Heatwave / An England Story

Theres a new release out on Soul Jazz which looks pretty interesting, An England Story, charting the history of the MC in the UK, focussing on the particular british inflections and highlighting the connection and extent of the influence of caribean culture.

Its been compiled by the Heatwave collective, and the release is based upon a blogariddims podcast they'd previously compiled, which you can still download for free, and which features a lot of the same tracks. I haven't heard the Soul Jazz release yet, but i've had the blogariddims podcast on a lot this past week and really enjoying it.

The Heatwave website and blog is well worth checking out and subscribing too - news on their shows, mixes/refits, downloads, and general chat. There is also some discussion on the dissensus forums about the background to the process of selecting and compiling the Soul Jazz release from the lads behind it..

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