This album features music produced in sub-Saharan West Africa from the late 1950s up to the early 1980s - a golden era in African music. With highlife guitars and horns, Guinean big-band music, early Senegalese mbalax with its tasty Latin influences and the funky Afro-beat sound that shakes the hippest dancefloors across the globe, this is the big beat of West Africa! Artists include – E.T. Mensah, Geraldo Pino & The Heartbeats, Bembeya Jazz, Dexter Johnson & The International Band feat. Laba Sosseh, Celestine Ukwu, Balla Et Ses Balladins, No. 1 De Dakar feat. Doudou Sow, Horoya Band, Super Sweet Talks, Sir Victor Uwaifo & His Melody Maestroes, Eric Agyeman, Orchestre Rail Band De Bamako feat. Salif Keita and Orchestre Baobab