Not a huge world music fan, but been hearing a few recent CDs of stuff from labels like World Circuit, Realworld etc, and find the odd funky, afrobeaty cut knocking around - examples are things like Hukwe Zawose & Michael Brook's The Bedbugs Bite or Oumou Sangare's Yala: is anyone playing stuff like this out, and if so, what are the recommendations?
The great 70s stuff (Oneness of Juju, Letta Mbulu, Fela Kuti, Tony Allen, Orchestra Baobab etc) goes without saying, but are there good dancefloor cuts in the later (80s and after) catalogues? The World music image gets a bit car-ad and coffee table these days, but there's gotta be some killers out there - it's the rest of the world we're on about here!
The great 70s stuff (Oneness of Juju, Letta Mbulu, Fela Kuti, Tony Allen, Orchestra Baobab etc) goes without saying, but are there good dancefloor cuts in the later (80s and after) catalogues? The World music image gets a bit car-ad and coffee table these days, but there's gotta be some killers out there - it's the rest of the world we're on about here!
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