Records revisits Ghana’s golden era of rhythm and reinvention with Ghana Special: Highlife, a new single-LP edition that distills the electric fusion of highlife, soul, and psychedelia that defined the country’s sound for almost a decade from 1967 to 1976. 

Soundway’s new compilation, Ghana Special Vol. 2, captures the electric moment when drum machines, diaspora, and postcolonial optimism collided, and remade Ghanaian music forever. Daniel Neilson speaks to co-curator Jeremy Spellacey.