"Let the wisdom of the past guide us to the incredible vision of the future"
AFROTRONIX
BIO
Afrotronix is 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, social engagement, Electronic music and digital art.
Afrotronix is the sound of a future based on ancestral values. Originating from Chad, based in Canada, Afrotronix is holding a pan-African storytelling ambition. What innovative vision of the future could a Canadian artificial intelligence infused by ancestral wisdom and African algorithms produce?
He creates meaningful mass events, aiming for artistic excellency and strong storytelling, celebrating common good for massive impact on community, initiating international collaborations with Africa.
Spearhead of a new wave in Afrobeats and introducing a massive sahelian electronic movement, Afrotronix is the experience of very avant garde electronic sounds mastering and holding space to unleash the soul of African best music performers’s voice, electric guitare, percs and drums.
His next album, Future Tribe, create a new stream in Saharan electro showcasing an avant garde image of Africa and Canada.
Laboratory for the futur tribe genesis, Afrotronix merges electronic music with African rhythms, giving a new wave to South African Amapiano, Haitian Konpa, Columbian Cumbia, and ultimately connecting people and territories on an electric dancefloor.
The results is a show pushing bounderies of Dj, electric blues, Afropop, African Dance, Dubstep, afro urban fashion and digital art.
Heir and builder of a long sahelian musical tradition, Afrotronix has won several international prizes including best artist at the Hollywood and African Prestigious Awards (2022), best African electro (2019) and best African DJ (2018) at the All Africa Music Awards.
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).
Recognized for these daring musical mixtures and wearing the DOM, the helmet is a symbol of an updated ancestral knowledge.
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
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)
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
Critiques de l'album NomadiX
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