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charles earland - leaving this planet / left this planet (gone) - prestige - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Jazz - Jazz-Funk

1. Charles Earland - Leaving This Planet
2. DG9 - Left This Planet (Gone)

Pls note Artwork comes in a different color now. A heavily-played classic at David Mancuso's Loft parties, Charles Earland's "Leaving This Planet" encapsulates the visionary appropriation of the early NYC disco scene: an uptempo funky Jazz masterpiece that spoke to the precise moment of divine convergence that was NYC's underground dance community, and in so doing, secured it's place in the annals of musical and cultural immortality far beyond it's originally intended role. Compiled by Francis Englehardt & Paul Nickerson for slow/to\speak, featuring an exclusive B-Side by ‘anti-philosopher’ DG9...