Might as well put this here.
The Old Blue Last - London
Saturday
4 December
DANCE MAGIC DANCE
Awesome Tapes From Africa
Tapedeck and Laptop Dj Set
Fair Ohs
Live
Dance Magic Dance
Djs
Downstairs Hosted By: Big Scary Monsters
Awesome Tapes From Africa
Host of one of the most cherished music blogs in webworld, Brooklyn's Brian Shimkovitz aka AWESOME TAPES FROM AFRICA began hoarding red-hot cassettes of rare African music following a trip to Ghana to study local hip hop. Now (as evidenced by the runaway success of the site) he has amassed thousands of secret club gems from across the continent, Zimbabwe to Ethiopia, Mali to Senegal and beyond, that he is ready to unleash raw, straight off tape and onto your dancefloor.
Psyched-out afro-disco, accidental devotional music bangers, weird and thrilling spins on rap, dub and soul and plenty of pure, swinging afrobeat ... dance music of many colours, unheard and untainted, fresh from the street market source via a true selector and ethnomusicologist.
http://awesometapesfromafrica.blogspot.com
http://www.xlr8r.com/podcast/2009/07/awesome-tapes-africa