CHIEF UDOH ESSIET
2019. Chief Udoh Essiet believes in rhythm on his album "Afrobeat Highlife Crossing", from his congas and talking drums from his native Nigeria. Chief Udoh is a veteran artist, singer, songwriter and virt..
HIGHLIFE BAND
2017. The Highlife Band is an authentic and unique reggae band from Seattle, Washington. Rhythms from the Spanish and French Caribbean are combined with Jamaican rockers, bif-baf, steppers, one-drop, and dancehall r..
MANN C.K. & HIS CAROUSEL
2012. This steamin' album is the first in Mr Bongo's 'Classic African Recordings' series. 'Funky Highlife', dating from the early '70s, appeared on the Essiebons label, run by Dick Essilfe Bondzie. According to h..
VÝBEROVKA
2015. A special triple 180-gram vinyl release, presented in a gatefold sleeve. The included 45rpm 7-inch includes the two first ever recordings by a certain Fela Ransome Kuti with his band The Highlife Rakers. Recor..
NIMO KOO
2012. An educated man who studied science in London in the Sixties and spent two years as a professor of ethnomusicology in Seattle in the late Nineties, 78-year old Koo Nimo from Ghana also immersed himself in the ..
VÝBEROVKA
2011. Second volume of Vampisoul's comprehensive Highlife Time series, which guides the listener into the highlife world far enough to show that there are indeed a host of different angles and approaches representin..
MANN C.K. & HIS CAROUSEL
2012. This steamin' album is the first in Mr Bongo's 'Classic African Recordings' series. 'Funky Highlife', dating from the early '70s, appeared on the Essiebons label, run by Dick Essilfe Bondzie. According to him ..
MANU ATAKORA
2022. BBE Music presents a double album reissue of two rare 80's albums recorded by the late Atakora Manu, 'Afro Highlife' and 'Omintiminim'. The mix of vintage, rootsy 'palmwine' blues-style guitar with quirky keyb..
TYPHONIAN HIGHLIFE
2016. Typhonian Highlife is a moniker of Spencer Clark. 'The World Of Shells' works as a dream expedition that has overflowed itself into real time. Through continual material-world visualization, a technological na..
VÝBEROVKA
2008. Nigerian & Ghanaian Sounds from the 60's and early 70's. Highlife, dance music played mostly in Ghana and Nigeria, represents one of the century's first fusions of African roots and western music, and befo..
HIGHLIFE TIME 2: NIGERIAN & GH..
2011. Second volume of Vampisoul's comprehensive Highlife Time series, which guides the listener into the highlife world far enough to show that there are indeed a host of different angles and approaches representin..
AUNTIE FLO
2018. Auntie Flo joins the Brownswood roster to deliver his third and most ambitious album to date. The Glasgow-raised producer, of Goan-Kenyan heritage, has often featured collaborators from different spots he's vi..
EDIKANFO
2020. The first-ever reissue of the classic 1981 debut album from this much revered Ghanaian band. Vibrantly produced by British sound explorer Brian Eno in Accra, Ghana. Highlife meets Afro-funk. Spirited, horn dri..
THOMAS PAT & MARIJATA
2020. Two raw Afro dance floor bombs from Pat Thomas & Marijata both taken from 'Coming Home: Original Ghanaian Highlife & Afrobeat Classics 1964-1981' issued on Strut Records in 2016 and now presented on th..
I.S.C.A.C. BAND/LA BRUNO
2020. First release in Dig This Way's maxi 12" series in the form of an experimental highlife/boogie called 'Imo Special Release' which includes some gems taken from two wonderful and unknown LPs from the heart..
FEYNMAN ART
2020. Art Feynman (aka accomplished recording artist and producer Luke Temple) stitches art pop, Nigerian highlife, worldbeat, and other lesser-known genres into a musical quilt that displays his unmistakable guile ..
EDIKANFO
2020. The first-ever reissue of the classic 1981 debut album from this much revered Ghanaian band. Vibrantly produced by British sound explorer Brian Eno in Accra, Ghana. Highlife meets Afro-funk. Spirited, horn dri..
CARBONO ABELARDO Y SU CO
2020. The delightful debut-album by this Colombian act, originally released in 1980, returns to vinyl! Styles such as Afrobeat, soukous and highlife are effortlessly stirred together with elements of the Cuban son, ..
SANTROFI
2020. Santrofi's debut album 'Alewa' brings a new wave of fresh highlife rooted in the past with a knowledge of the future directly from the streets of Accra. Santrofi was founded by bassist and producer Emmanuel Of..
SANTROFI
2020. Santrofi's debut album 'Alewa' brings a new wave of fresh highlife rooted in the past with a knowledge of the future directly from the streets of Accra. Santrofi was founded by bassist and producer Emmanuel Of..
OGYATANAA SHOW BAND
2020. The Ogyatanaa or Burning Fire Show Band was one of the more esteemed of the funky highlife groups that rocked the Ghanaian music scene during the 1970s. The band was formed in 1971 by diplomat-turned-composer,..
NWOMKRO AHEMAA
2021. Ahemaa Nwomkro are Victoria Osei and Theresa Owusuaa. Nwomkro is an old Ashanti musical style, which played an influential role in the origin of the more roots-like Highlife style of Kumasi, the cultural capit..
VÝBEROVKA
2020. Possibly the best thing a compilation can do is open the door to a world of music that aside from being unknown to you, is high grade in quality, diverse and open to interpretation in as much as you are left w..
JON K / PAT THOMAS
2018. Two late 1980s Ghanaian digital highlife cuts by Jon K. and Pat Thomas, in original form difficult to find. Here pressed on a 12" and cut at 45rpm for that LOUD DJ play!
AHEMAA NWOMKRO
2019. Ahemaa Nwomkro, which means queens of Nwomkro, are Victoria Osei and Theresa Owusuaa. Nwomkro is an old Ashanti musical style, which played an influencial role in the origin of the typical more roots-like high..
VÝBEROVKA
2021. "The skeletal composition and the relentless exploitation of synthesizers, electric guitars and '80s effect racks resulted in a spiced up psychedelic brew known as Edo Funk!" It was in Benin City, in..
OSADEBE STEPHEN OSITA
2019. Osondi owendi. What is cherished by some is despised by others. One man's meat is another man's poison. Different strokes for different folks. To each their own. Osondi owendi. It's a conventional aphorism in ..
HEROES OF LIMBO
2020. Reimagining classic and contemporary pop as authentic 70's afrobeat and Highlife from Nigeria and Ghana, "Madchester Woman" takes Ebo Taylor's "African Woman" and uses it as a rework of Hap..
GUY ONE
2021. The Kologo (a two stringed proto-banjo) master Guy One is back with this 7" release. 'So La Ma La' has a straight forward Highlife rhythm, together with some funky afrobeat-a-like bassline. 'To Kale Na'na..
SMOKE BELLOW
2021. Transcontinental, experimental duo Smoke Bellow released the 'Blooming/Middling' LP in 2014, followed by 'Isolation 3000' in 2018. After a line-up change, the now trio went refining their sound into a dizzying..
CYPRESS HILL
2014. - cd 1:,how i could just kill a man,insane in the brain,roll it up, light it up,throw your set in the air,(rap) superstar,latin lingo,when the sh-- goes down,boom biddy bye bye,dr. Greent..