FUSION series connect global musical traditions and today's electronic dance sounds, and some volumes have been on the abstract side, often more cerebral and chin-stroking than the booty-popping physicality of NGOMA series. Not this one.
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Even more than the Afro-Asian House of FUSION 3 and Middle Eastern Bass of FUSION 4, this 7th volume of pure African Percussion and Techno/Bass is firmly situated on the dance floor. Drawing upon the vast rhythmic resources across the mother continent, from places like Botswana, Burundi, Uganda, Ghana, Congo, Morocco, and more, with a touch of Afro-Cuba and the Afro-Caribbean, as well as selection and sampling of some of the great electronic music of today, FUSION 7 builds a fortress to dance, a bridge between then and now.
Tracklist: ngomasound.com/2013/09/06/fusion-7-a-f-r-o/