AWESOME TAPES FROM AFRICA

AWESOME TAPES FROM AFRICA (Los Angeles) After a stint in GHANA, BRIAN SHIMKOVITZ, a trained ethnomusicologist, has accumulated hundreds of tapes of rare african music from ZIMBABWE to ETHIOPIA to SENEGAL and far beyond. He has been sharing his bount through his immensely popular blog AWESOME TAPES FROM AFRICA, which he takes on the road as a DJ. Expect a highly explosive and danceable trip to the amazing and raw music cultures of an entire continent. Since 5 years, Brian has been djing all over the planet at underground venues as well as high profile festivals. He has turned his influential blog into one of the most important sources for African musics, established a record label of the same name that embarked on re-releasing some of his most cherished tapes on vinyl, CD, MP3 and of course K7, as well as giving the opportunity to long forgotten musicians to come back to the stage and perform to worldwide audiences.