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    The Best Of Jicco Funk Vol. 1Various Artists

    Dig This Way Records
    • Jah Children – Giving Love To Your Fellow Man
    • The Combats – Rock On
    • Black Gold – I Want You
    • Freedom Family – Africa My Fathers Land
    • The Combats – Let's Get Together
    • The Sea Men International – Satan Don Come Across
    • Felix Lebarty's Gang – Port-Harcourt Girls
    • Jimmy Sky & The Gaylords – World Need Peace
    • 1. Jah Children – Giving Love To Your Fellow Man
    • 2. The Combats – Rock On
    • 3. Black Gold – I Want You
    • 4. Freedom Family – Africa My Fathers Land
    • 5. The Combats – Let's Get Together
    • 6. The Sea Men International – Satan Don Come Across
    • 7. Felix Lebarty's Gang – Port-Harcourt Girls
    • 8. Jimmy Sky & The Gaylords – World Need Peace

    Dig This Way put the spotlight on the music released through Nigerian label Jicco Funk in the late 70s and early 80s. The first volume in the series focuses on the label's reggae and funk releases, particularly the intersection where the two genres converge as a hybrid production that at times is neither one nor the other...

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                                          Barnyard BeehiveNumero
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                                            Krautrock Eruption: An Introduction To German Electronic Music 1970-1980Bureau B
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                                                • New 2×LP (Coloured Vinyl) NUM517LPC2£30.99
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