The headline act at our upcoming Big Chill House party comes in the form of the scorching Yaaba Funk.

Combining fat analogue basslines, blazing horns and gritty rock guitars this floor-filling ten piece play a red hot mix of Ghanian hi-life, afrobeat and low down dirty funk. Pure fire. Here’s them performing at the capital’s recent Seun Kuti gig.

Their album “Afrobeast” is out now on Yaabaphone and their follow up is set to drop this year.

The pun’s so good I’m surprised no-one’s done it before: Fela Soul is an album of De La Soul vocals over Fela Kuti loops. The perfect salve after hearing the entire Beatles back catalogue played at the same time.

Download the whole comp (with liner notes) for free HERE

In lieu of Professor Calculus playing at FFTANG! FFTANG! we’re reposting his cracking mix of braziliAfro fonk…

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Come down to 93 Feet East on December 15th to hear him play his brand of Brazilian psych, funk, Tropicalia, Afro-beats and bobs.

Come down to 93 Feet East next Tuesday to catch DJ IZEM from GROOVALIZACION radio play blazing tropical-meets-western-grooves mashups. Cumbia, samba, reggae and hip-hop kindle the audio burn…

A bit of info on the station…

Groovalizacion project comes from a radio programme called « Musicas Migratorias » (migratory music) on UPV Radio Valencia, Spain, a social an artistic initiative born in 2006. Its main purpose was to promote communication between alien cultures through art and instigate integration and dialogue amongst our multicultural societies. It started as a project performed by artists from various countries and dedicated to this intercultural dialogue.

The brightest civilizations and golden ages have always been the result of melting pots and combinations of different traditions and knowledge. Groovalizacion likes to believe that progress comes from mutual understanding and tolerance. That it also comes from the pleasure to meet foreign cultures, to taste the subtle contrasts which enrich our perception.

Groovalizacion wants to give a voice to the new musical scenes, to create a place where traditions and modernity freely mingle: Fusion, world, electro, Celtic music, flamenco, jazz, tango, reggae, ska, soul, urban sounds, bossa-nova, klezmer, raï… There is no end to the list of sounds and perfumes which, build identities, bring dialogue and food for thought.

Groovalizacion is a music lab, a meeting place and one of cultural exchange. Its doors are wide open to the curious kind eager to try the cocktail a la Groovalizacion, rich in flavours and ingredients collected along the way and the different latitudes. It’s a torrid, fun and passionate atmosphere which will take you from São Paulo to Casablanca, Berlin to Dakar, Bombay to Buenos-Aires, Hong-Kong to la Havana…

DJ IZEM – ANDY PALACIO vs CHUCK D

BOMBA ESTÉREO – FUEGO (DJ IZEM GROOVALIZACION REMIX)

Professor Calculus has just sent us this link to a cracking mix of braziliAfro fonk…

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The Prof will be bringing his brand of afro-latin blends to the FFTANG! FFTANG! night at 93 Feet East on November 3rd. This has now been postponed to December 15th.