Unlimited（坂本昌行 , 森田剛 , 三宅健）

Featuring all 14 of Love Unlimited Orchestra’s US 7” singles released between 1973-1979, as well as the 12” Single Disco versions of a further 7 tracks, this set is the first compilation to pull together all the group’s A- and B-sides. Perfectly positioned for all Barry White collectors and soul / R&B aficionados, it includes the hits: Love’s Theme, Rhapsody In White, Satin Soul, My Suite Summer Suite, and Theme From “Shaft”.

This 1970 album by the German group Joy Unlimited was, to the eternal confusion of discographers, issued under three separate titles. In Germany, it was called Overground; in the U.K., Turbulence; and, in the U.S., simply Joy Unlimited. Although the band would later go in a more progressive direction, this LP was not all that progressive in nature, and not at all like the avant art rock of the 1970s Krautrock movement. Instead, it was a competent amalgam of trends in American and British mainstream rock, pop, and soul, rather like the kind flashed by numerous bands emerging in neighboring Holland at the same time, like Shocking Blue. And, like Shocking Blue, Joy Unlimited sang entirely in English and were fronted by a woman singer (Joy Fleming); you wouldn't especially either identify them as a band from a non-English-speaking country, or be able to identify them as coming from any place in particular.