While the rest of the UK raved on with ever increasing speed, the inner city clubs of Manchester and Birmingham began to slow down the tempo and find stride in a new style: Street Soul. The early ’90s saw the sound take a clearer shape through the convergence of reggae basslines, the shuffled drum machine sequences of New Jack Swing, and a concretely British approach to lyrics centered around love and longing, handed down from the previous generation’s lovers rock sentiments. Walk with us, and explore the many intersections of the multi-faceted sound of Street Soul.