Originally released on Desco Records in the 1998, has been out of print for years. Fully remastered including new bonus track, In the Middle.
Extensive new liner notes by Bosco Mann explaining the real story
behind The Daktaris. Features members of The Dap-Kings and Antibalas.
And Jojo Kuo (drummer for Fela Kuti) on vox and percussion. The
Daktaris is a well-disciplined army of two hundred African Bull
Elephants marching relentlessly up your business to the beat from Funky
Drummer. Or so began the liner notes on the original pressing of this
album. Truth is often stranger than fiction. In 1998 Desco Records—a
precursor to Daptone and Soul Fire records— released The Daktaris’ Soul Explosion,
ostensibly as a reissue of an unearthed Nigerian LP from the seventies.
Though it’s now common knowledge that the story was a bit of a hoax,
the record’s significance as a seminal part of the Afrobeat and
afro-funk renaissance of the last two decades cannot be denied. The
roots of the Budos Band, Antibalas, and uncountable others can be traced
back to this enigmatic afro-funk release. Now, two decades later, Daptone has
remastered the album from the original tapes, including a bonus track
that had previously only been available on a 45, and featuring extensive
all new liner notes by Bosco Mann telling the bizarre true story behind
the Daktaris sessions.
- 1 Musicawi Silt
- 2 Musicawi Silt Part 2
- 3 Quiet Man Is Dead Man
- 4 Modern Technology
- 5 Super Afro-Beat
- 6 Give It Up Turnit Loose
- 7 Eltsuhg Ibal Lasiti
- 8 Daktari Walk
- 9 Voodoo Soul Stew
- 10 Upside Down
The Daktaris – Soul Explosion
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£19.99