Chico DeBarge joinin’ forces with Def Squad Rappers Erick Sermon and Redman back in 1988. With the threesome comin’ up with a boiling interpolation of Johnny Guitar Watson’s classic ‘Superman Lover’… [Read More…]
What a better way to open the new year than sing?!? Sing, but sing an uplifting message such as in this Soul/Jazz manifesto by the likes of Vivienne McKone. Wishin’ you al! and yours the Happiest 2019 you may dream of! [Read More…]
Glenn Underground comin’ up with an infectious one of a kind syncopated blend of Disco and Funk vibes on his rework of Emilie Nana’s ‘I Missed The Boat’ back in 2009. Somehow sounding like an unlikely meeting between Cerrone and Brass Construction… [Read More…]
On the heels of the memorable ‘Rock Your Baby’, George McCrae comin’ up with the infectious ‘Look At You’. A sparkling funky gem carrying all the ingredients that would be for much on the recognition of KC & The Sunshine Band during the first half of the seventies… [Read More…]
Three years after the memorable ‘Party Time?’, NYC Rapper Kurtis Blow joinin’ forces once again with WDC Go-Go famous Trouble Funk on the sadly underrated although firin’ like hell ‘I’m Chillin”. Missed it? Check it out… And dance! [Read More…]
Roy Ayers along with Edwin Birdsong and Bernard Purdie among others on the opening cut to their 1976 ‘Everybody Loves The Sunshine’ album under the Ubiquity banner. A cut which Simon Dunmore eventually sampled 24 years later on his remix of Monie Love’s Down To Earth’… [Read More…]
One of the definitive highlights from Linda Clifford’s 1978 ‘If My Friends Could See Me Now’ album, the uplifting ‘You Are You Are’ written and produced by Curtis Mayfield. A gem which UK outfit Black Masses sort of covered 20 years after, comin’ up with ‘Wonderful Person’ as remixed by Masters At Work… [Read More…]
Most likely overshadowed by classics such as ‘Can You Handle It’ and ‘You Got My Love’, the outstanding ‘Try My Love On For Size’ by the likes of Sharon Redd never saw the light as a single. No doubt as to how its cover version courtesy of The Shapeshifters should bring a renewed attention on it. [Read More…]