Blog Entries - December 2007

Black Gold - C'mon Stop

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Black Gold relseased C'mon Stop in 1983 on Predule Records and dropped a bomb with italo basslines, sampled vocals, sampled horns, and techy sythns. Brought to our attention again by the Dilated Choonz blog there is also an interview with Prelude label head Marvin Schlachter on the post.

Charles Earland - Leaving This Planet

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This is the title track from Charles Earland's Leaving This Planet and features such great jazz musicians as Joe Henderson and Freddie Hubbard. The track an interesting mix of jazz, funk, and psychedelica.

Charles Earland - Leaving This Planet

Wild Fantasy - Jungle Drums

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Opening with building percussion that rides through with driving piano and guitar licks. Produced by Tony Hiller who also recorded with Brotherhood of Man.

Wild Fantasy - Jungle Drums

Mel Cheren: A Tribute

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Please take the time to read this Press Release sent from Mel's PR company, Penetration, Inc. written by Andy Reynolds. Mel will be sorely missed and we appreciate the many gifts he has brought to world of dance music. Our thoughts are with his friends and family at this time.

Melvin Cheren (Ja [...]

King Wellington - Pretty Girls

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Funky calypso from King Wellington's Who is King Wellington album. The track featured here, "Pretty Girls" is a great funk tune with an open drum break.

King Wellington - Pretty Girls

Lito Barrientos Y Su Orquesta - Cumbia En Do Menor

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Earlier this week there was a thread on the DJ History forum about what tracks worked well for the dancefloor that were from the sxties and this record immediately came to my mind. With it's driving rhythm and funky dark latin horn melody this track was definitely a floor filler in its day.

Lito Ba [...]

The Detroit Sex Machines - The Stretch

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Here is a great reissue brought to us by Egon and released by Now-Again Records. Originally released on Soul Track Records circa 1970 it features Leroy Hutson on tenor saxophone.

The Detroit Sex Machines - The Stretch

Norman Connors - Mother of the Future

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Here is a truly great artist, Norman Connors and the album, Slewfoot is one of his best. The album features vocals by Jean Carn and a band that contains many legends in the Jazz world including Reggie Lucas, Lonnie Liston Smith, Eddie Henderson, and Gary Bartz.

The track I chose was "Mother of the Futur [...]