Cult Cargo - Belize City Boil Up

UPDATE: Link removed upon the label's complaint. Go buy it!

Dusty Groove review: An amazing world of music -- rare funk, soul, reggae, and other grooves from Belize -- all beautifully compiled in the rich Numero Music style! We're really stunned by the set -- as we had no idea at all that Belize had anything going on at this level -- and the collection is an amazing surprise to our ears, filled with new delights at each turn, and clearly marking Belize as a new funky capitol on our ever-expanding map of musical understanding. Numero really outdid themselves with this package -- going far beyond their already-great collections of work from the Bandit and Capsoul labels -- to dig up a range of tracks that have never really made it out to the world at large, but which bubble over with influences from American funk and soul at the time.

Sleeve notes


Cult Cargo - Belize City Boil Up
1. Lord Rhaburn - Disco Connection
2. Harmonettes - Can't Go Halfway
3. Jesus Acosta & The Professionals - Guajida
4. Web - The Same Old Me
5. The Professionals - A Part Of Being With You
6. Lord Rhaburn - More Love Reggae
7. The Professionals - The Back Stabbers
8. Web - Rated G
9. Harmonettes - Shame Shame Shame
10. Soul Creation - Funky Jive (Part II)
11. Lord Rhaburn - Don't Fight It
12. Nadia Cattouse - Long Time Boy
13. Lord Rhaburn - Boogaloo A La Chuck
14. The Professionals - The Godfather
15. Web - Things Are Going To Work Out Right
16. Soul Creation - Funky Jive

200th posting

This will be an attempt to compile my top ten list of posts in no particular order. If you are browsing for something interesting, but don't know where to start, try one of these.

Los Zafiros - Bossa Cubana

Love, Peace, and Poetry Vol.3 - Asian Psychedelic Music

Orchestra Baobab - Pirate's Choice + Bamba

Brazil: Forro - Music For Maids and Taxi Drivers

Je Pense A Toi: The Best of Amadou and Mariam + Dimanche A Bamako

Bollywood Brass Band + Fanfare Ciocarlia - Gili Garabdi

Fade To Bluegrass: A Bluegrass Tribute To Metallica

Blind Boy Fuller - Truckin' My Blues Away

Emmett Miller - The Minstrel Man From Georgia

Red Snapper - Prince Blimey

Thanks to all the visitors; double thanks to those who left a comment; triple thanks to those who link here!!!

Colombia! The Golden Years Of Disco Fuentes, The Powerhouse of Colombian Music 1960-1976

Soundway continues chronicling tropical funk on its latest compilation, this time focusing on Columbia's greatest record label, Disco Fuentes. Founded in 1934 by Antonio José Fuentes, the imprint captured the long evolution of the music from the country's Caribbean coast, including the especially fertile period of cross-pollination reflected on this disc. Traditional cumbias, forrós, and fandangos were invaded by funk, blues, soul, salsa, West African highlife and rock in the 1960s, and the result was some seriously unpredictable and often wildly psychedelic music. Wganda Kenya's "Tifit Hayed" - a crazed Afro-Latin blow-up that sounds almost avant-garde for the way its rhythm is built and dominates the arrangement - is a good example of the rhytmic power of some these tracks. Every song features armloads of auxiliary percussion and hard-hitting horns, and Soundway has done a fantastic job of telling the story and restoring the music, as usual. This is a great companion to last year's excellent Panama! compilation. - Joe Tangari for Pitchfork

This upload is not mine.


Colombia! The Golden Years Of Disco Fuentes, The Powerhouse of Colombian Music 1960-1976
320kbps, 156mb on megaupload
01. Salsa Na Ma - Fruko Y Sus Tesos
02. Cumbia En Do Menor - Lito Barrientos
03. Hong Kong - Michi Sarmiento Y Sus Bravos
04. La Piojosa - Sonora Cieneguera
05. Improvisando - Fruko Y Sus Tesos
06. Patrona De Los Reclusos - The Latin Brothers
07. Tifit Hayed - Wganda Kenya
08. Fandango en percussion - Pedro Laza
09. La Samaria - Orquesta Nunez
10. El Mondongo - Los Corraleros De Majagual
11. A La Memoria Del Muerto - Fruko Y Sus Tesos
12. Primavera - Michi Sarmiento Y Sus Bravos
13. Elyoyo - Wganda Kenya
14. Gaita de las Flores - Lucho Bermudez
15. Cumbiamba - El Sexteto Miramar
16. Mirame San Miguel - Michi Sarmiento
17. La Picua - Pedro Laza y sus Pelayeros
18. La Pata y El Pato - Climaco Sarmiento
19. Las Calenas Son Como Los Flores - The Latin Brothers
20. Pacifico - Afrosound

Oranj Symphonette - The Oranj Album

The second album by the greatest instro band of the last 30 years; their first is here, everything I said still applies.


Oranj Symphonette - The Oranj Album
256kbps, 90mb on sharebee
1. Call Me Mister Tibbs (Quincy Jones)
2. The Magnificent Seven (Elmer Bernstein)
3. Satin Doll (Duke Ellington)
4. Beat Girl (John Barry)
5. Bananas (Marvin Hamisch)
6. Dreamsville (Henry Mancini)
7. A Man And A Woman (Francis Lai )
8. After The Fox (Burt Bacharach)
9. Arabesque (Henry Mancini)
10. Midnight Cowboy (John Barry)
11. Up, Up And Away (Jimmy Webb)
12. Chelsea Bridge (Billy Strayhorn)
13. Valley Of The Dolls (Andre Previn)

Slim Harpo - Hip Shakin' ~ The Excello Collection

Slim Harpo is probably the best known musician from the Louisiana "swamp blues" scene: lazy, drawling, mushmouth vocals, simple, funky harmonica and guitar riffs surfing on the tidal waves of reverb and tremolo. Along with Mose Allison, Slim is an artist whose fans are a lot more famous than him. He was really popular with the british bluesmen in the 60s: the Rolling Stones covered his songs - I'm a King Bee, Shake Your Hips; the title of their album Got Live If You Want It is a pun on the name of another Slim song. The Kinks, the Pretty Things, Them, the Yardbirds also covered his songs, and ZZ Top borrowed the Shake Your Hips riff for La Grange. Also see a collection of "I'm a King Bee" covers, including Pink Floyd, the Bad Seeds, and the Doors.
Why the Chicago bluesmen rose to fame and mythical status, and the swamp blues is known to the handful of fans is one of the mysteries of music business; if you are after authenticity and "roots", you'll find them here galore.


Slim Harpo - Hip Shakin' ~ The Excello Collection
VBR, two separate archives on sharebee: one, 95mb; and two, 73mb.

Disc 1:
1. I'm a King Bee
2. I Got Love If You Want It
3. Wonderin' and Worryin'
4. Strange Love
5. You'll be Sorry One Day
6. One More Day
7. Bobby Sox Baby
8. Buzz Me, Babe
9. Late Last Night
10. Yeah, Yeah, Baby
11. Don't Start Crying Now
12. Blues Hangover
13. Please Don't Turn Me Down
14. Moody Blues
15. Snoopin' Around
16. Rainin' in My Heart
17. Lovers Confession
18. Buzzin'
19. I Love the Life I'm Living
20. Little Queen Bee (Got a Brand New King)
21. I Need Money
22. Still Rainin' in My Heart
23. We're Two of a Kind
24. What's Goin' on, Baby?

Disc 2:
1. Baby, Scratch My Back
2. I'm Gonna Miss You Like the Devil
3. Wondering Blues
4. Rock Me, Baby
5. Shake Your Hips
6. Tip On In, part 1
7. Tip On In, part 2
8. I'm Gonna Keep What I've Got
9. I've Got to be with You Tonight
10. Te Ni Nee Ni Nu
11. Mailbox Blues
12. Mohair Sam
13. I Just Can't Leave You
14. Just for You
15. Jody Man
16. I've Been a Good Thing for You
17. Hey, Little Lee
18. My Baby, She's Got It
19. I'm So Sorry
20. Live Medley [Moody Blues~I Got Love If You Want It~You Know I Love You]

Red Snapper - Prince Blimey

A fantastic tripped-out instrumental album. If Elvin Jones, David Gilmour, and Flea were locked up in a padded room with ten sheets of acid and a sequencer, they may have come up with Prince Blimey. Ten years ago I listened to this album obsessively and thought this is what all music will sound like in the future. Now that we got to the future, I know that I was wrong - but I still think that all future music should sound like this.


Red Snapper - Prince Blimey, 1996
High VBR, 94mb on sharebee REUP 2/5/2014: depositfiles

1. Crusoe Takes A Trip
2. 3 Strikes And You're Out
3. Thomas The Fib
4. Get Some Sleep Tiger
5. Fatboy's Dust
6. Moonbuggy
7. The Paranoid
8. Space Sickness
9. The Last One
10. Digging Doctor What What
11. Gridlock
12. Lo-beam

Hawkwind - In Search Of Space

Hawkwind - In Search Of Space (remastered)
VBR, 96mb on megaupload
1. You Shouldn't Do That
2. You Know You're Only Dreaming
3. Master Of The Universe
4. We Took The Wrong Step Years Ago
5. Adjust Me
6. Children Of The Sun
7. Seven By Seven (Bonus)
8. Silver Machine" (Bonus, Live)
9. Born To Go (Bonus, Live)

Choro 1906-1947

Choro 1906-1947
REUP 2/13/2014: 200mb on 4shared
CD1: high VBR, 100mb on sharebee
1. Jacob Do Bandolim - Flamengo
2. Benedito Lacerda - Jurity
3. Luís Americano - Tocando Pra Você
4. Pixinguinha - André De Sapato Novo
5. Pixinguinha - A Vida É Um Buraco
6. Araci de Almeida - Flauta, Cavaquinho E Violão
7. Patápio Silva - Primeiro Amor
8. Ernesto Nazareth - Apanhei-te, Cavaquinho
9. Ernesto Nazareth - Escovado
10. Custódio Mesquita - Brejeiro
11. Benedito Lacerda - Myrthes
12. Benedito Lacerda - Mistura E Manda
13. Benedito Lacerda - Minha Flauta De Prata
14. Pixinguinha - Segura Ele
15. Choro Carioca - São João Debaixo D'Aguá
16. Pixinguinha - Rosa
17. Pixinguinha - Os Oito Batutas
18. Chiquinha Gonzaga - Falena

CD2: high VBR, 96mb on sharebee
1. Benedicto Lacerda/Pixinguinha - 1XO
2. João Pernambuco - Interrogando
3. João Pernambuco - Sonho De Magia
4. Luperce Miranda - Naquele Tempo
5. Jacob do Bandolim - Glória
6. Garoto - Rato-Rato
7. Canhoto - Abismo De Rosas
8. Oito Batutas - Graúna
9. Jacob do Bandolim - Treme-Treme
10. Araci De Almeida - Engomadinho
11. Orlando Silva - Caprichos Do Destino
12. Orlando Silva - Página De Dor
13. Benedito Lacerda/Pixinguinha - Ingênuo
14. Benedito Lacerda/Pixinguinha - Vou Vivendo
15. Benedito Lacerda/Pixinguinha - Ainda Me Recordo
16. Benedito Lacerda/Pixinguinha - Sofres Porque Queres
17. Ademilde Fonseca - Tico-Tico No Fubá
18. Jacob Do Bandolim - Remeleixo

Jorge Veiga - O Caricaturista Do Samba

Another one from Jorge Veiga. The title refers to his witty, sarcastic lyrics; gotta speak portugese to appreciate...


Jorge Veiga - O Caricaturista Do Samba, 1955
VBR, 37mb on sharebee
1. Última Barbada
2. Recado que a Maria Mandou
3. Na Pensão de dona Laura
4. Paletó Vermelho
5. Rei do Samba
6. Coração também esquece
7. Faustina
8. Representante da Fome
9. Coração de Leilão
10. A Fonte do Pecado
11. Fenômeno
12. Sambista no Céu

Prog Is Not A Four Letter Word

This album was found at the great Astronation.
A good collection of prog from around the world; a few of the artists already made an appearance on this blog, namely the koreans San Ul Lim and the turks 3 Urel (AKA 3 Hur-El) and Baris Manco. I also heard Czerwone Gitary (Red Guitars - or is it Golden Guitars?), I think they are Czech. The other bands are new to me.


Prog Is Not A Four Letter Word
192kbps, 77mb on megaupload
1. Picchio Dal Pozzo - Merta
2. Visitors - Visitors
3. Illes - Nem Erdekel Amit Mondsz
4. San Ui Lim - Frustration
5. Egg - Fugue In D Minor
6. Baris Manco - Lambaya Puf De
7. Breakout - Powiedzielismy Juz Wszystko
8. Bran - Breuddwyd
9. Phillipe Besombes - Hache 06
10. Embryo - The Music Of Today
11. Czerwone Gitary - Coda
12. Jean Claude Vannier - Le Roi Des Mouches
13. Drugi Nacin - Zuti List
14. 3 Urel - Omur Biter Yol Bimez
15. Martin Kratochvil & Jazz Q - Toledo

Paul Horn - Jazz Suite on the Mass Texts

To continue last week's Schifrin post:

Review: Jazz Suite on the Mass Texts by Paul Horn - composed and conducted by Lalo Schifrin. A fascinating and award-winning combination of jazz and liturgical music that holds up well over thirty years later. In fact, it's surprising this has yet to be released on CD given the recent chant music fad. Horn, playing flutes, clarinet and alto sax, is accompanied by his quartet, a small orchestra and chorus. There is a meditative quality to much of the music (except the free-ish "Credo"), yet the performances come alive on such up-tempo pieces as "Kyrie" and "Offertory." Again, Schifrin marries multiple and opposing styles with a poetry that is all his own. Many of these titles were dramatically overhauled for Schifrin's later release, Rock Requiem (1971) and revisited as is on his own quite excellent JAZZ MASS IN CONCERT (1998). In 1965, Jazz magazine called JAZZ SUITE "one of the best attempts at religious jazz, on or off record" and Down Beat said "from a jazz point of view, there are several fine spots on this disc. But they are just spots, and if jazz is one's primary interest, the jazz in this suite is well diluted by non-jazz elements."
Detailed notes on performances

Also mentioned in a Time magazine article from 1965: Cool Creeds


Paul Horn - Jazz Suite on the Mass Texts
320kbps, 66mb on megaupload
1. Kyrie
2. Interludium
3. Gloria
4. Credo
5. Sanctus
6. Prayer
7. Offertory
8. Agnus Dei

Jorge Veiga - Raizes Do Samba

I am gradually making my way through Os Grandes Sambas compilation, and find that, even without knowing who is playing, I tend to pick out the same people.

Example 1: Jacob do Bandolim was one of the great players I noticed from the choro compilations. Then, on Os Grandes Sambas I heard a song (Barracao) with a mandolin solo of breathtaking beauty, and sure enough, it was Jacob do Bandolim playing. I won't post any of his stuff, but instead forward you to the excellent Loronix blog that has many of his albums; I specifically recommend his recordings with Eliseth Cardoso and his solo records (one, two).

Example 2: I really liked the songs Acertei no milhar, Que Bate-Fundo e´ Esse, and Cafe Socaite, and then realized they are all sung by the same person - Jorge Veiga. I don't know who he is, I just know that his music pushes my buttons.
This album is from a retrospective series on samba titled Raizes do Samba (Roots of samba). There are comps wth the same title, but from different artists, kinda like "The So-and-so's finest hour" series on Verve.

Jorge Veiga - Raizes Do Samba
320kbps, two separate archives of ~64mb on sharebee: one, two.
1. Faustina (encrencas de família)
2. Acertei No Milhar
3. Café soçaite
4. Conversa De Botequim
5. Rosa
6. Fenómeno
7. Que Culpa Tenho Eu
8. Estatutos Da Gafieira
9. Coração em leilão
10. Última Barbada
11. Rei Do Samba
12. Izabel
13. Paletó vermelho
14. Baile Da Piedade
15. Mulher Malandra
16. Boate trá lá lá
17. Labariri (tudo lembra você)
18. Quando o divórcio chegar
19. Quem Sou Eu?
20. Em boi morto até eu bato

Mo' funk, mo' bettah

The Meters - Funkify Your Life: The Meters Anthology
High VBR, three separate archives on sharebee: one, 98mb; two, 96mb; three, 53mb.
1. Cissy Strut
2. Here Comes The Meter Man
3. Live Wire
4. Sophisticated Cissy
5. Ease Back
6. Stormy
7. Look-Ka Py Py
8. Pungee
9. Thinking
10. This Is My Last Affair
11. Funky Miracle
12. Yeah, You're Right
13. Little Old Money Maker
14. Dry Spell
15. Chicken Strut
16. Same Old Thing
17. Darling Darling Darling
18. Tippi-Toes
19. Ride Your Pony
20. A Message From The Meters
21. Zony Mash
22. Stretch Your Rubber Band
23. Groovy Lady
24. Doodle-Oop
25. I Need More Time
26. Good Old Funky Music
27. Stay Away
28. Soul Island
29. Do The Dirt
30. Cabbage Alley
31. People Say
32. Hey Pocky A-Way
33. Africa
34. Fire On The Bayou
35. Talkin' 'Bout New Orleans
36. They All Ask'd For You
37. Running Fast (single version)
38. (Doodle Loop) The World Is A Little Bit Under The Weather
39. Trick Bag
40. Hang 'Em High
41. Be My Lady
42. Funkify Your Life
43. Give It What You Can

New Orleans Funk: The Original Sound of Funk 1960-75

New Orleans Funk: The Original Sound of Funk 1960-75
REUP 2/19/2014: 256kbps, 125mb on zippyshare
1. The Meters - Handclapping Song
2. The Explosions - Hip Drop
3. Lee Dorsey - Who's Gonna Help Brother Get Further
4. Gentleman June Gardner - It's Gonna Rain
5. Eddie Bo - Check your Bucket
6. Professor Longhair - Big Chief
7. Huey 'Piano' Smith & His Clowns - Free, Single and Disengaged
8. Chuck Carbo - Can I Be your Squeeze
9. Aaron Neville - Hercules
10. Mary Jane Hooper - I've Got Reasons
11. The Gaturs - Gator Bait
12. Allen Toussaint - Get Out of my Life Woman
13. Cyril Neville - Tell Me What's On Your Mind
14. Bo Dollis & The Wild Magnolia Mardi Gras Indian Band - Handa Wanda
15. Lee Dorsey and Betty Harris - Love Lots of Lovin
16. The Explosions - Garden of Four Trees
17. Ernie & The Top Notes - Dap Walk
18. The Meters - Just Kissed my Baby
19. Marilyn Barbarin - Reborn
20. Dr John - Mama Roux
21. Danny White - Natural Soul Brother
22. Eddie Bo - Hook 'n' Sling (Part II)
23. Ernie K. Doe - Here Come the Girls
24. Robert Parker - Hip-Huggin

Nigeria '70: The Definitive Story of the Funky Lagos

Nigeria '70: The Definitive Story of the Funky Lagos

Vol.1: high VBR, 95mb on sharebee
1. Koola Lobitos - Ololufe Mi
2. Monomono - Tire Loma Da Nigbehin
3. Blo - Chant To Mother Earth
4. Fela Ransome Kuti & The Africa 70 - Jeun Ko Ku (Chop 'n' Quench)
5. Tunji Oyelana & The Benders - Ifa
6. Bala Miller & The Great Music Pirameeds Of Afrika - Ikon Allah
7. Segun Bucknor & His Revolution - La La La
8. Peter King - Shango
9. Tony Allen & His Afro Messengers - No Discrimination
10. Sir Victor Uwaifo & His Melody Maestroes - Akayan Ekassa
11. William Onyeabor - Better Change Your Mind
12. Bongos Ikwue - Woman Made The Devil

Vol.2: high VBR, 111mb on megaupload
1. Orlando Julius & The Afro Sounders - Alo Mi Alo (Parts 1 & 2)
2. Ofo The Black Company - Allah Wakbarr
3. Sahara All Stars Band Jos - Enjoy Yourself
4. The Funkees - Dancing Time
5. Afro Cult Foundation - The Quest
6. Joni Haastrup - Greetings
7. Gasper Lawal - Kita Kita
8. Lijadu Sisters - Orere Elejigbo
9. Fela Anikupalo Kuti & The Africa 70 with Sandra Akanke Isidore - Upside Down
10. Shina Williams & His African Percussionists - Agboju Logun
11. Sunny Ade & His African Beats - Ja Fun Mi (Instrumental)

Beastie Boys and some

Beastie Breaks
80mb on sharebee
1. Idris Mohammed - Lorens Dance
2. Gene Harris - Put On Train
3. Cedar Walton - Jacob's Ladder
4. Eugene Mcdaniels - Headless Heros
5. Funkadelic - I'll Bet You
6. Ballin Jack - Never Let Em Say
7. Jimmy Smith - Root Down
8. Sly Stone - Loose Booty
9. Jeremy Steig - Howling For Judy
10. Funk Factory - Rien Ne Va Plus
11. Jimi Hendrix - Gotta Have It
12. The Blues Project - Flute Thing

A great instrumental album from the b-boys. Verrry groooovy....
BTW, Eric Bobo, who plays percussion on this album, is the son of the great Willie Bobo.

Beastie Boys - The In Sound From Way Out! (1996)
High VBR, 58mb on zshare, mediafire, rapidshare.
1. Groove Holmes
2. Sabrosa
3. Namaste
4. Pow
5. Son of Neckbone
6. In 3s
7. Eugene's Lament
8. Bobo on the corner
9. Shambala
10. Lighten Up
11. Richy's Theme
12. Transitions
13. Drinkin' Wine

Lalo Schifrin - Rock Requiem

Another entry on the theme of lithurgical-music-as-pop, to continue New Hope Jazz Mass and Latin Mass.

Review: Out of print and hard to find, this was released at a time when "rock opera" and concept themes were popular (or interesting to consider). Deftly mixing elements of rock, gospel, jazz and secular music, Schifrin employs a choir and LA studio musicians in this unusual and fascinating tribute "for the dead in the Southeast Asia War." Rock Requiem stands strong as a sequel of sorts to Schifrin's cantata, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1968) and the liturgical Jazz Suite on the Mass Texts (as recorded by Paul Horn in 1964). Worth the attention.
Detailed notes on the performances are here.

Also mentioned in a 1972 Time article Pop Goes the Bible.


Lalo Schifrin - Rock Requiem
320kbps, 86mb on sharebee
1. The Procession
2. Introit
3. Kyrie Eleison
4. Gradual
5. Tract
6. Offertory Verse
7. Sanctus Benedictus
8. Agnus Dei
9. Final Prayer

I'll throw in another Schifrin album I am currently listening to. They say it's one of his best. The uploads are not mine.
Review: Schifrin produced in 1966 what remains truly one of his greatest musical achievements. Essentially a baroque take on jazz, Schifrin creates his own beautiful variations on the classics here. His inspiration is diverse, even divine - Henry Purcell ("Aria"), Bach ("Bossa Antique"), Francis Hopkinson ("Beneath a Weeping Willow Shade"), Telemann ("Old Laces"), even Ramsey Lewis and the Rolling Stones ("The Wig"). The musicianship is first-rate too; especially Schifrin's graceful and evocative piano and Gene Bertoncini's lovely guitar. Without question, a unique, gorgeous and inspired statement and one of the buried treasures in 1960's jazz.
Detailed notes on the performances are here.


Lalo Schifrin — Marquis de Sade (1966)
Full title: "The Dissection and Reconstruction of Music From the Past as performed by the Inmates of Lalo Schifrin's Demented Ensemble as a Tribute to the Memory of the Marquis De Sade"
192kbps, 44mb on megaupload or mediafire - NEW LINKS
1. Old Laces
2. The Wig
3. The Blues For Johann Sebastian
4. Renaissance
5. Beneath A Weeping Willow Shade
6. Versailles Promenade
7. Troubadour
8. Marquis De Sade
9. Aria
10. Bossa Antique

Africa 100 (Afrobeat Box) #3

Pt.7, 99mb on sharebee
606 - Tony Allen & His Afro Messengers - No Discrimination - corrupted, get it here
607 - Johnson Mkhalali - Joyce No. 2 - corrupted, get it here
608 - King Sunny Ade & His African Beats - Ja Funmi
609 - Amaswazi Emvelo - Indoda Yejazi Elimnyama
610 - Pacific Express - The Way It Used To Be
611 - Miriam Makeba - Maria Fulo
612 - Youssou N'dour & Etoile De Dakar - Wadiour
613 - Tunde Williams & Africa 70 - Mr. Big Mouth
614 - The Funkees - Dancing Time
615 - Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Lomhlaba Kawunoni (The Earth Never Gets Fat)
701 - Girma Beyene - Ene Negn Bay Manesh
702 - Tp Orchestra Poly-Rhythmo De Cotonou Dahomey - Minsato Le, Mi Dayihome
703 - Sweet Talks - Eyi Su Ngaangaa
704 - African Brothers - Sakatumbe

Pt.8, 84mb on sharebee
705 - Dan Boadi & His African Internationals - Play That Funky Music
706 - Manu Dibango - Mwasa Makossa
707 - George Danquah - Just A Moment
708 - Mulatu Astatque - Netsanet
709 - Gaspar Lawal - Kita Kita
710 - Moussa Doumbia - Keleya
711 - Fred Fisher - Asa-Sa
712 - Konono No. 1 - Paradiso
713 - Fela Ransome Kuti & Africa 70 - Water No Get Enemy

Africa 100 (Afrobeat Box) #2

Pt.4, 97mb on sharebee
309 - Fela Ransome Kuti & Africa 70 - Gentleman
312 - Shina Williams & His African Percussionists - Agboju Logun (12'' Mix)
401 - Bob Pinado & His Sound Casters - Me, You, One (Means I Love You)
402 - Koola Lobitos - Highlife Time
403 - 3Rd Generation Band - Because Of Money
404 - Mercury Dance Band - Envy No Good
405 - Mahmoud Ahmed - Mar Teb Yelal Kafesh
406 - E.T. Mensah & His Tempos Band - 205
407 - Bembeya Jazz National - N'garokomo
408 - Tamrat Ferendji & Sensation Band - Antchin Yagegnulet
409 - Matata - Wanna Do My Thing

Pt.5, 97mb on sharebee
410 - Lekan Animashaun - Serere
411 - Dick Khoza - Chapita
412 - Tesfa Maryam Kidane - Yetesfa Tezeta
413 - Mulatu Astatque - Kasalefkut Hulu
414 - Kokolo - Mister Sinister
415 - Tlahoun Gessessee - Aykedashem Lebe
501 - Manu Dibango - Soul Makossa
502 - Ebo Taylor - Heaven
503 - Hugh Masakela & The Union Of South Africa - Dyambo
504 - Sweet Talks - Kye Kye Pe Aware
505 - Rob - Make It Fast, Make It Slow
506 - William Onyeabor - Better Change Your Mind

Pt.6, 98mb on sharebee
507 - Bahta Gebre Heywet - Tessassategn Eko
508 - Ayalew Mesfin & Black Lion Band - Gud Aderegetchegn
509 - Sahara All Stars Band Jos - Enjoy Yourself
510 - Christy Azuma & Uppers International - Naam
511 - Mahmoud Ahmed - Kulun Mankwalesh
512 - Alemayehu Eshete - Eskegizew Bertchi
513 - Salif Keita - Mandjou
514 - Assagai - Cocoa
601 - Lourdes Van Dunem - Ngongo Ya Biluka
602 - Guerilla - La Popo
603 - Peter King - Mystery Tour
604 - Samuel Belay - Aynotchesh Yerefu
605 - Ebo Taylor - Atwer Abroba

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

African Jazz 'N' Jive: An Authentic Selection Of South African Township Swing Classics From The '50s & '60s

African Jazz 'N' Jive: An Authentic Selection Of South African Township Swing Classics From The '50s & '60s
VBR, 67mb on sharebee
1. N. D. Hotshots - U.S.A. Special
2. Ntemie's Alexandra All Star Band - Daddy Wami
3. Skylarks - Holilili
4. Orlando Six - Beer Club
5. Elite Swingers - Dinokza
6. Spokes Mashiyane - Banana Ba Rustenburg
7. King Jury And His Band - Emsengeni
8. The Four Yanks - Ubuhlungu
9. Kippie Moeketsi & The marabi Kings - Clarinet Kwela
10. Jazz Dazzlers - De Makeba
11. Solven Whistlers - Something New In Africa
12. Father Huddleston Band - Ndenzeni Na?
13. Nancy Jacobs & Her Sisters - Baby Are Yeng
14. Solomon Linda's Original Evening Birds - Mtube
15. Royal Players - Omnyakane
16. Dolly Rathebe - Tihapi Ke Noga
17. Orlando 7 - Loafes Corner
18. Manhattan Brothers - Vuka Vuka
19. Dorothy Masuka - Ngi Hamba Ngedwa
20. Reggie Msomi's Hollywood Jazz Band - Midnight Ska
21. Snqamu Jazz Band - Walk To Bube
22. Lemmy "Special" Mabase - Kwela Blues
23. Havana Swingsters - Emaxanbeni
24. The King Kong - Kwela Kong

Achilifunk - Gypsy Soul 1969-1979

Hugely entertaining, fun compilation by Barcelona DJ Txarly Brown of rumba-based Spanish pop music from the 1970s, which shows that interesting fusions between anglo-American and Spanish music were already well under way in the last years of the dictatorship and certainly before the 'nuevo flamenco' movement. Most of these tracks were unfamiliar to me, and listening to them for the first time was quite bizarre: all the familiar aspects of anglo-american 70s rock and pop are here - psychedelic, disco, soul and funk - but the rumba, flamenco and latin elements always prevail.
A few of the selections are predictable. The ever-reliable Peret is here on three tracks, and there's also a very good song from Los Amaya. But the highlights for me are the contributions from two female singers, Encarnita Polo (with my favourite track here, the bizarre 'Paco, Paco, Paco') and Dolores Vargas. Dolores was nicknamed 'la terremoto', the earthquake, and from her singing on these tracks you can tell why.
This track, El Garrotín (Youtube) by 70s Sevilla hippies Smash is typical of the eclecticism of the whole CD (dopey English psychedelic vocals clashing with a classic rumba refrain, in the same song). @


Achilifunk - Gypsy Soul 1969-1979
High VBR, 105mb on megaupload or sendspace
1. Los Fulanos (Feat. Peret) - Gato
2. Encarnita Polo - Paco, Paco, Paco
3. Chacho - Bum Bum
4. Smash - El Garrotín
5. Los Amaya - Que Mala Suerte La Mía
6. Dolores Vargas - Anana Hip
7. Peret - Si Fulano
8. Dolores Vargas - La Hawaiana
9. Peret - Chaví
10. Rabbit Rumba - Caramelos
11. Rumba Tres - Rumba Tru, La, La
12. Los Chorbos - Sones De Chicharro
13. Los Marismeños - Pares O Nones
14. Los Chunguitos - Baila Mi Ritmo
15. Trigal - Gol
16. Gato Pérez - Tiene Sabor
17. Mantecao Y Su Combo - Achili Funk

Yalla - Hitlist Egypt

On a tip from the great Schadenfreudian Therapy blog.
Amazon: For this album, released in 1990 and still the best compilation of modern Egyptian music around, David Lodge divvied Egyptian pop into working-class shaabi music and the upscale, educated, urban al-jil ("generation") sound, and devotes six rambunctiously appealing tracks to each. In al-jil the ongoing struggle between Islamic conservatism and a secular society tempted by Western ways is acted out in jumpy synthesizer rhythms and cautious, carefully monitored lyrics sung by some of the world's most sensuous singers. So-called shaabi music, on the other hand, is a funkier, rootsier reaction by Arab "country" singers to the wayward politics and pitfalls of urban life. The instruments are acoustic and traditional, the lyrics often socially conscious, and the emotions fervent. Relatively untouched by the West, Egyptian music provides a unique sonic entryway into a truly different cultural universe.


Yalla - Hitlist Egypt
High VBR, 128mb on megaupload or sendspace
1. Amr Diab - Ei Yaani
2. Hanan - Besma
3. Ehab - Masakeen
4. Mohamed Moneer - Sif Safaa
5. Khedr - Balsam Shafee
6. Adel El Musree - Ya Ramal
7. Sami Ali & Sahar Hamdy - Elli Shatr Enhaa Tgannen
8. Hassan El Asmar - Kitab Hayarti
9. Magdy Shabeeni - Ya Dunnya Ley
10. Magdy Talaat - Yalle Khadak Habibi
11. Shaaban Abdel Raheem - Akhar Saah
12. Hassan El Asmar - Mish Haseebak

Soul Stirrers

AMG review: If you want to hear what I humbly submit as one of the most impassioned gospel performances ever recorded, just throw this disc in the player, and brace yourself. Rebert Harris was undoubtedly one of the great voices and stylists of the genre, and his performances on this disc go a long way to justifying the claim that he was the greatest of them all. Every track on here is a gem of beauty, tone and commitment. But the kickoff track on this compilation, an alternate take of their two-part single, "By and By," is absolutely devastating in its use of shading, dynamics, and unrelenting fervor in getting its message across. The Soul Stirrers lock the groove down mightily, chiming up on those low seventh chords like twelve feet of concrete. Harris, as the old saying goes, sings his rear end off on this one, and, as transcendent moments go, this one is in a class all by itself. If the issued versions included here are slightly less subdued and don't quite hit as high a quotient on the fervor meter, so what? — we should be grateful enough that this performance has survived. If impassioned gospel is your thing, boy, are you gonna love this.


Soul Stirrers - Shine On Me
128kbps, 68mb on sharebee
1. By And By
2. I'm Still Living On Mother's Prayer
3. Fell Like My Time Ain't Long
4. Today
5. I Have A Right To The Tree Of Life
6. In That Awful Hour
7. Jesus Hits Like The Atom Bomb
8. Shine On Me
9. Faith And Grace
10. Everybody Ought To Love Their Soul
11. Blessed Be The Name Of The Lord
12. I'm Gonna Move In The Room With The Lord
13. My Loved Ones Are Waiting For Me
14. How Long
15. Who'll Be The One (There's A Vacant Room In Glory)
16. The Lord Is My Shepherd
17. Christ Is All (The World To Me)
18. By And By Part I
19. By And By Part II
20. By And By Part II (Version 2)
21. I'm Still Living On Mother's Prayer (Version 2)
22. Feel Like My Time Ain't Long (Version 2)
23. I Have A Right To The Tree Of Life (Version 2)
24. In That Awful Hour (Version 2)
25. Faith And Grace (Version 2)
26. My Loved Ones Are Waiting For Me (Version 2)

Amazon: While Sam Cooke certainly made beautiful music in the pop realm, his greatest sides were those made with the Soul Stirrers. When Cooke joined the group in 1950 at the age of 19, he'd already spent 4 years singing with the Highway Q.C.'s. The Soul Stirrers lead singer, R.H. Harris, who quit just before Cooke's arrival, had spent almost 25 years molding the group into gospel stardom through an innovative use of two lead singers matched with utmost energy and sophistication. Cooke initially sang in a style similar to Harris's, but soon took off into his own unearthly realm, writing spine-tingling songs like "Nearer to Thee," "Mean Old World," and the brilliant "Touch the Hem of His Garment," then singing them in his soaring, inimitable style with perfect control of phrasing and enunciation. This is an awesome collection, a record to listen to many, many times--to grow old with. Save it for those days when you need absolute proof that true grace does exist.


Sam Cooke - Sam Cooke with the Soul Stirrers
128kbps, 62mb on sharebee
1. Peace in the Valley
2. It Won't be Very Long
3. How Far am I From Cannan?
4. Just Another Day
5. Come and go to That Land
6. Any Day Now
7. He'll Make a Way
8. Nearer to Thee
9. Be With Me Jesus
10. One More River
11. I'm so Glad (Trouble Don't Last Always)
12. Wonderful
13. Farther Along
14. Touch the Hem of His Garment
15. Jesus, Wash Away My Troubles
16. Must Jesus Bear This Cross Alone?
17. That's Heaven to Me
18. Were You There?
19. Mean Old World
20. Lord Remember Me
21. Lovable
22. Forever
23. I'll Come Running Back to You
24. That's All I Need to Know
25. I Don't Want to Cry

Go Girl! Soul Sisters Tellin' It Like It Is

AMG review


Go Girl! Soul Sisters Tellin' It Like It Is
320kbps in two parts on rapidshare:
Part One (53.5 MB) and Part Two (56.3 MB) LINKS DEAD
01 I'm Gonna Make It - Janice Tyrone
02 Respect - Aretha Franklin
03 You Did Me Wrong (You Used Me For A Good Thing) - Priscilla Price
04 I'll Get Along - Ann Peebles
05 Your Good Thing (Is About To End) - Mable John
06 Dirty Man - Laura Lee
07 Seven Days - Apollas
08 You're The Dog - Irma Thomas
09 Wedlock Is A Padlock - Laura Lee
10 Soul Girl - Jeanne & The Darlings
11 Women's Love Rights - Laura Lee
12 The Day I Found Myself - The Honey Cone
13 Your Turn To Cry - Betty Lavette
14 Girls Can't Do What The Guys Do - Betty Wright
15 Think (About It) - Lyn Collins
16 Where Would You Be Today - Ilana
17 Needle In A Haystack - Velvelettes
18 Do Right Woman Do Right Man - Aretha Franklin

Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant - Stratosphere Boogie + Swinging On The Strings

An easy way to describe this would be to string a bunch of labels together - instrumental-country-jazz-rockabilly-blues-bop-blah-blah... The uniqueness of these recordings is that they exist outside of the style divisions. In fact, this music was created before the modern styles drifted apart; and by people who simply did not know that country cannot be jazz because "that's not done". Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant were two white hillbilly kids, and so they grew up with the sounds of bluegrass and country-and-western; they also were very talented, curious musicians, and their ears were open to the cutting edge of instrumental music in America, and in the late 40s - early 50s it was bebop. Finally, both played new, recently invented, futuristic instruments: Speedy West was a steel guitar player, and Jimmy Bryant was one of the first solidbody guitarists in the world, and the first one to get Fender Telecaster when it went into production. There is no self-conscious "breaking the rules" kind of feeling, as there were no rules. They were unconstrained by the tradition because there was none: they simply had to invent everything themselves from the ground up. Nothing like this have ever been recorded before, and soon after they walked out of the studio for the last time, the gates between different styles shut down for keeps.
The "starting-from-a-clean-slate" approach sometimes produces interesting results even in the hands of people completely devoid of talent - just look at the Shaggs or the Stooges - but West and Bryant were accomplished studio musicians, true musical geniuses, and these two collections might be some of the most far-out, unique stuff you might hear.

AMG says: Fans of country and jazz guitar will discover two new idols after delving into this 16-track collection [Stratosphere Boogie], which features the best of the genre-shattering sessions recorded by this legendary duo. Between Bryant's jazzy, lightning-fast leads and West's brash, groundbreaking pedal steel work, the two recorded some of the most astounding instrumental country music of all time. Whether it's the hilarious "Sleepwalker's Lullaby" or top-fuel classics like "Old Joe Clark" and "Arkansas Traveler," the pair's 1950s records were among the most experimental music being made anywhere in America. It doesn't hurt to add that they were extremely influential, and one spends nearly as much time laughing along with these songs as they do trying to figure out how the hell anyone ever got this good.


Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant - Stratosphere Boogie
256kbps, 67mb on depositfiles
1. Stratosphere Boogie
2. Blue Bonnet Rag
3. Cotton Pickin'
4. Old Joe Clark
5. Sleepwalker's Lullaby
6. Arkansas Traveler
7. The Night Rider
8. Low Man On A Totem Pole
9. Speedin' West
10. Comin' On
11. Bryant's Bounce
12. Midnight Ramble
13. Pickin' Peppers
14. Shuffleboard Rag
15. Bustin' Thru
16. Flippin' The Lid


Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant - Swinging On The Strings
256kbps, 94mb on depositfiles
1. Frettin' Fingers
2. Lover
3. Two Of A Kind
4. Yodeling Guitar
5. West Of Samoa
6. Opus 1
7. Truck Driver's Ride
8. T-Bone Rag
9. Skiddle-Dee-Boo
10. China Boy
11. Railroadin'
12. Jammin' With Jimmy
13. Deep Water
14. This Ain't The Blues
15. The Rollin' Sky
16. Whistle Stop
17. Hillcrest (Opus 3)
18. Pushin' The Blues
19. Swingin' On The Strings
20. Caffeine Patrol

Silver Apples - Silver Apples + Contact

AMG says: Decades after their brief yet influential career first ground to a sudden and mysterious halt, the Silver Apples remain one of pop music's true enigmas: a surreal, almost unprecedented duo, their music explored interstellar drones and hums, pulsing rhythms and electronically-generated melodies years before similar ideas were adopted in the work of acolytes ranging from Suicide to Spacemen 3 to Laika. The Silver Apples formed in New York in 1967 and comprised percussionist Danny Taylor and lead vocalist Simeon, a bizarre figure who played an instrument also dubbed the Simeon, which (according to notes on the duo's self-titled 1968 debut LP) consisted of "nine audio oscillators and eighty-six manual manual controls...The lead and rhythm oscillators are played with the hands, elbows and knees and the bass oscillators are played with the feet." Although the utterly uncommercial record — an ingenious cacophony of beeps, buzzes and beats — sold poorly, the Silver Apples resurfaced a year later with their sophomore effort, Contact, another far-flung outing which fared no better than its predecessor. After the record's release, the duo seemingly vanished into thin air, perhaps returning to the alien world from whence they purportedly came.


Silver Apples - Silver Apples
AMG review
256kbps, 60mb on sharebee
1. Oscillations
2. Seagreen Serenades
3. Lovefingers
4. Program
5. Velvet Cave
6. Whirly-Bird
7. Dust
8. Dancing Gods
9. Misty Mountain


Silver Apples - Contact
AMG review
256kbps, 75mb on sharebee LINK REMOVED
1. You And I
2. Water
3. Ruby
4. Gypsy Love
5. You're Not Foolin' Me
6. I Have Known Love
7. A Pox On You
8. Confusion
9. Fantasies

Tube amp for iPods

Tube amp for iPods
I am at a loss for words...

Oskar Sala - My Fascinating Instrument

In 1930, Dr. Friedrich Trautwein invented the Trautonium, the only instrument in the world capable of producing subharmonics, which are the mirror opposite of harmonics, or 'ghost' note like playing a string on a violin only half held down. Oscar Sala, a young student of Trautwein's, pioneered the development of the instrument and made the Mixtur-Trautonium, an improved polyphonic instrument which was used in the soundtrack of Alfred Hitchcock's film The Birds, as the instrument sounded more ominous than the sound of real birds. The Trautonium has advantages over a synthesizer giving freedom of intonation like a fretless string instrument to play microtones and continuous, unrestricted variations of pitch, tone and volume. The player makes contact with a wire stretched over a metal strip to create a circuit. It was a forerunner to the modular synthesizers of the 1960s. Nearly all knowledge of the performance and workings of the Trautonium has died with Oscar Sala in 2002, but the album My Fascinating Instrument, which is available today, is testament to Sala's musical genius. @

A lengthy article on the composer and the instrument, and a shorter one; по русски.


Oskar Sala - My Fascinating Instrument
REUP:320kbps, 143mb on mediafire
1. Fantasy In Three Parts For Mixturtrautonium Solo
- Demonstration
- Skala Nuova
- Farbmelodie
2. "Speech Of The Dead Christ From The Universe Saying There Is No God"
3. Largo
4. Fanfare
5. Impression Electronique
6. Electronic Dance Suite For Mixturtrautonium Solo And Mixturorchestra (Tape) in five parts
- Concertando rubato
- Espressivo
- Giocoso
- Strepitoso
- Furioso

Burunduk Quartet - Stuffed Horse

Most excellent Russan lounge electronica. Highly recommended! One of the rare albums I don't get tired of; I first heard it eight years ago and I still keep it in my player. If you liked Jaga Jazzist, try this one out.


Burunduk Quartet - Stuffed Horse
67 mb on zippyshare or uloz.to
1. Coffee Seller
2. Liliana Plachet (Liliana is crying)
3. Barmenov Nikogda Ne Ubivaut (The bartender never gets killed)
4. Sleeping Plane
5. Gaucho Bojatsja Goroda (Gaucho are afraid of the city)
6. Mamilor Podisir
7. Pierre I Richard
8. Bizon Bizon
9. Bootscream
10. Persi Hit
11. Lorry
12. Pin-Up Resus
13. Farshirovannaja Loshad (Stuffed horse)
14. Boby