Nigeria Special Volume 3: Electronic Innovation Meets Culture and Tradition 1978-93

Nigeria Special Volume 3: Electronic Innovation Meets Culture and Tradition 1978-93More Info Soundway Records presents a collection of nineteen tracks chronicling a time when drum machines, synthesisers, imported pop, reggae, disco and soul collided with highlife, juju and cultural music in Nigeria. A period of experimentation, adaptation, modifcation and innovation saw artists and producers using new technology to renew and refresh cultural traditions. Nigerian music continued to evolve in a country that musically rarely stands

anything it wants to be

Junk Man feat

you can still hear the weight of the ice-sheet carving its way through the rock

8 Wild West End 4:42

played organ in The Prisoners and we’d listen to cassette tapes of them along with other local band

Transcontinental

and adopted an increasingly pan-Africanist outlook

The new Sault album sees Inflo's incredibly versatile collective craft a powerful and profound album of largely wordless

Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand

and memorable as "Playground

he settled with a new- look Invaders Of The Heart which has been the backbone of his music for the last decade

How Is It (We Are Here)