Music produced and rooted all over planet earth,  displaying the rise of amazing intercultural connections without boundaries in style and origin. Music that deserves to be heard. All of the tracks on this playlist were (re)mixed in the Rafranga Mix series between 2010-2013 # 001 - # 036 based on soundcloud availabilty and excluding 8 theme editions as broadcast on Concertzender Nederland @ Solta a Franga. 

Sunshine ? all dj-sets on http://www.mixcloud.com/rafranga. Much Peace and Love!

Sunshine in a Bag

The Yam Yam story

Yam Yam is Rick Turner and Guy Morley.

Guy headed up the Big Chill music programme over the last three years and programmes the Brighton Festival. He is currently producing 4 albums in a studio in Nairobi called Ketebul. He produces tours like African Soul Rebels  and DJed , recently as a regular with Carsten Höller’s Double Club; the unique 50/50 Congolese night club fusion art installation.  

Rick produced, managed and engineered many Manchester bands from Suns of Arqa to  Prince Tommy Adweso. He now runs a software company called Empiricom and is setting up a social networking site called Picnic Village with Pete Lawrence (Big Chill founder) He splits his time between Manchester and Vienna.

They initially formed a band called USR, the house band for a Manchester club night called Gondwana. That night evolved into 1 Tree Island – a core part of the 90s Manchester party scene an perhaps the city’s longest running night and included DJs like Mr Scruff and Guy as residents. It was always very global and African focused and full of the bohemian misfits of Manchester.

USR split and Rick and Guy formed Yam Yam - Initially signed to Nation Records – Yam Yam had a dance hit with the track – The Spectacle which later got a huge sync  for US telecom giant Worldcom. Yam Yam later went onto release music for a label called Codek, based in New York. 2008 saw the release of their first full album called EatDubAfroBeat on the Big Chill label – It was really a retrospective of nearly 10 years out-put. Guy comments on their new direction :-

‘Over the last two years we have concentrated on this new album – we have always had a love on 1970s and 80s Congolese and East African Rumba and wanted to make this a key part to our sound. We have worked with three musicians from Congo and Tanzania to produce this – the songs have a feel for the ‘Belle Epoch’ – the period when Congolese music became the main force across the continent  - That said we have put a very modern take on it all. 

I recently DJ ed a Yam Yam set at the Rift Valley Festival in Naivasha, Kenya – I can honestly say the crowd went wild for it – many came up to me at the end saying how good it was to hear such an honest take on the music they call Lingala.’

 The other Yam Yam influences are that post punk indie funk dance sound – The New York disco scene from Organic Grooves / In Flagrante to Liquid Liquid were a big parts of that Manchester tropical music scene – and those influences remain in their music as well as Afrobeat and South African Kwaito.


Live

Yam Yam perform live as a 6 piece band – most recently on the main stage at the Big Chill. Laptop and electronics (Guy), guitars (Rick), guitars (Fiston Lusambo), percussion and vocals (Saidi Kanda) – MCs and dancers (Kongo Banda and Papa Pawl). 


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01. Icient Warrior - Sweat Like This
02. Father Funk & Chimping - Swamp Samba
03. Smokey Bandits - Return Of The Gypsy Sound (Shantisan Remix)
04. Panama Cardoon - Ritmo Salvaje
05. Smokey Bandits - Revolucion Valiente (Los Chicos Altos Remix)
06. bXp Soundsistema feat Paco Mentoza - Bouzouki Criminal
07. Palov & Panama Cardoon - Popcorn
08. Smokey Bandits - A Son's Lament (Empesarios Remix)
09. Blend Mishkin - Unconditional Love (Grant Phabao Remix)
10. Smokey Bandits - The Rooster (Samba Mix)
11. Basement Freaks - The Balkan Jam
12. Bantu & Nneka - Am Waiting (Basement Freaks Remix)

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The Sufi Movement

Khurt's killer track "We Want" included in our Hundred And Ten Vol. 2 compilation.

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Khurt - We Want (Original Mix)

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American music artist. Kokolo Afrobeat, Boogaloo Destroyers, Solo, Terrificos.  

Lugo has performed live in 35 countries, released 12 albums across various music genres, and collaborated and performed with artists such as Manu DiBango, Joe Bataan, Charlie Hunter, Seun Kuti, Chic, Pete Rodriguez, Richie Ray, Kutiman, Sofrito, Gilles Peterson, BeatFanatic, Faze Action, Roy Davis Jr., Diesler, Lack of Afro, Shuya Okino, Souljazz Orchestra and with members of groups such as Peter Gabriel, Lauryn Hill, Matisyahu, Esperanza Spalding, Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings, King Sunny Ade, Burning Spear, Egypt 80, Grupo Fantasma, Antibalas and many others.

The Liberators - Rags To Riches (Ray Lugo Remix)

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Miss Melera ° Colourizon 031 ° April 2015

" And You Know That" [Dub]  T.J Swann

01 Isabella's Rhumba

02 Bahama Mama

03 Hippopotame

04 Introspective Party People

05 Banana Heater

Soundway Records present ’24 Hours in A Disco 1978 - 82’, 7 cuts of relentless disco grooves from the sublimely gifted Kiki Gyan. Hailed as Africa’s answer to Stevie Wonder, Ghanaian multi-instrumentalist Kiki Gyan was a musical wunderkind who by 1975 had risen from the lowly status of high school dropout to being ranked eighth in a poll of the greatest keyboardists in the world (occupying the rarefied air of the top ten with heavyweights like Steve Winwood, Billy Preston, and Stevie Wonder) as well as becoming an in-demand session player in the top recording studios of London - all before his twenty-first birthday. 

Out on his own, he produced a series of highly ambitious disco records aimed at positioning him as an international star, but weighed down by the excesses of the era, Gyan saw his meteoric rise matched by an equally swift fall back into obscurity. 

Loved dearly by his contemporaries and sorely missed since his death in 2005 the story of the life of Kofi Kwarko ‘Kiki’ Gyan is one often told with warning by his friends to the new generation of aspiring Ghanaian popstars.

Soundway Records now collects the best of Gyan’s work as a frontman and solo artist, featuring an array of electrifying disco grooves that still sound contemporary (and in some cases futuristic) decades after their initial release.

Released on CD and 2xLP both formats are accompanied with detailed liner notes written by Uchenna Ikonne. LP version comes with a free MP3 download of the release. 