Description

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: AJXLP750
Barcode: 0676499075050
Release Date: 16 Feb 2024
Genre: Broken Beat/Nu Jazz

 Following the hugely popular first ‘Acid Jazz (Not Jazz)’ release in 2022, label heads Eddie Piller and Dean Rudland return with a second volume, ‘We’ve Got A Funky Beat’.
 The record further takes in the club sounds of the original acid jazz scene in the early 1990s, where obscure funk, soul and rock records were mixed with new productions that turned up at the Acid Jazz (then Denmark Street) offices on a near-daily basis.
 A document of an era, before the internet, where clubs and record stores informed the tastes and direction of the burgeoning London music community and the close-knit groups of producers, musicians, label and shop owners that were constant companions in search of the new sound.
 Ballistic Brothers and X-Press 2 appear alongside unsung heroes such as Night Trains and The Hightower Set.
 Presented in a beautiful geometric graphic sleeve, with a printed inner sleeve documenting the original release designs.

Tracklisting
Super Strut – The Apostles
Escucha Ma Funk – The Hightower Set
Testify – Mains Ignition
Russian Roulette – Night Trains (ft. Afrika Bambaataa)
From The Ghetto – Dread Flimstone
Delancy St… The Theme – Ballistic Brothers vs. Eccentric Afros
Tranz Euro X-Press – X-Press 2
Farside – Jaziacs