The Sound Of Club Secousse is a new CD/digital compilation from globally-minded party outfit Radioclit. It’s due to be released by Crammed on November 3.

The selection includes some of the African dance music anthems that have fuelled the Franc0-Swedish duo’s Club Secousse nights and informed their Afro-electronic band project, The Very Best.

“Some say dance music was born in the ’70s New York disco scene, others talk about those famous German robots,” says Etienne Tron, the French half of Radioclit. “Over the last few years it became clear for us that this trance-inducing, percussive music could be traced straight back to the African continent – and that this culture was flourishing there more than anywhere else.

“We launched our club night Secousse in 2008 with a simple challenge in mind: to bring people together and promote worldwide ghetto culture. It felt like nightlife was getting more and more segregated everywhere we went, with less and less connections between the Afro scene, the gay scene, the hipsters… Mainstream music culture was becoming an oppressive and stagnant machine, dance music was stuck and our interest in hip hop was quickly fading out.

“We were thirsty for exotic sounds,” he continues, “And started exploring as many local ghetto scenes as we could. The discoveries were endless: Native American Indian Pow Wowmusic, Brazilian funk, Syrian Dabke, Funana from Cabo Verde, Congoles Soukous, Coupe Decale out of Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone’s Bubu music, Kuduro from Angola, UK’s grime, dubstep and funky house scene, DJs and producers from South Africa’s Durban and Pretoria, Columbian Afro-cumbia scene, Soca and Merengue from the Caribbean islands, Chicago’s Juke, Houston’s Screwed and Chopped music, Baltimore club beat, Tsonga Disco and Shangaan tribal sounds…

“Our DJ sets became a picture of that insane neverending trip, jumping from one continent to another, one era to the next, bringing together superstars and unknown talents from the past, present and future in a glorious and chaotic way. We felt very much part of a new generation of kids jumping on that global culture bandwagon, iPods running on shuffle mode all day every day.”

For an idea of what to expect music-wise, check out the videos below.