Botha Warning

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[[Release Detail]][[Release Description]] Botha Warning by Bionic Singer Another big Shaka tune from the late 1980s - Bionic Singer's anti-apartheid shot 'Botha Warning' - coming o ut of the same Jamaazima vaults as Hugh Maddo's Pop Style LP that we reissued late last year under the kind courtesy of the imprint's Nami Harmon. The late Bionic Singer a.k.a Osbert Maddo, or more commonly Madoo, was brought up in East Kingston and as a child attended the legendary Alpha Boys School. He began singing together with his brother UU Madoo (aka Hugh Maddo) and soon became a regular on the Stereophonic soundsystem during the late 1970s. Recording mainly with Joe Gibbs & Errol Thompson and for Winston Riley's famed Techniques stable through the early '80s, he then moved to the US in 1983. Ceasing to record for a period, he returned towards the end of the decade under the Bionic Singer alias on the Bronx-based Jamaazima label, recording this searing indictment of South Africa's apartheid government under P.W. Botha following his stroke in 1989. [[Selling Points]] 7" pressed on black vinyl Anti-apartheid track from the late 1980s Originally produced and released by Jimmy Radway for his Fe Me Time label in the mid 1970s Coming out of the same Jamaazima vaults as Hugh Maddo's Pop Style LP [[Catalog Number]]333LP023[[Artist]]Bionic Singer Show more