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The time has come. Remember those cheesy club-classics your trainspotter mates like to slate while they gen up breaks and beats and nu cool drum & bass? Well here they are, credentials firmly reinstated by their Hed Kandi imprint and suddenly sounding like exactly what you want on your stereo before you hit the tiles of an evening. Complied by Hed honcho himself (Jazz FMs Mark Doyle) this selection of landmark tracks hails from the seminal summer-of-love dancefloor of his own late 1980s night, Freestyle. The mix is vocal, uplifting, at times commercial and always evocative of the best nights out you've ever had. Joe Smooth's
The time has come. Remember those cheesy club-classics your trainspotter mates like to slate while they gen up breaks and beats and nu cool drum & bass? Well here they are, credentials firmly reinstated by their Hed Kandi imprint and suddenly sounding like exactly what you want on your stereo before you hit the tiles of an evening. Complied by Hed honcho himself (Jazz FMs Mark Doyle) this selection of landmark tracks hails from the seminal summer-of-love dancefloor of his own late 1980s night, Freestyle. The mix is vocal, uplifting, at times commercial and always evocative of the best nights out you've ever had. Joe Smooth's "Promised Land" had to be here, as did "Shine On" from Degrees of Motion. "Where Love Lives", "Space Cowboy", Patti Day's "Right Before My Eyes"--you could sing along without the accompaniment. But it doesn't stop there. CD 2 brings the champions of 1990s soul-jazz into the fold, including tracks from Soul II Soul ("Ghetto Heaven") and the Young Disciples ("Apparently Nothing"). A couple of 1970s stormers complete the picture (not forgetting of course the Brand New Heavies' "Back To Love" itself)--and the re-education of all those anal trainspotters with it. --Ruby Shepheard
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Manufacturer: Hed Kandi
Release date: 19 May 2004
Number of discs: 2
EAN: 5033246250729 UPC: 5033246250729
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