VA Street Jams Electric Funk (4 Volumes) (1992 94)

2013 two CD collection. Crucial Electro 4 is a ground-breaking album as the tracks featured include classics from the original Electro albums and also other monster Electro tracks. As well as including the full length original versions, we have included re-edits of key tracks which are exclusive only on Crucial Electro 4! Many of the tracks have not been available for more than two decades. Disc One contains the full length original versions - unmixed plus bonus edits. Disc Two has been mixed by the legendary Kurtis Mantronik with bonus edits.

Jazz Funk Classics vol.1 is a collection of 30 of the greatest Jazz Funk tracks and the first in a new series of Street Sounds albums, across various music genres. These new albums signal a renaissance of the Street Sounds brand and Jazz Funk Classics vol.1 will take you on a special journey. Every track on this album is an essential, seminal classic which are as exciting, enjoyable and vital today, as they were when originally released. Every Street Sounds album is compiled with a great deal of TLC. We are aware that a buyer of a Street Sounds album expects nothing but the best - therefore we ensure that each track is the full length, original 12 extended or album version and meticulously remastered to the highest quality, a connoisseur and audiophiles dream.

Australia is not the first place you think of as a crate-digger's paradise. But these 20 slices from the country's early-Seventies season in commercial R&B and pop-jazz fusion are a lively lesson in the ingenious adaption of imported trends over an extreme distance. This is overwhelmingly white funk: "Back on the Street Again," an Etta James cover by Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, and the ID's "Feel Awlright" are examples of hot shots from Australia's Sixties-beat and heavy-rock scenes finding their dance-floor feet; a track by the progressive-rock band Tamam Shud comes from the soundtrack to a 1971 surfing documentary. But it is all robust fun with intriguing sampling prospects.