chaosmachine Posted May 8, 2011 Share Posted May 8, 2011 Afrobeat only turns up 9 hits on watmm, so I figured I'd make this thread in celebration of one of the greatest musicians of all time, Fela Kuti. Fela Anikulapo Kuti (1938 — 1997), or simply Fela, was a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, pioneer of Afrobeat music, and human rights activist. - Wikipedia Fela Kuti & Egypt 80 - CBB (Confusion Break Bones) [youtubehd]BBD2CXMBWQ4[/youtubehd] Deadi bodi geti accidenti. Yee pa! Confusion breaki boni. Yepa! Na double wahala for deadi bodi And the owner of deadi bodi Double wahala for deadi bodi... --- Fela Kuti was the mouthpiece of Nigerian counterculture in the 1970s. He developed a style of music known as Afrobeat - an amalgamation of Yoruba rhythms, Ghanaian Highlife, jazz, American funk and pidgin English. Fela loved getting up the nose of the authorities. He married 27 women in one day, publicly smoked marijuana despite the threat of prison, declared Kalakuta an independent state, and was often beaten up and imprisoned. ... He recounts the horrific story of the day in 1977 when soldiers under Olusegun Obasanjo's military regime stormed Fela's compound. Ironically, Fela and the recently retired president had grown up together in the town of Abeokuta, a few hours' drive from Lagos - Fela in a middle-class family, the son of a preacher, and Obasanjo in a poor farming family. Fela had released his record Zombie as a rebuke to the army, comparing them to robots, and his friends had burned an army motorcycle during one altercation. In retaliation, 1,000 of Obasanjo's soldiers surrounded Kalakuta. "Fela didn't know what was happening," Olayinka recalls. "The soldiers began to climb the fence, then they started shooting. Fela was inside the house but he jumped out of his compound and ran to his friend's house. Then the soldiers threw Fela's mother out of the window." Fela's mother, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, was Nigeria's first feminist activist, and the first woman to drive a car in the country. She broke her hip in the fall and later died from her injuries. The original Kalakuta Republic was subsequently burned to the ground, but Fela's response was to move into a new house and place a coffin on its roof with a banner that read: "This is where justice was murdered." - The Guardian --- Fela Kuti & Egypt 80 - ODOO (Overtake Don Overtake Overtake) [youtubehd]Q2aArlIHnOU[/youtubehd] My friend wan come buy fan Him dey sweat for him dey sleep for room Him dey fall level of tree The fan na seventy-five naira My friend him dey follow salary Him dey try to save and save and save Every time he nearly buy the fan Government go add ten naira more Every time he nearly buy the fan Government go start one activity Till the fan reach two hundred naira My friend nearly die, he never die My friend he no wan die Die-die no dey for him dictionary For where? Huh... Him dey try to save and save again Him save for one year and six months Inside cupboard Under pillow Under, under cooking pot Inside socks Under carpet Him dey on his way to buy the fan When alarm come blow [Fela vocalizes a police siren] Government announce second tier Everything come tear to pieces Everything come expensive Even water become expensive Second bass, jare... pop! Fan don become seven hundred naira Me and my friend start to look ourselves He remain small make my friend dey cry Na laugh laugh he catch monkey Na now he come understand him life Enjoyment can never come him way Na now him life dey go reverse In Africa, him fatherland One more time... [Chorus] Soldier go, soldier come! Soldier come, soldier go! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest disparaissant Posted May 8, 2011 Share Posted May 8, 2011 i really have nothing to add to this thread except that this is a great OP and fela kuti is awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mohamed Posted May 8, 2011 Share Posted May 8, 2011 rhodes, dey do own Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mohamed Posted May 8, 2011 Share Posted May 8, 2011 i was hit by afro beat only recently despite vague memories of fela kuti listeners in the family. shit has the power of bob marley and aphex twin put together my ears never managed to take jams of this lenght with this smoothness, thanks for posting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaen Posted May 8, 2011 Share Posted May 8, 2011 been a big fan for years if anyone wants to discover similarly amazing musics, tune into giles peterson on radio 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest analogue wings Posted May 8, 2011 Share Posted May 8, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFB9e_L85DE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted May 8, 2011 Share Posted May 8, 2011 i love me some fela - and whilst not afrobeat, i definitely regard the shangaan electro stuff as an evolution of it. the norman records compilation album was a big fucking deal for me last year. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXE6_j1N7o8 fucking amazing stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mohamed Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 (edited) Edited May 9, 2011 by mohamed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mohamed Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 (edited) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFXEZeVgmCg&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R7W8S_EYn0&feature=related Edited May 9, 2011 by mohamed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J3FF3R00 Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 I've been a fan for about 10 years. Fela's best album -> Tony Allen is a drum god. For the record, his name is pronounced "Fe-la" like "Goodfellas". Not like "FAY-La". I hate it when people pronounce it wrong. It hurts my ears. Proof @ 7:57 ...>>>>>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdKO5QZ9Z60 I love African music in general and particularly love this one........ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PIj2hweXfo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest analogue wings Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpYR7ilLbfo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcwvEtg14Iw this shit is pretty amazing too and i daresay pretty IDM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest analogue wings Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk4wbXzoKzo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruising for burgers Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 (edited) stuff like this is unbeatable in every way:[youtubehd]dN1ZaKrZDgs[/youtubehd] this movie got me into african music, west african specifically. [youtubehd]t6GIEs6j4rY[/youtubehd] for the past 3 months i haven't listened to any western music per say... just check this dub section at 1:45: [youtubehd]vaJkW9ha1RI[/youtubehd] some more: [youtubehd]wasK4qDauQE[/youtubehd] [youtubehd]cUl2yiKx3oI[/youtubehd] [youtubehd]bwaJ7Dowl8k[/youtubehd] i'm extremelly addicted to all this k7 releases that youssou and super etoile put out in the 80's: Volume 3 Indépendance - YouTubeVolume 4 Bandjoly Ndiaye - YouTubeVolume 5 Yarou - YouTubeVolume 6 Djamil - YouTubeVolume 8 Immigres - Bitim Rew - YouTubeVolume 9 Africa Deebeub - YouTubeVolume 10 Ndobine - YouTubeVolume 11 Bekoor - YouTubeVolume 12 Jamm-La Paix - YouTubeVolume 14 Gaïndé - YouTubeVolume 15 Set - YouTube here's a great doc on mbalax music from senegal:Youssou N'Dour : Eyes Open - YouTube Edited August 9, 2013 by THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruising for burgers Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 Afrobeat only turns up 9 hits on watmm http://forum.watmm.com/topic/79400-youssou-ndour/ http://forum.watmm.com/topic/79049-mbalax/ not sure if it fits afrobeat description however... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadameChaos Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 Nice thread mate! http://youtu.be/h9S0T0eCdy4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethel Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jimmy McMessageboard Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 I love threads like this. more please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sun drugs Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 the nigeria 70 compilations are killer and worth hunting down awesome tapes from africa are cool also, like PPU but re-issuing old african bands on cassette and digital Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hello spiral Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 (edited) I went to a leaving party for a work colleague last night. The guy meant to be doing the music was late so I managed to plug the gap with a bit of Fela from my ipod. She's originally from Sierra Leone and loves a bit of Fela. Another colleague who is Nigerian got me a Fela t-shirt from Fela's compound last year when he went home for a bit. It's apparently now a museum/tourist attraction. Fucking love awesome tapes from africa. This is a personal fave: http://www.awesometapes.com/2010/01/aby-ngana-diop-liital-face-dieuleul.html Edited August 10, 2013 by hello spiral Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruising for burgers Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 (edited) Fucking love awesome tapes from africa. This is a personal fave: http://www.awesometapes.com/2010/01/aby-ngana-diop-liital-face-dieuleul.html thanks for this site spiral! check out youssou's k7 collection i just posted, it's the same genre, mbalax, just like aby ngana. this user as an extraordinary collection, all great rips from k7! some even better than the stuff i was able to get on cd... http://www.youtube.com/user/lousndiaye/videos Edited August 10, 2013 by THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 @chaosmachine great fucking opening thread, m8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruising for burgers Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 http://www.afropop.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murve33 Posted August 11, 2013 Share Posted August 11, 2013 the nigeria 70 compilations are killer and worth hunting down Agreed. The Ghana Special off Soundwave Records is killer as well. I've been on a huge Afrobeat/Highlife kick lately, mostly 60's/70's music from Ghana and Nigeria. Here are my favorites. African Brothers Band (Ghana) Mahotella Queens (South Africa): This song is really funky, but their album "Meet the Mahotella Queens" contains a lot more laid back summer day tracks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbXMyxdzyhU Bola Johnson (Nigeria) Shit, I didn't even know this track was on Lagos Jump. Guess I need to buy another album. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zaphod Posted August 11, 2013 Share Posted August 11, 2013 (edited) [youtubehd]bwKb6M2kGRI[/youtubehd] highlife owns everything Edited August 11, 2013 by zaphod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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