Showing posts with label funk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label funk. Show all posts

Saturday, November 07, 2009

Funky Nassau - The Compass Point Story (1980-1986)


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"It is a sound which defined an era and became the very essence of Island Records. During the '80s, Compass Point Studios in The Bahamas, set up by Island MD Chris Blackwell, was a magnet for soul, reggae, punk and rock artists eager to inject their sound with some Nassau magic. And the magic, apart from the tropical sunshine, was the production genius of reggae legends Sly & Robbie, engineers Steven Stanley and Alex Sadkin, and the Compass Point All-Stars house band. Most people would recognise the sound from hits by Grace Jones or Tom Tom Club, an unmistakeable fusion of great, often quirky songwriting, dub production techniques and low end funk, extended into spacious and unhurried 12" versions. This was vibe music which has remained timeless on dancefloors ever since."

Taken from UGHH.com

Thursday, July 09, 2009

Kid Creole: Going Places: The August Darnell Years (1974-1983)

"a virtually unclassifiable mixture of vintage and modern sounds that melded disco, funk, soul, new wave, big band, early '60s girl groups, Tin Pan Alley, show tunes, and nearly the entire Latin music spectrum -- must have been conceived on another (much better) planet..." - AMG
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Friday, March 20, 2009

Funk Spectrum Vol. 3


Don't you love it when someone with street cred like Pete Rock makes a funky soul-filled mix and I steal it for you?

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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Erykah Badu - New AmErykah, Pt. 1: 4th World War (2008)


You need this. Big up to MoNo who was spinning this for me last summer. The album cover looks like a tribute to Funkadelic's Maggot Brain. Erykah brings the hardcore funk and trippy hip hop in this one.

http://www.mediafire.com/?wyzqxn4qdzl

And if you don't believe me...
From AMG: "New Amerykah, Pt. 1 has Badu collaborating principally with the members of Sa-Ra (who are present in almost half of the tracks), Madlib, 9th Wonder, and Baduizm/Mama's Gun vets Karriem Riggins, James Poyser, and Ahmir Thompson. If you're familiar with what these people have made in the past, you'll know to expect plenty of fearless weirdness and a couple relaxed soul-jazz backdrops that do not fail to stimulate. The album is easily the most hip-hop and most out-there release from Badu thus far, with beats bumping, knocking, and booming in roughly equal measure, sometimes switching tacks or vanishing midstream, dropping down dark corridors, gradually levitating into direct sunlight... you can only wonder how different it would be with some input from the late J Dilla, the beloved producer gets an incredibly touching tribute with the eight-minute "Telephone," written the day after the ceremony of his death."