STYLE - S/T LP Indiana Modern Soul Private OG in shrink
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Artist: Style Title: S/T Label: Razz-a-Mataaz Cover: EX (still in the shrink, super clean with minor corner wear and some yellowing on back) Record: EX/NM Inserts: Comment:
Possibly the least known of the handful of vintage r&b/soul lp's from Indiana. Nice mix of male/female vocals. Great songs and a fine lp overall. While the band was from Indy, the record was released by a Richmond, Indiana label and appears to have barely been distributed. Not many known copies and this is a good one. Here's some detailed info from Jason Yoder's Indiana45s site:
"For too long the Style album has languished in obscurity, unknown to even some of the hardest soul and funk collectors around the world. Certainly the most obscenely rare soul album out of Indianapolis, Style was one of the most popular soul groups in the early 80s. It's membership included Jerry Brown, Katharine Carter, Donald Daily, William Drane, Terry Moncrief, Diane White and Thomas Woods.
Both Thomas Woods and William Drane were original founding members of Soul Relation Show Band that recorded on John Footman's obscure "Beetle" imprint their incredible "Mongo Strut" way back in 1972. They later shortened their name to SRB and eventually morphed into Style. According to Woods the reason for this was that the world "soul" was considered a bit old-fashioned to have in your name by the late 70s.
Rumor has it that producer Jim Horton (who also produced Fabulous Souls - Take Me) threw away a small garage unit filled with this album sometime in the earls 2000s and a couple hundred were accidentally burned by the guitarist Woods. It's really too bad because it's an album whose time is yet to come. You won't likely find one soon, but it's worth picking up if you stumble across one.
The album itself is a strong mixture of mid-tempo soul cuts and ballads with great singing. True, the material's arrangements and instrumentations are dated by the synthesizer sounds, but it only makes the material more memorable and more exciting to listen to. It's hard for me to forget that Woods informed me that his SRB band was heavily influenced by George Clinton's Parliament and the rock-oriented soul/funk arrangements shine through.
Several years ago I was lucky enough to stumble across one of the Style test pressings in a collection in Indianapolis. The guy who had it thought for some reason that the record was never issued. Indeed, the original proved to be as elusive to find as the test pressing.
Some of the stronger tracks include "Video Playgirl" and Terry Moncrief penned, "All I need is you" and "Holding On". For early voice-box freak-outs check out "Disconnect Notice."
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