{"product_id":"soul-jazz-records-presents-in-the-beginning-there-was-rhythm-1","title":"Soul Jazz Records Presents: In The Beginning There Was Rhythm - COMPACT DISCS","description":"\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eIn The Beginning There Was Rhythm\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eArtist: \u003c\/b\u003eSoul Jazz Records Presents\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eLabel: \u003c\/b\u003eSoul Jazz\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eProduct Type: \u003c\/b\u003eCOMPACT DISCS\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eUPC: \u003c\/b\u003e5026328105505\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eGenre: \u003c\/b\u003eRock\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eRelease Date: \u003c\/b\u003e2024-06-07\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eNumber of Discs: \u003c\/b\u003e1\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \n                                         \u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \n                                         \n                                         Unavailable for over 20 years, In The Beginning There Was Rhythm was Soul Jazz Records first foray into post-punk and punk-funk in the UK and captures the ground-breaking and seminal groups that crossed the divide of punk and dance music for the first time. \/\/ \"In the Beginning is essential missing-link history - and body-rockin' fun\" The Guardian \/\/ \"In the Beginning doesn't have a single limp tune. It'll amaze new listeners and give old ones some hard-to-find tracks. Buy it.\" Pitchfork \/\/ \"There's no denying that In the Beginning There Was Rhythm is a great gateway into this expansive, fruitful, trailblazing era.\" All Music \/\/ First released in 2001, this album is fully remastered, remade and presented once more in it's entirety and features A Certain Ratio, Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle, The Human League, The Pop Group, Gang of Four, The Slits, 23 Skidoo and This Heat. \/\/ The CD format of the album comes with extensive sleevenotes and original photography. \/\/ As Muzik magazine noted on it's initial release 'In The Beginning' is a choice selection from the fertile post-punk period when bands thought nothing of combining politics and philosophy with imported dance rhythms and edgy industrial angst. \/\/ The bands featured come (mostly) from the then bleak post-industrial North of England - Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds as well as Bristol and London, and yet all show a fascination with black American rhythms and an experimentation in sound that was completely unique at the time. \/\/ The title of the album comes from The Slits track of the same name.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTracks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1.1 A Certain Ratio - Shack Up (3.17) \u003cbr\u003e1.2 23 Skidoo - Coup (4.11) \u003cbr\u003e1.3 Gang of Four - to Hell with Poverty (4.58) \u003cbr\u003e1.4 The Human League - Being Boiled (3.51) \u003cbr\u003e1.5 The Slits - in the Beginning There Was Rhythm (5.53) \u003cbr\u003e1.6 This Heat - 24 Track Loop (5.57) \u003cbr\u003e1.7 Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats (2.44) \u003cbr\u003e1.8 A Certain Ratio - Knife Slits Water (9.41) \u003cbr\u003e1.9 Cabaret Voltaire - Sluggin' Fer Jesus (5.01) \u003cbr\u003e1.10 The Pop Group - She Is Beyond Good and Evil (3.22) \u003cbr\u003e1.11 23 Skidoo - Vegas El Bandito (2.56)\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Soul Jazz Records Presents","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40960169803847,"sku":"44313555","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2976\/0132\/files\/4333631-3149426_b8f57f43-06a0-4d5a-a2d0-5ec45a5ff22b.jpg?v=1717070001","url":"https:\/\/tower.com\/products\/soul-jazz-records-presents-in-the-beginning-there-was-rhythm-1","provider":"Tower Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}