FIRST Friday BOOGIE - part 6

New Edition

Mr. Telephone Man

Confessions (Expanded Edition)

Bad Girl

Futureboogie maintain their fine tradition of the ‘Summer Riot’ EPs with the fifth installment this month, and a collection of on point tracks that will keep the embers of summer burning, courtesy of four very talented producers.

As one half Futureboogie regulars, PBR Streetgang, Bonar Bradberry also carves out some very tasty productions in his solo capacity, having delivered classy releases for Needwant, Gomma and 20/20 Vision over the years.  ‘Analogue Express’ is a sleek and sophisticated slice of transcendental disco vibes…

Italian disco aficionado, DJ Rocca, steps up with a stellar contribution in ‘Voodoo’.  Having collaborated with the likes of Dimitri From Paris and Daniele Baldelli, and released on imprints such as El Diablo’s Social Club, Gomma and his own Danny Was A Drag King label, Rocca presents a sublime piece of deep and ritualistic house music for Summer Riot V.

Steve Cobby comes with an impressive CV that takes in producer extraordinaire (one half of Fila Brazillia amongst many other aliases and projects) and label owner (Pork Recordings/Twentythree/Steel Tiger).  ‘Lefthanded Books’ is a lustrous vocal track featuring the familiar and exceptional voice of Danielle Moore from Crazy P, resplendent with jazzy stabs and reverberating chords, a real polished production from Steve here.

And completing this year’s set; fresh talent from the UK, Field Theory.  A splendid chugging acid number, reminiscent of those early 90s sunrise tunes that always hold that bewitching atmosphere to them, ‘Rituals’ most defiantly continues this theme and sounds utterly fresh at the same time.


Summer Riot V

Steve Cobby feat. Danielle Moore - Lefthanded Books (FBR046) [clip]

All Back To: Nightmares on Wax

Caught in the Middle

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Black Qualls (Single Version)

Black Qualls (Single Version) [feat. Steve Arrington & Steve Lacy]

Adult Themes

Enfant

Rejoice

Robbers, Thugs and Muggers (O'Galajani)

Jaime & Nair - Sob O Mar

Born in Lagos, Nigeria in 1940, of mixed Nigerian and Ghanaian parentage, Tony Allen taught himself to play by listening to records made by the American jazz drummers Art Blakey and Max Roach. He began working as a professional musician in 1960, gigging around Lagos and variously playing highlife and jazz. Today living in Paris, Allen has long been acknowledged as Africa’s finest kit drummer and one of it's most influential musicians, the man who with Fela Anikulapo Kuti created Afrobeat - the hard driving, James Brown funk-infused, and politically engaged style which became such a dominant force in African music and whose influence continues to spread today.

Allen had to overcome strong parental opposition to realise his dream of
becoming a professional musician. “My parents were…not keen. Back then, in Lagos, musicians were more or less thought of as beggars, or worse. But I just put it in front of them. I was an electrical technician, but I wanted to make a change. My mother was never happy about it, but my father, who was an amateur musician, eventually agreed.”

Allen started out as a jazz drummer. “Art Blakey was my big influence, and before that, before I started club crawling, it was Gene Krupa. When I started, I tried to play like Gene Krupa. Then I discovered Blue Note Records and Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers - it opened up another style to me. Max Roach was important too. I studied some lessons he wrote in Down Beat magazine about how to play high-hats. Most drummers in Lagos never used them, they were just a decoration on the kit,and I’d always thought that was something incomplete.”

Robbers, Thugs and Muggers (O'Galajani)

Tony Allen

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