Twenty years(!) in the making, this 3 CD collection comes from darkest Hackney and the sounds were instrumental in creating the sounds you hear today. PJ and Smiley started putting out all these 12s that have since become sought after classics, all influential in their own way. Drawing influences from proper old hip-hop, P-funk, Prince, sixties funk, dub, reggae and the emerging acid house scene they are quite simply artists that everyone owes for their perseverance and unwavering defence of the underground. Lovely blokes too! Anyway, there are too many highlights to mention all, but here are a few – ‘5678’, ‘Hooligan 69’, ‘The Green Man’, ‘Autobiography Of A Crack Head’, ‘Take it Easy’, ‘Reclaim The Streets’, ‘Glory days’, ‘True VIP’. ‘Outta National’. Let’s hope there’s another 20 years left in them and we can be off our tits and shitting our pants into middle-age accompanied by their splendiferous bass excursions. “Hip Hip hooray”. (You’ll get that reference if you listen all the way through to almost the end of CD 3!)
5 Out Of 5
Reviewed By: SOTO
