The Main Ingredient

Real Gone Music in association with SoulMusic Records is proud to present these two rare albums on CD for the first time worldwide, along with a bonus B-side, Psychedelic Ride, with remastering by Vic Anesini at Sony s own Battery Studios. Liner notes by acclaimed writer Kevin Goins document the early years of this important mainstay R&B group of the 70s.

The Main Ingredient were one of the best smooth soul groups of the early '70s, but they've never been given much respect in terms of CD retrospectives. They were given two comps in 1990 – Collectables' good but cheap Golden Classics and RCA's lengthier All Time Greatest Hits, which had more tunes but bad sound – and in 1996 RCA issued Quiet Storm, a collection of their romantic ballads, but the group still needed a well-produced, remastered collection of their biggest hits.

This classic session from 1976 by one time member of the Main Ingredient, Tony Silvester and the New Ingredient. Silvester's brilliant solo debut. An amazing blend of soul, disco, Afro-Caribbean influences, and sex arrangements by the great Patrick Adams a modern soul/boogie classic that still sounds as fresh on the dancefloor as it did in 1976.

Afrodisiac is a funk/soul album by the Main Ingredient. Released in 1973 by RCA Records, the album features several songs written or co-written by Stevie Wonder.

Euphrates River is the sixth album by American singing group The Main Ingredient. Released in 1974, the album charted at number 8 on the Soul albums chart in the U.S. In addition to the standard 2 channel stereo version, the album was also released in a 4 channel quadraphonic version in 1976. The quad LP was encoded using the Compatible Discrete 4 system. This album was reissued in the UK on the Super Audio CD format in 2016 by Dutton Vocalion. The release contains both the stereo and quad mixes.