{"id":41650,"date":"2019-06-19T16:23:58","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T14:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/guts-releases-rare-song-from-cameroonian-artist-eko-roosevelt-louis-in-new-compilation\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:35:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:35:06","slug":"guts-releases-rare-song-from-cameroonian-artist-eko-roosevelt-louis-in-new-compilation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/guts-releases-rare-song-from-cameroonian-artist-eko-roosevelt-louis-in-new-compilation\/","title":{"rendered":"Guts releases rare song from Cameroonian artist Eko Roosevelt Louis in new compilation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 class=\"pam-featured-content\" ><iframe  class=\"pam-featured-content\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qghXv3s2_Ig\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/h5>\n<h5>With\u00a0&#8220;Tondoho Mba&#8221;, <span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/guts\/\">Guts<\/a><\/span> unveils one of the best kept secrets of his DJ sets, first excerpt from\u00a0<em>Straight From the Decks<\/em>.<\/h5>\n<p>&#8220;Before I became interested in production or beatmaking, or even directing other musical artists, turntables were my first true love. Hours spent practising, scratching and cutting my first two records together,&#8221; said Guts to his long-time lable, <span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/heavenly-sweetness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Heavenly Sweetness<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>He had already expressed his love for digging musical gems from around the world in his <em>Beach Diggin&#8217;<\/em> compilation series, showing his selector skills. Obviously, his solar tastes were also the main focus of his latest album,\u00a0<em>Philantropiques.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>With<em>\u00a0Straight From the Decks\u00a0(Guts Finest Selection from His Famous DJ Sets)<\/em>, the artist gives us a glimpse of his DJ selection, that has been setting dancefloors on fire for the past few years.<\/p>\n<p>A playlist featuring lots of hidden trasures, just like the first excerpt we are premiering\u00a0 &#8220;Tondoho Mba&#8221;\u00a0by Cameroonian artist\u00a0Eko Roosevelt Louis.\u00a0Before this, the song had only been released on Manu Dibango&#8217;s label, Afrovision,\u00a0on the <em>Fleurs musicales du Cameroun\u00a0<\/em>compilation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In an ideal world, Eko would have been one of the guests of my <em>Philanthropiques<\/em> LP. Unfortunately, distance and some other issues prevented that collaboration. I do still remain an absolute fan of the this guy though, who for me, really understands everything in the soul, funk and disco sound. I have his entire discography: all his albums, 7 inches and 12s. All bar none. So that\u2019s what kind of consoled me, upon discovering this exclusive track recorded for the <em>Musical Flowers of Cameroon<\/em> compilation. At least I managed to get him on my compilation, even if couldn\u2019t have him on my album.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read <span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/guts-inner-journey-of-a-modest-and-funky-beat-digger\/\">our interview<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>about Guts&#8217; personal story with each of his last album&#8217;s song.<\/p>\n<p><em>Straight From the Decks\u00a0(Guts Finest Selection from His Famous DJ Sets)<\/em>,\u00a0out on July 5th on Heavenly Sweetness\/Pura Vida Sounds.\u00a0Order it<span style=\"color: #333333;\">\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/idol.lnk.to\/Straight_From_The_Decks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5>Read Next:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/antibalas-interview-part-1\/\">Antibalas, 20 years of afrobeat and kung-fu spirit (1\/2)<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With\u00a0&#8220;Tondoho Mba&#8221;, Guts unveils one of the best kept secrets of his DJ sets, first excerpt from\u00a0Straight From the Decks. &#8220;Before I became interested in production or beatmaking, or even directing other musical artists, turntables [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":26481,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[],"location":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41650"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=41650"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=41650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}