RJ Vogelsang - part 2

Monologues Edits: Ben Gomori's Afro Caribbean Selections EP
Label - Monologues
Format - Vinyl/Digital
Released - 25th October 2024
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Monologues boss Ben Gomori has found acclaim far and wide with his official edits of African gems for labels like Sterns Music and Analog Africa (for artists including Orchestra Baobab, Amadou Balake, Oby Onyioha). Here he rounds up four of his reworks of tasty tracks from artists across the Afro-Caribbean spectrum on four edits licensed from the good folk at Mr. Bongo, Soundway Records and Analog Africa.

South African legends Marumo's joyous 'Khomo Tsaka Deile Kae' gets a good juicing, full of triumphant energy, while Black Truth Band's infectious 'Umbala' is stripped back to a slinky, bumping disco groove. An exuberant slice of 1980s Camerooon comes from Emmanuel Kahe Et Jeanette Kemogne on 'Ye Medjuie', where rousing trumpet refrains meet undulating bass funk. Peter Britto's gorgeous lo-fi soca anthem 'I Want Your Love' rounds off the package, its sweet melancholy given an extra bit of energy for maximum dancefloor effect.

Support comes from the likes of Gilles Peterson, The Blessed Madonna, Make A Dance and Tigerbalm.

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PREMIERE: Marumo - Khomo Tsaka Deile Kae (Ben Gomori's Family Affair Edit)

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An official remix of "Kossa Kossa" by Ottawa's mightiest soul outfit, The Souljazz Orchestra; a cut from their massive new record "Resistance". This remix is released exclusively on  limited edition (300 pressings) 10' vinyl courtesy of Memeplex Records, celebrating 10 years of TIMEKODE in Ottawa.

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From The Souljazz Orchestra: "Kossa Kossa" was inspired by late 70s/early 80s West African disco and boogie music.  "Kossa" was initially a type of Duala dance in  Cameroon, which later became "Makossa", the style popularized by Manu Dibango, but we really flipped the genre around and made it our own.  It's probably the Souljazz tune with the most "electronic" elements ever, since we used an old analog monosynth and a Roland 808 drum machine for the first time, along with our usual acoustic instruments."

From TIMEKODE: "For this song we really picked up the tempo a lot from the original to take it from the disco/boogie world and give it more of a house / broken-beat feeling.  We also brought the full palette of sampled and synthesized drums and bass to give the SJO a boom and rattle that only drum machines can provide. Leaning heavily on the original parts, this remix takes the song and the listener on a journey from a club in West Africa on a Saturday night circ. 1976, to an after-hours in the UK on Sunday morning circ. 2016, and back."

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Produced by TIMEKODE
Drum programming by Memetic
Additional drum programming by Zattar
Space Echo by Zattar
Pre-mixed by Memetic and Don Charette at The Memeplex, Ottawa
Final mix by Alister Johnson at The Hive, Toronto
Mastered by Jason Jaknunas at Metropolis Studios, Ottawa

Original song "Kossa Kossa" is written by Pierre Chrétien and performed by The Souljazz Orchestra

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