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Pantsula! - The Rise Of Electronic Dance Music In South Africa, 1988-90

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Late 80s South African dance floor winners only! Selected by DJ Okapi and Antal, the compilation holds tracks by Jivaro, The Hard Workers, Ayobayo Band, S.Y.B. & many more. This is the sharp electronic music that fuelled the local Pantsula dances during the 80s and 90s . A must have for fans of Bubblegum and Kwaito music.The 12 tracks selected for Pantsula! come from a very unique, very different time and place. They represent the birth of electronic dance music in South Africa, through the songs of one particular independent label from the time: Music Team. The sound represents the culmination of the bubblegum era, when South Africa’s disco artists outgrew their American influences and forged an increasingly electronic and ‘local’ pop sound.Evolving over time since long before the 80s, the distinctly South African subculture of Pantsula is more closely associated with an attitude, a style and a signature dance, rather than any specific sound. In the late 1980s and early 90s, Pantsula was also the name given to a new type of dance music taking over the streets of South Africa, influenced by earlier bubblegum and the rise of Shangaan Disco, but with a far broader appeal and a harder, purely electronic sound.

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1. The Equals - New Lover
2. Jazino - Ushelakanjani
3. Jivaro - What Next (dub mix)
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1. SYB - Jika Magogo
2. Scotch Band - Watsotasama
3. Kakappa - Sisonke
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1. Spirro - Ma Hero (dub mix)
2. The Hard Workers - Ayoba-yo
3. Ayobayo Band - Sorry Bra
Side 4
1. Rush - Sobohla Manyosi (feat Linda Ziqubu)
2. Chaka - Via Tembisa
3. La Viva - Go Siami

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Wait... No Hurry

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First official reissue of Nigerian Boogie Disco Grail LP produced by Grotto for EMI Nigeria and originally released in 1978. Contains dance classic‘Bad city Girl’. Liner notes by Nigerian Music expert Uchenna Ikkone, include previously unpublished photos and extensive interviews by Temitope Kogbe.“Odion Iruoje was the A&R manager at EMI at the time,” Benson says, “and he auditioned us, liked he material and signed us.” Odion Iruoje of course had groomed and produced Ofege. Now he was looking to repeat the formula with other high school groups such as Tirogo, Apples and Question Mark. Grotto’s deep rock would be a welcome addition to this “schoolboy rock” series. Work on their album started immediately, with Iruoje in the producer’s chair. Adapting to the tastes of the times—as well as their own maturing musical sensibilities—Grotto started transitioning from acid rock towards sleeker, more dance floor-friendly grooves. “As I grew older I think I got a bit jazzier,” Benson says. “I also listened to Curtis Mayfield, James Brown, Isley Brothers, Prince and a lot of funk groups from that era.” “Hard rock was the content of the first album,” Amenechi agrees, “and funk/jazz/R&B the focus of album number two. Especially with the late Toma Mason Jr. joining as bassist.” The group’s second album, Grotto II: Wait… No Hurry (released in 1979) reflected the growing sophistication of its members’ musical outlook. Fat, funky bass grooves rubbed shoulders with jazzy flute lines; space-age synthesizer tones punctuated good, old-fashioned crunchy rock riffs.

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1. Wait... No Hurry
2. Maya
3. When Will I Learn
4. Who Gives A Damn
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1. Bad City Girl
2. Yeah Runnin'
3. Freestyle

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Duomo Sounds Ltd: Nigerian 80s Disco Music To Move Your Soul

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Amazing collection of Disco Music released in the 80s (1980-84) on the Nigerian label Duomo Music Ltd. and reissued here for the first time.The late 70s, the thrust of mainstream music had changed from the indigenous highlife to a more international funky disco sound. Keyboards and drum machines were the key components of the new sound. The implications on sales was real as names like Bunny Mack, Chris Okotie, Christy Essien, Jide Obi replaced Osita Osadebe and the Oriental Brothers on the charts. It was in this effervescent climate that Duomo Sounds Ltd was established by Mr Humphrey Aniakor, a business man with no prior investment in the industry. It was simply the in-thing for a young monied businessman. The name suggested European sophistication, modernity and a little abstraction. D U O M O Sounds, the kids loved it. The first release was Bassey Black’s “Someone to love” (DSL 001) which sold over a 100,000 copies, a big hit at the time. The success of the album attracted several artists the most influential of which was Mike Umoh. He aimed for the pop market with accessible, funky arrangements. However his affinity for funk and disco has made him a reference for collectors worldwide. His LP entitled, “Honey, Honey” (DSL 002) was the label’s second release and his most successful album. Also produced the labels 19th release, Bindiga’s, “No More Starvation” (DSL 019), an afro-boogie funk masterpiece. The album in its original format is very sought after by collectors and djs and changes hands for huge sums. Its been described by many as cosmic funk at its finest. Christy Ogbah´s disco soul/highlife records on Duomo are also very highly sought after. This new Livingstone Studio release presents the best of Duomo Sounds Ltd. for the first time.

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1. Christy Ogbah - Advice
2. Johnny O - Bazz Xmas Eve
3. Mike Umoh - Look At Me
Side 2
1. Mike Umoh - Shake Your Body
2. Bindiga - Disco Connection
3. Christy Ogbah - Aimiuugwia
Side 3
1. Bindiga - Perfect Disco Machine
2. Bassey Black & The Natty Messiah - On My Mind
3. Christy Ogbah - Azomonfe
Side 4
1. Godfrey Odili - You Do Good For Yourself
2. Eunice Mokus Arimoku - Ariro

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Just U And Me

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Nigeria’s Kingsley Bucknor’s ‘Just U and Me’ LP gets the long-awaited reissue treatment from Melbourne’s Left Ear Records. After cutting his teeth playing with Fela in the 70’s and releasing two afrobeat LP’s Kingsley travelled the globe before finding himself in London, it’s here that he laid down 6 distinctive electro-funk tunes inspired by African rhythms and music he’d heard through his travels in the States and in Europe. Originally issued on Kinglsley’s own KAB records in ’85 and according to Kingsley the release was well received at the time, but due to constraints of international marketing the record remained mostly unknown outside of his homeland. Fast-forward to 2017 and the stage is set for a new global audience to appreciate the distinct sound of KB.

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1. Someone Is Talkin' & Shoutin'
2. You Gotta Keep On Luvin' Me (Hot extended remix version)
3. Just U & Me
Side 2
1. You Gotta Keep On Luvin' Me (instrumental Hot remix)
2. Don't Give Up Ya Luv (extended Hot remix)
3. Don't Give Up Ya Luv (instrumental Hot remix)

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Mix Faze

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Killer private modern soul / disco funk LP from San Diego released in 1980 on Aidqueen Records.

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1. Disco Thing
2. Ooh, Your Love
3. Get Down Party
4. Seaquence
5. Good-Better-Best
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1. Dance, Dance, Dance
2. Loving
3. T-Bone Funk
4. Life
5. On The Corner

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Amajovi Jovi

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Invisible City returns with the hotly anticipated reissue of Amajovi Jovi by Durban’s O.G. kwaito giant, Sandy B. Originally self-released on cassette and a white label 12”. In its original post-apartheid context, Amajovi Jovi was a sign of youthful subversiveness, rebellious creativity and a neck snapping rejection to the fascist groove of a silenced nation. While the Pantsulla hustler nods to house legends like Jamie Principle and Pal Joey, its hip hop breaks and interludes show a clear affection for Snoop Dogg’s Doggystyle. At its slowed down tempo however, this low-fi kwaito masterpiece turns away from its American influence and looks towards Baldelli and his cosmos. Best of all are Sandy’s vocals— deep, melodic Zulu rap, sung flippantly—the way that only a true gangster could. It now stands as one of the finest glimpses of 90s party music to ever be blasted at the underground parties of the South African townships.A huge fave of Jamie Tiller, Tako and getting the big spins from Young Marco - we are proud to present a limited vinyl and cassette reissue from one of the godfathers of kwaito. Remastered and restored from the original cassette tape. Designed by Zeitype.

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1. Amajovi Jovi
2. Student Night
3. Dedication
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1. Lafaki (Doggy Style)
2. Party Time
3. Amajovi Jovi (instrumental)

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Skin 'N' Bones

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Music From Memory’s final 12" for 2017 is a reissue of Dub Oven's self released, and sadly one-off, 1983 EP 'Skin N Bones’.Pioneers in the Post Punk Industrial and New Wave scene in 1980’s San Francisco, Gary Miles (Voice Farm) and Blaise Smith (Minimal Man), met at San Francisco’s notorious 181 Club in December of 1982. This straight/same sex/swing-both-ways late night dive bar was tucked away in one of the city's most risky, drug riddled neighbourhoods. Stationed near the SF Museum of modern Art it attracted a wild audience of local patrons, aspiring young artists and music heads. In the thick of all this the duo felt impartial to a lot what was going on musically and set out to produce electronic music that could break through the "somewhat exhausted post disco sound that was then competing in the local San Francisco clubs". Enlisting soul vocalist Celeste Miller, the duo were also inspired by Lee 'Scratch' Perry / Upsetters dub tracks being produced in Jamaica and created a unique breed of avant guard hybrid New Wave/Electronic Funk.With it's influences seemingly as much rooted in the past and the present as it was focused on the future; Dub Oven formed a distinct, mystical approach to music intended for the dance floor. All three tracks on this 12" embody a signature groove and an inventive synthesized abstraction to express a languishing urban unsettledness and spiritual awareness. Recorded at L7 Studios in San Francisco with the assistance of the the studio’s in house producer Marco Perry (who currently now works with Bjork) the record was unfortunately overlooked by A&R at several major and even local labels and was finally self-released in very limited quantities. Utilising analog electronics and instrumentation, the record draws on elements of dub, new wave, soul and funk to create a sound that is uncategorizable and one that was perhaps simply too forward thinking for it’s time.

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1. Skin 'N' Bones
Side 2
1. Dub Oven
2. Millions Of Sensations

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Subterranean (1989-1995)

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Left Ear are re-introducing another ten lost tracks from Nicholas Georgieff and Virgil Work, St Louis' basement electronics duo Workdub.The release spans material from 1989-95 and includes recordings from their sole LP and both cassette albums. Workdub’s music hardly fits into a vacuum and some might even say it’s otherworldly. Tracks like “Reach for the Stars” and “Lunar Module” reflect dreams of space-age exploration, all the while their investigation into drum machines, synthesizers, samples and digital fx’s matched with their organic live instrumentation work to create a unique atmospheric dubbed out sound.

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1. By Any Means Necessary
2. Rainforest
3. Reach For The Stars
4. Work-A-Day World
5. Industrial Revolution
Side 2
1. Invasion
2. Drive It Home
3. Just Pump It
4. Subterranean
5. Lunar Module

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Fenix

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With all the cosmic energy and masterful musicianship you’d expect from the three-man orchestra, Azymuth rise from the ashes! Continually pushing the boundaries of jazz, funk, electronic music and disco, as expressed through their signature samba swing, the Brazilian mavericks have recreated the energy of those seventies’ sessions which would launch them into international recognition and confirm their status as one of Brazil’s most successful bands.Since the passing of keyboard maestro Jose Roberto Bertrami in 2012, remaining members Ivan Conti and Alex Malheiros have worked tirelessly to keep the spirit of Azymuth alive, and to continue the legacy of Bertrami’s genius. But Fênix also marks a new era as the Azymuth trio is complete once again, by special guest keyboardist Kiko Continentino. A hugely talented pianist, composer and arranger, Kiko has worked with the likes of Milton Nascimento, Gilberto Gil and Djavan, and the fresh energy and inspiration he has brought to the group is undeniable. The album also features Brazilian percussion legend Robertinho Silva, one of Brazil’s most important and influential players.From the disco-carnival title track to sunny jazz-funk head-nodder Orange Clouds, through to the deep-space samba Corumbá, Azymuth have drawn upon five decades of consummate craftsmanship - which coupled with their endless desire for experimentation and improvisation - has resulted in a 10-track journey encapsulating the full spectrum of Azymuth’s brilliantly coloured expressionist fusion.

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1. Batucada Em Marte
2. Papa Samba
3. Neptunians (Short version)
4. Rio Doce
5. Corumba
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1. Fenix
2. Villa Mariana (De Tarde)
3. Orange Clouds
4. O Matagal

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Sekele I Like It

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Exhumé par l'archéologue du groove Betino Errera, ce bijou noir gravé à Paris en 1980 est l'œuvre du chanteur Américain Robert Helms. Celui-ci fit en France une carrière plutôt confidentielle avec quelques sorties tant sous son nom que celui de Bobby Helms ou encore Bobby. L'album " Lay down girl" est resté un secret bien gardé en dépit du fait qu'il contienne deux puissants morceaux de disco funk façonnés par des pointures de studio dont Donny Donable, pilier du Lafayette Afro Rock Band à la batterie, Christophe Zadire de Zulu Gang à la basse and Beckie Bell dans les choeurs. Les séances furent dirigées par le grand Jacob Desvarieux aux guitares, piano et synthés , qui était déjà à l'époque un des fondateurs de Kassav. Ces enregistrements ont été réalisés sous la supervision de Pierre Jaubert, producteur majeur du circuit indépendant à partir de la fin des années soixante, à la tête de son propre studio, lequel était un lieu de rencontre très prisé des musiciens. Il est a l'origine de disques de maitres du blues tels que John Lee Hooker, Memphis Slim, Roosevelt Sykes et de grands du jazz comme Mal Waldron, Archie Shepp and Charlie Mingus. Mais pour les amateurs de funk, Pierre Jaubert est surtout reconnu pour son travail avec le groupe légendaire Lafayette Afro Rock Band dont les breaks et les riffs exceptionnels ont été samplés par les plus célèbres rappeurs dont Public Enemy, De La Soul, Naughty by Nature, Digital Underground, Wu Tang Clan et Ice Cube pour n'en citer que quelques uns.Aujourd'hui, Betino's Records réédite les deux morceaux les plus recherchés de l'album original : "Feet on the ground" coécrit par Desvarieux et Helms et "Sekele I like it" de Desvarieux et Pasteur Lappe, ce dernier, originaire du Cameroun, étant le premier à enregistrer le morceau en 1979.En prime, les deux morceaux sont retravaillés dans la veine actuelle. Baptman et Betino abandonnent les parties chantées de "Sekele I like it" pour le transformer en un dub d'inspiration "Philly" ultra dansant.De son coté, DJ Vas creuse la veine afrobeat pour "Feet on the ground", épaissit la sauce avec des lignes de basse qui claquent et lui donne une touche à la "Earth Wind & Fire" en magnifiant la section de cuivres.Dernier point, le pressage de ce maxi est limité à 700 exemplaires.Unearthed by groove archeologist Betino Errera, this black gem was cut in Paris in 1980 by American vocalist Robert Helms. His French career being rather confidential with releases under his own name as well as Bobby Helms or simply Bobby, the "Lay down girl" album remained a well-kept secret for decades despite the fact that it contained two very strong disco funk tunes. Helms was backed by a seasoned studio band including Donny Donable of Lafayette Afro Rock Band on drums, Christophe Zadire of Zulu Gang fame on bass and Beckie Bell on backing vocals. The session was led by master musician Jacob Desvarieux on guitar, piano and synths , who was already at that time, one of the founders of Kassav. These recordings were made under the supervision of Pierre Jaubert who was a major player on the independent French production scene from the late sixties onward, operating his own studio, famous for also being a much appreciated meeting point for musicians. He is responsible for bringing forth works from legendary bluesmen like John Lee Hooker, Memphis Slim, Roosevelt Sykes and jazz greats including Mal Waldron, Archie Shepp and Charlie Mingus. But to funk lovers, Pierre Jaubert is mostly known for his involvement with the mythical Lafayette Afro Rock Band whose prominent breaks and riffs have been sampled by the most illustrious rappers including Public Enemy, De La Soul, Naughty by Nature, Digital Underground, Wu Tang Clan and Ice Cube to name but a few.Today, Betino's Records reissues two very sought after tracks from the original album : "Feet on the ground" cowritten by Desvarieux and Helms and "Sekele I like it" written by Desvarieux and Pasteur Lappe , the latter hailing from Cameroon, was the first one to record the song in 1979.In addition , both tunes get the contemporary rework treatment. Baptman and Betino editing the vocals out of "Sekele I like it" then turning it into a very danceable Philly- inspired dub.For his part, DJ Vas digs the Afrobeat seam on "Feet on the ground" , thickens the sauce with thumping bass lines and adds an "Earth Wind & Fire " feel by putting the emphasis on the horn section.And last but not least, this 12 inch pressing is limited to 700 copies worldwide.

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1. Sekele I Like It (Original Version)
2. Feet On The Ground (Original Version)
Side 2
1. Sekele I Like It
(Baptman & Betino Philly Vibe Mix)
2. Feet On The Ground (Vas Moody Rework)

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