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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- 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 groove that retrofitted the relentless four-on-the- floor bass beat of disco to a more laidback, upbeat-and-downbeat soul shuffle, mixing in -, 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 .”

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. A2. “3030” A3. “The Fantabulous Rap Extravaganza” feat. A4. “Things You Can Do”

B1. “Positive Contact” B2. “St. Catherine St.” feat. , Mr. Lif, P. Wingerter, , Verna Brown B3. “Virus” B4. “Upgrade (A Brymar College Course)” B5. “New Coke” feat. Mark Ramos-Nishita

C1. “Mastermind” C2. “National Movie Review” feat. Brad Roberts C3. “Madness” C4. “Meet Cleofis Randolph the Patriarch” feat. MC Paul Barman C5. “Time Keeps On Slipping” feat. Damon Albarn C6. “The News (A Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Microsoft Inc.)” feat. Hafdis Huld

D1. “Turbulence” () Remixed by Mark Bell D2. “The Fantabulous Rap Extravaganza Part II” feat. Prince Paul D3. “Battlesong” D4. “Love Story” D5. “Memory Loss” feat. D6. “The Assmann 640 Speaks”

The super group is composed of producer , rapper Del tha Funkee Homosapien and DJ and sometimes features guest artists who also take on varying futuristic pseudonyms. Originally released in 2000 on the now-defunct 75ARK , this Hip Hop concept album was released the same year as the ’ first 12” and is on a similar plane. Following the release of Deltron 3030, all three members participated in the Gorillaz’ self-titled debut album.

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 , 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.

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Format: 2xLP Cat. No: DEL 75033 Label: Deltron Partners LP Available: FEBRUARY 1st LOW BUDGET HIGH-FI MUSIC

PART 11 of 12: ’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 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, , – are represented here with exclusive tracks. 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, , beat tapes, and jazz, as well as mixtapes of funk, soul, Brazilian, psych, jazz and other undefined forms of music from the '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. Metal Snake Rider with Richard Eigner B2. Loins

Now-Again presents the leftside-genius beatsmith’s vocal stylings

If Dimlite’s recent Prismic Tops EP served as a stunning wills between the dreamer and the cynic, the traveller and the reintroduction to one of ’s most underrated talents, trapped. Just check “Loins”, in which long-time collaborator then My Human Wears Acedia Shreds is a warning to listeners and Misel Quitno’s drums thump out a brutish ode to Can while peers alike: keep up or be left behind. This quartet of songs finds the Dimlite’s celebratory harmonies are taunted by the anxious Swiss producer creating wide-eyed and progressive music that squall that lurks beneath. Though ask its creator and he’ll tell you synthesises free jazz, prog- and kraut-rock, and much more. 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 , 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. Just check “Metal Snake Rider”, an expansive opus packed into just over KEY SELLING POINTS: three minutes of non-stop invention. • Limited Edition 10” paste-on sleeve • Publicity by Score Press At times it’s even pretty, though Dimlite seems uneasy about the • Marketed and promoted by Stones Throw beauty he creates, never allowing anything too perfect to take shape before clipping its wings or trampling it back into the dirt. It’s this • Exclusive artwork by Dimlite tension in his music that makes it so captivating: a constant tussle of

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Format: 10” Cat. No: NA 5075 Label: Now-Again Available: FEB. 1st 10

Now-Again Records 2658 Griffith Park Blvd, #504, , CA, 90039 • www.nowagainrecords.com 1. Answer Me Softly Pt. I 2. Answer Me Softly Pt. II 3. Nightbird 4. Whitesands Pt. I 5. Whitesands Pt. II 6. Django’s Soul 7. Sweetback 8. No Name Bar 9. Pep’s 10. Recording 82 11. Odyssey Revised 12. Hand Cramp 13. 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 . 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