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Mix by Amino Belyamani of @dawn-of-midi. Collection of groovy music beyond genre and classification.

1 - I - Alla Al 'Hbab (Blessed Be My Friends), II - Hajti Fi Gurini (Longing for my Lover) by Cheb I Sabbah feat. Ouled Ben Auguda
2 - XMD 5a by Aphex Twin
3 - Triq Akchor by SSAHHA
4 - Telephasic Workshop by Boards of Canada
5 - Cheikh Anta Diop by Doudou N'Diaye Rose
6 - Paridiso by Konono Nº1
7 - Fenix Funk 5 by Aphex Twin

Sounds of Sónar by Dawn of Midi

1. David Liang - Moon Dance
2. Faye Wong - 分裂
3. 李宗盛, 盧冠廷 - 迷情
4. 黃耀明 - 畫出彩虹
5. 李克勤 - 藍月亮
6. 譚詠麟 - 你要等我 (Extended Version)
7. Anita Mui - 尋愛 
8. Prudence Lau - 生活一小時
9. 達明一派 - 離
10. Lowell Lo - 一生所愛
11. 達明一派 - 石頭記
12. 葉德嫻 - 好東西
13. Raidas - 吸煙的女人(remix +original)
14. 林憶蓮 - 三更夜半
15. 梅艶芳 - 愛我便說愛我吧
16. 陳慧嫻 - 地球大追蹤

MIXES

MR. HO - SANPO 055 - HK 87-97

"LOOK" - 10 min with Persian Empire
(video) www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlG3JYunMVo

video shot by Peter Friedrichs;
www.instagram.com/barkin.berlin
video released by Prrrrrrr Records;
@prrrrrrr-records
live music delivered by Persian Empire;
@perserreich

cover art by Paul Banker

Look

Persian Empire - Look (Video in Description)

I remember the day clearly. I was searching for treasures in a record shop in Yaoundé, the Capital city of Cameroon, when suddenly I came across a 7-inch record with a picture of a young man wearing a traditional hat and bearing the marks of several imposing vertical scars on the side of his face, carved when he was just a boy as a reminder of his heritage in the Musgum tribe of the northern part of the country.

The record contained two songs – ‘Gandjal Kessoum’ and ‘Touflé’ – by an artist I had never heard of before named Hamad Kalkaba. Both cuts were raw classics of fuzzed-out bass, pin-sharp horns, built upon the unshakable foundation of Northern Cameroon’s mightiest rhythm: the Gandjal. The shop owner - who noticed that I was listening to the same record over and over again - mentioned that ‘There is another single with a green cover of the same artist, if I am not mistaken’.

Over the next six years I searched for that ‘green cover’ and finally found it in a record collection belonging to an old bar in Parakou in northern Benin. While most of the records had been beaten and worn by a life spent in the jukebox, this one had been sitting in its paper sleeve for forty years, untouched and unplayed, seemingly waiting for us to pick it up and rip the two soulful Gandjal tunes from it, the masterpieces ‘Fouh Sei Allah’ and ‘Tchakoulaté’.

These two records, plus a third simply named ‘Nord Cameroon Rythms’ constitute the entire discography of Hamad Kalkaba. Neglected for decades by all but the most devoted collectors of Afro music, Hamad Kalkaba and the Golden Sounds at long last gathers together the body of work of one of Cameroon’s forgotten geniuses.

But unlike many musicians who emerged from nowhere, recorded a few singles and vanished again, Kalkaba hadn’t disappeared. Far from it. He was a distinguished public figure, a retired Colonel in the army of Cameroon, and a former member of Cameroon’s Olympic Selection Committee. When we tracked him down he was serving as president of the Confederation of African Athletics. And Although Kalkaba’s job kept him busy, and he seemed initially dismissive of the music he’d made as a young man, he turned out to be an enthusiastic ally in this project. He arranged interviews, helped fill in the blanks and, when we finally met him in Yaoundé in 2016, provided us with photographs, lyric sheets and notes.

During the interview Kalkaba explained how the songs recorded in the mid 1970s were part of a movement, a movement initiated by musicians from all around Cameroon who, with the help of keyboards, drum kits and electric guitars, had started to modernise the traditional rhythms of their regions. For Kalkaba it was no different and backed by his band the Golden Sounds, devoted himself to the promotion of the sounds of northern Cameroon.

One of the aims of Analog Africa is to showcase the colourful diversity of styles that exist in Africa and its diaspora and today we are very proud to be able to give these Gandjal tunes their first worldwide release.

Hamad Kalkaba and the Golden Sounds 1974 - 1975

Get the Record here:

Hamad Kalkaba - Astadjam Dada Saré(Leave a comment, tell kalkaba how much you love his song!)

Tango d'amour

222chopin是我遇過最狂的女rapper
我倆 第一次相遇 是在一個熱炒店
那時候還是小鼓手的我，沒有想到之後會成為她的製作人
這首會收錄在即將發行的水源合輯

222chopin:
https://soundcloud.com/pinpinwannapink

生氣的樹 Angry Tree

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