{"id":41656,"date":"2019-06-17T15:55:28","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T13:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/soundway-reissues-one-of-the-first-hiplife-songs-dancefloor-killer-we-can-move\/"},"modified":"2021-10-26T17:11:02","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T15:11:02","slug":"soundway-reissues-one-of-the-first-hiplife-songs-dancefloor-killer-we-can-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/soundway-reissues-one-of-the-first-hiplife-songs-dancefloor-killer-we-can-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Soundway reissues one of the first hiplife songs, dancefloor killer ‘We Can Move’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Soundway Records brings back to life with a high quality\u00a0reissue, the\u00a0dancefloor killer\u00a0‘We Can Move’.<\/h4>\n

London-based independent label Soundway Records<\/a> reissu<\/span>es Free Youth\u2019s long sought-after 1985 single \u201cWe Can Move\u201d,\u00a0the trio\u2019s only release originally pressed on 7″ vinyl.<\/p>\n

Around the early 80s the three members – brothers Terry \u201cSir Robot\u201d Bright and Abednego \u201cKing Abed\u201d Ayim Bright, and their friend Lenny \u201cNii Addy\u201d Dimple – began regularly dancing and singing at clubs and parties in Accra, with other dancers occasionally joining them on stage \u2013 including Reggie Rockstone, credited with being one of the pioneers of the hip-life genre in the mid 90s.<\/p>\n

But the roots of Ghanian hip-hop can be traced back nearly 10 years earlier with Free Youth\u2019s single, as well as with highlife stars such as Gyedu-Blay Ambolley and K. K. Kabobo experimenting with semi-rap lyrics.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n