Pat Shange

I Love Africa / Dance Dub

South Africa · RBM 020

Credits

One record at a time, and the reason for each step.

D.C. Go-Go

Percussion that never stops: congas, cowbell and crowd chants holding one groove across a whole night.

Minneapolis Sound

Linn drums, Oberheim stabs, no horn section: funk rebuilt by one city's worth of overlapping bands.