Zack & Geebah For The Love of Money

Zack & Geebah - For the Love of Money (2019) [Official Digital Download]

Zack & Geebah - For the Love of Money (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44.1kHz | 31:43 minutes | 341 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

‘For The Love Of Money’ is a long-lost Afro-disco-boogie-reggae masterpiece from Liberian duo Zack & Geebah, vinyl copies of which change hands for eye-watering sums on eBay. As part of its Tabansi Gold reissue project, BBE Music gives the album a top-quality, heavy-vinyl reissue, with original artwork, for the first time anywhere in the world outside 1980s Nigeria. Boogie classics like ‘For The Love Of Money’ and ‘No Peace No Love’ rub shoulders with the island-funk sound of ‘Take It Easy’ and the Toots-tinged funk-reggae ‘Home Is Home’, on to the soulful mid-tempo magic of ‘My Luck Will Shine’ and ‘Rock To The Music’. That old cliché ‘every one’s a winner’ is -for once- a truism!

VA - BBE Staff Selections 2019 (2019)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Dec. 12, 2019
VA - BBE Staff Selections 2019 (2019)

VA - BBE Staff Selections 2019 (2019)
FLAC tracks / MP3 320 kbps | 03:46:11 | 1,4 Gb / 516 Mb
Genre: Soul, Funk, Disco, World / Label: BBE

BBE Music proudly presents 2019's Staff Selections; a bumper package celebrating the last 12 months in the life of Barely Breaking Even, hand picked by the label team. It's been another action packed year in for BBE; one which opened with a sad goodbye to our old friend and UK music legend Paul 'Trouble' Anderson and was dominated by our landmark 500th release, a special Louie Vega / Leroy Burgess remake of 'Barely Breaking Even'- the track Peter Adarkwah decided to name his label after, all those years ago.

VA - Tabansi Records Sampler (2019)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Aug. 30, 2019
VA - Tabansi Records Sampler (2019)

VA - Tabansi Records Sampler (2019)
FLAC tracks / MP3 320 kbps | 01:13:09 | 170 Mb / 455 Mb
Genre: Funk, Soul, Afrobeat, World / Label: BBE Records

BBE Music proudly present a sampler of its major West African label series, Tabansi Gold, giving a taste of the sixty or so titles to be reissued over the next couple of years. Taking advantage of the growing lack of interest by the major labels in ‘local’ music, Chief Tabansi set up his own imprint in 1952, pressing up records at UAC, and promoting them through villages in ‘music vans’. By the early 70s, he was one of the most successful record business operators in Nigeria. He’d set up Tabansi Records (later renamed Tabansi Music Publishers), in Onitsha, complete with its own studios and pressing plant, and by the 80s, with the help of his son Godwin, he was promoting and developing many of Nigeria’s young musicians and stars, including reggae superstar Majek Fashek, whose 1988 album Send Down The Rain remains one the biggest local-selling African LPs of all time; Felix ‘Lover Boy’ Liberty, whose Ifeoma became a pan-African sensation; and Stella Monye, whose three LPs (two of them on the Tabansi label) established her as an international soul vocalist.