Afrobeat Vinyl 955 Items

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Afromagic Volume 1 - Hypnotic Grooves & Ecstatic Moves 1976-1981

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Everland)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | EU | Reissue (Sunday Best)

Dub Pistols

Addict

Release: 2020 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Che Belew (March Forward)

Ayalew Mesfin

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Now-Again)

2LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Glitterbeat)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ayalew Mesfin stands aside the likes of Mulatu Astake, Mahmoud Ahmed, Hailu Mergia and Alemayehu Eshete as a legend of 1970s Ethiopia. Mesfin’s music is some of the funkiest to arise from this unconquerable East African nation. Mesfin’s recording career, captured in nearly two dozen 7” singles and numerous reel-to-reel tapes, shows the strata of the most fertile decade in Ethiopia’s 20th century recording industry, when records were pressed constantly by both independent upstarts and corporate behemoths, even if they were only distributed within the confines of this East African nation. Though Mesfin was forced underground by the Derg regime that took control of Ethiopia in 1974, he has returned almost 50 years later with this triumphant set albums – the first time that his music has been presented in this form. These albums give us a chance to discover a rare and beautiful moment in music history, in anthologies built from Mesfin’s uber-rare 7” single releases and from previously unreleased recordings taken from master tapes. Che Belew gives us a chance to discover a rare & beautiful moment in music history, in an anthology built from his uber-rare 7” single releases.

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Tamikrest

Tamotait

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Shoreza Inyange / Amayaya

Niki Dave & Afro Kids

7" | 2019 | EU | Original (Afro7)

12,99 €*

Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area Band

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Two funky steppers from Niki Dave & Afro Kids! First ever reissue of rare seventies music from Burundi!

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Obiaa!

2LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Strut)

From Nubia To Cairo(Remastered) / The Soul Of Black Egypt

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Strut is proud to announce Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area Band’s sophomore release ‘Obiaa!’, released on 4th October 2019. The album, produced again by Kwame Yeboah and Ben Abarbanel-Wolff at Lovelite Studio’s analogue HQ in Berlin, is a deep and soulful journey into the heart of Ghana’s indigenous highlife music celebrating the timeless and iconic voice of Pat Thomas, the 72 year-old “Golden Voice of Africa”. After producing Ebo Taylor’s seminal albums ‘Love and Death’ and ‘Appia Kwa Bridge’ for Strut Records, in 2014 Ben Abarbanel-Wolff approached Kwame Yeboah, Ghana’s top contemporary instrumentalist and bandleader, to work on a new project: “We initially wanted to invite Pat back into the studio with Ebo Taylor and Tony Allen to recreate and expand on some of the vibes they had recorded together during a lost session in 1977,” Ben explains. Recorded in Accra, the result was the critically acclaimed self-titled debut album ‘Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area Band’ in 2015.
Pat and the Kwashibu Area Band (named after Kwame’s neighbourhood in Accra) hit the road in October 2015. After a memorable performance at WOMEX in Budapest, they never looked back. The next two years took them around the world to play at major venues and festivals including Glastonbury, Roskilde, WOMAD, Sakifo, WOMADelaide, Sines and many more. “We could see there was something for everyone in our music. People of all ages, colours and trends were dancing together!’ explains Kwame, the mastermind behind the band’s unbelievable precision and killer live show.
The new album is called ‘Obiaa!’ which means ‘Everybody!’. Tracks include the modern parables ‘Onfa Nkosi Hwee’ warning against arrogance and ‘Odo Ankasa’ about the value of real love and trust as well as a great new cover of Thomas’ Afro-disco favourite ‘Yamona’. “Playing highlife around the world taught us what we had to do to move our sound forward,” continues Ben. While simultaneously looking back towards the classic days of highlife and forward to a fresh revival of the guitar band sound, this album cements Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area Band’s position at the pinnacle of modern African music.
‘Obiaa!’ is released on all formats on 4th October The album features exclusive cover artwork by Lewis Heriz with photos by Marie Weikopf and Michelle Chiu and is mastered by Édouard Bonan at Ed-Room Studio in Paris.

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Ali Hassan Kuban

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Piranha)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Grant Phabao Afrofunk Arkestra

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Paris DJs)

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Heavenly Sweetness)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Limited edition of 250 copies only!
Only one copy per customer!
Access to groovy, funkin', rockin', psychedelic, revolutionary (etc.) African music as we've grown to like it at Paris DJs was not for everyone before the internet age. For Paris DJs co-founder Loik, it began in the early 80s when he met with a former Fela Kuti horn player, who introduced him to Afrobeat. When Loik arrived at Radio Nova in 1986 (he was radio programmer there between 1987 and 1997), he then discovered marvels of African Music (other than Fela), through the radio's vast record collection, which soon led to the word-famous "La Sono Mondiale" concept.
At the same time, Grant Phabao, in his late teens, discovered Congolese music through friends from Zaire. He gets access to Afrobeat in the mid-90s with a Fela Kuti CD gathering the "Zombie" and "He Miss Road" albums, which long-time friend Djouls brought back from his diggin' sessions in Paris. Many friends ripped and burned that CD, for sure. Then the legendary Daktaris album happened on Desco Records in 1998, followed by the beginning of the Antibalas, the Comet Records & Strut Records compilations in 2000, and soon after Soundway Records… the rest is history but that's roughly how African Music started for us at Paris DJs.
At this point we met online with Calumbinho on the Soulseek P2P network. Such a mind-bending experience… The man was sharing hundreds of full albums, all sorted by country, and had music from every corner of 1960s/70s/80s Africa! We asked for advice, he listed 50 records to begin with! All those records, digital files, influences & experience gathered together gave birth in 2006 to a series of mixes on the Paris DJs podcast, "African Mashed Potato Popcorn", blending old and new African music from all over the world. It was an instant smash, DJs from all over the world reaching out asking us to keep on focusing on this amazing music coming from Africa (or inspired by music from Africa).
Around that time, the Paris DJs crew met with musicians from Antibalas (Martín Perna, Duke Amayo / USA), and from the Poets Of Rhythm/Karl Hector bands (Ben Abarbanel-Wolff, Jan Whitefield / Germany). They had all played with Fela Kuti's guitar player Oghene Kologbo by then. The German guys had even started a band with him, the Afrobeat Academy, releasing an album together in 2007. Little did we know that from this point on, Kologbo and African music would grow to become a very important part of our lives.
We started collaborating with Samy Ben Redjeb from Analog Africa, Miles Cleret from Soundway or Quantic from Tru Thoughts, among many others very influential record collectors, for some exclusive mixes of rare afro/latin music on the Paris DJs podcast. In 2009 we co-organized the first Ebo Taylor show in Europe, with German musicians from the Afrobeat Academy/Whitefield Brothers/Jimi Tenor crew backing him along with Kologbo. Soon we helped open the Superfly Record Store and got our hands (and ears) on many rare, original African Records. Loik started recording Kologbo's second solo album "Africa Is The Future" (featuring Tony Allen and Pat Thomas!), Grant Phabao was producing his first afrofunk tunes, and all this new music was damn funky…
Phabao went on a trip to Benin and Ghana, where he ended up hooking up with Ben Abarbanel-Wolff, who was recording with Ebo Taylor and Pat Thomas there. After a two-year period during which Grant Phabao and Djouls partnered with famous Irish-born, Paris-based producer Doctor L, and released with Cameroonian artist Franck Biyong no less than 16 digital albums and conceptual compilations, the Paris DJs label was born in 2012, with the addition of poster artist Ben Hito to the gang.
Five compilations in the "Tropical Grooves & Afrofunk International" series were released, with artists from all over the world, featuring the first tracks from the Grant Phabao Afrofunk Arkestra project, with Grant Phabao at the controls and many guests from the now global African music scene adding their own, original touch. Most of those were compiled in the "Massive Hits From the Grant Phabao Factory" LP in 2015.
It was a long read, many years of learning and sharing back, but we wanted to tell how African music slowly but surely infiltrated its way into Paris DJs' daily life, which led to the Kologbo LP being released at the end of 2017, and to this Grant Phabao Afrofunk LP to be released june 2018, featuring 20 guests among which Tony Allen, Oghene Kologbo, Sandra Nkaké, RacecaR, members of Antibalas, The Breakestra, Brownout, Fela Kuti's Egypt 80, Jungle Fire, Les Frères Smith, Ebo Taylor's Afrobeat Academy, Osemako… coming from Paris, Berlin, Lagos, Washington, Austin or Los Angeles!

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Edmony Krater

An Ka Sonjé

LP | 2014 | US | Reissue (Now-Again)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Following the reissue of his cult album “Ti jan pou vélo”, Heavenly Sweetness decided to continue the collaboration with Edmony Krater and record a new album! The first one in 30 years! As an avant-gardist percussionist, singer and trumpet player, Edmony Krater has always worked to develop and promote the Gwoka music of Guadeloupe and to feed it with different influences, from Jazz to Reggae.

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Ngozi Family

Day Of Judgment

LP+CD | 2013 | EU | Original (Glitterbeat)

Release: 2014 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2023 repress
Proto-punk and garage Zamrock: the celebrated guitarist Paul Ngozi’s essential debut album. Featuring Chrissy Zebby Tembo.

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Tamikrest

Chatma

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Smithsonian Folkways)

Release: 2013 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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180g vinyl!

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Matmos

Return To Archive

32,99 €*

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Afromagic Volume 2 - Hypnotic Grooves & Ecstatic Moves Deep Dancefloor Jams Of African Disco, Funk, Boogie, Reggae & Proto Electro Music 1977-1986

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Everland)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (BBE Africa)

Remi Kabaka

Roots Funkadelia

35,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Blue Pearls)

Feven Yoseph

Gize Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Rough Guide To Capoeira

Diverse

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (World Music Network)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Mari Boine & Bugge Wesseltoft

Gula Gula - H¢R Stamm¢Drenes Stemme

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (By Norse Music)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Nyege Nyege Tapes)

Titi Bakorta

Molende

L'orchestre National Mauritanien

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Titi Bakorta almost didn't make it. Born in and raised in: Kinshasa, the Congolese multi instrumentalist was on his way to Uganda when he fell of the boat as it traversed the Format: mighty Congo River. Unable to swim, Bakorta was saved by a friend who dragged him to the closest city Kisangani, where he was unexpectedly acquainted with local singer Dancer Papalas. Soon they were performing in bands together, traveling across the continents and settling in Tanzania, South Sudan and Dubai o they even appeared in front of General Defao, the beloved Congolese vocalist who fronted legendary soukous bands Grand Zaiko Wawa, Choc Stars and Big Stars. Now based in Kampala, Bakorta offers his own unique take on Congolese pop and folk sounds, weaving traditional elements through a psychedelic lattice of guitar loops, mangled voices and eccentric beatbox rhythms on his debut full-length. He bends woodblock snaps on 'Kop' into stuttered blurs, wailing emotionally over twanging riffs and bizarre, theatrical xylophone twinkles. It's still pop music on some level, but curved around Bakorta's unwieldy personal narrative - there's a sense that everything could unravel at any time but it all hangs together, strengthened by Bakorta's confident, contemporary production smarts. 'Elles Vais' is more airy, with celestial soukous vocals that float above tight, electronic drums. Tangled guitar echoes overlap each other like dense, weaved tapestries, contrasting perfectly with Bakorta's urgent, driving pulse. Occasionally, he transcends completely, like on 'Molende' where his chants and phrases neatly flutter between praise music and contemporary R8B. "Hustling, hustling, hustling, everyday I'm hustling," an angelic voice coos over phased electric guitar plucks and looped, AutoTuned chorals.It makes perfect sense that Bakorta should team up with 7 Metal Preyers' Jesse Hackett on the album's final track, the aptly-titled 'Titis Haunted House'. The two artists share a similar obsession with moonlit, carnivalesque soundscapes, and...

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Ahl Nana

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Radio Martiko)

34,99 €*

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (World Circuit)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Lost recordings that defined the modern sound of the Sahara.

This album contains the first recordings of modern music from the Sahara and mark the birth of the genre that is known in the West as ‘Desert Blues’ or ‘Desert Rock’. Ahl Nana changed the folk music of the Sahara to modern, cosmopolitan music by using Western instruments like the electric guitar. They paved the way for artists like Ali Farka Touré, Tinariwen, Mdou Moctar or Bombino. Although the group is still active today, they only recorded 2 LPs and a handful of singles. All these recordings took place in 1971 at the Boussiphone studios in Casablanca. The records were never distributed and therefore remained unknown for almost 50 years, until Radio Martiko discovered a batch of unsold factory stock a few years ago. On this album, you will find a selection of these revolutionary recordings.

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Cheikh Lo

Ne La Thiass

12" | 2022 | DE | Original (Analog Africa)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Limited edition for Record Store Day 2018!

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Ernesto DJedje

Roi Du Ziglibithy

Release: 2022 / DE – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A Guide To Afrokraut III Limited Edition

David Nesselhauf

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Legere)

On -The Sound Of On Records 1987-1989 Part II

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Dritter Teil und Abschluss der »Afrokraut«-Trilogie des Hamburger Musikers und Songwriters als Vinyl-LP auf Legere Recordings.

Als Bassist glänzt David Nesselhauf bei hochkarätigen Hamburger Groove-Institutionen wie Diazpora, den Hamburg Spinners oder The Angels Of Libra. Mit »Afrokraut« (2016) und »Afrokraut II - The Lowbrow Manifesto« (2018) widmete sich das Multitalent dem kurzen Abschnitt der Musikgeschichte in dem Krautrock-Acts wie Can die funkigen Afrobetas entdeckten. Experimentierfreudigkeit war entscheidend für den immersiven Produktionsprozess dieses Albums, das sowohl Elemente aus Funk, Afrobeat und Krautrock als auch spacige Drones, frühe Elektronische Musik und Field Recordings umfasst. Inspiriert von dem unvollendeten Manuskript »History Deletes Itself« des verstorbenen Science-Fiction-Autors Joseph Sabiers beschloss Nesselhauf, eine Art B-Movie-Soundtrack zur Originalhandlung zu produzieren. Diese zwölf Tracks des Studioprojekts strotzen vor ungezähmter Entdeckungslust, kreativer Energie und herausragender Qualität und Originalität!

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Mafika

12" | 2019 | EU | Original (Egoli)

17,99 €*

Township Jive & Kwela Jazz Volume 2

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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The late 1980s in the rainbow nation was a time when disco was mutating into what was becoming known as Bubblegum: pop music aimed at the black population of South Africa.
Bubblegum was a response to Western styles like disco and the fast spreading house music which originally came from the black ghettos of Chicago and New York. When the second Summer of Love took over the UK in 1988, first house, and other electronic music styles conquered South Africa as well. DIY - do it yourself - a motto that had already appeared in the punk movement, lifted the young local scene to the next level. With a minimal set up - keyboards, some drum machines and samplers it was suddenly possible to make music without having to rent expensive studios.
1 of 3 12" in a compilation of tracks from The ON label which was active in South Africa between 1987-1992, an era following the end of the apartheid regime and defining the new sound of Young Black South Africa in the early 90s

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Various

LP | 2013 | EU | Original (Ubuntu Publishing)

LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Jalapeno)

Release: 2013 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Soul Safari presents volume Two of the Township Jive & Kwela Jazz compilation, featuring 18 rare gems from South Africa, recorded between 1930 and 1962. All titles on this compilation have been carefully handpicked from the ILAM Archives (the International Library of African Music), in Grahamstown, South Africa.

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Sam Redmore

Universal Vibrations

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Medium: Mint, Cover: Sealed

12" | 2023 | UK | Original (Soundway)

Pigeon

Backslider

De Lucia,Pepe&De Lucía,Paco

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Medium: Sealed, Cover: Sealed

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Pepito Y Paquito

2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (BMG Rights Management)

34,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Bibi Tanga & The Selenites

The Same Tree

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Inlassable)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Blanc Manioc & Furie Sound System

Anono Tapes

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Blancmanioc)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2024 | Original (Ternaire)

Oum Dakchi

Live In Marrakech

40,99 €*

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Mooncrest)

Jackson C. Frank

Mystery

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Easy Star)

Loving Paupers

Ladders

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo

Afro Funk

LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Pias/Acid Jazz)

Alogte Oho & His Sounds Of Joy

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The latest instalment from Acid Jazz’s Albarika Store series, ‘Afro Funk’ compiles the very best of the legendary T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo’s funk cuts.

Formed in 1968 by leader Clément Mélomé, T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo became the leading group in Benin and the cornerstone of the Albarika Store label and legacy.

This collection brings together highlights from their extensive career, including tracks as ‘Gbeti Ma Djro’, ‘Segla’ and the collectable ‘It’s A Vanity’: wall-to-wall some of the finest Afro-Funk ever made.

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Doose Mam / Gure Yose Me

7" | 2021 | EU | Original (Philophon)

12,99 €*

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Out Here)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Alogte Oho & His Sounds of Joy are back with a new single release after their album debut "Mam Yinne Wa", which can be seen as a harbinger of the second album. You can hear another Frafra Gospel masterpiece by the king of this genre.

"Doose Mam" is a soulful piece that goes straight to the limbs with its repetitive rhythm. The jubilant middle section, in which the wind instruments and the choir pass the balls to each other, is to be emphasized. "Gure Yose Me" ties in with the Frafra Gospel tradition of making use of reggae rhythms. Here we hear a stepper played by Josie Coppola, Europe's No.1 reaggae drummer. Both pieces were produced both in Berlin and in Kumasi by Max Weissenfeldt in Philophon's in-house Joy Sound Studios.

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Santrofi

Alewa

T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Even without an album out: they have already set the world on fire freaking out audiences all over Europe on their 2019 summer festival tour including Sines in Portugal, WOMAD in UK, Roskilde and WOMEX in Tampere. This young allstar band from Ghana brims with gifted musicians and energy on stage. The 8 piece collective is made up of a young generation of awarded musicians who have backed anyone in Ghana from Azonto sensation Sarkodie to Nigerian superstar 2 Face Idibia, but their passion isn't local pop but Highlife. And their mission is to bring it back; not only to the world but also to Ghana, where the young generation has forgotten all about this great music.Santrofi's debut album Alewa now brings you a new wave of fresh highlife rooted in the past with a knowledge of the future directly from the streets of Accra. Santrofi was founded by bassist and producer Emmanuel Ofori who rose from the source having played with Ebo Taylor, Pat Thomas and Kwashibu Area Band and has now formed his own band collective: Santrofi. The 8 musicians are deeply rooted in vintage Ghanaian highlife music in all its forms. The influences range from the riveting fast-paced pulse of 70s dance-guitar highlife, or the other-worldly sound of Highlife funk to the polyrhythmic beats and melodies that took Afrobeat across the globe. The members have toured the world with legends like Ebo Taylor, Pat Thomas, Gyedu Blay Ambolley, Osibisa, George Darko and many, many others. They have learnt from the masters and are now ready to take highlife into the future.

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The Skeletal Essences Of Afro Funk 1969-1980

2LP | 2013 | DE | Original (Analog Africa)

39,99 €*

LP | 2022 | DE | Original (Analog Africa)

Release: 2013 / DE – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

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The Movers

1970-1976

Release: 2022 / DE – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Medium: Sealed, Cover: Sealed

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African Scream Contest Volume 2

2LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Analog Africa)

54,99 €*

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Piranha)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

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Sabri Brothers

Jami (Remastered)

Meets Kelly Ranks At Channel One

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Devoting an album entirely to the Persian poetry of Jami, aluminary of the Sufi tradition, was one of Haji Ghulam Farid Sabri"s cherished ambitions for a long time. This dream came true for the Qawwali icon when he visited Berlin in July 1991 at the invitation of the Heimatklänge ("Home Soundsfrom Home Planet Earth") festival, accompanied by his 14-year-old son Amjad. After Ghulam Sabri"s untimely death on the 5th of April 1994, Amjad Sabri became his musical successor, thereby passing on the Sufi Qawwali mastership of the Sabri family to the next generation. This all came to an end when Amjad was murdered for his Sufi beliefs in the streets of Karachi on the 22nd of June 2016. Thus, Jami is not only a memorial to the Sufi Muslim tradition and the Persian poet but also to Ghulam Farid Sabri and Amjad Sabri. It remains their only record in Farsi.

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Michael Palmer

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Burning Sounds)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Real World)

Onipa

Off The Grid

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | US | Original (Sahel Sounds)

Namian Sidibé

12" | 2020 | UK | Original (On The Corner)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Another side of modern Malian praise songs: an intimate, stripped down, acoustic session from Namian Sidibé. From arising generation of young Malian divas leveraging socialmedia, Namian has built a following, publishing videos anddedications in song, accompanied by her cousin Jules Diabatéon acoustic guitar. Recorded at her home, with powerful yet restrained vocals that drift over melancholy acoustic guitar, Namian explores epic generational songs and poetry, broughtinto the TikTok age.

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Dngdngdng

Dengue Dengue Dengue

12,99 €*

K.O.G. & The Zongo Brigade

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Dngdngdng is Dengue Dengue Dengue's new alias for this release of extra sensory perception. The duo have projected rhythmic visions of lost continents, unknown worlds and the unseeable past and future that is present all around us. By channeling rhythmic patterns from the matrix they're able to translate the waves of radiation around us which originated at the cosmic event which created the universe. Dngdngdng reach deep into their sonic imagination to draw from interlocking time signatures and variant tempos. From the cosmic interference and mathematics Dngdngdng create a polyrhythmic theme that brings the sound of continents lost and imagined to our ears. Dengue Dengue Dengue have established themselves as one of the most pioneering artists on the leftfield electronic scene in recent years with heavyweight support by the likes of Boiler Room, Resident Advisor and Bandcamp weekly.

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Wahala Wahala

2LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Pura Vida Sounds)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Joy Colored Vinyl Edition

The Joy

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Transgressive)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Azerbaijani Gitara, Volume 2

Rahman Mammadli

LP | 2024 | CH | Original (Les Disques Bongo Joe)

LP | 2024 | JP | Original (Toyokasei)

Release: 2024 / CH – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Introducing "Azerbaijani Gitara vol. 2" by Rahman Mammadli, the eagerly awaited sequel to Bongo Joe"s acclaimed debut featuring Rüstam Quliyev. Born from the vibrant streets of Baku, Azerbaijani gitara culture has evolved into a mesmerizing fusion of indigenous traditions and global influences. From the oil boom era to Soviet rule, musicians have embraced the electric guitar as a symbol of cultural expression.Rahman Mammadli, a legend in his own right, revolutionized the sound with his innovative techniques and impassioned performances. Drawing inspiration from mugham music, Mammadli"s compositions resonate with soul-stirring melodies and electrifying solos.

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Thiiird Place

This Is Thiiird Place

42,99 €*

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Jammin' Colors)

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Thiiird Place, a 13-piece Afro-soul jazz band with a borderless ageless identity and sincere message, is releasing the first full-length album "This is Thiiird Place," a major masterpiece! The long-awaited first album by Thiiird Place, a band with a sound based on Afro-soul Latin jazz and a pop, euphoric and message for all. The album features a rich variety of nine songs, including the first single "Shoes," the Caribbean-Cuban flavored "Ears," the energetic R&B/soul number "Sorekara Dousuru" and the Pat Metheny cover "Last Train Home," which is well-known in live performances but not yet available on digital streaming.

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Black Lives

People Of Earth

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2013 | Reissue (Lionboy)

Lissie

Back To Forever

Release: 2013 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2015 | EU | Reissue (Secret)

Dillinger Verses Trinity

Clash

Release: 2015 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Alogte Oho & His Sounds Of Joy

O Yinne!

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Philophon)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | Original (Zouk (Heavenly Sweetness))

Kassav'

Yelele Reissue

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Ajabu!)

Dorea

Grande Coisa

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Asmaa Hamazaoui / Bnat Timbouktou

L'bnat

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Ajabu!)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | Original (The New)

Baba Yaga

Grenzenlos

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | Original (Want Some)

The Mighty Cavaliers

Mapendo

33,99 €*

Muddy Waters: The Montreux Years

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Mapendo album of the Mighty Cavaliers, up to today, has been shrouded in mystery. If you look at the original cover of this very rare Kenyan funk-infused album all you will find are the names of the engineer and the producer, as EMI Kenya omitted the names of the musicians and the songwriters. Digging deeper a rather sinister story of deceit develops whereby Mapendo becomes symbolic for all what was wrong about the Kenyan record industry in the 1970s, and the music industry in Africa as a whole. As this maltreatment of artists proved endemic throughout the continent, although little talked about.

One of the three surviving members of the Mighty Cavaliers, bass player Bonnie Wanda - who started his career in 1971 with Gloria Africana - vividly remembers participating in the recording of the two albums the band made in 1976 and 1977 - Fisherman and Mapendo - and how they, especially on the last album, got short-changed by shrewd record label executives. In the 1960s it was mostly Indian and European record bosses that called the shots and usually gave musicians the chance of a one-off payment for their session time and recorded songs or wait for - hopefully - a generous royalty check. In most cases records didn't sell more than a thousand copies with an occasional hit selling in the tens of thousands, so musicians were reluctant to register themselves with the Music Copyright Society of Kenya. Although without doing so one couldn't receive royalties.

'For two years the Mighty Cavaliers performed five nights a week at the Starlight Club for five hour sets.

The re-release of Mapendo, the first of the German Want Some Records label, is another exciting puzzle piece in the tapestry of groovy Kenyan music. It proves that there are still great gems out there to be re-discovered for audiences worldwide.

Text written by Michiel van Oosterhout

This Album is dedicated to the musicians
Bonnie Wanda, Rashid Salim, Vuli Yeni, Juma Waweru Njuguna and Athmani 'guitar boy'."

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Muddy Waters

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (BMG)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Rebirth On Wax)

Kwamé Fényan Ba

Douvan Douvan

Nothing To Lose Coloured Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Music producer, keyboardist and professional dancer based in France.
Coming from a Senegalese bloodline and growing up in Martinique (West indies), Fényan is deeply rooted in Black music. Epitome of a childhood in the West indies. A Caribbean Tale about Kreyol langage, about legacy and resilience, about turning victimhood into proactivity.
Douvan Douvan can be translated by "avant garde" in Kreyol. It is a story about People growing up and facing themselves, and their elders in order to move forward in their enlightenment.
It is your story

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Hollow Coves

LP | 2024 | Original (Nettwerk)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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10" | 2022 | EU | Original (NTS)

Pamoja V Sisso

Singeli Sound

20,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Discover the essential high tempo Singeli Sound that currently echoes throughout Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. This accompanying release to the mini-documentary on the scene from NTS, focuses on two of the central studios in the scene and their singular takes on Singeli; with Pamoja, helmed by Duke, and the inimitable DJ Sisso

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Black Fire - Soul Love Now: The Black Fire Records Story 1975-1993

2LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Strut)

Night Dreamer Direct To Disc Sessions

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Strut present the first ever compilation bringing together classics and rarities from the seminal spiritual jazz and conscious soul label Black Fire, covering 1975 to 1993. Formed by DJ and record producer Jimmy Gray in Richmond, Virginia, and following in the footsteps of other influential black-owned independent labels like Strata-East and Tribe, the foundation of Black Fire coincided with saxophonist James "Plunky" Branch returning to the city from New York to form Oneness Of Juju. The band's 'African Rhythms' album in 1975 was the perfect fusion of jazz, deep African polyrhythms and empowering lyrics and bassist Muzi Branch, a trained artist, created the first of many Black Fire hand-illustrated sleeves for the label's debut release.

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Seun Kuti & Egypt 80

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Night Dreamer)

7" | 2020 | EU | Original (Music With Soul)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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“It’s a paradox, in a way, like you’d have in a dream – something that’s both light and heavy,” Wayne Shorter muses, speaking to Nat Hentoff for the liner notes of Night Dreamer, his 1964 album and first for Blue Note as a leader.

Night Dreamer takes its name from this album, and retains something of the essence of what he was trying to convey.

Working with Artone Studio, and located above Record Industry pressing plant in Haarlem, Netherlands, Night Dreamer specialises in direct-to-disc recordings – the process by which music is cut onto acetate from single-take live performances, without interference: Neumann microphone to Neumann lathe. From there, it is simply ‘walked downstairs to the pressing plant.

For musicians recording at Artone, the process speaks to Shorter’s paradox. The levity of liberation vs. the weight of expectation; trust in raw musicianship vs. vulnerability of exposure. It is in such alchemical moments of contrast that the essence of expression can emerge.

Every Night Dreamer release is produced using a wide range of vintage mastering and recording equipment assembled and painstakingly restored over seven years. With one of just four remaining RCA 76D mixing desks – the same model used at Sun Studios – alongside Westrex Capitol cutting amps, designed specifically for Capitol studios to record the likes of The Beatles and The Beach Boys, it brings together state-of-the-art, often bespoke gear that has never been bettered.

Shorter captured Night Dreamer in a single day, an art not lost on today’s musicians, who, although afforded a surfeit of choice, are as wedded to the idea of collaboration as those of previous generations. The methods are timeless, and the impulse is as contemporary as ever.

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Bechan & Alex Figueira

Moerarie Morei Atjara

11,99 €*

Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area Band

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Music With Soul returns with another genre-defying instant classic, expanding the limits of the Tropical Dance music universe.
Staying true to the label's essence, founder Alex Figueira places a high bet with this new release, introducing a brand new breed of traditional “Hindoestan” (Indian diaspora in Surinam) music and Cumbia. Taking the music of underground Surinam musician and empresario A. Bechan for an explorative excursion into the depths of the Colombian caribbean coast, this explosive combination raises the bar unquestionably. Equally weird, groovy and trippy, this 45 will turn any party upside down, regardless of any factors. The only problem you will encounter is what to play after. The solution is right on the other side. Just flip the record and give them the Instrumental version, featuring electric guitar, an alternative percussion set up and the beloved classic Juno-60 synthesizer in the leading role for another 4 minutes of dancefloor catharsis.

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2LP+CD | 2015 | EU | Original (Strut)

LP | 2024 | Original (Diamond West)

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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“I’m an afrobeat drummer but Pat Thomas is highlife. That is what he does so well.” -Tony Allen

Coming in June, we are proud to announce the brand new studio album by one of Ghana’s all-time great vocalists, “The Golden Voice Of Africa”, Pat Thomas, in conjunction with the Kwashibu Area Band led by multi-instumentalist Kwame Yeboah (Cat Stevens, Patrice) and saxophonist Ben Abarbanel-Wolff (Ebo Taylor, Poets of Rhythm).

A regular collaborator with Ebo Taylor, Thomas was mainstay of the ‘70s and ‘80s Ghanaian highlife, afrobeat and afro-pop scenes, hitting big with the Ghana Cocoa Board-sponsored Sweet Beans band. Thomas’ new album marks over 50 years making music and reunites him with old friends: Ebo Taylor provides horn arrangements, Tony Allen contributes drums to several tracks, Osei Tutu (Hedzolleh Sounds) plays a memorable trumpet solo and prolific 1970s bassist Ralph Karikari (The Noble Kings) also features. Younger generation stars appearing include bassist Emmanuel Ofori, percussionist “Sunday” Owusu and Pat Thomas’ daughter Nanaaya, an acclaimed vocalist in her own right.

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The Mesmerizers

Far From The West

12" | 2022 | EU | Original (Pura Vida Sounds)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Introducing "The Mesmerizers," a mysterious trio of maestros whose debut 7" record transports you to a bygone era of exotic enchantment. Unearthed from the depths of a forgotten studio and given new life, these captivating compositions beckon you into a timeless realm where the boundaries of sound and imagination blur.Within the sultry grooves of this vinyl treasure, The Mesmerizers weave a spellbinding tapestry of exotica, echoing the seductive rhythms and lush melodies reminiscent of a golden age that refuses to be tethered to any specific moment.

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K.O.G.

Zone 6 Remixed EP

18,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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No Condition Is Permanent

Celestine Ukwu

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Mississippi)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Of the many great talents of the classic Nigerian highlife scene, none contained the existential depth, transcendence and grace of Celestine Ukwu. During his brief time in this world, he pursued education, music, and philosophy; first as a school teacher, then ultimately a singer, lyricist and musician, first as a member of Gentleman Mike Ejeagha's Premier Dance Band, and eventually fronting his own groups, The Music Royals and The Philosophers National. Beginning in the early 1970s, The Philosophers National established a radical shift in the possibilities of Nigerian highlife by moving away from the typical mid-century style and cutting a new path with a distinctly hypnotic and cerebral atmosphere. This sense of depth was apparent in the lilting, multi-layered and pulsing music of The Philosophers National, as well as the concise and clear-eyed lyrics sung so beautifully by Celestine Ukwu. The arrangements establish a living, breathing environment for each song; muted trumpet solos, hypnotic guitar runs, driving percussion; every instrument gracefully following a tide of patience, tranquility, wonder, climax, knowing and unknowing. "Celestine ditched the jaunty dance rhythms and relatively facile lyrics typical of the reigning highlife tunes, and ignoring the soul music tropes most of the highlife bandleaders were appropriating in an effort to inject new life to their ailing format. Instead Celestine concocted a new highlife style that was more contemplative and lumbering; with the layering of Afro-Cuban ostinato basslines and repetitive rhythm patterns that interlocked to create an effect that was hypnotic, virtually transcendental. Meanwhile, Celestine himself sang as he stood coolly onstage in a black turtleneck and a sportscoat, looking like a university professor. The message was clear: this was not necessarily music for dancing_even though the rhythms were compelling enough. This was music for the thinkers." - Uchenna IkonneThis LP compiles some of Celestine Ukwu's deepest and most affecting songs fr...

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Crossroads Kenya: East African Benga And Rumba, 1980-1985

12" | 2022 | UK | Original (No Wahala Sounds)

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Born Bad)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This compilation collects a number of 7" singles produced by Audio Productions Ltd. in Kenya's capital Nairobi in the first half of the 1980s and released on the Wendo, Lulus, Mlima and APL imprints. The bands featured on this release are the New Gatanga Boys, Ruwengo Bros Band, Banana Hill Band and Les Victoria 'C' Kings from Kenya, Les Moto Moto and Orch Les Volcano from Tanzania (the latter being led here by Charles Ray Kasembe after the death of the legendary Mbaraka Mwinshehe). The closing track is by Orch Zaituken Band, whose name is a contraction of the countries its members came from: Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo), Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya. The group is emblematic of the Kenyan capital's role as a magnet for East African musicians seeking to earn a living by recording and playing live in the 1970s and 1980s.

No Wahala Sounds are proud to bring you this latest collection of rare 45s from the golden era of benga and rumba, which have never been released outside Kenya before.

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Cannibale

Not Easy To Cook

18,99 €*

Afrotronic –Orlando Voorn Remixes

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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If Cannibale's members brought their breakfast back up when talking about 'Not Easy To Cook', their listeners would be surprised. There's a world of difference between the beginning of Cannibale's success story and this second album. The most surprising thing about 'Not Easy To Cook' is the sultriness that emerges. It's hard to sum it up other than by comparing these 10 songs with some pressure cooker in which bits of dancehall, London ska and Hawaiian dub would have cooked together. Here's the small miracle achieved by this LP recorded by the band in its remote French village: sounding French, but Polynesian French. A very psychedelic mixture of cumbia, African rhythms and garage music. Or, if you will, a kind of missing link between Fela Kuti, The Doors and The Seeds!

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Eddy De Clercq & Friends

LP | 2022 | NL | Original (Egoli)

Release: 2022 / NL – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Nástio Mosquito

LP | 2024 | Original

21,99 €*

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Box Set #6 Curated By Idris Elba 7

Fela Kuti

7LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Knitting Factory)

114,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Wah Wah 45s)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Box Set #6 is the latest in a series of comprehensive box set reissues of Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti's popular back catalogue. Following previous editions curated by artists such as Chris Martin, Erykah Badu, Ginger Baker, Brian Eno and Questlove, the latest box set in the series has been compiled by actor, producer, DJ, rapper and singer Idris Elba aka Big Driis and features the classics Open & Close (1972), Music of Many Colours (1980), Stalemate (1977), I Go Shout Plenty!!!! (1977), Live in Amsterdam (1983) and Opposite People (1977).

Limited to 5,000 copies, the box set features the artwork of each album faithfully reproduced from the original vinyl pressings, as well as a 24-page booklet with the lyrics, commentary on each album by renowned Afrobeat historian Chris May, previously unpublished photos and an introduction by Elba. All box sets are accompanied by a special 16" x 24" poster designed by Lemi Ghariokwu, the creative force behind many of Fela's groundbreaking album covers.

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Eparapo

Take To The Streets

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Soulforce/Bmg)

255 & Sfr

Phase One

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Over Fields And Mountains White Blossom Vinyl Edition

Branko Mataja

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Numero Group)

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Convoy)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Recalling Ennio Morricone spaghetti westerns, the electrified belly dance music of Omar Khorshid, and '90s bedroom psychedelia at once, the music of Branko Mataja is from its own epoch. Snatched from the streets of Belgrade as a teenager,Mataja spent World War 2 in a German work camp, escaping the insanity of postwar Europe to settle in North Hollywoodto live out the American Dream to its fullest. Crafting handmade music on homemade guitars throughout the 1970s,Mataja taught himself to play in order to pay homage to his ancestral home of Yugoslavia, a place he would never returnto except through these guitar meditations.

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Dub FX

Infinite Reflection

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Zombie Jamboree -Caribbean Rhythm On Shellac Limited Edition

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Doghouse & Bone)

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Zephyrus)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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These obscure shellac 78T have managed to cross about 70years without brakes or sand damages.This fine selection of very rare and never released sides on vinyl are coming right away from Jamaïca in the early 1950"s !

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Gaisha

Ana Aïcha

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Kujua)

Shane Cooper & Mabuta

Finish The Sun

20,99 €*

2LP | 2018 | US | Original (Impulse!)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Finish The Sun, the second offering from Shane Cooper & Mabuta, is a glowing and energetic album, rooted in grooves from all over the African continent. The six-piece outfit draws on influences from Mali, Nigeria, the Sahel, Morocco; and the many sounds that make up their native South Africa. This musical trip seamlessly dances through Afrobeat, maskandi, funk and hip hop, to moments of cinematic beauty. All embedded with subtle hints of 70s psychedelia. The core group of Shane Cooper, Bokani Dyer, Sisonke Xonti, and Robin Fassie invited international guests on drums including: Jamie Peet, Arthur Hnatek, Christopher Cantillo, and more…

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Sons Of Kemet

Your Queen Is A Reptile

40,99 €*

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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12" | 2018 | EU | Original (Jamwax)

T.Z. Junior

Sugar My Love

15,99 €*

2LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Hot Casa)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Thandi Zulu known as T.Z. Junior was a young girl from Soweto. She started her musical career with Peter Moticoe who produced "Love Games" with The Young Five on Heads label in 1984. Then, Peter Moticoe brought her to Phil Hollis at Dephon Entertainment who then teamed them up with Attie Van Wyk who was the producer for Yvonne Chaka Chaka at that time.
Phil Hollis started Dephon Promotion (Dephon Entertainment) in the late 70's and developed into the largest independent record company in South Africa. He describes himself as the only person who has been involved in recording of major hit songs in nearly all genres of music in all the languages in South Africa. Phil Hollis was involved in all aspects of the Entertainment industry from production of recordings, recording company, distribution, marketing and promotion, events management, staging major events and filming.
"Sugar My Love" and "Are You Ready for Love" were produced and arranged by Attie Van Wyk. “Back in the 80's I was a songwriter for a band called Ballyhoo when I got an offer from the Dephon Record Company to join them as a music producer. So I quit the band and joined them, producing records mainly for music targeted at the black market in those days,” he says. Between 1982 and 1992, Attie Van Wyk produced over 120 albums, including many for Yvonne Chaka Chaka.

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Vaudou Game

Otodi

12" | 2015 | US | Reissue (Voodoo Funk)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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No one had been through those doors in years. Unchanged, seemingly untouched, just a Guard watching over it, one wondered whether the place would ever see the light of day again. Built in the 70s by Scotch, there were only twenty such places in the entire world. Twenty studios, all identical. Most had undergone a digital makeover in the 80s, but not this one; situated in Lomé, this studio had stayed true to its original form. Silent and uninhabited but waiting for one thing, and one thing only: for the sacred fire to be lit once again. That of the Togolese Recording Office, is studio OTODI for those in the know. Through thick layers of dust, the console was vibrating still, impatient to be turned on and spurt out the sound so unique to analog. That sound is what Peter Solo and his band Vaudou Game came to seek out.
The original vibrations of Lomé’s sound, resonating within the studio space, an undercurrent pulsing within the walls, the floor, and the entire atmosphere. A presence at once electrical and mystical sourced through the amps that had never really gone cold, despite the deep sleep that they had been forced into. In taking over the studio’s 3000 square feet, enough to house a full orchestra, Vaudou Game had the space necessary to conjure the spirits of voodoo, those very spirits who watch over men and nature, and with whom Peter converses every day.
For the most authentic of frequencies to fully imbibe this third album, Peter Solo entrusted the rhythmic section to a Togolese bass and drum duo, putting the groove in the expert hands of those versed in feeling and a type of musicianship that you can’t learn in any school. This was also a way to put OTODI on the path of a more heavily hued funk sound, the backbone of which maintains flexibility and agility when moving over to highlife, straightens out when enhanced with frequent guest Roger Damawuzan’s James Brown type screams, and softens when making the way for strings. Snaking and undulating when a chorus of Togolese women takes over, guiding it towards a slow, hypnotic trance. Up until now, Vaudou Game had maintained their connection to Togo from their base in France. This time, recording the entire album in Lomé at OTODI with local musicians, Peter Solo drew the voodoo fluid directly from the source, once again using only Togolese scales to make his guitar sing, his strings acting as channels between listeners and deities…

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Tony Grey

Time Factor

11,99 €*

John Foxx & The Belbury Circle

Release: 2015 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Empty Avenues

10" | 2013 | UK | Original (Ghost Box)

15,99 €*

Release: 2013 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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12" | 2013 | UK | Original (Voodoo Funk)

Tirogo

Disco Maniac

10,99 €*

Release: 2013 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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12" | 2020 | NL | Original (Rush Hour)

Street Kids

Game No. 1

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Voom Voom)

Release: 2020 / NL – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Unity

Erude Jambo

When We Were Looking Seaglass Blue With Emerald Green Splatter Vinyl Editin

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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1981. A new South African band is making waves. Produced by the team “Van Blerk/Roos & Greg Cutler", it includes succulent voices and melodies, psychedelic Moog, Fender Rhodes surrounded by some Afro-folky guitars. This album is definitely a winner. Between 1972 and 1973 Poy-Poy Makhubela appeared on 4 singles with The Young Movers produced by David Thekwane. In 1975, as a lead guitarist, he decided to bring together four musicians to form the band Unity. Jeff Radine (Fender Rhodes, Moog), George Legobye (bass), Edward Modiselle (percussion) and Robert Moema (drum). The members were all from the group The Sound Jaws, except Jeff Radine who was with Rugare and played with Harari, Chicco, The Black Five or Prince Nico. In 1978, after hearing Unity playing in a club, Mike Tswai joined the band as a manager. Poy-Poy has gone on to have a long career, touring the world and playing with some of the South African’s greats including Brenda Fassie, Don Laka, Blondie & Pappa, Dorothy Masuka as well as Kwaito bands like Alaska, Boom Shaka or Trompies.

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Louisa Stancioff

LP | 2024 | Original (Yep Roc)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Mochilla Presents Timeless: Mulatu Astatke

Mulatu Astatke

2LP | 2010 | US | Reissue (Mochilla)

33,99 €*

Release: 2010 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2018 | US | Original (Now-Again)

Mike Nyoni & Born Free

My Own Thing

57,99 €*

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Dream Catcher)

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The latest release in Now-Again’s deluxe Reserve Edition series: the first ever anthology of Zamrock musician Mike Nyoni’s funky, psych-rock and folkloric 1970s recordings, plus bonus tracks on DL card for WAV files.
Zambian guitarist and singer/songwriter Mike Nyoni’s music is Zamrock only because he came of age during the country’s rock revolution. His preferred wah-wah to fuzz guitar, James Brown to Jimi Hendrix. His 70s recordings – often politically charged, and ranging from despondent to exuberant – are amongst the funkiest on the African continent. He was also one of the only Zamrock musicians to see his music contemporaneously issued in Europe. This anthology collates works from his three 70s LPs – his first, with the Born Free band, and his two solo albums Kawalala and I Can’t Understand You – and presents a singular Zambian musician on par with celebrated artists Rikki Ililonga, Keith Mlevhu and Paul Ngozi. The package also features an extensive, photo-filled booklet contains an overview of the Zamrock scene and Nyoni’s story. Includes a download card to WAV files, including bonus tracks.

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Mighty Maytones

Best Of

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Yebolala Black Vinyl Edition

Nebeyu Hamdi

12" | 2020 | EU | Original (Sheba Sound)

Undying Thirst Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This is a recent recording straight out of Ethiopia, courtesy of the Sheba Sound crew.

Sheba Sound tour the Ethiopian hinterlands, capturing the mesmerising sounds of local talented musicians, using state of the art pop-up recording studios.

The process was captured in the highly acclaimed, award-winning documentary: Roaring Abyss, by Joaquin PiÃ±ero:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Roaring-Abyss-Quino-PiÃ±ero/dp/B08329VLRL

The hugely anticipated next release from the Sheba Sound archives, under license to NuAfrique (My45) features crazy, untapped talent of Nebeyu Hamdi, with the Sabat Bet Gurage Band, based in Welkite, western Ethiopia.

The original recordings from 2013 receive ethio-funk bassline overdubbing treatment from Addis Abeba's inspired masenko-bass man of the moment, 'Bubu' Teklemariam.

The full package receives ultimate mixing treatment at The Yard Studio by master dub producer Nick Manasseh (Roots Garden).

The B-side of this EP release features 3 exclusive ethio-dub cuts. Manasseh's inspiration of deep masenko bass and tribal drum rhythms is evident through his dub treatment of the originals. Playing the tracks back through his mixing desk like it was an instrument, the results are completely unique pulsating, punctuated Ethio-dub rhythm tracks.

Watch out Shaka â€“ the Ethiopians are bringing their own dub cuts to town!
Interactive acoustic map of Ethiopia: http://shebasound.com/
Info & DJ bookings, contact: jonbanes@gmail.com

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Black Market Brass

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Colemine)