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Aknose: the Guadeloupe bouyon voice behind Moustik

Published October 20, 2026

Aknose is a bouyon artist from Guadeloupe, whose biography published by Music Story on Qobuz says that he fuses traditional West Indian sounds with contemporary influences, in a style notably inspired by bouyon. His name settled in 2023 with “Moustik”, his record with producer 1T1, and with “New Bouyon Wave #1”, the D0 Production collective record bringing him together with TIITII NBA, Nils, DJ Softee and Theomaa. In December 2025, CCN named him among the most emblematic bouyon artists of the moment in Guadeloupe. This profile gathers his dated catalogue, his collaborations and the songwriter name, Gael Rampath, that platform credits attach to his records.

Who Aknose is: a bouyon artist from Guadeloupe

Aknose is from Guadeloupe. That is the starting point of his biography published on Qobuz, written by Music Story: an artist on the urban music scene who fuses traditional West Indian sounds with contemporary influences, and whose style is notably inspired by bouyon. Three elements of that short presentation matter for what follows. The Guadeloupe origin first, tying Aknose to the gwada branch of the genre, the one that regionalised in Guadeloupe the bouyon born in Dominica. The urban scene next, placing his work on the side of current formats, short and designed for the platforms. Fusion finally, West Indian tradition on one side and contemporary influences on the other, which is the very formula of bouyon gwada today.

Recognition from observers of the scene followed the records. On 13 December 2025, in the interview published by CCN, Caraib Creole News, developer Maïté Berchel-Bordin, answering the question of the most prominent bouyon artists in Guadeloupe, named, in order, Lejuh, 1T1, Theomaa, Piscine OSP, Aknose and Shanika, presented as the most emblematic artists of the moment, dominating the scene through their creativity, their originality and their ability to gather an ever wider audience. Being named on that list, by a professional in artist development working on structuring the genre, places Aknose in the first circle of current Guadeloupe bouyon, alongside the names this site documents in the same wave.

The same CCN article gives the frame in which that first circle works: a bouyon artist of 2025 described as a spontaneous and intuitive creator, fully anchored in the digital era, who records, shoots content, understands the importance of production rhythm and builds his identity between urban space and digital dynamics. The catalogue of Aknose, as the following sections unfold it date by date, matches that portrait: regular singles, constant collaborations with his generation, videos, and a presence built record after record rather than through an event album. It is a career of the platform generation, documented by credits more than by biographies.

What the record does not hold must be stated here too. No verified source consulted for this profile gives his home community in Guadeloupe, his date of birth or a confirmed official social account: this profile therefore prints none of that, and the sameAs list in his structured data is empty. The platforms do, however, publish a songwriter name in the credits of several of his records, Gael Rampath, and the next section is devoted to that trace, because it is the strongest public identity document available to this profile after the Guadeloupe origin itself.

Gael Rampath: the songwriter name platform credits attach to Aknose

Published platform credits name a recurring songwriter on the records of Aknose: Gael Rampath. The most direct trace concerns “Moustik” itself: the listing published by Deezer for the record, credited to 1T1 under the title “Aknose - Moustik”, gives Gael Rampath as writer of the lyrics and Terry Baptiste as composer. On Shazam, the record “Gwo Kok Pou Gwo Kokote” by Gomko, featuring Aknose, credits as songwriter an even more explicit name: Gael Aknose Rampath, with the stage name inserted between the first name and the surname. And on “KKM” by DJ LUCHSHIY, featuring AKNOSE, the credited songwriters are Corane Vincent and Gael Rampath. Three platforms and three different records therefore converge: the published songwriter name behind Aknose is Gael Rampath.

This profile reports that name exactly for what it is in the sources: a songwriter name published in official platform credits. It turns it neither into a certified civil status nor into a biography: no source consulted publishes a date of birth, a place of birth or a journey under that name. But the convergence of the credits carries its own value. In bouyon, where stage names often circulate with no songwriter name attached at all, having a writing name published on the best known record of the artist, and confirmed in its long form Gael Aknose Rampath on another record, is a rare piece of documentation. It is also the answer to a question competing pages do not treat: who writes the records of Aknose? According to the published credits, Gael Rampath writes them, or co-writes them.

The composition credit of “Moustik” deserves a line of its own, because it completes the credit block of the record that installed the artist. According to the Deezer listing, the lyrics are by Gael Rampath and the composition by Terry Baptiste, while quel-dj presents the record as a collaboration between producer 1T1 and Aknose. Three functions, three published names: the writer, the composer and the singer producer. That kind of complete credit block is exactly what Bouyon Shattaz works to fix for the whole scene, from WCK to the artists of 2023, because a genre whose credits are public is a genre whose writers can be paid, invited and quoted correctly.

The presence of that songwriter name also sheds light on how Aknose works. An artist credited as writer on records carried by others, Gomko and DJ LUCHSHIY, is not only a guest voice: he is a writer the scene calls upon. That writer performer position, frequent in the current Guadeloupe generation, explains the density of his collaboration catalogue: people come looking for a Guadeloupean Creole writing as much as for a voice. The following sections unfold that catalogue in date order, keeping the published credits whenever they exist.

2023: Moustik, New Bouyon Wave #1 and the year of collective records

The founding year of the documented catalogue of Aknose is 2023, and it starts in spring. On 24 April 2023, “KKM” by DJ LUCHSHIY, featuring AKNOSE, came out on the LUCHSHIY AND BRO label, at 160 BPM according to Shazam, with Gael Rampath credited as co-writer. On 2 June 2023, “Bidiba Bidibou” brought 1T1 together with Aknose and Softee, according to the Qobuz discography of 1T1. On 21 June 2023, “Gwo Kok Pou Gwo Kokote” by Gomko, featuring Aknose, came out on 2886154 Records DK, in French, at 155 BPM according to Shazam, with Gael Aknose Rampath credited as songwriter. In three months, Aknose therefore appears on three records carried by three different names: the method of the platform generation, to exist everywhere the scene records.

The record of the year, and the signature record of the artist to date, is “Moustik”, with 1T1. Qobuz dates the release to 28 September 2023 and quel-dj to 29 September 2023: this profile keeps September 2023. The specialist site quel-dj, in its reference shatta and bouyon playlist, presents “Moustik” as a unique collaboration between producer 1T1 and Aknose, set in the modern bouyon wave, with lyrics in Guadeloupean Creole, and notes the comparison, full of lightness and humour, between the dancer and a mosquito on the dancefloor. The record runs 2 minutes 27 according to the Deezer listing. His label, AB BOYZ Music, named it in May 2024 among the hit records 1T1 keeps producing, alongside “Sicré Kon Miel”, and the Qobuz biography of 1T1 lists “Aknose - Moustik” among the tracks that made his name. A record serving as a reference for both artists at once: that is the definition of an installing record.

The same September 2023 moment brings the second major collective record of the year. On 29 September 2023, according to Shazam, D0 Production released “New Bouyon Wave #1”, featuring TIITII NBA, Nils, DJ Softee, Aknose and Theomaa, on the 2873529 Records DK label, at 160 BPM. The single title is a programme in itself: a new bouyon wave, numbered like the first volume of a series, carried by a producer, D0 Production, whom Viberate places in Les Abymes, Guadeloupe. The place of Aknose in that credit block matters: he sings there alongside TIITII NBA, one of the installed names of the Guadeloupe scene, and Theomaa and Nils, the recurring partners of 1T1. In other words, in a single week of September 2023, Aknose signs the reference duet of 1T1 and appears on the collective manifesto record of D0 Production.

The end of the year extends the run. On 20 October 2023, “Ho nana (Loxymore One Shot)” came out under the name of Aknose on the LOXYMORE label, according to Qobuz. On 1 December 2023, “Bad Girls” brought together 1T1 with Aknose and Nils, again according to the Qobuz discography of 1T1. On 12 December 2023, “0690” came out under the name of Aknose, released by aknose himself according to Qobuz, a form of self release matching the portrait of the digital artist drawn by CCN. In one documented year, the catalogue therefore counts at least seven dated records, including two major collective records and a signature duet. For an artist with no album, it is that 2023 density that founds the profile, and it is what the CCN recognition would confirm two years later.

The Aknose sound: bouyon gwada, Guadeloupean Creole and the urban scene

Describing the sound of Aknose from the sources, and not from invented impressions, gives a clear frame. His Music Story biography presents him as an artist on the urban scene fusing traditional West Indian sounds with contemporary influences, in a style notably inspired by bouyon. quel-dj classes “Moustik” in the modern bouyon wave and underlines its lyrics in Guadeloupean Creole. The Shazam sheets of the 2023 collective records give tempos of 155 and 160 BPM, the speed zone of party bouyon. The sound portrait that emerges is therefore that of bouyon gwada in its platform form: fast, sung in the Creole of Guadeloupe, built on short formats around two and a half minutes, and open to the contemporary urban influences his biography claims.

Bouyon gwada itself needs placing for a reader discovering the genre through this page. Bouyon was born in Dominica at the end of the 1980s with WCK, then it was worked in Guadeloupe by generations of artists who sang it in Guadeloupean Creole over electronic beats. The neighbouring branches show the same workshop logic: bouyon soca, started in Dominica in 2003 by Dada according to the first hand testimony of Sean “Smokiller” Francis and popularized by Triple Kay, and Dominican Wrecketeng, the style of sampled melody and rap voice. Our pages on bouyon soca and on the history of bouyon tell those lines of descent. Aknose belongs to the Guadeloupe branch of that history, and “Moustik” like “New Bouyon Wave #1” are records of that branch, made in Guadeloupe by Guadeloupe producers.

Language is a central element of that identity. The titles themselves carry it: “Moustik”, “Coco Mwen Ka Monté Mon’n”, “Lè an pa siw ou si mwen”, “KAK UP”, “0690”. Guadeloupean Creole is not exotic decoration there but the writing language of the credited writer, Gael Rampath, and the language of the audience the records address first. It is one of the reasons those records circulate so quickly in the parties of the archipelago and the diaspora: they speak, literally, the language of the Guadeloupe party, as Dominican bouyon speaks that of Roseau since Asa Bantan and the founding groups.

Finally, the sound of Aknose is a network sound. On the documented records of 2023 and 2024, he sings with or under the production of 1T1, D0 Production, Gomko, DJ LUCHSHIY, DJ Softee and Ray da Prince for the composition of “Minimum”. That circulation between producers is the ordinary workshop of current bouyon gwada: a writer performer artist lays his voice and his writing over the machines of his generation, and the whole scene moves forward through those combinations. To hear that network in action, our bouyon playlist places “Moustik” in the middle of the records of 1T1, of Lejuh and of the Dominican records of the same period.

2024 and 2025: Minimum, Manawa, Palabras and the regularity of the singles

After the collective year of 2023, the catalogue of Aknose continues under his own name, with a regularity the Qobuz dates make it possible to follow. On 9 January 2024, he unveiled “Coco Mwen Ka Monté Mon’n”, according to his Music Story biography. On 12 January 2024, he appears on “Mas La Rivé” by 1T1, the nine name collective record bringing together Theomaa, Aknose, DJ Softee, Dj TKrys, Bismok, Jicypie, Dj Kylled and Lejuh: the widest documented gathering of the 1T1 circle, where Aknose holds his place a year after “Moustik”. On 9 February 2024, “KAK UP” came out on Vadore Concept Groupe, and his biography states that it is a collaboration with Gwada G. Three releases in five weeks, as headline artist or in a collective: the production rhythm CCN attributes to the bouyon artist of 2025 is already that of Aknose at the start of 2024.

Spring 2024 brings the best documented record of his solo period. “MINIMUM” came out as a single on 15 March 2024 on M B I Family, according to Qobuz, and its video followed on 28 March 2024, directed by Griffit Vision and composed by Ray da Prince, according to his biography. The distinction between the single date and the video date is kept here as the sources give it. On 14 June 2024, “Kalollipop” came out on M B I Family. On 6 September 2024, “Manawa” came out on Hakuna Music Company. Two structures therefore recur in the credits of the period, MBI Family under its spellings M B I Family and MBI FAMILY, and Hakuna Music Company: without any source publishing a contract or a label presentation for Aknose, the repetition of those names across his 2024 and 2025 releases is a discography fact, and this profile reports it as such.

The year 2025 extends the run without a break. On 31 January 2025, “Palabras” came out in collaboration with YSN, on Hakuna Music Company and MBI Family, according to his biography and the Qobuz discography. On 7 March 2025, “What I do” came out on MBI FAMILY. On 4 April 2025, “Pooch (Radio Edit)” came out on the Mjtx label. On 28 June 2025, “Coulie Coulie” came out on MBI FAMILY. His biography also cites, for this period, the record “Lè an pa siw ou si mwen” with Larose, with no date published in the sources consulted, and this profile cites it without inventing one for it. At the end of the year, the Qobuz discography further records “Close your mouth” on 7 November 2025, “Conakry” on 26 November 2025 and “Bonne humeur” on 9 December 2025, all on the same label circuits, as well as his presence on “La Manigance”, the big collective record of 2025 recorded by Shazam, where Aknose appears among eleven featured names alongside notably N’Ken, Mikado, Le Jèm’ss and YSN.

That regularity has a direct consequence for how the artist should be read. Where many bouyon careers are played out over one carnival season, the catalogue of Aknose shows continuous production across three calendar years, 2023, 2024 and 2025, as headline artist and as featured artist, with videos and published songwriter credits. It is that catalogue, more than any single record, that makes credible the place CCN gave him in December 2025 among the emblematic artists of Guadeloupe: the developer names a working artist, not a memory of 2023. For Bouyon Shattaz, it is also what distinguishes this profile from a one clip artist profile: every section rests on dated and sourced releases, not on a general reputation.

Why Aknose matters for bouyon gwada, and the limits of the record

Aknose matters first because he concentrates, in one documented path, the traits of the current bouyon gwada generation. A writer performer credited under the name Gael Rampath. A signature duet with the central producer of his scene, “Moustik” with 1T1. A presence on the collective manifesto record of D0 Production, “New Bouyon Wave #1”, alongside TIITII NBA. Continuous single production over three years, carried by the same label circuits, MBI Family and Hakuna Music Company. And a named recognition, that of CCN in December 2025, placing him among the most emblematic artists of the moment in Guadeloupe, with Lejuh, 1T1, Theomaa, Piscine OSP and Shanika. Few artists of his generation gather so many verifiable traces of different kinds.

Aknose matters next as a passage point between scenes. His collaborations draw a map: 1T1 and Lejuh for the first Guadeloupe circle, TIITII NBA and D0 Production for the installed producers of the archipelago, Holly G and Shanika in the wider landscape drawn by the CCN lists and the 1T1 records, and as far as YSN and Larose for the recent period. Documenting Aknose is therefore documenting a node of the bouyon gwada network, the kind of node through which records, producers and audiences circulate. That is why BouyonMusique.com publishes his profile in the same wave as those of the artists he works with, with the same sources and the same credit standard.

The limits of the record remain real and are written here. The oldest trace recorded is old and isolated: Shazam lists a record called “Ding Dong” by Dj Tkrys and Aknose, released on 28 September 2018 on Le Bon Tuyau Music. This profile cites it as the oldest published trace under this name, without building on it a career start that nothing else documents between 2018 and 2023. No album by Aknose is documented in the sources consulted: his verified catalogue is a catalogue of singles and collaborations. No consolidated listening figure, no certification and no confirmed official social account is published here, for lack of verified sources. If those elements appear, this profile will be completed and dated.

In the meantime, listening follows the order of the record. Start with “Moustik”, for the duet with 1T1 and the writing of Gael Rampath, then “New Bouyon Wave #1”, for the D0 Production collective with TIITII NBA, Nils, DJ Softee and Theomaa, on the same 29 September 2023 according to Shazam. Continue with “Bidiba Bidibou” and “Bad Girls” for the other combinations with 1T1, “Minimum” and “Manawa” for the solo period of 2024, and “Palabras” with YSN for 2025. Then place those records back inside our bouyon playlist and the history of bouyon: you will hear how a voice from Guadeloupe, starting from a mosquito record in Creole, today holds its place in the genre Dominica invented.

Frequently asked questions

Where is Aknose from?

Aknose is from Guadeloupe, according to his biography published on Qobuz by Music Story, which presents him as an artist on the urban scene fusing traditional West Indian sounds with contemporary influences, in a style notably inspired by bouyon.

Who is Gael Rampath?

Gael Rampath is the songwriter name published in platform credits for the records of Aknose: writer of the lyrics of “Moustik” according to the Deezer listing, credited as Gael Aknose Rampath as songwriter of “Gwo Kok Pou Gwo Kokote” by Gomko according to Shazam, and co-writer of “KKM” by DJ LUCHSHIY. No source consulted publishes further biographical elements under that name.

When was “Moustik” by Aknose and 1T1 released?

“Moustik” was released in September 2023: Qobuz dates the release to 28 September 2023 and quel-dj to 29 September 2023. quel-dj presents it as a collaboration between producer 1T1 and Aknose, in the modern bouyon wave, with lyrics in Guadeloupean Creole. The lyrics are credited to Gael Rampath and the composition to Terry Baptiste according to the Deezer listing.

What is “New Bouyon Wave #1”?

“New Bouyon Wave #1” is a single by D0 Production released on 29 September 2023 on 2873529 Records DK, according to Shazam, featuring TIITII NBA, Nils, DJ Softee, Aknose and Theomaa, at 160 BPM. Aknose sings on it on the same release day quel-dj gives for “Moustik”.

Does Aknose have a published trace as early as 2018?

Yes, an isolated trace: Shazam lists “Ding Dong” by Dj Tkrys and Aknose, released on 28 September 2018 on Le Bon Tuyau Music. It is the oldest published release under this name in the sources consulted, and the continuously documented catalogue starts in 2023 with “KKM”, “Bidiba Bidibou” and “Gwo Kok Pou Gwo Kokote”.

Which records should I hear to discover Aknose?

Start with “Moustik” with 1T1, then “New Bouyon Wave #1” by D0 Production with TIITII NBA, Nils, DJ Softee and Theomaa, “Bidiba Bidibou” and “Bad Girls” with 1T1, “Minimum” and “Manawa” for his 2024 singles, and “Palabras” with YSN for 2025. Those records appear in the structured data of this page and in the bouyon playlist of this site.

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