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Two years ago, Honest Jons travelled to Lagoswith the great drummer Tony Allen, to make his first recordings there since his time with Fela Kuti an album entitled Lagos No Shaking, a classic of contemporary Afrobeat. Since then, the label has widely commissioned numerous responses to those new sides. From legends of dance music culture like Basic Channel in Berlin, for example, and founding father of Detroit techno, Carl Craig, and young tigers like Dizzee Rascals Newham Generals, MIA producer Diplo in Baltimore, and carioca sensations Bonde Do Role from Rio De Janeiro. And newrecordings from Cairo, Saturn, Bogota and Kingston, Jamaica fresh interpretations or complete reworkings by the space jazz pioneerSalah Ragab, a street brass band descended from Sun Ras Arkestra, highlife inspired Afro Colombian drummers from the maroon village of San Palenque De Basilio, and a veteranof Count Ossies Mystic Revelation Of Rastafari.