Old School Afropop

All their youtubes! 71 tracks, check 'em out:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvZGvLobsRCNob9S6EIUxRSahowjF2z1U

vol 1 is great!

Don't think this was in that playlist. Performance footage of "Se Ba Ho". Careful watching, danger of funk overload.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0c34HLss-w

thanks very much for the curation Nabozo, Granny and breastcrawl; i've got this all pulled and am digging in!

John Nzenze, the veteran Kenyan musician who is being buried on Saturday, was belting out popular songs before the country gained independence more than 50 years ago.

The singer, guitarist and dancer was among the last of the pioneer artistes who popularised the Kenyan Twist genre of music, and was part of a band that produced East Africa's finest funk in the 1960s and early 1970s.

"When you become a celebrity, you become a bit arrogant, and in my arrogance I built my own band, the Air Fiesta Matata Band," he said in an interview in Swahili in January.

Good---some ads along the way for sure, keep on scrollin
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-52978770

Revive!

Two from Charlotte Adigéry’s Studio Brussel radio show, as championed by dog latin:

1979, from Nigeria, and also featured on the Nigeria 70: Funky Lagos compilation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ukofie-kj7U
Lijadu Sisters • Orere Eljigbo

They have quite the backstory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lijadu_Sisters

2008, from South Africa (Limpopo) – from one of the original Bolobedu Masters, long before KG:
(2010) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zcrYeyO1vA
DJ Call Me • Marry Me

Call Me updated this (disputed) classic for his recent Maxaka album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYSgqb-hY7c
DJ Call Me ft. Liza Miro, Double Trouble & Mr Brown • Marry Me

sorry, the correct title of the Lijadu Sisters' song is "Orere Elejigbo"

...and yes, “Marry Me” is from (at least) 2008, the video is a 2010 YouTube upload.

lijadu sisters are fucking awesome and i had a standard "will see them at any price" alert going after their nyc appearance. never to be sadly.

I just read via google that one of the Lijadu Sisters died in 2019. But yeah would have been great to see them

It was I who championed it, not DL, though no doubt he'll be on board ;)

o, inderdaad! how did that happen? no idea why I mixed the two of you up. askies, I’m sorry.
(and thanx for the heads up of course!)

A DL/LBI abbreviation mix-up, perchance? Geen probleem natuurlijk :)

I'm the noobest of noobs when it comes to Afropop but her playlist is littered with it, mixed-in with choice cuts from other genres and an impeccable taste, so consider me on board. Here to learn!

completely addicted to this song at the moment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iuK3s8CCZo

ntombi ndaba - in my mind (south africa, 1991)

Wow I haven't heard that song in ages, thanks for posting! I had a copy of Why Me once upon a time but lost it somewhere along the line in life. The production on all of her albums is just top notch.

A great one by Yondo Sister (DR Congo), in 1993:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_UCP7eJFXk
Yondo Sister - "Wapi Yo"

On the album Deviation Sexy Soukouss, apparently (track written by Ballou Canta). Most of her other stuff is really good as well, from having a quick listen around...

People ITT should check out this excellent mix of old school Kwaito by Ru Robinson

https://m.soundcloud.com/rurobinson/old-school-south-african-kwaito-mix-vol-2

great revive! “Wapiyo” is maximum joy and
a reminder that I would be doing myself an enormous favour by checking out more soukous. those high-pitched synthy organ splashes and dashes are such a great bonus to all the more expected sonic pleasures.

Great thread!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9A7vPONmWs

Wild Fire - Living On A String

(I think it would specifically be classified as 'afro funk'? 'Afro disco' doesn't seem quite right but maybe I'm the one that's not quite right.)

this comp is an instant party, strongly recommended: https://bbemusic.bandcamp.com/album/yebo-rare-mzansi-party-beats-from-apartheids-dying-years-compiled-by-john-armstrong

i recently learned that this old song that was huge in SA back in the day was actually by a Canadian DJ, Nick Holder, so it doesn't quite fit this thread but is superb nonetheless...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpGZt9MJaMA