What exactly is Boogie? Is it a genre, an era, a style? Colours, clothes, textures are all part of its make up. For me, Boogie is the "top shelf" music of the 80's. Anything from this era that brings along Moog synths, vocoders, DX7s, or triggered Oberheim drum sounds, is Boogie!

Brasil has a huge archive of underground dance-floor heat. Different styles of music ranging from Macumba to Samba, MPB to Pop, Electro to early Hip Hop, were all stung by this Brasilian "Boogie Bug", cleverly orchestrated by geniuses of the style; Robson Jorge, Lincoln Olivetti, Junior Mendes, Mister Sam, Sergio Sá, to name a few, were the backbone of uncountable projects by big names of Brasil´s pop and underground music scene during the 80´s.

This compilation brings together a bunch of non-obvious "compactos" (33 RPM 7" singles), most of them, promos, which never saw the light of record store shelves, but instead sat for years in the dead-vaults of radio stations or ended up in sebos, flea markets, church basements to junk yards.

I´m excited to put together this eclectic selection inspired by the finest in brasilian 80's music. Even after so many years, Brasil's  most obscure boogie gem is yet to be found on a long diggin' session thru thousands of records full of weird looking haircuts, somewhere near São Paulo or Rio de Janeiro. 
This project is dedicated to all the "Boogie Heads" doing what they do best, keep searching!

B4-Super Amor - Gaby do Whiskadão

We delivered for the 10th anniversary of Electrocaïne a mix and an Interview you can read here: http://electrocaine.com/podcast/083/

Give this community from Mauritius some love and check them out.

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Electrocaïne Session #083

‘Sham’ Taken from my debut album 01DEAS 
released 23/03 on R&S Records  http://smarturl.it/01DEAS

A1. Eddies
A2. Crime Jazz
A3. Can’t Breathe (feat. Anushka)
A4. Hi Top Remix (feat A-F-R-O)
B1. Sham
B2. Mike’s Afro (feat Gatto Fritto)
B3. Mbira
C1.  Revenge (feat Rutendo Machiridza)
C2. Strings
C3. Needy
D1. Mr. Brown
D2. Broken
D3. Radiance

01DEAS

Sham

Music From Memory © 2018

Vinyl: http://www.musicfrommemory.com
Digital: http://music-from-memory.bandcamp.com/

Lost Gringos - Tambo Machay (4:48)

Tru Tones - Power Struggle / ISLAND FUNK BOOGIE SOUL ST LUCIA

From the forthcoming self-titled album by Bugge Wesseltoft & Prins Thomas, out July 20th on Smalltown Supersound

Bugge Wesseltoft & Prins Thomas – Furuberget

Disco From Around The World w/ Voilaaa

Escape Route

Another smash from Afro7! – Gilles Peterson

From Mac & Party aka. Yaseen Mohammes comes this fantastic Kenyan chakacha taarab dancer with a heavy clavioline keyboard hook.  mid 60’s origin

Zandale

Mac & Party 'Zandale/Kiss to Kiss' New Afro7 single SNIPPETS

Dubbed-out roots version of Angela Aux's original "Killer Kid" off his latest album "In Love With The Demons" (2019).

Produced by Angela Aux & Sam Irl.
Mastered by Sam Irl.
Release:  8th May 2020, digitally via Trikont (Munich).

Killer Kid (in Dub)

Angela Aux & Sam Irl - Killer Kid (in Dub)

Raúl Monsalve y los Forajidos find common threads between funk, Afrobeat and traditional Afro-Venezuelan music on “Bocón”. Lauded Family Atlantica frontwoman, Luzmira Zerpa, guests on lead vocals, transforming a traditional song from the coastal region of Barlovento about liars, big mouths, or “bocones” into a diatribe against national and world leaders with a dangerously loose grip on reality, “Bocón” makes it clear there’s no hiding from either the truth, or los Forajidos. As they hammer the ground with bamboo tubes, layering the horns and low-end synth bass with the powerful polyrhythmic quitiplás percussion native to Venezuela.

Bichos

Raúl Monsalve y los Forajidos - Bocón ft. Luzmira Zerpa

Record Label and Record Store based in San Francisco, California.

Tru Tones - Power Struggle / ISLAND FUNK BOOGIE SOUL ST LUCIA

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