I'm wary of all these African comps that seem to be sprouting up like weeds these days. Each one seems to promise unheard auditory miracles culled from a magical, nearly-untapped vault that's been recently discovered, only to (in most cases) fall short. I'll stand up tall and proud next to this one, however. High energy, eclectic and sophisticated post-disco jams from Nigeria's Second Republic, a time and place where democracy had returned after twenty-three years of military dictatorship and a burgeoning oil economy supported an expansion in industry, the music industry included. People were in a celebratory mood and it definitely shows here.
"Record companies upgraded their technology and cranked out a staggering volume of output to an audience hungry for music to celebrate the country’s prospective rise as global power of the future. While it was a boom time for a wide variety of popular music styles, the predominant commercial sound was a post-afrobeat, slickly modern dance groove that retrofitted the relentless four-on-the-floor bass beat of disco to a more laid back, upbeat-and-downbeat soul shuffle, mixing in jazz-funk, synthesizer pop and afro feeling. At the time, it was still mostly locally referred to as “disco,” but has since been recognized as its own unique genre retrospectively dubbed “Nigerian boogie.”" Compiled lovingly by the die-hard over at Comb And Razor.
Wayo
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