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Hello, still some more grooves to contend with here, i'm taking it easy today a collection of Street Sounds compilations from the late eighties "Full Length Original Jazz, Funk & Soul 12" Mixes"...the weekend starts here with "The Official Soul Week-Enders Album" all of the three I own.

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Specialised in urban and electronic club/dance music during the mid 1980s. StreetSounds was an offshoot of producer and promoter Morgan Khan's StreetWave label. The first Streetsounds release was the first edition of the label's core compilation series, StreetSounds 1 in late 1982. This regular compilation series proclaimed itself 'one hour packs of the latest dance packs'. They were composed of full-length versions of (mainly) black club and urban dance music. The tracks were licenced from the US.

The StreetSounds formula for compilations was quality track selection, and reacting quickly to trends with a frenetic release rate. The run of the StreetSounds series coincided with, and helped promote, the rise of electronic dance music during the mid 1980s, at a time when style conscious young adults in the UK were looking for an alternative to rock, pop and post-punk music.

Notable StreetSounds releases included the Philadelphia Story; SOLAR; Love Ballads; and Dance Decade box sets. The Artists compilations, that collected representative tracks from specific artists, and 'Anthems' series (compilations of dance music classics) were also well-regarded. The Japanese instrumental group A.B.'s album called Deja Vu was released on the label, in 1983. The StreetSounds logo was changed several times over the lifespan of the label.

The StreetSounds label went into liquidation in 1988, mainly as a result of large losses incurred by StreetScene, Khan's club music magazine. After its collapse, the StreetSounds label was dormant for some years. It has since been revived by Khan, and offers mainly reissues of back-catalogue material from the original StreetSounds incarnation.

In April 2009, Streetsounds released a new electro compilation through the Streetsounds website. Nu Electro Volume 1 featured twenty tracks mixed by Freddy Fresh and Diplomat, and the musical style returned to the electronic roots of the series rather than the Hip Hop style compilation that was released in 1988 as Electro 22.

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VA - Street Sounds Anthems vol 3 ( 139mb)

01 Instant Funk – I Got My Mind Made Up 9:43
02 Brothers Johnson – Stomp 6:13
03 Linx – You're Lyin' 6:26
04 Ritchie Family – The Best Disco In Town 6:31
05 Barbara Mason – Another Man 6:52
06 Al Hudson & The Partners – You Can Do It 7:01
07 Stargard – Which Way Is Up 6:44
08 Karen Young – Hot Shot 8:30

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VA - Street Sounds Anthems vol 4 ( 406mb)

01 Tom Browne – Funkin' For Jamaica 4:40
02 Change – Searching 8:00
03 Slave – Just A Touch Of Love 6:27
04 Donald Byrd – Thank You For Funkin' Up My Life 7:16
05 Aquarian Dream – You're A Star 5:31
06 Lamont Dozier – Going Back To My Roots 6:30
07 GQ – Disco Nights 6:53
08 Gwen McCrae – Keep The Fire Burning 5:36
09 Gil Scott-Heron – The Bottle 6:54
10 Average White Band – Pick Up The Pieces 3:58

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VA - Street Sounds Anthems vol 7 ( 327mb)

01 Crusaders (feat Randy Crawford) – Streetlife 7:46
02 Evelyn "Champagne" King* – Love Come Down 6:06
03 Glenn Jones – I Am Somebody 6:19
04 Gloria Gaynor – I Will Survive 4:55
05 Odyssey – Native New Yorker 5:29
06 Oliver Cheatham – Get Down Saturday Night 7:31
07 GQ – Make My Dream A Reality 6:13
08 Alicia Bridges – I Love The Nightlife 6:50

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