Goya - House At The Sea (Psychemagik Edit)

Soundway Records present a special summer tribute double a-side 12" with two tracks from African musicians that both passed away within a couple of months of each other at the end of 2013 / start of 2014. Both tracks are perfect summer tropical DJ fodder for the dancefloor.

On the first side South African singer Shaluza Max's massive Mashkandi / house anthem from 2002 gets a first release on vinyl. This track was a huge hit in South Africa and around the world on its release. With a soaring Zulu vocal and big sound it's a fitting reminder of a very talented musician who worked as a very well respected producer, composer and arranger. He died tragically young at the age of 47 in January of 2014.

On the flip we drop a fairly unknown track from the mid 1980s from one of the biggest names in African music, Tabu Ley Rochereau. A kind of almost balearic proto-house congolese pop cut with drum machines and trademark sweet congo horn section, Hafi Deo is a beautiful track that fell into obscurity outside The Congo by perhaps being too smooth for the 'world music' crowd in the mid 80s. Tabu Ley passed away in November 2013 in his late 70s with over 250 albums and 3000 songs to his name. A true pioneer of the congolese soukous sound, he was also one of the most influential African musicians of his generation.

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Tabu Ley Rochereau - Hafi Deo (Extract)

Bibi Flash - Histoire D'1 Soir (Secousse Edit)

The Chaplin Band ‎– Il Veliero
Label: Pierrot Records ‎– PD-1282004
Format: Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM 
Country: Netherlands
Released: 1982
Genre: Electronic
Style: Disco

Producer – John Bartels

The Chaplin Band - Il Veliero (1982)

MARUMO - Khomo Tsaka Deile Kae

Invisible Escape

Fuga Ronto - L'uomo Invisibile

1 of 4 tracks on the Brazilian Compilation Series Vol.2

Other artist include: Fatnotrocnic & Poolside, TonyAdams, Daniel.T. and a Special Guest.

Vinyl released soon

Brazilian Compilation Series Vol.2

Joutro Mundo - Nao Force

Jaakko Eino Kalevi – I Wanna Win

Smooth, Italo boogie from @nu-guinea taken from their new album Nuova Napoli, the result of extensive research into the funk and disco sound of their Neapolitan hometown.

Read more & buy: http://www.stampthewax.com/2018/03/02/premiere-nu-guinea-ddoje-facce/
Listen on Youtube: http://bit.ly/ddoje-facce

Nuova Napoli

Nu Guinea - Ddoje Facce (STW Premiere)

Roberta Kelly - Aie

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. 

Jaakko Eino Kalevi – I Wanna Win

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