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.
this collection of ali hassan kuban’s early cairo hits was first released in 1989 and has been long out of print. now it’s finally available again as a high quality remastered reissue on 180 gram vinyl.
HEAVENLY ETHIOPIQUES - THE BEST OF THE ETHIOPIQUES SERIES (2LP)
2x12 Inch 25.01.23
repress - the first vinyl best of from the now classic ethiopiques series. francis falcetto, the founder of the series (already 28 cds available) and the specialist of ethiopian music selects, in his view, the best tracks of the series.
BORGA REVOLUTION 3 (GHANAIAN DANCE MUSIC 1984-99)(2LP)
2x12 Inch 16.05.25
kalita is excited to present the third volume in their groundbreaking -borga revolution!- compilation series, exploring the revolutionary phenomenon of burger highlife.
repress - hold on! ngozi family! we are a zambian band, with a heavy sound! archival reissue of paul ngozi’s hard-edged, proto-punk, mid-1970s zamrock masterwork. featuring chrissy zebby tembo. first official reissue.
NIGERIA SPECIAL 3 - ELECTRONIC INNOVATION MEETS CULTURE (3LP)
3x12 Inch LP 21.11.24
soundway records presents a collection of nigerian music chronicling a time when drum machines, synthesisers, imported pop, reggae, disco and soul collided with highlife, juju and cultural music.
pop makossa - the invasive dance beat of cameroon 1976–1984 the pop makossa adventure started in 2009, when analog africa founder samy ben redjeb first travelled to cameroon to make an initial assessment of the countrys musical situation. he returned with enough tracks for an explosive compilation highlighting the period when funk and disco sounds began to infiltrate the makossa style popular throughout cameroon.