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Afrobeat is getting closer to Ithaca... Last night my daughter came along with me on the 54-mile trip to Syracuse to see the Chicago Afrobeat Project at Funk'n'Waffles. What a cool place! It's a former coffeeshop in a basement under a bar. It was started by two guys who like funk music and made a name for themselves serving waffles at parties as students at Syracuse University. So now they have a business serving up funk, and waffles. And they've got the good funk: crates of records from 1970 plus or minus five years (the kind of stuff I've been getting into recently thanks to the 4 Brothers Beats blog), which they keep spinning on a turntable while the clientele chows down. Here's what it looks like inside:
The Chicago Afrobeat Project is also in "active" status on the Internet Archive, though there's only one show there so far. Somebody post more, please!