In 1978 the French producer Bernard Treton recorded sessions of four "tradimodern" bands in Kinshasa. This later resulted in the groundbreaking album Za?re: Musiques Urbaines ? Kinshasa, released in 1986 by the label Ocora, an album that for the first time presented electrifying music, later known as "Congotronics", to a Western audience. The current album Kinshasa 1978 (Originals & Reconstructions) by Crammed Discs offers eighty minutes of previously unreleased original recordings from these sessions as well as brand-new "reconstructions" by renowned French producer and DJ Martin Meissonnier, known for his collaboration with artists such as Fela Kuti or Don Cherry. The reconstructions will be released on vinyl; the previously unreleased original recordings are enclosed on CD with the LP
