand for prime quality songs. Initially, these the air played a good amount of western music such as reggae, raga, hip-hop, dancehall, and American R&B. As people got shown the western culture, music production studios needed to develop new techniques and tools that could allowed them to produce songs that were pretty much as good as those stated in western countries. To do this, the background music producers was required to employ computers, software, mixing boards as well as other tools. Introduction of such tools made music production more affordable and also the music produced was high quality. Most of the music produced currently was packaged in cassettes although there was a music track that's packaged in CDs. As technology developed, multi-track layering became the tool in the new type of independent producers have been recording directly to computer hard drives for guitars, drum machines, keyboards as well as other synthesized sounds. By the late 90s, Kenyan music had grown tremendously and new production houses had showed up. New singing groups also emerged and commenced singing in styles that were largely inspired by the western culture. To provide a Kenyan touch, the background music producers were required to add Kenyan melody and instrumentation in the music.