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Influenced throughout his job by Leon Ware, Ronald Isley, Marvin Gaye, and Curtis Mayfield, Steve Spacek’s tone of voice never possessed uncooked power, but his silky atmospheres had been always welcome within an era of display and overstated emotion. After producing two stellar albums of ambient spirit along with his …

South London, England’s Spacek was the definitive exemplory case of the blurry series between trip-hop and R&B, and main (if unwitting) instigators of alternative R&B prior to the term was popular. The trio produced in the middle-’90s; bassist, vocalist, and mind songwriter Steve Spacek (blessed Steve Light) was presented to …