4. Ata Kak – Daa Nyinaa

Stop right here!!! This is by far the best thing that has come out of Awesome tapes blog. It blew my mind and now the world is upside down and I don’t know if I’m standing of flying, or perhaps dancing!

● Ata Kak – Daa Nyinaa

Tags: 90s, Africa, Disco, Ghana, Hip-house, Rap

Posted on: Saturday, December 28th, 2013

5. Carte De Sejour – Ouadou

What the hell is going on? Is it a plane? No, it’s French, and it’s from the 80s, it’s great.

● Carte De Sejour – Ouadou

Tags: 80s, Europe, France, Rock

Posted on: Friday, December 27th, 2013

6. Onipa Nua – I Feel Alright

This is African Rock at it’s best. It’s impossible not to dance and smile when you hear this blast. Found on Awesome tapes from Africa (of course!).

● Onipa Nua – I Feel Alright

Tags: 90s, Africa, Ghana, Rock

Posted on: Thursday, December 26th, 2013

7. Runa Laila – Suno Suno Meri Ye Kahani

Wonderful song by Runa Laila, an Bangladeshi singer who started her career in the Pakistan film industry. She also has done playbacks for movies in Bangladesh, India and Pakistani film industries during late 60s, 70s, and the early 80’s. The song is from the albums Disco Diwane and Superuna. What a voice!

● Runa Laila – Suno Suno Meri Ye Kahani

Tags: 80s, Asia, Bangladesh, Disco-Reggae

Posted on: Wednesday, December 25th, 2013

8. Ilayaraja ft Kamal Haasan – Vikram Vikram

This Tamil megahit is taken from the 1986 Sci-fi action film Vikram. I have never seen the film but I’ve played this song over, and over, and OVER. I have played it so much that I started to hate it. Then I played it some more which resulted in love again! Well, it’s just in-fucking-credible.

● Ilayaraja ft Kamal Haasan – Vikram Vikram

Tags: 80s, Asia, film music, India

Posted on: Tuesday, December 24th, 2013

9. Cambodian Cassette Archives – Sat Tee Touy (Look at the Owl)

Very Danceble indeed! Amazing song taken from the Cambodian Cassette Archives: Khmer Folk & Pop music Vol. 1, released by Sublime Frequences. According to SF’s website the music on this compilation is culled from over 150 ageing cassettes they found at the Asian Branch of the Oakland Public Library in California. And what an album it is!

● Cambodian Cassette Archives – Sat Tee Touy (Look at the Owl)

Tags: 60s-90s, Asia, Cambodia, Cha-Cha Psychedelia, Easy-Listening, new wave, Sublime Frequencies, USA

Posted on: Monday, December 23rd, 2013

10. Rondo Veneziano – La Serenissima

We have now arrived to top TEN FEL songs ever. At place number ten we have this splendid track because we love baroque music. And pop music. Rondo Veneziano does both in one lovely blend with this song called La Serenissima. The only problem with this banger is that it’s just too short!

Don’t forget to checkout the video.

● Rondo Veneziano – La Serenissima

Tags: 80s, Baroque, Europe, Italy

Posted on: Friday, December 20th, 2013

11. Кино – Камчатка

This is by far the best Russian (including Sovjet times) song ever made. When I think of Russia and its culture, this is the soundtrack of the nation. I’m not sure what the song is about since I don’t speak russian, but with help of Google it’s not about the Kamchatka peninsula, instead I think he’s singing about an old underground rock club in Leningrad, but I’m not sure. When I Google translate the lyrics I find this amazing bit:

“I was looking for wine here,
and found the third eye
My hands are made of oak”

Not sure if Google are translating it right but hey, it sounds amazing!

● Kino – Kamchatka

Tags: 80s, Europe, Rock, Russia, Sovjet

Posted on: Thursday, December 19th, 2013

12. Sunforest – Overture to the Sun

The cembalo song of cembalo songs.

● Sunforest – Overture to the Sun

Tags: 60s, Europe, One Hit Wonder, Psychedelic Folk, UK

Posted on: Wednesday, December 18th, 2013

13. Jan Turkenburg and His Pupils Of The Geert Grote School – In My Spaceship

Jan Turkenburg, a music teacher at the Geert Grote School in The Netherlands, made this song together with his pupis around 2004 and it’s a masterpiece! The website is too! Don’t miss out the remix by Pilooski.

● Jan Turkenburg – In My Spaceship

Tags: 00s, Electronic Music, Netherlands

Posted on: Tuesday, December 17th, 2013

14. Moğollar – Dinleyiverin Gari

Another Moğollar hit! This one a bit more dancier than the other Moğollar song posted here earlier. If I’ve done my research right, it was recorded during the 70s. Grow a beard and press play!

● Moğollar – Dinleyiverin Gari

Tags: 70s, Anatolian rock, Turkey

Posted on: Monday, December 16th, 2013

15. Tiny Tim – I Got You Babe

It’s a cover yes. But what about the voice? It’s straight out of special street, you know the one. I don’t remeber the first time I encountered this magician of sound but I do remember what I heard was really weird and since then I can’t really get it out of my head. And it shouln’t get out of there either. Please stay in head 4ever Tiny.

● Tiny Tim – I Got You Babe

Tags: 60s, Cover, Ukulele, USA

Posted on: Sunday, December 15th, 2013

16. Александр Суханов – деревянном башмаке

We found this handsome fella during our Russian period when we were out googling for any MP3:s written in the cyrillic alphabet. This dude is not only a musician, he’s a poet and a mathematician! And according to wikipedia he created more than two hundred songs!

● Александр Суханов – деревянном башмаке

Tags: 90s, Europe, Russia

Posted on: Saturday, December 14th, 2013

17. Frank Chickens – We Say You Say

Frank Chickens are truly amazing. Well I haven’t heard something this great since I’ve was born. What happens here you might ask? I ask myself the same thing. Sound of wonderful brain. Sound of Frank Chickens.

● Frank Chickens – We Say You Say

Tags: 80s, Asia, Frank Chickens, Japan, synth-pop

Posted on: Friday, December 13th, 2013

18. Alhaji K. Frimpong – Kyenkyen Bi Adi Mawu

This song is perhaps our favourite Ghanaian song ever. It has everything. It’s funky, it’s chunky and it’s has the perfect melancholy that you’d think mr Frimpong himself was half Finnish! Found at Awesome tapes from Africa.

● Alhaji K. Frimpong – Kyenkyen Bi Adi Mawu

Tags: 90s, Africa, Ghana

Posted on: Thursday, December 12th, 2013