Mantus
Midnight Energy

LA-based label Emkay Records put out just one album, and this is it. Free Love hailed from St Louis and was led by Philip Westmoreland with production by Kent Washburn and Oliver Sain. Plenty of others featured such as backing vocals from The Georgettes, bass from Tom Zuzenak, vocals from Marcus Kelly and many more who helped to make this such a fantastic and soulful album. It's mega-rare these days and so this reissue, in deluxe form, is welcome in deed and allows you to tap into some of that endless retro love.

Witch singles are well known by collectors of worldly sounds, but they have never sounded as good as they do now on this reissue seres by Sharp-Flat. Each one has been remastered from the original analogue tapes for the first time ever. These two are taken from the Zambian band's seminal 'Movin' On' LP from 1980. At that time they had survived the Zamrock years and built up a fine catalogue of psych and prog sounds but then took inspiration from the newly emerging electronic sounds of the 80s and reaches new highest. These two brilliantly funk and soul-filled disco stompers prove that and cemented the band as African disco powerhouses.