"This is rock sucked back to the continent of its birth to be granted a glorious resurrection" (The Word, UK) "One of the wildest records of the year, as distorted and dirty, beautiful and funky as James Brown or Fela Kuti" (The Observer, UK) "Basokin is the sound of distortion zombies coming down the road to kill us all. It's relentless wonderful" (Pop Matters, USA) "By Western measures, the bizarre timbres constitute an accidental avant-garde; by any measure, they rock. Grade A" (Entertainment Weekly, USA) "Good news: there's more where Konono come from, and Crammed Discs knows where to find it !" (Dusted, USA) "The second volume of Congotronics is even better than the first." (Stylus, USA) "Recommended to all lovers of swirling Central African guitars and of muli-secular trance, to all fans of Fela and to fans of electronic dance music" (Mondomix, France) "Somewhere, Brian Eno exhales in delight at something close to his 25-year old vision of a psychedelic Africa" (Village Voice, USA) "Basokin are fronted by three dancers whose stately yet astonishingly trippy choreography (and makeup) is inspired, quite probably, by divine intervention. Seeing is believing !" (All About Jazz, USA) "This shows more variety to the Kinshasa scene, but it's the brutality of Masanka Sankayi, Basokin and Konono that lingers" (Mojo, UK) "Circling guitar riffs supplement the thumb pianos and percussion which dominate Konono N°1's sound. More textural and melodic variety, even though -thankfully- they all share the same love of distortion and intoxicating repetition" (The Independent On Sunday, UK) "It's a reviewer cliché to claim that you never heard anything like it. For once, it's actually true" (The Times, UK) "Simply the most furiously exciting and inventive music around" (Songlines, UK) "Hair-raisingly beautiful" (All Music Guide, USA) "A sonic world full of magic and sorcery" (Coda, France) "Ancestral rhythms and African-style do-it-yourself meet, and converge towards contemporary experimentation" (Vibrations, France) "The energy level is remarkable furious work-outs from Masanka Sankayi and Basokin" (The Guardian, UK) "All the visceral excitement of [Konono], but more varied and more melodic, with a potentially greater mainstream appeal.Guitars from raging fuzz-box to exquisitely minimal and melodic are pitted against throbbing tom-toms, buzzing metal-tongued thumb pianos and some truly beautiful traditional singing. The Kasai Allstars female chorus are so sparsely hypnotic." (The Telegraph, UK)