Tag: electro-funk

• Kingsley Bucknor reissue ‘Just U And Me’ finishes year in style for Left Ear Records

  This one has been on heavy rotation – Kingsley Bucknor’s Just U and Me LP, from Nigeria, in 1985. The Aussie label moves further afield and has has selected this trippy electro-funk and boogie fusion to finish 2017. After playing with Fela Kuti in the 1970s and releasing two afrobeat LP’s, Kingsley travelled the globe.…

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  November 29, 2017

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  1985, afrobeat, electro-funk, Fela Kuti, Just U and Me, KAB Records, Kingsley Bucknor, Left Ear Records, London, Nigeria

• Minoru ‘Hoodoo’ Fushimi interview

  In Praise of Mitochondria begs so many questions. This collection features some of the most innovative and cohesive examples around of supreme proto-electro, vocoder jams and electro-funk music in the world music spectrum. What was happening in Minoru’s world? It’s as if his music was made in isolation from the rest of the movement, while…

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  November 28, 2017

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  D-Train, DMX Krew, Electro, electro-funk, In Praise Of Mitochondria, Japan, Left Ear Records, Minoru Hoodoo Fushimi, Soulsonic Force, Stingray