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Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti (15 October 1938 – 2 August 1997 ), known professionally as Fela Kuti, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, or simply Fela, was a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, pioneer of Afrobeat music, human rights activist, political maverick & leader of Fela Ransome Kuti & Africa 70. HMV Magazine ranked him as #46 on a list of the 100 most influential musicians of the 20th century. The musical style performed by Fela Kuti is called Afrobeat, which is essentially a fusion of jazz, funk, highlife, and traditional Yoruban chants and rhythms. It is characterized by having African-style percussion, vocals,...

The Uptown Felaz (TUF) is a Budapest-based crew and is a joint-project of several people who have known each other for a long time. Their first big nick was in 2002 when they wrote the soundtrack for the Hungarian movie "Tesó" ("Bro'", Best Script @ Hungarian Film Week). The success of the motion picture gave a boost for the team, and they started to show and give out their own tracks to friends and foreign djs, hence their music started to spread. One of their first tunes "Brainstorm" landed at Dom Servini, by the help of Robin of Dublex Inc....

KnifeLadder have been in existence since 1997 but the evolution to produce their Organic Industrial sound began well before. Jonh Murphy and Andrew Trails had been playing regularly on the the same bills of Industrial acts in Australia and on one occasion played together in a performance act called "My Father Of Serpents". They stayed in touch and agreed that when both in London to renew their partnership and begin work on something new and intense. This occurred in 1997 and the beginning of KnifeLadder had been formed... Hunter Barr and Andrew Trails had already established themselves in Industrial acts...

Joe "Sdumo" Mafela (1942 - 18 March 2017) was a South African actor, writer, producer, director, singer and businessman. In 1996, Gallo Records released the album Shebeleza Fela, with the popular hit "Shebeleza (Okongo Mame)". It was a huge success, and "Shebeleza" was a theme song during the Africa Cup of Nations in 1996. Since then, Mafela has recorded and released several other albums of Zulu-language songs. Born in Sibasa, Transvaal, South Africa, Mafela was brought up in Kliptown and White City Jabavu, in Soweto, near Johannesburg, and then his family remained until 1990 in the Tshiawelo Township that had...