African tapes, many of them! Feeling dizzy now.
disco_che
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A quick search didn't reveal this website has been discussed on here before. Sorry if I should be wrong. Someone just showed me this here
http://www.awesometapes.com/
Great, great work they've done there.
http://www.awesometapes.com/
Great, great work they've done there.
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I think I first heard about them after the dude did a Boiler Room set. Have since copped this re-ish:
I remember the old blog from years ago when it was just another of the many music sharing blogspots, crazy how it's now a business and dude it touring the country off the back of it.
I also remember dude would do the occasional tape deck dj gig.
That was a rather random contribution to this thread...
Well, Uku Kuut sounds faintly african and P.P.U. is kind of rescuing lost recordings too.
BTW, I like pizza.
That piano at 5:40!
Whoops, yeah just realizing now i mixed the two labels up. Well, nonetheless P.P.U is akin to Awesome Tapes and is worth checking out.
I don't have the record to hand, but from memory the liner notes said that when she was born her grandmother, who was a musician, predicted that she would become a singer, so her parents took her to a blacksmith to have this "curse" lifted. The blacksmith's magic failed and her grandmother's prediction came true.
thems drums get me every time
Damn! That's that good stuff right there.
Classic and amazing track but 2009 (Upload date) is actually pretty late... first time this was comped was in 2001. The original was probably the most sold Ghanaian record ever... and the most played, you usually find 20 hammered copies before you get one that's barely VG+.
When I went to an open air restaurant in Kumasi one evening in '07 or so the live band played a killer version of this. Goosebump-inducing...
That refers to the Duncan Brooker's Afro Rock compilation, right?
There was a generation before those who have been driving the revival in the 2000s: In the 80s and 90s many unnamed or forgotten promoters brought African musicians over to Europe for concert tours and I still remember that at every gig there were record dealers with a good selection. I also remember some small mail order record shops dealing in African imports. I guess that out of that scene grew labels like Network Medien in Germany who already issued a CD compilation back in 1990 featuring Kyenkyen Bi Adi M'awu.