Flame N' King & The Bold Ones - Ain't Nobody Jivein' (Get Up Get Down)Perhaps one of the most enigmatic of artists on the Rare Soul scene must be Flame N' King aka Oscar Wayne Richardson Jr, who ran his various labels independently since the mid 60s. It was a surprise when the group surfaced again with a fantastic uptempo New York dance track in 1976 on the tiny N. Y. C. S. records. "Ho Happy Day" found immediate favour with the Modern Soul crowd, but it took the next 30 years for it to eventually become a Modern Soul

Floaty and airy melodics balance out a devastating 808 drum beat

Presented through linear notes in English and Japanese with archival photos from Uwe Reineke and Mijk Van Dijk

Fruit of geographical meanderings through Hamburg’s tentacular architecture

An acoustic return of 'Love's The Most' bring the album to completion

Greg has DJ'd at some of the hottest Brazilian parties around the globe and presents a monthly radio show ‘Warm Wave’ on Soho Radio NYC

and bookmarked throughout by

along with EOL Alumni lead vocalists Josh Milan

He blames ‘Everybody and No one’

No one knows this era of music better than Dave Lee

vibes moving between dark and light

Ronin Arkestra and Dreamweavers

while the ensemble delivers a blend of contemporary genre-smashing injected into the past