V/a / Eccentric Soul 7 - The Prix Label

Numero Group

When Numero Group’s first album, Eccentric Soul: The Capsoul Label, was issued in 2004, it was lauded as Columbus, Ohio's answer to Motown. To the outside world, the capital city's soul heritage was an anomolly in a landscape dominated by Detroit, Memphis, and Chicago, but to those living inside I-270, Capsoul was just one of dozes of tiny imprints being ignored. Across town, the tiny custom studio Harmonic Sounds was cutting and releasing equally as brilliant and left-of-center material on their Prix imprint, but it's what they didn't release that makes this record so special. In addition to eleven previously issued cuts, Numero Group’s thrown on eight more tracks that turned up an estate sale. Demos, finished masters, and what can only be described as "studio tomfoolery."

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