Author: hipodrome
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[Music] VA – Pop Makossa: The Invasive Dance Beat Of Cameroon 1976-1984
Now Analog Africa returns to put the record straight. Pop-Makossa shines a light on a glorious but largely overlooked period in the story of Cameroonian makossa, when local musicians began to replace funk and highlife influences with the rubbery bass of classic disco and the sparkling synth flourishes and drum machines of electrofunk.
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![[Music] Abstract Orchestra – Dilla](https://thechocolatesoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/dilla.jpg?w=700)
[Music] Abstract Orchestra – Dilla
“Dilla” by Abstract Orchestra has been generating a buzz since it’s inception in 2016 and subsequent UK tour, during which the album was presented to the public in its live form.
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![[Documentary] Dream Images](https://thechocolatesoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/rosca1.jpg?w=797)
[Documentary] Dream Images
Rodion Ladislau Roșca is one of the most gifted musicians of the ’70s, whose pioneering experiments in electronic music were lost and found again after nearly 30 years. Clandestine and underappreciated during the communist dictatorship years and devastated by his mother’s death at the end of the ’80, Rodion withdraws from the city, while remaining…
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[Music] Potter & Tillman – …Space…Rapture
Even by the notoriously stargazing standards of early ’80s jazz funk, Potter & Tillman’s sought-after 1982 album Space Rapture is particularly intergalactic.
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![[Sibiu] Horse-riding on the Avrig Valley](https://thechocolatesoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/img_7926.jpg?w=1024)
[Sibiu] Horse-riding on the Avrig Valley
Horse-riding is not necessarily a very common activity in Sibiu or even in Romania. There are people who are passionate about horses and horse-riding, there are some well known stud farms, but sometimes people are reluctant to try this sport.
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[Music] Joao Donato & Seu Trio – Muito A Vontade
Go! Bop! made a reissue of Joao Donato & Seu Trio’s Muito À Vontade, originally released in 1962.
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![[Romania] Short visit in Sighișoara](https://thechocolatesoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/img_2296.jpg?w=1024)
[Romania] Short visit in Sighișoara
We’ve been to Sighişoara before, but not in the recent years. This summer we had a weekend there due to a wedding and we took the time to walk around in Sighişoara’s medieval old town as much as the rain allowed us to. We were pleasantly surprised to find a clean and renovated Sighişoara, with…
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[Music] Riz Ortolani – Si Puo’ Essere Piu’ Bastardi Dell’ispettore Cliff?
Previously unreleased full edition for this explosive jazz-funk score by Italian Maestro Riz Ortolani, created in 1973 for the crime-movie Si può essere più bastardi dell’ispettore Cliff’ (also known as Mafia Junction’).
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[Film] Fault Condition
Melania, a 15 years old high school student gets pregnant with Emi, a classmate. Melania does not tell anyone she’s pregnant, not even to Emi, or to her parents.
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[Music] Fontän – Fontän
There are many ways for a band or an artist to compile an album: some make it in a week and some let the process go on longer.
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![[Romania] 1st of May vacation in the Transylvanian Villages](https://thechocolatesoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/img_0535.jpg?w=1024)
[Romania] 1st of May vacation in the Transylvanian Villages
May is definitely the perfect month to spend as much time as possible outdoors in Romania. It’s warm enough to start thinking that summer is finally coming, everything’s turned green already, there’s more daylight, so everything makes you just want to leave the city and enjoy nature. That’s why our extended 1st of May weekend…
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[Music] Pasteur Lappe – Na Man Pass Man
Africa Seven Records re-visit Pasteur Lappe with a repress of his second album from 1979, “Na Man Pass Man”.
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