Psychadelic Afro-Rock & Fuzz Funk In 1970s Nigeria.

Ginger Baker first visited Nigeria in 1970 at a time when local rock music was just finding its feet. By then the sound of Jimi Hendrix & bands like Santana had started to seep in to the mainly soul-based sets of a handful of young bands playing western influenced pop. Recognising the talent of bands like Cluster International and The Afro-Collection, Baker toured Europe & America with some of their musicians with his new band Airforce & Salt. Back in Nigeria in 1972 and exposed to the world of progressive and psychedelic rock at its peak, Joni Haastrup started his Mono-Mono band & Berkley Jones, Laolo Akins & Mike Odumosu set up BLO. The craze that followed hit the youth and student population of Nigeria hard – mixing fuzz guitar & heavy, African rhythms with elements of Led Zeppelin, Traffic & the Chambers Brothers. 15 of the best LP and 45 cuts of the scene are available here for the first time in 30 years.

Underground 70's Disco Funk from Lagos Nigeria. Big Up Soundway!

The Funk & Disco Capital of West Africa from 1974-79. More nightclubs, bars, spots and dance-floors than any place along the coast from Dakar all the way to Kinshasa. The only 24 track recording studio in the same stretch with more DJs & imported American LPs and 45s than any of it’s neighbours.
Soundway presents 9 slabs of rhythm from a time when Saturday and Sunday nights in Lagos City were for looking good and going out. All of them vital musical feathers in the Lagos DJ bow alongside the latest Brass Construction, BT Express & James Brown imports that were hot off the plane.

Les DJ réunionnais de La Basse Tropicale (déjà auteurs, pour Strut, des compilations Soul Sok Séga ou encore Oté Maloya) ont compilé les plus précieux sons soul, soukous et salegy (un style de danse locale au tempo rapide) du pays africain anciennement rattaché à l’État français, indépendant depuis 1960.

Sur Alefa Madagascar. Salegy, Soukous & Soul from the Red Island 1974-1984, on passe du folk politique de Mahaleo (« Izahay Mpamita » raconte les protestations sociales des agriculteurs et des étudiants de 1972) aux ambiances martiales de Los Matadores, en passant par Roger Georges ou Jean Kely & Basth qui se font les portes-paroles du très brute son salegy, popularisé dans le monde entier par le musicien Eusèbe Jaojoby. Sur cette compilation, on trouve aussi « Ody Ody », un morceau du dénommé Saka Dit The King, rock vitaminé et rythmé que l'on vous propose de découvrir, avant la sortie de la compilation le 6 septembre, en grande exclusivité. Par Bastien Stisi - Nova

Et voici le Volume 2 de la série Ivory Coast Soul.

Afro-beat to Afro funk, Soul, Soukous & Latin rhythms, all mostly recorded in Abidjan from 1976 to 1981.

Afro Funk & Soul Fusion scene recorded in Abidjan between 1972 to 1982.

Compiled by Djamel Hammadi for Hot Casa Records. Rare & Afro Funky Masterpiece.

EMI Records Funk, Samba Soul & Bossa Groove entre 1965 & 1977

A Selection of Songs to represent Arabic Musical History of the 1970s and 1980s.

Merci à Habibi Funk pour ces pépites so FunkyGrooves!

Habibi Funk is dedicated to re-releasing a style of music that historically never existed as a musical genre. We use the term to describe a certain sound that we like from the countries of the Arab world. The songs we chose were created in places quite far from another and under very different circumstances. Some were written and recorded during war times, others in exile. Despite the differences we think there is a musical connection between them. Essentially, we are interested in the musical endeavors, in which artists from the Arab world mixed local and regional influences with musical interests that came from outside of the region. Even though the name suggests it’s all about funk music, our focus is more than just that. Often these influences might be inspired from Western popular music such as soul, pop and rock but it’s not limited to that either. Some of our favorite records are best described as Arabic zouk (a genre originating from the Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe) like Mallek Mohamed’s music, Algerian coladera (a popular musical style from the Cape Verdean islands) or Lebanese AOR, which means the process of musical influences displayed on this compilation was much more versatile than just taking Western music as a blueprint and translating it with a local accent. The compilation features 15 different artists. Some you might already know thru Habibi Funk’s releases like Fadoul, Ahmed Malek, Dalton or Al Massrieen, while others are meant as an introduction to artists like Kamal Keila, Sharhabeel Ahmed, Attarazat Addahabia & Mallek Mohamed who will all release full length albums on Habibi Funk in 2018.

"Europe's number one Afro Cuban Jazz group Snowboy And The Latin Section...

This Afro Cuban Jazz album covers the Cuban styles of Mambo, Salsa, Palo, Descarga and Mozambique, making this the bands most versatile album to date." Freestyle Records Website.

UNE TUERIE !

Here we are on the Volume 3! The unique Mix of Tropical Music from Panama. Great Pleasure.

Para Gozar.

Et voici le Volume 2. A déguster avec un vieux Ron Abuelo. La Murga de Panama y Tropical Pusation!

Es Para Ti

Premier Volume d'une série consacrée au Panama. Selected by Miles Cleret from Soundway Records.

Tropical Groove en Fusion.

Psychedelic Afro-Beat, Latin, Hip-Hop, Soundtrack Music, Funky Beat...

Killah Soundz!

Ocote Soul Sounds is Martin Pena (Antibalas) & Adrian Quesada (Grupo Fantasma, Brownout) and their extended musical family spanning from Austin to New York to Washington DC to Sao Paulo.

Check It Out Now!

Ocote Soul Sounds & Adrian Quesada :

El Niño Y El Sol (Aire Sol Records/ Eighteenth Street Loung Music, 2004)

The Alchemist Manifesto (Eighteenth Street Loung Music, 2008)

Coconut Rock (Eighteenth Street Loung Music, 2009)

Ocote Soul Sounds :

Taurus (Eighteenth Street Loung Music, 2011)

Latin Soul & Boogaloo From Nueva York.

The group was formed in 2011 by singer/producer Ray Lugo previously known for leading the Kokolo Afrobeat Orchestra.

2 Lps released on London's Freestyle Records. Big Up! 

Spoken Word & Dub Poetry by The Legendary Harlem Trio. Produced by Prince Fatty.

Roots, Rock, Reggae. Une réussite.

"The Last Poets fête ses 50 ans avec un nouveau brûlot militant sur les rythmes reggae de Prince Fatty. Né dans le parc Marcus Garvey d'East Harlem, le 19 mai 1968, en pleine ère Black Power et après l'assassinat de Martin Luther King, The Last Poets  est devenu un groupe phare de l'époque avec sa poésie urbaine déclamée sur des percussions africaines. Inspiré par le free jazz, la soul et la politique de la fierté noire, le groupe, à l'instar de Gil Scott Heron, a influencé la planète hip hop (Notorious B.I.G., NWA, A Tribe Called Quest, Dr. Dre…) et continue de rayonner sur la culture urbaine avec ses slam politiquement explosifs dans une Amérique sous tension depuis l'élection de Donald Trump. Les auteurs des fameux When the Revolution Comes  ou Niggers Are Scared of Revolution  reviennent après un long silence de 20 ans et publient l'album Understand What Black Is. Les pionniers du rap ont aujourd'hui un flow plus posé, mais leurs textes rageurs n'ont en revanche rien perdu de leur intensité. Chacun y va de sa litanie en parlant de ses propres expériences de l'oppression et développant une soif fervente voire révolutionnaire de changement social. Les textes claquent sur les riddims reggae et dub de Prince Fatty auquels vient s'ajouter un groove digne des meilleures productions rocksteady et de blaxploitation apportées par le magicien de Nostalgia 77  Ben Lamdin. L'album, qui sort sur le label Studio Rockers, sera également accompagné d'un single accompagnant les remixes de la chanson titre "Understand What Black Is" de Mala (collectif du sud de Londres Digital Mystikz) et des innovateurs musicaux de Dance UK Dego et Kaidi." par Guillaume Schnee - FIP

Funky Afro-Cuban Grooves from Areito/Egrem Records compiled by Tom Wieland. Big Up to Freestyle Records.

Press Release :
Right in time for the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution legendary Bavarian DJ & producer Tom Wieland (7 samurai, panOptikum & Les Gammas - Compost Records) is coming on strong with his version of the story. 12 lost rare grooves from the vaults of the Egrem/Areito studios in Havanna get after 5 years of work a proper reissue at last!
Cuba was a late 20th Century anomaly: a communist government that fostered a vibrant, influential, and essential musical output. Cuban sounds resonate and persist in music throughout Latin America, Africa, Europe, and the United States. In the 1960s and 70s, Cuban music played just as big a role in the development of popular music styles in Central and West Africa as anything coming out of the U.S. or Europe.
Tom Wieland, Bavarian music producer & DJ has taken note of the overwhelming response to the funky Cuban tracks he plays in his sets and decided it was time to make some of this elusive music available to everyone, complete with well researched liners and a wealth of background information.
If you're into Cuban music beyond Buena Vista, Arturo Sandoval and Celia Cruz, you'll likely recognize some of these names, Juan Formell y Los Van Van, Orquesta Riverside, Juan Pablo Torres, Irakere but you'll likely scratch your head at some others.
Tom Wielands new compilation "Revolucion!" digs deep to provide a nice mix of straight-ahead funk and psychedelic experimentation, with frequent hints of more traditional sound.
Feliz cumpleanos, Cuba!

Dele Sosimi débute sa carrière au sein d'Egypt 80 puis crée le Positive Force avec Femi Kuti...

Afrobeat Forever. Big Up Wah Wah 45s. 2 Lps Sound Killa!

+ Dele Sosimi Meets Prince Fatty & Nostalgia 77 - You No Fit Touch Am In Dub (2016)

All dubs performed live and mixed by Prince Fatty & Nostalgia 77