AMERICAN BOOGIE DOWN DBL CD £13.95
12 mainly previously unreleased very underground raw disco/funk and boogie tracks from the late 70's and early 80's, presented in their original form and as a mixed CD. Highlights are Right Direction 'Midnight Rhythm' the instrumental Vision Of Tomorrow 'Galaxy' and Morning After 'Get It'. also check Destiny In The Band 'Dance', Devarne 'You Are my Number one' and 'Kiss You Everywhere' , Rick Jsems infl Greyship Daviz 'Get Up Get Down Let Your Body Pop' , Fabulous Kings 'If You Like What Were Doing' Monofide 'Party' and Lonnie Givens 'The Heat Is On'. Boogie On Down

MEMPHIS 70 CD £13.95
20 Tracks recorded in Memphis from 1968-78 incl the unissued modern soul Willie Walker 'Two Paces Ahead of Love', mid tempo John Gary Williams 'Come What May', David Porter 'I Cant Tell No Difference' and the string laden atmospheric stepper Mel and Tim 'Keep The Faith'. The funky tracks inc Art Jerry Miller 'Strange Things', Ovations 'Shake', Alvin Cash 'Tip Toeing', Gene Miller 'It Burns Time', William Lane 'Don't Boom Boom',La Cleve Milon 'Take A Giant Step' and Billy Cee 'Hard Times

SPIRITUAL JAZZ CD £13.95 DBL LP £16.95
Great compilation comprising 12 extremely rare independent spiritual and modal jazz tracks recorded from the late 60's to the mid 70's. The modal tracks are James Tatum 'Introduction' , Lloyd Miller's eastern influenced 'Gol E Gandom', Morris Wilson Beau Bailey qt 'Pauls Ark' and Salah Ragab /Cairo Jazz Band 'Neveen' reflect the style of jazz that Impulse made popular at the time. The more Spiritual jazz workouts are Ndikho Xaba and the Natives 'Nomusa' (ft Plunky on sax , the group evolved into Oneness of Juju) ,Positive Force/Ade Olatunji 'Afrikan In Winter' (with spoken word) and Hastings St Jazz Experience 'Ja Mil' (ft Phil Ranelin and vocals from Kim Weston). Frank Derrick 'No Jive' is a jazz track with a funky rhythm and Ohio Penitentary 511 Jazz Ensemble 'Psych City' is a horn led groove.
Also highly recommended 'African Spirits' CD £13.95 DBL LP £14.95

DEEP DISCO CULTURE VOL 2 DBL CD £12.95
28 Full on underground disco tracks from late 70's heavy basslines , swirling strings and pumpin beats.
highlights are BUari 'im ready', BumbleBee Unlimited 'Funk For Days' , Donna McGhee 'im a Lovebug', Eli's Second Coming 'Love Chant', Starzarus 'Starship Love', Universal Robot Band 'Doing anything Tonight', Rhythm Makers 'Zone (remix)', Ray Muinnings 'Lets Boogie', Sammy Gordon 'Making Love' , Main Ingredient 'Everything Man', Pam Todd 'Cant Hold This Feeling' and Bean Brothers 'Feel The Groove'. Dust off the glitter ball and dance dance dance.

ASHFORD AND SIMPSON  WB YEARS HITS REMIXES AND RARITIES DBLCD £14.95
CD1 Features 14 of their classic tracks , many in their promo only 12” versions  like 'Over And Over', 'One More Try', 'Tried Tested and Found Time', 'Don't Cost You Nothing', 'It Seems To Hang On', 'Found A Cure' and 'Love Don't Make It Right'. Also includes their instrumental version of 'Bourgie Bourgie' 'Stay Free' and the magnificent mellow 'Have You Ever Tried It'. Brilliant inspirational music.

MASTERPIECE 6 CD £14.95
Another 12 Boogie tracks from the 80's. Highlights are Evan Rodgers 'Secret Love' , Maxine Singleton 'You Cant Run From Love' , Major Harris ' Gotta Make Up Your Mind', Les Femmes 'Yes You Thrill Me' and Barkays 'She Talks With Her Body'.
Also available Masterpiece Vol 1-5 £14.95 (each)

GILLES PETERSON IN THE HOUSE 3CD £15.95 2 X DBL LP £8.95 each
Excellent comp covering 20 current soulful house floorfillers like Wahoo 'Don't Take It Personal', N'Dambi 'Cant Change Me', Shuya Okina 'Thank You' edited and mixed together, 20 classics inc Weldon Irvine 'We Getting Down', Clyde Alexander 'Got To Get Your Love', Mass Production 'Cosmic Lust' also edited and mixed along with 12 previously unreleased tracks (which are the 3 EP's not on the Dbl LP's) which are full versions un mixed (see reviews on EP's on pg 9 for details of new tracks).
The best in the In The House series so far
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VARIOUS ARTISTS – DANCE THE LATIN CD £13.95
Another jazzman compilation that demands attention, ‘Dance The Latin’ is an absolute joy. Trawling the vaults of the Fania and Tico label, this 18 track CD will get the party swinging and lighten up any day. Personal favourites include Noro Morales ‘Soana’, Tito Puente’s blistering ‘Cochise’ and Mauricio Smith’s flute led ‘Doug Room’. Classics such as Pete Rodriguez’s Boogaloo ‘I Like It Like That’, AL Escobar’s take on ‘Tighten Up’ and The Latinaires ‘Camel Walk’ add a familiar slant to these tunes that set the dancefloors of London’s Jazz dance seen alight. Harvey Averne’s ‘Never Learned To Dance’ was a big Northern Soul rarity. Essential.

VARIOUS ARTISTS – DROPPIN SCIENCE CD £13.95 DBL LP £19.95
This selection entitled ‘Greatest Samples From Blue Note Lab’ includes some great Blue Note grooves. From Lou Donaldson we have the Hammond led Soul Jazz of ‘It’s Your Thing’ and ‘Who’s Making Love’. Lonnie smith contributes ‘Spinning Wheel’, Jack Mc Duff the wonderful, psychedelic ‘Oblighetto’. Ronnie Foster’s oft sampled ‘Mystic Brew’ and Grant Green’s live take on ‘Down Here On The Ground’ are also featured on this comp that proves yet again that there was only one Blue Note label. There are 3 Extra tracks on the vinyl

SANDRA WRIGHT - WOUNDED WOMAN/JAMES GOVAN CD £14.95
Sandra's in demand classic rare album was recorded for Stax in 1974 but not issued until 1989. It includes the modern soul dancers 'Midnight Affair' and 'A Man Cant Be A man' along with the mid tempo title track. The shufflers 'Sha-La Bandit' , 'I Came Running Back' and the southern soul  ballads 'I'm Not Strong Enough To Love You Again'  , 'I'll See You Through' and 'Please Don't Say Goodbye' are also worthy of note on this excellent album which will appeal to those you like Shirley Brown. James Govan 1982 album also produced by David Johnson is added as a bonus, but its Sandra's album that will have greater appeal.

SOUL SIDES VOL 1
SOUL SIDES VOL 2
CD £13.95 EACH
Interesting comps featuring raw soul mainly from 60's and early 70's with a few more recent tracks thrown in. Vol  1 highlights are Lee Moses 'Time And Place', Erma Franklin's classic 'Piece of My heart', Linda Lydell 'What A Man', Joe Battaan 'Ordinary Guy', William Bell 'I Forgot To Be Your Lover' , Weldon Irvine 'Morning Sunrise' and Jimmy Jones excellent 'Live And Let Live'.  Vol 2 features cover versions the best of which are  West Coast Revival 'Feelin Alright', Sharon Cash 'Fever', Spanky Wilson 'Kissing My Love', Esther Phillips 'Home Is Where The Hatred Is', OV Wright 'lets Straighten It Out', Marcia Griffiths' Here I Am' , El Michaels Affair 'Walk On By' and Laura Lee 'What A Man'.

EARTH WIND AND FIRE  VERY BEST OF CD £6.95
15 CLASSICS INC 'September', 'Boogie Wonderland', 'Saturday Nite', 'Shining Star' , 'That's The Way Of The World', 'Serpentine Fire' , 'Jupiter' and 'Got To Get You Into My Life'

All time classic EWF albums ALL N ALL, THAT'S THE WAY OF THE WORLD, SPIRIT  £9.95 each

SOUL TOGETHERNESS 2000 CD £13.95
Classic first volume of ST available for a short time again inc Ivan Matias ‘Someone Knows How You Feel’, Tower of Power ‘It Doesn’t really Matter’, Kashif ‘Bed You Down’ plus classics Dee Edwards ‘I Can Deal Wirth It’, Edee ‘Make It Last’, Manhattans ‘I Don’t Want To Pay The Price’, Patterson Twins ‘I Need Your Love’, Wisdom I’m So In Love With You’and Leon DeBouse ‘Every Fellas Girl’.

SWAMP DOGG'S SOUTHERN SOUL GIRLS CD £13.95
This CD features Sandra Phillip's classic deep soul album 'Too Many People In One Bed' along with eight Bette Williams singles, all recorded at Muscle Shoals in the early 70's. Sandra's 1970 album is heralded as one of the best female southern soul albums and incl the mid tempo 'Rescue Song' 'Ghost Of Myself' and 'My Man And Me' along with some great ballads 'After All I Am Your Wife', 'If You Get Him' and 'She Didn't Know (she Kept Talking) and the funky soul 'Some Mothers Son'. Bette's best moments are her versions of n'If You' and Doris Duke's 'If She's Your Wife' .

DEDICATED TO SOUL CD £12.95 (available from mid/late November)
16 Track compilation by former B&S writer David Nathan. Highlights are the Philly dancers Revelation 'Get Ready For This', Reflections 'Three Steps From True Love' and the 70's dancers Dynamic Superiors 'Face The Music' and New York Community Choir 'Make Every Day Count', the previously unissued Angela Bofill stepper 'All The Reasons Why'and mid tempo 'Love And Marriage' and the orchestrated big ballad 'Love Strong Enough To Move Mountain' by Martha Reeves. Also check the two Trina Brousard tracks from her unissued 1999 album. Nice comp

VILLAGE SOUL 2 CD £12.95 DBL LP £14.95 (FROM MID TO LATE DECEMBER)
Terry Jones second comp covers the spectrum of soul music covering decades from the 60's to now. The killer tracks are Aretha's classy early 80's 'Its Just Your Love' prod by Luther , Dells 'Bring Back The Love Of Yesterday' and Rose Royce 'Best Love'. Also check the British 70's modern soul dancers Midnight 'Keep On Walking' and Carl Douglas 'I Don't Care What People Say', ZZ Hill's uptempo take on 'Make Me Yours'. and Real Thing's cover of Jonnie Bristol 'Love Takes Tears'. Best of the recent tracks is Michael Proctor's 90's soulful house dancer 'Love Don't Live' and Adeva 'Don't Think About it'.

TALK TO THE RAIN-MAINSTREAM SOUL SURVEY CD £19.95
3rd instalment of Mainstream Soul Survey concentrates mainly on Group and male sweet soul from early to mid 70's..Includes the dancer Fabulous Determinations 'Has Love Been Here Before' plus sweet soul from Spectrum, Steptones, Chocolate Syrup, Terry Huff and Special Delivery, Spring, Charles Beverly and Larry Rice. Theres also a couple of funkier numbers from Preparations and Sho Nuff.

DISCO GIANTS 2CD £14.95
20 Boogie tracks inc Fatback 'I Found Lovin' , 9.9 'All Of Me For All Of You' , Cashflow 'Mine All Mine' , Jeffrey Osborne 'Plane Love', September 'The Lover In Me' , Tavares 'Got To Find My Way Back To You' , First Love 'Don't Say Goodnight' and O'Jays 'Put Our heads Together'. Party on down !

SOUL CHASERS VOL 1 & 2 £13.95 (EACH)
Limited quantites of these great comps that feature 14 Modern Soul and rare Groove tracks each. Vol 1 incl Jon Lucien 'Would You Believe', Gloria Scott 'Too Much Love Making', Michael Wycoff 'looking Up To You', Tyrone Daivs 'Never Stopped Loving You' , Magic Lady 'Hold Tight' Valareie Carter 'Trying To Get To You. Vol2 incl Ronn Matlock 'I Cant Forget About You' , Osamu Kitajima 'Say You Will', New Horizons 'I Cant Tell You' , Trumains 'Ripe For The Picking', Aretha Franklin 'It Only Happens', Eugene Record 'Overdose Of Joy' , Ujima 'Im Not Ready' . Classic soul.
VOL 1 VOL 2

MESSIN AROUND 5 DBLCD £14.95
Brilliant follow-up to last year's compilation (see below). Perry Louis and Adrian Gibson pull out all the stops on this selection including 8 unreleased tracks. Pick of these is the Latin shuffler 'Whatever You Dream' featuring Julie Dexter on vocals and Eddie Roberts' In, On And Out'. Excellent covers of 'Who Will Buy' (Sheila Landis), 'Snowflake' (Ronnie April's Positive Energy), 'I'll Bet You Thought I'd Never Find You' (Palimpset) compliment newer material from Sleepwalker 'Ai No Tabi', Quasimode 'Ipe Amarelo' and Nostalgia 77 'Wildflower'. 23 tracks that highlight the best in Jazz dance with a Latin and Funk twist. Essential.

ULTIMATE ITALIAN DISCO FUNK COLLECTION VOL 2 £14.95
Second volume of this series is actual really good. Another 12 early 80's boogie tracks the best of which are Advance 'Take Me to The Top (Frankie Rodiquez mix), Firefly 'Love (Is Gonna Be By Your sude), Orlando Johndson & Trance 'Turn The Music On', Touche 'Wrap It up' , Ago 'For You', Armed Gang 'All I Want' . Also includes Joe Coleman's funky 'Get It Off The Ground'.
Also available Ultimate Italian Disco Funk Vol 1 CD £14.95

CANT BE SATISFIED CD £13.95
24 tracks from the southern soul Sounds Of Memphis and XL labels mainly from the early 70's. Highlights are the 70's dancers Minits 'Still A Part Of Me' and Dan Greer 'Thanks To You' , the modern mid tempo Ovations 'Don't Break Your Promise' and the killer version of 'California Dreamin ' by Jacksonians that starts slow and builds to an orchestrated crescendo. Also check the ballads by George Jackson, Vision, Billy Cee and Freedom Express and Barbara And The Browns brilliant 'Pity A Fool

DEDICATED TO SOUL CD £12.95 (available from mid/late November)
16 Track compilation by former B&S writer David Nathan. Highlights are the Philly dancers Revelation 'Get Ready For This', Reflections 'Three Steps From True Love' and the 70's dancers Dynamic Superiors 'Face The Music' and New York Community Choir 'Make Every Day Count', the previously unissued Angela Bofill stepper 'All The Reasons Why'and mid tempo 'Love And Marriage' and the orchestrated big ballad 'Love Strong Enough To Move Mountain' by Martha Reeves. Also check the two Trina Brousard tracks from her unissued 1999 album. Nice comp

SOUL TOGETHERNESS 2007 CD £12.95 DBL LP £14.95
The annual Soul Togetherness album featuring many of the big current Modern Soul dancers from the pas year. Inc Norman Hutchins singalong ‘I Really Love You’, Karl Frierson ‘Ten Minutes’, Kim English ‘It Makes A Difference’, Wahoo ‘Don’t Take It Personal’, Mo And Grazz ‘Some Things Never Change’ , Alicia Myers ‘Satisfied’, Darlene McCoy ‘Unity’, Tuomo ‘Don’t Take It Too Hard’ and Seven ‘Brother And Sister’ along side the brilliant Tassel And Naturel ‘Let Love Shine’and Rena Scott’s great Mtume and Lucas side ‘We Can Make It Better’. One of the best in the series

VARIOUS - A MAN NEEDS A WOMAN – MAINSTREAM SOUL SURVEY CD £19.95
Excellent 26 Track comp featuring the soul side of Mainstream group of labels. Inc the modern dancers Jackie Beavers ‘Were Not Too Young To fall In love’ and Linda Perry ‘It’s All In The Back Of Me Now’,
The 70’s dancer ‘It Ain't Like It Used To Be’ by Randolph (randy) Brown the mid tempo Calvin Arnold ‘Satisfy Me Woman’ and Lee Bates ‘What Am I Gonna Say’ Roger Hatcher’s ballad ‘We’re Gonna Make It’ , Sandra Phillips funk classic ‘Miss Fatback’ and early LJ And Jeany Reynolds tracks.

VARIOUS - GONNA HAVE A GOOD TIME –MAINSTREAM SOUL SURVEY CD £19.95
Another 17 Tracks from the Mainstream/Brown Dog/IX Chains labels. Inc the modern dancers Crystal Image ‘Gonna Have A Good Time’, Words Of Wisdom ‘You’re A Friend Of Me’, Raymond Smith ‘Seven Day Lover’, Stepstones ‘Let The People Take’, Chocolate Syrup ‘You’ve Got A lot To Give’ and Almetta Latimore ‘These Memories’, along with great tracks from JG Lewis, Spectrum, Nia Johnson, Last Crusade, Calvin Arnold, 2nd Verse, South Side Coalition amongst others. Another great comp.

ECCENTRIC SOUL - TWINIGHTS LUNAR ROTATION DBL CD £22.95
40 great rare tracks from the Chicago label, from late 60’s to mid 70’s. Highlights incl the modern soul mid tempo Dynamic Tints ‘Package Of Love’ , Nate Evans ‘Main Squeeze’, the 2 step Mystiques ‘So Soon To Love Again’, Elvin Spencer ‘Lift This Hurt’, Modern Dancers Velma Perkins ‘Yes My Goodness Yes’,and Annette Poindexter ‘Wayward Dream’ the Northern JOanee Garrett ‘Goin Man Huntin’ and Johnny Williams ‘Breaking Point’ and ballads Bronzettes ‘Temptation Is Too Hard To Fight’ Kaldirons ‘To Love Someone’ plus tracks from Krystal Generation, Renaldo Domino, Notations etc. Great comp.

CELLARFULL OF MOTOWN VOL 3 DBL CD £13.95
Another 45 previously unreleased gems from the Motown vaults. Highlights are Brenda Holloway ‘Youre Walking Out With my Heart and ‘We’ll Keep On Rolling’, JJ Barnes ‘I’m Here Now That You Need Me’,
Rita Wright ‘Beware Of A Stranger’, Headliners ‘This IS Goodbye’, Spinners ‘Memeories Of Her Love Keep[ Haunting Me’, but everyones a winner. Incl tracks from San Remo Strings, Marvin Gaye, Fantastic Four, Contours, Temptations, Dennis Edwards, Jr Walker, Marvelletes, Bobby Taylor and much more.