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Luaka Bop has been around 25 years, which in record label time feels weird. Like we have had many lives, and many era’s though, fact of the matter, for much of this time, Luaka Bop has been pretty much the same small thing clinging tenaciously to it’s parallel existence.

My name is Eric Welles Nyström and I work for Luaka Bop. Originally, I come from Sweden. William Onyeabor comes from Nigeria and you might wonder what any of those things might have to do with each other. That’s what I’m going to tell you now.

Inigo Garayo is a Basque film maker who has been making a series of portraits of Luaka Bop artists, both current and past, as part of our 25th Anniversary. He went to visit Jim White in Jim’s home town of Athens, Georgia and made a whole slew of pieces of Jim’s world. This is one…

I thought we’d write a very long back story about this album from Eric and I for you to perhaps read if you have the time some evening when you’re done with the day’s doings. It goes like this:

We were designing how our pre-order should look and we mistakenly put this limited edition release of Good Name on sale! They all sold out pretty immediately, damn. However we have a couple in the office and if your in NYC on Saturday, come on by the record fair in the Brooklyn Flea/Smorgasberg at the…

OK Africa covers our latest edition of Inigo Garayo’s series of filmed portraits of Luaka Bop’s artists.

I’ve written a couple of blog posts but not published them, maybe I didn’t think they were finished or good enough or something. However now that we are close to releasing our compilation of William Onyeabor let me see if I can talk about this.