Doing It In Lagos : Boogie, Pop & Disco In 1980's Nigeria

Description

Soundway Records presents a new compilation of twenty rare and mostly unavailable tracks from the smooth and cheeky world of Nigerian pop music and club culture of the early 1980s. Driven by an explosive oil boom and a return to democracy after a series of military dictatorships, Nigeria's economy in the early '80s was reflected in its record industry as countless young artists and groups hit the airwaves and dance floors of the capital and beyond. It was a new form of bright and impetuous pop music born from the ashes of late '70s disco and funk, and just like in America, it was the soundtrack for a new generation for whom money, style, and flirting took precedence over the exaggerated psychedelia of the previous decade. Eager to produce their own versions of American pop and dance music without the fervor for afro-beat, afro-rock, and Afrocentric thinking that the 1970s had launched, a new generation of young artists and producers changed direction and moved away from their cultural roots in music, seeking a new type of celebrity and fame firmly linked to the bright and snazzy world of the 1980s that was bursting forth in the United States and Europe.