- Artist
- Umoja
- ReleaseProduct
- 707
- Label
- Awesome Tapes From Africa
- Catalogue Number
- ATFA025LP
- Release Date
- 19 May 2017
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Awesome Tapes From Africa return with another essential reissue. This time from 1988 South Africa, comes Umoja (loosely translated from Swahili as unity or oneness) with a defining record in the music scene that defined the late-apartheid era in SA known as Bubblegum. The escapism associated with this highly danceable style of pop music is none more prevalent than in ‘Take Me High’ whose call and response vocals and earworm-y synth lines makes it an unstoppable dancefloor bubbler that follows from the squelchy synth and vocoder-heavy title track which is both pensive and uplifting. Joyful opening track ‘Money Money (Bananas)’ and the stomping yet smooth ‘Special Night’ round off an EP that dominated the pop charts and went double-platinum when originally released and still sounds great nearly 30 years later.
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Money Money (Bananas)
4:39
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707
4:25
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Take Me High
4:45
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Special Night
4:07
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Awesome Tapes From Africa
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- Artist
- Hailu Mergia
- ReleaseProduct
- Pioneer Works Swing (Live) (Standard)
- Label
- Awesome Tapes From Africa
- Catalogue Number
- ATFA049DIG
- Release Date
- 3 November 2023
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- Hailu Mergia
- ReleaseProduct
- Anchihoye Lene (Live)
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- Awesome Tapes From Africa
- Catalogue Number
- ATFA049DIG3
- Release Date
- 24 October 2023
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- Awesome Tapes From Africa
- Catalogue Number
- ATFA049DIG2
- Release Date
- 28 September 2023
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- Catalogue Number
- ATFA049DIG1
- Release Date
- 6 September 2023
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- Catalogue Number
- ATFA048DIGI1
- Release Date
- 26 June 2023
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- ReleaseProduct
- Roger Bekono
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- Catalogue Number
- ATFA047DIGITAL
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- 16 June 2023
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- ATFA047DIG2
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- ATFA047DIG1
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- AWD340537
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- 17 February 2018
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- FP055
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- Catalogue Number
- 541416508278D
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- 3 March 2017
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- Ocean Moon
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- OM18D
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- 26 August 2016
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- Catalogue Number
- OMD 07 D
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- Catalogue Number
- FCLP015
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- 27 May 2016
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- IFEEL055D
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- 1 July 2016
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- Minako Yoshida
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- Midnight Driver / Town
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- Rush Hour
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- PTKF1508-0
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- 20 March 2024
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- 8 December 2023
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- 1803484
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- 29 November 2023
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- RITC001
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