The Danque!!!

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Total Tracks: 7   Total Length: 51:01

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04.22.11
A West African dance party par excellence.
2001 | Label: Afrodisiac / The Orchard

Maybe your love shack is a chattering chamber of vapid verbosity, but not mine. We opt for a mostly instrumental mind-body sweat fest of categorical indistinctions. Which is why British DJ Fischer P's remarkable compilation of found vinyl from around West Africa fits the bill so well. Playing The Danque!! is like slapping scratchy after scratchy onto a turntable (ask your parents). It's a freaky West African catch-all of that sounds equally beholden to James Brown-ian funk and Fela Kuti's raging Nigerian Afrobeat. From George Danquah's timeless "Just a Moment" to Smahila and the S.B.S.'s 18-minute Fela homage "Natural Points," The Danque!! delivers one musical exclamation mark after another, festooned with every slithery variety of low-budget keyboard revelation you can imagine. If this doesn't get your friends out of the kitchen and into the lava-lamp's oozing glow, find new ones!

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7 songs for 12 credits?

Woody38

I don't understand why there are 7 songs for 12 credits. Explanation please.

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Well worth it!

Easy-Urf

I agree with all the reviews so far - this is one beefy compilation of heavy funk. If you like this, you'll like also like disc 1 of Sound Affects Malmaison: Africa (sadly not on Emusic... yet!?)

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Why can't all tracks be...

JohnLovejoy

...17 mins long! You just don't want the music to stop. Awsome album, more of the same please.

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This album is...

RichyP

...too good. there must be some illegality somwhere

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Awesome funk-inspired 70s afropop

Funkmeister

The folks at Afrodisiac dug very deep in the crates for this one... Check out the other release by Afrodisic as well. Solid, solid gold.

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