Foxbase Alpha (Vinyl LP) Reggae & Ska

Foxbase Alpha (Vinyl LP) Reggae & SkaFoxbase Alpha is the 1991 debut album by Saint Etienne and it is a wonderful mix of both modern and retro influences with house music, ambient, samples and 60s pop coexisting easily for a unique sound not found anywhere else at the time. It is best known for their popular cover of Neil Young's Only Love Can Break Your Heart. Foxbase Alpha had such an impact upon its release that it was nominated for the Mercury Prize eventually losing to Primal

She still mines the same influences

partly as the album was never released commercially

Musically it's a blend of vintage drum machine funk drawing heavily on Chicago's house blueprint - a natural progression from a string of EPs both solo and alongside her friend and mentor DJ Fett Burger (Sex Tags Mania)

horns and organ lines

and then we get down n dirty once again with Donwanchooback

"Witchy Woman" (number 9)

freewheeling air that was truly a relief after the lethargic tone of Sally Can't Dance

If the mood is melancholy

The first version of Ant Trip Ceremony was formed when guitarist Steve Detray

#31 Pop Singles)

DJs and diggers

polyglot jazz and no-fuss funkiness - delivered with both absolute looseness and absolute precision - has spread like a virus around the world