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Our favourite new music on rotation throughout the month. Tune in weekdays 9-10 in the morning and 6-7 in the evening to hear these tracks as well as more exclusive music.

Upfront Playlist: December 2017

AFRO/ELECTROBEAT

Release date 02.12.2014
"On his visit to Kinshasa James Brown dubbed him *Mister Dynamite*"

It has been a struggle to lay hands on Verckys, although the man doesn´t go unnoticed. Notorious for being one of Congo´s most ruthless business men, the legendary musician had build a whole imperium in Kinshasa, the capital city of the central african power house (arguably one of the toughest places in the world) and has a whole building with his name, in the very heart of the city.

So I travelled to the Congo in June of 2013 to find Verckys only to find out that he headed in opposite direction to sort out his health issues. But I did meet his manager who gave me his phone number, so I called:  "Oh Monsieur Samy, we need to met, lets talk business", he said, probably not knowing that I was an independent record label, with all it represents.  But the more I spoke to the men the more I realised that he was genuinely interested in music more then anything else. The following message I received few weeks ago, confirmed my feeling:

"Samy, I am writing to you because I´m a little worried. I´ve been thinking about your selection and I now wonder if your compilation will do well due to the fact that the chosen songs had little impact in Kinshasa. Others had much more success"
I was surprised but pleased to see that he cared about the project although I had already paid him in full. But why wouldn't he? Its his music after all.

"Most of the songs you´ve selected were recorded in Nairobi, for the Kenyan market. These songs did very well there, also in Zambia, but here in the Congo they flopped...except for "Ya Nini", that was a monster hit. Still, I am very surprised you´ve mentioned it has become a legendary track in Colombia, positively surprised"

This compilation was supposed to be released in October as a limited edition of 2000 copies, but after a few Skype chats with Verckys, seeing that he has come to terms with his health issues, and pushing for a European tour come next summer, we´ve decided to release this as Analog Africa No.17 which is now going to see light of day first week of December.

In the mean time enjoy this imperial slice of Congolese Afrobeat. "Bassala Hot" is doomed to  cast a spell on each and every dancefloor that dares to spin its bewitching sound. Beware!!!

Thank you for reading. Samy (Analog Africa)

Listen and Buy here

Bassala Hot - Verckys et l´Orchestre Vévé

First taste of the digital version of my album "Up All Night" coming out next week on Night People NYC!

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Seein' U

Up All Night

An interpolation I made for the olympicks for Tyga's palm trees. Dayna Watkins on the vocals. The interpolation starts at :27. 

Cortex Prelude A Round 60 (AMW Interpolation)Ft. Dayna Watkins

Fame of M.O.P "Can I Live" Freestyle (prod. by Deric "D-Dot" Angelettie

The official "Music For My Friends" album sampler, complete with snippets of all 15 tracks off of the retail version of the upcoming album. Features from and production by Jadakiss, Black Thought, Bilal, !llmind, Apollo Brown, Jahlil Beats and more. In stores and online June 23rd via First Generation Rich Inc./Empire and can be pre-ordered here: smarturl.it/MFMF

Twitter: @Skyzoo
IG: @SkyzooTheWriter
www.SkyzooTheWriter.com

Music For My Friends ALBUM SAMPLER

Listen and buy Umeme Afrorave's first LP here: 
https://wearemawimbi.bandcamp.com/album/umeme-afrorave 

Playlist : https://www.facebook.com/groups/RadioMawimbi/

Radio Mawimbi #6 w/ Umeme Afrorave (Mawimbi) - 28/09/15

@solpowerdc are a Washington DC based DJ collective and label throwing sweaty, exhilarating parties that connect beats from Cuban roots to the beaches of Rio to the discos of Lagos. Three obsessive crate diggers and veteran party rockers team up with a master percussionist to destroy dance floors. They just launched their new label Sol Power Sound and released their first afro-infused EP to much acclaim, drawing their influences in various african musical traditions, from North African desert tripped-out jams to joyful Ivory Coast Ziglibity from the master Ernesto Djédjé. It is with much pleasure that we're re-launching this podcast series and we feel honoured to be able to have such an exquisite taster for the many releases to come out of the Sol Power crew! Big ups to the East Coast :) 

Obas Nenor ft. Soma - Hotel Room (forthcoming on Sol Power Sound)
Peter Tosh - Buk-in-Hamm Palace (Sol Power Disco Dub)
Tom of Finland - Mirage (forthcoming on Sol Power Sound)
Maalem Mahmoud Guinia & Floating Points - Mimoum Marhaba (Sol Power quick edit)
Africaine 808 - Tummy Tummy
Mombasa Kings - Mama Matotoya
Tom of Finland - Theme Song from Deep Cock (forthcoming on Sol Power Sound)
Roman Flugel - Sliced Africa
Ebo Taylor & Pat Thomas - Eye Nyam Nam "A" Mensuro (Henrik Schwarz Blend)
Aroop Roy - Quem Vai Querer
Obas Nenor - NoNooZa (forthcoming on Sol Power Sound)
Sol Power All-Stars - Tell Me Why (demo)

Podcast #9 : Sol Power All - Stars Mix For Mawimbi

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.

Buy on Bandcamp: https://timekode.bandcamp.com/album/timekode-x-vol-1-the-souljazz-orchestra-x-bonjay-ott
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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

The Souljazz Orchestra - Kossa Kossa (TK Kossa Remix)

Rûwâhîne

Laa la illa Allah

Stombali - Baba ‘Alaia

I remember the day clearly. I was searching for treasures in a record shop in Yaoundé, the Capital city of Cameroon, when suddenly I came across a 7-inch record with a picture of a young man wearing a traditional hat and bearing the marks of several imposing vertical scars on the side of his face, carved when he was just a boy as a reminder of his heritage in the Musgum tribe of the northern part of the country.

The record contained two songs – ‘Gandjal Kessoum’ and ‘Touflé’ – by an artist I had never heard of before named Hamad Kalkaba. Both cuts were raw classics of fuzzed-out bass, pin-sharp horns, built upon the unshakable foundation of Northern Cameroon’s mightiest rhythm: the Gandjal. The shop owner - who noticed that I was listening to the same record over and over again - mentioned that ‘There is another single with a green cover of the same artist, if I am not mistaken’.

Over the next six years I searched for that ‘green cover’ and finally found it in a record collection belonging to an old bar in Parakou in northern Benin. While most of the records had been beaten and worn by a life spent in the jukebox, this one had been sitting in its paper sleeve for forty years, untouched and unplayed, seemingly waiting for us to pick it up and rip the two soulful Gandjal tunes from it, the masterpieces ‘Fouh Sei Allah’ and ‘Tchakoulaté’.

These two records, plus a third simply named ‘Nord Cameroon Rythms’ constitute the entire discography of Hamad Kalkaba. Neglected for decades by all but the most devoted collectors of Afro music, Hamad Kalkaba and the Golden Sounds at long last gathers together the body of work of one of Cameroon’s forgotten geniuses.

But unlike many musicians who emerged from nowhere, recorded a few singles and vanished again, Kalkaba hadn’t disappeared. Far from it. He was a distinguished public figure, a retired Colonel in the army of Cameroon, and a former member of Cameroon’s Olympic Selection Committee. When we tracked him down he was serving as president of the Confederation of African Athletics. And Although Kalkaba’s job kept him busy, and he seemed initially dismissive of the music he’d made as a young man, he turned out to be an enthusiastic ally in this project. He arranged interviews, helped fill in the blanks and, when we finally met him in Yaoundé in 2016, provided us with photographs, lyric sheets and notes.

During the interview Kalkaba explained how the songs recorded in the mid 1970s were part of a movement, a movement initiated by musicians from all around Cameroon who, with the help of keyboards, drum kits and electric guitars, had started to modernise the traditional rhythms of their regions. For Kalkaba it was no different and backed by his band the Golden Sounds, devoted himself to the promotion of the sounds of northern Cameroon.

One of the aims of Analog Africa is to showcase the colourful diversity of styles that exist in Africa and its diaspora and today we are very proud to be able to give these Gandjal tunes their first worldwide release.

Hamad Kalkaba and the Golden Sounds 1974 - 1975

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Hamad Kalkaba - Astadjam Dada Saré(Leave a comment, tell kalkaba how much you love his song!)

DDM Discoveries #2 (Discover upcoming talented artists)

Follow Aaron Taylor :
https://soundcloud.com/iaarontaylor
https://www.facebook.com/aaronpaultaylor
https://www.instagram.com/iaarontaylor/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1evO4fwLsEkkPGq32dCix7

Follow Dealer de Musique :
https://www.youtube.com/user/DealerdeMusique
https://www.facebook.com/DealerdeMusique.fr/
https://open.spotify.com/user/dealer-de-musique

The Long Way Home

Aaron Taylor - Saw You In My Dreams

The perfect 10th birthday present : a collaboration between one of our all time favorite artist Dimitri from Paris and our new signature Cotonete. A dream comes true thanks to Melik (Heartbeat records)
 
Exclusive collaboration between the King of Disco and the best french Jazz Funk band of our time.

Deluxe packaging : Tipon cover, 180g vinyl. Limited edition : 1000exs

 
2 dancefloor killers!!!

Vinyl

PREMIERE : Cotonete Vs. Dimitri From Paris - Parribean Disco (Club Mix)[HEAVENLY SWEETNESS]

@pascalviscardi explores a cosmic standpoint on African music on French label @la_chinerie.

Read more & buy: http://www.stampthewax.com/2017/12/20/premiere-pascal-viscardi-village-numerique/
Listen on Youtube: http://bit.ly/village-numerique

CDH006 - Chabha Dassin Hakku

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Pascal Viscardi - Village Numérique (STW Premiere)

Tunnelvisions, the collaboration project between Raynor de Groot and Emiel van den Dungen, approaches music with an open-minded warmth and fuses rhythmical and organic arrangements together in their intoxicating mixture of contemporary music. As mainstays from Amsterdam-based record label Atomnation, the duo’s harmonious musical vision has proven to be an effective dance floor tool, while simultaneously translating an almost spiritual home listening experience.

Following the release of Tunnelvisions' second fully fledged studio album, titled 'The Celestial Ritual', last November, Atomnation returns with a diverse set of remixes by Fort Romeau, David Mayer, Yør Kultura, Bawrut and Innellea.

Read more: http://liquidyouth.nl/music/premieres/tunnelvisions-rafakas-song-fort-romeau-remix-atomnation
Buy: https://atomnationrec.lnk.to/TheCelestialRemixes

https://soundcloud.com/fortromeau
https://soundcloud.com/tunnelvisions1
https://soundcloud.com/atomnation

Premiere: Tunnelvisions - Rafaka's Song (Fort Romeau Remix) [Atomnation]

The fourth release on LA’s Pleasure of Love “Pleasure of Edits” series features west coast talent Air Zaïre on editorial duties. “Canguelo Perro” struts through a Paraguayan groove with a sweet saturated guitar hook that sticks with you in the best possible way.

PRE ORDER:
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PREMIERE: Pleasure Of Edits - Canguelo Perro (Air Zaïre Edit)

A1 Pleasure of Edits 04, @airzaire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IBzdbnzmYA

Air Zaire - A1 Midnight Sun (AZ EDIT)

The In Sound From Way Out 

Residents: @aaronl_dj ≈ @original-hp ≈ @miazs-1 ≈ @peachystw ≈ @rosie-ama-cain ≈

Pascal Viscardi - Village Numérique (STW Premiere)

Stamp The Wax