Tag: Awesome Tapes From Africa
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South Africans Esa and Kamazu combine on the ‘Shukuma’ EP – the world leading producer and label boss forms a winning team with the legend of kwaito music
Kamazu & Esa have produced a future classic that is out in September on Esa’s own AWEH music and is entitled Shukuma. London based South African, Esa Williams, continues his evolution of his homeland’s music – this time reviving Kamazu and his kwaito brilliance – on an original EP out in September. Title track Shukuma,…
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Awesome Tapes From Africa reissue Umoja’s 707, South African music reigns and bubblegum is back!
The Awesome Tapes From Africa label returns after Brian Shimkovitz’s recent expedition to South Africa – resulting in this much sought after reissue of bubblegum music stars Umoja and their 1988 EP 707. The label boss and DJ also linked up with Johannesburg selector and Afro Synth record shop owner, DJ Okapi, to check out…
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From Mali – Awa Poulo’s rare modern take of Peulh music for Awesome Tapes From Africa
Out today, ANOTHER treasure from the Awesome Tapes From Africa label. This sounds wonderful. Awa Poulo is a singer of Peulh origin from Dilly commune, Mali, near the border with Mauritania. On the LP Poulo Warali: “She and her band combine the hallmarks of Peulh music—warm flute floating over cross-rhythmic n’goni (lute) riffs and resonant…
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World Treasures Music end of year review
Click here to listen to the World Treasures Music review mix. A number of artists’ passing will make 2016 memorable. A champion of world treasures at the legendary New York venue, The Loft, was David Mancuso, who was mourned widely in the music world after his death aged 72. Sun Palace’s Rude Movements was remastered…
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WTM interview: Awesome Tapes From Africa (update)
Here’s a video from last month’s event: Brian Shimkovitz started Awesome Tapes From Africa in 2006. He spoke to World Treasures Music – as part of a ten-year celebration of the blog at Outlaws Yacht Club in Leeds before his supreme DJ set for &/Or Emporium at Hifi nightclub – about becoming a world renowned…
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WTM interview: Awesome Tapes From Africa
Brian Shimkovitz started Awesome Tapes From Africa in 2006. He spoke to World Treasures Music – as part of a ten-year celebration of the blog at Outlaws Yacht Club in Leeds before his supreme DJ set for &/Or Emporium at Hifi nightclub – about becoming a world renowned DJ, label boss and paving the way…
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Aby Ngana Diop album is new reissue for Awesome Tapes From Africa release – check
This month’s top quality repress of a Senegalese tape from the 1990s. Sterling work as usual from Awesome Tapes From Africa.
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