VA - Ghana Special 2: Electronic Highlife & Afro Sounds in the Diaspora, 1980-93 (2024)
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Highlife, Funk, Afrobeat | Label: Soundway Records
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 735 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 262 Mb | 01:52:26
Highlife, Funk, Afrobeat | Label: Soundway Records
In the early 1980s, a particular alchemy between new musical technologies and significant social, cultural, and political transformations in Ghana gave rise to a new style of highlife. Drum machines and synthesisers appeared alongside lilting guitar lines and punchy horns, and the emerging Ghanaian diaspora began incorporating US disco and boogie, R&B, European new wave, and Caribbean zouk and soca into their music.