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Pop Makossa - The Invasive Dance Beat Of Cameroon 1976-1984
Analog Africa (AALP 083)
Release date: Jun 16, 2017, Germany, Austria, & Switzerland
Just when you think that the well of obscure music from around the world has run dry, Analog Africa returns to put the record straight. Pop-Makossa shines a light on a glorious but largely overlooked period in the story of Cameroonian makossa, when local musicians began to replace funk and highlife influences with the rubbery bass of classic disco and the sparkling synth flourishes and drum machines of electrofunk. The resultant compilation, which apparently took eight years to produce, is packed full of brilliant cuts, from the heavily-electronic jauntiness of Pasteur Lappe’s “Sanaga Calypso” and horn-totin’ Highlife-disco of Emmaniel Kahe and Jeanette Kemogne’s “Ye Medjuie”, to the dense, organ-laden wig out that is Clement Djimogne’s “Africa”.
A1
Dream Stars - Pop Makossa Invasion
5:57
A2
Mystic Djim & The Spirits - Yaoundé Girls
5:57
A3
Bill Loko - Nen Lambo
6:24
B1
Bernard Ntone - Mussoliki
4:18
B2
Pasteur Lappé - Sanaga Calypso
3:47
B3
Eko Roosevelt Louis - M'ongele M'am
4:03
B4
Olinga Gaston - Ngon Engap
4:22
C1
Emmanuel Kahe - Ye Medjuie
4:27
C2
Nkodo Sitony - Mininga Meyong Mese
7:10
C3
Pasteur Lappé - The Sekele Movement
6:27
D1
Pat' Ndoye - More Love
8:33
D2
Clément Djimogne - Africa
7:20