It's the Supersound

Fantastic Afro-Pop hit from Angelique Kidjo, coming from her 1992 album ‘Logozo’, which is well worth looking up. As is the very hard to track down ‘Jungle Club Mix’ of this track, off the 12″.

MP3: Angelique Kidjo – Batonga

In 1967 Sevac Ekian recorded a ceremony of Ingoma Tribe in the East African State Burundi. Back home he developed the idea to arrange a “musical marriage”(mariage musical). Therefore he asked the producer Mike Steiphenson to create a fitting tune to those absorbing drums he brought.
In 1971 the track was published under the pseudonym Burundi Black and is considered by some to be the first disco track (though I’d debate that).

MP3: Mike Steiphenson – Burundi Black (1st Part)

A short collection of Unpopular Organic Beats I was meant to post last year but never got around to.
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Post ‘Remain In Light’ era Talking Heads inspired UK Afro-Pop.

MP3: Luna Twist – African Time

Deliciously fractured hard-J-Pop collaboration between Sakamoto (of Yellow Magic Orchestra) and diva Kisaragi.

MP3: Koharu Kisaragi & Ryuichi Sakamoto – Neo-Plant

Tough proto-industrial Fad Gadget track, this time with more sugar.

MP3: Fad Gadget – Collapsing New People

Upbeat Afro-House gem from NYC based producer Dennis Ferrer. Impossibly catchy chorus. Appears on the last SonusCast I put together.

MP3: Dennis Ferrer – Funu (Hi-Life mix)

Ethno-flavoured New Beat from the genre’s Belgian founders, Morton Sherman Bellucci.

MP3: Explorers Of The Nile – We Are All Egyptians
MP3: Chinese Ways – Secrets Of China

SonusCast is the journey through the shotgun scattered sonic-mental network of a selected guest in each release, in the form of a simple mix. Influences, anthems, beat-gems and anything that fits.

Our previous and inaugural SonusCast courtesy of Valentino of Germany was something special. It’s been quite a while since my last mix I’ve put together for Waves, the last one’s really being mixtapes here and here.

For a while now I’ve been busting to put something together along the lines of what we’ve been calling Ethnographic Confusion; a strong love and fascination with traditional ethnic groups and cultures (music, art, language), but possibly not having the best idea’s on its origins. Not trying to reduce a culture to a few 2D ideas, but really wanting to understand it and not really knowing where to start. Audio Afrophile.

I was so sure I had posted Mozambique-Disco king, Penny Penny, before on Waves but I mustn’t have gotten around to it.

This is a seriously amazing release ripped and brought to the interweb courtesy of always on game and eclectic music site: Awesome Tapes From Africa. ‘Shaka Bundu’, alongside his other release ‘Yogo Yogo’ are some of the most (not even guiltily) enjoyable and party-worthy “ethnographic” beats around. Every song sounds the same but I’m head over heels.

MP3: Penny Penny – Shichangani (Remix)
MP3: Penny Penny – Dance Khomela

I was so sure I had posted Mozambique-Disco king, Penny Penny, before on Waves but I mustn’t have gotten around to it.

This is a seriously amazing release ripped and brought to the interweb courtesy of always on game and eclectic music site: Awesome Tapes From Africa. ‘Shaka Bundu’, alongside his other release ‘Yogo Yogo’ are some of the most (not even guiltily) enjoyable and party-worthy “ethnographic” beats around. Every song sounds the same but I’m head over heels.

MP3: Penny Penny – Shichangani (Remix)
MP3: Penny Penny – Dance Khomela

I was so sure I had posted Mozambique-Disco king, Penny Penny, before on Waves but I mustn’t have gotten around to it.

This is a seriously amazing release ripped and brought to the interweb courtesy of always on game and eclectic music site: Awesome Tapes From Africa. ‘Shaka Bundu’, alongside his other release ‘Yogo Yogo’ are some of the most (not even guiltily) enjoyable and party-worthy “ethnographic” beats around. Every song sounds the same but I’m head over heels.

MP3: Penny Penny – Shichangani (Remix)
MP3: Penny Penny – Dance Khomela

Chances are French/Benin Afro-synthpop artist Wally Badarou appears on at least one of the albums in your collection that for a while you just couldn’t stop listening to and couldn’t figure out why. Working with Robert Palmer, Marianne Faithfull, Fela Kuti, Herbie Hancock, M (Pop Muzik), Talking Heads, Foreigner, Power Station, Melissa Etheridge, Manu Dibango, Miriam Makeb and even writing for the beautiful 1985 film ‘Kiss Of The Spider Woman’.

This impossibly funky ear-worm comes off his first solo album, 1979′s Back To The Scales To-night.

MP3: Wally Badarou – One Day, Won’t Give It Away

Chances are French/Benin Afro-synthpop artist Wally Badarou appears on at least one of the albums in your collection that for a while you just couldn’t stop listening to and couldn’t figure out why. Working with Robert Palmer, Marianne Faithfull, Fela Kuti, Herbie Hancock, M (Pop Muzik), Talking Heads, Foreigner, Power Station, Melissa Etheridge, Manu Dibango, Miriam Makeb and even writing for the beautiful 1985 film ‘Kiss Of The Spider Woman’.

This impossibly funky ear-worm comes off his first solo album, 1979′s Back To The Scales To-night.

MP3: Wally Badarou – One Day, Won’t Give It Away

This CD has been on repeat in my car system for days on end. Really lovely composed mix from the ESP Institute/Lovefingers camp.

“Welcome to the first in a series of philanthropic, pedagogical compilations from the ESP Institute. Curated and programmed by Lovefingers, “Concentration” is a narrative blend of obscurities, re-edits and remixes contributed by the label’s international family of collaborators. So we get the sublime cinematic boogie of “Rocks In Me”, edited by Alexis Le-Tan & Lee Douglas. Bumrocks take a typically off the beaten track route with the slinky “Piedra” – some kind of Balearic pop ditty that warms the cockles of your heart. Soft rock driver “Worldwide” arrives edited by Take, and there’s the Laurel Canyon dreaminess of “I Gotta Woman” (Abel edit). Also check the Chee Shimizu remix of “Yuku Yuku” – definitely a must for fans of Krautrock-disco fusions! Lexx’s killer tropical electro-Balearic disco sounds of “Verliebt”, a beautiful kalimba-tinted Afro-disco-not-disco of “Mateki” by Cos/Mes, and Afro-electro-disco of “Khoi Khoi”, edited by Secret Circuit. All proceeds from this series are donated to Harmony Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to youth development through music study, practice and performance.”

TRACK LISTING:
01 : Pescador
02 : Piedra
03 : Sanjiku
04 : Zyklope
05 : Wüstenregen
06 : Verliebt
07 : Mateki
08 : Khoi Khoi
09 : Mensa
10 : Yuku Yuku
11 : Rocks In Me
12 : Medianoche
13 : Pariah
14 : Gomibako
15 : Matador

Purchase the CD from most record stores, but here’s a link to my one of choice – Phonica. Pick up some of the sampler 12″s as well!

MP3: SECRET CIRCUIT – KHOI KHOI