Afro Spectrum

Caribbean Heat

Disco Dancer afro

Manu Dibango – African Voodoo

Rare Disco, Italo, Synth-pop, Zouk

Funklordz Radio

HUNEE - part 2

Lafayette Afro - Rock Band - Azeta

hallelujah chicken run band - Mwana Wamai Dada Naye

Taken from the forthcoming Remixed with Love Record Store Day Vinyl EP, the soft rock classic gets the extended disco workout it always deserved...

Also included on this ep with be Trammps "Come Together" Joey Negro Philly Dub Excursion and Karen Young "Hot Shot" Breakdown Dub

This will be a vinyl only release, no downloads. though it may be included on REMIXED WITH LOVE Vol 2 in 2015

Nicolette Larson "Lotta Love" (Joey Negro Yacht Disco Mix)

Sir Victor Uwaifo - Ohue

Back Stabbers

I Picked A Winner

Love Games (Expanded Edition)

Don't Jump to Conclusions

Tropical Gangsters

I'm A Wonderful Thing, Baby

Upside Down / Music Of Many Colours

2000 Blacks Got To Be Free (feat. Roy Ayers)

https://BBEmusic.lnk.to/LoveMeForReal
DJ, edit maestro, buyer for Juno records and founder of the excellent Mukatsuku imprint, Nik Weston is no stranger to the world of afro- centric music. Having fallen in love with our two recent reissues of ultra rare records by Ghanaian afro-disco pioneer Rim Kwaku Obeng, Nik got to work re- editing a track from each release. Both versions are now extremely DJ friendly. "Love Me For Real" by Rim & Kasa is an instantly seductive disco killer with an ever-growing groove, cleverly looped up by Mr Weston for maximum impact. "Gas Line" has a real funk edge thanks to it's tight horn section and call-response vocal. Nick's edit takes it new heights, keeping that addictive groove going and going.
Already receiving support from Kon, Volcov, Faze Action and Marc Hype among many others, don't sleep on these stunning edits.

Rim & Kasa - Love Me For Real (Nik Weston Edit)

The Very Best Of

Nkongsamba

You Can Win

Download link: https://oscilator.bandcamp.com/album/your-love

Jo Bisso - Your Love (FWH Dirty Vinyl Edit)

Koumbe Trahison

Bouchira

Hlabalaza - a wicked proto-kwaito club jam by rarely known The Bees from South-Africa. Released on the band's debut album "She's A Witch" on On Records in 1988, Hlabalaza combines a funky groove with some outstanding instrumental solos and leaves you no choice but to move your body.

GET IT!

The Bees - Hlabalaza (CM Edit)

Oby Onyioha is a Nigerian singer and songwriter. She was born in Lagos and brought up in the eastern part of Nigeria. Her father was the Head of the Godian Religion. With its message of universal unity and its philosophy of “biri ka’m biri” (live and let live), Godaism seeks to bring harmony among the people of different religions in spite of their diversities. 

Raised in this philosophy, Oby Onyioha first burst onto the Nigerian music scene in 1981 with the album “I Want To Feel Your Love” (Time Records Nigeria) which was named after her hugely successful single of the same title and also includes the two-stepping, finger snapping song “Enjoy Your Life”, with classic strings and freedom love themed lyrics making it a motivational anthem one cannot resist to dance on. The debut album was a huge success and took the Nigerian music scene by storm, at a time when disco music was considered the exclusive domain of western artists.

Oby Onyioha - Enjoy Your Life (JH Edit)

In Conclusion (Ben Gomori Edits)

Bar Konon Mousso (Musicien C'est Pas Quelqu'un) [Ben Gomori N'est Pas Musicien Edit]

Welcome aboard for the 4th instalment of Africa Airways,  fasten your seat belts and enjoy the trip.

It's just over 3 years since we launched the Africa Seven label in Paris and London.  Our first release back then (Airways One) is still our best seller and had to be repressed 4 times so far.  Forty or so releases later it is time to take to the clouds again.  Being the unimaginative bunch we are, the fourth installment of our African sky filled musical cornucopia is called African Airways Four (Disco Funk Touchdown - 1976 - 1983).  This time around all tunes have the Disco flavour.  As ever it's all about the music...  the skies are wide and funky and the air is filled with musical goodness.  Your flight is about to leave.

Your flight opens with a punchy disco funk assault from Paris based Cameroonian Tala AM. Here with his drive bass and guitar funk riff 1981 stomper "Get Up Tchmassi".  Next up and staying with the Cameroonian connection is Eko with "Bowaa Mba Ngebe".  The lyrics talk of accomplishing the things in life for your family and yourself. The sweeping strings and gloriously uplifting music matching the sentiments of the words perfectly.    Uta Bella began singing in the 60's and by the time disco hit in the 70's she was already established a singer in her native Cameroon, here the locked on groove of "Nassa Nassa" is a perfect snapshot of the sound and the African disco times.  

Charly Kingson (cousin of Manu Dibango) is next with his "Nimele Bolo".  Recorded in Germany with the cream of Munich's session musicians the bass synth is out in force on this one.  Punchy brass, rock solid grooves and jazzy Rhodes add all the right ingredients for a fine disco synth excursion.   Next is the musical heavyweight from Cameroon cousin Manu with his 1978 Disco, jazz funk masterpiece "Sun Explosion".  

Side two opens with a blast of Elvis Kemayo and his piano and guitar funk bomb "Biram". Next Momo Joseph gives us "Africain".  Best known in France as an actor, this disco funk groover was released on his self pressed LP "War For Ground" in 1983.  A true gem indeed. Nigerian, ex Funkees member Jake Sollo is next with "Tinni Yanana".  Recorded in the UK in 83 its slick and smooth with a hint of "at the car wash" groove. Pierre Didy Tchakounte follows on with his soul funk 'golden years' style groover "Soul Magabe".  Produced by one of our favourite Parisian producers Slim Pezin.  We close off our journey with the tribal chant disco-funk special from the Monstars "Funny Saga".

Ladies and Gentleman, we have landed at your destination, please remain seated until the aircraft has reached the terminal. We look forward to welcoming you aboard Africa Airways again soon.

Charly Kingson - Nimele Bolo [CLIP]

Munk & Peaches - You Can't Run From My Love (Classixx Remix)

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You Can't Run From My Love (Classixx Remix) - Munk & Peaches

Rose Arrangements #2 - The Skyscraper

1) Depths Above - Richard Souther - Innermission (1986)
2) Lights - Trevor Bastow - Undergroove (1980)
3) Billboard - Dave Lawson - Current Affairs (1981)
4) West Coast - Sphinx - Moments (1986)
5) Disco Satellite - Gianni Safred - Futuribile: The Life to Come (1980)
6) Hold On To Your Dreams - Holger Czukay, Jah Wobble & The Edge - Snake Charmer (1983)
7) On the Air (Frankie Francis Edit) - Lexy Mella - Interstellar Interlude (2016)
8) Relax Robots - Slim Pezin - Percussions Modernes Vol.2 (1984)
9) Disco Coda - Tim Souster - Nice and Nasty (1982)
10) The Dancing Phantom - Richard Peaslee - Passage (1980)
11) Loving Sweet Devotion (Sweeter mix) - Idiater Edwards - Loving Sweet Devotion (1985)
12) Harmonic Terminal - Roland Bocquet - Robot Rose (Claviers Synthetiseur) (1982)
13) Quest - Bias Boshell - Bold Front (1985)
14) Ocean Move - Arthur Russell - Corn (2015)

“Figure 3 - The Skyscraper. This sculptural arrangement was the winner of the gold arrangement certificate at the Chicago International Show.  It uses metal stampings and Tropicana roses, the only plant material.  It was entered by V. J. Stankiewicz, Saginaw, MI.”

Rose Arrangements

🌹RA#2 - The Skyscraper

Dirty Money

Another Future Funk track I mixed
Sample: Mark Fisher - Love Situation

Tareso - Love Situation

Gidayyat ft. TOUCHY - Аморе

Lost my dad back in 2006, obviously life hasn't been the same but I try my best to carry his knowledge on and make him and my mother proud daily. Thank you sooo soo much for listening. I know he stills watches over us and protects us from any harm (:

Exclusive

The Vision Is Heaven Sent (Dedicated To My Papa; R.I.P.) [5/12/2019]

Soundway Records present ’24 Hours in A Disco 1978 - 82’, 7 cuts of relentless disco grooves from the sublimely gifted Kiki Gyan. Hailed as Africa’s answer to Stevie Wonder, Ghanaian multi-instrumentalist Kiki Gyan was a musical wunderkind who by 1975 had risen from the lowly status of high school dropout to being ranked eighth in a poll of the greatest keyboardists in the world (occupying the rarefied air of the top ten with heavyweights like Steve Winwood, Billy Preston, and Stevie Wonder) as well as becoming an in-demand session player in the top recording studios of London - all before his twenty-first birthday. 

Out on his own, he produced a series of highly ambitious disco records aimed at positioning him as an international star, but weighed down by the excesses of the era, Gyan saw his meteoric rise matched by an equally swift fall back into obscurity. 

Loved dearly by his contemporaries and sorely missed since his death in 2005 the story of the life of Kofi Kwarko ‘Kiki’ Gyan is one often told with warning by his friends to the new generation of aspiring Ghanaian popstars.

Soundway Records now collects the best of Gyan’s work as a frontman and solo artist, featuring an array of electrifying disco grooves that still sound contemporary (and in some cases futuristic) decades after their initial release.

Released on CD and 2xLP both formats are accompanied with detailed liner notes written by Uchenna Ikonne. LP version comes with a free MP3 download of the release. 

Kiki Gyan - Disco Dancer

Automatic Dub

African Voodoo

African Pop Session

Soul Saxes Meeting

Walking to Waza

Ba-Kuba

Home Made

Sun Explosion

Groovy Flute

Out of Score

This recording was inspired by the set I played at the "Distance No Object" party in NYC in 2009.  This weekend ended up being the impetus for the formation of my old label, Borrowed Language.  Vinyl mix.

Robert Henke - Exit - ICM
Scuba - Tell Her - Hotflush
Meat Beat Manifesto - Less - Planet Mu
Shackleton - The Branch Is Weak (Geiom Remix) - Skull Disco
Scuba - The Upside (Martyn's Down Mix) - Hotflush
Surgeon - At The Heart of It All - Tresor
Jus Wan - The Crossing - Tube 10
Efdemin - Acid Bells (Martyn's Dark Mix) - Metisse
Vex'd - Fire - Planet Mu
Jus Wan - Action Potential - Apple Pips
Martyn - Vancouver - 3024
Ad Vanz vs. Gescom - Viral - Fat Cat
Monolake - Alaska (Surgeon Remix) - ML / I
Surgeon - Dialogue (Mick Harris Remake) - Tresor
A-List - The Great Traitor - Remnants
69 - Ladies and Gentlemen - Planet E

Silence Envy / Recorded for Distance No Object, NYC (06/19/09)