Flame N' King & The Bold Ones - Ain't Nobody Jivein' (Get Up Get Down)Perhaps one of the most enigmatic of artists on the Rare Soul scene must be Flame N' King aka Oscar Wayne Richardson Jr, who ran his various labels independently since the mid 60s. It was a surprise when the group surfaced again with a fantastic uptempo New York dance track in 1976 on the tiny N. Y. C. S. records. "Ho Happy Day" found immediate favour with the Modern Soul crowd, but it took the next 30 years for it to eventually become a Modern Soul

Following on from a retrospective compilation of solo work and an album of recent work in 2016

and our drummer João started singing this funny song 'Sábado Barrigudão' (Big Belly Saturday) alongside the bass groove and that was that"

Somewhere between Ian Pooley and Hipp-E & Halo in a state of perpetual sunset

This is a must-have for any self-respecting record digger

with its loping yet dextrous bassline across strutting beats setting the scene

crisp drums … it is an instant favorite

Haefeli borrows her image: “This time you had climbed out of the well

mantra-like songwriting (evidenced in tracks like Vanguard

through a vastly different lens

the album’s 10 original tracks

Eddie Kendricks

Gran Canaria in November 2020 not realising it would change his life