B1 Plastic Bamboo - Kamboja

A cover song by Ron opens our hearts to this summer of renewal and finally back to normality. 
Listen our edit and let we know if you like it.
 
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alegar

Hai capito?

Al Mason - Good Lovin´ (Delfonic Edit)

Helen Garcia - Soul Soothing Sunshine (Born To Funk Remix) (Spinnin Records)

LTG Exchange - Corazon (Version Idjut)

Adey Omotade, a sound artist and cultural cartographer rooted in Lagos and shaped by diasporic experiences in Paris, Johannesburg, Berlin and Ivory Coast, brings a rare sensibility to this work: walking between worlds, bringing with him the cadence of home and the dissonance of diaspora. In his hands, sound becomes ritual: a migration of soul, an assemblage of bells, melodies and chants woven from Ifa shrines, river banks and Yoruba festivals. Playing the dual role of griot and cartographer, Omotade, who works across acoustic ecology, experimental music and sound design, builds each track like a shrine: layered, intentional, alive with breath and blood, each track a libation, each break an invocation. Each track unfurls like aso-oke, the celebratory fabric of the Yoruba people: drums that speak in polyrhythms, synths bending like waves, incantations layered like memory, fading then returning, gently like the water at the banks of the Osun River. 

The influence of experimental sound design is evident throughout, but ‘Ni'ran’ is no cold abstraction. It pulses with life, with the heartbeat of talking drums, the breath of ambient textures and the warmth of the voices of babalawos, priests of Ifa, invoking ire (blessings) on all. 

Out in late 2025 on Afrosynth Records. Pre-order AFS060 now: https://www.rushhour.nl/record/vinyl/eero-eesu

Eero Eesu

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'Ni'ran' - Adey Omotade

Cameroonian-born singer Dick Dickson was clearly aiming for the US funk sound in fashion at the time when he recorded In The Pocket in 1986. 

The session took place in Togo and had band members come from Congo, Cameroon and the French West Indies making the music of In The Pocket an outstanding rendezvous between electrified-boogie and African influenced groove. With the help of Régine Féline’s sensual voice, melodic synth pads and distinctive slap bass, In The Pocket grabs you instantly.

Totally overlooked upon its release, BeauMonde felt that Dick Dickson’s unique offering deserved a second chance.

Fully remastered / Limited to 500 copies.

Release Date: May 14, 2018
http://www.beaumonderecords.com/product/dick-dickson-in-the-pocket

Beau Monde BM 1702

Dick Dickson - In The Pocket | BeauMonde BM1702

Distance (Hysteric Edit) D/L WAV

Many thanks to the Horse Meat Disco boys for allowing me to give this remastered version of Grapevine Boogie as a free download to in honour of Big In Japan's 6th Birthday in a few weeks time. Don't forget we've got the double header of Daniel Wang & Ray Mang as well as my good self on the evening - 

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Enjoy x

Leftside Wobble - Grapevine Boogie (Re-Master) Big In Japan 6th Birthday free download

Give A Little Love Again (Disco Bambino Edit)

The Sutherland Brothers were a Scottish folk and soft rock duo. 
From 1973 to 1978 they performed with rock band Quiver, and recorded and toured as Sutherland Brothers & Quiver. 

The original version of Dark Powers appears on their 1976 LP Slipstream. If you're into the smooth mid-70s west-coast/LA sound, I highly recommend giving the full album a spin. Plenty of Very Good+/ Near Mint copies of the original vinyl for less than $10 on Discogs.

Dark Powers (Plastic Fantastic edit)

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Sutherland Brothers & Quiver - Dark Powers (Plastic Fantastic edit)

DJ Okapi brings a forgotten era of South African pop music back to life.

djokapi@gmail.com

'Ni'ran' - Adey Omotade

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