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LP vinyl collating recordings from Vox Man Records in 1985, sourced from 1 LP and 2 cassette albums, licensed and remastered especially for release. Housed in specially designed Reverse Card Board outer and inner.

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1.	Dee Nasty - Orientic Groove 05:18	buy track
2.	Scoop! - Asphalt Zombie 03:22	buy track
3.	Vox Populi! & Man - Johnny Pour Toujours 02:13	buy track
4.	3M - The Mark 02:40	buy track
5.	Amus Tietchens - Triumph Des Wilden 01:50	buy track
6.	Melsjest - Der Sound Kosten 04:48	buy track
7.	Vox Populi! - 1234567 00:49	buy track
8.	Randall Kennedy - Enorma Jones 01:03	buy track
9.	Dennis Young - Intuition 03:08	buy track
10.	Stanislas Noel - Wondercat 00:51	buy track
11.	Bene Gesserit - Kidnapping 03:33	buy track
12.	Kosa - For Dance 03:16	buy track
13.	Capital Funk - The Last Set 03:41	buy track
14.	Psyclones - Fall In Time 02:22	buy track
15.	Chukk Green - Shoes For Freedom 01:19	buy track

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Platform 23 presents the 2nd collection of songs selected from the Alternative Funk series released Vox Man and VP 231 Records. Originally appearing in 1985 across 1 vinyl and 2 cassette albums these cult collections have long been in collectors (and bootleggers) sights and finally see the first official reissue.

As with Volume 1 (PLA023) the series covers the weird, wonderful, esoteric, exotic and quirky sound and puts them in a reset context that immediately gives clarity of the original’s curation.

This volume opens with some DIY electro stealers, first with Dee Nasty’s Orientic Groove, where the early French hip-hop pioneer lays down a battle commence of beats, slapped bass and YMO keys, before the second offering from Scoop! and their rap attack, juxtapositions the past series and leads to label heads Vox Populi! & Man and their continued look at the rudiments of cut up manipulation and scratch techniques.

The avant rappears with 3M’s percussive marker and legendary Amus Tietchens’ is ever challenging, before Melsjest’s post-punk meets the Weirmar possibly steals the side as Vox Pop spoken outro joins those (micro)dots.

The cult of Randall Kennedy returns with another garage-fuzz gem. His stories for wackos’n’weirdos end all too soon and are followed by Liquid Liquid’s Dennis Young, diving deep with Intuition, before Stanalis returns with another winner. Bene Gesserit is a killer and welcome addition, before Kosa return with more industrial clippings and volume 2 heads to the door with Capital Funk’s electro-punk bomb – possibly the series champion – while the slap bass-scratch of California’s Psyclones leads to a music hall end in the homage to mum’s favourite, Chukk.

What these Volumes again highlight is how the DIY aesthetic of so many independent labels was supplemented and spread via collections of friends, contemporaries and often, literally pen pals, to mail in their offerings that are then picked for wider ears. While some of these artists have become known, just as many are who and whats, but they sit side-by-side as warranted and often killing the scene of what Axel and co sought to be…the Alternative Funk.

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