S’EXPRESS – ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK LP – Nr MINT/EXC+ A1 UK DANCE TECHNO

S’Express – Original Soundtrack
(Rhythm King Records  1989  LEFTLP8)
Matrix No’s: A1/B1 – UK Pressing

Sleeve in Excellent+ condition
– front is great but back cover has creasing at opening edge and a tiny tear near bottom
Inner Sleeve & Insert in Nr MINT condition
Also comes with original Merchandise Sheet

Vinyl in Nr MINT/Excellent+ condition
(there are some surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality apart from some light pops/crackles)

S’Express (pronounced ess-express; sometimes spelled S’Xpress or S-Express; otherwise known as Victim of the Ghetto) were a British dance music act from the late 1980s, who had one of the earliest commercial successes in the acid house genre.

“Theme from S’Express“, based on Rose Royce’s “Is It Love You’re After”, was also one of the earliest recordings to capitalize on a resurgence of sampling culture and went to number one in the United Kingdom as well as the Hot Dance Club Play chart in the United States (also scraping into the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 at #91).

Original Soundtrack is the debut album by English dance music act S’Express. It was predominantly written and produced by Mark Moore along with Mark McGuire. Pascal Gabriel co-produced the album’s two biggest hits, “Theme from S’Express” and “Superfly Guy”. The album charted well in the UK and reached number five on the UK Albums Chart and was also received well on the US dance chart.

The album was heavily influenced by Acid house and utilized many samples from other music and artists. Although many of the vocals on the album are from samples, S’Express was presented at the time as a group consisting of producers Moore and Gabriel with singers Michellé and Jocasta and musician Mark D. Additional vocals were provided by Billie Ray Martin. The artwork to the album is a tribute to Tamara de Lempicka and is influenced by her style and includes a version of her painting “Andromeda”, which was originally a nude. The original painting is owned by, and included in Madonna’s music videos “Open Your Heart” (1986) and “Vogue” (1990).

Track listing

1. “Overture” (Moore) / “Theme from S’Express” (Moore, Gabriel) – 6:02
2. “L’age du Gateau” (Moore) – 5:02
3. “Can You Feel Me” (Moore, E. Mix) – 4:34
4. “Superfly Guy” (Moore, Gabriel) – 3:31
5. “Blow Me Another Lollypop” (Moore, Gabriel) – 3:54
6. “Hey Music Lover” (Sly Stone) – 4:30
7. “Pimps, Pushers, Prostitutes” (Moore, Merlin, McGuire) – 5:56
8. “Special and Golden (Parts I & II)” (Moore, B. Beal) – 8:06
9. “Coma II (A.M./O.K.)” (Moore) – 4:56
10. “Pimps, Pushers, Prostitutes” (Instrumental) – 5:37

Personnel

Starring

• Mark Moore – Keyboards & drum patterns & noise & electric doormat & analogue organ rotorvator.
• Michellé – Vox & B-vox & orgasmatron.
• Chilo – Sampled vox & guitar & sampled guitar chords & percussion.
• Linda Love – Keyboards & Baby Baby Grand & Great Semprini.

Also Starring

• Mark McGuire – Drum patterns & programming.
• Brendan Charles Beal – Keyboards & flute & sax & tremolo modulation & analogue organ rotorvator.

With Special Guests

• Billie Ray Martin – Vox & B-vox.
• E. Mix – Vox.
• Eric Robinson – Vox & B-vox.
• Steam – Vox.
• Suzanne Rhatigan – B-vox.

Also

• Annie Stephenson – Strings.
• Gordon M – Brass.