Soundway with Steve Monite by Soundway Records published on 2023-03-20T17:30:59Z Paula Juana is joined by legendary Nigerian musician Steve Monite to tell us more about how his one and only album ‘Only You’ (1984) was made. Steve Monite always knew he would be a pop star. It’s just that it’s taken him four decades to be discovered. Six years ago, Soundway Records released 2016’s Doing It In Lagos: Boogie, Pop & Disco in 1980s Nigeria, a collection of forgotten songs from the country’s golden age of funk. One of those tracks, Monite’s ‘Only You’, became a sleeper success. A restless whirl of fat electro-funk bass, spacey synth bursts and dramatic drum claps, it sounded like it’d been beamed in from the future in a dusty record sleeve. Frank Ocean covered it during a live performance, followed by Theophilus London and Tame Impala, who released their version online. Then Soundway’s remix hit dancefloors across the world, turning its singer into an overnight sensation: a faded obscurity, back from the dead, now rendered in glorious Technicolour. Soundway Records’ reissue of his album ‘Only You’ is now out on digital platforms and coming beautifully remastered on vinyl in October. Comment by Dust Down Records jam! 2023-06-07T10:48:53Z