Area Forty_one - Reminiscence - DELSIN RECORDS
L.B. Dub Corp - Take A Ride (Feat. Benjamin Zephaniah) (Original Mix) - OSTGUT TON
Conforce - Abundance Of Selves - DELSIN RECORDS
Tobias Freund - Fast Null - OSTGUT TON
Rolando - Time Adjustment - ROLAND ROCHA RECORDS
Reade Truth - Blessing Of Luh - N S Y D E
Prince of Denmark - Your Body - FORUM
Planetary Assault Systems - Riot In Silo 12 - MOTE EVOLVER
Physical Therapy - Million Years Crushed (Norman Nodge Remix) - ALLERGY SEASON
Ø [Phase] - Self Deceit - TOKEN RECORDS
Laibach - Eurovision (Marcel Dettmann Remix) - WHITE LABEL
Esteban Adame - Rise & Shine - EPM MUSIC
Chris Clark - Superscope - WARP RECORDS
Dario Zenker - WM2 - WHITE LABEL
Joey Anderson - Come Behind The Tree - SYNCROPHONE RECORDINGS
Marcel Dettmann - Apron (Luke Slater PAS Remix) - WHITE LABEL
Kobosil - Path - MARCEL DETTMANN RECORDS
Marcel Dettmann - Seduction (Anthony Parasole Remix) - OSTGUT TON
Marco Shuttle - Sing Like A Bird - TIME TO EXPRESS
Mike Storm and GRG - Rainy Mondays - ORBIS RECORDS
L.B. Dub Corp - Nearly Africa - OSTGUT TON
Crystal Maze - Orchidea Nera - ECHOVOLT
Dillon - A Matter Of Time (Marcel Dettmann Remix) - WHITE LABEL
XDB - Ganivon (Answer Code Request Remix) - DOLLY
Staffan Linzatti - View From The Collapsing Centre - BALANS HOLLAND
Orlando Voorn - Gain Upwards - WHITE LABEL
Louis Haiman - Ghost Of Gratiot - ICON OF DESIRE

BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix - Marcel Dettmann

A selection of rare and obscure tropical gems from both sides of the Black Atlantic. Cuban Son, Cape Verdean Coladiera, Senegalese Mbalax, Jamaican Dub, Dominican Merengue, Haitian Kompa, Antillean Biguine, Guinea-Bissau Gumbe, and Afro-Latin fare. Happy travels! 

Some of these tracks will be released exclusively on Ostinato Records in the near future. Stay tuned!

Catch Ostinato Records spinning the finest in vintage Black Atlantic rhythms at Canicule Tropicale in Montreal, Canada on November 22, 2014! https://www.facebook.com/events/356496084524439/

Afrophonia Vol. 2 1968 - 1982: Black Atlantic Rhythms from Cuba to Angola

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OSTINATO RECORDS PROUDLY PRESENTS

OSTLP/CD001

TANBOU TOUJOU LOU: MERINGUE, KOMPA KREYOL, VODOU JAZZ, & ELECTRIC FOLKLORE FROM HAITI 1960 - 1981

COMPILED & CURATED by VIK SOHONIE

"What a superb compilation this is. This might be the most surprising compilation of 2016 yet." - Songlines Magazine

ORDER NOW: 

Bandcamp: http://bit.ly/1Oh3k6s

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Available on 2xLP Gatefold, CD, and Digital.

Selected from an array of private collections and radio archives in Brooklyn, New York, and multiple digging trips in Port-au-Prince, Jacmel, Gonaives, and St. Marc, Haiti, are twenty tracks that encompass the vast diversity of styles during the seminal years of musical innovation and percussive potency in Haiti. From the legendary, elegant big band dance parties in iconic nightclubs of Port-au-Prince to the rhythms of the countryside; from accordion-driven meringue and Vodou-derived drum patterns, to hypnotic tenor sax arrangements and psychedelic interpretations of folklore, the music of 1960's, '70's, & '80's Haiti enjoys a royal repute across the Caribbean, West Africa, and the Colombian coast. 

In the golden era of Haitian music, between the 1960s and 1980s, experimentation and electric reinterpretation of traditional rhythms was rife, along with the sophisticated balancing of a host of influences. There’s the jazz-era instrumentation, brought during the early 20th century American occupation, which introduced horn sections to Haitian ensembles. Cuba, cultural imperator of the Afro-Atlantic and perennial ally of Haiti, imbued Meringue, Mambo, Son, Guajira, Charanga, and a slew of Afro-Cuban styles into the Haitian repertoire. Accordion-driven Colombian Cumbia and Dominican Merengue left their mark. A melting pot of sound was all held together by the countless rhythms, drum patterns, and percussion brought across the Atlantic from Africa, surviving slavery’s violent cultural repression. 

Nago rhythms from what is today Nigeria and Benin, Kongo rhythms from Central Africa, and Petwo rhythms from the Vodou traditions of Guinea, among many others, were revived and given special importance in an age of black consciousness, driven by the Negritude and Noiriste philosophies of Afro-Caribbean intellectuals like Jamaica’s Marcus Garvey and Martinique’s Frantz Fanon and Aimé Césaire. 

The lasting result is a rich, layered terrine that spawned Haiti’s Cuban-inspired Meringue, the dominant Kompa Direct of Nemours Jean Baptiste, the silky tenor sax-led Cadence Rampa pioneered by Webert Sicot, psychedelic Mini Jazz, and the dancefloor-filling Vodou Jazz compositions of de-facto national orchestra, Super Jazz de Jeunes. At its peak, Haitian music was widely distributed, proliferating its unique blend of sound across the Francophone Caribbean and West Africa. 

Recordings capturing this vibrant laboratory of colliding influences were produced and pressed in Haiti, the United States, France, and elsewhere in the Caribbean. Huge catalogs from the heavyweight record labels of the time—IBO Records, Marc Records, and Mini Records—and the smaller, private presses have largely been gathering dust and bugs, left to warp in the damp humidity... until now.

"Aprè dans, tanbou toujou lou (After the dance, the drum is always heavy.)"

CREDITS: 
PRODUCTION, CURATION, RESEARCH, & LINER NOTES: Vik Sohonie / New York, NY
MASTERING ENGINEER: Michael Graves / Atlanta, GA 
GRAPHIC DESIGN: Pete White / London, EN
PHOTO RESTORATION: Artisan Photo Restoration/ New York, NY
CD COVER DESIGN: Kathi Remest / Berlin, GE
MANUFACTURING: AtoZ Media / New York, NY 
LEGAL: Savur Threadgold LLP Law / New York, NY 

SPECIAL THANKS to Samuel Merizema, my friend and guide in Haiti, whose resourcefulness and hard work made this compilation possible. 

 © & ℗ Ostinato Records 2016. All Rights Reserved. Unauthorized duplication or distribution of this sampler is prohibited.

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TANBOU TOUJOU LOU: MERINGUE, KOMPA KREYOL, VODOU JAZZ, & ELECTRIC FOLKLORE FROM HAITI 1960 - 1981

"Donde muere el tiempo

La primer noche soñé que la Madre del Agua me llevaba a nadar en el mar, 
y de tanto que me hundió me ganó el miedo y tuve que despertar.

A la noche siguiente me volvió a tomar de los brazos llevándome profundo, hasta un lugar 
muy calmo y silencioso donde todo estaba en orden. 
"Este es mi vientre, y ahora que ya conoces la muerte te invito a entrar cuando quieras" me dijo, 
y a partir de ese día ya no tuve más miedo.

A la tercer noche fui yo quien la busqué para hacerle un pedido especial.
Desde chico había fantaseado con conocer una bestia marina algún día, de esas
que habitan en lo más profundo del océano, y ella accedió a mi pedido y me llevó.

Después de un buen tiempo de bajar a la parte más oscura y fría llegamos, y ahí estaba.
Este animal majestuoso que medía unas tres veces el tamaño de la ballena más grande me pidió que por favor no lo lastimara, y cuando entendió que no era mi intención fue que abrió sus ojos inmensos.
El brillo de su mirada fue tanto que alcanzó para iluminar el océano entero haciéndolo de día. 

No existen palabras para describir lo que vi en ese momento, y fue con esa claridad con la que desperté algunos días después.

Cuando abrí los ojos no podía respirar, estaba ahogado en mi propio aire. Por eso en un esfuerzo de voluntad muy grande tuve que ir corriendo hasta el estanque y soltar toda el agua.
Así fue como aprendí a respirar de nuevo.
"

Pedro Canale
2/10/13


Some people now of Universildo's existence - the more contemplative, introspective pseudonym of Pedro Canale aka. Chancha vía Circuito. Eight years after his first and only EP "Luces del Aire" (Hipi Duki Music, 2009) we received an email from Chancha with two unreleased tracks, produced in the limbo between Universildo and the Chancha. Suffice to say, we were blown away. Two tracks that show already the sonic vision of Pedro's music that has us under his spell: the meeting of organic minimalism with deep rhythms and ancestral roots.

Download by Bandcamp

Universildo - Pru Etnico

Rinse France Podcast

Rinse France 10.05.17

For the past 15 years the Tanzanian megalopolis of Dar Es Salaam has had one of the most exciting underground electronic music scenes in East Africa. A constellation of micro-scenes from Mchiriku, Sebene and Segere all the way to its latest mutation of Singeli that finally after years of lurking in the underground has exploded into the mainstream and taken over Bongo Flava as the music of choice amongst Tanzania's youth. Born in the sprawling working class neighborhoods of Tandale and Manzese, Singeli's signature sound consists of fast paced frantic loops interlocking with each other, with influences from Zanzibars Tarab music all the way to South African afro-house coupled with mc's who often spit satirical lyrics about the challenges facing Tanzania's youth, from police corruption to the complications of dating girls when you are broke. If there is one studio that stands out amongst the hundreds that dot Dar es Salaam's musical landscape it is SISSO RECORDS. Centered around producers; Bwax, Sisso, Bampa Pana and Yung Keyz Morento and Mc's Dogo Niga and Makavelli, they were early pioneers of the Singeli sound. Whilst some Singeli artists have begun fusing their music with more traditional Tanzanian hip hop, Sisso have remained uncompromising in their sound, always raw, fast with a punk DIY aesthetic that can at times verge on Noise and Gabber, to produce a spell binding music that is like no other Sound System culture in the region.

Available as digital download and limited edition pro-dubbed C- 75 cassette.
credits
releases June 10, 2017

Graphics my Aleczandah
Mastering by Emiliano Motta

Sounds of Sisso

Bwax Ft S Kide Baba Aminata Natafuta Kiki: NNT005 Sounds of Sisso

ISLE HOUSE YOU (Governor's Island)

At RA we have a multitude of voices, each one a music fanatic. Radio is a platform where many of us began our journeys within this world. We’d like to combine these voices and local stations in their cities, with local artists, label heads, record stores, designers and more to create two-hour long broadcasts celebrating these communities. Watch out for more over the coming months.

On May 22nd we broadcasted live from Melbourne station Skylab with our very own Andy Webb & Georgie Thompson. The focus was on local label Isle of Jura, and Female Wizard came through for a guest mix.

Resident Advisor on Skylab - 22.05.19

"Gravediggress", from new album 'Tales of a GrassWidow', out May 27th in Europe via City Slang and May 28th as a self release in North America.

Buy the track on iTunes here: http://glnk.it/1xl

Tourdates:
24 May: Berlin – Huxleys Neue Welt
26 May: Brussels – Cirque Royale
27 May: Paris – Theatre Des Bouffes Du Nord
30 May: Luxemburg – Rockhal

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