Guy One
Everything You Do, You Do For Yourself

Brazilian soul funk nuggets from '71. Incl. killer funky 'Faz Tanto Tempo'. 180g vinyl.Renata Lu ‎– "Renata Lu" by MAD ABOUT RECORDS

Kalita unveil the first ever compilation focussing on ‘Burger Highlife’, a crossover of West African melodies with synthesisers, disco and boogie that took over Ghanaian airwaves during the 1980’s and beyond. Highlighting key recordings from genre-defining artists including Thomas Frempong and George Darko, as well as more obscure sought-after tracks by elusive bands such as Aban and Uncle Joe’s Afri-Beat. Spread over a double-LP housed in a gatefold sleeve. Accompanied by a 16-page booklet featuring extensive interview-based liner notes on each artist and never-before-seen archival photos.The 1970s had witnessed an increased Western airtime and physical presence in Ghana introducing funk, soul and disco sounds to the region. By the turn of the decade the country was also enduring economic turmoil, with rising poverty, military dictatorships and long periods of enforced curfews (amongst other factors) making it impossible for artists to survive.As a result, many Ghanaian artists with a broader outlook began to pursue their careers in the West, moving to both Europe and America in search of stardom. It was here that Ghanaian musicians developed a digitised version of highlife music which fully embraced Western contemporary music styles and newly introduced technology such as the DX7 synthesiser and various drum machines.

Black Vinyl Edition.Somewhere Between: Mutant Pop, Electronic Minimalism & Shadow Sounds of Japan 1980–1988 hovers between two distinct poles within Light In The Attic’s acclaimed Japan Archival Series - Kankyō Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980–1990 and Pacific Breeze: Japanese City Pop, AOR & Boogie 1976–1986. All three albums showcase recordings produced during Japan’s soaring bubble economy of the 1980s, an era in which aesthetic visions and consumerism merged. Music echoed the nation’s prosperity and with financial abundance came the luxury to dream.Expertly curated by Yosuke Kitazawa and Mark “Frosty” McNeill (dublab), Somewhere Between is a collection of music, much of it released for the first time outside Japan, that is bound more by energetic vibration than shared history, genre or scene. They are the sounds of transition and searching—a celebration of the freedom found in floating.Note: The track “Days Man” by Yoshio Ojima is only available on the LP and Cassette versions.

Vol. 1 in brilliant eclectic Mr Bongo comp series. Packed full of rarities across Brazilian, Afro, Jazz, Funk & Disco. Essential!

Be With reissue of in-demand koto-funk library LP, originally released in 1983 on revered German library institution Selected Sound.

Beautiful deep & immersive folk, jazz, ambient LP on International Anthem. Highly recommended.