StreetSounds is a British compilation record label that specialised in urban and electronic club/dance music during the mid-1980s. StreetSounds was an offshoot of producer and promoter Morgan Khan's StreetWave label. The first StreetSounds release was the first edition of the label's core compilation series, StreetSounds 1 in late 1982. This regular compilation series proclaimed itself 'one hour packs of the latest dance tracks'. They were composed of full-length versions of (mainly) black club and urban dance music. Some tracks were licensed from the US.
The Street Sounds label went into liquidation in 1988, mainly as a result of large losses incurred by Street Scene, Khan's club music magazine. After its collapse, the Street Sounds label was dormant for some years. It has since been revived by Khan, and offers mainly reissues of back-catalogue material from the original Street Sounds incarnation.
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Peel gave radio airtime to numerous underground dance-music compilations released on the Street Sounds label from the mid-1980s, focused largely on electro / hip hop, featuring mainly US artists.
The label's 1984 "UK Electro" album featured breakdance crew Broken Glass under various names, with musicians including members of Peel session outfits A Certain Ratio and Magazine, alongside a later Ruthless Rap Assassins MC (Kermit, subsequently Black Grape).
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(Plays by Peel of various artist (v/a) compilations released on the Street Sounds label.)
(LP - Street Sounds Electro 4)
- 18 June 1984: VHB: Beethoven's Fifth (Street) Symphony
- 18 June 1984: Cybotron: Techno City
- 11 November 1995: Cybotron: Techno City
- 02 February 1996: Cybotron: Techno City
(LP - Street Sounds UK Electro)
- 20 June 1984: Foreveraction: B.E.D. '34
(LP - Street Sounds Electro 5)
- 11 September 1984: Hi Fidelity Three: B Boys Breakdance
- 11 September 1984: Knights Of The Turntables: Techno Scratch
The Real Roxanne
(LP - Street Sounds Electro 6)
- 03 April 1985 (Muriel Gray): Real Roxanne & UTFO: The Real Roxanne
(LP - Street Sounds Hip Hop Electro 11)
- 29 January 1986: 12:41: Success Is The Word
- 26 March 1986: Awesome Foursome: Monster Beat (Peel mentions buying Disco Four's Get Busy single thinking that he hasn't got it, until he realised it's already on the Street Sounds Hip Hop Electro 11 compilation, but then discovers the B-side, which he finds wonderful and plays the track.)
(LP - Street Sounds Hip Hop Electro 12)
- 16 June 1986: M.C. Chill: M.C. Story
(LP - Street Sounds Hip Hop 18)
- 09 November 1987: Force Desire: Jazzy Keith
- 10 November 1987: Frick 'N' Frack: Go Southside
- 18 November 1987: Kings Of Pressure: You Know How To Reach Us
Overlord X - 14 Days In May
Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock - It Takes Two
(LP - Street Sounds Hip Hop 20)
- 01 March 1988: Overlord X: 14 Days In May
- 02 March 1988: Overlord X: 14 Days In May
- 08 March 1988: Overlord X: 14 Days In May
- 14 March 1988: Rob Base & D.J. E-Z Rock: It Takes Two
- 15 March 1988: Overlord X: 14 Days In May
- 23 March 1988: Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock: It Takes Two
(LP - Rare Groove Vol. 1)
- 02 March 1988: Coke Escovedo: Runaway
- 14 March 1988: Bill Moss: Sock It To 'Em Soul Brother
- 21 March 1988: Charles Wright And The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band: Express Yourself
- 04 April 1988: Eddie Bo: Hook And Sling (Part One And Part Two)
(LP - House Trax 2)
- 24 May 1988: Dancer: Number Nine
(LP - Street Sounds Hip Hop 21)
- 25 May 1988: Spicy Ham: You Never Heard Of Me & I Never Heard Of You
- 25 May 1988: 5 Star Moet: Let Me Love You
(LP - Electro 8)
- 08 April 2003: DEF feat. DJ Three D: DEF Momentum