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Review: Emotional Rescue continues its quest to bring obscure, left of centre dance to a wider audience with a reissue of Adu's reggae-pop cut Burkina Faso, starting the next series of releases where the label teams up with DJ / producer for a series of reissues featuring their edit / mixes that add to and update the original for today's dancefloor. South Saharan / West African emigre to Brixton long-term, musical and politically active resident, Rauf Adu would go on to a minor European wide hit in his supremely catchy Human To Human - checked You Tube for numerous 80s Euro-pop show appearances - the label goes back to the start, with his debut 7" release in 1982 for Copasetic Records and the reggae-pop inspired Burkina Faso. A laidback Compass Point drum and bass underpins with rock guitar and Adu's exaltations of youth and home, backed with flowing, layered harmonies across a call and response chorus. Simply a fun song to shuffle and ting, of its time but like an 80s pop-steppa. This is expanded further in the simple, but effective Dub mix, stripping everything back to highlight Adu's guitar slays and backing vox. For remix duties, the label welcomes fellow head of Isle Of Jura to get behind the desk and create some extended disco dub fun. The last 5 years have seen the Isle Of Jura label go from strength to strength and has just been topped with the arrival of in-house project, Jura Soundsystem's debut LP. The Adelaide best Brit, Kevin Griffith's has been providing additional production, mixes and dubs for his label since inception and here he presents a soundsystem remix that cuts, edits, extends and dubs Burkina Faso, teasing the instrumental intro before riding the songs groove to offer the version for today's DJ heads.
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ERC 133
28 Apr 23
Reggae Classics/Ska
28 Apr 23
Reggae Classics/Ska
