Premiere: Majid Bekkas – Mrhaba (Cervo Edit)
The Banana Hill party becomes a label with two North African edits.
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Monday Morning Mixtape 164
1971 dreamy avant-garde vocal jazz & 1983 spacey balaeric vibes from Italy.
Infusions: Shibaura Sound System (芝浦) mixes the leftfield jazz groove of Japan
A London-Paris collective with a reverence for all forms of Japanese music.
Monday Morning Mixtape 163
1981 sweet pollenated Jamaica reggae & 1964 Brazilian bossa nova jazz.
Premiere: Alessandro Alessandroni – Afro Discoteca
Unreleased library music from an 70’s icon in Italian film soundtrack composition.
Monday Morning Mixtape 162
1979 Nigerian sunshine afrobeat via 1973 Swedish flavourful gospel jazz.
Diggers Directory: Temi Kogbe
One of the foremost Nigerian collectors of afrobeat, highlife and disco.
Premiere: SJOB Movement – Friendship Train
1977 Nigerian afrobeat with a synthesized twist, reissued on Cultures of Soul.
Monday Morning Mixtape 161
Swedish seductive soul & 1973 Brazilian hill-top funk.
Monday Morning Mixtape 160
Taiwanese bamboo forest field recording & Ghanaian female-choir driven gospel.