AFROBEAT COLLECTION - Fela & Femi Kuti, Tony Allen and more

This is a collection of afrobeat music i have acquired over the years. I have already posted about an year ago my Fela Kuti collection at demonoid (under my second alias euzebije) but in the meantime I started gathering his recordings in higher mp3 quality. Almost all of these albums that are in 320kbps are ripped from FLAC sources that I've found on the net, which were ripped from original CD's claiming to be DIGITAL REMASTERS of Fela's recordings. However, sound quality on those so called remasters is more or less the same, and that is due to the fact that most of Fela's master recordings were destroyed, mostly in army raids on Calacuta republic. But I have been able to correct many things in this collection that I've overlooked in the previous one. For example, most notably the biggest difference can be seen on (1989) Beasts Of No Nation, which had only part 2 of the named song, now it is in full length, and such is the case with 1985) Army Arrangement, both songs are in full, almost half-an-hour length. Some recordings do sound better than before, some the same. C'est la vie. I also included all Femi and Seun Kuti's albums, Ginger Baker's Stratavarious which features Fela, and Fela's drummer Tony Allen's full discography. Nothing is compressed, so you can choose which albums to download, if you want only certain ones. P.S. - One more difference from the old collection, this time I have tried to put Fela's albums into chronological order. - I have removed some albums, like Zombie (USA) was, which featured previously released tracks, for the reason that someone just patched those songs from previous releases together, rather than ripping from an actual source. P.P.S. - Regarding my internet connection. My download speed is 3mbps, but my upload speed is pitiful 0.3mbps, and since this is a really big one, PLEASE BE PATIENT. FULL ALBUMS LIST: FELA KUTI (1969) Fela Fela Fela - 256kbps (1970) Fela's London Scene - 320kbps (1971) Why Black Man Dey Suffer - 320kbps (1971) Na Poi - 256kbps (1971) Shenshema - 320kbps (1971) Ariya - 320kbps (1971) Open And Close - 320kbps (1971) Live! - 320kbps (1972) Shakara - 320kbps (1972) Roforofo Fight - 320kbps (1973) Gentleman - 320kbps (1973) Afrodisiac - 256kbps (1974) Alagbon Close - 320kbps (1974) He Miss Road - 320kbps (1975) Expensive Shit - 320kbps (1975) Noise For Vendor Mouth - 320kbps (1975) Everything Scatter - 320kbps (1975) Confusion - 320kbps (1975) Kalakuta Show - 320kbps (1976) No Bread - 320kbps (1976) Ikoyi Blindness - 320kbps (1976) Yellow Fever - 160kbps (1976) Upside Down - 192kbps (1976) Before I Jump Like Monkey Give Me Banana - 320kbps (1976) Again, Excuse O - 320kbps (1976) Zombie [Nigeria] - 320kbps (1977) J.J.D. - Johnny Just Drop - 320kbps (1977) Sorrow, Tears And Blood - 320kbps (1977) Opposite People - 320kbps (1977) Stalemate - 160kbps (1977) Fear Not For Man - 192kbps (1977) No Agreement - 320kbps (1977) Shuffering And Shmiling [Nigeria] - 192kbps (1978) Shuffering And Shmiling - 320kbps (1978) Zombie [France] - 320kbps (1979) Unknown Soldier - 320kbps (1979) V.I.P. - Vagabonds In Power - 320kbps (1979) I.T.T. - International Thief Thief - 320kbps (1980) Authority Stealing - 320kbps (1980) Music Of Many Colors - 320kbps (1981) Coffin For Head Of State - 320kbps (1981) Black President - 320kbps (1981) Original Suffer Head - 320kbps (1984) Live in Amsterdam - Music Is The Weapon - 192kbps (1985) Army Arrangement - 256kbps (1986) Mr. Follow Follow - 320kbps (1986) Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense - 320kbps (1989) Beasts Of No Nation - 320kbps (1989) O.D.O.O. - Overtake Don Overtake Overtake - 320kbps (1990) Confusion Break Bone - 192kbps (1992) Underground System - 256kbps (2000) The Best Of The Black President - 320kbps FEMI KUTI (1989) No Cause For Alarm - 192kbps (1991) M.Y.O.B. (Mind Your Own Business) - 128kbps (1995) Femi Kuti - 256kbps (1998) Shoki Shoki - 256kbps (2001) Fight To Win - 256kbps (2004) Africa Shrine - 256kbps (2008) Day By Day - 256kbps GINGER BAKER (feat. Fela Kuti) (1972) Stratavarious 192kbps SEUN KUTI (2008) Many Things - 256kbps TONY ALLEN (1975) Jealousy - 256kbps (1977) Progress - 256kbps (1978) No Accommodation For Lagos - 256kbps (1978) No Discrimination - 256kbps (1984) N.E.P.A. (Never Expect Power Always) - 320kbps (1989) Afrobeat Express - 192kbps (2000) Black Voices - 320kbps (2001) Psyco On Da Bus - 320kbps (2003) Home Cooking - 320kbps (2004) Live - 320kbps (2006) Lagos No Shaking - 320kbps (2009) Secret Agent - 256kbps MISC. TRACKS - Black Egypt & Bukky Leo - Precious Mother - 128kbps - Brett Dennen feat. Femi Kuti - Make You Crazy - 192kbps (from Dennan's "Hope For The Hopeless" album, 2008) - Rachid Taha feat. Femi Kuti - Ala Jalkoum - 320kbps (from "Rachid Taha Live" album, 2001) - Tunde Williams with The Africa 70 - Mr. Big Mouth - 192kbps That's it. Hope all afrobeat lovers will like this! PEACE!!!

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hipster80 (2009-08-13)

What a collection!! Thx dude

aetbanan (2009-09-09)

thanks for sharing!! i won't download it all at once, it's too much to take.. but i will keep seeding for sure!

majalogan (2010-03-13)

This is unbelivably awesome, finally someone took the time to put a proper Fela release out there! Thank you so much!
Perhaps you should put the Fela albums out as a separate torrent too ? There are too many dodgy / incomplete Fela torrent collections out here, as far as I can see this is by far the best one.
Are there any albums by Fela missing ?

tamabald (2010-05-07)

all the albums are here, the only thing missing are the singles, which are impossible to find

tamabald (2010-05-07)

i forgot to say thanks.
p.s. and i didn't think to bother with separating fela here from the rest, i think all torrent programs are able to give you a choice of selection which files to download and which not to.
cheers!

Krulj (2010-05-23)

What a beauty! Thank u so much.

majalogan (2010-06-04)

hi tamabald yeah man I know that you can separate them out in the torrent prog if you want -
I was just suggesting to put out a "Fela Kuti discography PROPER" torrent so people will pick this one - for all the people who might be getting into Fela for the first time and won't be searching for "afrobeat" or something .. that way they would pick this particular, superior Fela collection, not the numerous low quality / disorganised / skipping etc. Fela torrents out there ...

majalogan (2010-06-13)

If you have all the discs it would be awesome if you ripped into a lossless high quality FLAC version !

tamabald (2010-07-21)

TO:majalogan
- yes, now i understand what you meant, and i think it's a good idea to put Fela into a proper collection. especially in losless format. however...
1) most of these albums that are in 320kbps mp3 have been ripped by me from flac sources, that took me years to find from various obscure sites. what i already said is that the quality of those doesn't differ from the quality of any other decent rips, since all the so called "cd remasters" are done from the same poor quality sources because there are no Fela masters, they were almost all destroyed in raids on his residence in kalakuta.
i have done careful comparisons of those cd-ripped flac sources with the ones i already had in poorer mp3 quality (256kbps or under). what it seems is that someone who wanted to distribute those cd's just used whatever he/she could grab his hands on, in most cases those same mp3 sources that circled around the net, and in a few cases the sound was obviously better because they actualy did succeded in finding a much better source somewhere.
now, those are still far from the quality of a real lossless file. when i compared the 320 rip with the flac source there was absolutely no difference at all. that's why i decided to keep the mp3's, just for the sake of disk space. what's the point of having lossless filess that aren't really lossless?
2) a buddy from the demonoid site, justin1145 here, asked for my permission to upload the torrent of the Fela collection i had at the time at demonoid, here at piratebay. it's here at
now, that was before i ripped all those flacs i found and sorted them all properly, so many of those are in poorer quality than the ones here.
i'm having a very tough time here where i live. i'm out of work and i can't afford much of the things i could before. online time is one thing among those. guess it would take ages to seed somethign big like this... so... if you want to upload a proper torrent of these improved quality Fela's only, instead of me, i have nothing against it. au contraire! :)
cheers!
PEACE!

newmouse (2010-11-29)

Thanks VERY much tamabald.
I know how difficult it is to get many of these Albums .
You have done a great job of hard work here to
put this all together.
Thanks @@@

azza1969 (2011-07-28)

thanks for the fantastic collection,I'm just getting into this guy ...he is amazing !!!Just a dumb Q though,how do i just download the albums i want ?ive tried highlighting them and then click download but doesn't work...any help out there?

meetch (2011-10-05)

Thank you very veryvery veryvery veryvery veryvery very much. God bless you real good. Looking for these songs for their prophetic value. Thank you very much - especially Coffic for head of State 1981. The lyrics are very true in today's Nigeria.

everbleed (2011-10-23)

A big thank you, tamabald, for this stellar upload and the hard work you've put into it. I hope things are much better for you on the employment front. Allah bless you.

tubeamp (2012-05-26)

Thank you for this!

mdesmet (2012-11-10)

Thanks for the Upload!

JayRippa (2013-06-20)

Ello!
Thanx very much indeed for all of this. It makes really happy!!! Including the whole body of work (until now) from Mr. Tony Allen is so great, 'cause he was and is always the driving force and heart beat of it all. Respec'!!! and...
PEACE