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Les Ya Toupas Du Zaire - Les Ya Toupas Du Zaïre
Les Ya Toupas Du Zaire
Les Ya Toupas Du Zaïre
LP | 1978 | EU | Reissue (Rebirth On Wax)
22,99 €*
Release: 1978 / EU – Reissue
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Les Ya Toupas is a band formed in 1976 by Bopol Mansiamina (Bass - Success Mode, 4 Stars ..), Manuaku Waku (aka Grand Zaiko Wawa) and Ray Lema (Piano, Organ and Guitar) Between 1976 and 1978, they recorded several 7inches including the famous title “Je ne bois pas beaucoup” (1976) compiled on the series of Sofrito (Tropical Discotheque ) in 2011. In 1978, they recorded this unique and unclassifiable instrumental album, Les Ya Toupas du Zaïre, produced by Gérard Akueson (founder of Akue Records and Abeti's producer). The LP is composed of minimalist Afro Jazz rhythms and Deep Funk grooves that are close at times to a tropical trance, all played by musicians who used to offer more classic Rumba rhythms. It is their only album before the departure in 1979 of Ray Lema for the United States and then France. Ray Lema's departure follows a violent disagreement which opposed him to the dictator Mobutu then in place in Zaïre. Let's not forget that the album was released in 1978 and can be seen as their last musicial project.
Marumo - Modiehi
Marumo
Modiehi
LP | 1982 | EU | Reissue (Mr Bongo)
22,99 €*
Release: 1982 / EU – Reissue
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Star Beams - Play Disco Specials
Star Beams
Play Disco Specials
LP | 1976 | EU | Reissue (Mr Bongo)
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Release: 1976 / EU – Reissue
Genre: Organic Grooves
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The Star Beams album is a bit of an enigma. When we first came across their epic dance-floor monster 'Disco Stomp’ it was on a Disco Calypso compilation, so we assumed it originated from the Caribbean. Years later we worked out how wrong we were and that this nugget was actually from South Africa and taken off an ultra scarce album on JAS Pride records from 1976. The next problem was tracking down an original copy and we don’t think we’ve ever seen our Bongo team member Gary Johnson as happy as the day he turned up clutching a copy under his arm.
'Play Disco Specials' was produced by Ray Nkwe who also worked with Mankunku Quartet and The Soul Jazzmen, with all writing credits on the album going to Ray, the recording credited to engineer Robin Ritchie and the artwork to Carol Knowles. Other than this, the personnel of the record remains a mystery, but sometimes a bit of mystery is a good thing.
Aside from the disco-jazz-funk of 'Disco Stomp’, which has found it’s way into the DJ sets of Theo Parrish, 'Play Disco Specials’ will appeal to fans of The Star Beams South African contemporaries The Drive, Batsumi and Pacific Express.
The Mabon Dawud Republic - The Mabon Dawud Republic
The Mabon Dawud Republic
The Mabon Dawud Republic
LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Budabeats)
22,99 €*
Release: 2020 / EU – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Hailu Mergia - Yene Mircha
Hailu Mergia
Yene Mircha
LP | 2020 | US | Original (Awesome Tapes From Africa)
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Release: 2020 / US – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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It's been a long, winding road to Hailu Mergia's sixth decade of musical activity. From a young musician in the 60's starting out in Addis Ababa to the 70's golden age of dance bands to the new hope as an emigre in America to the drier period of the 90s and 2000s when he mainly played keyboard in his taxi while waiting in the airport queue or at home with friends. More recently, with reissue of his classic works and a re-assessment of his role in Ethiopian music history, Mergia has played to audiences big and small in some of the most cherished venues around the world. With 2018's critical breakthrough "Lala Belu" Mergia championed himself and consolidated his legacy, producing the album on his own and connecting with listeners through the sheer creative power of his version of modern Ethiopian music. His subsequent performances revealed an artist who is in no way stuck in the nostalgia for the "golden age" sound. The press agreed, including the New York Times, BBC and Pitchfork, calling his music "triumphantly in the present" in its Best 200 Albums of the 2010's list. Mergia's new album "Yene Mircha" ("My Choice" in Amharic) encapsulates many of the things that make the keyboardist, accordionist and composer-arranger remarkable_elements that have persisted to maintain his vitality all these years, through the ebb and flow of his career. The rock solid trio with whom he has toured the world most recently, DC-based Alemseged Kebede (bass) and Ken Joseph (drums), forms the nucleus around which an expanded band makes a potent response to the contemporary jazz future "Lala Belu" promised. "Yene Mircha" calcifies Mergia's prolific stream of creativity and his philosophy that there is a multitude of Ethiopian musical approaches, not just one sound. Enlisting the help of master mesenqo (traditional stringed instrument) player Setegn Atenaw, celebrated vocalist Tsehay Kassa and legendary saxophone player Moges Habte from his 70's outfit Walias Band, Mergia enhances his bright, electric band on this recording with an expanded line up on some songs. Mergia produced the album which features several of his original compositions along with songs by Asnakesh Worku and Teddy Afro. An artist still reinventing his sound every night on stage during his marathon live sets, this 74-year-old icon refuses to make the same album twice. The album feels as urgent and risky as his concerts can be, pushing the band to the outer limits of group improvisation and back with chord extensions during his exploratory solos. "Yene Mircha" captures this live experience and fosters an expansive view of what else could be in store for this tireless practitioner of Ethiopian music.
Fela Kuti - Army Arrangement
Fela Kuti
Army Arrangement
LP | 1985 | UK | Reissue (Knitting Factory)
22,99 €*
Release: 1985 / UK – Reissue
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Fela Kuti & The Africa 70 - Underground System
Fela Kuti & The Africa 70
Underground System
LP | 1992 | UK | Reissue (Knitting Factory)
22,99 €*
Release: 1992 / UK – Reissue
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Fela Kuti & The Africa 70 - V.I.P. (Vagabonds In Power)
Fela Kuti & The Africa 70
V.I.P. (Vagabonds In Power)
LP | 1979 | UK | Reissue (Knitting Factory)
22,99 €*
Release: 1979 / UK – Reissue
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Fela Kuti & The Africa 70 - Johnny Just Drop (J.J.D.)
Fela Kuti & The Africa 70
Johnny Just Drop (J.J.D.)
LP | 1977 | UK | Reissue (Knitting Factory)
22,99 €*
Release: 1977 / UK – Reissue
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Fela Kuti & The Africa 70 - No Agreement
Fela Kuti & The Africa 70
No Agreement
LP | 1977 | UK | Reissue (Knitting Factory)
22,99 €*
Release: 1977 / UK – Reissue
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Fela Kuti & The Africa 70 - Yellow Fever
Fela Kuti & The Africa 70
Yellow Fever
LP | 1976 | UK | Reissue (Knitting Factory)
22,99 €*
Release: 1976 / UK – Reissue
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Jimi Tenor - Saxentric
Jimi Tenor
Saxentric
LP | 2016 | FI | Original (Herakles)
22,99 €*
Release: 2016 / FI – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Used Vinyl
Medium: VG+, Cover: Near Mint
Record is close to NM!
Professor Wouassa - Yobale Ma!
Professor Wouassa
Yobale Ma!
LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Matasuna)
22,99 €*
Release: 2019 / EU – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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After their brilliant label debut with "Grow Yes Yes" in 2017, Professor Wouassa now returns with their brand new third album on Matasuna Records.
The Swiss band's career spans more than 15 years, where they have played at many major festivals in Switzerland and abroad. The 11 members of the band have perfected their musical qualities over the years and captivate as a well-rehearsed live band with their energetic and rousing shows. So it isn't surprising that they supported concerts of Afrobeat legends like Ebo Taylor or Seun 'Anikulapo' Kuti.
Their still exuberant creativity can also be heard on their new work entitled Yobale Ma!, which in Wolof's language can be translated as "take me" or "get me". With their new album they take the listener to their musical island to explore the borders of Afrobeat and beyond.
The song Fallou Fall opens the album in a jazzy & big band way, and quickly switches to an afrobeat theme and solo. In the middle the song breaks into an Afro-style pattern, which is performed by Thaïs Diarra in Bambara (Malian dialect) in a traditional Mandingo way of singing. The track ends with a Sabar percussion part - a traditional Senegalese drum.
Antoinette Konan - Antoinette Konan
Antoinette Konan
Antoinette Konan
LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Awesome Tapes From Africa)
22,99 €*
Release: 2019 / EU – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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It makes sense that Antoinette Konan's eponymous album features nothing more than her ahoko on the cover. The deceptively simple traditional percussion instrument transformed Ivory Coast's Baoulé music scene when Konan deployed it against a roaring electrified backdrop of synth, bass guitar and drum machines. Released in 1986, the album is a veritable UFO of instrumental force and contemporary pop sensibility landing in a boiling pot of diverse, creative characters inhabiting Abidjan, Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire). Known as the "Queen of the Ahoko" among Ivorians, Konan single-handedly put the central-Ivorian instrument on the map when she gave it a 20th-century re-introduction. The three-piece wooden idiophone is handmade from a thin, ribbed, flexible stick, against which a smaller chunk of wood is rhythmically scraped. A hollow nutshell held in the non-scraping hand amplifies and manipulates the resulting overtones. Despite the ahoko's diminutive appearance, Konan and her powerful voice have remained at the forefront of Ivorian music for decades now, in an extremely diverse country_approximately 70 indigenous languages_with a competitive, internationally-recognized music industry.Music plays an important role in Baoulé cultural life, heard and seen in festivities, funerals and more. They are the largest ethnic group in Côte d'Ivoire and descend from Akan peoples who migrated from present-day central Ghana. Baoulé vocal music is characterized by polyphony, melodies built on parallel thirds and call-and-response. All of this can be heard in Konan's music. Konan's fingerprints are all over Antoinette Konan, she says, as it was meant to be a highly personal recording. She wanted to portray the suffering, injustice, frustrations, humiliations, personal career struggles, experience of child birth and poverty she sees in society. Taking on the producer role for the first time, Konan was the architect of her dancefloor-ready neo-traditional sound. But crucial to the recording was arranger Bamba Moussa Yang. A creati...
El Wali - Tiris
El Wali
Tiris
LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Sahel Sounds)
22,99 €*
Release: 2019 / EU – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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An amazing and rare studio recording of 1990s Polisario music! The album is a standout example of the Sahrawi political folk style that mixes traditional modes with Western scales and instrumentation. response vocals, The repertoire of El Wali is fiery and inspirational, a call to arms - with national anthems, celebrations of political anniversaries, and religious pleas for peace, with call and response duets, backed with a synthesizer, programmed drums, and electric guitar.Nomadic inhabitants of Western Sahara, the Sahrawi movement for liberation began in the 1970s and has continued until today. Sahrawi political folk music dates back to the origins and has played an integral role in the struggle, with political anthems creating a national identity. One of the first Saharan music to incorporate the electric guitar, the style was hugely influential on the better know Tuareg guitar genre. The later addition of synthesizer and programmed rhythms further transformed the sound, becoming a foundation of Sahrawi music.Recorded in Belgium in 1994 while on tour, this version of El Wali performed a style reflecting the popular music of the refugee camps. "Tiris" is a refreshing production with none of the typical World Music polish of the 90s. This evidently led to its unsuccessful release in the West. Originally released only in as a small run CD for OXFAM Belgium, the CD quickly disappeared and is impossible to find. In West Africa, however, it became a viral success and the defining representative Sahrawi music. In 2012 a track was released on "Music from Saharan Cellphones Vol 2" and only after an arduous search over 8 years (leading through Spain to the Canary Islands to Tindouf and eventually to Belgium) the artists, the studio, and the original recording were tracked down. A co-release with Badawi Archives, the first Sahrawi run record label led by dj/producer Bedouin Sahrawi.
Fela Kuti & Roy Ayers - Music Of Many Colours
Fela Kuti & Roy Ayers
Music Of Many Colours
LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Knitting Factory)
22,99 €*
Release: 2019 / EU – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Music of Many Colours is a joint album between Roy Ayers and Fela Kuti, recorded after a three week tour of Nigeria’s major cities in 1979, during which Roy Ayers performed as the opening act for Fela’s band. The two artists decided to record the album as a round-up to the tour.

Roy Ayers describes the experience saying, “I met Fela Kuti in Nigeria in 1979, and we fell into a great relationship, good personal and music vibes, and we recorded that album together. Fela also came to USA in the eighties and we performed at NYC's Madison Square Garden. Amazingly energetic, Fela Kuti had a very original concept that was called Afro Beat – a genre with a very unique identity and exceptional music. One of Fela Kuti's most impressive qualities was that he was undeniably a brilliant show man, as a musician and as a huge dancer as well. His African concept was truly original… The tour was about two black men together coming together, one from Africa and other from USA, a very exciting collaboration."
Rachid Taha - Je Suis Africain
Rachid Taha
Je Suis Africain
LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Naive)
22,99 €*
Release: 2019 / EU – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Gyedu Blay Ambolley & Zantoda Mark III - Control
Gyedu Blay Ambolley & Zantoda Mark III
Control
LP | 1980 | EU | Reissue (Mr Bongo)
22,99 €*
Release: 1980 / EU – Reissue
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Ebo Taylor Jnr & Wuta Wazutu - Gotta Take It Cool
Ebo Taylor Jnr & Wuta Wazutu
Gotta Take It Cool
LP | 1978 | EU | Reissue (Mr Bongo)
22,99 €*
Release: 1978 / EU – Reissue
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Tough, mid-tempo Ghanaian funk & Highlife grooves from Ebo Taylor Junior, son of the mighty Ebo Taylor.
Originally released in 1978; now extremely difficult and expensive to find in its original form.
Today Ebo Taylor Jnr plays keys in his fathers band that continues to tour when he is able to.
Official Mr Bongo reissue. Licensed from Ebo Taylor Jnr.
Gyedu-Blay Ambolley - Ambolley
Gyedu-Blay Ambolley
Ambolley
LP | 1982 | EU | Reissue (Mr Bongo)
22,99 €*
Release: 1982 / EU – Reissue
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Extremely hard-to-obtain LP from the Ghanaian master composer, producer and musician. Originally released in 1982 by the WEA International label and then again in Germany in 1985 by Ambolley himself; this is one of his finest albums in our opinion.
Ambolley’ fuses Highlife, disco and boogie sonics perfectly and features the anthemic club cut, ‘Highlife’, that we have spinning for a while – always does the job!
Gyedu Blay Ambolley is still actively touring today, keeping these vibes alive – he will be touring Europe throughout 2019.
Official Mr Bongo reissue. Licensed from Gyedu-Blay Ambolley.
Musical Breed - Save The Little Children
Musical Breed
Save The Little Children
LP | 2019 | EU | Reissue (Dig This Way)
22,99 €*
Release: 2019 / EU – Reissue
Genre: Organic Grooves, Reggae & Dancehall
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The album was originally released in Nigeria by Tabansi Records and recorded at Afrodisia/Decca studio in Lagos. The Lp never really saw a commerical issue and was probably pressed in very few promotional copies for Radios and Djs making the original nearly impossible to be found nowdays.
Musically it comes with some dope , slow and one-a-way digital roots riddims filled with mad synths , deep conscious lyrics and a deep bassline, it's quite unique as the two main track comes with a raw Dub which is very hard to be found on any other African Reggae albums , the last track call “If I'm To Rule The World” is a very interesting blend of Reggae and Boogie.
We have been working together with the lead singer of the band , Sharon Escco Wilson that we met personally in Lagos, to finally make the album available worldwide.
The cover have been fully restored and the Audio remastered , in the LP we'll add an insert with Lyrics , original pictures from back in the days (and a few new ones) , a newspaper article from 1990 and an extensive interview by Sharon Escco Wilson.
V.A. - Mr Bongo Record Club Volume 3
V.A.
Mr Bongo Record Club Volume 3
2LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Mr Bongo)
22,99 €*
Release: 2019 / EU – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Volume three in the Mr Bongo Record club series. Another showcase of recent vinyl finds and favourites from our DJ sets and radio shows. This is an extra special one however, as it lands in 2019, the year that we celebrate 30 years since it all began way back in 1989.
In celebration of the 30 years of Mr Bongo, 2019 will see a host of exciting events and even more releases. We take over Brighton Dome on the opening weekend of the Brighton Festival in May, an in-store takeover at Rough Trade East, in July a week long ‘Album Club’ at Spiritland, more at RAPPCATS in LA, record fairs in Utrecht and New York, alongside the digging (and no doubt surfing!) trips to Brazil, India, Australia, Portugal and France…
We’re releasing brand new music from punk-reggae superstars, The Skints; the previously undiscovered 25-year old master composer & arranger, Kit Sebastian; and crossover UK hip hop live show dons, Jungle Brown, this year.
Compiled by David Buttle and Gareth Stephens, assisted by Graham Luckhurst and Gary Johnson.
Ebo Taylor, Pat Thomas & Uhuru Yenzu - Hitsville Re-Visited
Ebo Taylor, Pat Thomas & Uhuru Yenzu
Hitsville Re-Visited
LP | 1982 | EU | Reissue (Mr Bongo)
22,99 €*
Release: 1982 / EU – Reissue
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Hard-to-obtain, vintage highlife from three true giants of the sound; Ebo Taylor, Pat Thomas & Uhuru Yenzu. Originally released in 1982.
In 'Hitsville Re-Visited', the mighty trio add a dose of uptempo funk into traditional highlife grooves.
The legendary Ebo Taylor was involved in many funk and highlife records to emerge from Ghana in the 70's and 80's. He worked with bands such as Apagya Show Band, C.K. Mann as well as Pat Thomas, on this, and several other records.
Taylor recorded another album with Uhuru Yenzu in 1980 – 'Conflict' – which is also available on Mr Bongo.
Pat Thomas career began in 1969 with the ‘Broadway Dance Band’, leaving a year later to join the ‘Uhuru Dance Band’. He then played with Ebo Taylor’s ‘Blue Monks’ and finally formed the ‘Sweet Beans’ in 1973 where he really made his name.
Thomas and Taylor's careers span more than 50 years now and they both still tour to play around the world.
Licensed from Essiebons. Official Mr Bongo reissue.
Rob - Rob
Rob
Rob
LP | 1977 | EU | Reissue (Mr Bongo)
22,99 €*
Release: 1977 / EU – Reissue
Genre: Organic Grooves
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The Accra-born pianist and frontman only released a few albums in small quantities, yet two of them are among the most sought-after records from 70’s Africa. This was the first.

So what do we know? After learning his craft in Benin and playing with the likes of Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou, ROB returned to Accra to write his own material and find a sound.
Hooked on the driving funk and raw soul of stars such as James Brown and Otis Redding, he would often imitate his heroes on his father’s piano during school holidays.
The title track sets the pace with a JBs-like rhythm, ROB almost shamanic with his sparse yet commanding vocal. The organ and wah-wah guitar spin us out before those imperious horns bring us back in.
And what better way to close this set than with ‘More’, swept up in a call and response between Rob and his backing singers as a ‘Blow Your Head’ synth flares and the brass blasts. Good times guaranteed.
As the man himself says, “Funky music is in my blood. What you hear is the coming out of my mind.” No one sounds like Rob, because there is no one like Rob.
Ahmed Ag Kaedy - Akaline Kidal
Ahmed Ag Kaedy
Akaline Kidal
LP | 2019 | US | Original (Sahel Sounds)
22,99 €*
Release: 2019 / US – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Akofa Akoussah - Akofa Akoussah
Akofa Akoussah
Akofa Akoussah
LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Mr Bongo)
22,99 €*
Release: 2019 / EU – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Rich, deep, percussive soulful folk album from master Togolese singer, Akofa Akoussah. The album moves through uptempo afro-folk-funk on ‘Tango’ to deep ballads of ‘Ramer Sans Rame’ and ‘I Tcho Tchass’ and lighter moments on ‘G Blem Di’ and ‘Mitso Aseye’. Akofas exceptional songs and soaring vocals are decorated with percussion, guitar lines, subtle backing vocals and horns to create a unique, rich sonic. The album was recorded for release by French label Sonafric in 1976. Produced by Gérard Akueson; founder & owner of African record label, ‘Akue’, based in Paris.
Music was truly in the blood of Julie Akofa Akoussah. She began singing at the age of three, inspired and led by her mother and older sister and became principal soloist in her school choir, St. Peter & Paul Choir of our Immaculate Conception Parish of Nyékonakpoé, at the age of 8. From there her career blossomed, and singing often took precedence over her studies. In order to master her art she spent time studying and working closely with local groups including Mélo Togo, Rocka Mambo, Rio Romamcero, Ok Fiesta, Eryco Jazz, Afro Cubano, Los Muchacho, Elégance Jazz and Togo Star amongst others. In her own words: ”Luck opened the door in January 1966 where I had the honour of being selected to share the stage with Bella Below – one of the best voices of
Africa – at the 1st ‘Negro Arts Festival’ in Dakar. On my return, I was approached by Ambroise Ouyi, the highly respected singer & poet, and we wrote ‘Tu Ne M'Écris Plus’, my very first opus.“
The popularity of her work led to an increased exposure for Togolese music outside of the country, in neighbouring Ghana and Benin most notably. During her career she collaborated and performed with greats including Manou Djibango, Queen Pelagie, Abeti Massikini, Aycha Koné and Myriam Makeba. Akoussah was also dedicated to, and widely recognised for, her work for social causes, championing and nurturing young musical talent, and the fight against AIDS. She was president of the National Union of Artists Musicians of Togo (UNAM) before sadly passing away in April 2007 after a long illness, at the age of 57.
Gyedu Blay Ambolley - Simigwa
Gyedu Blay Ambolley
Simigwa
LP | 2018 | UK | Reissue (Mr Bongo)
22,99 €*
Release: 2018 / UK – Reissue
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Legendary Ghanain album – with one of the music iconic covers ever! – that fuses Highlife, afrobeat, folk and funk. Ambolleys debut solo album originally released in 1975, written and produced with Ebo Taylor. Ambolley grew up during the peak of Highlife in Ghana and was a key figure in its fusion with soul and funk influences from the USA. He played in many bands including Houghas Extraordinaires, Meridians Of Tema, Ghana Broadcasting Band and the Uhuru Dance Band, for which he was recruited by his friend, Ebo Taylor. The group went to Nigeria in 1973 to play with Fela at his legendary Shrine spot. ‘Simigwa’ was a chance for Ambolley to release his own productions and to experiment to a certain extent. A main inspiration for this album was the work of the mighty Mr. James Brown, something that is evident from the rhythm section, horns, vocal stabs and percussion breaks throughout the record. Official Mr Bongo reissue, replica original artwork. Licensed from Essiebons.
Stella Chiweshe - Kasahwa: Early Singles
Stella Chiweshe
Kasahwa: Early Singles
LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Glitterbeat)
22,99 €*
Release: 2018 / EU – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Tunde Mabadu - Viva Disco
Tunde Mabadu
Viva Disco
LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Mr Bongo)
22,99 €*
Release: 2018 / EU – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Official Mr Bongo reissue of the ultra-rare Nigerian disco-boogie, ‘Viva Disco’, album from 1980. Originally released on the Afrodisia label, this one is unknown to even the most knowledgable collectors out there.
Tunde Mabadu recorded two albums in the 70’s – ‘Viva Disco’ and ‘Bisu’ as Tunde Mabadu & His Sunrise. Perfect examples of golden-era Nigerian disco & boogie, that still hold their own today.
Licensed from Tunde Mabadu and PMG.
Super Elcados - Togetherness Is Always A Good Venture - Tambourine Party Volume 2
Super Elcados
Togetherness Is Always A Good Venture - Tambourine Party Volume 2
LP | 1976 | EU | Reissue (Mr Bongo)
22,99 €*
Release: 1976 / EU – Reissue
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Official Mr Bongo reissue of the ultra-rare album by ‘Super Elcados’. A fusion of heavyweight Nigerian funk, soul & disco, originally released by EMI Nigeria in 1976.
The ‘Super Elcados’ (and ’Elcados’ on other recordings) recorded three albums in the mid and late-70’s, this is their first. It was followed by ‘This World Is Full Of Injustice’ and ‘What Ever You Need’.
Licensed from Geoffrey Johnson (Elcados), courtesy of PMG, with special thanks to Dave Hill for his help!
Shina Williams & His African Percussionists - African Dances
Shina Williams & His African Percussionists
African Dances
LP | 1979 | EU | Reissue (Mr Bongo)
22,99 €*
Release: 1979 / EU – Reissue
Genre: Organic Grooves
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First official reissue of the extremely rare full-length album by Lagos-based bandleader Shina Williams. Clean copies of the original currently sell for up to £500.
The record was born in 1979 when Shina put Biddy Wright, Fred Fisher, Saliu Alabi, Prince Bola, Tutu Shoronmu, Tunde willimas and several other decorated Nigerian musicians – who played with the likes of Fela Kuti, SJOB Movement, Sonny Okoson, King Bucknor amongst others – together to record. The result is ‘African Dances’, a timeless fusion of afrobeat, electronics, boogie and disco. Includes his most well-known song, ‘Agboju Logun’ that Williams knew was ground breaking – “I want to show the whole wide world that Africa is alive with modern musicians to reckon with anywhere,”. This album version is a different mix to the two-track 12” that came out under on Earthworks, Rough Trade in 1984.
Official Mr Bongo reissue. Replica original artwork. Licensed direct from Shina Williams.
Ebo Taylor - Yen Ara
Ebo Taylor
Yen Ara
LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Mr Bongo)
22,99 €*
Release: 2018 / EU – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Ghanaian music legend Ebo Taylor returns with perhaps his finest album to date. But don't take our word for it. That’s coming straight from the man himself. And he should know after more than 60 years in the business. The 81-year-old composer, arranger, guitarist and vocalist has been a key figure in the evolving afro-funk sound since the Seventies, working with the likes of Apagya Show Band, CK Mann and Pat Thomas. Famously, he rubbed shoulders with Fela Kuti while studying in London in the Sixties, before going on to lead the Ghana Black Star Band (featuring Osei and Sol Amarfio from Osibisa) and later the Uhuru Dance Band back in Ghana. Like Fela, he is always pushing forward, constantly reconceptualising his sound and
attuning it for a new generation. Part teacher, part messenger. Listen to Yen Ara and you will not only hear the high-energy afrobeat, sweet highlife, jazz and konkoma influences that he’s famous for. There is also a disco pulse and hard-hitting percussive edge to the tracks, which were produced by Justin Adams (Tinariwen, Rachid Taha, Robert Plant) and recorded in the live room at Electric Monkey Studio in Amsterdam. An Ebo Taylor for these times, you might say.
His group, the Saltpond City Band, are all handpicked local musicians featuring two of his sons. An appropriate line-up on an album whose titles means “we”. And they are on fine form, ripping through tracks such as ‘Krumandey’ (a surefire party starter) and ‘Mind Your Own Business’ (a simple message delivered over a frenetic drum rhythm). Elsewhere, ‘Aboa Kyirbin’ will please fans of tough afrobeat grooves, while Taylor could well be inciting a riot at his next gig with ‘Mumudey Mumudey’, We hear him calling for ‘preshaaah’ and leading us into a call and response as the trumpet takes us higher. And the lift of those horns on ‘Ankoma'm’ evokes some of his finest work such as ‘Love & Death’ and ‘Come Along’, the latter recorded
with the Pelikans and featured on a recent Mr Bongo reissue. This album fizzes and pops with life but the best way to experience Taylor, as always, is live. Catch him on tour in Europe from March 2018.
Sorry Bamba Du Mali - Sorry Bamba Du Mali
Sorry Bamba Du Mali
Sorry Bamba Du Mali
LP | 1976 | UK | Reissue (Songhoi)
22,99 €*
Release: 1976 / UK – Reissue
Genre: Organic Grooves
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One of the most pivotal figures in the history of Malian music is Sorry Bamba. His work spans five decades and his music bridges the gap between Mali's cultural traditions and new the music which arose from the musical cross overs which occurred in Mali's post-Colonial period. Bamba was born in 1938 in Mopti. This is dissected by both the Niger and Bani rivers and known for its rich cultural diversity. Bamba's father was a distinguished veteran of Emperor Samory Toure's military and a nobleman in Malian society, however, this meant young Sorry was forbidden to make music, as under the nation's caste system, music was an art form reserved for the Griots.

At the age of 10, Sorry's parents died and in traumatic times that followed the young teen found solace in music. He first taught himself to play am African six-holed flute. As he progressed he began to absorbed the rich tapestry of music of his surroundings, traditional Malian music, highlife from Ghana, local accordion master Toumani Toure, European singers and musicians. In 1957 Sorry formed his first band, Group Goumbe, named after a popular Ivory Coast dance style. In 1960 Mali gained independence from France, Bamba and his group benefited from a new openness toward local music on the state-run radio network Radio Mali. Sorry then went on to form two award-winning, further collectives Bani Jazz and later the Kanaga Orchestra. They fused Latin jazz, Western R&B, Psychedelic and funk, and traditional Malian styles made them a favourite in Mali and beyond.
V.A. - Mr Bongo Record Club Volume 2
V.A.
Mr Bongo Record Club Volume 2
2LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Mr Bongo)
22,99 €*
Release: 2017 / EU – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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This instalment follows on from our acclaimed ‘Volume One’ – Lauren Laverne’s ‘Compilation Of The Week’, supported by the likes of Disclosure, Jeremy Underground, Horsemeat Disco, Hunee and Laurent Garnier. ‘Volume Two’ picks up where the last one left off — with a touch more soul and disco — records we’ve been spinning in our DJ sets and on the radio show of the same name, that inspired this series.

Compiled by David ‘Mr Bongo’ Buttle and Gareth Stephens, plus a few personal favourites from Gary Johnson, Ville Marttila and Graham Luckhurst.

TRACKLIST, VINYL 2-LP: A1. Elbernita ‘twinkie’ Clark – Awake O Zion (full length, original version) / A2. Dee Edwards – Put Your Love On The Line / A3. Anubis – Ecology / B1. Guy Cuevas – Ebony Game / B2. Kiru Stars (Julius Kang’ethe) – Family Planning / B3. Teaspoon & The Waves – Oh Yeh Soweto / C1. Leny Andrade – Não Adianta / C2. Rosa Maria – Samba Maneiro / C3. Tom & Dito – Obrigado Corcovado / C4. Inezita Barroso – Maracatu Elegante / C5. Joao Diaz – Capoeira / C6. The Equatics – Merry Go Round / D1. Elias Rahbani And His Orchestra – Liza… Liza / D2. The Beaters – Harari
V.A. - The Original Sound Of Burkina Faso
V.A.
The Original Sound Of Burkina Faso
2LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Mr Bongo)
22,99 €*
Release: 2017 / EU – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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‘The Original Sound of Burkina Faso’ follows the hugely successful ‘The Original Sound of Mali’ compilation released in March this year, also on Mr Bongo. Here we have a collection of songs that pay tribute to a truly golden age of music; touching on folk, funk, blues, highlife, disco, psyche, latin, rock and soul.
Burkina Faso may be one of the least well-known parts of West Africa but it has a deep history and musical pedigree. A few years before President Thomas Sankara changed his country’s name from Upper Volta to its current one, a new sound emerged to soundtrack a cultural revolution.
Featuring music by Abdoulaye Cissé, Amadou Balaké, Pierre Sandwidi & Super Volta, Tidiani Coulibaly & Dafra Star, Bozambo, Youssouf Diarra and more. Including a booklet with extensive liner notes and photography.
Compiled by David ‘Mr Bongo’ Buttle and Florent Mazzoleni.
Marijata - This Is Marijata
Marijata
This Is Marijata
LP | EU | Reissue (Mr Bongo)
22,99 €*
Release: EU – Reissue
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Marijata was a group made up of three members – Kofi 'Electric' Addison on drums, Bob Fischlan on organ and Nat Osmanu on guitar, hailing from Ghana.
‘This Is Marijata’ is the groups first LP; released originally on the Gapophone label – it is pure, rootsy, raw, driving African funk music of the highest order, now highly sought-after in both its original and previously reissued forms.
Addison, Osmanu and Fischlan formed a band called the Sweet Beans with a young singer and guitarist, namely the legendary Pat Thomas. They released ‘False Lover’ [GAPO LP 02] in 1974 on Gapophone Records before recording ‘This Is Marijata’ [GAPO LP 012] and then ‘Pat Thomas Introduces Marijata’ [GAPO LP 013] shortly afterwards.
‘This Is Marijata’ is summed up perfectly by the text on the back cover: “Three young musicians of the Sweet Beans believe that in music and entertainment business, there is no room for mediocrity if one’s music is to win over a bigger audience and fame.
How could they give the public a taste of the talent they had so meticulously nurtured since they began their musical careers without upsetting the current musical inclination in the country?
Simple, Gapahone Records, quick to spot talent listened to the music of Kofi “Electric” Addison (Drummer) Bob Fischlan (Organist) and Nat Osmanu (Guitarist), liked it and the result, after month of hard work is what you have on this album – THIS IS MARIJATA.
Tony Allen - Homecooking
Tony Allen
Homecooking
2LP | 2002 | EU | Reissue (Comet)
22,99 €*
Release: 2002 / EU – Reissue
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Originally released in 2002, Comet is proud to present the legendary album Homecooking, reissued with a remastered version. Tony Allen talks about the album: “After Black Voices and Psyco on Da Bus albums, I came back with HomeCooking which was an album filled with guests. I brought in Ty, who had remixed some of my work previously, to rap on the record, and Damon Albarn, who had already sung about me on ‘Music is my Radar’. Since the early days I’ve been trying to find things that everybody will want to listen to. I’ve always been pushing Afrobeat in different directions. Here’s another one again, another style, almost clean but still rough, raggedy and radical.’’
Fela Kuti & The Africa 70 - Zombie
Fela Kuti & The Africa 70
Zombie
LP | 1976 | UK | Reissue (Knitting Factory)
22,99 €*
Release: 1976 / UK – Reissue
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Fela Kuti & The Africa 70 - Gentleman
Fela Kuti & The Africa 70
Gentleman
LP | 1973 | UK | Reissue (Knitting Factory)
22,99 €*
Release: 1973 / UK – Reissue
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Fela Kuti & The Africa 70 - Shakara
Fela Kuti & The Africa 70
Shakara
LP | 1972 | UK | Reissue (Knitting Factory)
22,99 €*
Release: 1972 / UK – Reissue
Genre: Organic Grooves
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V.A. - Mr Bongo Record Club Volume 1
V.A.
Mr Bongo Record Club Volume 1
2LP | 2016 | UK | Original (Mr Bongo)
22,99 €*
Release: 2016 / UK – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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The first instalment in our new ‘Mr Bongo Record Club’ compilation series – a
selection of favourites, recent discoveries and sought after obscurities, which
form the basis of our DJ sets and our radio show of the same name. Including
cuts by Claudia, Cortex, Dave Pike Set, Fruko, Neno Exporta Som, Connie
Laverne, Barbosa and more.
The original concept for ‘Mr Bongo Record Club’ was a radio show that allowed
us to air our treasured record collections, recorded and broadcast once a
month. We wanted to create an outlet free from any genre or BPM restrictions,
not constrained by the need to beat-mix every record, a space where we could
play latest finds alongside favourites. The only self-imposed rule being that
it had to be played from vinyl.
We have always DJ’d across-the-board, but playing in an eclectic way hasn’t
always been easy. Recently DJ’s such as MCDE, Floating Points, Nick The Record,
Leon Vynehall, Four Tet, Jeremy Underground, Antal (Rush Hour), Sassy J and
Young Marco – to name a few – have opened things up with very diverse sets to
younger audiences; Brazilian samba-rock, next to modern soul, highlife, disco,
boogie, jazz, house, techno and beyond.
We’re seeing a rare groove like sensibility. A shift towards the attitude of
legendary club nights hosted by the likes of Mr Scruff and Gilles Peterson,
where you could hear house, hip hop, Turkish funk, boogie, jazz, dub and Latin
back to back. At the same time it isn't a nostalgic or retro movement, people
have a progressive attitude and a thirst for new-old music. It is a vibrant and
exciting time – we are proud to be a part of it.
V.A. - Original Sound Of Mali
V.A.
Original Sound Of Mali
2LP | 2016 | UK | Original (Mr Bongo)
22,99 €*
Release: 2016 / UK – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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The Original Sound of Mali’ compiled by David ‘Mr Bongo’ Buttle, Vik Sohonie (Ostinato Records) and 
Florent Mazzoleni.

Malian music is a deep, lyrical form of African music. Those of us deeply entranced by Malian culture, and, in particular, the immense hypnotic beauty of Malian music, have put together a selection of songs from across the country.
Ebo Taylor - My Love And Music
Ebo Taylor
My Love And Music
LP | 2016 | UK | Reissue (Mr Bongo)
22,99 €*
Release: 2016 / UK – Reissue
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Originally released in 1975 on Gapophone Records, George Prah’s label, hailing from Ghana. Only available in very limited quantity (reportedly 500 copies) due to the musical vacuum imposed by the military dictatorship in the country at the time.

Laid back, lush, highlife vibrations from start to finish, with noticeable reggae influences throughout.
V.A. - Light & Sound Of Mogadishu
V.A.
Light & Sound Of Mogadishu
LP | 2015 | EU | Original (Afro7)
22,99 €*
Release: 2015 / EU – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Amazing compilation of Somali music.
Francis The Great - Ravissante Baby
Francis The Great
Ravissante Baby
LP | 1977 | EU | Reissue (Hot Casa)
22,99 €*
Release: 1977 / EU – Reissue
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Rare funk & Avant-Garde soul from a seven years old kid singer featuring the best of French and Cameroonian musicians diaspora, recorded in Paris in 1977.
Hailu Mergia & The Walias - Tche Belew
Hailu Mergia & The Walias
Tche Belew
LP | 1997 | US | Reissue (Awesome Tapes From Africa)
22,99 €*
Release: 1997 / US – Reissue
Genre: Organic Grooves
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The album will be released by Awesome Tapes From Africa for the first time outside Ethiopia, with its original track sequence and album art along with exclusive period photos from Mergia’s personal scrapbook.
Ebo Taylor - Ebo Taylor
Ebo Taylor
Ebo Taylor
LP | 1977 | UK | Reissue (Mr Bongo)
22,99 €*
Release: 1977 / UK – Reissue
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Nice repress on 180 gram wax!
C.K. Mann & His Carousel 7 - Funky Highlife
C.K. Mann & His Carousel 7
Funky Highlife
LP | 1975 | EU | Reissue (Mr Bongo)
22,99 €*
Release: 1975 / EU – Reissue
Genre: Organic Grooves
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C.K. Mann made his name as a virtuous guitar player in Ghana when he played with Moses Kweku Oppong in the Kakaikus Guitar Band in the early 60s. He then became the leader of the band Ocean’s Strings until 1966. In 1968, he enjoyed a hit with the single ‘Edina Benya’. Mann was known for blending authentic African music with European influences. He was inspired by Latin American music and created a style all of his own. He became known as the ‘King of Highlife‘ in Ghana in the 70's, when he released the record ‘Nimpa Rebre’ featuring vocals from Pat Thomas and Kofi Yankwon. Funky Highlife came out of the Essiebons label run by Dick Essilfe Bondzie. According to Dick, this album could have been a massive hit in Ghana but the vinyl factories ran out of stock because of Ghana’s economic downturn, so the demand for the record could not be met. The album is a fusion of highlife and soul. The best-known track ‘Asafo beesuon’ is a multi-layered, drum heavy, funk medley and is over 13 minutes long.
The Semi Colon - Ndia Egbuo Ndia (Afro-Jigida)
The Semi Colon
Ndia Egbuo Ndia (Afro-Jigida)
LP | 2012 | US | Reissue (Comb & Razor Sound)
22,99 €*
Release: 2012 / US – Reissue
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Ndia Egbuo Ndia (Afro-Jigida), an LP recorded by the Nigerian rock group Semi-Colon in 1976, was an experimental response to Fela Kuti’s then-dominant afrobeat sound, substituting Fela’s sophisticated horn charts and jazz leanings with wiry electric guitar work and a passion for vintage rock ‘n’ roll. Long fabled and coveted amongst collectors and DJs alike, the album has remained one of the rarest of the Nigerian 1970s “afro” cycle. Comb & Razor Sound is proud to be reissuing this lost gem of Afro-rock for
a new audience.

This reissue marks the second release from Comb & Razor Sound, following up the success of its inaugural offering, 2011’s Nigerian disco and boogie compilation Brand New Wayo, which was spotlighted on NPR’s All Things Considered and received favorable mention on its “Song of the Day.” The new edition of Afro-Jigida continues Comb & Razor’s exploration of rare, cutting-edge popular music produced in Nigeria in the 1970s and 80s.

Afro-Jigida will be initially released in its original six-track vinyl format, with a deluxe CD release to follow at a later date. As a bonus, the first 1000 copies pressed of the album will include a 7” single featuring the never-before-released demo recording "Our Fada".
The Funkees - Dancing Time: The Best Of East Nigeria's Afro Rock Exponents 1973-77
The Funkees
Dancing Time: The Best Of East Nigeria's Afro Rock Exponents 1973-77
2LP | 2012 | UK | Original (Soundway)
22,99 €*
Release: 2012 / UK – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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‘Dancing Time: The Best of Eastern Nigeria’s Afro Rock Exponents 1973 – 77’ by The Funkees is the latest title on Soundway to mine the rich musical output of 60s and 70s Nigeria. For the 5 year period this compilation spans The Funkees output crackled with dance floor fire.

Having featured on three of Soundway’s most popular titles, across the definitive Nigeria Special compilation series, we felt The Funkees output deserved closer inspection. Presented here (on CD, download & double gatefold LP) are 18 slices of funky Afro-rock grooves hand picked by Soundway’s Miles Cleret from a selection of the bands 45s and 2 long players.

In the early 1970s The Funkees were the number-one east Nigerian band and the only outfit to seriously challenge the popular Lagos based rock combos MonoMono and BLO.

It wasn't long before promoters in the UK came calling and The Funkees packed up their instruments and moved to London where they quickly established a fierce reputation on the live circuit.

Here they recorded two seminal albums before finally breaking up in 1977 amidst some controversy. This collection features for the first time all of their Nigerian 45s alongside the best of their UK album material and is accompanied by a full interview with original member Sonny Akpan, who still lives in the capital.
Asnake Gebreyes - Ahadu
Asnake Gebreyes
Ahadu
LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Buda Musique)
22,99 €*
Release: 2018 / EU – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+
Antibalas - Antibalas
Antibalas
Antibalas
LP | 2012 | US | Original (Daptone)
22,99 €*
Release: 2012 / US – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Used Vinyl
Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+
Original inner sleeve
Shay Hazan - Reclusive Rituals
Shay Hazan
Reclusive Rituals
LP | 2021 | UK | Original (Batov)
22,99 €*
Release: 2021 / UK – Original
Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance
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Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+
close to NM
Nikki Giovanni And The New York Community Choir - Like A Ripple On A Pond
Nikki Giovanni And The New York Community Choir
Like A Ripple On A Pond
LP | 2021 | US | Original (Modern Harmonic)
22,99 €*
Release: 2021 / US – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+
Cover and blue vinyl are close to NM.
Lancelot Layne - Blow Way
Lancelot Layne
Blow Way
2LP+7" | 2017 | EU | Original (Cree)
22,99 €*
Release: 2017 / EU – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Medium: VG+, Cover: Near Mint
Spaza - Spaza
Spaza
Spaza
LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Mushroom Hour Half Hour)
22,99 €*
Release: 2019 / EU – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint
Ana Egge - Sharing In The Spirit
Ana Egge
Sharing In The Spirit
LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Storysound)
22,99 €*
Release: 2024 / EU – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Anoushka Shankar - Chapter Ii: How Dark It Is Before Dawn
Anoushka Shankar
Chapter Ii: How Dark It Is Before Dawn
LP | 2024 | EU | Original (BMG Rights Management)
22,99 €*
Release: 2024 / EU – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Detto Mariano, Gianni Dall'Aglio - Black Magic - La Principessa Nuda
Detto Mariano, Gianni Dall'Aglio
Black Magic - La Principessa Nuda
2LP | 2017 | IT | Original (Stella Edizioni Musicali)
22,99 €*
Release: 2017 / IT – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves, Soundtracks
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Medium: Near Mint, Cover: VG+
Cover has light bends.
Coro Qom Chelaalapi & Lagartijeando - Campo Del Cielo
Coro Qom Chelaalapi & Lagartijeando
Campo Del Cielo
LP | 2023 | Original (Shika Shika)
22,99 €*
Release: 2023 / Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Ana Egge - White Tiger
Ana Egge
White Tiger
LP | 2022 | US | Original (Story Sound)
22,99 €*
Release: 2022 / US – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Manou Gallo - Afro Groove Queen
Manou Gallo
Afro Groove Queen
LP | 2024 | Original (Contre Jour)
22,99 €*
Release: 2024 / Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Yann Jankielewicz - Keep It Simple
Yann Jankielewicz
Keep It Simple
LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Local Tree Music)
22,99 €*
Release: 2024 / EU – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Keep It Simple! That's what Tony Allen told me, whether on stage, in the recording studio or when we were working together on the album "The Source"(Blue Note 2017) in my studio. Obviously, if he repeated it at will, it's because it's so difficult, to express the essential, not to scatter, over-play, over-arrange. So natural for him, so constraining for others! For years he pushed us, the members of his group to develop our projects. I had something in mind, necessarily with him, unfortunately his unexpected demise decided otherwise. It took a moment to accept his departure, to accept being a voice, to find a new path. The desire to continue the work started together, that of mixing styles, sounds to appropriate them and create new, authentic. The desire also to meet new people, another energy. After composing music for this project, I asked my friend Ben Rubin, musician and producer to help me record it. I found in NYC what I was looking for, a sense of urgency, that of doing, generous and committed musicians. I knew Jason Lindner, a musician that I have been following for a long time and he was the first person I thought of for pianos and synthesizers. He has this ability to find new and powerful sounds, with a direct and unadorned playing. For the drums, I didn't especially thought about a musician whose playing could come close or far to Tony's. Ben suggested Josh Dion to me, I've been following him since his "Paris Monster" project, I love his ability to make his drums sound like a new instrument by playing the bass synth with his right hand, that forces him to keep it simple! He also plays 2 tracks in drum/synth mode on the album. I'm also happy that he agreed to sing a song on this album. So we recorded at the Figure8 recording studio in Brooklyn, Eli Crews providing the sound recording, we decided with Ben to create a powerful and assumed sound from the take. Many biases on the tones, whether on the drums and the keyboards. Back in my studio in Paris, I continued to search, to dig while recording additional saxophones, percussions and keyboards. I met Tchad Blake during a week-long mixing seminar. His work on the album on is radical. Keep it simple? Difficult but I try to remain so on all the phases of evolution of this project, from writing to production, in the improvisation parts. Where I feel it the most is in the immediate joy of playing with Jason and Josh, of tweaking a few sounds in my studio to create the unexpected, surprise in the structures, authenticity. Simple as the desire to go towards something essential, to seek oneself, to find oneself, to doubt but also to invent oneself
Tlahoun Gessesse - Ethiopian Urban Modern Music Vol.4
Tlahoun Gessesse
Ethiopian Urban Modern Music Vol.4
LP | 2021 | Original (Heavenly Sweetness)
22,99 €*
Release: 2021 / Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Ki! - Yong-Gwanglo Part One
Ki!
Yong-Gwanglo Part One
LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Crunchy Frog)
22,99 €*
Release: 2024 / EU – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Olumo Soundz - U.N. (United Nonsense)
Olumo Soundz
U.N. (United Nonsense)
LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Believe! International)
22,99 €*
Release: 2023 / UK – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Believe! International Records proudly presents (U.N) United Nonsense – the debut album by the Swedish Afrobeat band Olumo Soundz.

The twelve band members of Olumo Soundz are solidly rooted in the great musical tradition hailing from predecessors Fela and Femi Kuti. However, the band puts their own spin on a vibrant genre, and packs a punch at each and every show with their own repertoire.

The four track album (U.N) United Nonsense – presented in a high quality 180 gr vinyl edition – is a joyous musical announcement of awareness, resistance and faith.
Kokoroko - Could We Be More Remixes
Kokoroko
Could We Be More Remixes
LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Brownswood)
22,99 €*
Release: 2024 / UK – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Teddy Thompson - Heartbreaker Please
Teddy Thompson
Heartbreaker Please
LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Chalky Sounds)
22,99 €*
Release: 2020 / EU – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Joy Williams - Front Porch
Joy Williams
Front Porch
LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Sensibility)
22,99 €*
Release: 2019 / EU – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Bedouine - Waysides
Bedouine
Waysides
LP | 2022 | Original (Bedouine Music)
22,99 €*
Release: 2022 / Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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A Filetta - I Balconi
A Filetta
I Balconi
LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Deda)
22,99 €*
Release: 2023 / EU – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Asake - Work Of Art Tri-Color Vinyl Edition
Asake
Work Of Art Tri-Color Vinyl Edition
LP | 2023 | US | Original (Empire)
22,99 €*
Release: 2023 / US – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves, Pop
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Work of Art is the second album from Nigerian-born singer-songwriter and global superstar, Asake. Building on the sounds from his explosive debut, Mr. Money With The Vibe (which became Billboard’s highest-charting debut album from a Nigerian artist), the 14-track Work Of Art showcases Asake’s winning formula of fusing traditional and contemporary African music into something equally unique and celebratory. The release also marked Asake’s second straight debut on the Billboard 200, and clocked in Spotify chart debuts at number 2 on the Global Albums chart and number 5 on the US Top Albums chart. With standout singles such as “Amapiano,” “2:30,” “Basquiat,” & “Sunshine,” the album highlights Asake’s innate ability to cut through to global audiences, making him one of 2023’s most intriguing artists to watch. Pressed on Green/White/Green Tri-Color Stripe Vinyl.
Addisabababand - II
Addisabababand
II
LP | 2020 | EU | Reissue (Sounds Of Subterrania)
22,99 €*
Release: 2020 / EU – Reissue
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Dun Ringill - Where The Old Gods Play Act 1
Dun Ringill
Where The Old Gods Play Act 1
LP | 2023 | EU | Original (The Sign)
22,99 €*
Release: 2023 / EU – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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The Moonfires - Black Sugar
The Moonfires
Black Sugar
CD | 2015 | EU | Original (Al Dente)
22,99 €*
Release: 2015 / EU – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Band Leader Alex Puddu is behind the project the Moonfires. The Album is released on 300 copies limited edition on Alex Puddu's own label Al Dente. The Album Black sugar is written, Arranged and Produced By Alex Puddu Recorded during the summer 2014 in Copenhagen Recorded at Redrum Studio Mixed and Masterd in N.Y.C Astoria Queens Soundworks recording by Kamilo Kratc Album photo by Maiken Kildegaard Artwork by Leo Scherfig
Black Beat Disco - Narg Funk Machine
Black Beat Disco
Narg Funk Machine
LP | 1976 | EU | Reissue (Dig This Way)
22,99 €*
Release: 1976 / EU – Reissue
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Nigeria is known as ‘The Giant of Africa’. It’s the most populated country in Africa with more then 250 ethnic groups and many different languages and dialects that gives to the country a rich diversity. This diversity also affects music which plays an important role in every aspect of social life. We, at DTW’s stable are happy to announce the reissue of “Narg Funk Machine” an explosive nigerian “black beat” disco originally released on Coconut in 1979. If you are looking for something weird here you’ve found it. Basically these four tracks are well represents the tangle of richness of nigerian music in this period, They are a melting pot of styles and sounds , where afrobeat, funk, highlife, juju, and psych rock are mixed all together in a cozy and captivating sound. Ready to bring some warmth and hypnotic sound to the dancefloor around the world.
Jamila The Other Heroes - Bazaar Bizarre Poster
Jamila The Other Heroes
Bazaar Bizarre Poster
LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Springstoff)
22,99 €*
Release: 2023 / EU – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Mohamed Lamouri - Mehari
Mohamed Lamouri
Mehari
LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Almost Musique)
22,99 €*
Release: 2023 / EU – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Les Ogres De Barback - Croc' Noces
Les Ogres De Barback
Croc' Noces
LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Irfan (Le Label))
22,99 €*
Release: 2023 / EU – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Cesaria Evora - Distino Di Belita Blue Vinyl Edition
Cesaria Evora
Distino Di Belita Blue Vinyl Edition
LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Music On Vinyl)
23,19 €* 28,99 € -20%
Release: 2023 / EU – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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180 GRAM AUDIOPHILE VINYL
SLEEVE PRINTED ON HEAVY CARDBOARD WITH
SOFT TOUCH LAMINATE FINISH

INCLUDES INSERT WITH LINER NOTES
THE COMPLETE ALBUM AVAILABLE ON VINYL FOR

THE FIRST TIME

FEATURING HER CLASSIC SONGS “NOVA SINTRA”
AND “DISTINO DI BILITA”

LIMITED EDITION OF 1000 INDIVIDUALLY
NUMBERED COPIES ON BLUE COLOURED VINYL
Cheb Hasni - Volume 1
Cheb Hasni
Volume 1
LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Outre National)
23,74 €* 24,99 € -5%
Release: 2022 / EU – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie
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Raï is the music of a youth hungover from Algeria's recent independence. It became a space for a liberated, transgressive dialogue that told the social truths of its time -- an up-front yet poetic voice that covers the taboos and frustrations of daily life, expressing emotion without detour. This voice is heard at weddings, cabarets, in the nightclubs of the Oranese coast, and casually on the street... With the boom of the audio cassette, an avalanche of raï tapes were produced in Oran and diffused all over the world. Both women and men sang and listened to the new sound, as raï is intimately tied to parties, alcohol and the night. With the spontaneous improvisation of its singers as the main part of each song, raï keeps reinventing itself. In this style, Cheb Hasni, along with Cheb Nasro, incarnates a second generation of musicians. With the "love raï", or sentimental raï, Hasni sings about love, passion and its setbacks -- moving away from the bittersweet daily chronicles of the first chebs and chebates. Having recorded nearly 150 cassettes, Cheb Hasni remains one of the most prolific and talented raï singers of his generation. Almost thirty years after his death, this three-volume compilation of rare tracks from his cassette releases on the Oriental Music Production label is a tribute to the lasting legacy of Cheb Hasni -- ya raï!
Movement In The City - Movement In The City
Movement In The City
Movement In The City
LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Sharp Flat)
23,79 €* 27,99 € -15%
Release: 2022 / EU – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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In the wake of a 2020 edition of Movement in the City's second album Black Teardrops (1981), Sharp-Flat Records returns with a prequel by way of a reissue of the band's self-titled debut from 1979.

As the 1970s were drawing to a close, the epic Black Disco studio project with its signature pairing of drum machine and organ had run it course. After delivering a killer trilogy of cosmic lounge outings dating back to 1975, the group yearned for funkier grooves and the core trio of composer Pops Mohamed on organ with Basil Coetzee on tenor sax and Sipho Gumede on bass decided to hire a drummer and rebrand as Movement in the City. In contrast with the New Age detachment of Black Disco, Movement in the City was conceptually grounded in the bleak social realism depicted on its photographic album covers and leaned into the vivid sensibilities of library music from the era. Blending Cape jazz with funk and soul, the group's output evokes a soundtrack for South African city life at the outset of the 1980s while nodding allegorically to the subterranean movements that were in the course of shaking the cage for political change.

With its cast of jazz fusion all-stars, Movement in the City is the manifesto of a band in transition - a bold and slick first offering that delivers a modern South African sound capable of both the funky exuberances of "Mister Lucky" as well as the down-home pathos of "Blue Sunday." Restored from its original tape masters and released in partnership with As-Shams Archive and Pops Mohamed, this rare artefact of South African jazz history is back in print for the very first time since its original 1979 release.
Matisyahu - Live In Brooklyn
Matisyahu
Live In Brooklyn
LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Fallen Sparks)
23,79 €* 27,99 € -15%
Release: 2023 / EU – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Astor Piazzolla - Tango: The Best Of Astor Piazzolla
Astor Piazzolla
Tango: The Best Of Astor Piazzolla
LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Acrobat)
23,99 €*
Release: 2023 / EU – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Samuele Strufaldi - Davorio
Samuele Strufaldi
Davorio
LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Musica Macondo)
23,99 €*
Release: 2023 / EU – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie
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Through a musical collaboration between Italian musician Samuele Strufaldi and the villagers of Gohouo-Zagna in the Ivory Coast, a new album called Davorio released on Música Macondo Records, will raise money for a new community library and space in the village. Davorio is the joint efforts of Samuele Strufaldi, and the Guéré musicians of Gohouo-Zagna, located in the Ivory Coast’s Guemon region. The record is a cross-cultural-conversation that tells the villagers’ stories through a modern musical language; one that blends together Guéré music, jazz, and electronica. More than just a record, Davorio is a story about the villagers of Gohouo-Zagna, with their lives, traditions, and cultures animated across the album’s 16-tracks. The profits from the vinyl and digital music streams of the project and the money raised from a Go Fund Me fundraising page, will be used to help construct a library for the villagers, that will provide them with the infrastructure to help further their culture and storytelling for years to come.
Kelenkye Band - Moving World Remastered Edition
Kelenkye Band
Moving World Remastered Edition
LP | 1974 | EU | Reissue (Everland)
23,99 €*
Release: 1974 / EU – Reissue
Genre: Organic Grooves
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In 1974, a brash young designer called Augustus Kerry Taylor had an idea. He'd gather together the hottest musicians in Ghana and record an album of the heaviest and funkiest sounds coming out of America. And this time, he wouldn't just design the cover, like he'd done with Fela Kuti, he'd even release it on his new label, Emporium, as well. Local Accra legends Joe Wellington, Jagger Botchway, Leslie Addy, Officer Toro, Oko Ringo, Soldier and Steve answered the call. They were christened the Kelenkye Band and gelled immediately. Moving World, is a funky, disparate album that exudes a rare warmth, enthusiasm and togetherness. 'Moving World' and 'Brotherhood of Man' are hard, grinding funk. 'Jungle Music' has a more soulful groove. There's also a bit of reggae, 'Dracula Dance', and old-skool highlife, 'Wale Tobite'. Accra's leading DJ, Charlie Sam, declared his mind 'well and truly boggled.' The Kelenkye Band never recorded another album. Augustus Kerry Taylor shut down Emporium and went back to designing album covers. But in Moving World they delivered a perfect moment of funk alchemy that has rightly become the Holy Grail of 70's Ghanian groove. - Peter Moore, www.africanrevolutions.com / Licensed by the bandleaders and songwriters of the album, Joe Wellington and Jagger Botchway.
Helen Nkume & Here Young Timers Band - Helen Nkune & Here Young Timers Band
Helen Nkume & Here Young Timers Band
Helen Nkune & Here Young Timers Band
LP | 1978 | UK | Reissue (Dig This Way)
23,99 €*
Release: 1978 / UK – Reissue
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Gaisha - Ana Aïcha
Gaisha
Ana Aïcha
LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Zephyrus)
23,99 €*
Release: 2023 / EU – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Moonrakers Band - Moonrakers Band Black Vinyl Edition
Moonrakers Band
Moonrakers Band Black Vinyl Edition
LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Afrodelic)
23,99 €*
Release: 2023 / EU – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie
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Black Children Sledge Funk Band - Black Children Black Vinyl Edition
Black Children Sledge Funk Band
Black Children Black Vinyl Edition
LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Afrodelic)
23,99 €*
Release: 2023 / EU – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Kio Amachree - Ivory HHV Exclusive Red Vinyl Edtion
Kio Amachree
Ivory HHV Exclusive Red Vinyl Edtion
LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Mondo Groove)
23,99 €*
Release: 2023 / EU – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Limited to 100 copies, worldwide, exclusively available at HHV and through the Label webshop.

The killer 1981’s Nigerian funk boogie disco and reggae by Kio Amachree repressed for the first time.
Kio Amachree - Ivory Black Vinyl Edition
Kio Amachree
Ivory Black Vinyl Edition
LP | 1981 | EU | Reissue (Mondo Groove)
23,99 €*
Release: 1981 / EU – Reissue
Genre: Organic Grooves
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The killer 1981’s Nigerian funk boogie disco and reggae by Kio Amachree repressed for the first time.
Sundub - Spirits Eat Music
Sundub
Spirits Eat Music
LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Easy Star)
23,99 €*
Release: 2023 / EU – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Starlight - Starlight
Starlight
Starlight
LP | 1983 | EU | Reissue (Afrosynth)
23,99 €*
Release: 1983 / EU – Reissue
Genre: Organic Grooves
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South African production duo of Emil Zoghby and John Galanakis were responsible for a string of high-quality disco singles in the early 80s, typically cover versions of international hits — Klein & MBO’s ‘The Big Apple’, Sly & the Family Stone’s ‘Family Affair’ & David Joseph’s ‘You Can’t Hide (Your Love From Me)’ — backed with their own compositions. When Starlight hit the market with an album in 1983, it featured only one cover, the local hit ‘Picnic’, along with five of the duo’s original compositions, including their similarly styled response, ‘Picnicing’, which replaces the original’s sax with spaced-out synth stabs. Then there’s ‘Jah Jah Love’, an ecstatic disco sermon of dancefloor dynamite weighing in at over eight and a half minutes. Other tracks on this landmark album — ‘Let’s Go Dancing (Boogie Boogie)’, ‘Keep On Moving’ and an eponymous instrumental — offer a similar fusion of classic disco with newer Italo and proto-house influences: machine music with a human touch! Remastered from the original master tapes and reissued for the first time, Starlight will be available on vinyl and digital platforms from early 2023 (40 years after its initial release) via Afrosynth Records.
Ailbhe Reddy - Endless Affair
Ailbhe Reddy
Endless Affair
LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Mnrk)
23,99 €*
Release: 2023 / EU – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Sunny War - Anarchist Gospel
Sunny War
Anarchist Gospel
LP | 2023 | US | Original (New West)
23,99 €*
Release: 2023 / US – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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