Tag: Tropical Grooves
Ahead of this weekend’s Flamingo Pier festival at the Rangihoua Olive Grove on New Zealand’s Waiheke Island, the native DJ collective, for a second straight year, have teamed up with the London-based Soundway records to release a complimentary EP release, titled Indigo.
After a string of standout 7inch releases, Berlin-based Philophon label has released the long-awaited and much anticipated full-length album from Ghanaian Frafra-gospel singers Alogte Oho & His Sounds Of Joy.
It’s the middle of summer, and as many of us enjoy the warm weather nights, the Paris-based ensemble Camarão Orkestra has just released the Brazilian-influenced dance floor funk gem single “Nação África.”
Analog Africa’s 28th compilation, titled Jambú e Os Míticos Sons Da Amazônia, highlights Amazonian dance music from the Brazilian city of Belém during the 1970s.
The Amsterdam five-piece band follows-up last year’s breakthrough EP Down in the Basement with their highly-anticipated debut full-length album on Soundway Records.
Soundway Records presents the latest release from the UK-based tropical dance collective Flamingo Pier.
Soundway records has just put out the first release of a brand new 12″ series focused on making obscure and in-demand dancefloor selections from around the globe available on loud DJ-friendly pressings.
Over the past few years, the Berlin-based Habibi Funk label has released some of the best compilations focused on rare seventies and eighties era Arabic funk and jazz. Most recently, the label has reissued the highly obscure 1979 soulful funk album Jazz, Jazz, Jazz from the Sudanese group The Scorpions.
The London-based producer has just released his third album titled Radio Highlife. This recording, which is the first on Gilles Peterson’s Brownswood label, is the London-based producer’s most ambitious to-date, as he made a conscious effort to infuse an array of different global sounds that he came across over the years from his worldly travels as a deejay.
Paris has a long history of being a global hub for both culture and music, including a fusion of influences from Europe, the French-Caribbean, and Africa. This led to a rise of new African sounds in the city’s underground nightclubs and recording studios during the eighties known now as the Pan-African movement.
