A1. Martin Street Special
A2. Love Got A Hold Of Me (Instrumental)
A3. Hometown Weather
B1. Martin Street
B2. Love Vibration
B3. Party Beats
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.
