
Various Artists - Origins of Guitar Music
As recorded in Southern Congo & Northern Zambia between 1950 & 1958. The Katanga guitar style in Congo originated in the Likembe tradition, the sound fr..(read more)
Label: SWP Records / 15
Artist: Various Artists
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: African, Field Recordings, Traditional.

Various Artists - Northern & Central Malawi
Featuring amazing blind singer Beti Kamanga, strumming his bangwe zither as though he invented rock & roll (recorded 1950) near Lake Malawi. Other instrumen..(read more)
Label: SWP Records / 14
Artist: Various Artists
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: African, Field Recordings, Traditional.

Various Artists - Congo: Kanyok and Luba
From the amazing archives of recordings by Hugh Tracey, this issue features the lesser known Kanyok people & their Luba neighbours in the 50’s. Most o..(read more)
Label: SWP Records / 11
Artist: Various Artists
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: African, Field Recordings, Traditional.

Various Artists - Colonial Dance Bands 1950 and 1952 (Kenya, Tanganyika, Portugese East Africa, Northern Rhodesia, Belgian Congo)
This album presents a variety of African bands playing dance music during the colonial period. Recorded in the British colonies of Kenya, Tanganyika and Norther..(read more)
Label: SWP Records / 31
Artist: Various Artists
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tag: African.

Various Artists - Bulawayo Jazz 1950/51/52
In no book of the history of jazz will you find any mention, let alone a chapter, about an exciting own style of jazz developed in Africa in the early 1950s ..(read more)
Label: SWP Records / 032/HT021
Artist: Various Artists
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: African, Afro-Jazz.

Af Ursin - Aura Legato
Timo Van Luyk of Noise-Maker's Fifes, Mirror & longtime collaborations with Christoph Heeman, made a high quality LP in beautiful, baroque cover. Proc..(read more)
Label: La Scie Doree / Scie 405
Artist: Af Ursin
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Improvisation, Industrial Music, Noise, Vinyl.

Aelters - Ardchilds’ com.undo
Juggler of analogue tapes of the first hour, grew up with heavy metal, with 90s pop, Spanish folk and DAT Politics (of which he was a member for a long time). S..(read more)
Label: Sonig / 29
Artist: Aelters
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Breakcore, Collage, Electronic, Vinyl.

AA Kismet - What’s the use of crying when the wolves have arrived
Their second and even better – Bob Drake & Lukas Simonis did it again!
Label: Z6 Records / 991
Artist: AA Kismet
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tag: Avant-Rock.

1-Speedbike - Klootzak Keizer
XP Hardtek, drum breakz & dub effects. 1-Speedbike is the solo project from the drummer of Godspeed You Black Emperor. The title is Dutch, and not your most..(read more)
Label: Broklyn Beats / 19
Artist: 1-Speedbike
Medium: 12"
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Breakcore, Vinyl.
