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Few artists have already been more essential to the invention, development, and popularization of Afro-pop than Orlando Julius. Beginning within the ’60s, Julius was fusing traditional African noises and rhythms with those of American pop, spirit, and R&B. Apart from carrying out and documenting in his indigenous Nigeria, he spent …

Cameroonian musician Franck Biyong, leader from the band Massak, may be the creator from the “Afrolectric” sound. Afrolectric weds Afrobeat to vanguard jazz and electro-driven funk. Blessed in Cameroon in 1973, Biyong’s previously years had been also nomadic types: his family members lived in various places in Western world Africa …

The Daktaris were an Afro-beat group on the brand new York-based funk revival label Desco, recording compact, Fela Kuti-style grooves that sounded as if they’d come straight away from 1970s Nigeria. Initially, Desco did nothing at all to discourage that notion, product packaging their 1998 record Spirit Explosion to appear …