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Pan African Music Stew mix for This Is Africa

Pan African Music Stew mix for This Is Africa

This here is a 2 hour roundup of some of our favorite sounds coming from Africa. With a definite emphasis on sounds to make your hips move, and also definitely not an exhaustive line-up of genres – we are heavily biased towards Ghana, Angola, the Congo Kinshasa and Ivory Coast… what can you do! BBRAVE [...]

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HEAVY!! Ivory Coast Soul

HEAVY!! Ivory Coast Soul

Whooooaaaaaa! Yet another 70s afrofunk compilation… this one caught our attention though. Maybe because it has Pierre Antoine’s BANGING track Kalabuley Women. Clocking in at 11:40, it should get you going for a while. Grab this comp in iTunes, follow Julien Lebrun, bossman behind the Hot Casa Records imprint. And if you still want more, [...]

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DJ Ramatoulaye “Aladji” – always appropriate

Blast from the (not so distant) past! No real reason to post this today, except we’re on our way back to Ghana and Togo, and this brings us back to our last trip to Ivory Coast, Ghana and Togo…

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Lino Versace, 2Falet+ Les Ambianceuses about coupé décalé (fr)

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Pitchfork on West African music

Pitchfork on West African music

(photo by Andrea Bergart) Too often, when we see the words “African music” in  a major music site, they’re in the same phrase as words like vampire or weekend… not that we don’t encourage experimentation with African music and techniques. But it’s refreshing to see the Chicago powerhouse making room for the music you find [...]

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