Death Is Not The End
Pure Wicked Tune
'RARE GROOVE BLUES DANCES AND HOUSE PARTIES 1985-1992' - 'Pure Wicked Tune' is a mixtape-style collection of extracts and cut-ups, taken from DIY cassette recordings featuring rare groove and "soul blues" soundsystems playing at early morning house parties and blues dances - mostly in South and East London - between the mid '80s and early '90s. Sounds like Funkadelic, Touch of Class, Latest Edition, JB Crew, Manhattan, 5th Avenue and many more originally began to form in the mid-1980s. With lovers rock dwindling, and the reggae scene becoming dominated by harder digital-style dancehall, these sounds provided a tight but loyal crowd with a potent alternative - playing a mixture of killer rare soul, funk and boogie records in an inimitably reggae soundsystem style, complete with toasting, sirens and effects aplenty.