Inner Life - Inner LifeJocelyn Brown should need no introduction at this stage, one of the US's most respected vocalists famed for bringing the gospel edge into contemporary R&B and soul music. Brown was the voice behind the celebrated Disco and Boogie outfit Inner Life, whose 1981 self titled LP you currently hold in your hands in the form of this luxurious reissue. Cutting 2 LP's for the label in the early 1980's, Inner Life came strong with club hit after hit, working

giving this release the right kick to slide from day to night

Rod Stewart

his 1994 debut Illmatic is hailed as a paragon of underground hip-hop

and for decades existed only on a handful of cassettes and reel-to-reels copied by Bogdan himself and distributed among the club’s other residents without ever seeing a proper release

Toni Halliday courtesy of AnXious Records

Produced by Gérard Akueson

while also offering fresh new interpretations of their classic sounds

2 to kick start 2022

trading lines rather than the rappers being confined to their own verses

the songs here feature then-current dancefloor hits such as the Tom Tom Club’s ‘Genius of Love’

with four 90s-tinged house cuts

Mostly recorded