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P.P.U records = PEOPLE'S POTENTIONAL UNLIMITED records
A label from Washington D.C. USA that releases a microcosm of deep soul, 
electrofunk, minimal wave synthfunk, boogie space jazz, Lo-fi disco, 
prison rap and various connected styles, re-issues of 70's 80's lost 
gems and fresh new stuff on LP,s 7"s and tapes.

Here are 5 supercool tracks released on PPU records put in the spotlight:

DWIGHT SYKES - IN THE LIFE ZONE PPU044listen here
https://dwightsykes.bandcamp.com/track/in-the-life-zone
Hailing from KALAMAZOO, Michigan. A wonderful deep combination of poppy 
soul funk, r&b and smudgy minimal synthwave - the latter mostly sounding 
like that because of the use of certain drummachines and homekeyboards.
Everything Dwight Sykes is crazy good so check out his other music 
definitely too!

NAPOLEON CHERRY - WHEN YOU HAD THE CHANCE PPU68 listen here
https://youtu.be/qXfeHw3CRcQ
A bit of a creepy love song, if I got this as a demo I might have 
alerted the authorities its so weird! Some snippet of the lyrics:

"Don't make a mistake, I'll be watching you
The life that you live, the friends that you make
Don't be afraid our love is here to stay"

The atmosphere is so strange, eerie uncomfortable, it could be basically 
about a stalker, maybe also not...who knows. But the music itself is so 
hypnotic and very intriguing. The beat, the ever repeating Rhodes riff, 
how stuff comes in and fades out again, that string on the 
background...It is by all means definitely a track to study deeply 
musicwise, because you will learn a lot.
And check that supercool videoclip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8plT4xesxt8&t=104s

THE SOLICITORS - JOYCE PPU017 Listen here
https://youtu.be/F7XhuV51FB8
Synthetic romance with lightly distorted analog drumbox and EXTREME 
gnawling groovey synthbassline. Add some laxative saxophone riffs (not 
too much fortunately) lush synth strings and cool vocals. 7" Very 
uplifting fun track! Re-issue of 1983 original on San-Ton records

CRUISE - CRUNCH PPU003 Listen here
https://youtu.be/Egjo2LnPFzs
One of the earlier PPU releases, a re-issue of a 1982 original 7" on 
Style records. Real sleazy lo-fi funk with a touch of Italo vibes and 
Afro funk, especially when the organ comes in later.

DELROY EDWARDS & BENEDEK - STRUNG OUT PPU058 Listen here
https://youtu.be/fGZppJPruLI
L.A. Club resource boss Delroy Edwards teams up with Benedek for an 
iressistable slab of LO-FI funk! Future archeologists will be puzzling 
about that drummachine.

This is just the tip of the iceberg of the vast P.P.U catalogue,
a label well worth doing some further deeep diggin into :)

SW.