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    Fela Kuti Roforofo Fight / The Fela Singles

    Knitting Factory Records
    • Fela Kuti – Rofororo Fight
    • 1. Rofororo Fight
    • 2. Go Slow
    • 3. Question Jam Answer
    • 4. Trouble Sleep Yanga Wake Am
    • 5. Shenshema
    • 6. Ariya

    Essential afro beat! A dancefloor bomb plus essential previously unreleased tracks! You need this!! This is a CD reissue of Fela Kuti's 1972 album Roforofo Fight, with the addition of two previously unreleased tracks from the same era. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!


     

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    Fela KutiHe Miss RoadStern's Africa
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      Fela KutiOriginal SufferheadKnitting Factory Records
      This edition of ‘Original Sufferhead’ is a major event. With the release of ‘Box Set #5’, and now on this reissue, the title track of this magnificent...
      • – Original Sufferhead
      • – Power Show
      Fela KutiO.D.O.O. (Overtake Don Overtake Overtake)Knitting Factory Records
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        • – Excuse-O
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        Fela KutiKalakuta ShowKnitting Factory Records
        The ‘Kalakuta Show’ album was Fela Kuti’s undaunted manner of extracting revenge on the military regime that attacked and brutalized him in 1974....
        • – Kalakuta Show
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        Fela KutiWhy Black Man They SufferKnitting Factory Records
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          Fela KutiOpen & CloseKnitting Factory Records
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          Fela KutiNo AgreementKnitting Factory Records
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            • – Pansa Pansa
            Fela KutiAfrodisiacKnitting Factory Records
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            Fela KutiFela's London Scene (50th Anniversary Edition)Knitting Factory Records
            Recorded at Abbey Road Studios in 1971. Essential Fela Kuti, featuring Tony Allen on drums!
            • – J'Ehin J'Ehin
            • – Who're You?
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            Fela KutiI.T.T.Knitting Factory Records
            'International Thief Thief' classic Fela from 1979
              Fela KutiShakaraKnitting Factory Records
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              • – Shakara (Oloje)
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              Fela KutiRoforofo Fight (2015 Reissue)Knitting Factory
              Essential afro beat! A dancefloor bomb! You need this!! KILLER REISSUE of Fela Kuti's 1972 album Roforofo Fight! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!
              • – Roforofo Fight
              • – Go Slow
              Fela KutiEverything Scatter (2015 Reissue)Knitting Factory Records
              Another killer gem from the undisputed 'King Of Afrobeat' Fela Kuti! Originally released in 1975. Expect nothing less than perfection. Sweet locked-in...
              • – Everything Scatter
              • – Who No Know Go How
              Fela KutiNa PoiKnitting Factory Records
              Hypnotic afrobeat bullet from 1972 - recorded in Lagos. Sprited percussion, tight horns, and pure funk! As with most of the great man's albums, this is...
              • – na poi (part 1)
              • – na poi (part 2)
              • – you no go die...unless
              • LP + Download Code KFR2021-1£20.99
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              Fela KutiExpensive ShitKnitting Factory Records
              'Expensive Shit' is one of Fela's most notorious albums! This killer afro-beat LP was originally release in 1975 and now gets a reissue on Brooklyn-based...
              • – Expensive Shit
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              Fela KutiSorrow Tears & Blood (2014 Vinyl Reissue)Knitting Factory Records
              Originally released in 1977, Fela and Afrika 70 rise to their peak with rowsing, radical stuff as espoused by 'Colonial Mentality'.
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                In 'Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense', Fela explains the role of the teacher in any society with the concept that all the things we consider to be problems...
                • – Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense
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                He Miss Road', also 1975, was produced by Ginger Baker. A deep and darker shade of afro-beat that is one of Fela's best.
                • – He Miss Road
                • – Monday Morning In Lagos
                • – It's No Possible
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                • – Beasts Of No Nation
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                • – Alagbon Close
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                • – I T T
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                  • – Ikoyi Blindness
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                        Limited smoke coloured vinyl edition
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                      • – Suegbe And Pako
                      • – Gbagada Gbogodo
                      Fela KutiArmy ArrangementKnitting Factory Records
                      Fela Kuti stories Nigeria’s attempt at ‘democracy’ in 1979 after more than a decade ofmilitary rule told through this album, originally released...
                      • – Army arrangement (vocal)
                      Fela KutiCoffin For Head Of StateKnitting Factory Records
                      Fela Kuti made some frantic albums in his career--ones that popped with his enthusiastic political disobedience and ones that roared with fury at the Nigerian...
                      • – Coffin For Head Of State part 1
                      • Original LP£8.00
                        Vinyl condition: POORSleeve condition: POOROriginal Nigerian vinyl POOR CONDITION
                      • LP + Download Code KFR2036-1£20.99
                        In stockAdd to Bag
                      • CD KFR-1021£7.99 £7.99
                        In stockAdd to Bag
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                        • – Underground System
                        • – Pansa Pansa
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                        1973 Nigerian afro beat funk at it's best from the master - Fela Kuti 
                        • – Alu Jon Jonki Jon
                        • – Eko Ile
                        • LP + Download Code KFR2008-1£20.99
                          In stockAdd to Bag
                        Fela KutiFela's London Scene (50th Anniversary Edition)Knitting Factory Records
                        Recorded at Abbey Road Studios in 1971. Essential Fela Kuti, featuring Tony Allen on drums!
                        • – J'Ehin J'Ehin
                        • – Who're You?
                        • – Buy Africa
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                        'International Thief Thief' classic Fela from 1979
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                          1972 Fela Kuti anthem! This is afro beat at it's finest...ESSENTIAL!!!    
                          • – Shakara (Oloje)
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                          • – Zombie
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                          Hypnotic afrobeat bullet from 1972 - recorded in Lagos. Sprited percussion, tight horns, and pure funk! As with most of the great man's albums, this is...
                          • – na poi (part 1)
                          • – na poi (part 2)
                          • – you no go die...unless
                          • LP + Download Code KFR2021-1£20.99
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                          • – Expensive Shit
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                            • – Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense
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                            • – He Miss Road
                            • – Monday Morning In Lagos
                            • – It's No Possible
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                            • – I T T
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                                      Surprise collaboration between Floating Points and the legendary, American, spritual jazz saxophonist Pharoah Sanders with The London Symphony Orchestra....
                                      • – Movement 1
                                      • – Movement 2
                                      • – Movement 3
                                      • – Movement 4
                                      • – Movement 5
                                      • – Movement 6
                                      • – Movement 7
                                      • – Movement 8
                                      • – Movement 9
                                      Kenya Special: Selected East African Recordings From The 1970's & 80'sSoundway
                                      Soundway return with another instalment in their acclaimed african "special" series - this time focussing on 70's and 80's Kenya!Having delved deep into...
                                      • The Loi Toki Tok – Ware Wa
                                      • Slim Ali & The Famous Hodi Boys – Watoto Nyara
                                      • The Mombasa Vikings – Mama Matotoya
                                      Fela KutiKoola Lobitos 64- 68 / The '69 LA SessionsKnitting Factory Records
                                      Wicked early reissue album from cult african hero Fela Ransome-Kuti with his first band Koola Lobitos from 1965! In early 1965, just as the West African...
                                        Tall Black Guy 8 Miles To MoenartFirst Word Records
                                        Championed by tastemaker Gilles Peterson, even including him on his Brownswood Bubblers series, Tall Black Guy drops his debut LP on First Word! Haling...
                                        • – You Look Like A Tall Black Guy Intro
                                        • – The Dark Streets
                                        • – Funeral BIz / Welcome To Detroit Interlude ft. Malice,Mario Sweet
                                        • – From Home, To Work, And Back...
                                        • 1. – You Look Like A Tall Black Guy Intro
                                        • 2. – The Dark Streets
                                        • 3. – Funeral BIz / Welcome To Detroit Interlude ft. Malice,Mario Sweet
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