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After another weary year, allow us to soak your digital tendrils in our tepid aural ooze – a sonic silicone secretion to reboot the limbic system to its most primal state of ecstasy.

INDEX0X0XL is the second release of our pan-sensory bouquet, distilled to provoke and whet our deepest of lusts. An atomised, sway-inducing solution to seduce and ensnare the most sated souls, thru an intoxicating rhapsody of notes – a Venus in slurs.

The tracks will be available as 'pay as you feel' on Valentine's Day 2022. There will also be love inspiring merch to accompany the compilation: a colour-customisable, individually handmade INDEXOXOXL dildo by xoxo.dilco. Head to Bandcamp to order, or send us a dm.

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Mastered by @ikezwanikken
Artwork by @kingsofty
Curated by @connaharaway & @kingsofty

INDEXOXOXL

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Conna Haraway – don't @ me

Jolla Records presenta el estilo y sentimiento de la Sonora Estelar, con sus notas de piano vibrantes y rítmicas, las percusiones que emocionan, trompetas sonoras, clave, bajo, timbales y bongo; instrumentos que generan un alegre ritmo para gozar y bailar toda la noche.

¡Alegre Son Montuno para bailar!

Azúcar y Ron - La Sonora Estelar

Sneak peak of the forthcoming twelve from Afro7 records. Two mid 80s Kikuyu Disco Bombs by Julius Kangethe. Extended Edit and Rework by Didier Selin.

KIRU STARS (Julius Kangethe BYLAW / Didier Selin extended mix) 'FAMILY PLANNING' Snippet

A celebration of séga music (a.k.a the 'blues' of the Indian Ocean), celebrated on a new compilation on @strut, compiled by Natty Hô & Konsöle of @labassetropicale. 

Tracklist: http://bit.ly/gpww-natty-ho

Tracklist

Natty Hô mix on Gilles Peterson Worldwide (GPWW983)

First release in our own East Africa reissue series. Fantastic doublesider from Somalia. Heavy backbone flipped sax and great vocals sung by the late Faadumo Qaasim. Flip it and you have the crazy Berflasana by Ahmed Sharief Yusuf. Top sound for your home stereo or play in the clubs. Limited release. American pressed 45’s with uk centre pullout (just like original Kenya singles!) Comes in custom AFRO7 silkscreen pressed sleeves. Ships in week 21.

Faduma Kassim MAJOGO

Taarab doublesider killer! Harambe with it's insane R&B groove riff, flip it and you have the crazy liverpool track. Originally from mid 60s aimed for the growing tourism in Mombasa and it's regions. Both tracks officially licensed on our inhouse label. Comes in tasty Afro7 sleeve with original label design. Head over to afro7.net READ THE FULL STORY and get your copy today!

Harambe / Liverpool

Mac & Party Harambe / Liverpool - New Afro7 single!

Metamorphoses

February 6th, it's Kologbo day at Paris DJs - just like every other 6th of the month we're releasing a brand new song from Fela Kuti Afrika 70's tenor guitar player! This one is called "Get Rich Quick" and features the horn section and percussion player from French band Les Frères Smith, along with backing vocals from Chilean band Newen Afrobeat's quatuor of singers. No Tony Allen here, Kologbo plays the drums himself, along with the guitar solos, tenor guitar, rhythm guitar, bass and congas!!

Recorded and produced by Grant Phabao at the Paris DJs studio, "Get Rich Quick" is not an ode to Las Vegas. "Get Rick Quick is a problem of the world, that's why I sing it. Everybody wants to get rich quick and forget his brother, forget about famine, forget about all necessary things. I can see that all over the world", says Kologbo, adding that "it's Afrobeat mixed with my kind of highlife-funk-jazz-blues mix-mash fusion of elements, you can hear it all in my music".

Alfred Sonou : Douns
Oghene Kologbo : Congas, Drums, Guitars, Bass, Vocals
Daniele Martini : Tenor Saxophone
Juilen Sannicolo : Trumpet
Nicolas Sakelario : Baryton & Alto sax
Fabrice Fila : tenor sax
Macarena Rozic; Francisca Castro, María Francisca Riquelme, Camila Fuentes : Backing Vocals
Composed and written by Oghene Kologbo
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Grant Phabao at Paris DJs
Artwork by Ben Hito
Published by T.I.M.E.C.

Get Rich Quick

Kologbo - Get Rich Quick feat. Newen Afrobeat & Les Freres Smith

certain things

Sócrates e As Garotas - 1979
Marlene Silva, Macaco Sócrates (Orival Pessini) e Paulo Silvino
Composição: Orlandivo e Paulo Silvino

Bass – Luizão
Drums – Paulinho Braga
Guitar – Durval Ferreira, Hélio Capucci
Keyboards, Arranged By, Conductor – Lincoln Olivetti
Percussion – Bira*, Orlandivo*
Saxophone – Senise*
Trumpet – Hamilton

Edit: Rafael Cotait - Curitiba 2018
BPM: 109

Sócrates e As Garotas - Coco do Macaco (Cotait edit)

The Cranes were one of Uganda’s most popular teenage bands in the 1970’s. Founded in 1965, they metamorphosed at the end of the 1970’s into the Afrigo Band which is still, up to today, the number one band in the country. What’s love and Joy, both written by singer and guitarist Tony Senkebejje, appeared in 1974 on the only Cranes’ LP ‘Top Ten Hits’.
When the album hit the record stores in Kampala, bad luck had befallen The Cranes. A month before the recording of the album their bass player Jessy Kasirivu was killed because of President Idi Amin’s amorous association with his girlfriend. Senkebejje, scared for his life, fled to Kenya, only returning to Uganda 15 years later. The song What’s love describes how confusing love can be to a young soul and is partly inspired by Kasirivu’s death. Joy is a love song for Senkebejje’s wife Rachel who followed him to Kenya and who has been singing lead and playing guitar with him in their Simba Sounds Band ever since. Both songs feature prominently in the documentary Bwana Jogoo: the ballad of Jessy Gitta (2019 – 70 min – UG/NL/FR) which investigates the death of Jessy Kasisirvu at the hands of Idi Amin‘s State Research agents. Bwana Jogoo, directed by Dutch filmmaker Michiel van Oosterhout, showcases many great 1970’s songs from Uganda while letting Uganda’s musicians of yesteryears recount fond memories of one of their own, Jessy Kasirivu. These are the folks that worked and socialized with Jessy and knew him better than most. Their accounts of the events that led to Jessy’s disappearance are riveting and haunting. It lays bare a hitherto unexplored subject and one deserving of serious interrogation and scholarship – the naked power of authoritarianism and sexual predation.

The Cranes

The Cranes What's Love/Joy New Afro7 single - snippets

Another smash from Afro7! – Gilles Peterson

From Mac & Party aka. Yaseen Mohammes comes this fantastic Kenyan chakacha taarab dancer with a heavy clavioline keyboard hook.  mid 60’s origin

Zandale

Mac & Party 'Zandale/Kiss to Kiss' New Afro7 single SNIPPETS

The only released LP by Burundian band Amabano from 1987 has been given the Afro7 reissue treatment.
In their extensive song repertoire, the band crosses styles into funky psych territory with a good dose of guitar, but not without Congolese and Burundian folklore influences.

A must listen for fans of East African music by the most influential Burundian group of the past four decades.

The reissue comes with extensive liner notes on the band’s history and their background within the Burundian music scene.

Amsterdam Ticket

Amabano 'Amsterdam Ticket' New Afro7 LP Snippets

Since I decicated many years ago one episode of my süperradyoshow to the ladies of anadolu pop, I wanted to do an additional mix – only female turkish disko hits. Finally here it is, but without any claim of completeness, there are too many hits to squeeze them into one set… so wait for a follow up. 
But first enjoy listening Turkish Disko Queens – all vinyl, mostly original 7“. 

Tracklist will follow soon.

Süperdisko

Turkish Disko Queens

A1 track from the forthcoming 2nd Golden Teacher EP, "Do Not Go Gently Into That Good Night" due out late July.

Ultra limited (250 copies) hand made optical illusion "box" sleeve designed and constructed by Golden Teacher. After these are sold out it will be available in a generic Optimo Music sleeve. Due to the costs involved in constructing the sleeves the record will be slightly more expensive than a normal 12" single but will not be sold at some over inflated price. Optimo Music heartily disapproves of labels who add a huge mark up to their releases and profit from the limited availability. While we only have the resources (and time!) to make a limited number of special sleeves we don't think music should be "limited" and we strive to make all our releases available to all who want them, hence the 2nd pressing in generic sleeve.

This EP is fairly out there and features 4 tracks that might best be described as Fourth World freakouts, combining analogue circuitry with psychedelically effected played percussion and chanting. All tracks were recorded live to tape with minimal overdubs and then slightly edited at Glasgow's Green Door studios. Golden Teacher rule. If you get a chance, see them live. Your synapses will thank you.

It was due out in early July but unfortunately the stampers broke at the pressing plant while they were trying to press it so it has been delayed until the end of July. Release date 29/07/2013. Distributed by Kompakt.

Mac & Party 'Zandale/Kiss to Kiss' New Afro7 single SNIPPETS

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