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𝙁𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙮𝙡𝙚 𝙍𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙨 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙞𝙡𝙚 𝙖 𝙠𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙞𝙚𝙬 𝙤𝙛 𝙧𝙖𝙧𝙚 & 𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙪𝙣𝙜 𝙐𝙆 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙩 𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙡 & 𝙗𝙤𝙤𝙜𝙞𝙚 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙠𝙨 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙖𝙘𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝟴𝟬𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙡𝙮 𝟵𝟬𝙨, 𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙖𝙗𝙚𝙡'𝙨 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝟭𝟮" 𝙧𝙚𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙪𝙚 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙢𝙢𝙚.

Features an exclusive mid-90s cut from Manchester street soul act Gold In The Shade, along with photography from Andrew Holligan and notes from Kevin Le Gendre. "The sleeve of this album has faces that tell a thousand stories. In Hackney, east London, where photographer Andrew Holligan created a series of inspired pictures, every day people developed a vibrant culture, enlivening a part of the capital that was much maligned during the Thatcher years.

The street was a lounge, a place to meet, talk, laugh, and, generally, hang. This was also the golden age of the house party. At the dawn of the 80s the sound of black popular music that these good folk were listening to was in the grip of change. For the most part bands with horn sections were scaling down and the 8-10 piece unit gave way to much smaller ensembles with a less orchestral sound, as saxophonists, trumpeters and trombonists who provided finely shaded harmonies and counter-melodies were being replaced by keyboard players. Indeed the rainbow of colours fashioned by an arsenal of synthesizers, from Prophets and Korgs to Rolands and Yamahas, brought preen and sheen to soul, which, with a lower tempo and heavy bouncing bass lines, was being referred to as boogie.

Rather than being a scene that was centred around several marquee bands, boogie Brit-Funk was more disparate and fragmented, and therefore far harder to pin down and document.