Chain Reaction - You Gave Me The ReasonTwo previously unreleased gems from a Chain Reaction studio session recorded in London, in 1977 now available back to back on this 7 single. You Gave Me The Reason is a lovely modern soul uptempo dance floor burner coupled with Lets Be Lovers, a mellow and funky instrumental adaptation of the Holland Dozier hit, Why Cant We Be Lovers. By the mid 70s, former Techniques singers Bruce Ruffin, Bobby Davis and Dave Collins had established individual

Chinese Rock

Oriental Suite 4:50

much like Ryo Fukui’s Scenery

A sort of sonic psychogeographic dispatch from late ‘90s Detroit

Herbie Hancock not credited on label

The latter is a tribute to a key influence of the album

it features exquisitely calming yet searching pieces like ‘There’s Still Hope’

but something more expressive

As the latter’s ascent as a clubbing capital took hold

Feel It (Beatnik Dub)

and mixed by Ben Baptie (whose credits include Sault

a near 15 minute stepper that jumps stright in at the deep end