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D'Afro Disco: Garri​-​Mix

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Hashish 05:07
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Sutukung 06:16
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Cape Town 06:33
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Solid Roots 06:11
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Alhambra 02:02
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Agolele 06:24
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However many synths and samplers are used to make their music of choice, clubbers prize authenticity, and nowhere is this quest for purity of feeling more evident than in the recent spate of Afrofunk revivalism. Given Hugh Masekela and Fela Kuti’s place on the playlists of pioneering DJs such as Larry Levan and Francois Kervorkian, it’s hardly a surprise to hear records like Master’s at Work’s “MAW Expensive” (a cover of Fela’s “Expensive Shit”) and Six Degrees’ Frikyiwa compilations, which include popular African tunes remixed by clubland luminaries. For what could be more authentic than masses of musicians from the motherland collectively digging the deepest groove they can?

At first, D’Afro Disco, a mix -CD featuring tracks from a pair of recent EPs of the same name, might look like mere pseudoexotica for beat heads. But that’s not what it feels like. Put together by DJ Sasha Crnobrnja, the main man behind Brooklyn dance indie Codek, D’Afro’s d’Africanisms never feel d’rivative. Where most clubbers seem to think African music begins and ends with Fela (whose funk infused Afrobeat was, in truth, something of an anomaly even in Nigeria), these producers are all over the map, injecting styles from traditional West African music and Nigerian highlife, as well as the expected Kuti-isms. It’s also no doubt helpful that Crnobrnja is familiar with the group dynamics crucial to the gestalt of the music he adapts here: As host of the weekly Organic Grooves party, he leads an improvisational group of live musicians (including guitarist Zeb, who collaborates with Cosmic Rocker on a pair of tracks).

Happily, you needn’t know much history to dig into the rock-hard bass and fuzz guitar driving Uzo’s “2000 Elephants (Cosmic Rocker Remix),” Mahamadou Salieu Suso’s blurred vocals running through Organic Grooves’ “Sutukung (Trading Crossroads Mix)” or the highlife guitars of Yam Yam’s “Introspective Party People.” Introspective D’Afro isn’t, though; instead, it sounds like one of the year’s most buoyant dance albums.
-Michaelangelo Matos, TIMEOUT Magazine, April 2002

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released November 22, 2003

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Codek Records was Co-founded by Sasa Crnobrnja & Alex Gloor in 1996 in New York City, which marks it's 25th anniversary in 2021.

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