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Sample is from “Dindin by Kimi Djabaté”

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Cafe Mambo's (Original Mix) - Dan Ficara

Drums remix of Get Down Saturday Night
« 2023 edit » remastered remix

Get Down Saturday Night - Olivier Cheatham (Maxsrine 2023 edit)

Anita Ward - Can't Nobody Love Me Like You Do (Kocho Edit)

Kalita are excited to announce the first ever re-release of ‘Adzagli (Jungle Funk)’ and ‘A Song For You (Ayawa)’, two phenomenal pieces of West African disco from Amsterdam’s Kofi Ayivor. Selected from his sought-after Nigerian 1981 self-titled debut album ‘Kofi’, at last these two recordings see the light of day once more via a loud-cut remastered 12” single. In addition, Kalita enlists fellow Amsterdam resident, DJ and producer Mendel to create his own remix of each recording, using the original multitrack session tapes to rework both for the modern-day dancefloor.

After having experienced life travelling with E.T. Mensah, as a percussionist for Afro rock supergroup Osibisa, and then as producer for Brit funk band Hi-Tension, in 1980 Kofi decided it was time to release his own solo album. With his own release, he could showcase his skills as a master drummer, combining these with the prevailing disco sound that had by this time taken over Western and West African airwaves. As he recalls, ‘all this time, especially on Osibisa's United States tour, I began to critically examine the difference between our native African music and the element of it that had been incorporated into popular Western music. And so my search began to find a modern African sound’.

Kofi was joined on both recordings by various musical superstars of the time, including Osibisa members Kiki Gyan and Jake Sollo, Eddy Grant on guitar and Theadora Ifudu on improvised backing vocals, and in 1981 the album was released on CBS’ Nigerian imprint. Unfortunately, without a touring sponsor and much label support the record soon faded into obscurity, and the record was lost.

Now, forty years later and with original copies highly sought-after and selling for triple figures on the second-hand market, Kalita unearth this masterpiece once more, accompanied by two remixes courtesy of Mendel.

Adzagli (Jungle Funk)

A Song For You (Ayawa) (Mendel Mix)

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B1. Kofi Ayivor - A Song For You (Ayawa) (Mendel Mix)

Seyyal T - Naciye Yeah

L.T.D - You Gave Me Love (Another George Edit)

Assembled an all time great starting eleven for this Zouk, Soca, Latin House, Disco, Brazilian Groove, Tropical Edits compilation. The finest selectors edit makers, reworking very sought after and rare tracks to make it even more dancefloor friendly. Likes of Hunee and Palms Trax are already playing it !

Seyyal T - Naciye Yeah

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