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Been away in Italy for a wedding hence the lack of posts but now back and rarin’ to get some regular posts flowing into this blog showcasing some damn fine music that deserves extra mention for your audio pleasure. Visited Rome after the nuptials for a couple of days and inevitably gravitated towards any record shops there was time to visit, in this case the Re-Mix record store for some diggin’ in the crates amongst the large amount of second-hand stock in the back rooms. If you’re prepared to spend a few hours down there, some on your knees, you can dig up some gems for between 2-4 euros each. They have listening facilities, the old stock is mainly house, techno and deep house from what I could see but there was too much to get through it all… this time.

Dug up this classic, a billy bargain at €3, either to keep as a second copy or to sell on (ended up giving it as a gift to a friend). Prescription Records were the seminal deep house label of the nineties, with releases that are rightly regarded as classics today. The vast majority of the catalogue is still sought after and you’ll have to part with upwards of £20 to get some of them, including this one unless you’re a patient digger. In 1997 I was in Singapore en route to Australia backpacking and ck sent me a mixtape that included this untitled track (B2) as well as lots of other Prescription tracks. The whole mix was sublime, one that perfectly encapsulates the time; I really really hope that I’ve still got it somewhere, if I find it, we’ll definitely put it up on ck’s mix page on TipTop.

Set your spirit free… Set your spirit free.

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**UPDATE** For those who are either unwilling to pay the price to get the original pressing or feel it unnecessary, the French label P&D licensed and re-released this in October 2009. This also illuminated the fact that the untitled B2 track from the original release (as featured here) was actually called Let The Spirit by Joshua, spread all across the A side on the re-release.

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