• Donnel Pittman – Love Explosion
    • Donnel Pittman – Your Love Is Dynamite
    • 1. Love Explosion
    • 2. Your Love Is Dynamite

    Huge disco / modern soul dance-floor filler from the Athens Of the North stable! Don't sleep on this one - certified floor filling bullet, people!

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          Reissue of this wicked, oddball, mid 80s Brit funk jam via Athens Of The North!
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