Blair French – Faded By The Sun b/w Celebration Ritual
Coming off the upcoming The Art Of Us full-length record on Rocksteady Disco, Blair French drops this gem of a 12″ for you to social distance dance to. Hopefully not […]
Tag Archives: Afrobeat
Eddie Logix – Placebo Palace
Friday’s looking pretty good after the release of this new banger with a big B out of the Rocksteady Disco camp. Their latest artist is Detroit’s finest, the almost two […]
DJ Center – Dem Say Ah (Akoya Re-Rub)
Ending the week off with a bang, we’ve got the new certified BANGER from the homie DJ Center and Akoya Afrobeat. If you dig the afrobeat sound, then you know […]
Tahira Tropical Edits Repress
So nice that they had to press it twice. If you missed this monster of a record the first time, it’s now your time to grab it, put it on […]
Tunes That Rocked The Room at Shake! in 2018
We started Shake! at Friends and Lovers in Crown Heights, Brooklyn over 2.5 years ago, we wanted to play funk 45s. Immediately it turned into something special and different. After […]
Kumasi – Akoben
If there is one thing we can appreciate, it’s a good afrobeat record. Hailing from New Orleans, this baker’s dozen of musicians channel the spirits of early 1970’s Lagos through […]
2017: The Jazz
We got the jazz, we got the jazz. 2017 had some great jazz too. We covered some terrific records all across the jazz board. Whether it was straight ahead, nu-jazz, […]
Best of 2017: World Funky Jams
2017 gave us some really great world music. Whether it world beat, afrobeat, Ethio-jazz, and beyond, we’ve found the funk in many of these tracks that have graced the pages […]
AddisAbabaBand – Rainbow War
Taking you further on a cosmic trip with music we think is important, we bring you AddisAbabaBand and their new single “Rainbow War”. Hailing from Denmark, this thirteen piece crew […]
Hot Border Special – Thriller
Oh we love to hear from these chaps, one of our favorite afro soul funk rock bands, Hot Border Special. It’s been a minute, but no worries, it’s well worth […]
