december 2002 - january 2003 ... freshly immigrated Cameroon precisely  yaounde...  three  after my arrival , my host family hosted a a birthday party  and were just swearing in these three song  ... and even had the courage to tell me that they play  and dance  ndombolo better than  us  Congolese ..LOL seriously i was like  ...
luckily i had  this   on CD and frechly  realeased  ...
and with no mercy  i had to finish them with
and .
they all felt the difference  between their wana be congolese music and the original thing itself .
 and now i realize that congolese music is and still going to be the top music in africa  and the whole planet .. to tell the truth , i havent  eared a sound that make me move like our music.   ba american  ba meka mais ba kossa..

i agree! Congolese music is the best in Africa! I wonder what would Ndombolo era have been if there was a strong internet presence like today?

I agree, Congolese music is the best. The fact that is not worldwide known as Azonto or Nigeriam Afrobeat is due two factors. There wasn't internet from 60's to 90's and until 2004 where FaceBook was invented. The era of generation bercy operation dragon was ended. Good music was released but not as good as those two. Then the other fact is that, except few examples (Zaiko, Wenge BCBG, FVicteam). On every Congolese group charismatic guys, or the guys with talent go away for trying solo career ( Fally who gone away from QL, Ferre from Maison Mere, Bill Clinton Kalonji and Celeo always fro m MM, Fabregas from MM) or because they had a problem with the boss or with the boss's favourite band members (Brigade beef with Heritier, Prince and other members with Kakol, Avatar for having a relationship that Werrason didn't approve with s dancer, Kapaya because werra didn't bought him an house, Chair Ngenge because he missed heavy healing from Wenge BCBG as he was almost dying and so on) and this creates separation in big groups getting them smaller and smaller making lose to each of them the original influence.