AIGBE LEBARTY - Unity - CD 1979 PMG Afrobeat
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8.50 €
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In 1979, long-time Highlife veteran Aigbe Lebarty decided to try his hand at high-energy disco funk. Checking the Lebartone Aces at the door, he borrowed the Sex Bombers from Prince Omo Lawal-Osula and created Unity, a sure-fire dance floor stomper that channels 'Ring My Bell' into a clari...
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AIGBE LEBARTY - Unity - LP 1979 PMG Afrobeat
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11.00 €
Aktionspreis: 10.00 €
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In 1979, long-time Highlife veteran Aigbe Lebarty decided to try his hand at high-energy disco funk. Checking the Lebartone Aces at the door, he borrowed the Sex Bombers from Prince Omo Lawal-Osula and created Unity, a sure-fire dance floor stomper that channels 'Ring My Bell' into a clari...
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AMAS - Grill - CD PMG Funk Afrobeat
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8.25 €
Aktionspreis: 5.06 €
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Grill by Gbubemi Amas is as smooth as the red cardigan artfully slung around his shoulders on the cover. Whether he is running through the scales on a cover version of ‘Fire and Rain’, or trying on his calypso highlife moves on ‘Ereyon’, you know Amas is a man with a smooth line for every...
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AMAS - Grill - LP PMG Funk Afrobeat
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13.50 €
Aktionspreis: 11.00 €
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Grill by Gbubemi Amas is as smooth as the red cardigan artfully slung around his shoulders on the cover. Whether he is running through the scales on a cover version of ‘Fire and Rain’, or trying on his calypso highlife moves on ‘Ereyon’, you know Amas is a man with a smooth line for every...
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APOSTLES - Banko Woman - CD PMG Afrobeat
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10.50 €
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Heaven sent from Nigeria's tumultuous east, The Apostles have been preaching a particular blend of funky psychedelic soul/rock fusion for over forty years. On Banko Woman they threw a little Afrobeat into the mix, creating an Afro-Funk disco bomb that has been energising dance floors ever...
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BALA MILLER AND THE GREAT MUSIC PIRAMEEDS OF AFRICA - Pyramids - CD 1977 PMG Jazz Afrobeat
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9.75 €
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Bala Miller was famous for pushing boundaries. His first job was selling beer in the Muslim north. And as a musician he'd always try to sneak in 'local' flourishes while playing trumpet with Bobby Benson and Victor Olaiya. It was with his band, the Pirameeds, however, that he was able to r...
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BLACK CHILDREN SLEDGE FUNK CO. BAND - Vol. 3: Aviation Grand Father - CD PMG Funk Afrobeat
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8.25 €
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In the mid-seventies Nigeria, everybody loved the Black Children Sledge Funk Co. Band. Blasting out of the bustling river port of Onitsha, their infectious, feel-good grooves were the perfect antidote to the dark economic clouds gathering over the country. Nigerians, young and old, lapped...
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ELCADOS - What Ever You Need - CD 1979 PMG Afrobeat Reggae
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10.50 €
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By the 1979 release of Whatever You Need, the Elcados were ready to party. 'We got rhythm, we got sound,” they declare on 'Funky Music'. 'You're going to dig it!' Starting out as the Moonrakers in Kanu in 1968, Steve Black, Rocky Mustapha, Tony Nosika and Frank Martins, spent the next deca...
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ELCADOS - What Ever You Need - LP 1979 PMG Afrobeat Reggae
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13.90 €
Aktionspreis: 11.00 €
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By the 1979 release of Whatever You Need, the Elcados were ready to party. 'We got rhythm, we got sound,” they declare on 'Funky Music'. 'You're going to dig it!' Starting out as the Moonrakers in Kanu in 1968, Steve Black, Rocky Mustapha, Tony Nosika and Frank Martins, spent the next deca...
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EMMA DORGU - Roverman - CD 1979 PMG Afrobeat Funk
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9.00 €
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In 1979, Emma Dorgu decided it was time to act. He’d torn up the Lagos live scene with The Thermometers and conquered the airwaves with the single, ‘World People’. But there were injustices afoot, not just in Nigeria, but in South Africa and Zimbabwe and across the continent as well, and h...
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EMMA DORGU - Roverman - LP 1979 PMG Afrobeat Funk
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13.50 €
Aktionspreis: 11.00 €
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In 1979, Emma Dorgu decided it was time to act. He’d torn up the Lagos live scene with The Thermometers and conquered the airwaves with the single, ‘World People’. But there were injustices afoot, not just in Nigeria, but in South Africa and Zimbabwe and across the continent as well, and h...
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FOUNDARS 15 - Co - Operation CD PMG Afrobeat Funk
 '* Nigerian afro rock with a funk touch
* For fans of Ofege, Witch, Demon Fuzz, Assagai, Osibisa Fela Kuti
* Filled to
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10.50 €
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After years of gigging around the east Nigerian music scene, Foundars 15 finally hit the jackpot when they recruited legendary bass player, Marshall Udo. Charismatic and confident, Udo immediately energised the band, bringing a new funky and psychedelic vibe as well as a bunch of songs he'...
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FRIIMEN MUSIK COMPANY - We Can Get It On - CD PMG Afrobeat Funk
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9.00 €
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By the mid 1970’s in Nigeria, the Biafran War was a distant memory and the music scene in the eastern city of Aba was booming again. Bands like The Funkees, The Wings and The Apostles grabbed the headlines, but the more interesting stuff was coming from smaller groups like the Friimen. The...
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FRIIMEN MUSIK COMPANY - We Can Get It On - LP PMG Afrobeat Funk
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15.75 €
Aktionspreis: 12.00 €
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By the mid 1970’s in Nigeria, the Biafran War was a distant memory and the music scene in the eastern city of Aba was booming again. Bands like The Funkees, The Wings and The Apostles grabbed the headlines, but the more interesting stuff was coming from smaller groups like the Friimen. The...
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GERALDO PINO & THE HEARTBEATS - Let's Have A Party - CD PMG Afrobeat Funk
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10.50 €
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It's no exaggeration to say that Geraldo Pino and his band the Heartbeats kickstarted the whole soul/funk/afrobeat scene in West Africa. Mixing highlife, funk and jazz, and using the latest equipment, they laid waste to all before them. In 1966 Fela Kuti was a jobbing musician, eeking out...
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GERALDO PINO - Afro Soco Soul Live - CD 1978 Oom Dooby Dochas Funk Afrobeat
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10.50 €
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He was born in Sierra Leone in the 1930s. Fact is that Gerald Pine was son to a lawyer working in Nigeria, lost his mother and sister at a very young age and found relief in music. He played social clubs by the early 60s with his newly founded band THE HEARTBEATS delivering cover-versions...
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GOLDFINGER DOE & B.M.S. - Let's Dance Together - CD PMG Afrobeat Disco
'* Nigerian afro funk with a huge reggae influence
* For fans of Akwassa, Bob Marley, The Wailers, Eddy Grand, Assagai
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10.50 €
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William Onyeabor wasn't the only Nigerian experimenting with synthesizers in the 70s and 80s. Goldfinger Doe was twiddling knobs too, no more so than on Let's Dance Together – a prime slab of cosmic Afro boogie funk, recorded with legendary percussionist, Mike Umoh (a.k.a B.M.S.) Goldfinge...
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GUELEWAR BAND OF BANJUL - Warteef Jigeen - CD PMG Afrobeat
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9.00 €
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The Guelewar Band of Banjul are a band quite unlike any other – an explosive mix of soul and funk with local rhythms like Boogaraboo and Ndaga combined with a defiant insistence on singing in their local language, Wolof. They certainly blew a young Youssou N’dour away. He cites them as his...
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HARRY MOSCO - Country Boy (mr. Funkees) - CD PMG Afrobeat Reggae
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10.50 €
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Don't let the floppy hat and rolling English countryside on the cover fool you. Harry Mosco's Country Boy is a certified floor-filler, bursting with Studio 54 era disco-funk as well as a token reggae monster, complete with its own dub version. Harry Mosco always had swagger. A founding mem...
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HARRY MOSCO - Country Boy (mr. Funkees) - LP PMG Afrobeat Reggae
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13.90 €
Aktionspreis: 11.00 €
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Don't let the floppy hat and rolling English countryside on the cover fool you. Harry Mosco's Country Boy is a certified floor-filler, bursting with Studio 54 era disco-funk as well as a token reggae monster, complete with its own dub version. Harry Mosco always had swagger. A founding mem...
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HEADS FUNK BAND - Cold Fire - CD PMG Afrobeat Psychedelic
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10.50 €
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The self-proclaimed funkiest band on the west coast of Africa, the Heads Funk Band, could arguably make that claim for the whole continent. Featuring the slick guitar of Felix 'Feladey' Odey, the slinky drumming of Eddie Offeyi and the swirling keyboard chops of Kevin 'Fortune' Coburn, nob...
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IGNA IGWEBUIKE (I.G.) - Bomp - CD PMG Afrobeat
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9.00 €
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It takes a lot of swag to wear a hat as big as the hat that I.G. wears on the cover of Bomp. But I.G., a.k.a. Bobby I.G., a.k.a. I.G. New Yorker, had swag by the bucket load. That hat tells you everything you need to know about I.G. and, indeed, about Bomp – it’s a big funky slice of Niger...
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IGNA IGWEBUIKE (I.G.) - Bomp - LP PMG Afrobeat
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13.90 €
Aktionspreis: 11.00 €
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It takes a lot of swag to wear a hat as big as the hat that I.G. wears on the cover of Bomp. But I.G., a.k.a. Bobby I.G., a.k.a. I.G. New Yorker, had swag by the bucket load. That hat tells you everything you need to know about I.G. and, indeed, about Bomp – it’s a big funky slice of Niger...
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JAKE SOLLO - Coming Home - CD 1977 PMG Funk Afrobeat
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9.00 €
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In 1977 Jake Sollo returned to Nigeria to record his first solo album, Coming Home. His long-term band, The Funkees, had imploded in London. And his big break with the Afro super band, Osibisa, was cut short when he went on strike with Kiki Gyan and promptly got sacked. Rather than sit at...
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JIMI LEE / MONA FINNIH & THE SENSATIONALS - A Stroll In The Moonlight - CD PMG Afrobeat Funk
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9.00 €
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He was Nigerian guitar God, famous for his incendiary lead breaks with Aktion and Monomono. She was one of Nigeria’s first female band leader who went off to the US and became a big deal in the New Jazz scene there. It should be no surprise then that when Jimi Lee and Monah Finnih got toge...
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JIMI LEE / MONA FINNIH & THE SENSATIONALS - A Stroll In The Moonlight - LP PMG Afrobeat Funk
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13.50 €
Aktionspreis: 11.00 €
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He was Nigerian guitar God, famous for his incendiary lead breaks with Aktion and Monomono. She was one of Nigeria’s first female band leader who went off to the US and became a big deal in the New Jazz scene there. It should be no surprise then that when Jimi Lee and Monah Finnih got toge...
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MANFORD BEST - Come Go With Me - CD PMG Afrobeat Funk
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9.00 €
Aktionspreis: 5.63 €
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With the Super Wings in mutiny and a trail for the manslaughter of his former bandmate, Spuds Nathan, still hanging over his head, Manford Best came out swinging with Come Go With Me. It’s a chirpy, calypso-influenced insight into the state of his mind and his first solo album. Recorded at...
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MANFORD BEST - Come Go With Me - LP PMG Afrobeat Funk
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13.50 €
Aktionspreis: 11.00 €
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With the Super Wings in mutiny and a trail for the manslaughter of his former bandmate, Spuds Nathan, still hanging over his head, Manford Best came out swinging with Come Go With Me. It’s a chirpy, calypso-influenced insight into the state of his mind and his first solo album. Recorded at...
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MANFORD BEST - I've Been Loving You - CD PMG Afrobeat Funk
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10.50 €
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'I've Been Loving You” sees Manford Best finally laying the ghosts of The Wings to rest and emerge as a serious player in the glittering new world of Afro boogie. Recorded in London, with Nigerian super producer, Jake Sollo, at the desk, it is a highly polished collection of disco classics...
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MANFORD BEST - I've Been Loving You - LP PMG Afrobeat Funk
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12.35 €
Aktionspreis: 11.00 €
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'I've Been Loving You” sees Manford Best finally laying the ghosts of The Wings to rest and emerge as a serious player in the glittering new world of Afro boogie. Recorded in London, with Nigerian super producer, Jake Sollo, at the desk, it is a highly polished collection of disco classics...
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MASISI MASS FUNK - I Want You Girl - CD PMG Afrobeat Funk
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10.50 €
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In mid-seventies, Nigerian bands came and went with alarming regularity, rising meteorically from the slums to stardom and falling back again just as quickly. Masisi Mass Funk from Anamara State was one such band. But during their brief moment in the stratosphere, they produced a funk gem...
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MASISI MASS FUNK - I Want You Girl - LP PMG Afrobeat Funk
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13.50 €
Aktionspreis: 11.00 €
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In mid-seventies, Nigerian bands came and went with alarming regularity, rising meteorically from the slums to stardom and falling back again just as quickly. Masisi Mass Funk from Anamara State was one such band. But during their brief moment in the stratosphere, they produced a funk gem...
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MIGHTY FLAMES - Metalik Funk Band - CD PMG Afrobeat
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9.00 €
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The Mighty Flames were a crack bunch of Cameroonian musicians, drawn to Nigeria by the heavy funk sounds booming across the border like musical moths. For a short time in the late sentries they ‘owned’ Port Harcourt, destroying dancefloors with an incendiary sound that burned so heavily th...
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MIGHTY FLAMES - Metalik Funk Band - LP PMG Afrobeat
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13.50 €
Aktionspreis: 11.00 €
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The Mighty Flames were a crack bunch of Cameroonian musicians, drawn to Nigeria by the heavy funk sounds booming across the border like musical moths. For a short time in the late sentries they ‘owned’ Port Harcourt, destroying dancefloors with an incendiary sound that burned so heavily th...
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OFO THE ROCK COMPANY - Live In Europe - Fonk Afrika LP PMG Afrobeat Psychedelic
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13.50 €
Aktionspreis: 11.00 €
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OFO The Rock Company (originally known as OFO The Back Company) were Nigeria's first acid-rock band. Blending Hendrix and Deep Purple with shamanism and a pro-black philosophy, they cut their teeth at Fela Kuti's Afrika Shrine, developing a fearsome live reputation that intimidated every o...
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OFO THE ROCK COMPANY - Live In Europe - Fonk Afrika - CD PMG Afrobeat Psychedelic
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10.50 €
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OFO The Rock Company (originally known as OFO The Back Company) were Nigeria's first acid-rock band. Blending Hendrix and Deep Purple with shamanism and a pro-black philosophy, they cut their teeth at Fela Kuti's Afrika Shrine, developing a fearsome live reputation that intimidated every o...
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ROCK TOWN EXPRESS - Rock Town Express - CD PMG Funk Afrobeat
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9.75 €
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There was a time in the 1970s when the best band in the Nigeria was actually from Cameroon. Rock Town Express, formed out of the ashes of Wrinkar Experience by Yaounde boys Edjo'o Jacques Racine and Ginger Forcha, hit it hard, hit it loud and hit it funky. Racine and Forcha had been recrui...
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ROCK TOWN EXPRESS - Rock Town Express - LP PMG Funk Afrobeat
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13.50 €
Aktionspreis: 11.00 €
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There was a time in the 1970s when the best band in the Nigeria was actually from Cameroon. Rock Town Express, formed out of the ashes of Wrinkar Experience by Yaounde boys Edjo'o Jacques Racine and Ginger Forcha, hit it hard, hit it loud and hit it funky. Racine and Forcha had been recrui...
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S. JOB ORGANIZATION - Freedom Anthem - CD PMG Afrobeat Funk
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10.50 €
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S. Job Organization (also known as SJOB Movement) was a rarity in the Nigerian music scene – a collective of equals in a world where band 'leaders' ruled the roost and 'band boys' had to make do with the crumbs. The name was an acronym representing each of the members – Samuel 'Spark' Abil...
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S. JOB ORGANIZATION - Freedom Anthem - LP PMG Afrobeat Funk
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13.90 €
Aktionspreis: 11.00 €
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S. Job Organization (also known as SJOB Movement) was a rarity in the Nigerian music scene – a collective of equals in a world where band 'leaders' ruled the roost and 'band boys' had to make do with the crumbs. The name was an acronym representing each of the members – Samuel 'Spark' Abil...
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SAHARA ALL STAR BAND JOS - Sahara All Star Band Jos - CD PMG Afrobeat Funk
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9.00 €
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Based in the Havana Nightclub, in the central plateau town of Jos, the Sahara All Stars of Jos weren't part of the Lagos scene or the one in the east. Their leader, Dan Satch Ayo, had played with Dr Sir Warrior in the Orientals. He'd jammed with Mohammed Ahidjo and Sonny Akpan from The Fun...
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SAHARA ALL STAR BAND JOS - Sahara All Star Band Jos - LP PMG Afrobeat Funk
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18.75 €
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Based in the Havana Nightclub, in the central plateau town of Jos, the Sahara All Stars of Jos weren't part of the Lagos scene or the one in the east. Their leader, Dan Satch Ayo, had played with Dr Sir Warrior in the Orientals. He'd jammed with Mohammed Ahidjo and Sonny Akpan from The Fun...
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SEGUN BUCKNOR - Segun Bucknor - CD PMG Afrobeat Funk
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10.50 €
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Segun Bucknor fell in love with American soul music as a student at New York's Columbia University. Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Sam Cooke and Ray Charles hadn't made much of a splash in Africa at the time and when Bucknor returned to Nigeria in 1968, he was determined to bring the sound...
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SEGUN BUCKNOR - Segun Bucknor - LP PMG Afrobeat Funk
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14.00 €
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Segun Bucknor fell in love with American soul music as a student at New York's Columbia University. Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Sam Cooke and Ray Charles hadn't made much of a splash in Africa at the time and when Bucknor returned to Nigeria in 1968, he was determined to bring the sound...
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STEVE BLACK - Make The World - LP Dudu Afrobeat
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21.00 €
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Previously unreleased album from 1986, produced by Steve Black. Limited to 250 LP's only! Released in cooperation with PMG....
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THE BETA YAMA GROUP - Free Love - CD 1980 PMG Afrobeat Boogie
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8.25 €
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It’s hard to get a handle on Nigerian musicians Nash Dodoo, Charlie Cuul and Jonas Caulley. In 1980 they released an album of face-melting gospel boogie as the BML chapels. And in the same year, calling themselves the Beta Yama Group, they put out Free Love, a belated love letter to San Fr...
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THE BETA YAMA GROUP - Free Love - LP 1980 PMG Afrobeat Boogie
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13.50 €
Aktionspreis: 11.00 €
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It’s hard to get a handle on Nigerian musicians Nash Dodoo, Charlie Cuul and Jonas Caulley. In 1980 they released an album of face-melting gospel boogie as the BML chapels. And in the same year, calling themselves the Beta Yama Group, they put out Free Love, a belated love letter to San Fr...
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THE FUNKEES - POINT OF NO RETURN / Afro Funk Music (french Girlie Cover) - CD Afrobeat
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10.50 €
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FRENCH GIRLIE COVER VERSION! The Funkees hit London in 1973 as the tightest, funkiest and most audacious bands to come out of Africa. Hardened by endless touring and an unrelenting battle with BLO and Monomono to be the best band in Nigeria, they were in prime musical condition, ready to f...
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THE VISITORS - My Good Friends - CD PMG Afrobeat
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8.25 €
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Goddy Oku was the Eastern Nigerian music scene’s Mr Fixit. Need a new guitar? He’d make you one. Couldn’t afford a fancy new effects pedal? Give him a couple of days and he’d knock up something that would do the job. Oh, and he was also a red-hot guitarist with The Hygrades, one of the hea...
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TONY IGIETTEMO - Hot Like Fire - CD 1980 PMG Funk Afrobeat
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10.50 €
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Leaning against a wall, his shirt unbuttoned to his navel and cradling a tumbler of something strong and sophisticated, Tony Igiettemo looks every bit the smooth talking 80s gent. When you put Hot Like Fire on the turntable and drop the needle, however, it is immediately clear that Smooth...
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