La compagnie créole Essentials

Four-on-the-floor dance beats fuelled the music of the French Antilles long before they energised disco, EDM and countless dance pop acts. Case in point: La Compagnie Créole, who took the throbbing zouk and compas sounds of their native Guadeloupe, Martinique and French Guiana international in the ‘80s. Singing in French and the islands' Créole dialect, La Compagnie deliver warm, sunny party tunes on such topics as rainbows, birds, masked balls, Pari and Barack Obama.