Congotronics

PopMatters says all but one track were recorded in Kinshasa and one live in Amsterdam; Discogs credits, via a search summary we could not open, give Kenis as producer and name Hotel Matonge in Kinshasa and Studio XXL in Brussels as mixing places. Village Voice says it came from a 2002 Kinshasa show recorded on Kenis's laptop. Ache Records pressed it on vinyl: 546 black and 548 dark green copies in the first run, then two pressings of 1,000. Metacritic scores it 87; AllMusic gave 4.5 of 5, Pitchfork 7.9, PopMatters 8 of 10 and Tiny Mix Tapes 4. Pitchfork put it 31st among 2005 albums and ranked "Paradiso" 386th among the 2000s' tracks, and Mojo urged playing its nine-minute opener loud. PopMatters's Michael Kramer called the sound rickety, homemade, do-it-yourself integration of the body and the broadcast.