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The Nigerian musician Fela Kuti would have celebrated his 70th birthday today, had he not died in 1997.

Like much of my music which I now consider canonical, I discovered him through my house music love story.

He first popped up as the author of "Shakara"[1] on playlists of David Mancuso's legendary The Loft. Playlists I discovered of course via the internet.

The pre-internet world was literally a terra incognita. If one found a record by Fela Kuti, one had to find good sources to discover the rest of his releases. Today we've moved to a terra cognita. One glance at Discogs is enough to discover the oeuvre of Fela.

What we still though, in spite of the terra cognita situation, are tastemakers. Biased tastemakers.

One more word on Fela, Woebot once said - I paraphrase - "I'll take King Sunny Adé over Fela Kuti any day. Too much redundancy in Fela."

I disagree. I like long pieces and love the Fela's trance. Which reminds me, I miss Woebot.


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