Hot Mule

18/12/2023

We have made 100 Limited edition Wagadu Tees with ⚡️

Green on white 🍃 brick on white 🧱
From S to 2XL

👉 Grab yours now (link in comment)

Local pick up in Paris available (dm for more info)

10/08/2023

Friends in Tokyo, our José Carlos Schwarz & Le Cobiana Djazz compilation is now available at the wonderful EL SUR RECORDS

Thank you so much Takashi San for sharing your knowledge and for a memorable evening of chats and music ✨

09/06/2023

Merci à Nathalie Piolé d'avoir diffusé "Estin", accompagné de quelques mots sur José Carlos Schwarz, hier dans le dernier épisode de Banzzaï sur France Musique.

Estin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDE4SMnzdRo

Lua Ki Di Nos Vinyl https://hotmule.bandcamp.com/album/lua-ki-di-nos

26/04/2023

"Po Ka Ta Bida Lagartu" and "Lua Kata Kema" by José Carlos Schwarz & Le Cobiana Djazz were recently featured in the series El Presidente ⚽️

Thank you to Lynn Fainchtein and her team for carrying out that project🙏

Lynn has been collaborating with the great Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu since Amores Perros as well as supervising music for series and movies like Sin Nombre, Hell or Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma amongst others ✨

08/03/2023

Excited to announce we have partnered with VMP to bring back N’draman Blintch’s Cosmic Sounds for a limited batch of 500 copies, available exclusively to VMP subscribers from today for the first 48 hours, then to the general public.
(link in comment section) 👈

Originally reissued back in 2018 in collaboration with Secousse, the album has repeatedly been out of stock and we’re thrilled to know it will now find new homes in North America and beyond.

The music is available on all streaming platforms and on bandcamp for hi res files.

27/02/2023

Pensées pour Romain Ghezal et la famille Toure K***a

01/02/2023

Ce samedi 4 février avec nos amis Sweet Apric∞ts Soundsystem et Pol Vals, de retour à l’Espace Albatros de 21h à 6h ✨

(Dessins de Sofia et Neil 💜)

"𝐒𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐜∞𝐭𝐬 » est une soirée née d'un projet utopique d'un système son audiophile diy, respectueux des tympans, et permettant une immersion totale dans la scène sonore pour ainsi réexplorer certains registres complexes en Rare groove, Ethno-Jazz et Deep Dance avec des lueurs psychédéliques."

04/10/2022

This short documentary on José Carlos Schwarz produced by ELEPHANT will premiere today at 6.10pm on ARTE. It will also be available for a few days (on demand for french and german speakers).
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Le poète et musicien José Carlos Schwarz est un artiste révolutionnaire et mystérieux. Son engagement reste gravé dans la mémoire de ses compatriotes. Plongé dans la révolution indépendantiste contre les colons portugais, il combat d’abord avec ses mots. Très vite, il entre dans la cland...

23/09/2022

Tomorrow in Lisbon with top people, join us ⚡️

07/09/2022

I can’t wait to join our friends and in Lisbon for the first on Sept 24th at Fábrica Braço de Prata]

Wonderful to witness the birth of a new party made with love, come and join us 💫

"Beija Flor is a new dance party based in Lisbon for friends, dancers and music lovers with an analogue sound system to share psychedelic, organic and all genres of music where you can free your mind and move your butts!

Hard to say how it started... But one thing is for sure, we found a big source of inspiration at in London. A party run by friends and a community of music and party lovers. A space where David Mancuso’s philosophy comes to life and pushes it into the future in its unique way.

We wanted to name this hi-fi sound system that has travelled with our projects over the years. That’s why we chose the pollinating hummingbird, also inspired by Pierre Rhabi. As it’s a way of highlighting music with no boundaries and creating an inclusive and safe space for all identities to express themselves through music, with love. Because that's what it's all about.

Our first party will be at Fábrica Braço de Prata] on the 24th of September! Intimate vibe, wood floor, small capacity, we suggest coming early 🙂"

13/07/2022

It is with great sadness that we share the news of A.B. Crentsil’s passing last night.

Our thoughts are with his friends and family.

Rest in Peace A.B. Crentsil (1943-2022)

23/06/2022

Merci Phonographe Corp 💛

👉 Limited edition 10" vinyl / Stream: https://linktr.ee/Hot_Mule_Records

MINI-CHRONIQUE 🌐

Une fois par semaine (plus ou moins), on vous parle d’un disque en accéléré, en quelques mots. Une mini-chronique, rapide.

Secousse et Hot Mule n’en finisse plus de nous ravir, sortie après sortie : voilà qu’ils exhument deux titres d’A.B. Crentsil, poids lourd Ghanéen du Highlife et membre de Sweet Talks. Sur « Obi Baa Wiase », on trouve un funk synthétique asymétrique, solaire et futuriste. Un Highlife 2.0, ralenti et breaké dit « Bürger Highlife », mélange en fusion qui rejaillit aujourd'hui.

> secousse.bandcamp.com/album/obi-baa-wiase

20/06/2022

"Highlife heavyweight A.B Crentsil is a revered figurehead of the polychromatic Ghanaian music scene, and here Hot Mule and Secousse join forces to re-issue one of his biggest – and least expected – hits. (...) The heart-wrenching devotional theme of ‘Obi Baa Wiase’ contemplates themes of faith and gratitude, eventually becoming Crentsil’s most requested song following a slow-but-steady rise into the subconscious of his many fans. A touch more energetic but no less emotionally charged, the horn-filled wonder and immaculate choral chants of ‘Sika Be Ba’ complete the EP, primed to ignite re-issue delight among esoteric diggers and disciples of the global groove."

Thank you Juno Daily & Patrizio

DJ heaven is only a click away SINGLE OF THE WEEK Holy Tongue - III (Amidah) Valentina Magaletti’s drumming is becoming something of an omnipresent force making leftfield rhythmic

10/06/2022

Records have finally landed, and preorders have been shipped today!

Happy belated release day to our partner .radio and ourselves 🎉

This release is limited to 500 copies so grab your copy on bandcamp before it’s too late 👉 (link in bio)

And big thanks to for the nice words 🙏
(Right after the typo on Crentsil’s name at the end, the review concludes with : "…proclamation of joy - put this on at the party and the room are (sic) sure to start moving"

07/06/2022

Merci Radio Nova 💛
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Buy / Stream :https://fanlink.to/hnJc

Un disque avec une histoire comme on les aime sur Radio Nova.

20/05/2022

⚡️Obi Baa Wiase / Sika Be Ba is out on all platforms today (link in comment section)⚡️

Due to manufacturing issues at the plant vinyls will ship out on the 10th of June.

Limited edition 10” vinyl (500 copies) cut at 45rpm, housed in poly-lined inner sleeve, including 2 pages insert with illustrated liner notes.

Co-produced with .radio
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16/05/2022

"Secousse and Hot Mule synergise, and shine, collaborating on a reissue of A.B. Crentsil’s sought after 1992 feel-good Burger Highlife hit, Obi Baa Wiase. Its whistling synth melody bouncing along on bright, uplifting, piano, the sublime production boasting both a soaring backing chorus, and some serious, serious guitar from Ralph Karikari."

Thank you Ban Ban Ton Ton

Paraphrasing the Soul Sonic Force and sorting through today`s releases for tunes that could have graced Alfie & Leo`s Amnesia dance floor. A.B. Crentsil’s Ahenfo Band – Obi Baa Wias…

19/04/2022

HTML009: A.B.Crentsil's Ahenfo Band - Obi Baa Wiase (10" + Digital - Limited to 500 copies) / Out May 20th 2022
In collaboration with Secousse
Wholesale: The Pusher Distribution

A.B. Crentsil is a heavyweight of Highlife music and the main vocalist of Sweet Talks, one of the most popular Ghanaian bands of the 1970’s. In 1992, musician Charles Amoah and producer Richie Osei Kuffour offered him the opportunity to explore a new popular sound: Bürger Highlife. Little did he know these studio sessions would give birth to the biggest song of his career.

Charles Amoah, who had released his Sweet Vibrations LP in 1984 to great acclaim and extensively toured in Europe with bands such as Black Earth, and Saraba, was eager to bring a new sound to Crentsil, an artist he had admired for years. Throughout the 1980’s, Highlife had been changing pretty radically, following the same evolution as Congolese Soukous, Caribbean Zouk and most popular black music genres of that era: Heavy use of drum machines, synths and digital technology was conveniently replacing big bands and expensive analog studios and equipments. Mostly recorded, produced or mixed in Germany, this new breed of electric Highlife dubbed ‘Bürger Highlife’ could be defined as a fusion of Disco, Jazz, Funk and Pop with the popular Highlife beats, rhythms and lyrics.

According to A.B. Crentsil, the name was a reference to the ever present American cultural influence on Ghanaian musicians. Charles Amoah has his own take: “I initially called this particular kind of Highlife ‘Ethno Pop’. Bürger is the German word for citizen, and that’s how Ghanaian musicians living and working in Germany were calling each other”.

20/02/2022

We're always on the lookout for entries on Cedric's website, so it is a treat to find both our 2021 releases (amongst other personal favourites) in his expectedly superb end of the year list.

Written with a contagious love for music, this gargantuan round-up (divided in 2 parts) is a read we very much recommmend!

Despite the ongoing pressing plant chaos and ever increasing costs of making records, 2021 saw more than a healthy amount (!) of exceptional releases, on every genre and format imaginable. My previous blog post focused on the singles and here I will put my attention to my favourite albums and reissu...

06/02/2022

Chaque semaine, « Les Jours » chroniquent des disques en miroir. Aujourd’hui, quarante ans d’Antilles secouées par les boîtes à rythmes.

20/12/2021

"Du presque techno « Back To Amazonia » au presque dub « Chamonix », la musique de Teddy Lasry suinte l’amour d’un son qui se danse et ne sacrifie jamais le fun sur l’autel de l’expérimentation. Pourtant si on se sent obligé de « presquifier » tous les qualificatifs de sa musique, c’est justement parce qu’on y est toujours un peu perdu, ou plutôt un peu pompette."

Merci Goûte Mes Disques

À la fois aubaine et business, l’exercice de la réédition du classique (avéré ou qui s’ignore) et de l’excavation de vieilleries disparues du circuit...

17/12/2021

November & December 2021 round-up on The Attic
Thank you for including Teddy Lasry in this one

Here's our selection of 45 albums released in November and December 2021.

15/12/2021

Terrific selection by Andrew Jervis celebrating 2021 reissues on Bandcamp. Thank you for showing love to José Carlos Schwarz & Le Cobiana Djazz ✨

Lua Ki Di Nos (2021) 👉 LP / Digital: https://hotmulerecords.fanlink.to/e53f

Our favorite reissues and unearthed vintage gems from 2021. Plus we welcome Westbound, the home to Funkadelic and friends.

13/12/2021

Last night's mix on Radio Nova for Get a room! is available here if you missed it. Thanks again to Jeff & Aurélien for having me!

Un set dans l’esprit du label qui déniche, réédite des disques afro, funk, zouk...

10/12/2021

Always a pleasure to visit and chat with Teddy Lasry 💙

We are running low on stocks for the comp but a few copies are left on our bandcamp, or for wholesale at

This release won’t be available on streaming platforms, so grab a copy while you can!