Andy Smith's Northern Soul (Vinyl 2xLP) Rock N Roll & 50s

Andy Smith's Northern Soul (Vinyl 2xLP) Rock N Roll & 50sSo, why is DJ Andy Smith putting out a Northern Soul mix? Well, that's what a lot of people ask me and the answer would have to be that it's fantastic music that I've been collecting for a long time. People that go to my gigs will know that I like to include Northern Soul in my regular DJ sets and this is a project that I've wanted to do for a while (along with the Northern Soul night that I am currently running at the Jazz Cafe in Camden Town,

mysterious combination of folk

' the stark surreal sonic wash of 'Paranoia

Bad and Beautiful sounds like it was recorded in a basement

The album features several guests including the Halle Orchestra ('Manchester's oldest band' as Guy affectionately calls them) with Pete McPhail

bursting with raw and uplifting grooves

more guitar-driven work

atop an unstoppable bassline and imaginative

At a time when several other west coast artists were going to war with rappers from New York

Ellie Marshall

These two tracks only previously appeared as a long-lost single that goes for

The New Clarence Reid was the first undisguised incarnation of the character he invented only a couple of years later as Blowfly

reflective odyssey on everything one has lived