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V.A. Style & Fashion Records - Class Top Notch Hi Fi Sounds In Fine Style

Soul Jazz | Item No: 643584
Vinyl 3LP | 2019 / UK – Original | New
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Item Description
Soul Jazz Records are proud to present this new collection of music from the great Fashion Records, one of the
most important and iconic independent reggae labels to come out of the UK, and which ran from 1980 for nearly
20 years.
In that time Fashion released hundreds of records that successfully reflected, and indeed set, the changing styles
and perspectives of reggae music in the UK – from UK dancehall and lovers rock in the 1980s through to the
mighty rise of jungle in the second half of the 1990s.
While nearly all other UK reggae labels focused on releasing Jamaican music – from the early days of Island
and Trojan in the 1960s, through Island and Virgin in the 1970s, and Greensleeves that came up in the 1980s
– Fashion’s focus was firmly on music produced in the UK. This unique British perspective shaped both lyrical
content and musical fashion. And like all the great music labels – from Studio One to Blue Note – Fashion was
able to create a significant roster of its own artists.
Amazingly for a small independent label, a number of Fashion artists achieved mainstream UK chart and
crossover success – including Laurel & Hardy, Smiley Culture and General Levy. But although this success was
welcomed, crossing over into the mainstream was never the main focus for the label owners Chris Lane and
John McGillivray (who also runs the successful Dub Vendor record shop) whose starting point was always
primarily focused on producing quality music first.
In the early 1980s, Fashion Records captured the rise of the emerging British dancehall scene in its ascendency.
The large roster of first generation British-born artists and MCs on the label – including General Levy, Papa Face,
Smiley Culture, Bionic Rhona, Asher Senator, Laurel & Hardy, Top Cat and many more – often gave a unique
and sometimes humorous British lyrical perspective to Fashion releases, discussing everyday subjects, from
police harassment to road safety!
Throughout much of the 1980s and into the 1990s Fashion continued to release an almost relentless array of
UK dancehall releases as well as continuing with lovers rock, and the occasional dub releases. Then, in the mid-
90s, with the dancehall and reggae releases still coming on strong, Fashion released a superb series of early
jungle tracks linking Jamaican and British MCs and dancehall artists with young jungle mixers, re-mixers and
producers. By this time dancehall artists General Levy and Cutty Ranks had become the staple vocal samples of
literally hundreds of white label jungle records and Fashion took advantage of this, often getting young
producers to work in exchange for sample clearances – don’t get mad, get even!
This album is a subjective and scatter-gun ride through some of the many unique and heavyweight tracks to
come out of the Fashion stable that we love – some classics, some lesser-known, all 100% killer!
Item Details
Item No: 643584
Artist: V.A.
Title: Style & Fashion Records - Class Top Notch Hi Fi Sounds In Fine Style
Label: Soul Jazz
Catalog No: SJRLP443
Format: Vinyl 3LP, Vinyl, LP
Pressing: UK – Original
Release Date: 2019
Genre: Reggae & Dancehall
Style: Roots & Culture
Available since: 2019-04-25
Condition: New
Price: $ 31.78
Weight: 750g (plus 250g Packaging)
Tracklist
A1 Papa Face - Dance Pon De Corner feat Red Man
A2 Cutty Ranks - Limb By Limb (DJ Ss Remix)
A3 Dee Sharp - Let's Dub It Up
B1 General Levy - Mad Them
B2 Laurel & Hardy - You're Nicked
B3 Bunny General - Played By This Ya Sound
B4 General Levy & Hard N Pure - Wikkeda!!
C1 Carlton Lewis - Small Talking
C2 Poison Chang - Shot Fe Bust (Marvellous Cain Remix)
C3 Dee Sharp - Rising To The Top
D1 Papa Face - DJ Jamboree (With Keith Douglas)
D2 General Levy - Heat
D3 Carlton Lewis - Sweet Soul Rocking
E1 Top Cat - Ruffest Gun Ark (DJ Rap Mix)
E2 Papa San - DJ Business
E3 Papa Face & Bionic Rhona - To The Bump
F1 Cutty Ranks - As You See It
F2 Janice Walker - You'll Never Need Somebody
F3 Asher Senator - Bubble With I
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