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Music for the Masses: African Soul Power – The Disco Era #4 (Audio)
In this series, we travel back to a time when the global economy was in crisis and people everywhere were facing inflation, unemployment, and collapse of the dreams brought by advances of the previous decade. But wait… We're talking, of course, about the 1970s to mid-'80s – when the musical melting pot boiled over and Disco took over dance clubs around the world – offering a sense of freedom and escape through fantasy, fashion, sex, drugs and other excess. Today we journey to the African continent to imagine ourselves on the dance floors of Cameroon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia and South Africa.
"Music for the Masses" invites you on an excursion of sound and rhythm. Discover the music of established and emerging artists, both signed and unsigned, on the international music scene. For the avid globe-hopper and armchair traveler alike. You might want to pack a map and a sandwich. Catskill resident "DJ Neva" is an ethnomusicologist, producer, and long-time cultural activist, specializing in music from the entire African continent, as well as the Caribbean and Latin America, the Maghreb and Middle East, and the Roma (Gypsy) diaspora. Formerly the producer of "Continental Drift" on WBAI-FM and New York International on Haitian community station Radio Soleil in NYC. The show is broadcast live from Catskill, NY.
Playlist:
- Only People Can Save the World / The Whatnauts
- The Begining - Ishan / Fred Fisher Atalobhor & His Ogiza Dance Band
- Ashiko / Orlando Julius
- African Cosmos / Supafly Nickels
- Never Had A Love Like This Before / Tavares
- Tilman Baa Lagu Socdaa (Follow the Rules) / 4 Mars
- Hypocrisy / Blo
- Your Love / Jo Bisso
- Get Down / Isaac & The Sakie Special Band
- American Lady / Jo Tongo
- Love, Love, Love / Basa Basa
- Kilowi-Kilowi / Mbamina
- Too Young / Jide Obe
- I Wanna Be Myself / Don Laka
- The Mystery With Me / Jo Bisso
- Nimele Bolo / Charly Kingson
- Demonde / Deke Tom Dollard
- Keep On Dancing / Kiki Gyan
- I Got The... / Labi Siffre
- Funky Disco Music / Eko
- Take It / The Movers