ChAmPeTa y Ma ritmos caribeños - MARAKATOØ

Sambingo [Champeta "Roots"]

PALENQUE ROCKERS VOL 1
Hace años soñábamos con realizar un disco de Reggae con los grandes artistas que admiramos en Jamaica. Este sueño se ha echo realidad, y ahora les presentamos esta nueva serie temática de Palenque Records: “Palenque Rockers Vol 1”. Vienen varios volúmenes con artistas como King Kong, Little Harry, Carl Dawkins, Foxy Brown y mas sorpresas. La nueva revolución del Reggae con tu sello favorito Palenque Records, el papa de la música fina. 

Recorded in Kingston Jamaica in Wave Studio. 
Produced By Lucas Silva ChampetaMan. 2021.
Mix and dub versions by Diego Gomez "Cerrero". 
Mastered and cut by Frank Merritt at The Carvery Studio, London. 

ENGLISH TEXT 
For years we've been dreaming about recording some original dancehall in Jamaica. So this dream came through and now we present you our new Series Collection : Palenque Afro-Rockers vol 1. Bless to the almighty Olodumare, we got into this mystical way to build and share great musical experiences with great artists in the history of Jamaican Reggae.
This first volume features King Kong, Super Black Carl Dawkins and Little Harry, all stars from different times in the history of dancehall. This is a homage to this artists we admire. 
Dj ChampetaMan has been a Dj since 1998, with Faraon Bantu Sound System. So we thought about the artist we played and loved inna the dancehall arena. So we thougt about the legendary King Kong, who introduces us to Carl Dawkins, Superblack and Little Harry. We had the great joy to record these dancehall bangers with these legendary singers, who reminds us some glorious and great moments in the history of reggae Dancehall and Sound Systems. 
Mystical Music to go high & Irie, and some great Dub Versions for you to get high and keep on fighting Babylon system. Waite for Vol 2 and Vol3 coming soon!! with more fire and more Reggae dancehall roots.  These recordings have been mixed by Diego gomez ( Cerrero ) from Llorona Records, doing some great Dub Versions for all the real music lovers in the world. 

KING KONG 
Born in Kingston, Thomas first recorded as a deejay at Tuff Gong studios in 1982, initially working under the name Junior Kong, named after his father. His debut single was "Pink Eye". He worked with GT and then his own Love Bunch sound system and then recorded for King Tubby's Firehouse label, now singing in a similar style to Tenor Saw. The early King Kong recordings for Tubby were over early digital rhythms, and included songs such as "AIDS" and "Babylon", and established him as a popular artist.His first album release was split with another of Tubby's singers, Anthony Red Rose, with Two Big Bull Inna One Pen issued on Firehouse. During 1986 and 1987, Kong recorded for several of Jamaica's top producers, including Prince Jammy, with whom he enjoyed his biggest hits with "Trouble Again" (the title track from his Jammy-produced debut album proper) and "Legal We Legal", Black Scorpio, Harry J, Errol Thompson, Ossie Hibbert, Bunny Lee, and Prince Jazzbo. While many of his songs were typical in content of the era, several of his songs had political and cultural themes. He released several albums during this period before relocating first to New York, and then to Canada in the late 1980s, where he released material occasionally on his Conscious Music label. The death of Tenor Saw in 1988 prompted King Kong to release "He Was a Friend" as a tribute, and in 1989 he relocated to England and recorded with Mafia & Fluxy and Gussie P in the early 1990s. He began recording more regularly again in the 2000s.

Champetaman A Kill Dem - KING KONG  / new release Palenque Rockers vol 1

PALENQUE ROCKERS VOL 1
Hace años soñábamos con realizar un disco de Reggae con los grandes artistas que admiramos en Jamaica. Este sueño se ha echo realidad, y ahora les presentamos esta nueva serie temática de Palenque Records: “Palenque Rockers Vol 1”. Vienen varios volúmenes con artistas como King Kong, Little Harry, Carl Dawkins, Foxy Brown y mas sorpresas. La nueva revolución del Reggae con tu sello favorito Palenque Records, el papa de la música fina. 

Recorded in Kingston Jamaica in Wave Studio. 
Produced By Lucas Silva ChampetaMan. 2021.
Mix and dub versions by Diego Gomez "Cerrero". 
Mastered and cut by Frank Merritt at The Carvery Studio, London. 

ENGLISH TEXT 
For years we've been dreaming about recording some original dancehall in Jamaica. So this dream came through and now we present you our new Series Collection : Palenque Afro-Rockers vol 1. Bless to the almighty Olodumare, we got into this mystical way to build and share great musical experiences with great artists in the history of Jamaican Reggae.
This first volume features King Kong, Super Black Carl Dawkins and Little Harry, all stars from different times in the history of dancehall. This is a homage to this artists we admire. 
Dj ChampetaMan has been a Dj since 1998, with Faraon Bantu Sound System. So we thought about the artist we played and loved inna the dancehall arena. So we thougt about the legendary King Kong, who introduces us to Carl Dawkins, Superblack and Little Harry. We had the great joy to record these dancehall bangers with these legendary singers, who reminds us some glorious and great moments in the history of reggae Dancehall and Sound Systems. 
Mystical Music to go high & Irie, and some great Dub Versions for you to get high and keep on fighting Babylon system. Waite for Vol 2 and Vol3 coming soon!! with more fire and more Reggae dancehall roots.  These recordings have been mixed by Diego gomez ( Cerrero ) from Llorona Records, doing some great Dub Versions for all the real music lovers in the world.

Rumble We Rumble  SUPER BLACK / New release Palenque Rockers / Reggae

PALENQUE, PALENQUE: CHAMPETA CRIOLLA AND AFRO ROOTS IN COASTAL COLOMBIA 1975-1985

On 7th June, Soundway Records release ‘Palenque Palenque! Champeta Criolla & Afro Roots in Colombia 1975-91’. Boasting twenty one pulsating tracks drawn from the northern coasts of Colombia, ‘Palenque Palenque!’ reveals a unique and fascinating story of how Afro Colombian music developed from the 1970s onwards and how the local sound-systems  in Cartagena and Barranquilla played such an important role in shaping the sound of the Colombian champeta.

Co-compiled by Lucas Silva (resident of Bogota and owner of Palenque Records) and Soundway Records’ Miles Cleret, the album highlights the long relationship that the Caribbean coast of Colombia has with Africa stretching back to the 17th century. Specifically, the rise of the percussion heavy champeta sound, born out of a wave of popularity for psychedelic Afro, Latin & Caribbean music inspired by the DJs of the time.

The influence of the sound-systems spread to local artists as well as re-energising traditional African folk songs and rhythms that had survived since the days of slavery. Record labels recognized the major change in direction from the days when cumbia and porro ruled the hearts of the ghettoes and began employing bands that began experimenting and tapping into these new cultural and musical movements. Disco Fuentes were one of the first labels to recognize this sudden swing and duly signed Wganda Kenya who went onto record some of the first Afrobeat records in Colombia. The trend in recording African music continued at pace with labels like Machuca, Discos Tropical, Orbe & Costeño quickly adapting to the newly adopted sound of the Palenques and bands like Son Palenque, Cumbia Siglo XX and La Cumbia Moderna de Soledad went onto readapt Afrobeat rhythms with a Caribbean slant.

THE PICOS
Soundsystems (picos) would be in full swing for days, DJs spinning African records from Ghana, Nigeria & Benin, alongside all varieties of experimental and psychedelic sounds from the vallenato of Valledupar to Nigeria´s Prince Nico Mbarga. The desire for keeping the ghettoes feet moving led to producers of the record labels traveling to France, Carribean and Africa sourcing hard to find highlife, soukous, compas and Afrobeat and feeding back to the DJs. The DJs were leaders of this musical revolution and their reputation as ambassadors for their chosen system preceded them all over La Costa. The most famous of these were the Cartagena based systems ‘El Ciclon’ and the `El Conde’ who would hold parties in and outside the ghettoes. El Conde’s legendary DJ Victor Conde recounts: “When I arrived in in Palenque it was if a president had arrived, damn! One kilometer before getting into town people would greet the pico, kids would run after the truck singing the songs I had to play that night”.

The histories of reggae sound-systems in Jamaica are very similar to the systems on the Colombian coasts – the culture of the exclusive record guarded in utter secrecy a key feature of both. So much so that DJs were renowned for throwing away record sleeves, scratching off labels and often not revealing track titles for up to 20 years!

L A MUSICA
Many of the artists featured on ‘Palenque Palenque’ only recorded one or two songs and then disappeared into obscurity or disbanded. Thanks to some of the collectors in La Costa, treasures like ‘El Burumbumbum’ recorded by Casimbas Negras, survived. Featuring Palenque singer Dionisio Miranda, the track ‘s eccentricity is immediate with its incessant percussion, madcap call and answer wails and bubbling horns – a common mix that pervades many of these tracks.

Around 1981 several groups were recording Afrobeat in Baranquilla including Alberto Carbono who features with his ode, ‘Quiero a mi Gente’. A true proponent of the avant-garde he can still be heard playing in Anibal Velasquez’s orchestra.  Son Palenque were considered pioneers of the crossover sound of Africa and the Caribbean and are featured three times including the title track of this album. Fela Kuti’s ‘Shakara’ is reworked by Lisandro Meza entitled ‘Shacalao’ whilst Fela’s influence is further felt through Wganda Kenya’s contributions especially on the shuffling cut that of ‘Pim Pom’.

In the 1990s the musical wave changed, a new era of unpredictability took hold and the styles on this compilation drifted into obscurity. Soundway have unearthed a magical era, exposed a radical movement and have, in the process, found some of the world’s most eccentric and highly addictive modern dance music.

PICÓS – Record collectors and producers would import records for soundsystems (picós – from p¨ick up in English) playing at ‘fiestas’ in Cartagena and Barranquilla. Local bands began recording new tracks inspired by these imported African Caribbean and psychdelic records.

CHAMPETA – The people in the poor neighbourhoods who danced to African music at the picós had champetas (big knives).  Champeta was born out of the notion of freedom for the black slaves and the emergence of a new musical rhythm – the cutting in two of the history of coastal Colombia.

PALENQUE – 500 years ago the first slaves were brought to Cartagena from Africa who went on to create cumbia music. Benkos Bioho led 100 slaves, from Bantu, Yoruba and Mandiga descent, to emancipation at the first ‘free town’ (Palenque) where they formed a sort of free society. There are plenty of Palenques thriving to this day.


La Tromba - Calaba Calabao

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The Afrosound - Fiebre en la Jungla

The Afrosound were produced by Fruko. This is a highly sought after afro-latin Disco Fuentes 45 from Columbian group The Afrosound, covering The Chakachas ‘Fiebre en la Jungla’ with added erotic vocals! This song never appeared on any of their LP’s. 

Wganda Kenya - Tipit Heyd

Super rare Cumbia 45 originally released on Disco Fuentes, produced by that man Fruko once again. Afro-Columbian influences are strong here, and typical of the Caribbean coast area in Columbia. The track never made it onto any of their albums.

Wganda Kenya - Tipit Heyd

EL  EJEN EN ACORDEON - ABELARDO CARBONO

Abelardo Carbono - El  BAILE DEL INDIO

OSTLP/CD002

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"Easily one of the most intriguing and ear-opening records I've heard in a long time" - Errol Nazareth, CBC Radio (Canada)

"An expertly curated experience of one of the late-20th Century’s most thrilling musical encounters" - The Playground UK

"A compilation to revel in" - The Arts Desk

"An energetic, enlightening listen... Two records in and Ostinato’s track record is downright sterling." - The Vinyl District 

"Those of the caliber of Synthesize the Soul are rare." - RFI Musique

"An homage to the music of migrants of Cabo Verde." - VICE

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CD/2XLP/Digital 
36-page CD Booklet
20-page LP Booklet

Through 18 diverse tracks, this compilation offers a timely revelation of how immigration to Europe and the United States from the Cape Verde Islands in the 1980s gave us an alternate history of electronic music, almost a decade ahead of its time, as traditional Funana rhythms met the synthesizer.

Synthesize the Soul: Astro-Atlantic Hypnotica from the Cape Verde Islands 1973 - 1988

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Chump Lopes - Elisio Gomes & Joachim Varela

Palenque by Aberlado Carbono taken from Soundway Records new album Palenque Palenque: Champeta Criolla &amp; Afro Roots in Colombia 1975 - 91. http://www.soundwayrecords.com

Abelardo Carbono - Palenque

RIP Craig Mack Heres a Cumbiaton version of Flava In Yo Ear hope you all enjoy!!!! wave file only....

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Flava In Yo Ear - Sonido Goony (Cumbiaton Mix)

Jayre - Ngatamaare

El Mambote De La India - DJ Rata Piano  - Bleepolar Edit- FARAON BANTU Y CHAMPETAMAN

tema del inmortal Alfonso Cordoba el Brujo con Alexis Lozano en el piano .

Alabao Del Negro Triste - Alfonso Cordoba Y Alexis Lozano

Kumina - Colombiafrica Y Justo Valdez : RMX By Rata Piano & ChampetaMan

AFROCOLOMBIAN MUSIC LABEL
Son Palenque, Abelardo Carbono, Batata y su Rumba Palenquera , Colombiafrica Orquesta and much more....


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Abelardo Carbono - El BAILE DEL INDIO

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