Afro / Islands / Reggae

 
Style: early Afro Funk

Format: LP
Label: Boccaccio

Year: 1970?

Condition: NM/VG+

Wild and psychedelic Afro Funk only available as this stupid rare german only release. Rex Gyamfi's first apperance on record!

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Style: DUB!

Format: LP
Label: Heartbeat

Year: 1984

Condition: VG+/NM (still in shrink)

Seminal DUB! Features the Roots Radics and Sly & Robbie. Peter Chemist mixed the A side on this album, and Scientist the flip. Check! your subwoofer

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Style: Afro Synth RubADub

Format: LP
Label: Best

Year: 1990

Condition: VG+/VG

Daddy Lumba - chief of the Lumba Brothers - in a Rubadub Afro Digi stylee. Another one of thos wonderful Afro Oddities recorded in Germany! Record shows light hairline scratches and plays great.

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Style: Goumba Soula Gandjal

Format: LP
Label: Kappa

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+

Superb Jams from Cameroon. Can't stand still when Waioh sets the air on fire. The mellow funk bomb M'bororo cools you down perfectly afterwards... Vinyl shows hairlnes and light scratches but plays just great.

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Style: Merci Maman

Format: LP
Label: Mazu (Private)

Year: 198?

Condition: NM/NM

Private Digi Zouk from Hamburg? Well you wouldn't expect these kind jams record in a rainy environment, but hell yeah - it's true. And a damn rare piece of wax it is!

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Style: Afro Synth Madness

Format: LP
Label: Pan African Records (UK)

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG+

Nicest copy of this sought after Pat Thomas gem!

If only all records labeled "High Life" were like this :)

The complete 20 minute long B-Side is beyond real!

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Style: Soukouss

Format: LP
Label: Afro Rhytmes

Year: 1980

Condition: VG+/VG-

Sizzling Soukouss for halftime floating.

Bopol and Baba Ley - top twins in style :)

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Style: Afro Disco

Format: LP
Label: Axum

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG+

Sizzling Afro Disco recorded in Munich back in 1980.

Two uptempo jams reigned by some irresistible synth lines plus that mellow grover African Woman make this stealth private gem a winner.

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Style: Zouk Party

Format: LP
Label: Moradisk

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+  

Fresh Zouk album including the mighty mover Ayo Dance. Listen and make sure you make it past the break around 30 seconds in.

That's where the fun begins!

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Style: Funky Calypso

Format: LP
Label: WIRL

Year: 1977

Condition: VG/VG 

Superfunky Calypso and reggae from Barbados.

Including the mighty RB Groove!

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Style: Island Disco

Format: 12"
Label: Astron

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+  

Superfunky synthesized Bahamas Disco with a lovely reggae funk tune on the flipside. Impossible to find!

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Style: Magic Zouk

Format: LP
Label: Debs

Year: 1984

Condition: VG+/VG+  (light hairlines)

A bunch of great tunes on this rare album from 1984. His only album! The kind of Zouk you want to hear!!

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Style: Highlife

Format: 12
Label: Rokel

Year: 1979

Condition: NM/VG+

Easy Dancing is allright but Freetown Calypso on the flip is the hit here. Extremely positive vibes and an true body shaker. Get dancing!

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Style: Cameroon Killers

Format: LP
Label: Tessy

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+

Amazing copy of this in demand gem from Cameroon.

Laminations tarts to peel at the back - otherwise perfect.

If Tessy was an UFO Govy would sit in the cockpit :ß

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Style: Zouk / Kadence

Format: LP
Label: Kadance

Year: 198?

Condition: NM/VG+

Frizzling Zouk working on your legs like northpoles. 

Music for good times!!

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Style: Modern Soul / Afro Boogie

Format: LP
Label: Gallo

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG 

The hardest to find Stimela album. Including some amazing tunes and the sensational deep jam Follow Your Heart

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Style: Afro / Ghana High Life

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1983

Condition: VG+/VG 

If all records labeled High Life were like this i'd be a high life fanatic. The side filling title track is a slow panty remover and the complete b-side kills it gently.

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Style: Rapso

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1985

Condition: VG /VG+  

Rarest Rapso and a big IC fave as it seems. This OG Trinidad & Tobago press plays with light crackles here and there (much better tha in the IC video!!). Imp to find!

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Style: Reggae Disco

Format: LP
Label: Wambesi

Year: 197?

Condition: NM/VG+

one of those reggae albums with two superb and uplifting boogie disco cuts!! pretty much undiscovered still but it's getting reall yhard to find already. So get your groove on and get a copy before it goes off ...

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Style: Soukouss

Format: LP
Label: Eska

Year: 1983

Condition: VG+/VG plays better than it looks

Dude looks like he had something really disgusting for dinner and cleared his throat with heavy liquor. Dude also plays like a god and sets the air on fire with his wicked soukouss movement!

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Style: Electro Zouk

Format: LP
Label: LM

Year: 1984

Condition: VG+/VG+

Franky is an explicit cat. He likes to do the do and he can be your Sex Instructor if you take him home...

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Style: Reggae / Afro Disco

Format: LP
Label: Piliviar (Private)

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+

Naming your record after your 3 year old daughter is very sweet - and so is the title track. Being a real nice guy Vincent also gave us some amazing Afro Disco tuns to celebrate Esi Vivian.

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Style: Afro Funk

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1979?

Condition: NM/VG+

Afro Funk from Austria? Yes please!

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Style: Afro Funk

Format: LP
Label: Biton

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+  

Highly collectible Afro Funk made in Germany released on the small Biton label. "Tasteful compositions from Don Ridgeway (Mombasa) with good structure based on the polytonal and ostinato bass lines, puts motion in the body" Shake your thang!!

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Style: Afro Sauna

Format: LP
Label: Taumeni Johanna

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+

Check this under the radar Afro Funk recorded in Finland (!) and make sure to check the incredible synth solo by Jukka Hakoköngäs!!

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Style: Surinamese Zouk

Format: LP
Label: Thelma Sound

Year: 198?

Condition: NM/VG+

Sounds like a mix of Zouk, Afro Cuban and Soukouss.

Weird and wonderful!

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Style: Tropical Appetite

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 198?

Condition: NM/NM 

Superrare tropical fusion by four guys stranded in Germany in the 80s. A tasty mix of latin a caribbean dishes on the menu. Private platter...

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Style: Highlife Boogie

Format: LP
Label: MSH

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG 

Rex Gyamfi's amazing first LP.

Superb Afro boogie for sweet ladies and gents!

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Style: Afro Disco

Format: LP
Label: New Cross

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG+  

Sickest UK only Afro Disco in top condition.

I won't spoke any more cos now you

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Style: High Life

Format: LP
Label: PAM

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG

Some wonderful mellow midtempo gems on this fabulous record recorded in Hamburg  in the late 80s. Still below the radar ...

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Style: Various

Format: LP
Label: WEBN

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG+  

This newcomer comp out of Cincinatti is a one tracker, but WTF

this one track... Robert Kishore's Tropical Fantasy is just beyond good! The highly uplifting midtempo anthem is pretty sought after these days.

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Style: Highlife Boogie

Format: LP
Label: Okoman

Year: 1983

Condition: VG+/VG woc back

First pressing of this hard to find Afro gem recorded in Berlin, 1982.

Including these sought after foot movers Akoo Te Brofo and Medo Menanm

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Style: Dubbed Italo / Afro Synth Pop

Format: 7"
Label: Bellaphon

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+  

Dopest Vocoded Synthfunk ...  including the mighty dub version! In big demand since a crackly nigerian repress was sold for 500€ 10 days ago. This is a german copy - no campfire crackles :)

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Style: Sanza Galore

Format: LP
Label: Ozileka

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+  

Bad news: Unfortunately only disc 2 of this double album

Good news: there are some real gems on disc 2!!

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Style: Tropical

Format: LP
Label: D&K

Year:1983

Condition: NM/VG+ SIGNED!!

Rare dutch release filled with deep tropical jams. Check out Dance With Me In The Morning as well as This Is Not A Sayonara in the clip!

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Style: Afro-Jazz

Format: LP
Label: A-Disc

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG+  

Beautiful Afro-Jazz recorded in Sweden. Wonderful mellow vibes...

Highly recommended!!

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Style: Afro Funk

Format: LP
Label: Private

Year: 197?

Condition: NM/VG including printed innersleeve

Charley Kingson's rare first album. A great mix of Funk and Afro Boogie. Private release signed by Charly on the backside!

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Style: Afro Boogie

Format: LP
Label: Aquaitone

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/NM Sealed! 

A bit of High Energy and a whole lot of sickest Afro-Boogie

on this mad rare private release from New Jersey.

You Got Me Hot is the monster here...

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Style: Salsa Not Salsa

Format: LP
Label: Kemayo (Private)

Year: 1981

Condition: VG+/VG+ shows a few inaudible scuffs

Great and one of a kind Fusion of African Boogie and Salsa. Of course including the mighty African Salsa and the mellow groover Money Is Good for You (plus instrumental version). Peep the lyrics ;)

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Style:  Afro Funk / Reggae

Format: LP
Label: ICE (Es)

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/NM

Message Man Eddy Grant dropping some heavyweight jams like Neighbour, Neighbour and It's Our Time. Highly recommended!!

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Style: Afro Jazz-Funk

Format: LP
Label: EMI Brigadiers

Year: 1976

Condition: VG++/VG+  

Ungooglable and horribly rare south african jazz-funk. The title track Sweet Matara takes in the whole A-Side. Fantastic soli by Flute and Organ make this my fave on the album. The B-Side consists of House Of Music and Bambo's Bump. Both very funky and highly unique. Especially Bambo's Bump with these odd reggae influences!

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Style: Caribbean Funk

Format: LP
Label: Happy Bird

Year: 1975

Condition: NM/NM 

First Pressing of this funky Peter Herbolzheimer production. Including that insane funky version of Bob Marley's Get Up Stand Up. Of course the brass & horns are tight as hell. Check also the tropical funk tune Caribbean Rock and the superfunky Motherles Child!

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