‘Regarded as the epitome of Northern Soul by many aficionados, I’m Gone, by Detroit’s Eddie Parker, captures the adrenalin and anger of a busted relationship, as he tells of his determination to start again — elsewhere. Expertly produced by Jack Ashford, one of Motown’s key Funk Brothers, the pulsating rhythm drives home the sense of riled frustration.
‘The flip Crying Clown is musically and thematically miles away: heartbreak and sorrow over a beautiful ballad backing.
‘Two of the greatest soul recordings from the 1960s.’

Blimey.
The legendary flamenco singer Manuel Mancheño Peña — aka El Turronero, The Nougat — full throttle over a flanged, action-packed disco-funk bassline, metronomic beats. soaring and layered female backing vocals, intergalactic synth sounds and stirring strings. The flip is looser, groovier, and warmer, with still funkier bass, spiralling seventies synths, sweaty drums, and exotic touches.
DJ Harvey specials.

Cold-sweat compounds of art-funk, baglama high-life, horrorama, yacht.

All their fab late 60s recordings for Bert Berns and his Bang and Shout labels, and then RCA — classic girl group and soul both, with some dancers and northern anthems, lit upfront by the great belter Brenda Reid.

Fresh and new, but rough, layered and head-nodding like classic UK street soul, this is the fifth and for us the best-yet installment in Londoner EYE’s excellent, under-the-radar series.
Slinkily slippery and hard-to-pin-down as usual, but rooted in funk and soul connoisseurship.
Two-sided this time — boozier, dizzier and more spaced-out on the flip, smudged with echo and effects, and scraps of horns and singing.
Beautifully hand-decorated sleeves as per.

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“I’ve always loved those Motown duets with Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell and wanted to create a modern version of that… playing with the way those duets have this quite clear notion of romance, love and relationships…We’re subverting that a little to explore normativity in relationships. Musically, we’ve tried to put all of the beauty, excitement, and tension of modern day love into this song.”