{"id":5075,"date":"2012-09-06T11:28:46","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T11:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/?p=5075"},"modified":"2020-03-14T09:08:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T09:08:51","slug":"dj-gioumanne-afro-cosmic-disco-funk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/dj-gioumanne-afro-cosmic-disco-funk\/","title":{"rendered":"Dj Gioumanne presents Afro Cosmic Disco Funk"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dj Gioumanne is back. The enigmatic dj behind last year’s ‘Afro Cosmic Club’ (listen here<\/a>), a critically acclaimed mix compiling unheard African and Euro-Afro sounds of the early 1980s inspired by Italian Cosmic Disco deejays of the era, had forever been promising an update to his masterpiece. We finally got him to deliver a new mix live on air in the monthly African hip hop radio <\/a>show at Red Light Radio.<\/p>\n

‘Afro Cosmic Disco Funk’ has a different focus from its predecessor. While ‘Afro Cosmic Club’ balances between the analog and digital sounds of the early 80s, its follow-up sounds more raw with 70s afro disco, island funk and afrobeat obscurities, loosely mixed together and played out in their entirety. About one third of the tunes presented here are from the (African) diaspora worldwide, including Surinam, the former Dutch colony in South America, Guyana, Barbados and Haiti, but there’s plenty of bloodlines connecting the cuts on this mix.<\/p>\n

Ungoogleable crates<\/strong>
\nEverything in these crates comes from original vinyl in Gioumanne’s collection (ripped to play in Serato) and most of the tracks are rarities, there are even six ‘ungoogleable’ records like Sunbust’s ‘Vijana’ (one of only a handful of psych-funk tracks ever recorded in Tanzania), two jams from the semi-acoustic second album of Congolese-Beninese outfit Les Ya Toupas du Zaire, a disco tune by the mysterious Hammatan, a track from the only album by the Godfathers (protegees of Osibisa) and a Haitian disco-kompa groover.<\/p>\n

There’s a little bit of proto rap from Nigeria on the Super Doeths song (1985), the best song title ever (and sleeve) in ‘Chics & Chicken’ by Esbee Family, crazy kaseko synths on ‘Sik joe skien’, Congolese jerk recorded in Germany by Jam Kishy, and loads of crackle on the Afrofunk LP (which was reissued earlier this year, buy a copy!)<\/p>\n

Dedicated to the art of record digging and sampling in hip hop, here’s ‘Afro Cosmic Disco Funk’.<\/p>\n

Stream<\/strong> the mix below.
\nDownload<\/strong> (128 kb\/s mp3) using this direct link<\/a> (right-click and ‘save as…’).
\nTrack list<\/strong> see towards the bottom of this page<\/p>\n