Tony Allen

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Go Back 04:09 Tools
Every Season 04:07 Tools
Ariya 08:45 Tools
Secret Agent 05:21 Tools
Go Back (feat. Damon Albarn) 04:03 Tools
Asiko 09:30 Tools
Afro Disco Beat 11:58 Tools
Day Like This Rework 03:35 Tools
Home Cooking 04:44 Tools
Moving On 00:00 Tools
Get Together 05:56 Tools
Jealousy 11:23 Tools
Politely 06:40 Tools
Crazy Afrobeat 04:53 Tools
Boat Journey 04:46 Tools
Celebrate 07:53 Tools
Go Back - Radio Edit 05:37 Tools
Elewon Po 05:43 Tools
Tiger's Skip 03:51 Tools
Kindness 05:19 Tools
Hustler 13:00 Tools
Ewa 04:11 Tools
Progress 09:48 Tools
Asiko (In a Silent Mix) - Motor City Drum Ensemble Remix 00:00 Tools
The Same Blood 08:12 Tools
Road Close (dance Dub) 06:44 Tools
Jakelewah 04:57 Tools
Koko Dance 00:00 Tools
Ijo 00:00 Tools
Afo KunfFu Beat 00:00 Tools
Moanin' 00:00 Tools
African Man 00:00 Tools
Eparapo 00:00 Tools
Black Voices 00:00 Tools
No Discrimination 00:00 Tools
Kilode (Carl Craig remix) 00:00 Tools
African Message 00:00 Tools
Calling 00:00 Tools
Ayenlo 00:00 Tools
ON FIRE 00:00 Tools
What's Your Fashion 00:00 Tools
Don't Fight 00:00 Tools
Busybody 00:00 Tools
Ise Nla 00:00 Tools
Woman To Man 07:02 Tools
Pariwo 00:00 Tools
Where The Streets Have No Name 00:00 Tools
Ire Omo 00:00 Tools
Nina Lowo 00:00 Tools
Alutere 00:00 Tools
Switch 00:00 Tools
Ikeja Roads 00:00 Tools
Moody Boy 00:00 Tools
CRUISING 00:00 Tools
Atuwaba 00:00 Tools
WOLF EATS WOLF 00:00 Tools
Tony Wood 00:00 Tools
One Tree 00:00 Tools
Ole (Moritz von Oswald remix) 00:00 Tools
Road Safety 00:00 Tools
Aye Le 00:00 Tools
Morose 00:00 Tools
Nepa 00:00 Tools
Kilode 00:00 Tools
BAD ROADS 00:00 Tools
Push And Pull 00:00 Tools
Losun 00:00 Tools
Moyege 00:00 Tools
Ole 00:00 Tools
Asiko: In a Silent Mix 00:00 Tools
Cool Cats 00:00 Tools
Awa Na Re 00:00 Tools
Woro Dance 00:00 Tools
Ogogoro 00:00 Tools
Swift 00:00 Tools
Black Voices (We Are What We Play mix) 00:00 Tools
Tony's Blues 00:00 Tools
Bag of Breaks 00:00 Tools
Love Is a Natural Thing 00:00 Tools
Gbedu 00:00 Tools
No Accommodation for Lagos 00:00 Tools
Nite Owl 00:00 Tools
African Heat 00:00 Tools
Afropusherman 00:00 Tools
Life Is Beautiful 00:00 Tools
Don't Fight Your Wars 00:00 Tools
Ewajo 00:00 Tools
Night In Tunisia 00:00 Tools
Niaja Breaks 00:00 Tools
The Drum Thunder Suite 00:00 Tools
Get Together - Folamour in Harmony Remix 00:00 Tools
Mister Cool T 00:00 Tools
Think About It 00:00 Tools
African Man (Ricardo Villalobos & Max Loderbauer Remix) 00:00 Tools
Ariya (PsychejujuMix) 00:00 Tools
After Hours Jump 00:00 Tools
Afrobeat Jam 00:00 Tools
Long Ride 00:00 Tools
Demon Nights 00:00 Tools
No Agreement 00:00 Tools
Every Season - feat.Damon Albarn 00:00 Tools
Africa Walk 00:00 Tools
No Accomodation for Lagos 00:00 Tools
Ariya (psychejuju mix) 00:00 Tools
Deeper 00:00 Tools
Asiko Revisited 00:00 Tools
Black Voices Revisited 00:00 Tools
Kingdom of Life 00:00 Tools
Afro-Disco Beat 00:00 Tools
N.E.P.A. 00:00 Tools
Every Season (feat. Damon Albarn) 00:00 Tools
The Same Blood Revisited 00:00 Tools
N.E.P.A. (Never Expect Power Always) 00:00 Tools
Olokun 00:00 Tools
Black Voices (12" Mix) 00:00 Tools
Get Together Revisited 00:00 Tools
Tony Wood (feat. Kuku) 00:00 Tools
Black Voices (we are what we p 00:00 Tools
Kilode - Carl Craig Remix 00:00 Tools
Ariya Revisited 00:00 Tools
Black Voices - Wawwp Mix 00:00 Tools
Afrodisco Beat 00:00 Tools
Asiko (In a Silent Mix) - Ricardo Villalobos Remix 00:00 Tools
Jekalewa 00:00 Tools
Women To Man 00:00 Tools
Afro KungFu Beat 00:00 Tools
Had It All 00:00 Tools
Road Close - Dance Dub 00:00 Tools
Nepa - Dance Dub 00:00 Tools
Flow 00:00 Tools
When One Road Close 00:00 Tools
Asiko - 10th Anniversary Remastered 00:00 Tools
The Same Blood - NIT Remix 00:00 Tools
Get Together - 10th Anniversary Remastered 00:00 Tools
Black Voices - We Are What We Play Mix, 10th Anniversary Remastered 00:00 Tools
Go Back (feat. Damon Albarn) [Fort Romeau Absolut Remix] 05:37 Tools
Love Is A Natural Feeling 00:00 Tools
N.E.P.A (Never Expect Power Always) 00:00 Tools
Meus Filhos Afrobeat Rework 00:00 Tools
Ire Omo (feat. Adunni & Nefretiti) 00:00 Tools
The Same Blood - 10th Anniversary Remastered 00:00 Tools
Never Satisfied 00:00 Tools
Ariya - Psyche Juju Mix, 10th Anniversary Remastered 00:00 Tools
Take Me Higher (Dave London Remix) 00:00 Tools
Check Yourself Baby 00:00 Tools
Many Questions 00:00 Tools
Insider (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Na Bangui (feat. Sandra Nkake) 00:00 Tools
Ise Nla (Wareika Hill Sounds Reggae Land Dub) 00:00 Tools
Hand full Of Sands 00:00 Tools
Ariya - Afrobeat Straight Mix Bonus Track 00:00 Tools
Asiko - Commodore Ballroom Vancouver 00:00 Tools
Pictures Talk 00:00 Tools
Take Me Higher (Original Mix) 00:00 Tools
Road Close 00:00 Tools
Yebre 00:00 Tools
Push Your Mind 00:00 Tools
Ariya - Jeff Sharel Remix Bonus Track 00:00 Tools
Insider 00:00 Tools
Awa Na Re (Bonde do Role Remix) 00:00 Tools
K.I.S. Compatible 00:00 Tools
Yese 00:00 Tools
Especially 00:00 Tools
Black Voices - Commodore Ballroom Vancouver 00:00 Tools
Ire Omo (feat. Adunni & Nefret 00:00 Tools
Miss Jealosey 00:00 Tools
Take Me Higher (DJ Viro Remix) 00:00 Tools
Kilode (Remix By Carl Craig) - Mixed 00:00 Tools
Be My Love, Be My Love 00:00 Tools
Sankofa (Hypnotic Brass Ensemble Remix) 00:00 Tools
City Girl 00:00 Tools
Don't Fight - Montreux Jazz Festival 00:00 Tools
My Touch 00:00 Tools
When One Road Close (Another One Go Open) 00:00 Tools
Nepa Dance Dub 00:00 Tools
Black Voices (The Funky Lowlives remix) 00:00 Tools
Why In The World 00:00 Tools
Come Back 00:00 Tools
african man - ricardo villalobos & max loderbauer remix 00:00 Tools
I 00:00 Tools
Yeshe - Montreal Jazz Festival 00:00 Tools
Ariya (Afrobeat Straight Mix) 00:00 Tools
Mojo (feat. Manu Dibango) 00:00 Tools
Kindness - Forum Cultural Mudial Sao Paulo 00:00 Tools
One Tree (dub) 00:00 Tools
Fuji Ouija (Diplo Remix) 00:00 Tools
Olokun (dance version) 00:00 Tools
If Love Was Money 00:00 Tools
Mojo (feat. Manu Dibango) [Bonus Track] 00:00 Tools
Black Voices [We Are What We Play Mix] 00:00 Tools
Asiko (In a Silent Mix) (Motor City Drum Ensemble Remix) 00:00 Tools
It Hurts To Be Hurt 00:00 Tools
No Accomodation - Montreal Jazz Festival 00:00 Tools
Ole (A Remix By Moritz von Oswald) 00:00 Tools
Lovers Mountain 00:00 Tools
Yeshe 00:00 Tools
Dreamin' Aka I'm Dreaming 00:00 Tools
Na Bangui (feat. Sandra Nkaké) [Bonus Track] 00:00 Tools
Eparapo - Montreux Jazz Festival 00:00 Tools
Asiko (In a Silent Mix) - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
The Same Blood (Tony Allen) 00:00 Tools
Ire Omo (feat. Adunni and Nefretiti) 00:00 Tools
Road Close [Dance Dub] 00:00 Tools
Go Back (Radio Edit) 00:00 Tools
I Found An Angel 00:00 Tools
Don't You Know 00:00 Tools
Every Season (feat.Damon Albarn) 00:00 Tools
Cute Thing 00:00 Tools
Introduction Lord's Prayer (I Promise to Serve You) 00:00 Tools
Ariya [Psychejujumix] 00:00 Tools
Black Voices We Are What We Play Mix 00:00 Tools
Elewon Po (Instrumental) [Bonus Track] 00:00 Tools
Afrodisco Beat 2013 00:00 Tools
Moyege (Mark's Disco Dub) 00:00 Tools
Everybody's Somebody's Fool 00:00 Tools
Have Faith In Me 00:00 Tools
Vai Ser Assim 00:00 Tools
If I Had Aladdin's Lamp 00:00 Tools
No Accomodation 00:00 Tools
Ariya Psychejujumix 00:00 Tools
Selfish Gene 00:00 Tools
Mojo (feat. Manu Dibango) [Bon 00:00 Tools
I Surrender 00:00 Tools
Give Me A Chance 00:00 Tools
Home Wrecker 00:00 Tools
Marks Disco Dub (Mark Ernstus Remix) 00:00 Tools
Love is a Natrual Thing 00:00 Tools
Jungle 00:00 Tools
Every Season [feat. Damon Albarn] 00:00 Tools
calling feat. mary & norman 00:00 Tools
ariya (catalyst remix) 00:00 Tools
Check Yourself 00:00 Tools
Kilode (Carl Craig Silode Straight Mix) 00:00 Tools
Asiko (In A Silent Mix) (Ricardo Villalobos Remix) 00:00 Tools
I'm Dreaming 00:00 Tools
It Hurts Me So 00:00 Tools
N.E.P.A. Dance Club 00:00 Tools
Time to Take a Rest Suite, Pt 00:00 Tools
Samba (San Palenque De Columbia Remix) 00:00 Tools
Afro Beatz - Remix By Robin Leduc 00:00 Tools
Ariya - Catalyst Remix 00:00 Tools
Ole (Cairo Version) [Salah Ragab Remix] 00:00 Tools
road close dance club 00:00 Tools
Black Voices - The Funky Lowlives Remix 00:00 Tools
Ariya (Unmixed) 00:00 Tools
Go Back (feat. Damon Albarn) [Radio Edit] 00:00 Tools
Every Season (feat. Ty, Damon Albarn) 00:00 Tools
Woman to Man feat. Ty 00:00 Tools
Intro/Afro Disco Beat 00:00 Tools
Woman To Man (feat. Ty) 00:00 Tools
Nepa (dance Dub) 00:00 Tools
Push Your Mind Break Beat Remix 00:00 Tools
What's Your Fashion (feat. Eska) 00:00 Tools
kilode (remix by carl craig) 00:00 Tools
Ole(A Remix by Moritz von Oswald) 00:00 Tools
What's your Fashion feat. Eska 00:00 Tools
Olokun [*] 00:00 Tools
Black Voices (The Funky Lowlives Mix) 00:00 Tools
Every Season (feat. Damon Albarn & Ty) 00:00 Tools
Regae Land Dub (Wareika Hill Sounds Remix 05:19 Tools
Push Your Mind Break Beat Rem 00:00 Tools
Don't You Know I Love You 00:00 Tools
Something on Me 00:00 Tools
Tetsuya's Theme (Newhma Generals Remix 00:00 Tools
Time to Take a Rest Suite, Pt.2 00:00 Tools
Asiko (Commodore Ballroom Vancouver) 00:00 Tools
Mojo 00:00 Tools
Take Me Higher 00:00 Tools
You Won't Let Me Go 00:00 Tools
Time to Take a Rest Suite, Pt.1 00:00 Tools
COME-A COME-A BABY 00:00 Tools
Go Back (feat. Damon Albarn) [Radio Edit] 2014 NEW TRACK 00:00 Tools
Awa Na Re (Bonde Do Roles Tony 00:00 Tools
Every Season (feat. Damon Albarn, Ty) 00:00 Tools
Ise Nla (Reggae Land Dub) (A Rework By Wareika Hill Sounds) 00:00 Tools
Moyege (Mark's Mix) 00:00 Tools
Time to Take a Rest Suite, Pt.3 00:00 Tools
N.E.P.A. (Dance Dub) 00:00 Tools
Leroy 00:00 Tools
Black Voices (the Funky Lowliv 00:00 Tools
Push Your Mind (Break Beat Remix) 00:00 Tools
Every Season [feat. Damon Albarn & Ty] 00:00 Tools
02 Black Voices (Commodore Ballroom Vancouver) 00:00 Tools
Go Back (Ft. Damon Albarn) 00:00 Tools
Go Back (feat. Damon Albarn) [] directed by Bernard Benant 00:00 Tools
Calling (feat. Mary & Norman) 00:00 Tools
Every Season feat. Damon Albarn 00:00 Tools
Every Season (ft. Damon Albarn) 00:00 Tools
No Agreement (feat. Res, Ray Lema, Baaba Maal, Postive Black Soul & Archie Shepp) 00:00 Tools
Elewon Po (Too Many Prisoners) 00:00 Tools
Do Your Will 00:00 Tools
Afro Disco Beat by Tony Allen 00:00 Tools
Ariya (Jeff Sharel mix) 00:00 Tools
Dont fight 00:00 Tools
dance of loa 00:00 Tools
On the Other Side (feat. Deon Campbell) 00:00 Tools
African Man (Ricardo Villalobos Max Loderbauer Remix) 00:00 Tools
Every Season feat. Damon Albarn & Ty 00:00 Tools
Trust in the Lord 00:00 Tools
Sankofa (Hypnotic Brass Ensemble) 00:00 Tools
Moyege (Marks Disco Dub) 00:00 Tools
Black Voices Revisited (feat. Clip Payne) 00:00 Tools
Na Bangui 00:00 Tools
Kilode (Original) 00:00 Tools
No Discrimanation 00:00 Tools
The Creator 00:00 Tools
Black Voices - 12" Mix 00:00 Tools
Ariya - Tony Allen 00:00 Tools
Kilode (Carl Craig) 00:00 Tools
Take Me Higher (Dave London 09 Mix) 00:00 Tools
African Man (Villalobos - Loderbauer ZuHouse Remix) 00:00 Tools
Ariya (Jeff Sharel Remix) 00:00 Tools
01 Every Season 00:00 Tools
You're A Mean And Evil Woman 00:00 Tools
Yeshe (Montreal Jazz Festival) 00:00 Tools
Baía 00:00 Tools
Woman to Man Featuring Ty 00:00 Tools
A NIGHT IN TUNISIA 00:00 Tools
Kilode ft. Zaki (Waajeed's Melon Mix) 00:00 Tools
K.I.S Compatible 00:00 Tools
02 Home Cooking 00:00 Tools
Every Season feat. D.Albarn 00:00 Tools
02 Ijo 00:00 Tools
Tell Me 00:00 Tools
Calling [feat. Mary & Norman] 00:00 Tools
What's Your Fashion [feat. Eska] 00:00 Tools
Interlude (I'll Go) 00:00 Tools
Chills 00:00 Tools
Kilode (Remix By Carl Craig) (Mixed) 00:00 Tools
Calling Featuring Mary & Norman 00:00 Tools
N.E.P.A Dance Dub 00:00 Tools
Woman to Man [feat. Ty] 00:00 Tools
N E P A (Never Expect Power Always) 00:00 Tools
Feel Loved 00:00 Tools
Awa Na Re (Bonde Do Role) 00:00 Tools
Moyege (Mark’s Disco Dub) 00:00 Tools
Get Together Revisited (feat. Mudbone Cooper) 00:00 Tools
Go Back (Featuring Damon Albarn) 00:00 Tools
Every Season - Damon Albarn, , Tony Allen, Ty 00:00 Tools
N.e.p.a 00:00 Tools
Marks Disco Dub (Mark Ernstus) 00:00 Tools
He's in Control 00:00 Tools
I'll Go 00:00 Tools
Na Bangui (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Don't Fight (Montreux Jazz Festival) 00:00 Tools
Crazy Afrobeat (proposed by Bashy) 00:00 Tools
Black Voices [Bonus Track] 00:00 Tools
Regae Land Dub (Wareika Hill Sounds) 00:00 Tools
Day Like This 00:00 Tools
The Drum Thunder Sweet 00:00 Tools
Wait on the Lord (feat. Joshua Mullins) 00:00 Tools
Calling (feat. Mary, Norman) 00:00 Tools
Crazy Afrobeat - Tony Allen 00:00 Tools
Moyege (Marks Mix) 00:00 Tools
Go Back feat. Damon Albarn 00:00 Tools
04 Kindness 00:00 Tools
11 Black Voices 00:00 Tools
Time to Take a Rest Suite, Pt. 2 00:00 Tools
Too Many Prisoners (Elewon Po) 00:00 Tools
take me higher (dave london's yes mater remix) 00:00 Tools
Don't Fight (Montreaux Jazz Festival) 00:00 Tools
Take Me Higher - Remix 00:00 Tools
01 N.E.P.A. (Never Expect Power Always) 00:00 Tools
Tetsuya's Theme (Newhma Generals 00:00 Tools
Black Voices [12" Mix][*] 00:00 Tools
Mojo (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
09 Woman To Man 00:00 Tools
03 Black Voices [We Are What We Play Mix] 00:00 Tools
Dem People Go 00:00 Tools
11 Gbedu 00:00 Tools
Every Seasons (Afro Tropic Remix Reconstructed By Nu Topic) 00:00 Tools
AWA 00:00 Tools
03 Don't Fight Your Wars 00:00 Tools
06 Ole 00:00 Tools
Black Voices - We Are What We Play Mix 00:00 Tools
Samba (San Palenque De Columbia 00:00 Tools
Wareika Hill Sounds 00:00 Tools
Asiko (In A Silent Mix) (Original Mix) 00:00 Tools
02 Yese 00:00 Tools
Take Me Higher - Dave London 209 Remix 00:00 Tools
Ole (Cairo Version) - Salah Ragab 00:00 Tools
Moanin 00:00 Tools
Kilode (Carl Craig Kilode Straight Mix) 00:00 Tools
Cella's Walk 00:00 Tools
What's Your Fashion Featuring Eska 00:00 Tools
Kindness (Forum Cultural Mundial Sao Paulo) 00:00 Tools
"Afro Disco Beat" - Tony Allen 00:00 Tools
Arya Safri Duo Mix 00:00 Tools
Elewon Po - Radio Edit 00:00 Tools
Black Voice (We Are What We Play Mix) 00:00 Tools
Take Me Higher - Original 00:00 Tools
Hustler - Mad Rey Remix 00:00 Tools
08 Eparapo 00:00 Tools
Hustler Super Disco - Monsieur Scott Reedit 00:00 Tools
Manny Questions 00:00 Tools
Na Bangui (feat. Sandra Nkaké) 00:00 Tools
Calling - Tony Allen, , 00:00 Tools
No Accommodation (Montreal Jazz Festival) 00:00 Tools
Kilode (Carl Craig Remix - Detroit Swindle re-edit) 00:00 Tools
Never Expect Power Always 00:00 Tools
Rockin' Shoes 00:00 Tools
What's Your Fashion - Tony Allen, 00:00 Tools
05 Olokun 00:00 Tools
Time to Take a Rest Suite, Pt. 3 00:00 Tools
Ariya Psyche 00:00 Tools
Stick Around 00:00 Tools
04 Love Is A Natural Feeling 00:00 Tools
04 Road Close (Dance Dub) 00:00 Tools
na waya 00:00 Tools
Asiko ['Heat'] 00:00 Tools
Secret agent (edit) 00:00 Tools
Brotherhood 00:00 Tools
Time to Take a Rest Suite, Pt. 1 00:00 Tools
Against The Wall 00:00 Tools
02 N.E.P.A. (Dance Dub) 00:00 Tools
Ariya - PsychejujuMix 00:00 Tools
Happy Valentines Day 00:00 Tools
The Willing 00:00 Tools
Take A Rest (Chateau Fight Remix) 00:00 Tools
Moody Boy- 00:00 Tools
Gbedu B 00:00 Tools
don t fight 00:00 Tools
Oooh Oooh Oooh 00:00 Tools
Ise Nla (Reggae Land Dub) (Wareika Hill Sounds Rework) 00:00 Tools
Sinuhe 00:00 Tools
Darker Side Of Night 00:00 Tools
03 When One Road Close (Another One Go Open) 00:00 Tools
Ariya (Mixed) 00:00 Tools
K.I.S. Compatable 00:00 Tools
Eparapo (Montreaux Jazz Festival) 00:00 Tools
Road close dub 00:00 Tools
Woman to Man - Tony Allen, Ty 07:02 Tools
Fuji Ouija 00:00 Tools
07 Ariya [PsychejujuMix] 00:00 Tools
Mousso 00:00 Tools
Ariya [Catalyst Remix] 00:00 Tools
Uhuru Pujama 00:00 Tools
Eparapo 7.11 00:00 Tools
Afrodiscobeat - Africaine 808 Rework 00:00 Tools
African Message - Mexican Institute of Sound Rework 00:00 Tools
Get Together (Folamour in Harmony Remix) 00:00 Tools
Leroy (mixed) 00:00 Tools
Baby Doll 00:00 Tools
07 Eparapo (Montreaux Jazz Festival) 00:00 Tools
Road Safety (Version 2) 00:00 Tools
Kilode (feat. Yinka Davies) 00:00 Tools
Star Of Love 00:00 Tools
Take Me Higher - H&H Kickin' Breaks 209 Remix 00:00 Tools
Time To Take Rest Suite (Part II) 00:00 Tools
Homecooking 00:00 Tools
Get Together (Nigeria) 00:00 Tools
Path To Wisdom 00:00 Tools
Ijo (Dennis Bovell dub) 00:00 Tools
Black Voices (feat. Clip Payne) 00:00 Tools
Time To Take Rest Suite (Part I) 00:00 Tools
Regae Land Dub (Wareika Hill Sounds Remix) 00:00 Tools
nepa dance club 00:00 Tools
Tony Allen - Secret Agent (Kixnare Regroove) 00:00 Tools
Ire Omo (feat. Ayo Adunni & Nefretiti) 00:00 Tools
Part 3 00:00 Tools
Time to Take a Rest Suite - Part 1 00:00 Tools
Get Together (feat. Mudbone Cooper) 00:00 Tools
Black Voices (Wawwp Mix) 00:00 Tools
Road Close [Dance Dub][Dub] 00:00 Tools
Afro Kung Fu Beat 00:00 Tools
Time To Take Rest Suite (Part III) 00:00 Tools
Take Me Higher (Dave London 209 Remix) 00:00 Tools
N.E.P.A. Dance Dub 00:00 Tools
Drum 00:00 Tools
Every Season (feat. Damon Alba 00:00 Tools
Concert à l'Atelier 00:00 Tools
God Gave Me You 00:00 Tools
Black - Slow Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Take Me Higher - H&H Kickin' Hard 209 Remix 00:00 Tools
No accomandation for lagos (Joystick Jay Edit) 00:00 Tools
Aunt Betsy Crossing the Rhine 00:00 Tools
Pusherman [Doctor L Remix] 00:00 Tools
Awa Na Re (Bonde Do Roles Tony Macumba Remix) 00:00 Tools
Awa Na Re (Bonde Do Roles Tony Macumba Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Holy Smoke Baby 00:00 Tools
Every Season - Damon Albarn 00:00 Tools
Women To Man feat. Ty 00:00 Tools
Go Back(Feat. Damon Albarn) 00:00 Tools
Part 2 00:00 Tools
Kindness (live) 00:00 Tools
Kilode - feat. Yinka Davies 00:00 Tools
No Accomodation (Montreal Jazz Festival) 00:00 Tools
Moyege (Mark’s Mix) 00:00 Tools
feat. Damon Albarn & Ty / Every Season 00:00 Tools
Kilode (Original Version) 00:00 Tools
The Same Blood (NIT Remix) 00:00 Tools
Looking For My Baby 00:00 Tools
Mama England 00:00 Tools
Kilode Remix 00:00 Tools
03 Don't Fight (Montreaux Jazz Festival) 00:00 Tools
On Such a Night As This 00:00 Tools
Hustler (Mad Rey Remix) 00:00 Tools
African Message (Mexican Institute of Sound Rework) 00:00 Tools
04 Yeshe (Montreal Jazz Festival) 00:00 Tools
Tetsuya's Theme (Newhma Generals Remix) 00:00 Tools
Ole Moritz Von Oswald Remix) 00:00 Tools
Yeah 00:00 Tools
Black Voices (Commodore Ballroom Vancouver) 00:00 Tools
17-06-16-01 - Tony Allen 00:00 Tools
Eparapo (Montreux Jazz Festival) 00:00 Tools
Yeshe (live) 00:00 Tools
Go Back (feat Damon Albarn) 00:00 Tools
Awa Na Re Remix 00:00 Tools
Kilode [Remix] 00:00 Tools
Awa Na Re [Remix] 00:00 Tools
Handfull Of Sands 00:00 Tools
Black Voices (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Dreamin' 00:00 Tools
/ Home Cooking 00:00 Tools
03 Many Questions 00:00 Tools
Every seasons (Afro Tropic remix reconstructed by Nu Tropic) 00:00 Tools
05 No Accommodation (Montreal Jazz Festival) 00:00 Tools
06 Kindness (Forum Cultural Mundial Sao Paulo) 00:00 Tools
Hustler Super Disco (Monsieur Scott Reedit) 00:00 Tools
Meus Filhos Afrobeat - Remix 00:00 Tools
Every Season (Ft. Damon Alban) 00:00 Tools
I'm Dreamin' 00:00 Tools
No Accomadation for Lagos 00:00 Tools
Ole [Remix] 00:00 Tools
Asiko (In a Silent Mix) [Motor City Drum Ensemble Remix] 00:00 Tools
www.alexnelson.eu 00:00 Tools
Jealousy Afrotech - Loya Reedit 00:00 Tools
Go Back (Radio Edit) (feat. Damon Albarn) 00:00 Tools
African Man (Ricardo Villalobos & Max Loderbauer Remix) 00:00 Tools
/ Kindness 00:00 Tools
Loving You 00:00 Tools
Time To take A Rest - Part II 00:00 Tools
Go Back (Fort Romeau Absolut Remix) 00:00 Tools
One Tree (Terrence Parker Spirit Of Unity Vocal Mix) 00:00 Tools
One more Time 00:00 Tools
Time To take A Rest - Part III 00:00 Tools
Jealousy (plays with Fela Kuti & Africa 70) 00:00 Tools
N.E.P.A. (Never Expect Power Always) [Dance Dub] 00:00 Tools
Eshe 00:00 Tools
I'm Still Your Fool 00:00 Tools
tONY aLLEN MOYEGE 00:00 Tools
02 Never Satisfied 00:00 Tools
every season feat.damon albarn & ty 00:00 Tools
Ariya - Psychejuju Mix 00:00 Tools
Drum Thunder Suite 00:00 Tools
Asiko (In A Silent Mix) Motor City Drum Ensemble remix 00:00 Tools
Elewon Po (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
04 K.I.S. Compatible 00:00 Tools
Ole - Mortitz Van Oswald deep percussion mix 00:00 Tools
Ole (Remix) 00:00 Tools
Ole (Moritz von Oswald Rmx) 00:00 Tools
Time To take A Rest - Suite Part I 00:00 Tools
Every Season - Feat. Damon Albarn & Ty 00:00 Tools
Tony Allen 00:00 Tools
Moyage (Mark's Mix) 00:00 Tools
Secret Agent (Kixnare Regroove) 00:00 Tools
Kilode (Remix By Carl Craig) [Mixed] 00:00 Tools
Woman to Man (Feat. Damon Albarn & Ty) 00:00 Tools
Jealousy Electro - Loya Reedit 00:00 Tools
Mark's Disco Dub 00:00 Tools
Asiko In A SIlent Mix 00:00 Tools
Three Continents 00:00 Tools
02 - Home Cooking 00:00 Tools
NEPA (Never Expect Power Always) 00:00 Tools
Every Season [2002] 00:00 Tools
Every Season's (Afrotropic Remix reconstructed by Nu Tropic) 00:00 Tools
Afrodisco Beat [1979] 00:00 Tools
Mr. Happiness 00:00 Tools
Ole (Moritz Von Oswald Mix) 00:00 Tools
Every Season (Featuring Damon Albarn) 00:00 Tools
Asiko (Live) 00:00 Tools
A1-Tony Allen - Kilode (Carl Craig Remix) 00:00 Tools
Ole (Remix by Moritz von Oswald) 00:00 Tools
Go Back [feat. Damon Albarn] 00:00 Tools
Woman to Man feat.Ty 00:00 Tools
Leroy - Nigeria 00:00 Tools
Asiko (10th Anniversary Remastered) 00:00 Tools
feat. Eska / What's Your Fashion 00:00 Tools
Afro-disco-beat - Tony Allen With Africa 70 00:00 Tools
Go Back ft. Damon Albarn 00:00 Tools
Take Me Higher [Dave London Remix] 00:00 Tools
05 Pictures Talk 00:00 Tools
Got My Egusi 00:00 Tools
Every Season's 00:00 Tools
Push Your Mind (Breakdown Beat) 00:00 Tools
kilode (carl craig mix) 00:00 Tools
Don't You Know (Take 5) 00:00 Tools
Ariya [Afrobeat Straight Mix] (Nigeria) 00:00 Tools
With Afrobeat 2000 - N.e.p.a 00:00 Tools
I.M 00:00 Tools
ole (moritz van oswald remix) 00:00 Tools
Too Many Prisoners (Elewen Po) 00:00 Tools
Moyage (Mark's Disco Dub) 00:00 Tools
crazyafrobeat 00:00 Tools
No Accommodation 00:00 Tools
Every Season ft. Damon Albarn 00:00 Tools
The Seed (Edit) 00:00 Tools
/ Don't Fight Your Wars 00:00 Tools
Eparapo - Tony Allen 00:00 Tools
01 - Every Season 00:00 Tools
Woman to man (feat Ty) 00:00 Tools
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Home Cooking - Tony Allen 00:00 Tools
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Time to Take a Rest Suite, Pt 1 00:00 Tools
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Hang Down Your Head and Cry 00:00 Tools
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Love Is A Nature Thing 00:00 Tools
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Born in Lagos, Nigeria in 1940, of mixed Nigerian and Ghanaian parentage, Tony Allen taught himself to play by listening to records made by the American jazz drummers Art Blakey and Max Roach. He began working as a professional musician in 1960, gigging around Lagos and variously playing highlife and jazz. Today living in Paris, Allen has long been acknowledged as Africa's finest kit drummer and one of it's most influential musicians, the man who with Fela Kuti created Afrobeat - the hard driving, James Brown funk-infused, and politically engaged style which became such a dominant force in African music and whose influence continues to spread today. Allen had to overcome strong parental opposition to realise his dream of becoming a professional musician. "My parents were...not keen. Back then, in Lagos, musicians were more or less thought of as beggars, or worse. But I just put it in front of them. I was an electrical technician, but I wanted to make a change. My mother was never happy about it, but my father, who was an amateur musician, eventually agreed." Allen started out as a jazz drummer. "Art Blakey was my big influence, and before that, before I started club crawling, it was Gene Krupa. When I started, I tried to play like Gene Krupa. Then I discovered Blue Note Records and Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers - it opened up another style to me. Max Roach was important too. I studied some lessons he wrote in Down Beat magazine about how to play high-hats. Most drummers in Lagos never used them, they were just a decoration on the kit, and I'd always thought that was something incomplete." It was, however, no easier making a living playing jazz in Lagos than it was anywhere else outside the USA in the early 1960s: Allen's first extended gig was with the Cool Cats, a highlife band fronted by Sir Victor Olaiya (the so-called "Evil Genius of Highlife", although Olaiya's group was then pretty much a "copyright band," playing covers of other artists' hits). When the Cool Cats split, Allen returned to his job as an electrical technician before joining other highlife groups including Agu Norris and the Heatwaves, the Nigerian Messengers, the Melody Angels and, finally, the Western Toppers. Allen was playing with the Western Toppers when he met Kuti in 1964. "Fela had been presenting a jazz records programme on NBC (Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation) on Friday nights. He decided he wanted to form his own jazz band and play the music himself in the clubs. He'd tried out several drummers, but none of them were what he was looking for. He began to think there was no-one suitable in Africa. Then someone recommended me to him. I auditioned - and he asked me if I'd learnt to play in the USA! I had the style he wanted. We played strictly jazz together for about a year, as the Fela Ransome Kuti Jazz Quartet, before we started Koola Lobitos." Koola Lobitos, formed in 1965, played a mixture of highlife and jazz. According to Allen, the music started out so complex and full of changes that the audience didn't understand what they were hearing. "In five minutes we'd use like five different arrangements (time signatures). It was just too complicated for the audience. They couldn't understand what was happening - except, possibly, the musically inclined ones who knew that the music was different from all the local things they'd been listening to. But it was a bit like showing off, so we decided to simplify things, giving each song two hook lines and a straightforward arrangement so that people wanted to dance." (A few years later, at the urging of funk musicians including Bootsy Collins and other members of James Brown's band they met on tour in the US, Kuti and Allen simplified things further. "One idea, one song" became the Afrobeat paradigm). Koola Lobitos' nascent Afrobeat would have been nothing without Allen's innovative bass drum patterns, which were unlike those used by any other kit drummer working in Lagos at the time. His bass drum dealt a double whammy, b-boom, b-boom. Where other drummers would play a single beat, Allen made it a double, giving Afrobeat its trademark forward thrust. "The bass drum patterns are unique to me," says Allen. "I'd never play one, one. Any drummer can play that straight beat. But that's just like putting a metronome in there." In 1969, Koola Lobitos made an extended visit to the US, where they lived a hand to mouth existence. "The living conditions were rough," says Allen. "We started on the east cost, where there were lots of Nigerian students, and we did well there. Then we went west, via Chicago, to San Francisco and Los Angeles." Audiences, which were still largely composed of Nigerians, grew smaller. "Fela got fed up just playing to Nigerians. He said if we were going to play to Nigerians, we might as well do it in Nigeria where there were a lot more of them." The Koola Lobitos album The '69 Los Angeles Sessions, made on the hoof towards the end of the tour, documents the emergent Afrobeat style of the band. Kuti's political consciousness, nurtured by his politically active parents back home - and soon to become a defining feature of Afrobeat - was sharpened in the US, where he befriended a black American woman called Sandra Isidore. A member of the Black Panthers, Isidore introduced Kuti to the ideas of such people as Malcolm X, Angela Davis, the Last Poets, Stokeley Carmichael and Eldridge Cleaver, all of whose thinking played some part in the development of Kuti's own political philosophy, Blackism. Once back in Lagos, Kuti renamed the band Africa 70 (it had in the US briefly been Nigeria 70, and was later tweaked to Afrika 70). With Allen forging the music's vibrant signature rhythms, and Kuti its incendiary lyrics, the duo had, within a few years turned Afrobeat into a style rivalling the then reigning juju and highlife in popularity. "Fela said I sounded like four drummers," says Allen. "I was the only one who originated the music I played." Fela used to write out the parts for all the other musicians. If Allen sounded like four drummers, it could have been because, in his mature Afrika 70 style, he was drawing on four different styles - highlife, soul/funk, jazz and traditional African drumming. A unique and mighty sound. (In 1970 when James Brown played in Nigeria, his arranger made careful study of Fela's band and Allen's drumming in particular, as did Ginger Baker, another disciple). Allen stayed with Kuti for close on 15 years, from 1964-1979/80 (it wasn't an overnight parting of the ways). He played on all Afrika 70's albums up until 'V.I.P. - Vagabonds In Power' (after which the band briefly dissolved, before Kuti formed Egypt 80). These include the classic mid-decade stream of discs documenting the post-colonial iniquities of Nigerian society and Kuti's (and Afrika 70's) increasingly bloody conflicts with the authorities - among them 'Alagbon Close', 'Everything Scatter', 'Expensive Shit', 'Yellow Fever', 'Zombie', 'Kalakuta Show', 'Before I Jump Like Monkey Give Me Banana', 'Sorrow Tears And Blood' and 'Fear Not For Man'. The band enjoyed massive popularity in Nigeria and elsewhere in West Africa, but (at home) were subject to constant harassment, and at times brutal physical attacks, from the army and the police. In 1975, Allen recorded his debut album, 'Jealousy', the first of three made with Afrika 70 and produced by Kuti. 'Progress' followed in 1976, 'No Accommodation For Lagos' in 1978. But by 1978 he was ready for a change of scene, and a year later he parted company with Kuti. The touring entourage had grown to outlandish proportions and there was talk of him not getting due respect or recompense for the contribution he had made to the creation of Afrobeat and the success of Afrika 70. "It's not a big story," says Allen today. "I was tired, I'd just had enough." His final studio collaboration with Kuti was on an album made with American vibraphonist Roy Ayers, 'Africa Centre Of The World' (released in 1981). In 1979 he formed his own band, Tony Allen and the Afro Messengers, and recorded his first album away from Kuti, 'No Discrimination'. Allen spent the next few years in Nigeria, and from 1981-83 led another Afrobeat band, the Mighty Irokos. The group enjoyed local success, but Allen had tasted international breakthrough with Afrika 70, and he had his eyes on a bigger stage. In 1984 he left Lagos for London, living there for eighteen months before moving to Paris, where he lives with his family today. "Lagos was too small for me and Fela. It was a small place, and I wanted room to take off without causing competition," says Allen. "I eventually chose Paris partly because the British immigration people were giving me difficulties, but also because African music was more happening then in Paris than in London, and my record company (Barclay) was in France. It was the only place I felt I could exercise my knowledge and make a living." Soon after arriving in Paris, he recorded an album with producer Martin Meissonnier, but, amid talk of unsatisfactory mixes, it remains unreleased. While still in London in 1984, with his band Afrobeat 2000, Allen recorded the album N.E.P.A. - Never Expect Power Always. The title track was a sardonic commentary on the erratic Lagos power supply which then, and still today, leaves the city at the mercy of regular power cuts. (The body responsible for the supply, or the lack of it, was the Nigerian Electrical Power Authority, hence the acronym). By the mid 1980s, although few other Nigerian musicians had committed to Afrobeat - "too difficult," says Allen - the music had made a profound influence on the other prominent Nigerian style, juju. Afrobeat's kit drum had become a regular part of juju line-ups (which had until then been dominated by talking drums), and Allen's style was picked up by juju drummers. Juju rhythm guitarists had also adopted Afrobeat's nagging "tenor guitar" riffs. Allen was one of the first to introduce the rhythmic power of Afrobeat to juju. In 1984, he toured with juju superstar Sunny Ade and guested on his 'Aura' album, to which he contributed one of his own songs, "Oremi," and he toured with Ade the following year. Throughout the 1990s Allen was a sought after session drummer and he collaborated with a range of artists including Randy Weston, Groove Armada, Air, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Manu Dibango and Grace Jones. During the years since Fela's death in 1997 Allen has become recognised as Afrobeat's torch bearer and he is held in reverence by musicians and fans alike. Recently the style has seen an upsurge of interest outside of Nigeria with dedicated clubs opening up in Europe and the USA and groups such as Antibalas and Masters At Work bringing the music to a new public. Allen's albums have become more frequent. 'Black Voices' was released in 1999, followed by 'Home Cooking', 'Tony Allen Live', 'Lagos No Shaking' and now, in 2009, the definitively tough and rocking 'Secret Agent'. The album with The Good, The Bad & The Queen was released in 2007, but Allen's association with Damon Albarn goes back some half dozen years. It came about after Allen heard the lyric "Tony Allen got me dancing" on Blur's 2000 song "Music is My Radar" and invited Albarn to Lagos to guest on Home Cooking. His association with Albarn continues, and includes the African Express events which aim to introduce African and European musicians to each other and encourage cross-fertilisation of ideas. Three decades after Allen made those classic albums with Afrika 70, Nigeria remains riven by the same injustices that the band protested against so vividly and courageously. The lot of the urban poor and middle classes is, if anything, worse today than in it was in the 1970s, and Allen has no regrets about basing himself in Paris. "Nigeria's not getting any better. Why else is everyone wanting to come to Europe? It's all misadministration and corruption, survival of the fittest. It's a complete motherf**ker of a place." "Music is my mission," says Allen. "I never get satisfied and I'm still learning from others. The musical world is very spiritual, and I don't think there's an end to it. As musicians, it's our mission to keep going." Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.