Tag: Arp Frique

• LISTEN: Gratien Midonet (Time Capsule), Arp Frique (Rush Hour), Meliza (Hot Secousse) Zazou Bikaye (Crammed Discs), Parisian bangers, African fusion and tropical cosmic styles all feature on new mix

  

  Here’s a mix featuring two of the best ‘tropical’ releases last year, reissued at last by Hot Secousse (the self-titled album by Meliza) and Time Capsule (Gratien Midonet, A Cosmic Poet From Martinique 1979-1989 – check out more in the video below). Also reissued by Crammed Discs – with a bunch of new bits on…

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  January 24, 2021

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  Antillean zouk, Arp Frique, City of Dub, Crammed Discs, Gratien Midonet, Guadeloupe, Heels & Souls, Hot Secousse, I. Soumaoro Et L’Eclipse De L’I.J.A., Keiichi Tanaka, makossa, mbalax, Meliza, Nissodia, Nouvelle Ambiance, soukous, The Black Curriculum, Time Capsule, Tropical, World Treasures Music, Zazou Bikaye

• Arp Frique back with essential record for the ever-trusty Rush Hour – with legendary vocalists Americo Brito and Marissa Nyamekye – championed as always by label boss and international taste-maker, Antal Heitlager

  

  Arp Frique returns with a record brimming with highlife, cosmic synths and New York disco elements, all via the Caribbean and Cape Verde. After the full album The Colourful World of Arp Frique for Rush Hour in 2018, this new 12″ explores funana and Caribbean zouk, this time with a more 1980s influenced approach (classic…

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  October 9, 2020

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  Americo Brito, Amsterdam, Antal Heitlager, Arp Frique, Cape Verde, Caribbean, cosmic synths, Highlife, Magia Festival, Marissa Nyamekye, Niels Nieuborg, Nos Magia, Rotterdam, Rush Hour Records, The Colourful World of Arp Frique, zouk funana