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UK first press 2014. Records EX. Sleeve still in shrink. The underground music scene of the North-west of America arose from the early 1980s, initially as a marginalised phenomenon with barely a handful of adherents, strung out in isolated towns across the vast state of Washington. In its early days bands who showed an allegiance to their roots of punk risked social ostracism and worse. Yet, by 1991, the biggest band in the world - Nirvana- had been born from this community of outsiders. Sub Pop Records subsequently became 'a new Motown' with Seattle substituting for Detroit. The Soul Jazz label now has a new compilation aimed at fleshing out part of the so-called hidden history of the era and the region: 'No Seattle', which is subtitled, appropriately enough, 'Forgotten Sounds of the North-West Grunge Era 1986-97'. It features some of the many divergent bands of the late '80s and early '90s that emerged out of the region during this era.