Name: Pop Makossa: The Invasive Dance Beat of Cameroon: 1976-1984
Brand: Various Artist

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AACD 083CD

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2017-06-28

Signed copies

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Supplier US

Redeye

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

4260126061163

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

AALP 083LP

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2017-06-14

4260126061170

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2 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Various Artist

Genre US

African

Label US

Analog Africa

The Pop Makossa adventure started in 2009, when Analog Africa founder Samy Ben Redjeb first travelled to Cameroon to make an initial assessment of the country's musical situation. He returned with enough tracks for an explosive compilation highlighting the period when funk and disco sounds began to infiltrate the makossa style popular throughout Cameroon. From the very beginning, there were several mysteries hanging over Pop Makossa. It was not until DJ and music producer Déni Shain was dispatched to Cameroon to finalize the project, license the songs, scan photographs, and interview the artists that some of the biggest question marks began to disappear. His journey from the port city of Douala to the capital of Yaoundé brought him in contact with the lives and stories of many of the musicians who had shaped the sound of Cameroon's dance music in its most fertile decade. The beat that holds everything together has its origins in the rhythms of the Sawa people: ambassey, bolobo, assiko and essewé, a traditional funeral dance. But it wasn't until these rhythms arrived in the cities of Cameroon and collided with merengue, high-life, Congolese rumba, and, later, funk and disco, that modern makossa was born. Double LP version. Gatefold sleeve with 20-page booklet; 140 gram vinyl.

Pop Makossa: The Invasive Dance Beat of Cameroon: 1976-1984

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