send your minds to africa.

[fluck]

get this jawn now.


.:: :..:: :: ::.

stones throw and david byrne team up to put out (what i think) is the most hip compilation of world music this year. sounds like 70s west african music on acid, stellar grooves to throw on the the deck anytime. just turn off the air-conditioning, brew some rooibus and relax (or get up and move). you can definitely hear trips that james, jimi, or the doors would have taken, the best part is it's from africa. dug up from old crates of records in dead pressing plants in places like lagos waiting decades to be heard again. doesn't include stuff you've probably heard, like fela kuti, but provides an excellent insight to something really big happening at the time.

[Ed Blammo]

is there any rock stuff on that comp? cause i'd like to hear what the africans were doing with that shit in the 70's.

afrobeat + funk + jazz + traditional african music + psychadelic = something really wild no doubt

[CANILIVE]

Fluck this kinda looks like you...

[Datatron]

I think Nick is gonna try to throw every thread that we don't lock right off topic.

It's ok though, cause that's pretty damn funny, haha.

[fluck]

yea. there's bits of rock innit.

also pick up 'who is this america' (ropeadope) by antibalas afrobeat orchestra. they're a current afrobeat group from brooklyn but have managed to capture the whole fela sound from 70s nigeria. rather than than stealing his ideas however, they take them even further.

[Ed Blammo]

antibalas is the shit

Che Che Cole!

[fluck]

listen listen is it the black man? stolen from africa-o whipped into slavery fight and fight for his freedom just to ride in the back of bus

him bring us culture america him bring us music too america him fight and him die but him still no drive this bus-o

is him america dem speak of today?