LEON WARE AND FRIENDS CD £12.95
19 tracks either sung, written or produced by the charismatic Leon, which contains some overlooked but golden nuggets. Leon's songs have a really distinctive style with great melodies and arrangements. Highlights are his own atmospheric 'It's Your World', 'Everywhere Inside Of Me' and 'Girl Girl Girl'. Syretta 'I Don't Know' is a fantastic mid tempo stepper, Chuck Jackson 'No Tricks' a good dancer, Jerry Butler 'Thank You Early Bird' a shuffler and Michael Wycoff 'Looking up To You' a classic. The 2 steppers Shadow 'I Cant Hold Back', Thelma Jones 'I Can Dream' Minnie Riperton 'Can You Feel What I'm Saying' and Booker T 'I Came To Love You' are also very good. Great showcase of an underrated genius.
Also highly recommended Musical Massage CD £12.95



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MANDRILL NEW WORLDS/GETTING IN THE MOOD CD £12.95
Mandrill were one of the great Funk/soul bands of the 70's and these 1978/1980 albums were their most soulful and appear here on CD for the first time. 'Too Late' is a modern soul classic, a string laden mid tempo dancer. 'It's So Easy Lovin You' and 'Stay Tonite' are brilliant soulful dancers, whilst 'Feeling Good' is a brassier and jazzier dancer. 'My Kind Of Girl', 'Dance Of Love' and 'Love Made Me \Over' are soulful dancers, 'When You Shake', 'Having a Love Attack' are funkier but soulful up-tempo grooves. The haunting mid tempo 'Getting In The Mood' , ballad 'When You Smile' and the stepper 'Coming Home' provide a nice contrast. Two really good albums from a classic period of our music.
Also available Original Vinyl LP’s New Worlds £20 : Getting In The Mood £15



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PACIFIC JAM PACIFIC JAM JAPANESE CD £27.95
Superb Latin Jazz Fusion set from back in the day recorded in Japan. 3 tracks feature wordless vocals from Flora Purim: the batucada style percussive 'Pao De Agucar' and two Samba tinged 'Antes De Mais Nada' and 'Night Trip'. 'Feelin Gently', 'Toyland' and 'In The Morning' are laid back almost 2 Step style instrumentals. This set of 'studio' musicians includes Ndugu, Paulinho Da Costa and Byron Miller. Listening to the album for the first time in ages, this Jazz Funk set sounds new and full of vitality.
Also available Original Vinyl LP £80

GREY AND HANKS YOU FOOLED ME JAPANESE CD £21.95/ ORIGINAL LP £15
The debut album from the song writing duo seems to have aged like a vintage wine. 'How Can You Live Without Love' is a popular quality 2 Step and 'You Fooled Me' has always been a fine slice of danceable Soul. 'Dancin' adds an element of Disco Soul. It is however tracks like the upbeat 'Gotta Put Something In' and wonderful 'Closer To Something Real'. Earth Wind & Fire horns add brass and the overall sound is not unlike LTD, for whom they wrote songs especially noticeable on 'Never Let You Down'.

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NIGHTTIME LOVERS VOL 10 DBL CD £18.95
36 Early 80's boogie tracks spread across 2CD's. incl Jimmy Williams 'All Of My Lovin', Candy Bowman 'I Wanna Feel Your Love', Richard Jon Smith 'Baby's Got Another', Angela Bofill 'Can't Slow Down', Legacy 'Word Up', Jones Girls 'On Target', Jeff Lorber 'Best Part Of The Night' (ft Gavin Christopher), Glass 'Let Me Feel Your Heartbeat', Elaine And Ellen 'Fill me Up' and a very early Keith Sweat track 'My Mind Is Made Up'.
CD is a mixed with 23 tracks featuring many tracks from earlier volumes giving up a near 80 mins party.


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DON'T STOP RECORDING TAP CD £15.95
Good underground early 80's boogie comp from the relatively unknown NY Tap label. The standout is the string laden 'Philly' style dancer Jackie Stoudermire 'Invisible Wind' a fantastic unknown track to get crowd going. Jackie also contributes the modern soul dancer 'Guilty' and 80's boogie 'Don't Stop Dancing' and 'Run Away Hide'. Arnie Love and Lovettes (later known as Arnie's Love) 'We've Had Enough', 'Breakout' and 'Stop and Make Up Your Mind' are good brassy 80's boogie dancers. There are even a couple of early hip hop (ala Sugar hill gang) tracks thrown in for good measure. Nice comp.

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KAYDEE VOL 2 CD £14.95
Kenny Dope and Keb Darge put together another 17 raw and rare uptempo soul and funk tracks (many re-edits or remixes by Kenny). Best of the soul tracks are Family Of Eve 'I Wanna Be Loved By You' (KD Remix), Spade Brigade 'I'm Your Man', Mellow Madness 'Save The Youth' (KD Mix), 7 Miles Per Hour Band 'Playin Your Game' Gary Davis 'Remember me' (KD Mix) and Rickey Calloway 'Shed A tear' (based on its am an s world). Best of the funk tracks Beginning Of The End 'Come Down Baby (KD Edit), Kashmere Stage Band 'Super Stut', Soul Servers 'I Got it' and Willie Johnson 'Lay It On Me'. Good comp



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