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Asiko
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Get Together
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The Same Blood
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Asiko (In a Silent Mix)
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Black Voices
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Ariya (Psyche Juju Mix)
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Tony Allen Paris, France
Tony Allen passed away on April 30th 2020 in Paris, at the age of 79.
Born in Lagos in 1940, Tony Oladipo
Allen was a hugely influential musical figure, most notably as the defining rhythmic engine of Fela Kuti’s sprawling Africa 70 combo – the much-celebrated lodestar of Nigerian Afrobeat.Allen remained a prodigiously engaged,until the very end, having created innumerable, groove-heavy coalitions
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Like so many others, this came like a bolt out of the blue and, even though it's well before payday, I had to have this astonishing album on vinyl to prove it exists. The feel of the tunes makes me feel like the Impressions do, Curtis Mayfield, the big spaces and instinctive horns and stuff drifting in and out. Great grooves and I can see lots of ghosts nodding along to this with big smiles on their faces. At last!
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Disco Afro Reedit Vol 2
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Tony Allen’s “Afrodiscobeat” gets re-worked and re-mixed by Mexican Institute of Sound and Africaine 808 on this raucous EP.
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Power Struggle
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Hailing from Australia, The Liberators are a 10-piece band making heavyweight, horn driven, afrobeat.
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