Floyd Lavine - "Creda Mutwa" - (6:18) 133 BPM
Mr Raoul K - "Raining Love" - (7:25) 118 BPM
Saudade - "Bougarabou" - (6:37) 124 BPM
Ten Fingerz - "Blow Da Conga" - (5:17)
128 BPM Basile De Suresnes - "Bastoss Afrok47" - (5:37) 125 BPM
Review: Since launching in May 2020, Frappe Records has released a string of multi-artist EPs, each with its own conceptual theme. They've continued this approach on Afrodisiaque, an attempt to join the dots between Afro-house and "the French sound of the early 2000s". Floyd Levine's opener, 'Creda Mutwa', offers a perfect encapsulation of this, combing jacking Chicagoan acid house grooves and wild TB-303 lines with densely layered African style percussion, while Mr Raoul K's superb 'Raining Love' is authentic West African deep house rich in fluid xylophone melodies, melancholic chords and foreboding electronic riffs. Elsewhere, Saudade hits the heights on the luscious 'Bougarabou', Ten Fingerz doffs a cap to the disco-house/Afro-house futurism of DJ Gregory's Africanism series ('Blow de Conga') and Basile de Surneses rolls out some rave-ready Afro-acid ('Bastoss AfroK47').
from $1.89FRPP 005
24 Sep 21
Deep House