Rob Reindorf was an indefatigable Ghanaian powerhouse, who died recently at the age of 77. Unpublished interview and tribute: Filip Kalinowski. Portrait: Sai Galaxy
Sampled by J Dilla and Madlib, reissued by Analog Africa and Soundway, the two legendary loose-up-yourself funk albums by Robert Roy “Rob” Reindorf from Ghana – Rob and Make It Fast, Make It Slow – outlived initially being commercial flops on the cut and thrust highlife-driven musical market of Western Africa of the late 1970s. While Rob moved away from the music industry for several decades, European and American crate diggers started to play and edit the eponymous track from his second album to the extent that the album’s price was boosted on Discogs to two and...
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