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Hi, my name is Nick and I have been a collector of African music since the 1980's. I found that the music available in the shops here was a bit limited and so I started to get friends, relatives and anyone else who was visiting Africa to bring me back what they could and it was nearly always on cassette with a few records now and again. Today, records and cassettes have disappeared from our shops, replaced by the CD. However, even today those CD's you find in our shops account for only a tiny fraction of Africa's musical output and most of the artists seem to live here in the West not in Africa anyway. Over there, the cassette still remains a popular and affordable format on which most music was and is still available. This web site is one of the very few sources of information about the huge majority of albums which have only ever been released on cassette. I have included a few images, track listing and some music clips but as I am sure you will appreciate that to do it for every album is a huge task that I don't envisage ever being completed, at least not in my lifetime anyway. However if you specifically request any extra information, if time allows I will be happy to provide it. I hope you enjoy browsing through the music and information and look forward to hearing from you.
Best wishes
Nick