STYLE & FASHION: A CLASS TOP NOTCH HI FI SOUNDS IN FINE STYLE by VARIOUS ARTISTS
SKU | 108222 |
Artist | VARIOUS ARTISTS |
Title | STYLE & FASHION: A CLASS TOP NOTCH HI FI SOUNDS IN FINE STYLE |
Label | SOUL JAZZ RECORDS |
Catalog # | SJRLP 443 |
Tag | |
Release | W 27 - 2019 |
Format | Vinyl - UK3LP |
€ 31,50 | incl. VAT, excl. shipping |
Tracks
- Papa Face featuring Red Man – Dance Pon De Corner
- Dee Sharp – Let’s Dub It Up
- Cutty Ranks – Limb By Limb (DJ SS Remix)
- General Levy – Mad Them
- Laurel & Hardy – You’re Nicked
- Bunny General – Played By This Ya Sound
- General Levy & Hard ‘n’ Pure – Wikkeda!!
- Carlton Lewis – Small Talking
- Poison Chang – Shot Fe Bust (Marvellous Cain Remix)
- Dee Sharp – Rising To The Top
- Papa Face With Keith Douglas – DJ Jamboree
- General Levy – Heat
- Carlton Lewis – Sweet Soul Rocking
- Top Cat – Ruffest Gun Ark (DJ Rap Mix)
- Papa San – DJ Business
- Papa Face & Bionic Rhona – To The Bump
- Cutty Ranks – As You See It
- Janice Walker – You’ll Never Need Somebody
- Asher Senator – Bubble With I
Description
Soul Jazz Records present this new collection of music from the great Fashion Records, one of the most important and iconic independent reggae labels to come out of the UK, which ran from 1980 for nearly 20 years and hada firm focus on UK produced music !
In the early 1980s, Fashion Records captured the rise of the emerging British dancehall scene in its ascendency.
The large roster of first generation British-born artists and MCs on the label – including General Levy, Papa Face,
Smiley Culture, Bionic Rhona, Asher Senator, Laurel & Hardy, Top Cat and many more – often gave a unique
and sometimes humorous British lyrical perspective to Fashion releases, discussing everyday subjects, from
police harassment to road safety
Throughout much of the 1980s and into the 1990s Fashion continued to release an almost relentless array of
UK dancehall releases as well as continuing with lovers rock, and the occasional dub releases. Then, in the mid-
90s, with the dancehall and reggae releases still coming on strong, Fashion released a superb series of early
jungle tracks linking Jamaican and British MCs and dancehall artists with young jungle mixers, re-mixers and
producers. By this time dancehall artists General Levy and Cutty Ranks had become the staple vocal samples of
literally hundreds of white label jungle records and Fashion took advantage of this, often getting young
producers to work in exchange for sample clearances
This album is a subjective and scatter-gun ride through some of the many unique and heavyweight tracks to
come out of the Fashion stable – some classics, some lesser-known, all 100% killer!