**Includes digital download voucher redeemable from the label** Awesome Tapes From Africa live up to their name once again with a very welcome reissue of this 1987 side by legendary Somali outfit Dur-Dur Band. Previously unavailable outside of Somalia and sequenced and presented as its makers intended, it's a total revelation, spanning ecstatic high-life, gritty funk and killer leftfield pop styles, but delivered with an economy and precision that's just completely righteous and commanding. The grooves are tough, loping but fleet-footed and seemingly attuned to the psychedelic potential of repetition, and the all-pervasive tape-hiss and "accidental dub" vibe puts us in mind of contemporaneous British DIY fare from people like Flaming Tunes and Cleaners From Venus, as unlikely as that sounds.A1 Dur-Dur Band Introduction A2 Hayeelin A3 Halelo B1 Fagfagley B2 Ilawad Cashaqa B3 Garsore Waa Ilaah C1 Aada Fududey Iga Ahow C2 Tajir Waa Ilaah D1 Dholey D2 Amiina Awdaay D3 Dooyo
