Dug this one up from a bargain shelf this week and stoked to find a true diamond in the rough.
Both mysterious artist Zack and suburban New York label Solid-Gold Records look to have only released this record, with very small amounts pressed.
Only credited producer DJ White Rock has released any other work, including another particularly rare hip-hop 12-inch from the 1990s and a smooth jazz album from 2017. Quite the hiatus.
I Wanna Be The Only shines as an underground artefact of street-soul elements present in the US. There are clear tropes of New-Jack Swing and Hip-Hop, but drum programming and vocals synonymous with UK Street Soul, showing the movement made it across the Atlantic.
Shattered to be missing the original picture sleeve, with a superimposed photo of an iced-out, raw Zack against a cloudy night sky, but glad a copy somehow made it to the floor of record shop on the other side of the world.
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