Name: Ko Guere (Folklore Bariba) - Super Borgou de Parakou by Analog Africa
Duration: 3 min 53 s
Description: Taken from Analog Africa No.11 - the Bariba Sound, hailed from the northern city of Parakou in Benin. Twisted afrobeat of a different kind....finally!!

No mastering, no restoration......Raw in your face!
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(Share with friends, spread the word, forward to loved ones, download to your ipod .......enjoy !!! )

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Analog Africa Selection Vol.3 (2013) Download it, Share it, forward it

La World Music n’existe pas. (n✳2) est une playlist commentée réalisée par Mona Hackel pour la Radio FM itinérante Ondorphine en août 2022 lors du festival Chantelouve (au Col d’Ornon).

Cette émission revient sur le terme très problématique de « World Music » (musique du monde) et propose tout simplement de le mettre à la poubelle.
Sans être musicologue, ni géographe, ni même originaire des pays mentionnés, Mona vous propose une traversée musicale d’une heure à travers l’Europe de l’Est pour écouter des musiques communautés tziganes issues : de Macédoine, d’Albanie, de Roumanie et de Serbie.
Au programme, des musiciens et musiciennes tziganes phare des années 50 comme des artistes contemporain·es pour rendre compte des métissages qu’on connu ces musiques traditionnelles.

Merci à Elie Hackel et Mihai Pirvan pour les nuits partagées à digger et discuter de ces immenses patrimoines musicaux. Un grand merci à  Margo Chou pour son articule intitulé « La vraie playlist tsigane / Les manele, musique transgressive et populaire » parue dans la revue Le Crieur n°10.

Merci à l'Ondorphine Team pour tout l'Amour (avec un grand A) ! Suivez-nous sur @ondorphine

✳TRACKLIST✳
Demirovo Oro · Ferus Mustafov
Ramajana · Muharem Serbezovski
Sallana Sallana (Kocek) · Azat King
Tallava Nishtulla · Mandi
Doamne, dă-mi putere · Cornelia Catania
Am Sa-Mi Pierd Capul · Delui Romanes
Hora De La Craiova · Gianni Lincan
Ma las amanet · Ionut Cercel
Beton Beton · Nicolae Guta
Sa danseze Romania · Alex Botea
Purtata tiganeasca · Attila Universalu
Rece ca decembrie · Connect-R
Veseli Romi : Niški Disko · Ansambl Mileta Petrovića (label Radio Martiko)
Toate diamantele · Luis Gabriel

La World Music n’existe pas. (n✳2)

Fantastic mix made by my friend DJ/Producer Déni Shain, currently based in Mexico....spreading good vibes and excellent music. 

The songs used here were taken mainly from mastertapes found in Ghana, the others were recorded from obscure vinyls. Needless to say that half of these songs have never been heard before....feel free to download it, share it, play it...just funk it up !!!!! 

Enjoy it and spread the word !!
ps: Abraços and big love to Brasil...Saudades !!!

Analog Africa Selection Vol.4 (2014) I Ghana Soundtrack  - Previously unreleased & Obscure tracks

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Thank you for the love and support!!

A bit more then a year ago I received a message from Déni Shain, a french music producer based in Lisbon. In that mail he asked me if I would be interested in releasing music from Cabo Verde since he was close to Chico and Wilson, the 2 DJs behind Celeste Mariposa (an excellent portuguese/angolan soundsystem specialised in lusophone music). 'I can convince them to make their record collection available to you' he added. I asked him if he could send me a selection, not knowing the amount of work my request would represent. I only later found out that the three-men-team had spent a whole week to pick and choose what they thought was adequate and another few days to wash the record and digitise the music.

I received that selection in March 2013 and I haven't stopped listening to it since. I clearly remember having that wonderful feeling when songs keep growing on you the more you listen. 'Very good sign' I thought! The collection of songs I had received became the base for a whole concept and we all started criss crossing Europe and Cabo Verde looking for more music and looking for the Cap-Verdien artists we loved. Déni Shain became an important asset for the Analog Africa label, supporting us with remixes and mixes but more importantly with an addictive positive energy.

After his first mix for us, the amazing 'Ghana Soundtrack' made out of unreleased and rare tracks from the small west african musical powerhouse, here is his second instalment made of handpicked dancefloor filler. A huge shout goes to legendary african music connoisseur John Beatle, to Carlo Xavier for letting us use his fantastic edit of "O Anel"  and to my close friend Keith Slater for offering us some of the fantastic music included here.

Tracklisting :
01. Vincent Ahehehinnou & Orchestre Poly-Rythmo - Yeye We Nou Mi
(from 'The 1st Album' LP, 1973 / Analog Africa reissue 2011)
02. Iftin Band - Haka Yeelin Nacabkeenna
(from 'Gabar ii Noquee' tape, 1980s / special thanks to John Beadle)
03. Solo Hit - Imoikeme
(from 'Imoikeme' 7 inch, 2013 reissue / Analog Africa)
04. N’Draman Blintch - I First U Last
(from 'Cosmic Sounds' LP, 1980 / Cosmic Sounds)
05. Dina Santos - O Anel (Carlo Xavier Edit)
(from 'In London' LP, 1983 / Dacapo)
06. Victor Uwaifo And The Titibitis - Ohue
(From 'I Wanna Be Your No.1', 1980s / Taretone)
07. África Negra - Carambola
(from 'Africa Negra 83' LP, 1983 / IEFE)
08. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou - Moulon Devia
(from 'Réveil Disco Dubain' LP, available soon on a forthcoming Analog Africa release)
09. Ondeno - Mayolye
(from 'Ondeno' LP, 1980 / Disque Ledoux - Special thanks to Keith Slater)
Total time : 37mn 35s

 

Analog Africa Selection Vol.5 (2014) by Déni Shain | Past & Future Analog Africa Tracks

This mix was originally done for The Wire Magazine Website. But not only did I want to avoid the mix getting lost in "the universe of data" after it has been remove from the Wire's front page but more importantly I wanted you guys, who have been so supportive of my label, to enjoy it as well.

The week I was about to finish the mix I got a message from Julien from www.parisdjs.com one of Europe´s best website when it comes to sharing our passion for worldwide dancefloor oriented music, asking me if I would like to send him a Mix for his site.

So I wrote to the Wire to make sure all is cool and we agreed that they will have it for a week exclusively and that Julien and myself will make it available later. The Wire kindly offered to pay me for the mix but I thought it would be fair to decline the offer.

The initial idea was to make a pure West African Afro-beat/Afro-Funk mix, as I guessed they wanted something that reflected what I was releasing but then, while selecting the tracks, I bumped into few titles from Ethiopia, Angola and Guinea that I have been enjoying a lot in recent months and decided to add them as well.

This mix is (was) also an occasion to celebrate "the Vodoun Effect" Compilation by Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou which has been released in France today and will be available in the rest of Europe and in the USA at the end of November.

The mix contains a slower version of the Poly-Rythmo killer track "Se Tche We Djo Mon"

I hope you´ll enjoy it !!!
Samy



Analog Africa Selection Vol.2 (2009) - Download it, Share it & make sure your friends hear it ....

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First Heard on Todd Terje's BBC Essential Mix, Saturday 17th July 2013
https://soundcloud.com/toddterje/todd-terje-essential-mix-2013

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Neşe Karaböcek - Yali Yali (Todd Terje Edit)

Space Echo - The mystery behind the Cosmic Sound of Cabo Verde finally revealed!

In the spring of 1968 a cargo ship was getting ready to leave the port of Baltimore with an important shipment of musical instruments. Its final destination was Rio De Janeiro, where the EMSE Exhibition (Exposição Mundial Do Son Eletrônico) was going to be held. 

It was the first expo of its kind to take place in the southern hemisphere and many of the leading companies in the field of electronic music were involved. Rhodes, Moog, Farfisa, Hammond and Korg, just to name a few, were all eager to present their newest synthesisers and other gadgets to a growing and promising South American market, spearheaded by Brazil and Colombia.

The ship with the goods set sail on the 20th of March on a very calm morning and disappeared from the radar on the very same day.

One can only imagine the surprise of the villagers of Cachaço, on the Sao Nicolau island of Cabo Verde, when a few months later they woke up and found a ship stranded in their fields, in the middle of nowhere, 8 km from the sea. 
After consulting with the village elders, the locals had decided to open the containers to see what was inside but the news had travelled fast and before they knew it, colonial police had already arrived and secured the area. 

Portuguese scientists and physicians were ordered to the scene; and after weeks of thorough studies and research, it was concluded that the ship had fallen from the sky. One of the less plausible theories was that it might have fallen from a Russian military air carrier. The locals joked that the government had wasted their tax money again on a useless exercise, as a simple look at the crater generated by the impact could explain the phenomena. “No need for Portuguese rocket science to explain this!” they laughed. 

What the villagers didn’t know, was that traces of cosmic particles were discovered on the boat. The bow of the ship showed traces of extreme heat, very similar to traces found on meteors, suggesting that the ship had penetrated the hemisphere at high speed. That theory also didn't make sense as such an impact would have reduced the ship to dust. Mystery penetrated the event.  

Finally, a team of welders arrived to open the containers and the whole village waited impatiently. The atmosphere, which had been filled with joy and excitement, quickly gave way to astonishment. Hundreds of boxes conjured, all containing keyboards and other instruments which they had never seen before: and all useless in an area devoid of electricity. Disappointment was palpable. The goods were temporarily stored in the local church and the women of the village had insisted a solution be found before Sunday mass. 

It is said that charismatic anti-colonial leader Amílcar Cabral had ordered for the instruments to be distributed equally in places that had access to electricity, which placed them mainly in schools.
This distribution was best thing that could have happened - keyboards found fertile grounds in the hands of curious children, born with an innate sense of rhythm and these children picked up instruments that were easy to use and would become instrumental for modernising local rhythms such as Mornas, Coladeras and the highly danceable music style called Funaná, banned by the Portuguese colonial rulers until 1975 probably due to the fact that it was too sexy!

Observation was made that the children who came into contact with the instruments found on the ship had prodigious capabilities to understand music and learn instruments. One of them was the musical genius Paulino Vieira who by the end of the 70s would become the country´s most important music arranger. 

8 out of the 15 songs presented in this compilation had been recorded with the backing of the band Voz de Cabo Verde lead by Paulino Vieira, the mastermind behind the creation and the promulgation of what is known today as “The Cosmic Sound of Cabo Verde”. 




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hi frends

here´s a ruff free download  SOUND VOYAGE  (Niko Schabel ,Radio Citizen & Tom Wieland , 7 Samurai) edit of one of the best kept lo fi 80´s Afro Synth private press secrets for you.
Sounds like Maurice Fulton stranded  in Congo ? ,originally released 1980 on Julien´s own imprint in France on wax, Julien Babinga Records ‎– JB 003  .
Thnx Makossa for reminding me of this beauty !

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From Cosmic Cabo Verde to synth-reggae at the Horn of Africa.

(Special Mix for Vinyl Factory)
Frankfurt-based label Analog Africa is easily one of the most noteworthy labels rescuing and reissuing Afro sounds.

In 2015, the label gave us an exceptional anthology of Afro-Cuban pioneer Amara Touré, not to mention a compilation of tracks plucked straight from the dance floors of ’70s Senegal. Last year, they blew our human minds with some of the most extraterrestrial synth music we’ve ever heard on Space Echo.

This year, the label turns ten. To celebrate label boss Samy Ben Redjeb and his DJ partner Pedo Knopp have recorded a special mix which we’re delighted to share here.

“What is special about this mix is the fact that all the songs, except one, will be released on Analog Africa in 2017,” says Samy. “They have all been handpicked by myself and mixed in real time, without loops or any other kind of gimmicks by Pedo.”

It’s a synth-ridden journey from reggae in the Horn of African to Cosmic sounds of Cabo Verde, wavey soca-boogie monsters and other proto-electronic Afro jams.

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Analog Africa Selection Vol.6 (2017) - 10 Years Anniversary Mix - Download and Share it !!!

Taken from Analog Africa No.11 - the Bariba Sound, hailed from the northern city of Parakou in Benin. Twisted afrobeat of a different kind....finally!!

Ko Guere (Folklore Bariba) - Super Borgou de Parakou

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