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CANYON

Elephant Jumping Vol.4 Highlife 45 Special !!!

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 !!!

Sunset Road(Remastered Version)

Good friend of The Lake Radio DJ Pallaksch aka Kikuhara Seiji is an extraordinaire selector. This Paradise Urumajima mix is created out of tunes mainly from 1960s-1970s but strictly vinyl from Okinawa in Japan, encompasses spiraling atmospherics, enticing grooves and blooming  sequences. 
Tune in - bliss out.

MIXTAPE: Paradise Urumajima by DJ Pallaksch

This track is EDIT of "A-IWAF" by TEKLE TESFAZGI / AXUM RECORDS A-003 / 1975 / Ethiopia
DOWNLOAD ALBUM → yasuhiromori.bandcamp.com/album/ethio-breaks

A-IWAF ethiobreaksEDIT

Recorded live at Nachtdigital Festival (Rave Cave) on August 5, 2017

AKIRAM EN at Nachtdigital 20

Traditional Japanese instrumentation broken into hypertextural ambient music. That describes the sound of Sugai Ken well. He is releasing his new album UkabazUmorezU tomorrow on the New Yorker label RVNG Intl. A record he describes as conjuring the “subtle and profound ambience of night in Japan,” it collects 11 hypnotic ambient pieces constructed from field recordings taken around his home of Kanagawa and its local performing arts center. Here he has carefully collected some gems from RVNG Intl catalogue. It is a beautiful, drifting listening experience. definitely a special treat for fans of intricate sonic textures and expanding soundscapes. 

More info:  
http://www.facebook.com/SUGAIKEN
http://igetrvng.com/shop/rvngnl40

Tracklist
Pauline Anna Strom - Mushroom Trip - (RVNG Intl.)
Blues Control & Laraaji - Freeflow - (RVNG Intl.)
Visible Cloaks & dip in the pool - Valve (Revisited) - (RVNG Intl.)
Bing & Ruth - We Are on the Side of Angels - (RVNG Intl.)
Craig Leon - Nommo - (RVNG Intl.)
Steve Gunn & Mike Cooper - Saudade Do Santos O Vehlos - (RVNG Intl.)
Pauline Anna Strom - The Unveiling - (RVNG Intl.)
Borden, Ferraro, Godin, Halo & Lopatin - Internet Gospel Pt. 2 - (RVNG Intl.)

MIXTAPE: Tympanic Sound-Lakes From RVNG Intl by Sugai Ken

Heavy, percussive club beats with irresistible hooks and street-wise raps in Yoruba, Igbo or pidgin English—Nigerian pop music, increasingly known by the much-debated term Afrobeats, is the sound that moves Lagos and the sound of Lagos that moves the world. But it wasn’t always this way! Starting in the early 1990s, a new musical movement was born in Nigeria. Ten years into a series of military dictatorships that almost completely destroyed the Nigerian music industry, artists including Junior & Pretty, the Remedies and Plantashun Boiz brought a new, youth-centric style drawing heavily on r&b, hip-hop and reggae, with plenty of local style. Twenty years later, this music has exploded from the margins to the Nigerian mainstream and grown into an international pop music phenomenon, spreading across the African continent and influencing U.S. and U.K. tastes. Musical, political, cultural, technological and economic developments have turned the sound of Lagos pop music into a massive industry of artists, labels, radio and television stations, video directors, PR firms and more. We’ll hear the story of the birth and development of this scene straight from the influential and foundational figures who lived it, including 2Face Idibia (2Baba), DJ Jimmy Jatt, Sound Sultan, Eedris Abdulkareem, and Kenny Ogungbe of the legendary Kennis Music label and Ray Power FM. We will also hear from current stars including Iyanya, Yemi Alade, Adekunle Gold and Flavour, visit Clarence Peter’s music video studio, and hear from the producers who define the sound, including Young John, Ikon and Cobhams Asuquo.

Produced by Morgan Greenstreet. Hosted by Siji Awoyinka. Photo by Kazeem Akinpelu

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APWW #765

Distributed 10/26/2017

Lagos and the Rise of Nigerian Afrobeats

Pre-Inferno Morning Mix

[APWW #667] [Originally aired 2013]
This Hip Deep edition, based on field work in Ghana, tells the story of how highlife turned into Afro-funk. Guitarist/composer/bandleader Ebo Taylor, at 77, is our principle guide, taking us to his hometown Saltpond to explore the roots of his complex sound, and recounting his highlife years, and his deep study of American jazz in London in the early 60s—all part of a remarkable mix.  We also hear from Ghanaian Afro-funk pioneer Gyedu Blay Ambolley and other observers and veterans of this history.  Among the figures that interweave this story are James Brown, his most successful African successor Geraldo Pino, and, of course, the creator of Nigerian Afrobeat (a variety of Afro-funk), Fela Anikulapo Kuti. Produced by Banning Eyre.

Hip Deep Ghana 1:  Ebo Taylor and the Pioneers of Afro-Funk

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Elephant Jumping Vol.4 Highlife 45 Special !!!

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