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Taken from The Volcano Brothers EP on B.I.S. Records, Inc. 

Limited edition 12" out now. 

The Volcano Brothers "Neocolonialism Is Strong Tea" B.I.S. Records, Inc

Support William Onyeabor at luakabop.com/onyeabor or at iTunes georiot.co/1uDa

Coming on Luaka Bop October 15

For questions or to work with this song, please contact eric at luakabop dot com

William Onyeabor - Good Name

Soundway present a very limited vinyl-only re-issue of an obscure LP by the enigmatic Nigerian artist Easy Kabaka Brown. The LP was originally released and recorded by Philips / Phonogram in 1976 and only sold in very small numbers. Musically it's a intriguing mix of mostly Nigerian highlife with a bit of afro-jazz sung in the language of Kalabari from the Delta region of Southern Nigeria.  From the bouncy good times of Belema to the deeper extended afro workout of Agboho this unique album stands out from thousands of others of it's time with a sound of its own that draws on many influences, with Congolese and latin touches to jazz trumpet and psychedelic organ lines.

Easy Kabaka Brown (Opotopo was his nickname) was a versatile and eccentric musician who recorded two full length albums (this is the first) and only a couple of 45s. We at Soundway have deemed this record way too sweet  to be forgotten, only to gradually ebb away and disappear with time. It's a record that will give you a golden, warm feeling. Your toes will tap, your face should smile and it certainly deserves to be heard by far more than only the few hundred people who bought it nearly 40 years ago. Strictly limited to 1000 x 180g vinyl copies and released in a rigid paste-on sleeve, these will not last long so don't sleep!

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Easy Kabaka Brown - Belema

Soundway Records present ‘Africa Special’, a digital only collection that draws on some the best songs from their genre defining African compilations ('Ghana Special', 'Nigeria Special' & 'Kenya Special'). Compiled by label boss Miles Cleret, ‘Africa Special’ focuses on tracks that are particularly 'African' in sound as opposed the US influenced 'Afro' records that also feature on these compilations. From Ghanaian highlife to Nigerian blues, Kenyan benga and Congolese influenced sounds, ‘Africa Special’ is a condensed volume featuring musicians from all over Africa that were resident in Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya in the 1960s, 70s & 80s (the golden era of African music).

The earliest Soundway compilation to feature on this new compilation is the now seminal ‘Nigeria Special: Modern Highlife, Afro-Sounds & Nigerian Blues 1970-6’. Described by NPR as "essential", 'Nigeria Special' was the start of a series that spawned the equally vital ‘Ghana Special: Modern Highlife, Afro Sounds & Ghanaian Blues 1968 – 1981’ and this year’s acclaimed ‘Kenya Special: Selected East African Recordings from the 1970s & ‘80s’.  

Soundway Records was conceived in 2002 by label owner Miles Cleret whilst returning from Ghana in 2001 with bags of dusty old 45s and LPs that had mostly not been heard outside the former Gold Coast since their original release. Soundway’s first release 'Ghana Soundz - Afro-beat, Funk & Fusion in 70's Ghana' was the start of a series of well recieved compilation albums that made available classic and obscure recordings that had previously never made it out of the countries they were originally recorded in.

ALSO FEATURED ON: Ghana Special: Modern Highlife, Afro Sounds & Ghanaian Blues 1968 - 1981

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Kyeremateng Stars – I Go Die for You

Ndiri Ndanogio Niwe (Meistro Sol Power Remix)

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Support William Onyeabor at http://luakabop.com/onyeabor or at iTunes http://georiot.co/1uDa.

Courtesy of Merge Records and Daphni aka Caribou aka Dan Snaith, this re-work of William Onyeabor's When The Going is Smooth & Good has been made available as a free download.

"World Psychedelic Classics 5: Who Is William Onyeabor?" is out now on Luaka Bop.

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Ye Ye by Daphni (from William Onyeabor's "When the Going is Smooth & Good")

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About the EP: http://www.akwaabamusic.com/countries/nigeria-countries/edoheart-sosomoneycockplease-ep/

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Edoheart - Sosomoneycockplease (Mpula's Cuca And Castrol Oil Can Remix)

Ibibio Sound Machine are set to release their debut LP through Soundway Records. Fronted by British / Nigerian vocalist Eno Williams, they combine elements of West African highlife, disco, post-punk & psychedelic electro soul. Preceded by the pulsating first single 'Let's Dance', ‘Ibibio Sound Machine’ will be released 17th March.

Folk stories, recounted to Eno by her family as a child in her mother's South-Eastern Nigerian Ibibio language form the creative lyrical fabric of the album. A large dose of electronic elements and an approach as influenced by London as much as by West Africa, give the vocals and guitar lines space to breath without being overwhelmed.

From the banging sub-bass of 'Lets Dance' to the spiritual, gospel-tinged notes of the album's opening track 'Voice of the Bird', the band have turned in a dynamic and, at times, beautiful take on modern afro-soul music.

The 8-piece live band made their official live debut at this year's Transmusicales in France and will be a name to look out for in 2014. 

PRE-ORDER IBIBIO SOUND MACHINE - OUT 17th MARCH

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Ibibio Sounds Machine - Let's Dance (Yak Inek Unek)

Tafsiri is the Swahili (Kenyan lingua franca) word for translation and interpretation in the linguistic and lyrical sense. Sauntering down the trail blazed by Theo Parrish – who reworked ‘Wires’ with signature swagger – is another kindred spirit and Worldwide heavyweight – Quantic – who nudges ‘Doyoi Nyajo Nam’ firmly, but sensitively, towards club dancefloors via a monstrous Afro-funky groove packing XXL drums and rib-rattling bass. The original Owiny jam has become a Worldwide favourite… Quantic’s rerub ups its status to “Summer Festival Anthem”.

The flip sees Owiny Sigoma Band co-founders Jesse Hackett (keys) and Tom Skinner (drums) tweaking ‘Margaret Okudo’ and ‘Owegi Owandho’ respectively: Jesse flipping 80s drum machine hits, heavily dubbed vocals and FX on the former to forge a delightfully loose-fitting, percussive groove; whilst Skinner transforms Joseph Nyamungu’s virtuoso nyatiti/vocal solo into a gloriously skittery freeform bass jam.

A1. Owiny Sigoma Band - Doyoi Nyajo Nam (Quantic Remix)
A2. Owiny Sigoma Band - Doyoi Nyajo Nam (Quantic Dub)
B1. Owiny Sigoma Band - Margaret Okudo (Jesse Hackett Dancehall Remix)
B2. Owiny Sigoma Band - Owegi Owandho (Hello Skinny Remix)

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Amazon: http://www.amazon.fr/Tafsiri-Sound/dp/B008OYHVRO/ref=sr_shvl_album_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1370359231&sr=301-1

Owiny Sigoma Band - Tafsiri Sound 12"

FREE - or donation - DOWNLOAD HERE: https://ajholmesandthehackneyempire.bandcamp.com/track/fraudian-sip-ft-kastro-single-edit

This track is on DEBUTE ALBUM by A.J HOLMES AND THE HACKNEY EMPIRE : WEDDING
FREE - or donation - DOWNLOAD WHOLE ALBUM HERE: https://ajholmesandthehackneyempire.bandcamp.com/album/wedding-me-ware-wo-album

Also on: itunes.apple.com/gb/album/wedding/id595072880


Fraudian Slip feat:  Kastro - Produced by Radioclit -(download in the description)

Free DLs on Owiny Sigoma Band's 'Doyoi Nyajo Nam' rubbed and dubbed by Worldwide favourite and all round gent Quantic. Taken from the Tafsiri Sound EP - 12" & Digital out now on Brownswood Recordings - featuring Quantic's storming vocal mix plus further reworks by Jesse Hackett and Hello Skinny.

Buy via Brownswood Store (FREE MP3s WHEN YOU BUY THE VINYL):
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Amazon: http://www.amazon.fr/Tafsiri-Sound/dp/B008OYHVRO/ref=sr_shvl_album_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1370359231&sr=301-1

Owiny Sigoma Band - Doyoi Nyajo Nam (Quantic Dub)

Soundway return once more to the Caribbean and are proud to present ‘Ifetayo’ by Black Truth Rhythm Band originally released in 1976. Led by the charismatic Oluko Imo, ‘Ifetayo’ was the only release from the Afro-centric, Trinidadian band and is re-issued here for the first time on CD, vinyl and digital. Whereas most of their peers at the time were looking to the funk of the USA & James Brown for inspiration, Black Truth Rhythm Band looked to Africa, fusing rhythms from Africa & the West Indies with elements of jazz, funk, calypso and soul.

From an early stage in their career it was the African influence that set Black Truth Rhythm Band apart from other West Indian bands. Formed in 1971, the group looked further a field than the USA for their influences, more specifically to Africa, even going as far as giving themselves African names and dressing in African clothes. At the time finding African records in the West Indies was particularly difficult, making the bands choice of influences even more rare.

In 1975 Imo took his musicians into the studio to record the album ‘Ifetayo’. Imo played bass, kalimba, conga, flute and percussion as well as lead vocals.  The album was released the following year in 1976 and despite being released in the US, remained an underground, albeit unique and forward thinking record that has remained out of print for years now.

‘Ifetayo’ was to be the only release from Black Truth Rhythm Band but Imo continued his music and love of African rhythms, going onto record with Fela Kuti in 1988 and later on perform with members of Fela’s Egypt 80 band.

All formats comes with a non-album bonus track. The vinyl edition comes with bonus 7″

Black Truth Rhythm Band - Umbala

This is the http://soundcloud.com/konradoldmoney remix of 

you can download it here for FREE: http://ajholmesandthehackneyempire.co.uk/ enjoy!

A.J. Holmes & The Hackney Empire - The Story Of The New Electric Hi-Life ft: Folo Graff.

The original is party their debut album - Wedding (me ware wo) released on Moringa Music this November

Enjoy!


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website: www.konradoldmoney.com
soundcloud . www.soundcloud.com/konradoldmoney

Through carefully blending influences of Global Bass, soul, Dancehall, Polish Folk, Hip-Hop, and Electronica, Konrad OldMoney pushes the limits of New Age music. He has worked with a variety of artists from around the globe: Afrikan Boy, The Very Best, Redman, Das Racist, Skyzoo, Ninjasonik, Tigarah, Eek-a-mouse, Drunken Tiger JK, Yoon Mirae, M.I.B of Jungle Ent and more. Played by forward-thinking music selectors the world over, his music often tops the charts at Hype Machine and he has charted #1 on the Twitter Music Chart.

Currently, he produces for Superfuturemusic group, Smokey Robotic, where his work has been featured in a commercial campaign for Movado watches, featured on MTV Korea, and placed #1 on Korean music charts. He has also collaborated with The Creators Project (Intel and VICE), a global celebration of art and technology featuring visionary artists from around the world that are pushing the boundaries of creative expression.
 
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Story Of The New Electric Hi - Life (Konrad OldMoney Remix)

Taken from Batida's soon to be released Alegria EP, the second remix laden offshoot single from his debut LP released early this year. Mixing the syncopated, synthetic rhythms of kuduro with elements of classic 1970s semba and congolese-influenced guitar licks Batida's creator Pedro Coquenão and others have extended and re-worked three of the best album cuts.
 
For the EP Batida has re-worked and extended the feel-good cut ‘Alegria’ (which featured on his debut album released earlier this year), stretching it out over six minutes as well as providing a radio friendly edit. As the name of the track suggests 'Alegria' is perhaps the most joyous cut from the record, here strung out for the dancefloor.
 
More info on the release can be found here:
http://www.soundwayrecords.com/catalogue/alegria-ep.html


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Batida - Alegria (12" extended version)

Sol Power All Star (DC) remix of Fatou Kounkoun Sissoko from forthcoming full-length album by Cheick Hamala Diabate titled Dounouya (The Whole World). 

Cheick Hamala Diabate is a musician from Mali, West Africa who has been nominated for a Grammy award. Using Adelphi, Maryland as his home he travels all over the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia. He has performed at the Kennedy Center, the United States Senate, and the Smithsonian Institution. Cheick Hamala was born into a griot family in Kita, Mali. From a young age he learned to play the ngoni, a stringed instrument related to the American banjo. In addition, Cheick has learned the history of Mali passed down for over 800 years. Cheick has performed internationally. He is recognized as one of the world's masters of the ngoni, a Malian traditional instrument and a West African historian in the Griot tradition. 

The Sol Power All-Stars are a Washington DC-based DJ and production crew. They currently hold down a twice-monthly residency called SHRINE at Tropicalia nightclub in Washington, DC.

Prudence

Fatou Kounkoun Sissoko

Cheick Hamala Diabate - Fatou Kounkoun Sissoko (Sol Power All-Star Remix) Acid Bass

From forthcoming EP on Electric Cowbell Records. Cheick Hamala Diabate gets 'remixed-up' by some of the finest purveyors of groove on the planet who give their own unique spin to a Cheick Hamala Diabate original-'Prudence'-with the the addition of DC's Sol Power All Stars remix of another original 'Fatou Kounkoun Sissoko.' Destined to become a world-class burner EP pressed on high-quality vinyl and released April 2013-Cheick Mix highlights an ancient-to-the-future aspect of  Cheick Hamala's breadth as a genre-bending experimental artist who has one foot firmly planted in tradition and roots but also a keen focused eye on the limitless possibilities of cross-cultural exchange via global collaboration with artists outside of his legacy as a griot.

Cheick Hamala Diabate is a musician from Mali, West Africa who has been nominated for a Grammy award. Using Adelphi, Maryland as his home he travels all over the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia. He has performed at the Kennedy Center, the United States Senate, and the Smithsonian Institution. Cheick Hamala was born into a griot family in Kita, Mali. From a young age he learned to play the ngoni, a stringed instrument related to the American banjo. In addition, Cheick has learned the history of Mali passed down for over 800 years. Cheick has performed internationally. He is recognized as one of the world's masters of the ngoni, a Malian traditional instrument and a West African historian in the Griot tradition.

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Fatou (Sol Power All-Stars Remix)

In anticipation of the forthcoming Kenya Special: Selected East African Recordings from the 1970s and '80s compilation, Soundway release a special remix and edit 12" featuring two tracks from the collection and two exclusives. 

The A side kicks off with Batida's remix of a 1977 benga 45 (Ndiri Ndanogio Niwe) from the Mbiri Young Stars.  Fast 120bpm plus 4/4 rhythms with liquid guitars and machine-gun drumming are married with kuduro drum programming. Second up and surging with sub bass, British production duo The Busy Twist inject The Kalambya Boys' Kivelenge (also from 1977) with a slice of London club culture. Many late 70s Kenyan benga 45s were cut loud and heavy with often ludicrous amounts of low end squeezed onto sides that technically shouldn’t have exceeded three-and-a-half mins but frequently topped five. Perfect fodder for remixes these cuts were way ahead of their time production-wise and sound even more amazing considering the limited equipment Kenyan engineers had at their disposal in the late '70s.

On the flip Sofrito's Frankie Francis subtly tweaks a sublime Nairobi Matata Jazz track from the mid '70s: focusing on the wobbly guitar lines and letting the blaring horns speak for themselves. Consisting of both Kenyan and Congolese musicians Nairobi Matata Jazz were a perfect example of how rumba from Congo (which consumed East Africa in the 1970s) was blended with rat-a-tat-tat benga style Kenyan drum patterns and Swahili language vocals. These same rhythms are in full effect on the last track by the Gatanga Boys Band, edited and chopped up by Hide and Smile (Frankie Francis and Miles Cleret) - super fast instrumental benga guitar and drum interplay, heavy on the cymbals and dynamite on the floor.

A2 - Kalambya Boys - Kivelenge (The Busy Twist Remix)

Soundway Records present Kenya Special: Selected East African Recordings from the 1970s & ‘80s - a treasure-trove of rare and unusual recordings from East Africa. Spread out over two CDs and one triple LP, Kenya Special is accompanied by detailed liner notes, original artwork and photographs.It follows on from Soundway’s much acclaimed African ‘Special’ series that to date has focused on the highlife and afrobeat output from 1970s Nigeria and Ghana.

Kenya Special is a collection of 32 recordings (most of which were only ever released on small-run 45rpm 7" singles) that stand out as being different or unique as well as some classic genre standards. From Kikuyu language ‘liquid soul’, Luo benga and Swahili afrobeat to genre-bending Congolese and Tanzanian tracks recorded in Nairobi, Kenya Special sees Soundway yet again taking the less trodden path. Many of the tracks featured here are peppered with innovation and experimentation highlighting how diverse the music scene in Kenya was at the time. 

In 1970s Kenya the two threads of rumba and benga loosely dominated the music scene. Benga quickly became Kenya’s unique contribution to afro-pop; spreading like wildfire through the interior countryside with it’s fast, 4/4 machine-gun beat and intricate electric guitar layers. The Congolese take on Afro-Cuban rumba was introduced by touring bands many of whom settled in East Africa - influencing bands from Kenya and Tanzania to come up with their own take on this popular style. Alongside these styles were small ensembles and hotel-sponsored bands, playing a blend of music that often included rock ‘n’ roll riffs, elements of ‘afro’ music (influenced by West African musicians like Fela Kuti), and multiple other combinations from South African and Zambian guitar styles to disco, funk and Swahili coastal rhythms like chakacha.

Painstakingly compiled, assembled and researched over two years by a team of five people from five countries (Kenya included), Kenya Special is a collection that looks beyond the mainstream and brings new life and recognition to some little known gems and forgotten classics of Kenya’s past. 

The Rift Valley Brothers - Mu Africa (Kenya Special)

FRANCIS BEBEY, pionnier de la musique électronique africaine dans les années 70 a été rehabilité l'an passé grace à l'indispensable compilation "Francis Bebey - African Electronic Music 1975-1982" sortie l'an passé sur Born Bad Records. Sous la houlette de PILOOSKI, initiateur du projet, c'est aujourd'hui la crême des producteurs DJ qui s'est mobilisé pour lui rendre hommage avec un casting imparable allant de Pilooski à Daphni (Caribou) en passant par IT'S A FINE LINE (Ivan Smagghe et Tim Paris), YOUNG MARCO, POPULETTE et ETIENNE JAUMET ( Zombie Zombie).

PILOOSKI : @pilooski
DAPHNI :@caribouband
IT'S A FINE LINE MIX : Welove – Its-a-fine-line-tim-paris-ivan-smagghe-we-love-space-ibiza
FRANCIS BEBEY : www.bornbadrecords.net/releases/fran…ic-1976-1982/

FRANCIS BEBEY "COFFEE COLA" (Young Marco mix)

Sol Power house remix of Atakora Manu's deep African jam.

Bebo Me Nkomo (Sol Power All-Stars Remix)

Tall man come. Play music. People dance.

He make rare & exceptional parties called What the...?

Before that came pigeonhold, and Invisible College.

He would record more mixes but the party is the thing. And he's busy.

He also sell dusty old audio gear at soundgas.com

[Check mixcloud for some stuff]



Afrocan

Lord Gid