Raúl Monsalve y los Forajidos – Bichos
Raúl Monsalve has spent most of his life exploring the Afro-Venezuelan music of his home country, learning, and understanding everything that has been put into this sound for centuries. He’s […]
Tag Archives: Afrobeat
Soul Inscribed – Tune Up
Do you remember when you first heard The Roots? The live instrumentation plus tight rhymes blew everyone’s minds, including this author. The Heavy Rhyme experience did the same. BNH x […]
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 […]
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 […]
