Prince Phillip Mitchell
Top Of The Line

Following on from 2016’s Doing It In Lagos: Boogie, Pop & Disco in 1980s Nigeria, Soundway Records return to that blistering set for the first and only officially licensed re-issue of the highly coveted debut album from Steve Monite, featuring the single ‘Only You’ that recentlyseeped its way into popular culture. Lovingly restoredand remastered on 180g vinyl with liner notes.^Shooting, space-synth sounds ripple and vibrate, incessant grooves keep the tracks in motion and Nkono Teles production, a producer often overlooked for his hand in the Nigerian boogie sound, sets the LP into orbit. An album that was largely overlooked on release in1984, the track list includes the latter day hit ‘Only You’and ‘Things Fall Apart’, the melody of which was lifted forYoung Franco’s 2020 single ‘Fallin’ Apart’.