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Leeroy: Fela Is The Future

Read "Fela Is The Future" reviewed by Chris May


Giving DJs license to reassemble recordings made by the auteurs of an earlier generation is a risky business. The remix of Miles Davis's “In A Silent Way" on Sony's 1999 album Panthalassa: The Remixes, for instance, moved one of the authors of the Penguin Guide To Jazz Recordings to write: “DJ Cam should be horsewhipped." Which would have been letting him off lightly. But fear not. Parisian DJ and remixer Leeroy's take on Afrobeat originator Fela ...

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