Category: Music
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[Music] Pantsula! The Rise Of Electronic Dance Music In South Africa, 1988-90
Late 80s South African dance floor winners only. Selected by DJ Okapi and Antal, the compilation holds tracks by Jivaro, The Hard Workers, Ayobayo Band, S.Y.B. & many more.
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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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[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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[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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[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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[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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[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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[Music] Shankar Jaikishan – Raga Jazz Style
Never before reissued, this legendary 1968 EMI recording is a revered Indian jazz rarity; a collectors’ holy grail. Raga Jazz Style is an original Indian excursion into Indo-jazz fusion. A one-away recording from the almost unknown Bombay jazz scene, it is among the few jazz LPs to hail from the subcontinent.
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[Music] East Wall – Silence
East Wall was an Italian electronic dark wave band started by Fabrizio Chiari (ex keyboardist of Kirlian Camera) and Wilma Notari in 1982.
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[Music] A Tribe Called Quest – We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
The general consensus is that “We Got It From Here, Thank You 4 Your Service”, A Tribe Called Quest’s sixth and final album, is something of a triumph, with many critics hailing it as the best full-length of 2016.
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