Edo Bouman

Vintage Voudou celebrates dance music from every corner of the globe, showcasing tunes deeply rooted in local traditions — music that nourishes the soul and captivates the ears. With selections ranging from Ghanaian Highlife to Tamil film music, Colombian cumbia, Greek tsifteteli, and Surinamese kaseko and beyond, Edo Bouman tirelessly seeks out the most infectious and spellbinding tracks from the golden age of vinyl, spanning the 1950s to the 1980s. For over 15 years, Vintage Voudou has been Amsterdam's leading specialist in vintage tropical music, organizing parties, spinning records, and selling rare vinyl. The physical Vintage Voudou shop, once located in the heart of Amsterdam's red light district, became a cult destination for DJs looking for tropical records that are vintage, raw and rare. The tiny shop—formerly a hooker's cabin, decorated with Bollywood posters and located in the Red Light Radio complex—offered very few records you heard before but many that would blow your mind. After the complex closed, Vintage Voudou continued online, at record fairs, and from its storage. The driving force behind Vintage Voudou is collector, DJ, and researcher Edo Bouman, who constantly expands his sonic boundaries by delving deep into the world’s immense archives of recorded music. He also founded the Bombay Connection label, releasing funky Bollywood compilations and the unheard sounds of Charanjit Singh's Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat and Ilaiyaraaja's Tamil electro-pop. On the Vintage Voudou label Basa Basa's Homowo was re-released. The bimonthly Vintage Voudou parties kick off with interviews and listening sessions before offering dancers the warm-blooded, analog sounds of vintage music with man-made rhythms from Africa, Latin America, Asia, the Middle East, and the Caribbean. Edo Bouman's mixes for ROVR are maximally eclectic, crossing continents, decades, and genres, creating a vivid tapestry of global music history, rediscovering rhythms that have shaped both dance floors and cultural traditions across the world.