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Vikings Martinique - Nidia

Hi everyone, hope your week was good !

To finish it, here comes "Nidia", an amazing psychedelic cadence taken from an obscure record by "Les Vikings Martinique".

Les Vikings Martinique - Nidia

Truly yours,

Armand.

New Selection : Nigerian Afrodeapness (feat. SJOB, Ikengas, Etubom Rex Williams..)

Hi dear readers !

As promise last week, here comes the new selection I've prepared for your little ears !

A selection of 6 afrobeat tracks taken from 6 veeery hard to find Nigerian records, especially in this condition !

I know that for many people "Afrobeat" word is mainly connected with the work of Fela Kuti, so I wanted to make you discover other, and deeper artists - Hope you'll enjoy this mix !

Armand de Preseau - Nigerian Afrodeapness

 

You can download the selection here (as always, right clic and "Save as")

See you soon, and don't hesitate to leave some comments if you liked the selection !

Sincerely yours,

Armand

Francis Bebey - Divorce Pygmee

Hi everyone !

It's been a loooong time (too long !) without articles ! 2 months !!! Many reasons to that : too much work, I was ill also, I travelled, cleaned my records, but now I'm back !!

And because my selections take me a lot of time to do (find the records, make a coverfor the selection, restore and mix the records..) I decided to change the form of this blog : I will put more single songs now and, one time per month (or more, who knows !) I will put selection of around 6 records to download - This way, you will have more songs to discover.

So let's begin with Francis Bebey, one of my favourite Cameroonese musicans.

Francis Bebey was born in Douala in 1929 and died in Paris in 2001. He was one of the first African musician to use Drum machines and synths to produce electronic music (remember William Onyeabor ? Francis Bebey is better, for me !)

The song I present here, Divorce Pygmee, is taken from his well-known record (and harder LP to find) "La Condition Masculine", out on the "Ozileka" label, Francis Bebey's own label - Enjoy !

Francis Bebey - La Condition Masculine

 

I will be back soon, for your ears only.

Sincerely yours,

Armand

New Selection : Funk'O'Lypso - A Journey Across The Funky Caribbean Islands (feat Frankie Zhivago, Shadow and others..)

Hi dear readers !

It's been a long time without any selections - so don't wait no longer, let's travel this time to the Caribbean Islands for a 6 records flight, hope you'll enjoy this mixture of island funk, Kaiso Disco and Bahamian soul tracks !

Armand de Preseau - Funk ' O ' Lypso

 

You can download the selection here (as usual, right clic on the link, "save as")

Tracklist :

1 - The Crashers - Flight to Jamaïca

2 - Wabiné - Sail On

3 - Frankie Zhivago - All Around The World

4 - Disco Warriors - Cumbaya Disco

5 - Shadow - De Hardis

6 - Ed Watson and The Brass Circle - Let's Get It On

 

All the best, sincerely yours and see you soon.

Armand

New Selection : Nigerian Disco Grooves - My Definition of The Nigerian Disco Inferno (blo, ofege, ipa..)

Hi Everyone !!

Today, we come back to Nigeria, with a Disco Oriented Selection of 6 tracks. Short but good, I truly hope you'll enjoy this 23rd selection (yes, this is the 23rd !!).

Armand de Préseau - Nigerian Disco Grooves

You can download the selection here (as usual, right clic on the link, "save as")

Take care, don't hesitate to leave a comment if you liked this selection !! See you soon for another selection !!

Sincerely yours,

Armand

New Selection : Anadolu Mysteries - A Trip into the Psychedelic Turkish Musical scene of the 70's

Hi Everyone !

It's been a long, too long time without selections !

Sincerely sorry for that, im working a lot at the moment on something I can't talk.. I was also digging, cleaning and organizing my records, and, also, very busy with my job (that is faaar away with records !)

So today we travel to the beautiful country of Anatolia (Anadolu) - also known as Turkey today - with a selection of 20 tracks taken from several 7 inches from my collection. 

Hope you'll enjoy this trip into the Turkish Psychedelic scene of the 70's through those Rock, Jazz, Disco and Groovy Fuzzy tracks..

Armand de Preseau - Anadolu Mysteries

You can download this selection here (as usual, right clic, "save as")

See you soon for a next selection,

Armand