Born in Abidjan and of French nationality, Malicking returns in full light with a dense, radical and deeply dancing project: MK Ultra. This EP of five titles crystallizes the essence of his journey, between digital, Afro-fusion and urban energy experiment. A work at the crossroads of the worlds, which marks a new step in the evolution of an artist apart.
Born Sada Malick Cissé, Malicking has always evolved between continents, disciplines and aesthetics. First of all of a breakdance dancer, he forged his identity at the crossroads of Africa and Europe, before an accident permanently guides him towards music. From 2009, he imposed a hybrid and innovative sound with titles as for halls or 123 GB!, Merging hip-hop, electro and urban culture.
But it was in 2013 that the general public really discovered it, through the TVFC clip and his victory in the Rapnostress competition. He then continues the striking television passages: talent Street on France ô, zoom on Trace Urban … At each intervention, Malicking affirms a free, instinctive and borders.
MK Ultra: a mental, rhythmic and carnal journey
Carried by the single Bouger, the MK Ultra project immediately imposes itself as a work designed to make dancing without giving up the substance. With its Afro-Bass influences and its textures inspired by the British Bass Music, Bouger is a call for the liberation of bodies and the party as a form of resistance.
But the EP goes much further. Each piece is thought of as a sensory chapter, between tribal percussions, electronic tablecloths, controlled autotune and urban pulses. Malicking explores a vast thematic palette-identity, resilience, inner revolt, sensuality-while drawing a clear line: upsetting the codes of contemporary Afro-urban music.
📡 A fully assumed cyber-Afro aesthetic
More than just EP, MK Ultra turns out to be a sound manifesto. Its title, inspired by the excesses of mental control, becomes at Malicking a claim of total artistic independence. He plays with genres, blurs the borders and affirms a cyber-Afro aesthetic where African roots and futuristic sounds mix.
This project devotes the rise of malicking on Afro alternative stages, both in France and in French -speaking Africa. After titles like Ye Papa or normal – already praised by RFI, Urban Trace or Nostalgia Ivory Coast – MK Ultra imposes a new balance: between heritage and innovation, between rage to live and art of groove.
