VA 80’s Soul Classics

PTG Records proudly presents the 7th Volume of 80s Soul Classics bringing you a long-awaited rainbow of soul magic. More twinkling black music than you can possibly handle the whole idea of the 80s Soul Classics series. Drops of jazz-funk and a spoonful of hip-hop complete the crunchy soul bite. Furthermore, Vol. 7 uncovers indie tracks that are rarely compiled and lovely bits by artists that arent often included on such compiltions, but just as worthy and fresh. Get a kick out of this spanking jaunt to the popping heart of 80s soul and funk. Come On Connect!

This compilation is a mix of the loved and cherished sides as played on the Northern Soul scene from the early 70s onwards, to brand new master tape finds that will give this ageing cultural movement a timely shot in the arm for the '20s and beyond. Includes tracks by the Marvellos, the Invincibles, Ben Aiken, Carl Hall, Linda Jones, Delilah Kennebreuw, the Apollas, Clyde & the Blue Jays, the Olympics, Billy Storm, and many others.

Ministry of Sound continue to educate the masses with a brand new collection of one our most loved music genres. With the sun shining what better album to get your groove on and heat things up for the imminent summer than Funk Soul Classics. A major influence on disco, funk music is a sound familiar to all having also been heavily sampled in dance related genres ever since including hip hop, house and drum & bass not to mention featuring in countless iconic film soundtracks (Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Shaft to name but a few). The essential tunes from your favourite funk soul brothers & sisters all feature including the Academy Award winning 'Theme From Shaft' by Isaac Hayes, Curtis Mayfield, Bobby Womack, Sly & The Family Stone, Bill Withers, Funkadelic, The Isley Brothers, The Fatback Band, Al Green, Aretha Franklin & Sister Sledge. 3CDs of grooves and cuts that defined an era, from Stateside to Southport, these are the records that provided the soundtrack to a generation.

Soul Classics features 4 Sides of vinyl containing 30 tracks of the biggest soul legends including; Al Green, Nina Simone, Bill Withers, The O’Jays, Labi Siffre, Deniece Williams, Freda Payne and more.

Northern soul is a music and dance movement that emerged in Northern England and the English Midlands in the late 1960s from the British mod scene, based on a particular style of black American soul music, especially from the mid-1960s, with a heavy beat and fast tempo (100 bpm and above).

Warner Music Presents Mellow Gold: 70s Classics contains the defining tracks of the decade and features some of the biggest hits from artists including Seals and Crofts, America, Gerry Rafferty and many more.

An iconic Kent vinyl album expanded to CD format with bonus soul necessities.
Over the years we have been asked to issue CDs versions some of the most popular Kent LPs we put out in the 1980s. With the exception of “Slow’n’Moody, Black & Bluesy”, a few releases in our Hip Pocket series and some solo collections, we have held off until now. “On The Soul Side” is a good place to start, as it was our first compilation drawn from a catalogue other than Kent/Modern. A superb collection of mainly big budget 60s soul sides sourced from the Capitol, Liberty, Minit, Imperial and United Artists family of labels, only a quarter of the tracks on the LP have since appeared on Kent CDs. With an extra 10 like-minded soul songs added, it means that no more than 15.3846% (approx) are likely to be in even the most avid Kent fan’s collection.