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Zouk Combat EP

Zouk Combat (Bosq Remix)

Wah Wah 45s are proud to present the first remix to emerge of their new signing, and afrobeat legend, Dele Sosimi!

Mysterious south coast producer, and Tru Thoughts recording artist, Titeknots delivers a powerful punch with his club friendly re-work of Dele’s first single for Wah Wah 45s. As a beat-maker who prides himself in making ‘house music for dancers, not head-nodders’ he comes through with a dance floor destroying mix that sets Dele’s rasping vocals against typically incendiary drums, percussion and dramatic strings to create a sure fire club banger.

Born in Hackney, East London, but soon to return to his parents’ native Nigeria at the age of four, Dele Sosimi was schooled and raised in Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s shadow at the height of early 70s afrobeat. Having been chosen by Fela to join his band at somewhat of a tender age, he was still a young man when sharing Fela’s Glastonbury stage in 1984, and became both Musical Director for both Fela’s Egypt 80 and Femi Kuti’s Positive Force.

After Fela’s passing in 1997, Dele went on to concentrate on his own solo career and, with diligent patience, carved out his own afrobeat crown. In London, where he now resides, his Afrobeat Vibration all-nighters are charged with his passion, labours and his unrelenting spirit and deliver Fela classics alongside his own compositions from his first two studio albums, Turbulent Times, and Identity.


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VINYL RELEASED 23rd Oct 2015

We are more than ten releases in here at Africa Seven. It has been a wild ride... It was eight months ago that we launched our label and released our debut release the Compilation “Africa Airways 01: Funk Connection”.  It did better than we ever imagined and we had to repress the darned thing twice... So predictably for a follow up we humbly present you with “Africa Airways 02: Funk Departures 1973-1982”.  We have unashamedly stuck to the formula of our debut; keeping the funk deep and the groove pan-African.  Heading straight for the afrobeat, dance-funk jugular.  

We open up Volume Two with an absolute corker... “Na Real Sekele Fo Ya” from Cameroonian-in-Paris Pasteur Lappe.  Produced by Jacob Desvarieux of Kassav fame,  this track is an instant grabber;  Think of the Blockheads “Rhythm Stick” goes Afro chant with deep, soulful moog grooves and on-point brass stabs.  Next up is M’Bamina an Italian / Ivory Coast band who swing things heavy with “Kilowi Kilowi”.  Sweeting strings, funky bass lines wrapped around a late 70s style disco groove.  

Ekambi Briallant is next up with his floor tappingly catchy afro soul “Aboki (Mon Copain)”, produced by one of our favorite producers Slim Pezin.   To round off the A-side of the vinyl we present the first outing from the Makeba family. Here the (sadly prematurely departed) Bongi Makeba, daughter of “Mama Africa” Myriam Makeba, shows the world just what an amazing artist she would have developed into.  Bongi wrote a fair number of her mother’s tracks in her later years and “Don’t Do It” shows us what true talent for the song she was blessed with.  The track her powers along with wah-wah guitar and masterful alto sax.  A real treat. 

Friend of Africa Seven and Cameroonian native Jo Tongo opens thing up on Side B.  Jo now lives in New York but back in the 70s he was part of the Fiesta label collective who were cranking out great records in Paris. “Piani” is his purest dancefloor moment, here again in full glory. 	Next up we bend our African remit ever-so slightly and head off to Holland for a James Brown style fuelled funk stomper “Relax.. Before Doing Sex” from Oscar Harris and his crew.  Its big, its bold, its brassy…..  It’s fun.
 
The power trio of Bozambo are next up. Between them they have released over 12 solo LPs and here together with “Get it On The Music” they power through with a keyboard/synyh driven afro-funk groove years ahead of its time… made in 1978 but sounding like 1984.   Misse Ngoh is one great guitarist and a masterful adaptor of the Makossa rhythms of his native Cameroun.  The title track from his Esperance 1979 LP “Tata Ngoh” mixes in his trademark rhythms and grooves with slap bass and striking brass lines. One heck of a catchy song too. 

We round off the compilation with the Queen of Queens, Myriam Makeba.  Possibly / probably the most influential female musician to come out of Africa… ever.  “Mama Africa’s” biography is awe-inspiring and vast, but very hard to summarize in a few sentences... so please check it out for yourself.   From breaking the African sound in the West, to the obsessively catchy “Pata Pata” to the influential, focal role she played in helping bring an end to Apartheid in her native South Africa.  There are many tracks to feature from Myriam but we aren’t about hits here at Africa Seven.  Being the crate diggers we are,  we thought the best way we could honour the lady was to dig the crate even deeper and go with the most obscure Myriam track we could find. “Toyota Fantasy” was recorded during her exile years spent in Guinea with the Esperance team as a one off promotional 7” single giveaway release. Be aspirational, as the lady says. 	  

We hope you enjoy your flight with African Airways 02.  We hope to be fuelling up an aircraft with some psychedelic propellant for volume 3 sometime in 2016... at a vinyl store near you. 

M'Bamina - Kilowi-Kilowi [CLIP]

Ahmed Fakroun - Soleil (Coffee Fingers Remix)

Karen Young - Deetour

Soothsayers “Dis & Dat”
Release Date: 09/02/18
Label: Wah Wah 45s 
Format: Digital 
Cat No: WAHDIG80 / WAH12036

Following on from the success of their first EP and its subsequent remix project on Wah Wah 45s, South London Afro-dub warriors Soothsayers deliver the first offering from their forthcoming album, Tradition, to be released in June.

“Dis Can’t be right, Dat can’t be right“ is the chorus response on new single, Dis & Dat. So, how long is this song you might wonder as in 2018 there seems to be so many things that sit at odds with each other that verses could go on for an eternity. However, Soothsayers list of issues is succinct - Dis & Dat is not a lesson in politics or socio-economics, but rather a song aimed at bringing us together and something we could all sing if No. 45 (we can’t say his name) ever dares to visit our shores, or at any event where a current Government minister is the main attraction.

Quotes from two Jamaican greats - “Sharpen the small axe, cut the big tree, the hotter the battle, the sweeter the victory“ - reignite hope in the power of human action and resistance via some uplifting big Afro grooves, Soothsayers style.

Remixes on this vibrant new singles come from erstwhile Fila Brazillia legend Steve Cobby who comes up with a trademark mid-tempo four-to-the-floor dub-infused stomper; while young gun and rising star, Ben Hauke, conjures up a foot friendly, percussive broken latin gem a la 4-Hero that’s already doing lots of business on the dance floor.

Dis & Dat is released on February 9th both digitally and on hand-stamped 12”, limited to just 100 copies, also featuring the SMBD Warrior Dub of Blinded Souls, on vinyl for the very first time.

Previous radio support comes from Tom Ravenscroft, Huey Morgan and Craig Charles on BBC 6Music, as well as David Rodigan and Jazzie B.

Soothsayers will be celebrating this release with a unique full live show at The Jazz Café in London on Friday February 9th, alongside sets from Ben Romans-Hopcraft (of Childhood fame) and Miles Wu-Lu, the twin sons of frontman Robin Hopcraft.

05. Soothsayers - Dis & Dat (Ben Hauke Remix)

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Heb een lekker playlistje gemaakt van platen die ik op selectors voorbij heb horen komen. Zitten ook wat andere plaatjes tussen die ik zelf gewoon lekkah vind. 

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