Various - Style & Fashion DOUBLE CD

Description:
UK import!
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 labels to come out of the UK, and which ran from 1980 for nearly 20 years.
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.
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!
The album is released on deluxe double CD with outsize booklet and slipcase, and digitally. The album comes with extensive sleevenotes featuring interviews with Fashion founders Chris Lane and John MacGillvary, as well as exclusive photography and original artwork and flyers.
Format & package: CD  in slipcase
Record label: Soul Jazz Records
Year of release: 2022 (compilation)
Tracks:
1-1 Papa Face Ft. Red Man - Dance Pon De Corner
1-2 Dee Sharp - Let's Dub It Up
1-3 Cutty Ranks - Limb By Limb (DJ SS Remix)
1-4 General Levy - Mad Them
1-5 Laurel & Hardy - You're Nicked
1-6 Bunny General - Played By This Ya Sound
1-7 General Levy & Hard 'N' Pure - Wikkeda!!
1-8 Carlton Lewis - Small Talking
1-9 Poison Chang - Shot Fe Bust (Marvellous Cain Remix)
2-1 Dee Sharp - Rising To The Top
2-2 Papa Face Ft. Keith Douglas - DJ Jamboree
2-3 General Levy - Heat
2-4 Carlton Lewis - Sweet Soul Rocking
2-5 Top Cat - Ruffest Gun Ark (DJ Rap Mix)
2-6 Papa San - DJ Busines
2-7 Papa Face & Bionic Rhona– To The Bump
2-8 Cutty Ranks - As You See It
2-9 Janice Walker - You'll Never Need Somebody
2-10 Asher Senator - Bubble With I