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Soul Jazz Records are releasing this stunning new collection, The World of Keith Haring,
featuring music influential to the artist Keith Haring.
The art of Keith Haring is today one of the most recognisable of any visual artists of his
generation, defining 1980s New York during an intense period when downtown artists and
musicians collaborated like never before. Haring’s musical inspiration took in the
punk/dance downtown sounds of clubs like The Mudd Club, underground disco at Larry
Levan’s Paradise Garage, as well the early days of hip-hop and electro.
The album is released to coincide with the opening of the first major exhibition in the UK
of Keith Haring’s work at Tate Liverpool and which runs for the next six months.
Haring’s many friends included Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Madonna, Fab Five
Freddy, William Burroughs, Jenny Holzer, Yoko Ono, Grace Jones, Larry Levan, Futura
2000.
If you were looking for a person to guide you through the wide variety of nightclub scenes
of downtown New York in the 1980s, then Keith Haring would have been your man.
This album comes in deluxe artwork and three formats – Double CD + 48-page book, a
deluxe 3xLP + bonus 7” + download code vinyl version, and a standard 3xLP + download
standard vinyl version. All formats of the album feature stunning photography, extensive
sleevenotes and interviews.
The music here includes the work of a number of Haring’s close friends, including Jean-
Michel Basquiat, Yoko Ono, Larry Levan, John Sex and George Condo (The Girls), as well
as healthy dose of rare disco, early electro and New York punk/dance tracks.

Tracklisting
1. B Beat Girls – For The Same Man
2. Damon Harris – It’s Music
3. Pylon – Danger
4. The Jonzun Crew – Pak Man (Look
Out For The OVC)
5. Funk Masters – Love Money
6. John Sex – Bump And Grind It
7. Sylvester – Over And Over (12"
Disco Mix)
8. The Girls – Jeffrey I Hear You**
9. Johnny Dynell and New York 88 –
Jam Hot (Rhumba Rock)
10. Talking Heads – I Zimbra*
11. Art Zoyd – Sortie 134 (Part 2)
12. Class Action – Weekend (Larry
Levan Mix)
13. Adiche – Chuka-Ja (Get Ready)
14. The Girls – The Elephant Man**
15. The Golden Flamingo Orchestra –
The Guardian Angel Is Watching
Over Us
16. Gray – Cut It Up High Priest
17. Extra T’s – E.T. Boogie
18. Convertion – Let’s Do It
19. Yoko Ono - Walking On Thin Ice
20. Fab 5 Freddy – Change The Beat
* bonus track CD only
** bonus track CD + deluxe vinyl only