Soul II Soul

[instrumental music] Oh my gosh, look at this one.

Soul II Soul, Jazzie B, Kiss FM, 1988.

That was before you were born, Marly.

[instrumental music]

My very first record, Felix, Don't You Want My Love, uh, I often think of him.

And then another one called Soul II Soul, 7's-

Yeah

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Moving on then to number 31, where we have another new entry.

It's Soul II Soul.

They're back again with Keep on Movin', 96 this was listed as in Discogs.

However, it is led by the original version that you know and love from 1989.

Watch your color moving.

Stay.

You just heard a clip of Keep on Movin' by Soul II Soul, new entry at 31.

So this was originally released in 1989 as the second single from their massively influential-

Okay.

I am having, uh, Soul II Soul, "Back to Life" 'cause that's what it felt like having Premier League football in front of me and being at the stadium as well.

It's always a thrill, uh, to get to go to the games.

I know you guys write in and you're from all over the world, and you say, you know, you, you d- you rarely get to go to games.

They'd come to Toronto, Jamaica, whatever, stay at our house.

And I remember, uh, I don't remember, uh, if it was Stone Love or Soul II Soul, or both of them.

I can't, th- one of each where s- they came to my dad's house and they were practicing, and they were doing a show that night at, um, do you remember when it used to be Yuck Yuck's downtown?

Mm-hmm.

He's just, plays music and he [laughs] plays music very well.

Mm-hmm.

So I mean, that was, I looked up to him, and like, um, there was a couple of DJs that, like, he hung around with, like the Stone Loves and the Soul II Souls, and like, just, you know, the...

I would be at a lot of reggae shows, and I'd, I'd be like, "Man, I can't believe these guys can control a crowd like that."

They had a very on-off relationship, and eventually then settled and have, have gone on to have various children.

Um, I love the fact it's Love 2 Love, like Soul 2 Soul.

We've got, uh, Roman numerals-

Yeah

But my main inspirations were a lot of the, the tracks that had been on the MTV hit charts at the time.

So there's Technotronic, Soul II Soul, new jack swing.

Um, in terms of music that had also been popular in Japan- I would say MC Hammer was a big influence.

It was really popular in Japan back then.

So pre-production for this song was done at Hooper's house.

Hooper enlisted Gota Yashiki, with whom he'd previously worked on Soul II Soul's debut studio album, to do arranging and programming of instrument and drum tracks for this song.

Yashiki utilized, for those of you nerds out there, an Atari ST computer running C Lab Notator sequencing software and an Akai S100 or 1100 sampler.

And after the recording sessions, they moved to Britannia Row Studio, and they actually used live drum parts that were overdubbed and the cello part provided by the Akai sampler that was finalized.