First single from the album APIAFO out on september 27th on  Hot Casa records.   Available on a 7'' vinyl worldwide in may 2014.

written and composed by Peter Solo, played by the band Vaudou Game.
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All songs from the album are based on authentic vaudou chants and songs' scales from Togo and Benin

management and booking : Antoine Rajon 
antoinerajon@mac.com   
with the help of www.metiola.com



'Pas Contente' Feat Roger Damawuzan

Buy the single in all formats here:
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Taken from the Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band album "55" available here:

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Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band - Was Dog A Doughnut - BC004-45 - Side B

Maker’s Mark

A warm, somewhat instrumental journey through time, memory, and movement. This 12-track project blends jazz, soul, and boom-bap.

From the immediacy of Now to the hazy reflections of Rearview, each track sketches a moment in motion. Jungle Dreams, Downtown and The Antagonist pulse with life, while Echoes and Cracked Bell linger like distant thoughts.

It’s a soundtrack for quiet streets, open windows, and everything in between.

Tracklist:
1 - Intro Skit
2 - Now
3 - Later
4 - Skit
5 - Jungle Dreams
6 - Downtown
7 - The Antagonist
8 - Side B
9 - Echoes
10 - Cracked Bell
11 - Rearview
12 - Outro

Rearview

RIFT (AI)

The Allergies are one of the most energetic DJ acts on the circuit right now playing their irresistibly upbeat brand of breaks, hip hop and funk. ‘Love’s Supposed To Be’ gives you a little taster of exactly that - bringing a Motown vibe to proceedings that will leave you with a huge grin on your face.

Next exclusive taken from our Jalapeno Funk vol.7 Compilation

Love's Supposed To Be

From Album "Da Break" - To release 09/02/2018 - available as vinyl, CD and Digital.
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DA BREAK

Give your love

DA BREAK - Give Your Love

Basement Freaks return to Jalapeno with a 4 track EP of killer funk, heavy, heavy beats and deep blues vocals. Always one of the serious players in the Funk / Breaks scene – his music has always been able to transcend genres and gets dropped in clubs and parties round the world.

On Work It Out the Freaks teams up with MC Rayna for a guitar heavy hip hop excursion. A Blues Thang features that thing most often missed out by modern electronic producers – a harmonica solo – the proper way to do it….

Gotta Make Me A Gun is another blues tinged party bomb featuring the vocals of long time Freaks collaborator Georges Perin. The EP finishes up with the soulful flair of That Little Thing You Do.

Basement Freaks offer their Gold Digga edit for free download to celebrate the upcoming 12" . 

Get you hands on http://soundcloud.com/basement-freaks/gold-digga here

All Tracks writen by Basement Freaks
Produced by George Fotiadis
Mastered by Bombastic Jam Mastering

Vocals/Talkbox & Harmonica by Georges Perin
Additional Vocals on A1 by Mc Ryana
Guitars & Bass by George Fotiadis
Lyrics by Panayiotis Skraparlis

Basement Freaks - A Blues Thang

The full length album 'California Dreaming' by the San Francisco's Afrolicious. 

Buy Track

Do What You Got To

Shake It

Permission to Land (45) [feat. Jeff Franca]

Soundway Records present Kenya Special: Selected East African Recordings from the 1970s & ‘80s - a treasure-trove of rare and unusual recordings from East Africa. Spread out over two CDs and one triple LP, Kenya Special is accompanied by detailed liner notes, original artwork and photographs.It follows on from Soundway’s much acclaimed African ‘Special’ series that to date has focused on the highlife and afrobeat output from 1970s Nigeria and Ghana.

Kenya Special is a collection of 32 recordings (most of which were only ever released on small-run 45rpm 7" singles) that stand out as being different or unique as well as some classic genre standards. From Kikuyu language ‘liquid soul’, Luo benga and Swahili afrobeat to genre-bending Congolese and Tanzanian tracks recorded in Nairobi, Kenya Special sees Soundway yet again taking the less trodden path. Many of the tracks featured here are peppered with innovation and experimentation highlighting how diverse the music scene in Kenya was at the time. 

In 1970s Kenya the two threads of rumba and benga loosely dominated the music scene. Benga quickly became Kenya’s unique contribution to afro-pop; spreading like wildfire through the interior countryside with it’s fast, 4/4 machine-gun beat and intricate electric guitar layers. The Congolese take on Afro-Cuban rumba was introduced by touring bands many of whom settled in East Africa - influencing bands from Kenya and Tanzania to come up with their own take on this popular style. Alongside these styles were small ensembles and hotel-sponsored bands, playing a blend of music that often included rock ‘n’ roll riffs, elements of ‘afro’ music (influenced by West African musicians like Fela Kuti), and multiple other combinations from South African and Zambian guitar styles to disco, funk and Swahili coastal rhythms like chakacha.

Painstakingly compiled, assembled and researched over two years by a team of five people from five countries (Kenya included), Kenya Special is a collection that looks beyond the mainstream and brings new life and recognition to some little known gems and forgotten classics of Kenya’s past. 

The Rift Valley Brothers - Mu Africa (Kenya Special)

Afrolicious Bio -

Afrolicious, the live/electronic collective based in the San Francisco Bay Area started out not as a band but as a club night at the famed Elbo Room in The Mission District in 2007.  The format of Afrolicious party was very open and included the DJs spinning the latest soulful dance music including Afro-House, broken beat, modern funk and disco alongside classics and re-edits and remixes of their favorite Afrobeat, Salsa, and Brazilian funk alongside live percussionists and guest MCs and musicians. Eventually morphing into a live band led by the production and arrangement skills of Pleasuremaker, many dancers, DJs and producers began to take notice of their unique sound.  

Since the release of their first two EPs which were produced by Rob Garza of Thievery Corporation, the reputation of the band and founding DJs Pleasuremaker and Señor Oz have grown and they have performed everywhere from Red Rocks, Burning Man, Cielo and the Greek Theatre in Berkeley. "We never planned on becoming a live band, but like everything else about Afrolicious it happened organically," says Oz. "When we started the party, it was truly what we thought the Mission was about. It wasn't exclusive and it wasn't exclusionary, it was open to everyone. The youngest person in our collective is the rising soul singer Ziek McCarter who started with us at 19. Our oldest member is Baba Duru, who moved to SF in 1970 and toured with Stevie Wonder. Our vocalist is from Trinidad and our drummer is from Brazil. We all congregated in SF over our love of the universal groove. There are rhythms that connect all dance music from the beginning of time to the present day and we believed we could transmit them."  

In 2013 they released their debut full-length album, California Dreaming on their own label, Afrolicious Music. IN 2014 they assembled some of the finest DJs and producers from around the world to remix their debut album. California Dreaming Remixed features remixes from Jamaican dub legend Scientist, Rob Garza from Thievery Corporation, Peruvian electronic live hybrid Novalima, Brazilian nu-disco producer Trotter, Australia’s Omegaman, Miami’s Stereo 77 and the Bay Area’s DJ Smash, J Boogie, Izzy Wise and Antonio Guedes.



  Afrolicious is also loosely affiliated with a worldwide group of DJs, producers, bands, and labels who produce contemporary soulful dance music inspired by sounds of the African diaspora, including Antibalas, Chico Mann, Nickodemus, DJ Smash, Wonderwheel Recordings, Subsuelo, and Cumba Mela. 



Amazing Live band, sound system, weekly party, vibration!
For 8 years Afrolicious brought out an amazing crowd every week to an experience many compare to church in the sense of a weekly gathering for spiritual purposes.
Afrolicious continues to inspire and push the boundaries of music productions, events, and community. They are set to release a number of new releases in 2015. There are finished projects ready to be released and brand new songs being  added to the fold regularly. Stay tuned for new originals, remixes, and mixtapes. Plus some amazing collaborations in the works





Do What You Got To

afrolicious