Bop or Not Session #13 For Radio RAPTZ ~ Boogie by Night

The Be Hard Bop's show #13 for Parisian webradio RAPTZ, including Boogie & Samba Funk from Brazil to US featuring Kool & The Gang, Banda Black Rio, Jorge Ben, Cortex, Sound President Odion Iruoje, Plunky & The Oneness Of Juju, The Magic Disco Machine and many more... Compiled & mixed by Be Hard Bop for Radio Raptz

TRACKLiST : Kool & The Gang - Hollywood Swinging - Cristina Camargo - Moral Tem Hora - Tim Maia - Do Leme Ao Pontal - Miss Lene - Sinal De Desejo - Ambolley - Simigwa - Banda Uniao Black - Black Rio - Banda Black Rio - Chega Mais - Jorge Ben - Taj Mahal - Robert Charlebois - Je Rêve A Rio - Frank Gérard - Comme Une Samba - Cortex - L'enfant Samba - Emma Baloka - Funky Down - Brenda - Natureza Viva - Sound President Odion Iruoje - Alhaja And Obiageri - Plunky & The Oneness Of Juju - Every Way But Loose - Kyohei Tsutsumi And His 585Band - Hit Machine - The Magic Disco Machine - (I Could Never Make) A Better Man Than You

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Bop or Not Session #5 for Radio RAPTZ ~ Worldwide Disco Sound

Bop or Not Session #5, the Be Hard Bop's show for Parisian webradio RADiO RAPTZ, including only disco songs performed by worlwide Jazz & Funk/Soul artists, from Brazil to U.S. by Japan, Europe and West Africa. It features Esther Philips, Hiroshi Fukumura, Michel Legrand, Idris Muhammad, Marcos Valle, Tim Maia and many more...

TRACKLiST : Martha Ulaeto - Music Alone - Houon Pierre - Mansou Djouwi - Zig Zag - Discoville - Esther Philips - One Night Affair - Count Buffalos Feat. Tan-Tan - I've Never Found A Man - Hiroshi Fukumura With Sadao Watanabe - Captain Caribe - Universal Togetherness Band - Once In A Lifetime - Michel Legrand - Disco Magic Concorde - Idris Muhammad - Disco Man - Emma Baloka - Come To Me Sweetie - Marcos Valle - Velhos Surfistas Querendo Voar - Sylvano Santorio - South Road - Ofege - Burning Jungle - Livy Ekemezie - Friday Night - M'Bamina - Tchiayala - Tim Maia - Acenda O Farol

 

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Bop or Not Session #3 for Radio RAPTZ ~ Funk Party

Bop or Not Session #3 for Parisian webradio RADiO RAPTZ including Hip-Hop, Breakbeat, Afro-Disco & Jazz Funk from Japan to America by Europe. It features Marcos Valle, Force Of Nature, Steve Monite, Five Deez, DJ Muro, The Procussions and more...

TRACKLiST : Specifics - Thats Just Gold - Marcos Valle - A Paraíba Não E Chicago - Mighty Salad Syndicate - Funky Horse - Mountain Mocha Kilimanjaro - Word Pack - DJ Mitsu The Beats Feat. Promoe - Material Curse - Force Of Nature - Unstoppable - Steve Monite - Only You - Livy Ekemezie - Get It Down - Chris Joss - A Part In That Show - Eyedea & Abilities - Big Shots - Five Deez - Funky - DJ Muro Feat. De La Soul & Lunch Time Speax - So Cool - Dagha Feat. Al Jabra - Conquerors - The Procussions - All That It Takes

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African Music Machine ~ DiSCO Hi-LiFE

Get into the west african Funk scene of late seventies from the cameroonian and nigerian highlife's post era. This "new wave" of Funk adds an african touch to the US Disco, Boogie & Jazz-Funk styles, featuring multi-instrumentalists, arrangers and influential producers such as Pasteur Lappé, Emma Baloka, J.M. Tim & Foty, Orlando Julius, Jo Bisso, Eko Roosevelt, Livy Ekemezie, Odion Iruoje and many others. All tracks recorded between 1977-1983. Compiled & Mixed by Be Hard Bop.

Emma Baloka - Freedom

Year : 2019/1982
Label : Kétu Records/Odec
Genre : Disco, Funk/Soul
Style : Afro Disco, Afro Funk, Boogie

Born in Cameroon, Emma Baloka is a guitarist/singer who started at 21 in the famous nigerian funk band "The Mighty Flames". Subsequently, he was enrolled as studio musician in various groups from Nigeria and Cameroon, in particular during the nigerian highlife era between late seventies and early eighties. Influenced by US music and Makossa from West Africa, Emma Baloka recorded this unique record, finally reissued by french label Kétu Records, an album imbued by Funk, Boogie & Disco accents to the african rhtyhms. Titles include deep grooves supported by powerful slapping bass lines, wah wah effects on guitar and keyboard, serving a music ideally cut for clubs as evidenced the songs "Come To My Sweetie", "Funky Down" & the eponymous track "Freedom". "Let's Love Each Other" was included in compilation "Brand New Wayo" released in 2011 by Comb & Razor Sound label. All tracks arranged and composed by Emma Baloka.

Jo Bisso - Dance To It

Year : 2015/1976

Label : Africa Seven/Disques Espérance

Genre : Soul, Afrobeat

Style : Funk/Soul, Disco

Debut album of Jo Bisso, a cameroonian singer, producer & arranger influenced by US Soul & Funk music from Otis Reading to James Brown, singing as well his native tongue as french and english. From 1976 to 1979, Jo Bisso released four records to the disco accents and produced albums of his fellow countrymen Sookie and the disco duo, "Venise", led by Linda Henderson & Sharon Criswell. Settled in Paris from 1971, he signed on Decca France his first single "Flying To The Land Of Soul" (1974) as J.B. Afro Soul, produced by Pierre Jaubert, the man behind "The Lafayette Afro Rock Band" name (ex-Ice), before to sign on Disques Espérance, a world & african music label based in Paris. The album opens up with the title track "Dance To It", a catchy disco funk in two parts, the rest of the album is a blend of Jazz (Don't Fight The Feeling), Soul music (Let's Keep It Together), Funk (Give It Up) with afro/disco beats, and concludes with the beautiful ballad "Odwa". All songs composed and arranged by Jo Bisso except "Ramaya" written by A. Simone/St. Regal and "Odwa" by Ossibissa.

Pasteur Lappé & The Sekele Movement - We, The People

Year : 2018/1979
Label : Africa Seven/Disques Espérance
Genre : Funk/Soul
Style : Disco, Afro Disco, Afro Funk

Debut album of Pasteur Lappé, a Cameroonian singer from Douala who recorded from 1979 to 1981, some amazing funky nuggets such as "Na Real Sekele Fo' Ya" or "Sekelimania (Nku Bilam)". Pasteur Lappé is best-known to have popularized the "Sekele", a typical afro-groove embracing furious dances and the disco style, whole played in the cameroonian way. Settled in Paris from the seventies, he recruited guitarist Jacob Desvarieux, future founder member of Zouk band, Kassav, as arranger, and the collective "The Zulu Gang" formed by bassist Christophe Zadire, as backing band to produce his albums. The album opens with "More Sekele Movement" including deep bass groove & syncopated beat, followed by the catchy afro-folk-pop song "Dora". Titles include also two ballads  ("Watcha Get Ma Day Dreams", "As Far I Can Remember") and the single "The Sekele Movement" which was selected by Analog Africa label for the "Pop Makossa" compilation released in 2017. 

M'Bamina - Expérimental

Year : 2016/1978
Label : Africa Seven/Fiesta Records
Genre : Soul
Style : Afro Funk, Disco

M'Bamina was formed in 1972 by eight african musicians of Bantu ethnic group, coming from Congo, Benin & Cameroon, and settled in Pavia, Italty. Discovered in an italian night club by Ivo Lunardi, they toured on the italian riviera before to spot by french impresario Christian Carbaza. After they moved to France, where they became friends of cameroonian legend Manu Dibango, they recorded in 1975 their first album "African Roll". On their success way, they performed across Europe in 1976, then in Cameroon at Stade Yaounde alongside French Pop star, Claude François, Manu Dibango, and finally played the first part of  the James Brown's concert at Pavillon de Paris in 1977. In the early eighties, they signed on the short-lived Paco Rabanne's label recording two albums before they disbanded. The group is a killer funk machine distilling pure dancing groove, connected to their African Roots with traditional Bantu lyrics, including Boogie Funk with a strong disco baseline (Atide O Sika, Tchiayala), Afro-Cuban rhythms & Folk Soul (Mambu, Zizi Ku Mbele). Produced by Philippe Brejean & arranged by Samba N'Gó.

Various - Doing It In Lagos

Year : 2016
Label : Soundway Records
Genre : Funk/Soul, Pop
Style : Disco, Boogie, Afro Funk

Twenty amazing funky songs from the Nigerian pop & club music recorded between late 1970s and early 1980s, compiled by british label Soundway Records. The songs are the reflect of a joyful period, all were recorded during the short democratic interlude in Nigeria from 1979 to 1983, before the military dictatorship back. A new generation of artists featuring Steve Monite, Livy Ekemezie or Willy Roy have been emerge on the Lagos musical scene. Moving away the Afrobeat and nigerian highlife era, they were supported by influential producers like Odion Iruoje, and perfectly suited for dancefloor with the casualness brings by the disco style (Donna Summer or Michael Jackson), but adding their Afro touch. "Doing It In Lagos" has been concieved as the ultimate dance compilation including various styles as Funk (Willy Roy - Don't Give Up), Pop (Burnis Moleme - Where Is The Answer), Boogie (Mike Umoh - Shake Your Body / Godfrey Odili - Let's Do More Music), Jazz Funk (Gboyega Adelaja - Colourful Environment) and Disco (Ofege - Burning Jungle) closed to House music (Steve Monite - Only You).

  

DISC 1 : Hotline - Fellas Doing It In Lagos / Peter Addul - Don't You Know / Steve Monite - Only You / Oby Onyioha - Enjoy Your Life / Kio Amachree - Ivory / Livy Ekemezie - Holiday Action  

DISC 2 : Willy Roy - Don't Give Up / Danny Offia - Funk With Me / Rick Asikpo - Too Hot Toby Foyeh - Ore Mi / Gboyega Adelaja - Colourful Environment / Mike Umoh - Shake Your Body

DISC 3 : Burnis Moleme - Where Is The Answer / Sony Enang - Don't Stop That Music / Nkono Teles - Be My Lady / Veno - Groove I Like / Godfrey Odili - Let's Do More Music / Terry Mackson - Distant Lover / Ofege - Burning Jungle / Lexy Mella - On The Air

Eko - Funky Disco Music

Year : 2018/1979
Label : Africa Seven/Dragon Phénix
Genre : Jazz, World
Style : Disco, Afrobeat, Afro Funk

Eko Roosevelt, nicknamed as the camroonian Quincy Jones, is an arranger, producer & keyboardist, member of the Dikalo group founded in 1976.  The sound of Eko, as the one of his fellow countryman Manu Dibango, is a blend of Makossa music tainted with funk, disco, soul & Jazz. During several years, he was an pianist accompagnist for various french variété singers as Johnny Hallyday or Claude François, and was conductor of the Cameroon's national orchestra. "Funky Disco Music" is Eko's third album including punchy horns, afro-rhythms and groovy bass lines featuring Vicky Edimo from Dikalo. The album was recorded in France at the famous studio Barclay, it opens on the afro-caribbean funky swing song "Funky Disco Music" and closes on the smooth jazz ballad "Emen' Ango", passing by the african folk pop song "Me To A De Try My Own" and the two afro-disco-club gems, the favorites of DJs : "Ndolo Embe Mulema" & "Bowa'a Mba Ngebe".