Various Artists - Africa 100

Posted By : hlloyge | Date : 27 Jan 2011 13:35:36 | Comments : 0 |

Various Artists - Africa 100: The Indestructible Beat (2005)
afrobeat | mp3@192 kbit | 777 MB
megaupload | no covers

Afrobeat is a sound and a movement, music and a state of mind. It's the joyous awakening of a continent from a colonial nightmare and the crushing realization that the nightmare isn't over yet, anguish and happiness whipped together with traditional drums, cheap guitars, and even cheaper amps.

Afrobeat is a term with no solid definition, like punk, rock, or soul, although it may be all three of those things. No one knows who first used the word, but as far as history is concerned, it belongs to Fela Anikulapo Kuti, the late Nigerian giant through whom any understanding of the sound of 1970s Africa must pass. In the most limited sense, you could say that Afrobeat is the cinematic, polyrhythmic, symphonic funk sound that Fela developed with superhuman drummer Tony Allen, but it's much more than that.

Personal note: I've downloaded this off torrent; it has only 99 songs, not 100 :) and they all have some sort of errors, mostly wrong reported length (which won't affect playability). I've corrected most of them, but one song, 607 - Johnson Mkhalali - Joyce No. 2.mp3 can't be repaired. It plays few seconds at beginning, and then jumps to the end. I've left it for possibility someone correct it somehow. Properly tagged.

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