Great list up this time, some fantastic afrobeat, highlife, funk, and boogie

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JS

Long-time Good Records NYC customer and homie Brian H. from California (and Philadelphia, briefly) has an awesome music & design blog that you should really check out called Dreams In Audio (www.dreamsinaudio.com) where his recent obsession with African music is getting represented lovely.

Brian has laced us with the following mix that is packing, well, a hell of a lot of that fire.

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This was done for the annual mix swap over on Waxidermy.

The aegis of the mix was listening to all of these fantastic, unknown, rare LPs that were all of a sudden gracing the shop, directly from Africa… and wanting to do something with them but not something that had already been done. And among all of the well-sorted funk, afrobeat, disco, and boogie mixes and compilations out there, nobody had really touched the most popular form of music in West Africa: Highlife. Now, I’d be lying if I really had proper grounds to explain the scene or the music. I just know what catches my ears. And the melodies, the shimmering guitar runs, the counter-rhythms and pulses… at its best this stuff is downright hypnotic. So I present, with no further ado, a mix of highlife and blues from Nigeria and Ghana (and one record from Benin).

Thanks to Sean Manchee for the cover art!

Update: When I first posted this mix, it was still part of an ongoing swap by limited participants. That swap is long over, and I’m happy to attach a download and track listing for all who asked. Cheers, Jonny

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Blackman Akeeb Kareem – Tomorrow – EMI Nigeria 0248

Here’s a great rarity that I’ve had in the shop only once or twice. Despite having produced a couple of heavy LPs that are quite sought-after by collectors, nobody’s done much digging on Akeeb Kareem himself. His records have been trading hands for a good amount of money, his tunes have turned up on plenty of mixes, so hopefully someone will track him down. His lyrics touch on politics, spirituality, world events; coupled with heavy rhythms, psychedelic guitars and keys, we have a real underappreciated masterpiece of 70s Nigerian afrobeat.  Heavy stuff, folks… strap in and enjoy.

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EDIT: Re-upped.