Grand Central: Label of Love
David Hemingway, Record Collector, 1 February 2004
THE UK'S PREMIER soul label, Grand Central, has released music by a hip-hop artiste who cites the Smiths as his greatest influence, a future-funk musician whose DJ-ing moniker is taken from one of the US' most notable terrorists and a 21st century torch singer who just happens to be the cousin of the label founder.
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