Adrian Younge - Afro-Disco Makossa ACCIDENTAL SUICIDE The result is not only

The result is not only a career-defining work

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the whole record has a new feeling of space and atmosphere

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Adrian Younge - Afro-Disco Makossa ACCIDENTAL SUICIDE The result is not onlyAFRO DISCO MAKOSSA is the first album on Linear Labs built strictly for the dance floor, and Younge is uniquely qualified to make it. He didn't arrive at Afrobeat as an outsider paying tribute. Through his sister label Jazz Is Dead, he already helped define what modern Afrobeat sounds like. His sessions with Tony Allen (co creator of the genre itself) and Highlife pioneer Ebo Taylor didn't just inform his musical vocabulary; they produced two