Sunday, September 26, 2010
Throwback Music: Fela Kuti - Zombie
FREE Fela mp3 in celebration of the continuing reissue of his amazing catalog. Here's the science:
"September 14, Knitting Factory Records will release the third set of Fela reissues. This portion of the reissues series, entitled "Zombie" in celebration of Fela's most well known song, spans the years 1976 - 1980. Containing 11 albums, this period of Fela's storied career saw his Kalakuta Republic increasingly under siege from the Nigerian government, and the clear rise of his vitriol as it fermented into scathing musical diatribes. 13 CDs and 23 albums have already been re-released this year through this landmark reissue series, and the reaction has been rapturous as Fela's music continues to find new audiences every day.
The titles that are being released are:
Zombie (1976)
Upside Down (1976) / Music of Many Colours (1980)
Stalemate (1977) / Fear Not For Man (1977)
Opposite People (1977) / Sorrow, Tears and Blood (1977)
Shuffering & Shmiling (1978) / No Agreement (1977)
V.I.P. (1979) / Authority Stealing (1980)
"What's fascinating about Fela's music at this point is the dichotomy between the music and the message," says Brian Long of Knitting Factory Records. "Out of context, these songs are incredibly upbeat and full of the hottest African funk, while in the context of Fela's life, when you read the lyrics and know the story, they are full of frustration and a fiery anger that was meant to lift the people into protest.""
Get ya mp3:
Fela Kuti - Zombie [direct mp3 download - right click and save as]
Fela online - website | twitter | facebook | myspace
[via]
Labels: Afrobeat/World Music, Fela Kuti
Saturday, September 04, 2010
New DJ Mix: Blu Jemz - No Way Back (To Africa)
Done in one-take, here's a little something to get your Saturday night kicking off right!
Track listing:
01. Cultural Vibe-Ma Foom Bey (Lloyd-Ski Bday Edit)
02. Henrick Schwarz & Amamp Ondo-I Exist Because Of You (Dixon Mix)
03. Blake Baxter & Marc Romboy-Muzik (KINK Remix)
04. Saturn V-Locomotion
05. Rick Wilhite-What Do You See (Moodymann Mix)
06. Taana Gardner-Work That Body (Larry Levan Mix)
07. Steve Poindexter-Short Circuit
08. Andy Butler & Jason Kendig-And Im So In Love With You (Deetron Mix)
09. Zombie Disco Squad-Zimbo
10. Evil Nine-Stay Up
11. Hot City-Setting Me Free
12. Circle Children-Zulu (Change Mix)
13. Afrikanz On Marz-The Road We Travel (Drums & Ceremony)
14. Technical Onslaught-Eyes Of The Mind
15. Populette-Populus
16. Superlounge & Alex Niggemann-Play House
[via the TTLab blog]
Labels: Afrobeat/World Music, House/Disco Music, Rare Groove/Soul Music
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Live Mix: DJ Chorizo Funk - Chorizo Chunks 7
From Chorizo Funk:
"This was recorded live @ Body Rock with Dj Chorizo Funk & Riders Against the Storm (RAS). Good Vibes All Night! Afrobeat, Hip Hop, Funk, Latin, etc...."
Click the image above to launch the player.
DJ Chorizo Funk - facebook | twitter | website
Labels: Afrobeat/World Music, DJ Chorizo Funk, Latin Music, mixtapes, Rare Groove/Soul Music
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Dr. Martens 50 - Buraka Som Sistema - Buffalo Stance
Cover of the late 80's Neneh Cherry hip hop-pop classic....
[via Palms Out Sounds]
Labels: Afrobeat/World Music, Electronic/Dance
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Mixed by Quantic - Addis to Axum: Music, Words & Arrangements of Ethiopia
This looks interesting. Download it HERE. [direct mp3 link]
Follow Quantic on twitter.
[spotted via Steady Bloggin']
Labels: Afrobeat/World Music, mixtapes
Sunday, April 04, 2010
Kon & Amir present Off Track Vol. III: Brooklyn - Rare Ghetto Disco, Funk & African Boogie
More great music from BBE:
"Off Track III finds the New York/Boston-based pair shining light on another diverse array of underexposed vinyl. The eclectic African disco and soul cuts Amir highlights on his disc are Americanized by style but inherently authentic in feel, demonstrating the very best of the region’s dance music from the period following Fela Kuti’s mid-70s creative peak. Some standouts: Tee Mac’s 1980’s insistently catchy ‘Living Everyday’; Effi Duke’s percussive masterpiece ‘The Time Is Come’; and Christy Essien’s glorious ‘You Can’t Change A Man’, which features famed bandleader Geraldo Pino’s Show Train outfit. Also in the mix are a couple of cuts from unsung Nigerian star Dizzy K. Falola aimed at sophisticated dancefloors.
Kon’s disc opens with an extended edit of Donny McCullough’s ‘From The Heart’ from a pricey 1981 album. Rudolph Baker’s little known album track ‘Getting Next To You’ is a floor-filling anthem in the waiting. Edge of Daybreak were a prison band whose punchy title track from their rare Eyes Of Love album provides a solid argument for subsidizing more music programs behind bars. ‘Tin Top’ is another cut with a Kon edit, but Kenny Mann & Liquid Pleasure are the antithesis of mysterious indy-label group, the veterans performing to this day and maintaining a comprehensive website loaded with videos and resumes."
Check out a few streaming audio tracks from Off-Track III here:
Rudolph Baker - Getting Next To You:
Christy Essien - You Can’t Change A Man:
Tee Mac feat. Majorie Barnes - Living Everyday:
Click to hear more snippets HERE.
Labels: Afrobeat/World Music, House/Disco Music, Kon and Amir, Rare Groove/Soul Music
The Tommy T Podcast: Ethiopian Soul
Perfect listening for a Sunday afternoon:
"Tommy T, bassist of Gogol Bordello, has compiled a podcast for streaming and download with music from his recent solo release, The Prester John Sessions (Easy Star Records) together with some of his favorite music from which he draws inspiration.
Music includes artists like Aster Aweke, once dubbed "the Aretha Franklin of Ethiopia," British reggae group Aswad, and Michael Rose of Black Uhuru. Tommy concludes with one more track from The Prester John Sessions, "Tribute to a King," dedicating the mix to The King of Ethiopian music, Dr. Tilahun Gesesse."
Related:
April 23 in Toronto: Tribute to Tilahun Gessesse
Labels: Afrobeat/World Music, Reggae
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Music from Madlib Medicine Show No. 3: Beat Konducta in Africa
I've never been the biggest Madlib fan in the world or followed his career that closely in the past but this project, which just came out this past Tuesday, looked interesting and the music sounds cool based on these two tracks. Click HERE to get the full score.
Madlib - African Voodoo Queen Drama [mp3 download]
Madlib - The Frontline Liberation [mp3 download]
Follow - @StonesThrow
[via The Fader]
Labels: Afrobeat/World Music, Madlib
Sunday, March 21, 2010
New music: Black Man’s Cry - The Inspiration of Fela Kuti
Regular readers know I'm a big-time fan of afrobeat icon and legend, Fela Ransome Kuti. Check out this new project worth your attention if you feel the same way:
"Now Again Records have just released the Black Man’s Cry: The Inspiration of Fela Kuti collection. Available as both a hardbound book with CD and as a 4 x 10″ LP box set, Black Man’s Cry is as big on presentation as it is straight jams."
Click HERE for more info on the album. Follow Egon, A&R for Stones Throw records and founder of Now Again records on twitter at @NowAgain.
Listen:
Here's one track from
Sylvania East Side Symphony - "Egbi Mi O/Black Man’s Cry (Medley)" [yousendit mp3 download link]
[via Aquarium Drunkard]
Labels: Afrobeat/World Music, Fela Kuti
Throwback music: The Lagos Disco Inferno African Disco Compilation
This looks really cool. Check the science:
"Lagos Disco Inferno is the first compilation of rare, Nigerian Disco to be released outside of Africa.
Compiled by Frank Gossner of Voodoofunk.com, this record contains 12 tracks that represent the sound of Lagos in the late 1970s."
Lagos Disco Inferno, brought to you by ACADEMY LPs who also released the Ofege and Mebusas albums, was released March 16th.
Click HERE for more info.
Listen:
Here's snippets from three tracks on the Lagos Disco Inferno album:
Grotto - "Bad City Girl" [mp3 links: stream | download | yousendit]
MFB - "Boredom Pain" [mp3 links: stream | download | yousendit]
Nana Girl - "Hang On" [mp3 links: stream | download | yousendit]
Ya dig?
Labels: Afrobeat/World Music, Crate Diggin', House/Disco Music, Rare Groove/Soul Music
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Video: JW and Blaze – Palance
My Caribbean people know its Carnival season down in the Islands. This is the video for the 2010 Trinidad Road March song. It's time to PALANCE!!!
[via TOFlo.com]
Labels: Afrobeat/World Music, Soca/Calypso
Thursday, March 04, 2010
New mixtape: Buddy Maxwell – Bollyhood (Beat Tape)
Something a little different! Here's the plug:
“Bollyhood is a beat tape I put together in winter 2007, made from various Hindi and Malayalam movie soundtracks I found while out digging. All tracks were done on a mpc2500 except for the intro, which was done on a Yamaha su700. I gotta shout out Madlib and DJ Om for the concept.” - Buddy Maxwell
Download the Buddy Maxwell – Bollyhood (Beat Tape) HERE. [rapidshare link via TRF]
Semi-related:
Watch Tollywood actor, Chiranjeevi in the telugu movie, Alluda Majaka - "The best action scene. Ever!" [according to A Tribe Called Next, that is....] <--
Online:
Buddy Maxwell - myspace | website
Labels: Afrobeat/World Music, mixtapes
Friday, February 26, 2010
Video: Questlove on the 'Funky African', Fela Kuti
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Clip description:
"?uestlove from The Roots, now an associate producer on the hit musical Fela! on Broadway, talks about when he first discovered Fela Kuti's music, and walks us through Fela's influence in yesterday and today's hip-hop -- including works by Mos Def, Macy Gray, D'Angelo, X-Clan, and Leader of the New School."
Fela is up there with James Brown, Bob Marley, George Clinton and Ray Charles in terms of being a pillar of black music and pioneering and becoming an icon for an entire genre of music, in his case Afrobeat. If you haven't heard his music before, check this:
"Knitting Factory Records will be re-releasing Fela's entire catalogue. The Chop 'N Quench batch, containing 6 CDs (9 albums total) from 1964-1974, is available digitally and physically now. Buy them from Fela.net to get a deal better than you'll find anywhere else!"
Click HERE for more details and preview some music from it in the streaming audio player below:
See The Kitchen on Fela previously HERE and HERE.
Online:
Fela - twitter | facebook | website | myspace
Tweet
Clip description:
"?uestlove from The Roots, now an associate producer on the hit musical Fela! on Broadway, talks about when he first discovered Fela Kuti's music, and walks us through Fela's influence in yesterday and today's hip-hop -- including works by Mos Def, Macy Gray, D'Angelo, X-Clan, and Leader of the New School."
Fela is up there with James Brown, Bob Marley, George Clinton and Ray Charles in terms of being a pillar of black music and pioneering and becoming an icon for an entire genre of music, in his case Afrobeat. If you haven't heard his music before, check this:
"Knitting Factory Records will be re-releasing Fela's entire catalogue. The Chop 'N Quench batch, containing 6 CDs (9 albums total) from 1964-1974, is available digitally and physically now. Buy them from Fela.net to get a deal better than you'll find anywhere else!"
Click HERE for more details and preview some music from it in the streaming audio player below:
See The Kitchen on Fela previously HERE and HERE.
Online:
Fela - twitter | facebook | website | myspace
Labels: ?uestlove, Afrobeat/World Music, Fela Kuti
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
New music: Killamu - Flaminguinho
From the A Minha Face album produced by Killamu and Gueto Produções.
Check out The Kitchen on Killamu and kuduro music previously HERE and HERE.
Online:
Killamu/Akwaaba Music - twitter | bandcamp | website
Labels: Afrobeat/World Music, Electronic/Dance, Killamu
Monday, January 25, 2010
Video: Killamu – 10 Years Of Kuduro In Angola
"Akwaaba meets Killamu in front of his home and studio in Luanda, Angola. Killamu's been making kuduro beats for close to a decade, and explains the stories and realities of kuduro in Angola today.
Enjoy the tease, Killamu's full length album [supposedly] came out January 12, 2010. More info and free mp3 downloads at akwaabamusic.com"
Props to my fellow Connoisseur of Culture, Benhameen for first posting this at Pleasedontstare.com.
Click HERE to see The Kitchen previously on kuduro music.
Labels: Afrobeat/World Music, Electronic/Dance
Friday, January 15, 2010
Music video: Afrikan Boy - Lagos Town
Video is cool but I liked this version of the song better....
Semi-Related:
Nigerian Govt Protests U.S. List of Terrorist Nations. [allAfrica.com]
CNN interview: Prince Malik Ado Ibrahim says Nigeria Wants off "Country of Interest" Watch List.
[via Fader]
Labels: Afrikan Boy, Afrobeat/World Music, Electronic/Dance, Hipsters
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
J. Period & Nneka - The Madness (Onye-Ala) mixtape
This also dropped on Dec. 15:
"The Madness (Onye-Ala) includes exclusive new tracks from M-1 (Dead Prez), Jay Electronica, Zumbi (Zion I), Rakaa (Dilated Peoples), Aceyalone (Freestyle Fellowship), General Steele (Boot Camp Clik) & Talib Kweli."
Download the J. Period & Nneka mixtape, The Madness (Onye-Ala) HERE. [direct zip file]
My fellow Connoisseur of Culture, Stone from The Couch Sessions put me up on this chica well before the buzz on this mixtape began plus J. Period makes great mixtapes so I'm curious to check this out but I'm way behind on my music....
Online:
Nneka | J. Period
Labels: Afrobeat/World Music, J. Period, mixtapes
Music video: Kae Sun - Lion On A Leash
Late night sessions style...
"Kae Sun is a Canadian-based Ghanaian singer who is breaking onto the scene with his supple, reggae-inflected guitar-driven rock. Born and raised in Accra, his music rallies for peace and rails against corruption over easy, organic percussion and gutsy guitar. His debut album, Lion On A Leash is available now and we’re loving the tracks like “Jungle Law” and “Free.” Check out the video for his single “Lion On A Leash” above."
Online:
Kae Sun - website | myspace | twitter
[AfriPOP! via my fellow Connoisseur of Culture, Stone]
Labels: Afrobeat/World Music, Its a T.dot Thing
Friday, December 11, 2009
Music video: Maluca - El Tigeraso
"Dominican hipster electro??" Well that was the description attached to this video on the Facebook post where I saw it, at least.
Official video for Maluca's debut single, "El Tigeraso" featuring production by Diplo! Directed by Lazlo Available now! Purchase HERE.
Labels: Afrobeat/World Music, Diplo, Electronic/Dance, Hipsters
Tuesday, December 08, 2009
Video: The Cast of Fela! Perform "Zombie" Live on The Colbert Report
Alt. links:
US-only: Colbert Report | Canada-only: Comedy Network [interview with Fela! director & choreographer, Bill T. Jones HERE]
Check out Fela! on The Kitchen previously HERE.
Labels: Afrobeat/World Music, Fela Kuti, Stephen Colbert
