Offering up a two hour mix of exclusive, unreleased music from the Sheba Sound vaults. Modern-day recordings of raw music from all over Ethiopia. With pounding dubs from the mixmaster Nick Manasseh. https://www.mixcloud.com/Shebasound/sheba-exclusives-mix/
This extended Dub mix produced by Sheba Sound showcases the traditional song ‘Yisare Hinena’ sung by Nebiyu Hamdi; recorded in Welkite, Ethiopia in 2015. The original mix can be found on the recently released album ‘Out of Addis.’ The Dub mixes showcased here were made by UK Dub producer Nick…
Originally released with Sofrito, Sheba Sound, direct out of Ethiopia, delivers an exclusive hour-long Ethio-R&B mix of cassette releases from the 70s and 80s. All sorts of bluesy gems that have stayed out the limelight. None of the songs on this mix to our knowledge were ever pressed up on…
In celebration of the first 10″ release, Sheba Sound has great pleasure to introduce a teaser mix for it’s forthcoming album. All the songs have been recorded across Ethiopia over the past two years. The album forms part of Paradise Bangkok’s new project ‘Eastern Connection’, and was mixed in London…
The second in a series of mixes of obscure Ethio-funk Chichika gems, direct from Sheba Sound. None of the songs on this mix were ever pressed up on a record, or reissued on CD. They are all original sounds recently dug up from old cassette shops around Ethiopia. In 1974…
A while back, DJ Yonatan was asked by a label in the UK to compile an album of Ethio-funk songs from the 70s that were never reissued. As a DJ in Addis, his immediate inclination was to do a comp on the Amhara “Chichika” beat – the one that gets…