“It Is Like My Music Was Waiting For This Generation” says disco funk relic Steve Monite as he tells the story of his oddball musical career and the massive reemergence of his timeless boogie classics.
“It Is Like My Music Was Waiting For This Generation” says disco funk relic Steve Monite as he tells the story of his oddball musical career and the massive reemergence of his timeless boogie classics.
Musicians have always travelled. Willy N’for had all the necessary ingredients to want to travel, a troubled past, a complicated life, dexterity with the bass guitar, and an appetite for travelling on the interstellar grooves of funk, with dreams of jamming with giants.
Revolution (Live Disco Show In New York City) is the fourth and final BBE reissue of Sidiku Buari’s unique and sought-after body of African disco albums. Revolution’s side 1 is (possibly!) live throughout, from a 1979 show at the (possibly […]
Berlin label give a second life to rare Somalian funk and disco tracks on ‘Mogadisco – Dancing Mogadishu (Somalia 1972-1991)’ Label creator Samy Ben Redjeb travelled to the infamous capital city of Somalia in November of […]
British record label Vive la Musique is republishing a cult afro-disco dancefloor killer by Congolese artist Sammy Massamba. Five months after the release of Propriété privée on Secousse record label, Congolese producer Sammy Massamba gets another repress. Now, it is a two-track EP […]
As a part of their reedition series of the Tabansi music label, BBE gives a second life to Zack & Geebah’s For the Love of Money. Former members of the band Liberia Dreams, Zack Roberts and Geebah Swaray decided […]
Originally released in 1982 on ephemeral label Lyncell, the South-African band’s third and last album is finally republished by BBE. Kabasa was founded in Soweto by singer and bass player Tata “TNT” Sibeko as well as […]
Led by Bruno “Patchworks” Hovart, Voilaaa’s new release features Pat Kalla, Ramatou Traore and Ayuune Sule. After the widely acclaimed On te l’avait dit and Des Promesses, Voilaaa comes back with a new EP channelling the same recipe : a blend of […]