Funky Pop #9

Os Caculas - Pra ver o mundo cantar

Tafé Dubonboulo (Jo Moutet)

Can 7 feat. Eartha Kitt  - Uska Dara (Original Mix)

Beats, edits and re-works of classics from Angola, Cape Verde & Mozambique.

Available from:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/meu-kamba/id916179220
https://play.spotify.com/album/2U8azSEUS6RUH5BkBcxhba
http://www.deezer.com/album/8580776
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NH7TKXQ

There’s something about the old streets of Lisbon: you might be walking past a door and hear a bit of marrabenta and then, further down the street, hints of semba or funaná coming from the open window of a passing car. Lisbon is full of these sounds. And smells, and colours.
D-Mars, a producer who also goes by the name of Rocky Marsiano, grew up as an artist among these Lisbon streets, where he formed a hip hop group with direct ties to Cape Verde and Angola.
Africa was always close, always present. And hip hop taught him that vinyl records are pathways into the past and future, when put to good use in the hands of a DJ or in the inner circuits of an MPC sampler. D-Mars, now residing in Amsterdam, challenged Rui Miguel Abreu, a friend, an ally, a co-conspirator on many past adventures, to select some records from his personal collection.
The result is a batch of vinyl from Cape Verde and Angola, from Mozambique and São Tomé. D-Mars dove in, extracted the deepest grooves from the significant slabs of black plastic, and reimagined Africa with the help of his MPC. Meu Kamba is the result: re-edits with the soul of classic African vinyl, beats that try to answer the wildest of questions – what if b-boys danced to semba instead of funk?


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Rocky Marsiano -  "Black Like Gold"

Amadou & Mariam - Je Pense A Toi (Henrik Schwarz Remix) (Philomena 02)

Amadou & Mariam - Je Pense A Toi (Henrik Schwarz Remix)

Ralf 'Sono Rhizmo' Droesemeyer travels with the spirit of the beat generation and the heart of the bohemian jazzmen. Hipness is not a state of mind but a fact of life, he says. Call him a modern beatnik, this man is trout fishing all around the globe. 
On the first compilation for his own Agogo Records label Sono Rhizmo collected fi fteen tracks from as many countries he has travelled during the past few months. What we hear is a mix of conscious global beats, social soul and true rhythms, never overtly political but always aware of local matters and global changes. „Agogo Makes The World Go Round“ is a statement of independence, a plea to dig deeper beyond the surface.

Una Mas Trio – ‘Clear As Water’ (Mo’Horizons Radiomix)

Neşe Karaböcek - Kulakların Çınlasın

Tita Sister - Disco Ria

DEDY DREAD - to hot on the floor!

Urfalı Babi - Bağkur Gardaşım

WAFFLES - Spanish Fly

Carmen MCrae - Just A Little Lovin

HURŞİD YENİGÜN - Şerefinize - Kent 8308 (Nadir Şeffaf yeşil renkli plak)

Hurşid Yenigün - Leyla Plak kaydı...

Nese Karaböcek - Adini Anmayacagim



<a href='https://theartistunion.com/tracks/6c9c5d'>Download for free on The Artist Union</a>

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Totó la Momposina - Curura (Martyn Zij Pangaia Remix)

Neşe Karaböcek İntizar

"The Doody Dance" is the lead single from Jonah Brown's debut album, Logfather, on Daly City Records.  This alter-ego of Th' Mole is a poop-centric battle rapper with catchy beats, a Beastie-esque delivery, and hilariously juvenile lyrics.

Logfather is available from:
Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/Logfather-Explicit/dp/B008WDG3SA
Boomkat - http://boomkat.com/downloads/563278-jonah-brown-logfather
iTunes - http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/logfather/id555109006
Digital-Tunes - http://www.digital-tunes.net/releases/logfather



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Jonah Brown - The Doody Dance

Buy / Stream the album: https://orcd.co/bellydancedisco

The first release in Ernesto Chahoud’s ‘Middle Eastern Heavens’ reissue series for BBE Music, we are delighted to present Lebanese maestro Ihsan Al-Munzer’s 1979 album ‘Belly Dance Disco’.

In late 70s and early 80s Beirut, Lebanese organist, composer and arranger Ihsan Al-Munzer made a series of pioneering synth-driven fusion albums that reimagined Middle Eastern music. The records came at a pivotal time in Lebanon’s musical history of avant garde experimentation that was blossoming, just as the country’s 15-year civil war took hold.

Ihsan Al-Munzer’s first release as a solo artist, ‘Belly Dance Disco’ aimed to fuse ‘Western’ modern music and bellydance to make it more accessible to the local audience in the late 1970s. “I wanted to put a mixture of European beat with Arabic percussion, but I made the European rhythm and harmony very easy to listen to for the Arabic ear – soft and understandable” says Al- Munzer. Today, the composer’s music has made the return journey back to the West; with tracks on the album featured by hip hop artists such as Mos Def, who sampled Al-Munzer’s composition ‘Joy of Lina’ on his 2009 song ‘The Embassy’.

The 10-track album was released in 1979 on the legendary Voix De L’Orient label, which was also home to pioneering Lebanese composers The Rahbani Brothers. One of the earliest artists to introduce the synthesizer to Middle Eastern music, Al-Munzer leads the band, playing the main melody lines on the Kawai Organ and Solina String Synthesizer. Three of his original compositions feature on the album, alongside creative re-imaginings of Turkish and Arabic folklore and modern classics, pushing the boundaries of bellydance music to chime with the international scene.

Al-Munzer’s five titles from the 1970s and 1980s are part of BBE’s ‘Middle Eastern Heavens’ reissue series, a collection of groundbreaking productions from Lebanon, curated by Lebanese DJ, compiler and music researcher Ernesto Chahoud.

Al-Munzer - Girls of Iskandariah

First time I open up the downloads on this funky disco bomb, I had quite a few requests - get it while you can! 

Gary's Gang  - Do It At The Disco (Casbah 73 Edit)

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Been blogging, music sharing, etc. for a while now (see blog under this name) & DJing since 1982. I like all kinds of music.

Most of my playlists are not organized & just hold songs I'm interested in, many of which I haven't listened to yet. The "freeform current listening" playlist is as it says & will be updated regularly. Many of my reposts were unintentional, they were just random tracks I was trying to add to a playlist using my phone & I've got clumsy fingers.

Funky Pop #9

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