DOING IT IN LAGOS - BOOGIE, POP & DISCO IN 1980S NIGERIA (3LP + 7 INCH + MP3)
3x12 Inch + 7 Inch 23.12.16
repress available! soundway records present a new compilation of twenty rare and mostly unavailable tracks from the slick and sassy world of nigerian pop music and club culture of the early 1980s. comes on triple 12 inch + bonus 7 inch vinyl, download code and 8-page booklet in gatefold sleeve.
re-issue of the iconic 1997 album by buena vista social club on heavyweight 180 gram double vinyl in gatefold sleeve, including download code and 20 page booklet. mastered from the original analogue master tapes by bernie grudman.
pursuing their explorations in the vast corridors of international funk and disco music, favorite recordings and bruno patchworks hovart present us voilaaa. following a first 2 tracks single acclaimed this summer and clearly revealing the afro-disco inspiration of this new experience, here comes voilaaa’s first album, titled *on te l’avait dit*. the double 12 inch vinyl comes in gatefold sleeve.
repress 2023 - issued in 1975, this is the articulation of zambia’s zamrock ethos. while other albums - rikki ililonga’s zambia, witch’s lazy bones!! - are competitors, it’s hard to best this album as it covers each major quadrant of the zamrock whole: it came from the mines, its musicians were anti-colonial freedom fighters, it envelops zambian folk music traditions, and it rocks - hard
dj support: soul clap, sonns, paula tape, dazzle drums, sam proper, delfonic, will clarke, a-track, dennis ferrer, ray mang, kiko navarro, mabhew dear, mano le tough, terry farley