Shakatak - The Collection & The Collection Vol 2

This 2 CD collection features some of Shakatak's best known work, including a number of remixes from 1991's Remix Best Album.

Enjoy the radical reworking of Easier Said Than Done, original club edit of Down On The Street as well as the originals of some of the groups earliest (and many would argue purest) work such as the classics: Brazilian Dawn, Living In The UK and Feels Like The Right Time.

Shakatak provided the bridge between high-quality jazz and dance music in the early '80s and continue to this day producing sophisticated and well received work. Formed in the late '70s, the line-up has remained stable: Bill Sharpe on keyboards, George Anderson on bass, Roger Odell on drums and Jill Saward on vocals. A huge homegrown underground movement began to swell in the late '70s, influenced by key American artists such as Ronnie Laws, Roy Ayers and Donald Byrd. The genre became known as Jazz-Funk, and momentarily Shakatak blazed at the vanguard of it alongside groups such as Level 42 and Light Of The World.