Various Artists - In The Beginning There Was Rhythm (Soul Jazz)

Various Artists - In The Beginning There Was Rhythm (Soul Jazz)

Tracklist:

A Certain Ratio – Shack Up    
23 Skidoo – Coup    
Gang Of Four – To Hell With Poverty    
The Human League – Being Boiled    
The Slit's –  In The Beginning There Was Rhythm    
This Heat – 24-Track Loop    
Throbbing Gristle – 20 Jazz Funk Greats    
A Certain Ratio – Knife Slits Water    
Cabaret Voltaire – Sluggin Fer Jesus    
The Pop Group – She's Beyond Good And Evil    
23 Skidoo – Vegas El Bandito

 Unavailable for over 20 years, ‘In The Beginning There Was
Rhythm’ was Soul Jazz Records’ first foray into post-punk and
punk-funk in the UK, capturing the ground breaking, seminal
groups that crossed the divide of punk and dance music for the
first time.

 “‘In The Beginning...’ is essential missing-link history - and
body-rockin’ fun” - The Guardian

 “‘In The Beginning...’ doesn’t have a single limp tune. It’ll amaze
new listeners and give old ones some hard-to-find tracks. Buy
it.” - Pitchfork

 “There’s no denying that ‘In the Beginning There Was Rhythm’
is a great gateway into this expansive, fruitful, trailblazing era.” - All Music

 First released in 2001, this album is fully remastered, remade
and presented once more in its entirety and features A Certain
Ratio, Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle, The Human League,
The Pop Group, Gang of Four, The Slits, 23 Skidoo and This
Heat.

 This album comes as a CD and as a double black vinyl edition
with download code complete with two bespoke inner bags
containing extensive sleevenotes and original photography.

 As Muzik magazine noted on its initial release, ‘In The
Beginning There Was Rhythm’ is a choice selection from the
fertile post-punk period when bands thought nothing of
combining politics and philosophy with imported dance rhythms
and edgy industrial angst.

 Most of the bands featured come from the then bleak post-
industrial North of England - Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds as well as Bristol and London - and yet all show a fascination with Black American rhythms and an experimentation in sound that was completely unique at the time.

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