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Adrian Younge – Afro-Disco Makossa

$27.95

Adrian Younge has spent years reconstructing the analog soul of the 1970s, from his cinematic work scoring blaxploitation-inspired projects to building Jazz Is Dead into one of the most vital archival-minded labels in contemporary music. Afro-Disco Makossa pushes that obsession into new territory, treating the transatlantic conversation between West African rhythm and American funk not as a historical footnote but as a living, unfinished exchange.

Afro-Disco Makossa is the first Linear Labs album built for the dance floor, and Adrian Younge is uniquely qualified to make it. Having already recorded modern Afrobeat classics with Tony Allen and Ebo Taylor through Jazz Is Dead, Younge asks a new question: what would a Ghanaian producer in '76 have made if he set out to create an American disco record for his hometown? The result is a relentless, hypnotic patchwork of Afrobeat, funk, and disco recorded to tape, built for the DJ of any era.

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Tracklist

Side A

1. Feel The High Life – 4:07
2. Shake Down – 4:22
3. Number One – 3:59

Side B

1. Every Body – 4:46
2. Fire In The Disco – 4:12
3. Afro-Disco Makossa – 4:35

Credits

  • Adrian Younge – Composed By, Recorded By, Mixed By

Release

UPC: 617308054620
Label: Linear Labs
Release Date: 9.11.26
Format: LP Vinyl
Label: Linear Labs (LL020)
Country: Worldwide

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