Underground break-beat fuelled disco funk from 1978, by New York-based alliance Aura, a studio group that emerged from teenage live band, Hooker, who hailed from Corona, Queens. This is a first time the full-length versions of ‘Freex’ and ‘Last Stop’ get a limited 12″ reissue cut at 45 RPM. At the helm of Starbase Sounds was multi-instrumentalist Steven Young and the Cadle Brothers trio: guitarist, lead vocalist and producer Ray Cadle, bassist Jules Cadle, and an older brother Karim as executive producer. They released a total of four singles, each of which has long since become prized for the music and scarcity in equal measure.

• A Freex
• B Last Stop