Tag: Rush Hour Records
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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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Melbourne label Left Ear celebrate 20 releases with underground Aussie singer Justine Bradley
For the 20th release from this leading reissue label, Left Ear Records have focused on the mysterious Sydney songstress Justine Bradley, who recorded her self titled album in 1979. It’s a beautiful double sider that will play nicely alongside modern soul nuggets, Japanese breeze and AOR. “It’s an album which captures Justine’s unique vocal talents…
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Digging Surinam: eight year odyssey of Rush Hour’s Antal
Following 2012’s bounty on Kindred Spirits, Rush Hour boss Antal Heitlager puts together another sublime collection of obscure Surinamese disco and boogie with Thomas Gesthuizen. Surinam Funk Force features Steve Watson’s Born To Boogie, and Surinam scene stalwart Sumy’s eccentric, synth-laden The Funky ‘G’ (Only Comes At Night, with more Surinamese fused killers like Explosion’s Wakka…