This release is compiled by Afrocat, in her 25th year as a DJ/Selector, Music & Culture Curator, Radio Show Presenter on the Blaxploitation Lounge…& an Adventurer!
She journeyed to Ghana & Ethiopia in 2024 to find these very special tracks.
Her mission; to explore and showcase the variety of vintage sounds, and re-invoke the spirit that emerged from the first revolutionary era in Africa, where independence, progress, unity & elevation reigned supreme.
…Enjoy!
Genres:
Afrobeat Highlife Gospel Jazz Ethio-Jazz World Music Psychedelic Funk
To Pre-Order, if you have a trade enquiry, or to get in touch about anything else, kindly email your desired quantity or your message to afrocatmusic@icloud.com and we’ll get back to you asap.
Pre-Orders for the Limited Edition, signed by Afrocat vinyl, will be taken until Friday July 18th 2025, so please put in your order by then!
Price – £25
P&P UK , Europe, USA , Worldwide
Catalogue No: LT001
www.afrocatmusic.com
Copyright @Afrocat Music 2025
In 2024, I embarked on a record-finding mission to Ghana & Ethiopia, to unearth some super-rare hidden musical gems, for my first compilation album release on @blaxploitationlounge –
Afrocat’s Lost Tracks: Accra to Addis
A sonic explosion of Vintage Afro-Jazz, Psychedelic, Highlife, Afrobeat, Deep Funk & Gospel…
to be released on Special Edition Vinyl & Digital download in summer 2025
If I’ve intrigued you, I’d like to invite you to take a look at my Video & some clips from the journey, where you can see me getting excited about the project, crate-digging, and performing along the way
For a glimpse of the flavour, take a listen to my Afrobeat special radio show on Slack City
A very special thank you to all my wonderful crowdfunding supporters, who enabled my mission to launch
Coming up on @blaxploitation_lounge on @slackcityradio live and direct from @theactorsbrighton this Friday 5th May 5:30-7pm I’m doing an Afrobeat special, with a lot of special, very rare, vintage tracks for y’all! Come down join the audience, have a drink, and enjoy the vibes as I do the show 😸
Afrocat’s Lost Tracks: Accra to Addis is a compilation album of vintage Afro jazz, psychedelic, funk, afrobeat and highlife tracks. Afrocat travelled to Ghana and Ethiopia to research these special tracks, and perform. The album is due to launch on December 7, 2024.
I’m just 30 mins I’ll be live on the main stage at the AsaBaako festival!
Head on down to Busua Beach and I’ll be the one in leopard print with the badassss tunes hehe 😼
Well…this post is what I wrote for my gig…but no internet…no problem! Chilling in the tropics…my mix, vids and pics coming soon! ❤️🇬🇭
One Dance
One Love
#busuabeach
#ghana
#selectress
@asabaakofestival
@afrocatmusic
@blaxploitation_lounge
I’m just 30 mins I’ll be live on the main stage at the AsaBaako festival!
Head on down to Busua Beach and I’ll be the one in leopard print with the badassss tunes hehe 😼
Well…this post is what I wrote for my gig…but no internet…no problem! Chilling in the tropics…my mix, vids and pics coming soon! ❤️🇬🇭
One Dance
One Love
#busuabeach
#ghana
#selectress
@asabaakofestival
@afrocatmusic
@blaxploitation_lounge
There has been an incident around Côte d’Ivoire that has caused disruption on the major undersea cables serving Ghana. This has disrupted internet and data services on MTN and Telecel (former Vodafone).
1. There is a cable breakdown between Accra and Dakar on SAT 3
2. The alternate path on WACS is also down
3. These outages could take long to come up
🫣 do you think Elon Musk behind it?!
Let’s check it out tonight with a special guests:
@afrocatmusic
@djpollyesther
@djfunnygh
Raver Foli
@tanzen3000_offiziell (dance activation)
@ssunday.co dance group
Muziki Band live Show
Let’s go 🥳
The Soul in Motion Brunch continues this and every Sunday @themixgh. Come by, chill, and catch a vibe.☺️
Kicking off our New Guest DJ Series @themixgh we are happy to present @afrocatmusic from the UK who will be playing a blend of Intergalactic Funk, Afro, Jazz, Reggae and Disco this Sunday at 2pm.
RSVP now! (https://bit.ly/SoMoReserve)
Selam from Ethiopia beautiful people!
I’m deep in reel-to-reels, vinyl, and live jazzzz on the trail for my Afrocat’s Lost Travks: Accra to Addis album
Sending much love to everyone following my journey and especially for believing in this idea…and that I would do it…and helping me to get here, this is for you 🖤🖤
I’m sooo looking forward to sharing the fruits of my sonic travels with you!
#ethiojazz #selectress #vinyl #cratedigging #reeltoreel #cassette #africanmusic #mamaafrica #mulatuastatke #addisababa #ethiopia #dj #musicislife 🎵
🌍🔥 Afrocat is flying in all the way from the UK to bless The Throwback with her signature Old School mixes! 🎧✨
Known for her seamless blend of international sounds and iconic throwback vibes, she’s about to take the night to a whole new level. Get ready to feel the energy as Afrocat brings her unique sound straight to the heart of the party. 🔥💃
Catch her live this Friday, September 20th at The Venue Warehouse!🎶🎉
#DJAfrocat #TheThrowbackVibes #UKToEthiopia #GoldenEraGroove #FeelTheEnergy
This is the party I’ve been waiting for in Addis…and even better to be hosting!
So happy to be sharing my sound with the one like Deejay ONE – love you and all your vibes 🖤
Join us on the sexiest rooftop in Addis @effoipizza as we mash up the dance hehe 😼
#addisababa #addisnightlife #digitaldj #energy #international #goodvibes #onelove ⭐️
On a rooftop, high above Addis Ababa soundcheck is underway @effoipizza !!
Looking forward to tonight’s session AND to my nbf in ET Deejay One joining me for a little spin
Soundsystem’s soundin phat, views are super and feeling extremely blessed
Let’s get it!!
#addisababa #addisnightlife #habesha #rooftopbar #african #meow 🔥🖤
The jazz, the jazz!
Moody, deep & highly evolved… just the way I love it!
Amazing nights here at African Jazz Village, the club of Ethiopia’s no 1 @astatkemulatu and at Ye Kermo Sew Jazz Cafe where @samuelyirga & co blew my mind for a relentless 3 hour jazz feast
The mama at the end was channeling some spirits from deep within the earth, and gave me a hug I will never forget!!
#ethiopianjazz #jazzinaddis #livejazz #addisababa #lovejazz #supremeskill 🔥🔥🔥
This project brings together my lifelong passions for music, culture, and bringing people together to spread some happiness, positivity & love!
Afrocat’s Lost Tracks: Accra to Addis is a compilation album of vintage Afro jazz, psychedelic, funk, afrobeat and highlife tracks. As a 1st generation half Ghanaian & half-Trinidadian, I grew up surrounded with vast and varied styles of music, and all the 70’s equipment and styles I could wish for! Now, armed with a suitcase record player, in my best retro safari suit, I’m ready to head off to Mama Africa, to uncover some very special tracks for myself.
I’ll be doing some research to shine a light on pioneering women musicians at the time in those countries, too.
The amazing collection of music I find from my travels, and from much crate-digging in Ghana & Ethiopia, will be released on lovely vinyl and be available on digital download, to launch the Blaxploitation Lounge label with this very first record.
My official goal is £4225 to enable me to reach my destination for 10 days each in Accra and Addis Ababa, research, compile and release the album. This includes, very importantly, paying the artists a fair contract fee, and for the remastering of the music – just enough to keep the essence, but enhance and optimise the sound quality.
My dream project would enable me to stay longer in each destination – 30 days, to enable me to follow more leads, and find more tracks to produce a double vinyl album – twice as nice! – get involved performing in gigs out there (I’m already confirmed for the Asa Baako festival in Ghana), go on a UK + Beyond Album Launch Tour of 6 locations involving live musicians, visuals, and all sorts of wonderful shenanigans, film/edit a Mini Documentary of my exploits, and receive a contribution fee towards my many hours work for this project. This would cost closer to £18,000.
I’ve spent a fair bit of time lovingly putting together these rewards in a way I feel will really value and thank you deeply for your contribution to this project, that is very much a life-changer for me…so I hope you agree, and enjoy them!
The goodies on offer include;
Please check FAQs for details about music perks estimated delivery.
Should I not reach my entire goal in this campaign, the funds I do raise will still go towards the creation of this album, the fulfilment of rewards that you, as my backer, will be happy with, and a release for the launch of the record label. I will work with the amount I am blessed with to see this through to the best of my ability, resourcefulness, and ingenuity!
Without your contribution this album may not happen, and that would be a very sad thing. So sad, I don’t want to even contemplate that possibility! There is currently no Black female DJ I’m aware of in this space, curating and creating albums in these genres, so you would be supporting a first. I want this to be a project open to collaboration and ownership from multi-disciplinary artists, record labels, poets, social entrepreneurs, activists, and creatives who are inspired to get involved in some way, so this project has the potential to evolve in some really exciting ways to a wider audience, with even more love. Afrocat’s Lost Tracks: Accra to Addis will explore this musical scenes of highlife, afrobeat, afro-psychedelia, afro-jazz, disco and funk that emerged from this infinitely creative, magnificent continent, to highlight the artists and sounds that have inspired and influenced a multitude of generations and genres.
The compilation is really the culmination of 23 years…and counting… of DJing and Selecting, that has already led me to unearth – and share – some very rare music. My passion for endless crate-digging, reaching for the roots, jumping down…and burrowing – as many rabbit holes as I can, and sharing the unrivalled heart, power, and quality that music possesses; has led to me DJing all over the world. The era of the tunes I’m seeking, are from a time when many previously colonised countries were gaining independence, beginning with Ghana, and the Civil Rights Movement was at its peak. The music of that time encompasses the hopes, joy, freedom, and struggles encountered, and the optimism to overcome them, and presents a whole experience through an overriding spirit of unity, love, and progress in the hypnotic grooves, polyrhythms, heartfelt lyrics, and originality of the people. This is a time-capsule of energy we could always do with more of, I believe! There is an exponentially-growing appetite for these genres, and a re-emergence in popularity for the wonderful medium of vinyl – amongst DJ’s as well as listeners and appreciators of music.
Ah, I could go on forever
But! For now, if you’ve made it this far, I’d like to think this sounds exciting to you too. Please do pledge now, and then share – if you can, and if you are moved to make this happen. You will be part of something that has great potential of being special and successful. You would be so much appreciated
For a glimpse of the flavour, take a listen to my Afrobeat special radio show on Slack City.
To show my love for your support, I have some exciting rewards in store for different donation levels. Stay tuned for more!
If you just can’t contribute, but love the sound of this album, your support in helping me to get the word out, and making some noise about my campaign, would be very, very much appreciated, too.
Do join me on my socials, and website and share my news!
And remember Dear All, this campaign runs for a limited time of 28 days.
I get some marketing help from Indiegogo if my project is 10% there in the first 48 hours (by Oct 16th!)…so please do pick a reward package, pledge, & share away now…you’ll be making my dream come true!
My eternal gratitude,
Afrocat xx
One Love, Bless
Perhaps, it depends on the venue and my associated costs. I’d be happy to have a chat to see what I can do, and at least offer your pals a discount!
They’re tbc, but currently the tour will include Brighton, London, Bristol, Liverpool, Glasgow, Cork, with potentially more locations to be added, in the UK + beyond…
Well, I’m glad you asked! I’ll be posting regular updates right here and on my socials and website, and I’d love to have you join me on there
Thanks for joining the party, and connecting with Afrocat! We’re looking forward to letting you know all of her sonic exploits! One Love
