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DEEP STREET SOUL: Hold On Me (2012)

Rating: ★★★★★
It’s deep funk death match time to see who can do the stankest slice of raw-ass funky sister soul action this year. Meaning? Nothing less than Melbourne’s Deep Street Soul dropping a new single hot on the heels of Brighton’s The Grits’ Strychnine/ (I’d Walk A) Funky Mile 45. On the A-side is Hold On Me (the Mighty May Johnson
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DEEP STREET SOUL: ‘Look Out, Watch Out’ LP (2011) + tracklist + EPK video

Rating: ★★★★★
Look Out, Watch Out is the second LP from Oz band Deep Street Soul and – well – it’s pretty much the main shit when it comes to twenty-first century funk with the dirty soul of sixties grooves. It’s all about the grit see? And just as with the raw original rnb and northern soul of The Excitements LP in the spring and the chunky grooves of T Bird & The Breaks’ second album
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DEEP STREET SOUL: Look Out, Watch Out (2011)

Rating: ★★★★★
Whoop, whoop! Australia’s Deep Street Soul return with even more fuzz in their funk than before with this double whammy. The A side is a funky-ass slice of uptempo garage-soul featuring the band’s new vocalist – the appropriately raucous-voiced May Johnston who lets rip on the uptempo title track of the DSS’ forthcoming second LP Look Out, Watch Out. As with their last 45
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