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v/a - personal space - electronic soul 1974-84 - chocolate industries - vinyl

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Genre: Funk / Soul

1. Jeff Phelps - Excerpts From Autumn
2. Guitar Red - Disco From A Space Show
3. Jerry Green - I Finally Found The Love I Need
4. Key & Cleary - A Man
5. Spontaneous Overthrow - All About Money
6. Cotilion - If You Give A Dance
7. US Aries - Are You Ready To Come? (With Me) (part 1)
8. Makers - Don't Challenge Me
9. T Dyson & Company - It's All Over
10. Starship Commander Woo Woo - Starship Commander Woo Woo
11. Johnnie Walker - Love Vibrator
12. Jeff Phelps - Super Lady
13. Deborah Washington & The Astros - Shortest Lady
14. Steve Elliot - One More Time
15. US Aries - Are You Ready To Come? (With Me) (part 2)
16. The New Year - My Bleeding Wound
17. Johnson - Time To Go Home

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Modern Witch

Flowering in the mid-to-late ‘70s, affordable high-quality tape recorders, synthesizers, and simple drum machines permitted the aspiring artist to never leave his home, never request the assistance of another human being. In the world of American Black music, name artists such as Sly Stone, TimmyThomas, and Shuggie Otis had experimented with rudimentary electronic soul with a modicum of success, but on record what remains is scant. Check!

This collection presents the unheard underground of the self-produced, often solo, electronic soul world of the ‘70s and early ‘80s, offering a view into an ocean of sound that is in turn peaceful, bizarre, funky, and often humbly ahead of its time. Available as a high quality 180 gram double LP and features arial photography by NASA astronaut Donald Pettit.