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New Artist Song Album Label Comments
* Serenata Guayanesa Desesperanza Canta con Venezuela Smithsonian Folkways
Thomas Mapfumo and the Blacks Unlimited Juanita Go South: Dance Music South of the Sahara Earthworks / Rough Trade Zimbabwe, 1985.
Bopol Mansiamina Helena Heartbeat Soukous Earthworks / Virgin 1988.
Gerard Hubert Leve Zouke Hurricane Zouk Earthworks / Virgin 1988.
* Hailu Mergia and The Walias Eti Gual Blenai Tche Belew Awesome Tapes from Africa Ethiopia; reissue of 1977 album.
Bahta Gebre-Heywet Tessassategn eko Hasabe Mississippi Ethiopia.
Dorze Tribe Dorze Song Staring Into the Sun: Ethiopian Tribal Music Sublime Frequencies Recorded 2009.
Fulani Musicians of Fada N'Gourma Fulani Ensemble Savannah Rhythms: Music of Upper Volta Nonesuch Explorer 1981.
* Jungle Fire Firewalker Tropicoso Nacional
Joshua Sithole Uqalile Ukuba Nomona (You Are Jealous of Me?) Zulu Jive Carthage / Earthworks South Africa, 1984.
Lebombo Katawe Bullets Won't Stop Us Now!: Remember Soweto '76-'86 Konkurrent 1986.
Rex Rabanye O Nketsang (What Are You Doing to Me?) Sounds of Soweto EMI 1987.
* Cem Karaca Nemus Belasi Nem Kaldi? Pharaway Sounds Reissue of 1975 album.
Chaba Fadela and Cheb Sahraoui N'Sel Fik (You Are Mine) Rai Rebels Earthworks / Virgin Algeria, 1988.
* Aby Ngana Diop Ndadje Liital Awesome Tapes from Africa Reissue of 1994 cassette.
* Awa Sangho Emama Ala Ta Motema Mali.
Abdellah el Magana Kassidat el Hakka (The Poem of the Truth) Kassidat: Raw 45s from Morocco Dust to Digital 1950s-1960s.
* Khun Narin Electric Phin Band Sut Sanaen #2 Khun Narin Electric Phin Band Innovative Leisure Rural Thailand today.
Manu Dibango Abele Dance New Africa Celluloid 1985.
Zexie Manatsa and the Green Arrows Muti Usina Zita (A Tree without a Name) Zimbabwe Frontline Earthworks / Virgin 1988.
Dilika Amazimuzimu (Man-Eaters) Thunder Before Dawn: The Indestructible Beat of Soweto Vol. 2 Earthworks / Virgin South Africa, 1987.
Asi Kapela Yoyoyo Sound D'Afrique II: Soukous Island Zaire, 1982.
Ipi-Tombi cast Shosholoza Ipi-Tombi Original Cast Recording Ashtree 1975.