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Leave it to Soul Jazz to assemble another fine selection of grooves, bringing together a great batch of slick, jazz-inflected British disco tracks! It's the mid 70s and disco's four on the floor beat is starting to invade every part of the world, including the UK. The set's a wonderful cross section of songs, with nice less-heard nuggets by groups that hit it big in the charts like Heatwave's "Put The Word Out" and Imagination's "Burning Up", to loft classics like Atmosfear's "Dancing In Outerspace" and smooth soulful cuts like the Real Thing's "Children Of The Ghetto/Stanhope Street". A baker's dozen of crisp, modern jazz funk is included, with Soul Jazz's great attention to detail in every aspect of the package, including a nice set of liner notes that really puts everything in perspective. Other tracks include Hi Tension "British Hustle", the Olympic Runners "Solar Heat", Kandidate "What Are You Gonna Do?", a pre-Arthur Baker track from Freeez, "Southern Freeez", Central Line "Don't Tell Me", Gonzalez's fusion-y "Saocco", Light Of The World "London Town", Beggar & Co "Somebody Help Me Out" and FbI's "Talking About Love" with a few nice disco breaks in it!

Alongside the Specials, the stars of the Two Tone ska revival scene. How can you go wrong with classics like "On My Rradio", "Time Hard", "Missing Words", "My Collie (Not A Dog)", "Three Minute Hero", "Too Much Pressure", "Murder", "Out On The Streets" and "James Bond"?

This ain't your father's easy listening – because the collection features some wonderful numbers from the current Japanese underground – a great selection of mellower dancefloor tracks that show the rich blend of acoustic and electronic modes that have been creeping into work from the Japanese scene! There's a few numbers on here by artists we already know and love – but even more importantly, the set features some great tracks by artists we've never been able to track down before – once locked in the high-priced, low-access import channels from Japan – now nicely contained in this sweet little 14 track set! Titles include "Jazz In You" by Slowly, "Proude Bridge" by Studio Apartment, "Welcome A Ball" by Dazai Yuri Sextet, "At The 6th Street" by Super Soul System, "Waiting For" by Butter Finger, "Go Forward" by Jet Set Productions, "Fly" by MOK, and "Vocalise" by Jazztronik.