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Str8 Crooked

Heavyweight KDJ selections across House, Soul, Hip Hop & Downtempo across 3LPs. Tip!

Eight tracks from Chaos In The CBD's mix for fabric, cut to double vinyl by Matt Colton. Includes the exclusive single for fabric Records, 'Higher Elevation'.

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.

Killer collection of 80s synth tracks - rare Italo-disco, steamy South African synth-boogie, fizzing American freestyle, oddball Austrian electrofunk. Big comp from the Spacetalk crew!

Soul Jazz 3xLP comp released in conjunction with Tate Britain’s exhibition of the same name, exploring the links between Caribbean and British art and culture from the 1950s to now, focused on the most important Black British musical styles to emerge out of the distinctly Caribbean world of sound systems, spanning Roots Reggae, Jungle/Drum & Bass, Jazz-Funk, Lovers Rock, Jazz, Dubstep and more...