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Soul Jazz Records release this stunning new collection featuring music influential to the artist Keith Haring.

The art of Keith Haring is today one of the most recognisable of any visual artists of his generation, defining 1980s New York during an intense period when downtown artists and musicians collaborated like never before. Haring’s musical inspiration took in the punk/dance downtown sounds of clubs like The Mudd Club, underground disco at Larry Levan’s Paradise Garage, as well the early days of hip hop and electro.

The album is released to coincide with the opening of the first major exhibition in the UK of Keith Haring’s work at Tate Liverpool, which runs for the next six months.

Haring’s many friends included Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Madonna, Fab Five Freddy, William Burroughs, Jenny Holzer, Yoko Ono, Grace Jones, Larry Levan, Futura 2000.

The music here includes the work of a number of Haring’s close friends, including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Yoko Ono, Larry Levan, John Sex and George Condo (The Girls), as well as healthy dose of rare disco, early electro and New York punk/dance tracks.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Where a lot of Soul Jazz compilations focus on a genre, or a precursor of that genre, Haring's affiliated acts read like the toilet walls of CBGB, Paradise Garage and the Mudd Club. It's a brilliantly varied but cohesive snapshot of the 80s in music and art incorporating art-rock, electro and the burgeoning hip-hop scene. Absolutely essential.

TRACK LISTING

2CD 
B Beat Girls - For The Same Man
Damon Harris - It’s Music
Pylon - Danger
The Jonzun Crew - Pak Man (Look Out For The OVC)
Funk Masters - Love Money
John Sex - Bump And Grind It
Sylvester - Over And Over (12" Disco Mix)
The Girls - Jeffrey I Hear You
Johnny Dynell And New York 88 - Jam Hot (Rhumba Rock)
Talking Heads - I Zimbra
Art Zoyd - Sortie 134 (Part 2)
Class Action - Weekend (Larry Levan Mix)
Adiche - Chuka-Ja (Get Ready)
The Girls - The Elephant Man
The Golden Flamingo Orchestra - The Guardian Angel Is Watching Over Us
Gray - Cut It Up High Priest
Extra T’s - E.T. Boogie
Convertion - Let’s Do It
Yoko Ono - Walking On Thin Ice
Fab 5 Freddy - Change The Beat

3LP
B Beat Girls - For The Same Man
Damon Harris - It’s Music
Pylon - Danger
The Jonzun Crew - Pak Man (Look Out For The OVC)
Funk Masters - Love Money
John Sex - Bump And Grind It
Sylvester - Over And Over (12" Disco Mix)
Johnny Dynell And New York 88 - Jam Hot (Rhumba Rock)
Art Zoyd - Sortie 134 (Part 2)
Adiche - Chuka-Ja (Get Ready)
Class Action - Weekend (Larry Levan Mix)
Gray - Cut It Up High Priest
The Golden Flamingo Orchestra - The Guardian Angel Is Watching Over Us
Extra T’s - E.T. Boogie
Fab 5 Freddy - Change The Beat
Convertion - Let’s Do It
Yoko Ono - Walking On Thin Ice