WILLIAM ONYEABOR Vinyl Box Set 2 4x LP NEW VINYL BOX SET Luaka Bop Peaking Ligh

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Store Categories HIP HOP FUNK / SOUL DUB/REGGAE/DANCEHALL EXPERIMENTAL/IDM DOWNTEMPO DUBSTEP/GRIME SERATO CONTROL VINYL HOUSE TECHNO INDYTRONIC SYNTHWAVE/80'S/INDUSTRIAL UK BASS/FUTURE GARAGE/UKF WONKY GLITCH HOP AMBIENT/DRONE BATTLE BREAKS/ACAPELLAS DISCO ELECTRO/BREAKS GHETTO TECH/JUKE/FOOTWORK HIPSTER JUMP OFF PROGRESSIVE/TRANCE DRUM N' BASS BREAKCORE ROCK POP PUNK METAL JAZZ WILLIAM ONYEABOR Vinyl Box Set 2 / 4x LP NEW VINYL BOX SET / Luaka Bop 2014

Hand-numbered box set, limited to 3000 copies. Includes MP3 download card. Contains 4 original albums + 8 page 12" booklet + 16 page 7" booklet by Michael Rubin + a poster. Bonus 7" single William Onyeabor's "Body & Soul" remixes from Peaking Lights. The hive of activity at Luaka Bop themed around the work of elusive Nigerian synth-funk pioneer William Onyeabor doesn't look like slowing down any time soon with the second of two comprehensive vinyl box sets arriving. First brought to wider attention on last year's hugely popular compilation Who Is William Onyeabor?, Luaka Bop's ongoing efforts have to be applauded here as four of the LPs the Nigerian artist self-released between 1977 and 1985 are remastered and made available officially for the first time. The albums included are: 'Crashes In Love (2)' (1977), 'Body and Soul' (1980), 'Hypertension' (1982), 'Good Name' (1983), + Peaking Lights remix of 'Body & Soul'.

Luaka Bop present four hard-to-find William Onyeabor albums released 1977-1985, now boxed up and remastered for his newly growing fanbase. After his revelatory Afro-futurist appearances on the 'World Psychedelic Classics' collection and Strut's Nigeria '70 "The Definitive Story of 1970's Funky Lagos" in the 2000s, Onyeabor has become something of an enigmatic character as folk gradually realised quite how far ahead of the game he was in late '70s Nigeria, armed with his own studio enviably crammed with Moogs and many other expensive synths and drum machines.