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“Power To The People!” – A Survey of Zimbabwe’s Revolutionary 70s Rock Scene

Exclusive digital compilation offering a peak into Zimbabwe’s hitherto unknown rock scene, just in time for our issue of Well’s Fargo Watch Out! album with Vinyl Me Please

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Following our announcement the first ever issue of Zimbabwean heavy rock band Wells Fargo’s Watch Out! album as Vinyl Me Please’s June 2016 album of the month, we’re presenting an exclusive digital compilation surveying Zimbabwe’s 70s revolutionary rock scene. Power to the People! draws on output from some of the archetypal bands from the scene, including Wells Fargo, Eye Q and Gypsy Caravan. The music ranges from hard rock to James Brown inspired funk and electrified Zimbabwean folkloric music. This is a digital only release; a preamble to an overarching anthology that we’re currently preparing.


Posted in NewsMay. 31, 2016

Listen – Egon’s May Residency on NTS Radio

Egon is done with hisone month residency on NTS Radio – four two hour shows of music from around the globe. The fourth show went live today. Listen to the full show on the NTS Radio website and stream the first half of each show via our Soundcloud, below.

Show Four Tracklist:

12:49 J&H Productions Intro
11:19 German Oak Untitled
3:50 Michel Colombier Canon
4:38 Gilberto Gil 2001 MORE

Posted in NewsMay. 24, 2016

Photos: Prepping For Tropicalia In Furs Rappcats Takeover with Egon, Madlib, Mao

Egon and Madlib were in New York in 2016 for Madlib’s talk at the Red Bull Music Academy; after they headed over to meet Joel Stones and peruse some of the records he’d staged at Revival Vintage Boutique in Hoboken, NJ. Caio Ferreira was there to document the proceedings. Even veteran collector Chairman Mao was overwhelmed. And though Madlib bought two crates, there was plenty left over to ship before Joel headed back to Brasil to buy more.

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Finally Out Now! Peace’s Zamrock Masterpiece “Black Power”

ON SALE AT OUR WEBSTORE AT RAPPCATS: PEACE – BLACK POWER

After a year’s delay, we’re stoked to announce Black Power is shipping in all format at our webstore at Rappcats! This is the first official reissue of this essential Zamrock album.

Peace was one of of Zamrock’s best bands, kick-started by groups The Boyfriends and WITCH from Chamboli Mine Township, Kitwe, Zambia. Black Power was their sole release, recorded at Malachite Film Studio circa 1973-74 and issued circa 1975, sounds like nothing else in the Zamrock canon: a lost message drifting from the flower power era, imbued with a fiery Zambian voice.

Posted in NewsMay. 4, 2016

Exclusive Pre-Sale – Wake Up You! Vol. 2, The Rise And Fall Of Nigerian Rock 1972-1977

ON SALE: WAKE UP YOU – VOL. 2 – THE RISE AND FALL OF NIGERIAN ROCK, 1972-1977

Vol. 2 to be released WW May 20, 1026. Exclusive pre-sale for vinyl, CD, digital at our webstore at Rappcats NOW

Wake Up You! is presented in two 100+ page books full of never-seen photos and the story of the best Nigerian rock bands told in vivid detail by musicologist and researcher Uchenna Ikonne (Who Is William Onyeabor?).

Each volume is presented as both a hardbound book with CD in a resealable plastic sleeve, and as a double LP with a soft-cover book included in a custom-made 12″x 12″ book holder.

Read: ‘Wake Up You!’ Explores The Transitional, Post-War Rock ‘N’ Roll Of Nigeria – NPR’s All Things Considered.

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Posted in NewsApr. 27, 2016