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The Affair — The Way We Are (Smoove 'Clean' Mix)

Name: The Way We Are (Smoove 'Clean' Mix)
Description: Deep in the UK street soul tradition, 'The Way We Are' existed in several mixes — but the Smoove 'Clean' version is the one that travels best. Warm, unhurried, built on a groove that never overreaches. The kind of record that reveals itself over multiple listens and never quite explains why it keeps sounding better.

The Way We Are · 1993

Label: Melankolic · Genre: Soul / UK Street Soul / House · Country: United Kingdom · From: London, Europe

Deep in the UK street soul tradition, 'The Way We Are' existed in several mixes — but the Smoove 'Clean' version is the one that travels best. Warm, unhurried, built on a groove that never overreaches. The kind of record that reveals itself over multiple listens and never quite explains why it keeps sounding better.

Did you know: The Affair's 'The Way We Are' has been listed in multiple DJ crate essentials guides for UK street soul — a genre that ran parallel to American R&B in the early nineties but with a distinctly British restraint and warmth.

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