Artist: Various Artists
Title: Prelude - The Sound Of New York
Label: Deepbeats Records
Origin: UK
Release Date: 1997
Catalogue No: DEEPD017 (Single CD)

Track Listing:

Disc 1

1. Mastermind - 'I Am Music' (Extended Album mix) 3.52
2. Prana People - 'Pranian Man' (Extended Album Mix) 6.16
3. Sine - 'Mosquito Walk' (Extended Album mix) 5.22
4. Mastermind - 'Hustle Bus Stop' (Extended Album mix) 4.47
5. Peter Jacques Band - 'Walking On Music' (Extended Album mix) 8.23 6. Center Stage - 'Never' (Extended 12" mix) 5.37
7. Gayle Adams - 'Stretch' In Out' (Francois Kevorkian Disco mix) 8.15
8. Sharon Redd - 'You Got My Love' (Francois Kevorkian mix) 7.07
9. Bobby Thurston - 'I Know You Feel Like I Feel' (Extended Album mix) 6.31
10. Unlimited Touch - 'Happy Ever After' (Extended 12" mix) 6.04
11. Hi-Gloss - 'I'm Totally Yours' (Extended Album mix) 5.12
12. Empress - 'Take A Risk' (Francois Kevorkian Mix) 7.37

Disc 2

1. Unlimited Touch - 'Searching To Find The One' (Francois Kevorkian mix) 7.21
2. Next Movement - 'Let's Work It Out' (Francois Kevorkian mix) 5.40
3. Gayle Adams - 'Let's Go All The Way' (Francois Kevorkian mix) 4.47
4. "D" Train - 'Tryin' To Get Over' (Francois Kevorkian Instrumental mix)  6.06
5. France Joli - 'Your Good Lovin'' (Extended Album mix) 5.37
6. Michael Wilson - 'Groove It To Your Body' (Francois Kevorkian mix) 7.10
7. Conquest - 'Body Movement' (Francois Kevorkian mix) 6.14
8. Gunchback Boogie Band - 'Funn' (Extended Instrumental mix) 5.40
9. Gerald Mallory - 'Lay It Down One Me' (Extended 12" mix) 5.43
10. Cliff Frazier & Co - 'Video Freak' (Extended 12" mix) 6.07
11. Secret Weapon - 'Do You Love Me?' (Extended Album mix) 4.45
12. Unlimited Touch - 'Good Lovin'' (Extended Album mix) 6.40
13. Wuf Ticket - 'The Key' (Extended 12" mix) 6.40

Sleeve Notes:

In a similar bag is the space-disco fusion of Prana People's "Pranian Man" from the group's self-titled album, The groups nucleus, brothers Talib and Zayeed Aleem later teamed up with their other siblings as the Fantastic Aleems, featuring one Leroy Burgess. Cult vocalist Leroy is featured on the Peter Jacques Band's "Fire Night Dance" from 1979, which spawned the recently covered disco smash, "Walking On Music". A long-time associate of Burgess was Patrick Adams, who along with the aforementioned Musique, gave Prelude Daybreak, the P Crew, Tribe and Sine, whose quirky "Mosquito Walk" is on a par with Adams' spacey productions for the Universal Robot Band, Sammy Gordon and Cloud One. The Sine LP, "Happy Is The Only Way", from which this track is taken, also features the hit single "Just Let Me Do My Thing". Patrick also wrote Christie Wiltshire's "Never", under the guise of Center Stage. This uptempo stomper also features some classic Adams arrangements.

Sean Pennycook - March 1997