Old music: Dissidenten – Sahara Elektrik

Germany meets Morocco in a strange and exhilarating record from 1984 It's not just the sunloungers the Germans get to first. Sometimes – very occasionally – they're first with music too. The problem is that myopic Brits often tend not to notice, and so the achievements of our brethren from mainland Europe are belittled or ignored. That's the case with Dissidenten, a group from Berlin who were experimenting with mixing African and European music decades before Damon Albarn had thought of chec...

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