At 3:41 AM -0500 2/9/01, Adam Cohen wrote:
>on 2/8/01 8:21 PM, Leslie N. Shill at icehouse@redshift.com wrote:
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>> For those of you who love African grooves, the second AfricaFunk has some
>> excellent tracks and The Shrine Afrobeat on Ocho also has some totally funky
>> and danceable stuff on it!
>
>I don't know about you, but I was let down by Afria Funk volume II.. That
>Buari track, Ku Ka Maria? Alright, it's got one nice break, but the next
>track on the album from where that song was taken is an absolute funk
>monster. Why they chose not to include said track, I have no clue.. To me
>it just cheapens the compilation as a whole. I liked Volume I more.
Agreed, _AFI_ was a tough act to follow. But _Club Africa 2_ really
blew me away, esp. when the first volume was only a-ight. Tough
competition, though--
If anyone sees that West African Cosmos album floating around for
under $100, let me know, eh?
>
>Speaking of Afro-funk comps, anyone pick up Bilongo? I've got Ouelele and
>Racubah, but didn't pick up this latest Comet release.. Any comments?
Uh-- guess I should give it another chance, but first couple of
listens slotted it as pretty much the weakest of everything we're
discussing here. Lots of straighter-African sounding stuff, &
obversely, lots of weak neo-funk stuff betraying litte African
influence, rather than kicking hard & strong straight down the middle
of the afro-funk divide.
Speaking of which, here's a great Japanese site for afrobeathedz:
http://www3.big.or.jp/~akim/free/free.htm
If you don't read Japanese, be sure to make sure you hit all the
internal links (use Page Info if ya need it), as there's *lots* of
cool stuff here, album covers, RAs, etc-- be sure to hit the Fela
page & BOTH "Other Afro Funk" pages--
--Jason Witherspoon ICQ #62837760
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