Red Bull Music Academy Radio has exclusively recorded a live session by Karl Hector & The Malcouns at Africadelay, a quarterly afro music jamboree in Frankfurt hosted by Samy Ben Redjeb (head of the incredible Analog Africa record label) and Pedo Knopp, who's best known as one of the DJs behind Frankfurt's LAZY parties. Join the jam here!

Karl Hector & The Malcouns is the afrodelic kraut funk outfit from the minds behind the Poets Of Rhythm and the Whitefield Brothers. The group recently turned heads with their mind-blowing debut album on Stones Throw-offshoot Now-Again Records. With their afro-tinged funk music originating from the southern Sahara (but recorded in Southern Germany) they are following up recent funk phenomena like The Heliocentrics' percussive excursions into the astral realms of psychedelia.

The Poets Of Rhythm have been travelling the world for almost two decades to showcase their unique formula of deep funk, which includes many influences such as diverse as exotic rhythms from Ethiopia to Afghanistan. With countless releases on record labels such as Ninja Tune, Mo’ Wax, Quannum and Daptone they have proven repeatedly to be ahead of the game when it comes to futuristic rhythms, keys and horn sections on top of heavy drum beats.

Karl Hector himself has, to date, only appeared on one 7’’ from 1996, as the leader of the Funk-Pilots. For the seminal Sahara Swing LP, he has teamed up with Jay Whitefield (producer and guitarist for the Poets Of Rhythm and the Whitefield Brothers, and founder of the now defunct Hotpie & Candy Records), as well as Thomas Myland and Zdenko Curlija, founders of The Malcouns. Alongside Bo Baral, other members of the Poets of Rhythm and crack session musicians from Munich, Whitefield, Myland and Curlija have crafted nearly 20 tracks that follow the musical roads that Hector has travelled. The groove that ties these ideas together is as rooted in James Brown as it is in Fela Kuti, as informed by Mulatu Astatke as it is by Jean-Claude Vannier and Can. The result is an album of the world - not "world music" but music that will appeal to any culture ever transfixed by rhythm on "the one".

On The Floor! - Live at Africadelay, Frankfurt - Karl Hector & The Malcouns (Now-Again, Stones Throw)

BONUS:
On The Floor! - Live at Broad Casting, Cargo, London - The Heliocentrics (Stones Throw, Now-Again, UK)
On The Floor! - Live at Broad Casting, Cargo, London - Mulatu Astatke (Ethio-Jazz, Ethiopia)
Fireside Chat - Seun Kuti (Fela's Egypt 80, Tot Ou Tard, Nigeria)