Tracklist:

1. Shack Up – A Certain Ratio
2. Coup – 23 Skidoo
3. To Hell With Poverty – Gang of Four
4. Being Boiled – The Human League
5. In the Beginning There Was Rhythm – The Slits
6. 24 Track Loop – This Heat
7. 20 Jazz Funk Greats – Throbbing Gristle
8. She Is Beyond Good and Evil – The Pop Group
9. Sluggin’ for Jesus – Cabaret Voltaire
10. Vegas El Bandito – 23 Skidoo
11. Knife Slits Water – A Certain Ratio

Unavailable for over 20 years, ‘In the Beginning There Was Rhythm’ was Soul Jazz Records first foray into post-punk and punk-funk in the UK and captures the groundbreaking and seminal groups that crossed the divide of punk and dance music for the first time.