• Raw Soul Express – Get On Up And Get Freaky
    • Raw Soul Express – Love Like This
    • Raw Soul Express – I'd Like To Take A Shot
    • Raw Soul Express – The Way We Live (Full Unreleased Version)
    • Raw Soul Express – Will You Be There
    • Raw Soul Express – Come And Join Us
    • Raw Soul Express – Let Go
    • Raw Soul Express – We're Gonna Be Together
    • Raw Soul Express – Do You Know What You Feel
    • 1. Get On Up And Get Freaky
    • 2. Love Like This
    • 3. I'd Like To Take A Shot
    • 4. The Way We Live (Full Unreleased Version)
    • 5. Will You Be There
    • 6. Come And Join Us
    • 7. Let Go
    • 8. We're Gonna Be Together
    • 9. Do You Know What You Feel

    Athens of the North and Symphoncal Records are proud to present the long lost Raw Soul Express LP in a special limited Vinyl only release. Mastered personally from the original tapes with love. If you don't know what this is then you're in the wrong game, the LP also includes the Full previously unreleased version of their rare-groove and surprisingly rare club classic "The Way We Live" in its full intended format. Solid Ballads are what makes the LP - boogie, funk and Rare-groove, blink and it'll be gone! 

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