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tony allen - afro disco beat - vampisoul - vinyl

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Genre: African

1. Jealousy
2. Hustler
3. Progress
4. Afro Disco Bea
5. No Accomodation For Lagos
6. African Message
7. No Discrimination
8. Road Safety
9. Ariya
10. Love Is A Natural Thing

How often does a superstar band leader hand his band over to his drummer, while he steps back to become a sideman? That's what Fela Kuti, undoubtedly the coolest, hippest, best known African musician on the planet, did in 1975.

"Afro Disco Beat" is the complete seventies anthology of the drummer and music director of superstar Fela Kuti's band Africa 70, the creators of a new style called 'Afrobeat', one of the (if not THE) hippest rhythmic music styles of the seventies. Tony Allen was an incredible drummer of whom Fela Kuti said that "he sounds like four drummers".