Borga Revolution! Ghanaian Music In The Digital Age, 1983 - 1996 (Volume 2)
The second collection of "burger highlife" from Kalita shines a spotlight on the Ghanian dance subgenre that centered skipping DX7 and drum machine-led hybrid disco sounds.
When Ghana was disrupted by economic and political turmoil, many artists who needed cash to survive decamped to Europe and the USA. And when they arrived in their new homes, they found new musical styles to draw from and cheap electronic equipment that allowed them to digitize highlife sounds, creating "burger highlife" in the process. Kalita's second compilation yet again brings together rare material from some of the genre's most beloved artists: Alan Cosmos, A.B. Crentsil, Atta Frimpong, D.J. Lawyer Okyere, Nana Aboagye Da-Costa, Mawuli Decker, Pope Flyne Ackah and Pat Thomas.
Frimpong's 'Bepo So Duo' introduces the set with a downtempo beatbox groove backed by jangly high-life guitars and a shimmering vocal, but Cosmos's 'Soca For Your Pleasure' is a more readable example of the genre. It's here where the influence of disco, hip-hop and other nascent dance music forms is most felt; Cosmos spikes his flow with Sugarhill Gang delivery, flitting from psychedelic disco sounds into soca and back. 'I Think You Are Right (Jepense Que Tu A Raison)' is pleasingly off-kilter, absorbing US R&B and blaxploitation funk grit and just about avoiding highlife entirely, while Mawuli Decker's 'Mawu Nafako Nam' is the opposite, a tender blend of 4/4 kicks, sunny electric guitar riffs and harmonic vocals.
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The second collection of "burger highlife" from Kalita shines a spotlight on the Ghanian dance subgenre that centered skipping DX7 and drum machine-led hybrid disco sounds.
When Ghana was disrupted by economic and political turmoil, many artists who needed cash to survive decamped to Europe and the USA. And when they arrived in their new homes, they found new musical styles to draw from and cheap electronic equipment that allowed them to digitize highlife sounds, creating "burger highlife" in the process. Kalita's second compilation yet again brings together rare material from some of the genre's most beloved artists: Alan Cosmos, A.B. Crentsil, Atta Frimpong, D.J. Lawyer Okyere, Nana Aboagye Da-Costa, Mawuli Decker, Pope Flyne Ackah and Pat Thomas.
Frimpong's 'Bepo So Duo' introduces the set with a downtempo beatbox groove backed by jangly high-life guitars and a shimmering vocal, but Cosmos's 'Soca For Your Pleasure' is a more readable example of the genre. It's here where the influence of disco, hip-hop and other nascent dance music forms is most felt; Cosmos spikes his flow with Sugarhill Gang delivery, flitting from psychedelic disco sounds into soca and back. 'I Think You Are Right (Jepense Que Tu A Raison)' is pleasingly off-kilter, absorbing US R&B and blaxploitation funk grit and just about avoiding highlife entirely, while Mawuli Decker's 'Mawu Nafako Nam' is the opposite, a tender blend of 4/4 kicks, sunny electric guitar riffs and harmonic vocals.
The second collection of "burger highlife" from Kalita shines a spotlight on the Ghanian dance subgenre that centered skipping DX7 and drum machine-led hybrid disco sounds.
When Ghana was disrupted by economic and political turmoil, many artists who needed cash to survive decamped to Europe and the USA. And when they arrived in their new homes, they found new musical styles to draw from and cheap electronic equipment that allowed them to digitize highlife sounds, creating "burger highlife" in the process. Kalita's second compilation yet again brings together rare material from some of the genre's most beloved artists: Alan Cosmos, A.B. Crentsil, Atta Frimpong, D.J. Lawyer Okyere, Nana Aboagye Da-Costa, Mawuli Decker, Pope Flyne Ackah and Pat Thomas.
Frimpong's 'Bepo So Duo' introduces the set with a downtempo beatbox groove backed by jangly high-life guitars and a shimmering vocal, but Cosmos's 'Soca For Your Pleasure' is a more readable example of the genre. It's here where the influence of disco, hip-hop and other nascent dance music forms is most felt; Cosmos spikes his flow with Sugarhill Gang delivery, flitting from psychedelic disco sounds into soca and back. 'I Think You Are Right (Jepense Que Tu A Raison)' is pleasingly off-kilter, absorbing US R&B and blaxploitation funk grit and just about avoiding highlife entirely, while Mawuli Decker's 'Mawu Nafako Nam' is the opposite, a tender blend of 4/4 kicks, sunny electric guitar riffs and harmonic vocals.
The second collection of "burger highlife" from Kalita shines a spotlight on the Ghanian dance subgenre that centered skipping DX7 and drum machine-led hybrid disco sounds.
When Ghana was disrupted by economic and political turmoil, many artists who needed cash to survive decamped to Europe and the USA. And when they arrived in their new homes, they found new musical styles to draw from and cheap electronic equipment that allowed them to digitize highlife sounds, creating "burger highlife" in the process. Kalita's second compilation yet again brings together rare material from some of the genre's most beloved artists: Alan Cosmos, A.B. Crentsil, Atta Frimpong, D.J. Lawyer Okyere, Nana Aboagye Da-Costa, Mawuli Decker, Pope Flyne Ackah and Pat Thomas.
Frimpong's 'Bepo So Duo' introduces the set with a downtempo beatbox groove backed by jangly high-life guitars and a shimmering vocal, but Cosmos's 'Soca For Your Pleasure' is a more readable example of the genre. It's here where the influence of disco, hip-hop and other nascent dance music forms is most felt; Cosmos spikes his flow with Sugarhill Gang delivery, flitting from psychedelic disco sounds into soca and back. 'I Think You Are Right (Jepense Que Tu A Raison)' is pleasingly off-kilter, absorbing US R&B and blaxploitation funk grit and just about avoiding highlife entirely, while Mawuli Decker's 'Mawu Nafako Nam' is the opposite, a tender blend of 4/4 kicks, sunny electric guitar riffs and harmonic vocals.