VA - Soul Jazz Records Presents Fashion Records: Style & Fashion (2019)
BAND/ARTIST: Various Artists
- Title: Soul Jazz Records Presents Fashion Records: Style & Fashion
- Year Of Release: 2019
- Label: Soul Jazz Records
- Genre: World, Reggae, Dub
- Quality: MP3 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks)
- Total Time: 1:27:51
- Total Size: 201; 486 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
Soul Jazz Records are proud to 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, running from 1980 for nearly 20 years.
In that time Fashion released hundreds of records that successfully reflected - and indeed set - the changing styles and perspectives of reggae music in the UK, from UK dancehall and lovers rock in the 1980s through to the mighty rise of jungle in the second half of the 1990s.
While nearly all other UK reggae labels focused on releasing Jamaican music, from the early days of Island and Trojan in the 1960s, through Island and Virgin in the 1970s and Greensleeves that came up in the 1980s, Fashion’s focus was firmly on music produced in the UK. This unique British perspective shaped both lyrical content and musical fashion. And like all the great music labels, from Studio One to Blue Note, Fashion was able to create a significant roster of its own artists.
Amazingly for a small independent label, a number of Fashion artists achieved mainstream UK chart and crossover success, including Laurel & Hardy, Smiley Culture and General Levy. But although this success was welcomed, crossing over into the mainstream was never the main focus for label owners Chris Lane and John McGillivray (who also runs the successful Dub Vendor record shop), whose starting point was always primarily focused on producing quality music first.
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, remixers 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.
The album is released as a deluxe double CD with outsize booklet and slipcase, heavyweight triple vinyl (with digital download code) and digital download album. The album comes with extensive sleevenotes, interviews, exclusive photography and original artwork and flyers.
Fashion Soundsystem live show in Sounds Of The Universe with the founders plus MCs including Asher Senator and Papa Face
Tracklist:
01. Papa Face feat. Red Man - Dance Pon De Corner
02. Dee Dee Sharp - Let's Dub It Up
03. Cutty Ranks - Limb By Limb
04. General Levy - Mad Them
05. Laurel & Hardy - You're Nicked
06. Bunny General - Played By This Ya Sound
07. General Levy & Hard 'n' Pure - Wikkeda!!
08. Carlton Lewis - Small Talking
09. Poison Chang - Shot Fe Bust
10. Dee Dee Sharp - Rising To The Top
11. Papa Face & Keith Douglas - DJ Jamboree
12. General Levy - Heat
13. Carlton Lewis - Sweet Soul Rocking
14. Top Cat - Ruffest Gun Ark
15. Papa San - DJ Business
16. Papa Face & Bionic Rhona - To The Bump
17. Cutty Ranks - As You See It
18. Janice Walker - You'll Never Need Somebody
19. Asher Senator - Bubble With I
In that time Fashion released hundreds of records that successfully reflected - and indeed set - the changing styles and perspectives of reggae music in the UK, from UK dancehall and lovers rock in the 1980s through to the mighty rise of jungle in the second half of the 1990s.
While nearly all other UK reggae labels focused on releasing Jamaican music, from the early days of Island and Trojan in the 1960s, through Island and Virgin in the 1970s and Greensleeves that came up in the 1980s, Fashion’s focus was firmly on music produced in the UK. This unique British perspective shaped both lyrical content and musical fashion. And like all the great music labels, from Studio One to Blue Note, Fashion was able to create a significant roster of its own artists.
Amazingly for a small independent label, a number of Fashion artists achieved mainstream UK chart and crossover success, including Laurel & Hardy, Smiley Culture and General Levy. But although this success was welcomed, crossing over into the mainstream was never the main focus for label owners Chris Lane and John McGillivray (who also runs the successful Dub Vendor record shop), whose starting point was always primarily focused on producing quality music first.
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, remixers 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.
The album is released as a deluxe double CD with outsize booklet and slipcase, heavyweight triple vinyl (with digital download code) and digital download album. The album comes with extensive sleevenotes, interviews, exclusive photography and original artwork and flyers.
Fashion Soundsystem live show in Sounds Of The Universe with the founders plus MCs including Asher Senator and Papa Face
Tracklist:
01. Papa Face feat. Red Man - Dance Pon De Corner
02. Dee Dee Sharp - Let's Dub It Up
03. Cutty Ranks - Limb By Limb
04. General Levy - Mad Them
05. Laurel & Hardy - You're Nicked
06. Bunny General - Played By This Ya Sound
07. General Levy & Hard 'n' Pure - Wikkeda!!
08. Carlton Lewis - Small Talking
09. Poison Chang - Shot Fe Bust
10. Dee Dee Sharp - Rising To The Top
11. Papa Face & Keith Douglas - DJ Jamboree
12. General Levy - Heat
13. Carlton Lewis - Sweet Soul Rocking
14. Top Cat - Ruffest Gun Ark
15. Papa San - DJ Business
16. Papa Face & Bionic Rhona - To The Bump
17. Cutty Ranks - As You See It
18. Janice Walker - You'll Never Need Somebody
19. Asher Senator - Bubble With I
Year 2019 | Reggae | World | FLAC / APE | Mp3
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