Sunday, January 27, 2008

Africa 100 (Afrobeat Box) #1

A couple of years ago, Pitchfork ran a massive feature on Afrobeat called The Indestructible Beat by Joe Tangari. It had an overview of the style and a track-by-track annotation of 100 best afrobeat songs as picked by the author. You are probably thinking: reading about it is nice, but having the music itself to go along with the article would be much better... In the spirit of a true music fan, the author, Joe Tangari - memorize that name so you know who to thank - hand-picked, ripped and compiled all cuts mentioned in the article into a 7CD megabox of ass-kicking afrofunk, which is available as a torrent (for instance, from here), and which I will also put up on Sharebee for your enjoyment.
All tracks are 192kbps. Each archive is separate; I had to keep them under 100mb, so some tracks are out of order. The original article is included.


Africa 100 (Afrobeat Box)
Pt.1, 99mb on sharebee
101 - Fela Anikulapo Kuti & Africa 70 - Zombie
102 - Girma Beyene - Set Alamenem
103 - Marijata - Mother Africa
104 - Segun Bucknor & His Revolution - La La La
105 - Oscar Sulley & The Uhuru Dance Band - Bukom Mashie
106 - Geraldo Pine - Heavy Heavy Heavy
107 - Super Eagles - Love's A Real Thing
108 - Orlando Julius & His Modern Aces - Ijo Soul
109 - Matata - Talkin' Talkin'
110 - Ayalew Mesfin - Hasabe
111 - Super Mambo 69 - Sweeper Soul
112 - Babatunde Olatunji - Jin-Go-Lo-Ba
113 - Dick Khoza - African Jive
114 - Orchestra Baobab - Mouhamadou Bamba

Pt.2, 99mb on sharebee
115 - Os Bongos - Kazukata
116 - Getatchew Mekurya - Yegenet Muziqa
201 - Brigth Engelberts & The B.E. Movement - Get Together
202 - Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra - Big Man
203 - Oscar Sulley & The Uhuru Dance Band - Olufeme
204 - Thony Shorby Nyenwi - No Wrong Show
205 - Ogyatanaa Show Band - Disco Africa
206 - Wallias Band - Muziqawi Silt
207 - Lemma Demissew - Astawesalehu
208 - Apagya Show Band - Kwaku Ananse
209 - Fela Ransome Kuti & Africa 70 - Roforofo Fight
210 - Monomono - Tire Loma Da Nigbehin
211 - Ofo The Black Company - Allah Wakbarr
213 - Lijadu Sisters - Orere Eljigbo

Pt.3, 94mb on sharebee
212 - Joe Mensah - Africa Is Home
214 - Bembeya Jazz National - Petit Sekou
301 - Gyedu Blay-Ambolley & The Steneboofs - Simigwado
302 - Jingo - Fever
303 - Joni Haastrup - Greetings
304 - Honny & The Bees Band - Psychedelic Woman
305 - Yahoos - Mabala
306 - Blo - Blo
307 - Tlahoun Gessesse - Alegntaye
308 - K. Frimpong & His Cubano Fiestas - Hwehwe Mu Na Yi Wo Mpena
310 - Manu Dibango - African Battle
311 - Alemayehu Eshete - Addis Ababa Bete

UPDATE: a visitor pointed out that track 214 (Petit Sekou) in the third archive is corrupted. You need to download it separately here:
http://sharebee.com/794446fd
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12 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 30, 2008 at 10:47 PM

    I saw this one too as a torrent. But you made life so much easier for a lot of people (and worth living :-)

    Even for afrobeat collectors like myself there are some interesting things to discover on this boxset. For beginners this is simply great.

    Thanks for promoting and keeping the music alive!

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 12, 2008 at 5:43 PM

    Great blog! - thanks for making the torrent available as "regular" downloads. The best track, in my opinion, "Petit Sekou" by Bembeya Jazz National (track #214) seems to have been corrupted! Is there anyone who has an uncorrupted file? I would be exceptionally happy.

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  3. LesTPFebruary 12, 2008 at 11:13 PM

    Unfortunately, you are right - it is corrupted.
    Here is the good file:
    http://sharebee.com/794446fd

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  4. AnonymousFebruary 13, 2008 at 1:21 PM

    I'm the previous poster. Thanks for the prompt upload!! I will be able to sleep tonight :)

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  5. AnonymousApril 8, 2008 at 10:51 AM

    Thanks, this an amazing post with brilliant stuff. Some time ago I found that Pitchfork article and was noting which songs I had and which not, well now I got the whole thing. Thanks!!!!

    For all liking this at didn't stumble on voodoofunk yet, listen to this as a bonus to this post: http://www.meatwar.com/Soulpusher/singles/FerryDjimmy.mp3 (mindblowing music: "I kill you, don't worry about me!")

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  6. AnonymousApril 8, 2008 at 11:00 AM

    Hello me again from above. Link doesn't seem to be complete, so here again Ferry Djimmy (linked from voodoofunk):
    http://www.meatwar.com/Soulpusher/singles/FerryDjimmy.mp3

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  7. ¡Mateo es así!June 16, 2008 at 10:14 AM

    Amazing doesn't seem quite enough. Neither does thank you, but here it is: Amazing! Thank you!

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  8. NeilantmanJanuary 18, 2009 at 1:24 PM

    Thanks

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  9. AnonymousNovember 28, 2009 at 7:18 AM

    thanks for this
    regards
    Omar

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  10. AnonymousJanuary 10, 2010 at 2:04 PM

    It's out there as a 700+mb torrent but all tracked seeds have it at 79% availability, if only someone with the full 7 albums would seed..........

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  11. RichardFebruary 11, 2012 at 10:49 PM

    Hi. All the links seem to be dead. A lot of this stuff has been re-released in recent years, but a lot of it isn't available to the best of my knowledge, and I'd love to get it! Thanks. - Richard

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  12. LesTPFebruary 20, 2012 at 11:16 PM

    Given the uncertain situation around the file sharing sites, what with filesonic closing and megaupload getting closed, I am not ready to go through a massive upload like this to see it expiring in a few weeks or months. Try torrent.

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