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EPICENTRE feat BERNADETTE BASCOM - Get Off The Phone - Vinyl (7")
Sold Date:
May 27, 2019
Start Date:
April 11, 2019
Final Price:
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Free delivery on many items. Same-day despatch, no-question returns. Authorised dealers - full technical support. Online since 1997. Shop categories Information EPICENTRE feat BERNADETTE BASCOM Get Off The Phone(7") Izipho Soul
Cat: ZP 24. Rel: 8 Apr 19
Soul
Side 1. Get Off The Phone (1978 version) Side 2. Get Off The Phone (unreleased 1981 version)
You'd be forgiven for not knowing Epicentre's "Get Off The Phone". Until 2014, when it appeared on a Light In The Attic compilation, this near perfect slice of jazz-funk/proto-boogie goodness had only even been available on an obscure 1978 collection celebrating local bands put together by a Seattle radio station. It's well worth a single release, not least to get a decent quality pressing suitable for club plays. The unknown band's original version - which features a suitably dewy-eyed vocal from Bernadette Bascom, eyes-closed electric guitar solos and warm period instrumentation - is this time accompanied by a previously 1980 re-make that's arguably even better thanks to the presence of spacey synthesizers and elastic slap bass.
