Soul II Soul's Back To Life (taken from the album Club Classics Volume 1) was a huge hit in 1989, staying at Number 1 in the UK singles chart for four weeks.

Jazzie B's London-based project nailed a fresh and uniquely British Electronic Soul sound. The basic formula seems simple enough: layering sampled and tweaked drum and percussion breaks from classic Funk records – in this case, Graham Central Station'sThe Jam– along with piano sounds (perhaps from the Korg M1, which was new at the time); drums from the Roland TR-series drum machines (the 909 or 808); and sine wave bass, which can be as simple as a detuned and sampled 808 or 909 kick, or just a sampled wave from a synth. Let's get started.