Various – Africafunk: The Original Sound Of 1970s Funky Africa

On the CD release page, someone has commented that track 4 is incorrectly listed as Manu Dibango's African Battle, and that it's actually 'Soul Fiesta', and it may well be, this is all news to me because it was on this compilation that I first heard track 4. The track on this CD is killer, proper dance floor filler (if your audience is into funk/soul), with a really Baam Baam Bam, Baaaaam Bam Bam Baaaam' punchy rising lead multi-layered horn hook. I've looked up 'Soul Fiesta 'on my streaming platform & you tube, it starts with a similar conga intro, but then a fuzzy wah wah guitar lead comes in. The track listed as 'African Battle' on various sources is sometimes the track off this compilation, but it's sometimes a track that comes in with another very similar uptempo conga intro, but then a keyboard takes the lead, zero horns. Both these tracks are displayed with the 1972'Africadelic' album cover. An album that on the master release on here, lists tracks as 'Thème N°1' etc etc etc. No song titles. Yet some of the individual release pages show track names with titles .... and I'm wondering if this is where the confusion has arisen.

Could someone with the 'Africadelic' LP and the 'Africafunk' CD confirm which track number on the original LP corresponds? Thank you.

someone has to comment on this compilation, well dammit I guess it's gonna be me. So many highlights. Peter King's Ajo is like if Fela Kuti made groovy dance singles instead of 13 minute political adventures. Don't worry there's one of those as well with Fela's "Expensive Shit." Vecchio's "Megaton" is like an african "Scorpio" it is just a banging and funky instrumental. Matata's "Talkin Talkin" is clearly inspired by James Brown... and very good. It's all good.