Name: Tabansi Records Sampler
Brand: Various

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

BBE592CCD

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2019-08-30

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

The Orchard

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

193483765358

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

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Various

Genre GB

African

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BBE is a UK based record label, short for Barely Breaking Even. Founded in 1996 by Peter Adarkwah and Ben Jolly, the label releases both original works and compilations. Known for their compilation series such as "The Beat Generation" and "Kings of...," BBE features a wide range of collections in genres like jazz, soul, hip-hop, r'n'b, house, drum'n'bass, and more. With a diverse roster of artists including *J Dilla*, *Pete Rock*, *Roy Ayers*, *Marley Marl*, and many others, BBE continues to be a prominent force in the music industry.
The label's association with German label G-Stone Recordings has further expanded its reach. Since its inception, BBE has released numerous acclaimed albums and compilations that have garnered critical acclaim and commercial success.
With an extensive catalog spanning over two decades, BBE remains dedicated to showcasing exceptional talent from various genres while consistently delivering high-quality music to its loyal fanbase worldwide.

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 the most successful record-man in the north of Nigeria. He’d set up Tabansi Records (later renamed Tabansi Music Publishers), in Onitsha, Lagos, 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. This sampler takes in just a few of the label’s highlights: the best in 70s and 80s West African highlife, afrobeat, funk, soul, boogie, disco, guitar-band bangers, soukous, rumba and major previously-unissued Ebo Taylor afrobeat / highlife masterpiece, and more. The selection on this sampler is deliberately mixed up. No artful ‘sequencing’, no cod-historical ‘contextualising’. We want you to hear hardcore village highlife and palmwine storytellers interspersed with psych-juju and boogie bangers; classic afrobeat followed by Nigerian soul ballads: we want you to get the picture, to get into the spirit of this beautiful eccentricity that’s Tabansi records!

Tabansi Records Sampler

Music GB