After 20 years of traveling around the world and six years of working for the famous label Analog Africa (he’s the man behind famous compilations SpaceMakossa & Space Echo), the DJ, producer, and percussionist is now based in Marseille and spends his time between his label et gigs in Europe (Londres, Paris, Worldwide Festival).
He founded Atangana Records in 2018, a label that is the logical follow-up to more than 20 years of travel, constantly on the lookout for new artists and music around the world. As a tropicalist globetrotter’, in this new project, Deni-Shain in partnership with Thomas Vicente, co-owner of the French restaurant Le Verre Volé, aims to dig, reproduce & transmit cross-cultural music, usually unreachable and less known by the public. The goal is simple: share the love of music and rediscover the pleasure of voicings, percussions and sadly forgotten harmonies, whether you find yourself in a jam-packed club or the intimacy of your home. Atangana’s first releases will be looking at the Caribbean’s Islands, especially into Haiti with the reissue – highly expected by various diggers – of the acclaimed single “Divizion” by singer Fédia Laguerre. Originally released in 1981, this first 12″ comes with a remix by Voilaaa and an instrumental cut exclusively based on the additional work by the French afro-collective.
Links: Facebook / AtanganaRecords / YouTube (Mellotron Session) / Radio Nova Mix
