Name: Noko Hewon by Afla Sackey & Afrik Bawantu in Global Funk
Duration: 6 min 7 s
Description: The first full album release ‘Life on The Street’ is a vibrant demonstration of how the band have played and worked closely together to create their own take on West African Highlife and Afrobeat, blending it with heavier funk, rock and jazz genres, enhancing the cross-cultural collaboration of members hailing from across Africa and Europe.

This band deserves to be a lot better known.

Global Funk

The Best Of Cerrone Productions

Hooked on You (The Reflex Revision)

Midnight Magic: A nine person ensemble bonded by the unwavering desire to make you, the listener, and the rhythm become one; the secret love children of Donna Summer and George Clinton serving up an orgasmic feast of funk, disco, electro and soul.

Midnight Magic - Beam Me Up

To celebrate today's release on all formats, including vinyl 12" here's an UNRELEASED exclusive for y'all, courtesy of the nice people at FAVORITE Recordings ! 
Get the full 12" featuring my 2 other Vocal and Dub versions here http://www.thepusher.fr/vinyl/12inch/voilaaa-on-te-l-avait-dit-spies-are-watching-me-remixes-12inch.html 
or get it digitally at your outlet of choice :)

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#Free DL - Voilaaa - On Te L'avait Dit (Dimitri From Paris Super Disco Instrumental)

I Believe in Miracles

I Believe in Miracles (Broken Party Animal Mix)

The first full album release ‘Life on The Street’ is a vibrant demonstration of how the band have played and worked closely together to create their own take on West African Highlife and Afrobeat, blending it with heavier funk, rock and jazz genres, enhancing the cross-cultural collaboration of members hailing from across Africa and Europe.

Life On the Street

Noko Hewon

The Empire Strikes Back

Boogie

Disco Hi-Life

Disco Hi - Life

Disco Hi-Life (2009 Edit)

One Understanding

You Can't Change A Man

Watchin Out

Today Is the Day (Linkwood Chop)

Meet Me On The Corner is taken from the album ‘Orange Whip’ which was BBC 6 Music’s Album of The Day on its release. A pounding beat beefed up by bass, guitar and brass, propels forward while ‘Ríoghnach Connolly’ (pronounced Rainer) sings lyrics that could be straight out of the playground, but suggest something a little deeper.

Here is a remix from the legends of funky house music, ‘Crazy P’ with both vocal and dub versions. Turning Honeyfeet’s latest opus into a straight up soulful disco monster by ‘Hot Toddy’ and ‘Ron Basejam’, with Rioghnach’s rasping vocals playfully meandering over crisp beats and trademark live bass.

Wah Wah 45s:
https://soundcloud.com/wahwah45s
http://www.wahwah45s.com

Crazy P:
https://soundcloud.com/crazyp

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PREMIERE: Honeyfeet - Meet Me On The Corner (Crazy P Remix)[Wah Wah 45s]

Top lads Krywald & Farrer are launching their own label 'Top Pocket' and have gifted us this delightful edit of the classic Kio Amachree track 'Ivory'. Berlin's Sameed has given a respectful and classy re-rub, supplying you with a club friendly version to quench the dancefloor's Afro Disco thirst. 

Watch on YouTube: https://bit.ly/2TIFcxN

Artist: Kio Amachree
Remixer: @sameed
Label: @toppocketrecords

SB PREMIERE: Kio Amachree - Ivory (Sameed Edit) [Top Pocket Records]

Soundway Records present ’24 Hours in A Disco 1978 - 82’, 7 cuts of relentless disco grooves from the sublimely gifted Kiki Gyan. Hailed as Africa’s answer to Stevie Wonder, Ghanaian multi-instrumentalist Kiki Gyan was a musical wunderkind who by 1975 had risen from the lowly status of high school dropout to being ranked eighth in a poll of the greatest keyboardists in the world (occupying the rarefied air of the top ten with heavyweights like Steve Winwood, Billy Preston, and Stevie Wonder) as well as becoming an in-demand session player in the top recording studios of London - all before his twenty-first birthday. 

Out on his own, he produced a series of highly ambitious disco records aimed at positioning him as an international star, but weighed down by the excesses of the era, Gyan saw his meteoric rise matched by an equally swift fall back into obscurity. 

Loved dearly by his contemporaries and sorely missed since his death in 2005 the story of the life of Kofi Kwarko ‘Kiki’ Gyan is one often told with warning by his friends to the new generation of aspiring Ghanaian popstars.

Soundway Records now collects the best of Gyan’s work as a frontman and solo artist, featuring an array of electrifying disco grooves that still sound contemporary (and in some cases futuristic) decades after their initial release.

Released on CD and 2xLP both formats are accompanied with detailed liner notes written by Uchenna Ikonne. LP version comes with a free MP3 download of the release. 

Kiki Gyan - Disco Dancer

Chewy Rubs - Bo Fo (teaser)

El Niño

Stratos Bleu

It Ain't Working

We are a band producing African rhythm-driven, dance inducing fusion with traditional roots that is representing London’s world music scene. Afrik Bawantu’s original compositions blend highlife from West African percussion and more funk, rock genres, enhancing the cross-cultural collaboration. The uplifting rhythm section in harmony with funky horns and the guitar create a powerful Afro-Funk sound that has been taking crowds around Europe to a whole other musical level.

Noko Hewon

Afla Sackey & Afrik Bawantu

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