About this site
Konpa.info is run by me, Fedor Hüneke, Germany.
[ Contact ]. I started this website to share the information and knowledge I had collected over the years with other compas lovers. Currently you can find
4403 Haitian record listenings here on Konpa.info, last updated on
April 26, 2013.
This list isn't complete. Research is still proceeding...
Feel free to report any mistakes. Send me your additions. Especially the dates of production. Everything is welcome - thank you!
Please note: Konpa.info does not sell or trade any records.
History
I discovered Compas via the Dutch radio station VPRO back in 1988. From that moment I got hooked on Compas Music. I taped a few brilliant 70's tracks from Les Shleu Shleu, Tabou Combo and Les Gypsies on K7.
I had to get an overview on what was available on the market. The French import-dealer Sonodisc seemed to have interesting stuff, but nearly none owned or sold compas records over here - hard times! Years later I met Helmut Otto, a German guy who had compiled a list of historic compas records. He used information from different American record selling catalogues and his own vinyl collection. I added Sonodisc information and anything else I found while researching, including hints from Gage Averill. Meanwhile I found more and more great old Haitian compas records and CD reissues to listen to. At the present time, I prefer the live and long playing bon konpa sound from the past few years. - Kite konpa mache...
I hope you found some details you haven't already known. - Thanks for your patience.
Special thanks to...
Adjae, Drew, Frantz, Gilly, Helmut, Karl, Ken, Paul-Richard, Raymond, Robert, Shaker, Symon, Thomas, Udo...
