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Forgotten Treasures

Forgotten Treasure: Doing It In Lagos: Boogie, Pop & Disco In 1980’s Nigeria

Soundway Records present a new compilation of twenty rare and mostly unavailable tracks from the slick and sassy world of Nigerian pop music and club culture of the early 1980s. Buoyed by an explosive oil boom and a return to  Read more  »

Guest Mixes

MIMS Guest Mix: Hugo LX (Paris, Balance / R2 Records)

Patience is a true virtue, and few know it more than french-born, nomadic music producer Hugo LX. After a whole childhood dedicated to meticulously taping house radio shows, carefully learning beatcraft since age 11, and slowly but surely building a  Read more  »

Forgotten Treasures

Forgotten Treasure: Yusef Lateef “Live At Ronnie Scott’s: January 15th 1966”

via Gearbox: This is a previously unreleased live club performance from Yusef Lateef, the brilliant multi-instrumentalist whose mixing of jazz and Eastern music was a great influence on some of the finest musicians of the era including John Coltrane and  Read more  »

Future Classics

Future Classic: JuJu Rogers & Bluestaeb “LIT Lost In Translation”

via Jakarta Records: “LIT is a snapshot of Bluestaeb und JuJu Rogers’ musical endeavors in Fall 2016. Both had a successful 2015 & 2016 with highly acclaimed albums and a European support tour of Oddisee for JuJu Roogers. Both musicians  Read more  »

Mndsgn & Ahwlee Release “Rap Vacation X-mas” Album on Red & Green Vinyl

The Rap Vacation collective have you covered for your holiday season Christmas tunes. A couple years ago Mndsgn & producer Ahwlee released an tape of X-mas tracks. The cassette is long gone, but they’ve just issued the collection on limited  Read more  »