Is there anything as good as this in the place where world music meets trance / house / ambient ? I sincerely doubt it but any suggestions ? I do still have a soft spot for Mombassa's "Cry Freedom" which ticks quite a few boxes but is still not Yeke Yeke.
― Hedgerows, Monday, 14 January 2008 15:49 (sixteen years ago) link
That Selif Keita remix album should do the trick, I would think. Also those Tony Allen remixes by R&S.
― Alex in SF, Monday, 14 January 2008 15:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Lifeforce 'Kimana Tana' - mid 90s tribal meets funky house. HUGE uplifting vocals but maybe too handbaggy for your needs.
― blueski, Monday, 14 January 2008 16:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Thank you thank you. Anyone heard the Ashley Beedle mix of Amadou & Mariam ? I love some of his stuff - the funkier the better - but some of it does "plod" a bit. And I would like my kitchen disco to be as euphoric as can be.
― Hedgerows, Monday, 14 January 2008 16:06 (sixteen years ago) link
also mid 90s, that Van Helden remix of Deep Forest's 'Marta's Song'
― blueski, Monday, 14 January 2008 16:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Leftfield - Afro-Left
― smn, Monday, 14 January 2008 16:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Blueski - good point. I have that somewhere. I seem to recall it was from his "Professional Widow" period. Leftfield also a good call.
― Hedgerows, Monday, 14 January 2008 16:27 (sixteen years ago) link
RIP. If we were in normal times then Yeke Yeke or one of its remixes would be being played out at every club in Europe this weekend. Got a bit of a twinge thinking about the musicians who will die in lockdown and never get to have that moment of mass tribute.
― Matt DC, Friday, 22 May 2020 18:02 (three years ago) link
OTM Matt. RIP Mory
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Saturday, 23 May 2020 16:39 (three years ago) link