Various Artists

Pure Wicked Tune is a mixtape-style collection of extracts & cut-ups, taken from DIY cassette recordings featuring rare groove and ''Soul Blues'' soundsystems playing at early morning house parties and blues dances - mostly in South & East London - between the mid 1980s & early 90s.

Sounds like Funkadelic, Touch of Class, Latest Edition, JB Crew, Manhattan, 5th Avenue (and the many more featured on this tape) originally began to form in the mid-1980s. With lovers rock dwindling, and the reggae scene becoming dominated by harder digital-style dancehall, these sounds provided a tight but loyal crowd with a potent alternative - playing a mixture of killer rare soul, funk and boogie records in an inimitably reggae soundsystem style, complete with toasting, sirens and effects aplenty.

• 01 Science (Intro)
• 02 Flashlight
• 03 Birth Night
• 04 Fire
• 05 Darkness Bout Ya (Flashlight II)
• 06 Shit Hot
• 07 All John Travolta
• 08 Nuff Imports
• 09 Chillin in the Morning
• 10 Pure Niceness (Flashlight III)
• 11 Shockout Business
• 12 Pure Wicked Tune
• 13 Work to Do
• 14 Sweetback (No Poll Tax)
• 15 Canning Town Posse
• 16 Hello Stranger (Flashlight IV)
• 17 Special Birthday Request (Find a Partner)
• 18 Set Speed Operator
• 19 For All Those Who Never Hear It Proper (Outro Chop)