So for today’s guest mix I am proud to give you all the following from Great Collectro, Part Time Good Records NYC Employee, and Great Friend… Simon “Scrappy” Greenberg. It is titled “Slow Music From West Africa” and while the tempo is generally as described the mood varies from mellow, to jubilant, to mournful, to absolutely facemelt trippy… I live for this kind of stuff. Some tunes here have turned up in the shop but you might as well forget trying to get your hands on most of it.

Simon has been traveling in Africa for most of the past couple months but he sent me the flicks you see above, and I was able to persuade former Turntable Lab reviewer Bob Bannister to come out of cushy retirement and write the following review of this mix:

“I’ve only ever been to Africa in a haze of misappropriated Counting
Crows-soundtracked shwarma stands and faceless shiny heads singing Sinead O’Connor in decapotable Frankenstein locomotives. That may or may not apply to this mix and its syrupy, hammock induced nostalgia for things I may or may not have experienced… but I think it does. Everything I’ve ever seen in Africa is ambiguous, and this mix is no exception. Even listening to it in a basement that smells faintly of acetylene, all i can really feel is thick air and wet cash from the ‘pockets’ under a boubou.”

That about sums it up… enjoy.

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