5060571362162

Love Vibration

Nkono Teles

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Format: LP

Cat No: SNDWLP164

Release Date:  24 March 2023

Label:  Soundway

Packaging Type:  Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  5060571362162

Genres:  World Music  Funk  

  • Description

    Soundway releases a storming compilation of Cameroonian-born, Nigerian-based super producer Nkono Teles' solo work. The pioneer of West African electronic music was known for being tapped by over 100 other musicians to produce or arrange their music, from King Sunny Adé, Guy Lobe, even Steve Monite's album "Only You" and more.

    Having already appeared on Soundway's best-selling compilation "Doing It In Lagos", here more of Nkono's limited solo work is carefully remastered and reissued on vinyl for the first time.

    One of a small handful of pioneers of the Nigerian electronic music scene in the 1980s (alongside the likes of Jake Sollo & William Onyeabor), Teles was known for being tapped by over 100 musicians to feature on, produce or arrange their music. The list of '80s Nigerian records that his sound and style embellished is seemingly endless: Steve Monite (he arranged and produced the music on the Only You album recently re-issued by Soundway), Dizzy K, Peter Abdul, Odion Iruoje, Steve Black, Rick Asikpo, Feladey, Charly Boy, Majek Fashek & Sonny Okosuns, to name just a few, all engaged his enigmatic production and keyboard services throughout the 1980s. He became known as the first person in Nigeria to push the use of the drum machine into popular music and created a unique and original boogie-funk sound combining these new beats with guitars and an array of new and affordable synthesiser sounds that started appearing in the early 1980s.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Martin Street Special
      • 2. Love Got A Hold Of Me
      • 3. Hometown Weather

      Side 2

      • 1. Martin Street
      • 2. Love Vibration
      • 3. Party Beats