Haha! You probably know this one already but this is Dr John going electrofunk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz4o2tWp8Vw
― kolarov spring (NickB), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 06:47 (five years ago) link
have got some serious catching up to do on this thread, every time it gets bumped i never seem to be in a place where i can listen
― kolarov spring (NickB), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 06:48 (five years ago) link
Haha Nick, that's pretty cool! Don't think I'd heard before.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 10:50 (five years ago) link
some more cheri for the thread. "murhpy's law" stuck in my head all the time. such a good mix of melancholy and playfulness.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b7NRg4hoD0
― andrew m., Tuesday, 2 April 2019 16:15 (five years ago) link
I just found this thread, thank god. Keep em coming!
― pippin drives a lambo through the gates of isengard (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 16:21 (five years ago) link
a recent score: rainbow brown. fonda rae, produced by patrick adams, which is an obsession. i know i'm not alone in this. "i'm the one" is maybe my fave. for now.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP1s3rrFfb4
― andrew m., Tuesday, 2 April 2019 16:29 (five years ago) link
little dragon - lover chantinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiSTcdi82S0
― davey, Saturday, 6 April 2019 22:42 (five years ago) link
btw the b-side on that EP is fresh too
this is my current favourite fonda joint, absolute rapturous stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J-F9M-KDBE
― kolarov spring (NickB), Sunday, 7 April 2019 12:31 (five years ago) link
bumblebee vocals and all, I've been enjoying this for the past few days:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5zTZRm1cT0
― vcrash, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 03:50 (five years ago) link
I've owned a copy of the Dr John "Jet Set" 12" for years, but never saw the video before today! So wonderful I'm in tears.
― confusementalism (Dan Peterson), Friday, 14 June 2019 18:09 (five years ago) link
New arrival here, about halfway through the thread and my computer is now refusing to play any more music at this time so I'll need to take a break but what a lot of superb selections!
My favorite new discovery so far is Low Down Dirty Rhythm from the top comment. Although Patrick Cowley's star seems to be once again ascendant he remains criminally underrated.
I'd also rate these tunes:
Black Gold - C'mon StopMark Clark - Take Me I'm Yours (obviously)Donald Byrd - Thank You For Funking Up My LifeMelba Moore - Love's Comin' At Ya!Shalamar - Right in the SocketDr Togo - Be FreeVera - Take Me To The BridgeThe Brooklyn, Bronx & Queens Band - On The Beat Empire Projecting Lisa – Freakman
The credits on It Should Have Been You, incredible. Produced by Sly Dunbar, Robbie Shakespeare, Steven Stanley and mixed by Larry Levan. I wonder what else I've missed from that team of superheroes.
― viborg, Saturday, 6 July 2019 02:26 (four years ago) link
This appeared on a spotify song radio, released in 1981, sailed under the radar for me.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XT-iikjgH0s
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 6 July 2019 15:16 (four years ago) link
love that, fern had some great songs!
― Br. Des Shadows (NickB), Saturday, 6 July 2019 21:34 (four years ago) link
Vera - Take Me To The Bridge
Love this song, such longing in the voice.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 8 July 2019 10:02 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KIApAIztW8The SD's ft Sherry Richards - Watch the Clock
― vcrash, Sunday, 15 September 2019 13:53 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TndWfKjTjAg
― davey, Thursday, 3 October 2019 04:50 (four years ago) link
^^^ alec mansion - ou es-tu
high fashion - next to youhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRzbmTVNeCc
― davey, Thursday, 3 October 2019 05:23 (four years ago) link
stephanie mills - try my lovehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvN8uyjc48E
― davey, Thursday, 3 October 2019 05:25 (four years ago) link
i like "feelin' lucky lately" by high fashion, also i think it's hilarious that a chic ripoff band called themselves "high fashion"
― Non stop chantar (crüt), Thursday, 3 October 2019 05:32 (four years ago) link
that's harsh! hahah :)
― davey, Thursday, 3 October 2019 05:34 (four years ago) link
james cobbin & prime cut - caught in the middlehttps://youtu.be/SxWyvP94YA0
herre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxWyvP94YA0
― davey, Thursday, 3 October 2019 05:35 (four years ago) link
i-level - "give me"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2b6jgRCio0
questionable lyrics in this one
― davey, Thursday, 3 October 2019 05:37 (four years ago) link
"minefield" off that same record is the other standout and has a killer drum workouthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdk_Tvu3blI
― davey, Thursday, 3 October 2019 05:46 (four years ago) link
slave - wait for mehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2crb0iFXro
― davey, Thursday, 3 October 2019 05:53 (four years ago) link
one more from our man funky brewster's record collection. this is baxa, i'm not koolhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_Ss8iG8HCM
― davey, Thursday, 3 October 2019 06:04 (four years ago) link
my discogs wantlist keeps growing thanks to this thread.
here's a new one to me. gives me the proper groove chills. c.m. lord, "don't run me away." b side to "flashback." please stick around for the breakdown at 3:45. so good!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77-vXnu7Pcc
― andrew m., Thursday, 3 October 2019 14:58 (four years ago) link
I've been crossreading Tim Lawrence's Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979 and Vince Aletti's The Disco Files 1973-78: New York's Underground, Week by Week: the latter is def catnip for collectors, though both have plenty DJ playlists, DJ comments on particular tracks and albums (the 12" is still several years away, so they use a lot of album tracks, for full-length flow--no having to flip the 7" for part 2, if there is one provided---and sonic depth). Also, Aletti provides comments and capsule reviews of stuff he likes, going around and around NYC as the scenes and places and star DJs take off (and sometimes crash or disappear). Lawrence's saga, incl. interviews with DJs and dancers, puts it all in historical perspective, like "Papa Was A Rolling Stone" and Eddie Kendricks' "Girl You Need A Change of Mind" had the kind of wild-for-the-time changes x continuity that gave DJs and dancers some ideas as well as thrills. "Soul Makossa" was an example of one that became a hit because of club play, thence to radio---but some other hits never did get radio, did without it, screw you radio!
― dow, Thursday, 3 October 2019 17:33 (four years ago) link
Since I never pass up the opportunity to mention it, here's another shout out to James Hamilton's Disco Page.
― ArchCarrier, Friday, 4 October 2019 08:19 (four years ago) link
Another huge fan of Mike T-diva's work on James Hamilton's Disco Page.
Hip-hop with some great production behind it:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5ueuRDr8HcRappermatical 5 - Party People
― vcrash, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 00:24 (four years ago) link
this was the filthiest record in my collection. gave it a couple washes with record vacuum and it's back to sounding great again :) everybody says the erot dub is the one, but i always played the a-side instead. can't wait play it under the stars in waimanalo tonight. that bassline is so funkay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5kgVjOA_X8
― davey, Sunday, 17 November 2019 06:11 (four years ago) link
it wasn't my crowd last night, people were not feeling the slutty norwegian disco
― davey, Monday, 18 November 2019 00:13 (four years ago) link
making good use of that next to you break
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJNajgq7Phs
― davey, Monday, 18 November 2019 00:24 (four years ago) link
i'm finally recording the long-awaited funky b mix tape now. so many gems in dude's collection. couple highlights:
dabeull - dr fonkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OCyYbW6zPY
sky tony - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no9bA_gUIyEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no9bA_gUIyE
kon - all night (everybody)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjJ4z65D-dU
tuxedo - roll along https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6VVnSPAWho
― davey, Sunday, 24 November 2019 08:41 (four years ago) link
new touch sensitive EP is some str8up ear candy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQsQHHUQCWQ
― davey, Friday, 29 November 2019 07:56 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88p6AwgZNaw
― davey, Friday, 13 December 2019 10:33 (four years ago) link
great EP: https://lyndadawn.bandcamp.com/album/at-first-light
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BOmOADxDVA
― davey, Friday, 24 January 2020 05:47 (four years ago) link
out of the funky b archives, issa jam from 2008
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnvwXoTTO04
dayton flic - livin' for your love
― davey, Friday, 24 January 2020 08:08 (four years ago) link
'Move' off that Lynda Dawn record is so great, even though it is pretty much wholesale theft from Fifth of Heaven's 'Just A Little More'
I love this one at the moment, check that clunky bass synth sound:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7Hlv0CDQdM
Gloria Weems - Push it up [1983]
― ymo sumac (NickB), Saturday, 25 January 2020 08:40 (four years ago) link
and this is just straight gorgeous, think it's a JP Massiera joint:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA5GR_iPfVQ
Chantal Balmy - Imagine
― ymo sumac (NickB), Saturday, 25 January 2020 08:42 (four years ago) link
only just listened to that Sky Tony track upthread with the Donna Allen sample, that's pretty nice!
― ymo sumac (NickB), Saturday, 25 January 2020 08:52 (four years ago) link
God I am so behind on this thread, that Slave song rules. I don't know Slave too well tbh, really need to dive into their stuff. Big fan of some Aurra tunes though, weren't they kind of a spin-off from Slave? Obv Steve Arrington is a boss too
― ymo sumac (NickB), Saturday, 25 January 2020 09:00 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uEiJ_dzKmY
Diva - Prise au piège
I already knew the awesome 'La Nuit' by these folks but this is another great one
― ymo sumac (NickB), Saturday, 1 February 2020 11:42 (four years ago) link
This one's also amazing, Geraldine Hunt was behind some excellent stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUUnUkC57UE
Sophie Stanke - L'Amour d'une Diva
― ymo sumac (NickB), Saturday, 1 February 2020 11:52 (four years ago) link
“Sophia Stanke”
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 1 February 2020 14:38 (four years ago) link
Possibly a member of the Lithuanian-Québécois Stanké family, which shortened its name from Stankevičius upon moving to Canada. Stanko and its variants are generally derived from the given name Stanislav.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 1 February 2020 14:46 (four years ago) link
Two recent 1984 purchases:
Kerr - Back At Ya (Instrumental)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsuGzghQ6NY
Tyzik - Jammin' In Manhattan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsvjM9LzWYY
― mike t-diva, Friday, 21 February 2020 15:20 (four years ago) link
bringing the bounce to the floor there mike! :)
― ymo sumac (NickB), Friday, 21 February 2020 15:27 (four years ago) link