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This 4 CD set of Adeva's eponymous debut album brings together the most comprehensive collection of this seminal house - R&B release. Originally released in August 1989, the album went on to sell in excess of 300,000 copies in the UK. CD 1 features the 10 tracks of the original album plus seven bonus tracks with the single versions of five tracks, Respect, Warning!, I Thank You, Beautiful Love and Treat Me Right. Plus there's the Club mix of I Thank You and the dub mix of Warning!CD 2 features 13 tracks of remixes, dub versions plus bonus beats of the singles including Dancin' Danny D's remix of Respect along with five other mixes of the track. There's two remixes of Warning!, High On Hope mix and Zanzibar mix. These are accompanied by the I Thank You remixes - Original Club mix, The New Jersey mix, Somehouse Somewhere mix and Paul Simpson's The Philadelphia mix. CD 3 includes five I Thank You mixes, two of which are by the Dancing Divas with their Club mix and Rhythm Mix, Love To Infinity provide two mixes, plus there's remixes of the single Beautiful Love including the Classic Club mix by Frankie Knuckles. It's b-side Promises also has three mixes included. CD 4 boasts five mixes of the 6th single from the album, Treat Me Right followed by four rare Smack Productions remixes of Warning! That featured on a US only 12" single. Other mixes include Warning! Capitol mix, the b-sides Love To See You Dancing and Love Is Special. Remixers featured across this 4 CD set includes Frankie Knuckles, Smack Productions, Dancin' Danny D, Paul Simpson, Dancing Divas, Love To Infinity, JZJ and Tony Humphries. This 4 CD collection comes in a capacity wallet, with each CD in a paper wallet featuring related Adeva sleeve images from the period. There is also a 24 page booklet including sleeve notes and a UK Discography. This is housed within an outer sleeve featuring the original cover artwork. Adeva hails from New Jersey in the USA but found her career taking shape in the UK when, after an indie single release on Easy Street Records, she was then signed by Cooltempo / Chrysalis. This resulted in two albums, Adeva! #and Love Or Lust and numerous singles released. In 1997 she released an album New Direction for Distinctive Records but not before collaborating with Frankie Knuckles on two singles and the album, Welcome To The Real World in 1995.
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