UK-based Backatcha Records has released a brilliant new sixteen-track compilation featuring some of the hardest to find independent soul gems recorded between 1971-1984.

From breezy seventies Californian psych-folk, to mid-tempo groovers, downtempo ballads, sweet soul, and dreamy cosmic selections, this 2xLP release features top-shelf rarities from start to finish that will even have soul 45rpm aficionados scratching their head. The compilation also includes two previously unreleased versions of Nature’s Choice “Never Get A Chance” and Watch Tower’s “Forever, Together.”

With many of the original 45rpm records going for ridiculous high prices (if you are lucky to even come across them), Backatcha has done an incredible job putting together a well-crafted compilation that helps shed light on these great tracks, while making them obtainable on wax once again. Don’t sleep on this one!

Various — ‘Swave Villi Us: Independent Soul 1971-84’
(Backatcha Records)

1. Stride & Willie Gay, Jr. – Come Inside
2. Nassauvians – Slacking Off
3. Aka Shaic – Swave Villi Us
4. Ray T. Jones – Norfolk Sound
5. Theatre West – Children Of Tomorrow’s Dreams
6. Ivan R. Sturdivant & Time Zone No. Seven – The World That Died
7. Small Society – Just Loving You
8. No I.D. (aka Bilal Sabir) – Changes
9. Nature’s Choice – Never Get A Chance (Previously unreleased version)
10. Antwans – You Got That Right
11. Joe walker – We Need Each Other
12. Spice – For Old Time’s Sake
13. Joe Brown and the Soul Elderados – Vibration Part Two
14. Expressway – Blue Evening
15. Smiles – Just A Star
16. Watch Tower – Forever, Together (Previously unreleased version)

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• Compilation
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