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A1. Mixed Grill - A Brand New Wayo A2. Kris Okotie - Show Me Your Backside A3. Murphy Williams - Get On Up A4. Joe Moks - Boys and Girls B1. Amas - Slow Down B2. Oby Onyioha - I Want To Feel Your Love B3. Dizzy K. Falola - Excuse Me Baby B4. Chris Mba - Funky Situation C1. Bayo Damazio - Listen to the Music C2. Martha Ulaeto - Music Alone C3. Segun Robert - Big Race C4. Amel Addmore - Jane D1. Honey Machine - Pleasure D2. The Stormmers - Love or Money D3. Emma Baloka - Letís Love Each Other With this release, Comb & Razor Sound launches its exploration of the colorful world of popular music from Nigeria, starting with the post-disco era of the late 1970s and early 80s. The years between 1979 and 1983 were Nigeria’s Second Republic, when democracy finally returned after twenty-three years of uninterrupted military dictatorship. They were also the crest of Nigeria’s oil boom, when surging oil prices made the petroleum-producing country a land of plenty, prosperity and profligacy. The influx of petrodollars meant an expansion in industry and the music industry in particu- lar. Record companies upgraded their technology and cranked out a staggering volume of output to an audience hungry for music to celebrate the country’s prospective rise as global power of the future. While it was a boom time for a wide variety of popular music styles, the predominant commercial sound was a post-afrobeat, slickly modern dance groove that retrofitted the relentless four-on-the- floor bass beat of disco to a more laidback, upbeat-and-downbeat soul shuffle, mixing in jazz-funk, synthesizer pop and afro feeling. At the time, it was still mostly locally referred to as “disco,” but has since been recognized as its own unique genre retrospectively dubbed “Nigerian boogie.” A Brand New Wayo: Funk, Fast Times and Nigerian Boogie Badness collects 15 pulsing Nigerian boogie tracks in a lovingly compiled package chronicling one of the most progressive and creative eras in the history of African popular music. ORDER CUT OFF DATE FOR THIS ITEM: DEC 28th Format: 2xLP Cat. No: CRZR 1001 Label: Comb & Razor Sound Available: JANUARY 18th LP COMB & RAZOR SOUND www.combandrazorsound.com A1. “State of the Nation” feat. Damon Albarn A2. “3030” A3. “The Fantabulous Rap Extravaganza” feat. Prince Paul A4. “Things You Can Do” B1. “Positive Contact” B2. “St. Catherine St.” feat. Beans, Mr. Lif, P. Wingerter, Peanut Butter Wolf, Verna Brown B3. “Virus” B4. “Upgrade (A Brymar College Course)” B5. “New Coke” feat. Mark Ramos-Nishita C1. “Mastermind” C2. “National Movie Review” feat. 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With Del aka Deltron Zero on vocals, Dan the Automator aka The Cantankerous Captain Aptos on production, and Kid Koala aka Skiznoid the Boy Wonder on turntables, this album takes the listener on a paranoid journey set in a dystopian year 3030 dealing with viruses, the apocalypse, an oppressive government, and a war waged against a huge company called the Corporate Bank of Time that rules the universe, all to the well-crafted and consistent musical backing of the Automator. Appearances by Damon Albarn (The Gorillaz, Blur), Prince Paul, Peanut Butter Wolf, DJ Money Mark, Paul Barman, Mark Bell (Bjork, production), Sean Lennon, and Mr. Lif compliment Del’s vocal style and add the right amount of flavor to this classic period piece. ORDER CUT OFF DATE FOR THIS ITEM: JAN 18th Format: 2xLP Cat. No: DEL 75033 Label: Deltron Partners LP Available: FEBRUARY 1st LOW BUDGET HIGH-FI MUSIC PART 11 of 12: MADLIB’S ONCE-A-MONTH SERIES Madlib got a bit lost in his detour into jazz – Marketed and Madlib Medicine Show’s 7 (High Jazz) and 8 (Advanced Jazz). He was supposed to circle promoted by back with a punch-you-in-the-face return to hip-hop form – a collaborative album with Stones Throw Records Detroit rapper Frank Nitti – but instead he found himself lost in the Lost Gates... a place Publicity by Score Press where Black Soul (Madlib Medicine Show 10) really means Disco Funk. Limited edition Sorry about that. The good news is: he’s back. And that hip-hop album, for which the Medicine Show Format: CD faithfully have been holding their tickets, is Cat. No: MMS 011 finally here. It’s called Lowbudget High-Fi Music Label: Madlib Medicine Show and it’s a interesting look back at the Madlib Available: January 18th, 2011 Medicine Show and a prelude of what is to come in the 12th, 13th and – maybe – 9th releases in the series. All of the regular Madlib collaborators – MED, Guilty Simpson, Strong Arm Steady – are represented here with exclusive tracks. Karriem Riggins pops in for a Supreme Team interlude, as does A.G. Madlib digs out a Jaylib-era track that was earmarked for the never-realized second album and, of course, interludes, outerludes and – probably – queludes abound. The Madlib Medicine Show series is a combination of Madlib's new hip-hop productions, remixes, beat tapes, and jazz, as well as mixtapes of funk, soul, Brazilian, psych, jazz and other undefined forms of music from the Beat Konducta's 4-ton* stack of vinyl. *4-tons of vinyl, this is true. It’s all in his studio. A1. Kitty Cradle Fog A2. Gone-O-Tron B1. 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There is simply, “it’s about loins and using them properly”. no one else quite on his level, no one who inhabits a world so By the time you have adjusted to the dream-world of My Human complete and unique. Wears Acedia Shreds Dimlite will pull the plug, dropping you While he built his reputation with a string of pioneering releases on back into your monochromatic doldrums. It’s OK though. As you Germany’s Sonar Kollectiv label that took hip-hop as their starting unravel the secret code in EP closer “Gone-O-Tron”, you’ll know point, these days Dimlite is more Soft Machine than drum machine, a it’s not forever. kindred spirit of purveyors of avant-pop such as Panda Bear, and the playful prog giants of the past. This quartet of songs contains a richness that makes these his most satisfying compositions yet. 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Fly By End Here is another project from the glory days of Soul Fire records. Over the course of two years the Fabulous 3 recorded everything from Reggae to Spiritual Jazz to Psychedelic Soul. Truth & Soul and Phillip Lehman are proud to present their concise but glorious recordings, produced by Jeff Dynamite and Leon Michels. ORDER CUT OFF DATE FOR THIS ITEM: DEC 28th Format: CD Cat. No: TS 017 Label: Truth & Soul Records Available: JANUARY 18th CD Truth & Soul 99 North 10th Street, Suite 102, Brooklyn, NY 11211 • www.truthandsoulrecords.com.
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