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Zulu EP

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Heavy debut release by Melbourne based music agency/record store Crown Ruler. This is a three track EP by South African studio outfit Focus. Comprised of Sello Mmutung and Keith Hutchinson, the original six track album 'Zulu Disco' was laid down in Johannesburg circa 1983.The original release has almost mystical qualities, no-one actually knows if it had a vinyl release or not. The only known media that exists is the cassette this was mastered from. A super strong EP that doesn't have a weak moment, side A for the full dancefloor, side B for deep afrocentric, mid-tempo chuggers. Including the original version of Picnic, later covered by Starlight and Kumasi..

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Hay-Hay
Rock Batlanga
Moger
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1. Hay-Hay
Side 2
1. Rock Batlanga
3. Moger

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Baleka

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In the mid-70s, musician and songwriter Phil Arosa fled Southern Rhodesia's apartheid (now Zimbabwe) to settle in the Netherlands and pursue his musical career under more mundane skies. Alongside his partner Marga, he started the band Zimba which played for ten years in clubs around the country. During those years, Baleka was the only studio recorded song and was released in 1983. This record went unnoticed at the time but this minimal and powerful mix of African rhythms with a New Wave voice and an irresistible mbira gimmick deserved better. We are happy to revive this track and have asked our London friends from The Comet Is Coming and Blackjoy (Siwo) from Paris to revisit this piece. The results are two very different versions of Baleka but definitely carved for the dancefloors.Listen : https://soundcloud.com/nyami-nyami-records

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1. Baleka (long version)
2. Baleka (The Comet Is Coming Remix)
Side 2
1. Baleka (Siwo edit)
2. Baleka (Short version)

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Afro Disco Beat Disco Afro Reedit Series Vol 2

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In 1976, Fela Anikulapo Kuti & Afrika 70 released a total of 8 albums including the hit Zombie. At the time of their height, Tony Allen, Fela's drummer, decided to release a follow-up album to Jealousy. Progress was the result of a series of studio sessions, featuring Fela himself with a tenor solo on the title-track. The b-side contains the dancefloor filler “Afro Disco Beat”. Today, Comet proudly presents the 2nd release of the Tony Allen & Africa 70 (Disco Afro Series): featuring remastered original versions of “Afro Disco Beat” and remixes by Africaine 808 & Mexican Institute of Sound.

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Afrodiscobeat (Africaine 808 rework)
Afrodiscobeat (Mexican Institute Of Sound rework)
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1. Afrodiscobeat
Side 2
1. Afrodiscobeat (Africaine 808 rework)
2. Afrodiscobeat (Mexican Institute Of Sound rework)

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Brand New Wayo: Funk Fast Times & Nigerian Boogie Badness 1979-1983

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Repress! With this release, Comb & Razor Sound launches its exploration of the colorful world of popular music from Nigeria, starting with the post-disco era of the late 1970s and early 80s. The years between 1979 and 1983 were Nigeria's Second Republic, when democracy finally returned after twenty-three years of uninterrupted military dictatorship. They were also the crest of Nigeria’s oil boom, when surging oil prices made the petroleum-producing country a land of plenty, prosperity and profligacy. The influx of petrodollars meant an expansion in industry and the music industry in particular. Record companies upgraded their technology and cranked out a staggering volume of output to an audience hungry for music to celebrate the country’s prospective rise as global power of the future. While it was a boom time for a wide variety of popular music styles, the predominant commercial sound was a post-afrobeat, slickly modern dance groove that retrofitted the relentless four-on-thefloor bass beat of disco to a more laidback, upbeat-and-downbeat soul shuffle, mixing in jazz-funk, synthesizer pop and afro feeling. At the time, it was still mostly locally referred to as “disco,” but has since been recognized as its own unique genre retrospectively dubbed “Nigerian boogie.” A Brand New Wayo: Funk, Fast Times and Nigerian Boogie Badness collects 15 pulsing Nigerian boogie tracks in a lovingly compiled package chronicling one of the most progressive and creative eras in the history of African popular music.

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Mixed Grill - A Brand New Wayo
Joe Moks - Boys & Girls
Chris Mba - Funky Situation
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1. Mixed Grill - A Brand New Wayo
2. Kris Okotie - Show Me Your Backside
3. Murphy Williams - Get On Up
4. Joe Moks - Boys & Girls
Side 2
1. Amas - Slow Down
2. Oby Onyioha - I Want To Feel Your Love
3. Dizzy K Falola - Excuse Me Baby
4. Chris Mba - Funky Situation
Side 3
1. Bayo Damazio - Listen To The Music
2. Martha Ulaeto - Music Alone
3. Segun Robert - Big Race
4. Amel Addmore - Jane
Side 4
1. Honey Machine - Pleasure
2. The Stormmers - Love Or Money
3. Emma Baloka - Let's Love Each Other

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Sugar Daddy

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Strut present the first in a series of essential original LP reissues exploring rare and under-rated African, Latin and Caribbean music classics, curated by Duncan Brooker. In January 2017, the series kicks off with ‘Sugar Daddy’, an experimental highlife / disco outing by Nigerian highlife guitarist Joe King Kologbo. Building his career as a composer and player with Eastern Star Dance Band at their residency at the Atlantic Hotel in Aba, Eastern Nigeria, Joe King Kologbo was forced to flee to Ghana when the Biafran War broke out in 1967. As his son Oghene recalls, “when war came, everything just scatter. He lost his house, everything.”Joe King played with a variety of bands in Ghana including Real Ruby’s, a jazz highlife big band, before returning to Lagos in 1971. By the time he recorded the ‘Sugar Daddy’ LP for the tiny Electromat label in 1980, he was one of the older musicians on the circuit. Oghene Kologbo remembers, “My Mum used to say, ‘I hope you don’t go and play guitar everywhere and play around, don’t go and be Sugar Daddy!’ All my father’s friends nicknamed him ‘Sugar Daddy’ so he did the song in a fun way. He was a nice man. He never did ‘playboy’.” “Since he was based in the East during his early days, he was not as well known nationally as some of the other highlife players of the time,” continues Oghene,”so it’s nice that this album is coming out again. It brings back good memories.” Joe King Kologbo’s ‘Sugar Daddy’ is released in its original artwork and features new interviews with Oghene Kologbo and Sonny Akpan of The Funkees. The album comes remastered by The Carvery, with vinyl pressed at Pallas.- First ever reissue of sought-after Nigerian highlife / disco original LP- Officially licensed from Joe King Kologbo estate- Includes the killer 15-minute DJ track ‘Sugar Daddy’- New package features all original artwork and new interviews with Oghene Kologbo and Sonny Akpan of The Funkees

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Sugar Daddy
Come Back Lina
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1. Sugar Daddy
Side 2
1. Come Back Lina
2. All Fingers Are Not Equal

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Calabar-Itu Road: Groovy Sounds From South Eastern Nigeria (1972-1982)

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Limited 2xLP in silk screen sleeve + 44 page booklet"When most people think about Nigerian music, the first thing that comes to mind is Lagos—the country’s main commercial center, the glittering megacity that spawned Yoruba-speaking music luminaries such as Fela Kuti, King Sunny Ade, Sir Shina Peters and Wizkid. But Nigeria is a country of rich diversity, especially in its music: From the Igbo highlife and rock bands of east-central region, to the deep Edo roots rhythms from the midwest, to the keening, ornamented Fulani melodies of the north. But one region whose music has remained largely underexplored is the south eastern land of the Efik and Ibibio ethnic groups in Cross River and Akwa Ibom State—the region colloquially referred to as “Calabar.” A cradle of culture, this region was one of the earliest outposts of Nigerian popular music. Its primordial rhythms traveled across the Atlantic during the slave trade to provide the part of the foundation for Afro-Cuban grooves that would go on to influence the development of jazz, rock & roll, R&B and funk. With the new Calabar-Itu Road compilation, Comb & Razor Sound presents15 heavy tracks recorded in the decade between 1972 and 1982, spotlighting rare music from “Calabar” superstars such as Etubom Rex Williams, Cross River Nationale, Charles “Effi” Duke, The Doves and Mary Afi Usuah. The package features a magazine-style booklet containing a wealth of information about the milieu with rare photographs and illustrations. The Calabar-Itu Road is the major artery linking modern-day Cross River and Akwa Ibom States. And Calabar-Itu Road: Groovy Sounds from South Eastern Nigeria (1972-1982) will link the region’s music to the rest of the world!"

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Cross River Nationale - Nyong Eyen Unen
The Doves - Akan Anwan Isong Idung
Mari Afi Usuah- Mma Ama Mbo
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Side 1
1. Isadico Dance Band Of Nigeria Led By Isaiah Disckson - Mbre Isong (intro)
2. Cross River Nationale - Nyong Eyen Unen
3. The Visitors - Eyen Erong Nwa
4. Mansion - Akam Itoro Abasi
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1. Monica Isaac - Akananwan Isong Idung
2. Emmanual Ntia & His Eastern Star Dance Band - Top Eyop Odo
3. The Sea Lions - Akwa Idim
4. Charles Duke - Suk Usan Idang (Cross River Radio interlude)
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1. Isadico Dance Band Of Nigeria Led By Isaiah Disckson - Eti Eyeneka
2. The Doves - Akan Anwan Isong Idung
3. Mari Afi Usuah & The South Eastern State Cultural Band - Mma Ama Mbo
4. Sunny Risky & The Vitamin Explosion - Atak Mfat Eyen
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1. Chief Inyang Henshaw & His Top Ten Aces - Eseme Ikpong
2. Etubom Rex Williams & His Nigerian Artistes - Ererimbot Afayung Oko
3. Bustic Kingsley Bassey's Anansa Engineers - Journey To Luna

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Friday Night

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Brand new label Odion livingstone, based out of Lagos, Nigeria, presents its debut release, a reissue of the sought after Nigerian disco LP rarity ‘Friday Night’ by Livy Ekemezie. “I was just out of senior secondary school and I wanted to make an album,” recalls Ekemezie. “I was into disco and funk at the time and I was looking for a bassdriven funky sound. The entire idea was to make an album that sounded like something made in London or the U.S. I tried to sound “American” but we ended up with something else: a mix of American and Nigerian.” ‘Friday Night’ was recorded at Goddy Oku’s Godiac 24-track recording studio in Enugu, one of the best studios available in Nigeria at the time. “It took about 9 months to a year to make the album,” continues Ekemezie. “I financed it by myself so I had to resort to friends helping out with loans for session men and studio time. The original LP was released on blue vinyl and that idea came from William Onyeabor. We used his pressing plant and he sold the idea to me. It was different so I said ‘why not?’” The LP has been picked up by many in recent months as the demand for Nigerian disco originals has grown with the track ‘Delectation’ receiving an unofficial edit and DJs like Motor City Ensemble dropping the album into their sets. This first ever reissue of the LP remains faithful to the original issue, remastered and pressed on blue vinyl. It features full original artwork along with new interviews with Livy Ekemezie and contributing musician Jules Elong by Odion Livingstone’s Temi Kogbe.- First ever reissue of sought after Nigerian disco original LP- Blue vinyl edition, echoing the original release which was pressed at William Onyeabor’s vinyl plant- Includes the DJ track ‘Delectation’- New package features all original artwork and new interviews with Livy Ekemezie and musician Jules Elong

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Get It Down
Holiday Actions
Friday Night
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1. Get It Down
2. Holiday Action
3. I Wan’ My Bab’ Back
4. Friday Night
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1. Classic Lover
2. Night Party
3. Delectation

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I Wanna Love

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Growing up in Jamaica, young Rowland Abrahams loved dancing to James Brown so much that he earnt himself the nickname 'Papas' Got'. He later moved to Paris and in 1979 more or less single-handedly recorded the 'I Wanna Love' LP on the RGR label. Admittedly not an album with a heavy yield, the only pearl being the title track which Rocafort Records are releasing as a 12" with an exclusive Al Kent edit on the B side.No rocket science involved here, just pure killer afro-disco-funk groove from start to finish.Urgent funky guitar riffs, thumping drums and a strong hint of late 70s euro-disco fueled by the slightly unintelligible lyrics delivered with a Frenchie patois twist.

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I Wanna Love (LP version)
I Wanna Love (Al Kent edit)
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1. I Wanna Love (LP version)
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1. I Wanna Love (Al Kent edit)

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Antilles Cheries : Compa/Cadence

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Compilé par Emile Omar, une sélection tropical discoteq.

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Banzai
Cail La Mande Rouse
Pale Creole
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1. Simon Juran - Si Bon Di Bon
2. Toto Necessite - Cail La Mande Rouse
3. Maxel's - En Las
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1. Experience 7 - Banzai
2. Coupe Cloue - Plein Caille
3. Gervais Nerva - Marchande
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1. Rodrigue Millien & Blagueur - Pale Creole
2. Black Affairs - La Vie Musique
Side 4
1. Vikings Martinique - Deposez Les Armes
2. Combo Creole - Kokoye
3. Belles Combo - Coeur A Moin
4. Selecta Martinique - Money First

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I Like Woman

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1978 2 Super Rare Nigerian Monsters Afro-Beat Groover Tracks from Lagos by Artist Musician SEGUN OKEJI BAND like Fela Kuti Music Influence ....Lead Vocals,Solo Tenor Sax,Arranged by,Written by : Segun Okeji Segun Okeji was the Tenor Sax Solo of Fela and his Koola Lobitos Band in Nigeria in the Late 60's ....This Record LP is a true Gem and Surely one Hard-to-Find piece of African Music History,Easily the Rarest and Best work by one African Man of Afro-Beat Music Major Figures ....For the Most curious Listeners !!!!! - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED -

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I Like Woman
Afro Super Feelings In Disco
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1. I Like Woman
Side 2
1. Afro Super Feelings In Disco

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