Grant Phabao and Djouls - 21st Century Afro Vol.2 (MP3)

The second volume of our '21st Century Afro' series begins its trip with a peaceful afro-ethio-cuban trip from Lightning Head, then heads directly into heavy afro-kraut-jazz from Nomo, a collective from Michigan developing quite an unique sound. After another instant afrosoul classic taken from The Budos Band's masterpiece, the mix navigates into supafunky ethio-jazz from The Lions, a Los Angeles collective of musicians you may also find playing in Breakestra, Connie Price and the Keystones, Orgone, Madlib's Sound Directions, Plant Life, Clutchy Hopkins, the Greyboy allstars... Things then get more focused with a devastating pamphlet from Seun Kuti and Egypt 80. The Shawn Lee apparition in this selection which comes afterwards is quite a surprise, but since the multi-instrumentalist genius decided to go global on his latest album, there's no reason to pass out on it. The same goes for the closing track, the hard-hitting Afrobeat drum-powered 'Platypus Strut' by Ohmega Watts - with the help of members of the Breakestra/Connie Price/Antibalas... it's a small world.

Genres: african, afro, afrobeat

Source: http://www.parisdjs.com/index.php/post/grant-phabao-and-djouls-21st-century-afro-vol2

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Grant Phabao and Djouls - 21st Century Afro (MP3)

Explore the many facets of 21st century African music, from Afrobeat to Afrofunk, from Afrosoul to Afrojazz, etc.

Genres: african, afro, afrobeat

Source: http://www.parisdjs.com/index.php/post/grant-phabao-and-djouls-21st-century-afro

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tParis DJs Soundstem - African Mashed Potato Popcorn Vol.6 (MP3)

African music is shining on ParisDJs.com, with this already 6th (!) volume of our African Mashed Potato Popcorn series, carefully crafted by our loyal co-founders Grant Phabao & Djouls from the T.I.M.E.C. music agency. Those guys have been digging for rare and trippy african grooves for many years now, and after a relaxed "Afrocool" selection (Vol.4) and a roof-tearing-off "Afrogroove" one (Vol.5), they've opted this time for a special psychedelic mashup of afro-trips from all over the world.

Genres: african, afro, afrobeat

Source: http://www.parisdjs.com/index.php/post/paris-djs-soundstem-african-mashed-potato-popcorn-vol6

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radio waves from space 32 | Voodoo Funk | Dj Frank (MP3)

I am excited to bring the next guest mix by DJ Frank, who spent 3 years in Guinea, West Africa, where he travelled to various other countries in the region, namely Sierra Leone, Ghana and Benin digging for vintage African funk, disco, afrobeat among other things. If your feeling this mix do check out his voodoo funk blog at where he has documented his trip and there is a cache of excellent mixes. Playlist 1 Orlando Julius - Psychedelic Afro Shop 2 Fela Ransome Kuti - Beautiful Dancer 3 Orch. Anassoua Jazz de Parakou - Norou 4 De Frank & his Professionals - Psychedelic Man 5 Pat Thomas & Marijata - We Are Coming Home 6 Christiana Essien - My Kind of Man 7 African Bros Int. Band - Hold Your Lover Tight 8 Les As Du Golfe - Tsi Ma Le To 9 The Creation - Noble Kings 10 Jeff Tagoe & the Vis-A-Vis - Abifao 11 Antoine Dougbe & Poly Rythmo - Honton Soukpo Gnon

Genres: african, afro, afrobeat, dj, funk, radio waves from spa

Source: http://thoughtlabaudio.podbean.com

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DJ Balagan - Bear Market Beats (Other File Share Svc)

It's a depressing time of year anyway what with the weather changing and Halloween reminding us that the dead can come to life. Yikes. Now we have to deal with the most important election in a generation and the worst economy in just as long? Fuck that. This is Bear Market Beats, a happy little break from the doom and gloom. Buddy Guy - Buddy's Groove; The Upsetters - Hail Stones; Tabu Ley Rochereau - Aon Aon; Ashwin Batish - New Delhi Vice; Chahra & Nemri - Ferfara; Tricky - Over Me; James Brown - Rapp Payback; The Fatback Band - Street Dance; Tyrone Davis - Get On Up (Disco)

Genres: 80s, african, arabic, blues, dancehall, disco, funk, soul

Source: http://www.myspace.com/djbalagan

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Bashment Jack presents Get Nice! #3 (MP3)

(Masters at) Work vs Coolie Dance, Radioclit (Alphabeat remix), Yelle, Stevie Wonder (A-Trak remix), Francois Lougah, Saeed Younan, Was (Not Was) (Paul Devro mix), Feist (Chromeo mix), In Flagranti, The Beach Boys, Pitbull (Tittsworth remix), Le Tigre - Deceptacon (DFA remix), Flairs

Genres: 2000s, african, alternative, baltimore, bashment, bmore, club, club-hip-hop, dance, dancehall, french, hip-hop, house, indie, indie-dance, indie-disco, leftfield-dance, mash-up, pop, reggae, remix, remixes, smooth-music, soukouss, techxotica, world-booty-music, yacht-rock

Source: http://getnice.net.au/blog/2008/10/getnice-3.html

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Gingersteve - Africana the Fourth (MP3)

Hello all. Time for another instalment of the somewhat sporadic (well pretty much annual) and inconsistently numbered Africana series. This time I acided it, mainly because these days I'm more likely to get things done if I tackle it in chunks. Anyway, you're not arsed about that, you want to know why you should download this. Let me whet your appetite. It starts off all lovely and traditionally African with uplifting kora sounds from Mr Diabaté, then gets progressively more Afro Housey, taking in Afro-Funk, Afro-Dub and Afro-Latin along the way, and being hijacked by a marauding crowd of Brazilians wearing Afro wigs.... If you're familiar with previous Africana excursions, this is like them, but gets to the high octane stuff quicker ;o)......If you're not, go and get them now, I'm sure you can find them if you look hard enough..... This one's 192kbps, 1:19ish Tracks:.... 01. Toumani Diabaté's Symmetric Orchestra - Single... 02. Mory Kante - Biriya (Rhythmes Du Mandingue)... 03. Malena - More Afro (Original)... 04. The Allenko Brotherhood Ensemble - Yoruba Road (Boozoo Bajou Remix)... 05. Nickodemus ft. Mick Stein - Back from Africa (Original)... 06. Afro-Cube - Muevete Mama (Afro Beats)... 07. DJ Mbuso - Swazi's Dance... 08. Sounds Delight - Beautiful Morning (Original Mix)... 09. Hideo Kobayashi - Closer to Me (Afro Soul Mix)... 10. Djaimin feat. the Oule Oule Family - Children of Africa (Guitar Mix)... 11. Bantu - Oya Oya (Quincy Jointz Remix)... 12. Idan K - Ache (KTA House Mix)... 13. Jordan Rivera - Alegria Musical (Afro Dub Mix)... 14. Bang Bang - Afro Cuban Band (Original)... 15. Friscia Lamboy - Zulu (Instrumental Mix)

Genres: african, afro-house, afrobeat, house, really drummy stuff, world

Source: http://gingersteve.co.uk

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dj zhao - Fusion 1 Afro-Asian Dubstep (MP3)

this is a mash-up album fusing global traditional music and dub / grime / bass / electronics. if you've ever wondered what Digital Gamelan is like, or what happens when Capetown Gospel singers move to London Ghettos, or how Robots would play Ethiopian Jazz... full track listing here: http://differentwaters.blogspot.com/2008/10/fusion-one-revised-and-expanded.html

Genres: african, armenia, bollywood, burundi, dancehall, dub, dubstep, egyptian classical, ethiopique, french pop, gamelan, garage, gospel, grime, hip-hop, iranian classical, jazz, jungle, minimal, ragga, reggae, techno

Source: http://differenhttp://differentwaters.blogspot.com/2008/10/fusion-one-revised-and-expanded.html

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Vintage Records Radio..#7 (MP3)

Music From Vintage Records Radio on cfrc 101.9 fm kingston..host sean187

Genres: african, disco, dub, funk, hip hop, reggae, roots, ska, soul, world

Source: http://

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Gingersteve - Africana 3 (MP3)

If you've got the first two, you know what to expect. Sunshine tunes from the motherland to fend off the impending autumn. 98Mb 1:11 192kbps Tracklist: 1. Shaluza Max - Mangase 2. Zola - Somlinda Gengoba 3. Zola - Ehlala Zola 4. Mafikizolo - Soka Lami 5. Zap Mama - Belgo Zairoise 6. Zola - Shosholoza 7. Mafikizolo - Sebuyile 8. Geneses - Yaka Yaka 9. AWA-KLaSH - Akoba (Way Out West Remix) 10. Dennis Ferrer - Funu (Cameroun Guitar Dub) 11. Dele Sosimi - Di Bombs (The Jinks Remix) 12. UPZ - Mr Manna 13. T Kolai - Zouk (T Kolai Main Mix) 14. Raw Artistic Soul feat Wunmi - Oya O (Alix Alvarez Sole Channel Mix)

Genres: african, afro-house, world

Source: http://gingersteve.co.uk/mixes

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