1981. A new South African band is making waves. Produced by the team “Van Blerk/Roos & Greg Cutler", it includes succulent voices and melodies, psychedelic Moog, Fender Rhodes surrounded by some Afro-folky guitars. This album is definitely a winner.

Between 1972 and 1973 Poy-Poy Makhubela appeared on 4 singles with The Young Movers produced by David Thekwane.
In 1975, as a lead guitarist, he decided to bring together four musicians to form the band Unity. Jeff Radine (Fender Rhodes, Moog), George Legobye (bass), Edward Modiselle (percussion) and Robert Moema (drum). The members were all from the group The Sound Jaws, except Jeff Radine who was with Rugare and played with Harari, Chicco, The Black Five or Prince Nico.
In 1978, after hearing Unity playing in a club, Mike Tswai joined the band as a manager.
Poy-Poy has gone on to have a long career, touring the world and playing with some of the South African’s greats including Brenda Fassie, Don Laka, Blondie & Pappa, Dorothy Masuka as well as Kwaito bands like Alaska, Boom Shaka or Trompies.

A1 - Ntsate Loo
A2 - Manana
A3 - Give Me Your Love
A4 - Manejere
A5 - Ghiyane
B1 - Erube Jambo
B2 - Bamsanda Le Maduba
B3 - Let's Go And Disco
B4 - Babakuwe
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If you are a true fan of Anthony Nicholson aka Miquifaye and Clairaudience; then join us as we celebrate a full circle moment with this release. We are privileged to present Sunrise – Scientific Map feat Rey Khan. Scientific Map is led by guitarist Matt Hudson, with Will Baggett-bass, Dave Holloway-keys & Anthony Reid- drums. Matt has been a session musician of Miquifaye Studios and is one of it’s All Stars for over 15 years and recorded on countless Anthony Nicholson Classics. Sunrise features the soaring and soulful vocal performance from Rey Khan, an accomplished singer-songwriter, who has gained 1 million+ streams, and hit #2 on US dance charts. The tune is also graced with a guest feature from Stephen Bidwell drummer for the Grammy-nominated band Black Pumas. Almost forgot the punchy description: The Funk meets the Boogie on a dark dance floor over Rhumba / Afro informed rhythms and wrapped itself around a soulful vocal performance delivered with pop sensibilities…. More

Clairaudience and Anthony Nicholson go together like Lennon and McCartney, and so it’s only appropriate that the resurrection of the label should be led by the legendary Chicago producer. The Suckapunch EP is Clairaudience’s first new release in 10 years – almost 19 years after the label’s earliest offerings, including USG’s Ncameu and African Blues’ Word Sound Power, heralded Nicholson as a force to be reckoned with in the world of soulful and sophisticated house music. The two new tracks that make up the Suckapunch EP find Nicholson in vintage form, still innovating powerful dance music for conscious heads and, indeed, pulling no punches. The title track is built around a distinctively Nicholsonian groove, bassy, deep and subtly tribal. A sinuous keyboard riff provides a hypnotic hook in the middle, while dramatic strings, guttural vocal stabs and spacey effects drift in and out of the mix. It’s a lush, mesmerizing 4/4 workout with an organic texture, the kind of track that helplessly draws dancers out of the shadows and onto the floor to stay. “Turn Me” is marked by a repeating refrain in which a female vocalist whispers “Turn me on,” and it does just that. A sexy, moody afterhours jam featuring a rubbery bassline rubbing up against smoldering percussion and luscious keyboards, it’s bound to get dancers hot under the collar. Taken together, the Suckapunch EP is an essential release that will hit the sweet spot for old fans of the artist while it makes new ones. The tag team of Nicholson and Clairaudience have unleashed a potent one-two punch that’ll go straight to your head and may cause you to move your body uncontrollably.
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It's a busy time for Anthony Nicholson and the Clairaudience imprint, as this new release finds the deep house mainstay kicking off a new alias with which to offer up more of his top-shelf, soul-infused productions. "Hide Your Love" is classic Nicholson, as a searching set of piano chords and vibes flirt shamelessly with pattering conga lines and plenty more besides, calling to mind a French flavour in the process. "Rhumba Fusion" has, unsurprisingly, more of a Latino feel in its tumbling broken beats and joyous vocal contributions, packing everything you could wish for in a rootsy house track that spans the generations. More

FIRST TIME ON VINYL: ANTHONY NICHOLSON's most excellent clairaudience imprint with a 2x12" full of deleted classics like TAURUS - "together" or TEMPO 2 "you're a superstar" and brand new UNRELEASED stuff by NEEDS and RESTLESS SOUL aka PHIL ASHER More

REPRESS of this classic Anthony Nicholson production More