Maurice Poto Doudongo has been played on NTS in shows including Desire Paths w/ Laura Groves, featured first on 14 December 2022. Songs played include Tika, Momo and Yelele.

Blending state-of-the art mid-80s electronic programming with elements of Congolese rumba and touches of digital funk/ r’n’b, it’s unlike anything that came out of Africa at the time. The project was the brainchild of the super-gifted Maurice Poto Doudongo who, after working with soukous stars Zaiko Langa Langa in his native Congo, moved to Brussels when he was in his early twenties, and joined Zazou Bikaye for some US shows in 1986. He then set out to record a largely electronic solo album, on which he played all the instruments (synths, guitars, vocals) and did all the programming. The resulting tracks were imaginative, filled with humour & fantasy… and so hybrid and cross-genres that the record was never finished, as the initial reactions were quite perplexed. Maurice Poto Doudongo later collaborated with Amina Annabi, Papa Wemba, Foreign Affair, French rapper Singuila & more