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The best albums of the year 2020
List / Guide
The best albums of the year 2020

2021 is fast approaching and it presents the opportunity for PAM to look back on the best albums of the last year. A difficult year is drawing to a close, one in which the world […]

Looking back at Youssou N’Dour’s classic, Immigrés
Review
Looking back at Youssou N'Dour’s classic, Immigrés

Youssou’s heartwarming classic released in 1984 is a 34 minute love letter to his Senagalese roots from his new home in Paris.

Ngoma: the hope of Cameroonian rap
Profiles
Ngoma: the hope of Cameroonian rap

Having been around since 2014, this Cameroonian rapper is hardly a novice. After numerous great singles, he is finally releasing his first EP entitled “Cam No Go”.

Zazou Bikaye’s second album to be reissued with unreleased songs
News
Zazou Bikaye's second album to be reissued with unreleased songs

Following the acclaimed 2017 vinyl reissue of the Noir et Blanc album, Crammed Discs announces a special edition of the experimental electronic duo Zazou Bikaye’s second record, Mr. Manager. Resulting from a torrid encounter between Congolese singer Bony […]

Lee Scratch Perry, Arkology
Review
Lee Scratch Perry, Arkology

PAM is here to help you rediscover some unmissable records. Today, the treasure chest that is Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry’s Arkology (Island / Universal)

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Lee Scratch Perry: Rainford, the New Testament of Dali dub
Article
Lee Scratch Perry: Rainford, the New Testament of Dali dub

Photos credit: Daniel Oduntan / permission of the artist Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry has released Rainford with Adrian Sherwood, boss of the legendary English label On-U-Sound. At 83, the Jamaican wizard is finally – without folklore […]

9 albums you need to hear this week
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9 albums you need to hear this week

In this week’s selection: the thrilling return of FKA Twigs, debut album from Nigerian rapper Ycee, dark and noisy experimentations by Moor Mother and many more to hear this week. Magdalene FKA Twigs FKA twigs aka […]

Be With Records reissues masterpiece album The Now Generation: Percussive Underscores
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Be With Records reissues masterpiece album The Now Generation: Percussive Underscores

Peter Luedemann and Pit Troja 1983’s outstanding album reissued by Be With Records.  This is the one. An absolutely outstanding record from 1983 and definitely one of the hardest to find on the collectable German library […]