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various / honest jon's records - Lagos All Routes
"The period stretching from the mid-1960s through the early 1980s is often considered the 'golden age' of African popular music. Concurrently with the rise of popular music as a worldwide phenomenon, African popular music had its beginnings in the early decades of the 20th century, as radio broadcasting and sound recording facilities were gradually established by the colonial powers. By the end of World War II, European companies such as EMI, Gallo and Decca were starting to establish large-scale operations in the colonial territories. But African popular music really began to flower in the years of nationalist struggle and independence. With the winds of political change blowing in the air, popular music became extremely important as a component of the cultural life of newly or soon-to-be independent nations. Produced and consumed largely independently of local ethnic musical traditions — however much it may have drawn on them — popular music was seen as a powerful expression of newly national identity. The enthusiasm, idealism, and optimism that can be felt in the music of this era reflect the optimism and idealism of independence. The bulk of the music here [on both Lagos Chop Up and Lagos All Routes] falls within the style known as highlife, a pan-ethnic style of dance music native to Anglophone West Africa. The roots of highlife are held to be in colonial-era Ghana, and its early development was marked by two streams — dance-band highlife (an African adaptation of European swing and ballroom music) and guitar-band highlife (based in the 'palmwine' style of folk and street guitar music). The two styles eventually fused in the 1940s, absorbing along the way local African folk tunes and the music of marching brass bands. The founder of modern highlife is considered to be the Ghanaian trumpeter/saxophonist/bandleader E.T. Mensah. Mensah was enormously popular throughout West Africa, and his Nigerian tours planted the seeds of Nigeria’s own highlife scene, spearheaded by guitarist Bobby Benson. Out of Benson’s band came a generation of Nigerian bandleaders including the Cool Cats, led by trumpeter/vocalist Victor Olaiya, the so-called 'Evil Genius' of highlife. Olaiya’s bands in turn spawned many influential Nigerian musicians including Fela Kuti, Victor Uwaifo, Tony Allen, Peter King, Cardinal Rex Jim Lawson, Eddie Okonta, and others. Moonlight Highlife and Omelebele are two of Olaiya’s most popular songs: the former — with its quaint trumpet solo (reminiscent of Louis Armstrong) and plaintive horn background — shows Olaiya’s roots in the older, Ghanaian style of highlife; while Omelebele augurs the increasing influence of American soul and R and B. Similarly, the Harbours Band's Da Wa Lohun (God Answer Us) and the Traveller’s Lodge Atomic Eight’s track Ikut Asana Edem are fine examples of the trumpet-led style of highlife. The Atomic Eight band was based in the eastern town of Aba and featured a front line of talented horn players including the multi-instrumentalist wind player Raymond Barber and trumpeter Babatunde Williams, who would go on to play a central role in Fela Kuti’s Afrika 70. Their passages of collective improvisation reflect roots in the coastal brass band traditions of Nigeria and Ghana, and the more distant influence of New Orleans."
Soundway Records
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Another heavy hitter from the Soundaway stables!
Bambara Mystic Soul: The Raw Sound of Burkina Faso
ANALOG AFRICA
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16 seriously killer excursions into sand-blasted Sahel psych-rock, Afro-Funk and Blues.
Strut
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Sofrito do your tropical discotheque a favour with two mighty African and West Indian grooves.
Post World Industries
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Lyrichord
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Evil Twin feat. Otto von Schirach / German Clap
Monkeytown Records
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Dance-slaying anthems culled from the massive 'Monkeytown' album.
MAP Records
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Freshest ElectroFunk from the 313.
ORCA RECORDINGS
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XI drops the tempo and ups the groove on two Basswise House swingers for Orca.
Leisure System
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Eprom gives the dance floor a good kicking – fans of Zomby and Actress take note!
Environ
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pitting Mike Kelley’s ice cold production against Junior Boy Jeremy Greenspan's soothing tones...
100% Silk
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NNF's 100% Silk sublabel returns with a killer dose of Chicago peaktime killers - big big EP!
VARIOUS / HONEST JON'S RECORDS
London Is The Place For Me 2 : Calypso & Kwela, Highlife & Jazz from young black London
Honest Jon's Records
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Honest Jon's revive the winning formula for volume 2 of this love letter to antique calypso.
VARIOUS / HONEST JON'S RECORDS
Honest Jon's Records
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Juju, apala, afrofunk, highlife and classic fuji!
VARIOUS / HONEST JON'S RECORDS
London Is The Place For Me 3: Ambrose Adekoya Campbell
Honest Jon's Records
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A fantastic collection of African music originally recorded as 78's on the Melodisc label.
VARIOUS / HONEST JON'S RECORDS
Honest Jon's Records
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Feat Actress, MMM, Demdike Stare, Villalobos, Ernestus, Hype Williams, 'Shake' Shakir', Old Apparatus+++
VARIOUS / HONEST JON'S RECORDS
London Is The Place For Me 4: African Dreams And The Piccadilly High Life
Honest Jon's Records
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This is the fourth amazing volume in a revelatory series celebrating the music of black London.
VARIOUS / HONEST JON'S RECORDS
Honest Jon's Records
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CLASSIC compilation focussing on killer dancehall vocal and dub's from the Unity Sounds crew - DON"T MISS!
VARIOUS / HONEST JON'S RECORDS
Bellyachers, Listen: Songs From East Africa, 1938-46
Honest Jon's Records
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Seventeen vintage songs from East Africa (Kenya and Uganda) recorded between 1938-46.
VARIOUS / HONEST JON'S RECORDS
Something Is Wrong: Songs From East Africa, 1952-7
Honest Jon's Records
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Eighteen vintage songs from East Africa (Kenya and Uganda) recorded between 1952-7
VARIOUS / HONEST JON'S RECORDS
Something Is Wrong: Vintage Recordings From East Africa
Honest Jon's Records
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35 precious selections from East Africa spanning the mid-1930s till the mid-1950s.
VARIOUS / HONEST JON'S RECORDS
Bellyachers, Listen — Songs From East Africa, 1938-46
Honest Jon's Records
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Seventeen vintage songs from East Africa (Kenya and Uganda) recorded between 1938-46.
VARIOUS / HONEST JON'S RECORDS
To Scratch Your Heart: Early Recordings From Istanbul
Honest Jon's Records
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32 intensely beautiful recordings made in Istanbul during the the first three decades of the 20th century...
VARIOUS / HONEST JON'S RECORDS
Honest Jon's Records
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32 intensely beautiful recordings made in Istanbul during the the first three decades of the 20th century...
PEVERELIST / VILLALOBOS & LODERBAUER
Shangaan Shake: Villalobos/Loderbauer & Peverelist
Honest Jon's Records
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The series continues - this time with Peverelist, Ricardo Villalobos and Loderbauer at the controls.
SHAKE SHAKIR / ONI AYHUN / SHANGAAN ELECTRO
Honest Jon's Records
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Second in this remix series, featuring reworks from Shake and Oni Ayhun.
New Wave Dance Music From South Africa
Honest Jon's Records
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Genuinely mindblowing Mark Ainley/Mark Ernestus compiled 180bpm, marimba-laden, afro-dance diamonds.
Honest Jon's Records
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Two of dubstep's most distinguished forces converge on an exceptional collaboration for Honest Jon's.
KELAN PHILIP COHRAN AND THE HYPNOTIC BRASS ENSEMBLE
Kelan Philip Cohran And The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble
Honest Jon's Records
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The legendary Philip Cohran hooks up with his brood - the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - for Honest Jon's.
Honest Jon's Records
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Something like a cross between Stina Nordenstam (in the vocals) and the Cocteau Twins (in the textures)...
TREMBLING BELLS & BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY
Honest Jon's Records
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Trembling Bells meets Bonnie 'Prince' Billy on one of the finest releases either act has put their name to.
TREMBLING BELLS / BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY / MULDOON'S PICNIC
Honest Jon's Records
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Percussionist Alex Nielsen’s Trembling Bells with Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy plus Muldoon’s Picnic on the flip.
Honest Jon's Records
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Damon Albarn, Tony Allen, Flea - plus a raft of special guests, Erykah Badu, Paul Simonon and more.
Honest Jon's Records
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Red-eyed electro-dub wickedness from the one and only Actress.
Boracay Drift (Morphosis Remix)
Honest Jon's Records
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A crucial appointment: Morphosis remixing 'Boracay Drift' from Pinch & Shackleton's eponymous album.
Now Again Records
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The only legitimately licensed collection of the godfather of Iranian psychedelic rock...
Man Recordings
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Collection of the Portuguese language acapellas deployed by Man Recordings...
STONEFACE AND LIFE EVERLASTING
Academy LPs
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Voodoo Funk's Frank Gossner digs out two rare African Funk treasures for an Academy special.
Man Recordings DJ-Picks #1: Schlachthofbronx
Man Recordings
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Munich's Schlachthofbronx duo dip into Man Recordings' heaving bag of party-starters.
Play That Beat Mr. Raja Vol. 1
CARTILAGE RECORDS
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Gobsmacking compilation of recordings made for the Tamil film industry. ESSENTIAL!!!
Mental Groove
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KILLER comp of Kuduro from a diaspora of Angolan, Portuguese, French and South American artists.
Onze Danses Pour Combattre La Migraine
Crammed Discs
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Absolutely classic album, a pseudo Afro-futuristic fusion of electronics, jazz, rock and Balkan music.
Brownswood Recordings
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Quantic, Jesse Hackett and Hello Skinny remix cuts from the excellent Owiny Sigoma Band album.
