Name: Afro Cosmic Club: Gioumanne DJ @ Red Light Radio - October 2016 by africanhiphop in Dj Gioumanne / Jumanne Afro Cosmic Club mixes
Duration: 1 h 58 min 14 s
Description: Session by Dj Gioumanne on Africa Is Hot (Red Light Radio) playing a 2-hour set of remarkable grooves from 1970s and '80s Africa and the diaspora. Recorded live on October 28, 2016.

Dj Gioumanne / Jumanne Afro Cosmic Club mixes

Live recording at Radio Tempo Não Pára (09.04.2021)

Artist: Edo Bouman
@vintagevoudou

Edo (Vintage Voudou) @ Radio TNP 09.04.2021

Live recording at Radio Tempo Não Pára (14.05.2021)

Artist: @papa-matheo

Papa Matheo @ Radio TNP 14.05.2021

Episode 1 is from two Finland heavyweights. ZOUKOUS is Fredrik Lavik (label boss of Afro7 and Jazz Aggression) and Galactic Mace (WMNWM, Ida Radio etc.). This mix has it all; reggae, zouk, benga, disco, Caribbean and African sounds. Enjoy this lovely ride! And check other Zoukous mixes from Galactic Mace’s SC account.

ID requests: @https://soundcloud.com/galacticmace and @https://soundcloud.com/afro7

Box'n Dice Invites 01: ZOUKOUS

It is our great pleasure to publish the 2nd volume of the amazing Suriname Disco Scant mix that originally came out 2 years ago. If you haven’t yet heard that masterpiece of a mix, check it out ( https://soundcloud.com/wearemawimbi/radio-mawimbi-62-jumanne-kasimir-presentent-surinam-disco-scant ).

Jumanne and Kasimir have dug deep once again and present over an hour of Suriname only tracks for your listening pleasure, expertly presented with voice-overs from TV and radio shows over the last 40 years, all involving Surinamese Dutch accents and we are told often funny moments for those who speak Dutch.  The gentlemen also have an Instagram account where they present record covers and labels from Surinam. Nobody is deeper into these sounds than these two. Check it out here: https://www.instagram.com/pokoemonster/ 

If you like African music, you’ll no doubt already be familiar with the work of Afro pioneer and digging powerhouse that is Jumanne and his website about African music that has been running for longer than some listeners of this mix now have been breathing on this planet. You can follow him here and you definitely should:

@africanhiphop
www.africanhiphop.com 
redlightradio.net/residents/africa-is-hot

Find Kasimir here: @kamisir

Average Records Mix Series

Average Records Mix Series 012 - Jumanne & Kasimir (Netherlands) - Suriname Disco Scant Vol 2

Streaming from Amsterdam's Radio Radio: this is RRFM.NL w/ @africanhiphop

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RRFM • Jumanne • 23-09-2021

I wish there were more places on earth where clubbing crowds are open minded enough to dance like crazy to this kind of set. It took place on Saturday morning, playing into the sunrise of the Cosmic Stage in Chemnitz/Germany. All improvised and inspired by all the other outstanding dj sets that I have the chance to witness yearly at this very sacred spot called Cosmic Gathering/Camp Cosmic. I'm very grateful to be part of this ever inspiring community like no other. After 5 years it's the first time the recording of my set actually succeeded so I'm excited to share it with you, full of errors, fx overdosing, much laughter and crazy dancin'. Thanks to everyone involved and cya next year!

soFa elsewhere @ Cosmic Gathering 2022

https://www.nts.live/shows/doing-time/episodes/doing-time-24th-july-2022

Big up Hampus for letting me on the best show on NTS <3

Sunday the 24th of July.



@hampus_time

NTS - Doing Time w/ Fritjof Drake

INTERVIEW: http://www.thefader.com/2014/02/06/interview-african-hip-hop-jumanne-afro-cosmic-club-2

ANNOTATED TRACKLIST:

CK & The Beat Merchants - Nii me ba
The only album by CK Ladzekpo and the Beat Merchants, released in 1986 in California, was among the first batch of African records being marketed as ‘world music’ or ‘world music’ as the liner notes call it. Most songs are 80s American pop soul with a heavy influence of Ghanaian music, with ‘Nii me ba’ being the standout track. Nigerian Joni Haastrup, who recently got due credit as his Monomono albums were reissued, is heard on backing vocals.

Tchoum - African Woman Cry
This forgotten gem resurfaced recently in the attic of a French-African music label, where a box of sealed copies found its way into the hands of a new generation of young European vinyl collectors - possibly the same guys that fought over last year's 300 copies only reissue of William Onyeabor’s holy grail Afro synth album ‘Good name’ (two months later, the 'limited' edition was released again in a run of several thousand copies for half the price, such is the tragedy of record collecting)

Wally Badarou - One day won't give it away
The Benin-born world citizen is a legend for his work with Level 42, Grace Jones, Mick Jagger and many more, but his mid 80s solo output was huge in Nigeria and other African countries, especially the song 'Hi-life’ which was recently sampled by Nigerian Afrobeats star J Martins. His first album ‘Back to scales to-night’ from 1981 is little known, though it has at least two big tunes that reveal his trademark keyboard sound which he introduced to Level 42 the next year.

Kassiry - Kou Douw
Ivorian artist Keke Kassiry was one of a handful of artists produced by Spanish fashion designer Paco Rabanne, well known for the fragrances that carry his name. Other artists on the Paco Rabanne Design label included disco group M’bamina but Kassiry was most prolifient. Upon his return to Ivory Coast it was rumoured that Kassiry would have had a relationship with Rabanne, though the artist denied it.

Contact - Don't be a fool
Kassav’, the French-Antilles origin band based in Paris that brought the zouk sound to an international audience, released their first album in 1979. A small label in USA released the album on that side of the ocean, but with two remixed songs in which the lead vocal was in English instead of French. Those songs were also released in France but under a different name on this obscure single.

Alan Cosmos and his Bam-baara Soundz - Yebi/Fontonfrom
Obscure German release from the mid 80s that may have spent the last 30 years waiting in the discount section of the record store it was found in, despite its outrageous cover with Alan carrying a key tar (keyboard guitar) and the long list of vintage electronics used on the album, including the Linn drum (5000$ at the time), Yamaha DX7, Roland Juno and the Korg Polysix. Alan Cosmos is a Ghanaian artist who moved to Germany in 1978 and has been releasing albums under different names since 1983.  Also present on this album: Steve Toteberg, the German producer who later went and started Maison Yes, a recording studio in Dakar which produced some of the classic Senegalese hip hop albums from 1999 on.

Kalao - Klortey Lagoon
Kalao was a French recording project engineered by JP Massiera and a multicultural band, several songs have a Ivory Coast influence. The sound is quite unusual, sounds a bit like a 80s predecessor of The Very Best.

AM Tala - Sugar Lump
Andre-Marie Tala (Cameroon) released a couple of albums with heavy funk influences in the mid 70s, of which ‘Hot Koki’ is still remembered today because it became one of the first examples of African tracks being re-recorded (without any reference or reimbursement) by an international star - in this case James Brown who released the carbon copy ‘Hustle!!! Dead on It’. By 1978 AM had caught the disco fever and released ‘Arabica’, an album with several string dance cuts.

Groupe Minzoto ya Zaire - Vany
Minzoto was a band that supposedly grew out of a Congolese subculture in which youth dressed like cowboys; a Belgian missionary organised events for these youth and this was one of the results. Their albums were released in small presses in Belgium, and their repertoire ranged from classic rumba to songs that carry a heavy influence from seventies funk and soul. ‘Rhythme Takinga’, the album this song was taken from, is a brilliant melting pot of Congolese rumba with its sweet harmonizing, funky bass and horns and intricate percussion.

Saidou Richard - Taaba
Guehi Jean - Dessahi

Sal Davis - Sultan Qaboos
Tanzanian singer Sal Davis has had a fascinating career and is still musically active; his ‘Makini’, released in Belgium in 1969, is a sought-after funky mod classic that was reissued on a collectors label in UK in 2008. He also recorded ‘Back in Dubai’ in 1984 which became a classic to the expat community there in the 1980s, participated in the UK Eurovision song festival in 1979, and further back he recorded a tribute to Qaboos, the sultan of Oman who is said to have turned his country from a poor, rural society to an oil producing wealthy state in the 1970s (and he’s still in power today, ever since 1970). This ode to the sultan was released on Sal’s own label, the b-side is a lounge love song with funky drums but the a-side is what it’s all about.

Per Cussion - Lucumi Suite
‘Don’t Stop’, the 1983 album and single of the same name by Swedish group Per Cussion is counted as the first Swedish hip hop release (even though its vocalist Grandmaster Funk was American), it even was a favourite in the sets of Afrika Bambaataa. This song is based on Santeria music, originating in Cuba; Lucumi is the liturgical language used in the Santeria religion and it’s a dialect of Yoruba (Nigeria/Benin/Togo). Vocals by Wilfredo Stephenson from the Swedish latin group Hot Salsa. 

The Starlights - Jingle Jungle
This is French artist JP Massiera recording under a different name, both sides of the single had an interesting mash-up approach to traditional recordings - a sort of sampling avant la lettre. 

Pasteur Lappé - Bana Ashiko
Cameroon singer Lappé released three albums and a couple of singles, and his output balances between corny love songs featuring his French girlfriend crying on record about waving goodbye at the airport, to brilliant synth driven wave like this one produced by Jacob Desvarieux (Kassav’) who also used the exact same instrumental version of a song from the Bana Ashiko LP on a Kassav’ record from the same year. 

Zulu Gang - I got a magic feeling making love
The same crew that recorded Pasteur Lappé’s 1981 album was also behind Zulu Gang who recorded one album from which this single was taken.

Paap Niang - Sama waye
Blind singer/drummer Paap Niang sharpened his teeth with big names on the scene like Orchestre Baobab and Xalam before he released a solo album with this tune which sounds very different from what most Senegalese artists were trying to do in the mid 80s.

Miatta - Jungle Music	

Sir Victor Uwaifo and his Titibitis - Egwu Ozo
Uwaifo’s most interesting may be the ones he did with the Titibitis, combining a funky 70s sound with 80s electronics and a very eclectic musical palette. Egwu Ozo is one of his forgotten works, with its title track that starts out in 4/4 mode and builds up into a orgy of synths and horns.  

Nana Tuffour - Ye Wo Asaase
Cabo Verde Show - Terra Longe
Eko - Fly me back to Kribi
Baba Djan Kaba - Folila

Ali Baba - Hadiza
This album is easy to pass on as it is usually stuck in the euro bin and its cover looks too outrageous to be taken seriously, yet there’s the hidden gem of ‘Hadiza’ which sounds like afrobeat translated into a electronic setting with sublime synth licks.

KKE - Money
Song from a mysterious boogie funk / soul record by a Congolese singer with an apparently Dutch backing band, released on a tiny label in the Netherlands, not sure for which market but copies hardly ever show up.

Remi Kabaka - Aqueba-Masaaba
Nigerian drummer Aderemi Kabaka performed and recorded with some of the biggest names in the music industry including the Stones, Paul McCartney, Steve Winwood and Hugh Masekela (his son, who bears the same name, is one of the voices behind the Gorillaz). The recordings that were to be released as his second album by Island Records never made it past the promo stage, and consequently ‘Son of Africa’ is very hard to come by; too bad because it’s a record loaded with heavy afro funk tunes. This is the only track that got a (limited) release on a Island Records compilation in 1977.

Miriam Makeba - Toyota Fantaisie
At the time this Japanese promo single for Toyota was released in 1980, Miriam Makeba was living in Guinee-Conakry, so it’s no surprise to hear her sing fluently in French, and in English on the flip side of this effort to sell cars on the African continent. The fact that it was pressed on vinyl in Japan is more puzzling, perhaps this was handed out as a promo back there.

So Kalmery - Ujamaa
This song is from another album that doesn’t deserve to be in the euro bin, but that’s where my copy was found. So Kalmery is another great voice from eastern Congo who deserves more recognition for his oeuvre which spans four decades. He arrived in Europe while touring with Congo’s grand maestro Franco, and ‘So’, featuring his band Ujamaa, was released in 1986.

Francis Bebey - Le Grand Soleil De Dieu
From Bebey’s often overlooked 1986 effort ‘Si Les Gaulois Avaient Su’ which you have to Google just to marvel at the cover art.

Sonny Okosuns - Steady N Slow
Incredibly hard to find single-only release by the great Okosuns, the b-side is equally great. Both sides were later re-recorded and released on his albums, but the original remains superior.

Abumba - Mibali ya Kinshasa
Being the brother of one of the greatest voices in African pop throughout the 1970s and 80s, Abumba Masikini never reached the star status of his sister Abeti but he got to perform at the Zaire 74 concert held on the occasion of the Muhammad Ali vs George Foreman boxing match in Kinshasa. His performance of this single was captured on camera and finally released along with the Soul Power documentary in 2009.

DJ Gioumanne's Afro Cosmic Club Volume 2

Jumanne presents a 2-hour mix for Penossi Radio, recorded live at Platypus Records (Amsterdam), 26 March 2024. 
A rare peek into boogie, modern soul, dancehall and reggae from 1980s and '90s Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten (the former Netherlands Antilles). While a few of these songs enjoyed local chart success back in the days, the majority of the singles and LP tracks disappeared into oblivion, until now. Some of the singles were self-released in small amounts, and they remain ungoogleable and little known. 
Big up Kasimir, Rozaly, Selwyn de Windt, and Platypus for their support! Stay tuned for a quality selection of music from the islands on Soundway, coming soon.

Arubian Nights - 80's sounds from Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten | Jumanne @ Platypus Record Shop

Four integrated mixtapes of Hip Hop and R&B. I wanted you to experience the proximity of R&B to Hip Hop. As with many popular waves, it's always the underground, the root that seeds and flourishes the blossoming tree. 

All tracks, cuts and selections mixed by yours truly.

Part 1 of 4

Fruit Of Love I

Selection, mix and artwork by Jumanne (J4)
Inspired by the groove & spirit of early 80s African music 
For this mix only original vinyl records were used

Full tracklist and artwork download here: 
http://www.africanhiphop.com/africanhiphopdownloads/mixtape-afro-cosmic-club-con-dj-gioumanne/

Tracklist & Cover Art

Afro Cosmic Club con Dj Gioumanne

Africanhiphop.com's mixtape series focusing on forgotten and undiscovered 80s grooves is three volumes deep. Afro Cosmic Club brings uptempo songs from early to mid 1980s urban Africa and the Afro-European diaspora, with a few Caribbean rarities thrown in.

After a volume 2 which was played nearly 25,000 times since Fader Magazine published it, dj Gioumanne’s Afro Cosmic Club vol. 3 was originally hosted by Okayafrica in their Africa In Your Earbuds series (August 2014). Since Okayafrica recently cancelled their Soundcloud account, we have republished the mix here.

Tracklist can be found here: 
http://www.africanhiphop.com/afro-cosmic-club-3-mixtape-dj-gioumanne-hosted-okayafrica/


Afro Cosmic Club 3 by DJ Gioumanne (Africa In Your Earbuds #54)

Session by Dj Gioumanne on Africa Is Hot (Red Light Radio) playing a 2-hour set of remarkable grooves from 1970s and '80s Africa and the diaspora. Recorded live on October 28, 2016.

Afro Cosmic Club: Gioumanne DJ @ Red Light Radio - October 2016

Afro Cosmic Club – Mixed by DJ Gioumanne

Mixed by BBRAVE for This Is Africa www.thisisafrica.me, www.ghettoradio.nl, www.akwaabamusic.com, promo only. Playlist:

Monalisa - Ruff-N-Smooth
Simple - Bradez
She De Bee feat. Guru - Old Sodja
So Cold - DaSoul
Ratata feat. K. Switch - R2Bees
Extra - Just A Band
No Time feat. P Square - Bracket
Swagger feat Stay Jay - Ruff-N-Smooth
Dome Na Mendowo feat. Castro - Appietus
Pipi - Marlaw
Fall In Love - D'Banj
Yori Yori- Bracket
Essabel feat. Mike & Old Sodja- Appietus
Boom Back Remix feat. Jose Chameleone - Bebe Kool
No One Like You - P-Square
? - Les Garagistes
Coeur Blanc	- Les Patrons
Do As i Do - Bracket
Ma Alomo feat. KK Fosu & Reggie Zippy - Appietus
Eha Ye De (Bebia Awo) feat. SK Blinks	- Nana Boroo
Surra feat. Vagabanda - Big Nelo
Coupé Décalé Malien - DJ Lewis
Femme Africaine	Lutchiana 100%
Elegom Bounsa feat. Maskarado (Radio Mix) - DJ Djeff
Relela - Skeat
Miss Doctor feat. 4X4 - Appietus
Kiss Ur Hand feat. Wande Coal- R2Bees
Usinibore - Just A Band
DJ's Mortel (2) - Polio - Kiloko
Sentiment Moka - ?
Wengeze - Eazzy
Windek - Cabo Snoop
Tchouchou Tchoucou - Kedjevara
Coupe de Tête de Zidane - DJ Menza
Asta Di - Aurlus Mabele
Django - DJ Bonano
Som Do Zoca - Zoca Zoca
Tabouret Baoulé - Pat Sexy
Celimania Remix - Gadji Celi
Sukuma - Killamu
Tiramakossa	- Noite e Día
Number One	- Fofandó & Saborosa
Aladin Mix - DJ Znobia
Kassumuna	- Game Walla

BBRAVE - Pan African Music Stew

Africanhiphop.com promotes hip hop and related music & culture from Africa on the web since 1997 (26 years online!). Our online news, feature stories and biographies as well as numerous offline compilations, documentaries, tours, newspaper features, radio shows, mixtapes and events since the mid-90s until today have contributed to the current explosion of urban African music around the world. On this channel you can hear select mixes from our monthly radio show (Africa Is Hot), the Afro Cosmic Club mixes by Africanhiphop.com founder Gioumanne (Jumanne), the Boom Africa series and more.

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