BERLIN, BRISTOL, CAIRO, JOHANNESBURG, KYIV, LAGOS, LISBON, LUANDA, NAIROBI, NAPLES Soundway Records, along with the Goethe-Institute and Adaptr.org, present TEN CITIES a new compilation including, amongst many others, the...

2018 reissue - Mind-blowing Afro funk music from Ivory Coast, served up by Deke Tom Dollard, an obscure artist who only recorded two albums in 1979 and 1981, but also created an original funky fusion with the Bété...

2017 reissue - Coming up on Afrosynth, a massive South African disco banger that keeps going on and on and on. Dope vocals, a crazy addictive groove and soaring synths , it's all there!ABurnin Beat - It's...

Akoben is the second vinyl release from New Orleansʼ own full Afrobeat orchestra, Kumasi. Thirteen members strong, Kumasi has been keeping crowds dancing in the clubs, festivals, and crawfish boils of New Orleans for...

Ltd edition in die-cut paper sleeve. 2 tracks from same session as on album “Lala Belu”AYegojam Mamesh5:12BYegle...

DJ Katapila's Aroo EP is the latest addition to the iconoclastic producer's catalog of fast-paced, pan-West African-influenced dance music. From a young age, Ishmael Abbey was a beloved local DJ in Accra, Ghana’s...

Capping several successful years traveling the world performing to audiences big and small, Hailu Mergia's Lala Belu has been a long time coming. It builds on Mergia's remarkable career resurgence over the past few years...

The album 137 Avenue Kaniama is the confirmation of the formidable artistic statement we all became aware of from the release of Hotel Impala, Baloji’s first solo album, in 2008. That first album was the first step on...

Hailing from Minneapolis, MN, Black Market Brass is a 10-piece group performing their own brand of originally composed Afrobeat/Afrofunk music, as well as completing authentic renditions of the classic 1970's West African...

A much needed dose of tropical dancefloor heat, in the middle of the winter! 'Tropical Discotheque' is compiled by the gents behind Sofrito's clubnight of the same name, made up of nearly impossible to find vintage 'floor...

Nigeria’s Kingsley Bucknor’s ‘Just U and Me’ LP (that one with the Teddy Bear cover) gets the long-awaited reissue treatment from Melbourne’s Left Ear Records. After cutting his teeth playing...

Professor Rhythm is the production moniker of South African music man Thami Mdluli. Throughout the 1980's, Mdluli was member of chart-topping groups Taboo and CJB, playing bubblegum pop to stadiums. Mdluli became an...

Through 18 diverse tracks, this compilation reveals how immigration from the Cape Verde Islands to Europe and the United States gave us an alternate history of the electronic music that dominated hearts and minds across the...

New label DECENT INTERNATIONAL subverts the sounds of the world with edits and electronic additions. First up are the sounds of Liberia, Ghana, and Uganda across 4 tracks. Nice sleeve art to boot!A1Uganda Futura 1A2Leaving...

Includes download coupon and colored insert with photos. The acclaimed and highly sought-after full length by Hailu Mergia and the Walias, Tche Belew, an album of instrumentals released in 1977, is perhaps the most seminal...

Third pressing on black vinyl. Ikebe Shakedown is a Brooklyn-based, eight-piece instrumental juggernaut that incorporates the sounds of '60s and '70s African Funk and American Soul Music for a totally fresh sound...

Crammed Discs is famous for releasing eclectic global oddities, but even by their standards, Noir et Blanc is something special. Originally released in 1983, the album is a collaboration between cult French composer and...

AUNTIE FLO delivers an epic electronic remix of "DJOUKOUROU", taken from the Mali singer's 2017 album "MOGOYA". On the flip is a chilled and exotic deep house original from AUNTIE FLO called "DESERT...

Originally released in 1979, his debut album was full of diverse sounds, with driving funk, sweeping disco grooves, syrupy ballads, reggae, JACKSON 5-esque pop, and finger-lickin soul. But at its core was the custom...

Afro Pop!A1 El Gusto 2:48A2 Tamanrasset 3:24A3 M'hammath (Live) 3:48B1 Girma's Lament 2:55B2 Wajeerta Hoose (The Lower Wajeer) 4:59