Watch: Ruf Dug's introduction to Street Soul

The Manchester DJ makes his Listening Room debut.

"I've always been really interested in music, DIY music. Music that's kind of raw, that sort of shows it's working. You can sort of tell how it's been made — rough edges, things that show marks of craftsmanship or workmanship, nothing too polished."

In the latest Listening Room session, Manchester DJ, producer and NTS broadcaster Ruf Dug takes us deep into the world of Street Soul — a soundsystem-rooted style of music born out of Black working-class culture in the 1980s and '90s Britain.

Beginning with a 1990 live recording of Manchester's Broadway Sound at Gooch Close in Moss Side, a place since bulldozed in post-Thatcherite Britain, Ruf Dug retraces his own discovery of the genre through King Bee Records in Whalley Range, Peace FM's community broadcasts, and the legendary North London productions of TSR Records.

Along the way he plays cuts from Special Touch, Mary Pearce, Loose Ends, Tammy Payne and Lalah Hathaway's Frankie Knuckles remix, before sharing what he calls "the greatest piece of street soul ever made", Bovell's Check For You, a record he tracked down and reissued himself after an 18-month conversation with the singer.

Watch Ruf Dug dive into Street Soul above.