BENTLEYFUNK FREE EDITION

1.01 Creative Source – Who Is He And What Is He To You (11:45)
1.02 Maceo & The Macks – Cross The Track (We Better Go Back) - Extended Version (6:16)
1.03 Diana Ross – Love Hangover (7:48)
1.04 Jackson Sisters – I Believe In Miracles - Extended Mix (4:45)
1.05 Donna Summer – I Feel Love - Patrick Cowley Megamix (15:45)
1.06 Roy Ayers – Running Away - 12" (6:59)
1.07 Barry White – Your Sweetness Is My Weakness (8:09)
1.08 Third World – Now That We Found Love - 12" (7:33)
1.09 Bohannon – Let's Start The Dance - 12" (7:32)

2.01 Cheryl Lynn – Got To Be Real (5:07)
2.02 The New York Community Choir – I'll Keep My Light In My Window - New Remixed Disco Version (6:03)
2.03 Gwen McCrae – All This Love (That I'm Giving) (3:56)
2.04 Yarbrough & Peoples – Don't Stop The Music (7:49)
2.05 Freeez – Southern Freeez - 12" (5:41)
2.06 Gary Byrd & The G.B. Experience – The Crown - 12" Vocal (10:35)
2.07 Central Line – Nature Boy - Full Version UK Mix (6:45)
2.08 Indeep – Last Night A Dj Saved My Life - 12" (5:40)
2.09 Shannon – Let The Music Play - 12" (6:03)
2.10 Cameo – Single Life - 12" (6:30)
2.11 Rene & Angela – I'll Be Good - 12" Dance Mix (7:25)

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Part 2

mercredi 2 mai 2012

Chocolate Milk - Friction 1982 (CD 2012 Remastered)

Best of Perception & Today Records compiled by DJ Spinna and BBE Soundsystem (2012)

01 Matrix - Dizzy Gillespie 4:01
02 I Can't Get No Higher - The Eight Minutes 3:19
03 BrotherTitle - Adam Wade, Johnny Pate 1:55
04 You Owe It To Yourself - J.J. Barnes 8:30
05 Too Sad To TellO - Debbie Taylor 2:46
06 Chitlins & Cuchifritos - Joe Thomas 2:46
07 NjiaNija - The Fatback Band 3:07
08 Naturally Good - Bartel 5:16
09 Get Some Of This - Madhouse 4:18
10 GingeleOriginal Mix - Astrud Gilberto 3:57
11 One LifeOriginal Mix - The Albert 3:03
12 Honey BunsOriginal Mix - Bobby Rydell 2:50
13 You And IOriginal Mix - Black Ivory 7:04
14 Take My Love Don't Set Me FreeOriginal Mix - The Eight Minutes 5:54
15 Instant ReplayOriginal Mix - Wanda Robinson 2:46
16 Dance GirlOriginal Mix - Fatback Brother Bill Curtis 2:51
17 BoogieOriginal Mix - Bartel 4:46
18 AlligatorOriginal Mix - Dizzy Gillespie 5:04
19 I Keep Asking You QuestionsOriginal Mix - Black Ivory 3:08
20 Rock SteadyOriginal Mix - Julius Brockington 3:32
21 SubmissionOriginal Mix - Tyrone Washington 4:28
22 Every Brother Ain't A BrotherOriginal Mix - Joe Thomas 5:55
23 You've Just Been BittenOriginal Mix - Bartel 5:18
24 SurrenderOriginal Mix - Black Ivory 2:25
25 Find The One Who Loves YouOriginal Mix - The Eight Minutes 2:44
26 Take It Easy My Brother CharlieOriginal Mix - Astrud Gilberto 3:20
27 Heritage HumOriginal Mix - James Moody 4:59
28 Wishful ThinkingOriginal Mix - J. J. Barnes 4:37
29 Looking For A Brand New GameOriginal Mix - The Eight Minutes 2:30
30 A PossibilityBack Home - Wanda Robinson 2:31
31 Me 'N ThemOriginal Mix - Dizzy Gillespie 12:17
32 Goin' to See My BabyOriginal Mix - The Fatback Band 3:16
33 Foot TrackOriginal Mix - The Odds, Ends 2:34
34 Serve'EmOriginal Mix - Madhouse 2:59
35 ABCOriginal Mix - Lucky Peterson 3:25
36 Good Old CandyOriginal Mix - Lucky Peterson 2:40
37 Our FutureOriginal Mix - Lucky Peterson 3:18
38 Vote Original Mix - Madhouse 3:33

Perception Productions, a New York based label that ran from the late 60s through until 1974, was a strangely eclectic affair. Its roster stretched from a radical Afro-American poet through to the pop band King Harvest whose hit ‘Dancing In The Moonlight’ became a massive hit for the UK band Toploader a couple of decades later. The inbetween points covered jazz, funk, vocal harmony soul and proto-disco. In fact distilled down into this compilation the label provides us a view of Manhattan’s black music scene of the period, from the established greats to the fresh young things who would make their mark in the coming years.

Various Artists - Funk-Soul Brothers And Sisters - Curtom Club Classics, Vol 2 [CD - 1999]

Various Artists - Mighty Mighty Soul - Curtom Club Classics, Vol 1 [CD - 1999]

Alicia Myers - Alicia 1981 CD (Free)

The Dazz Band - Invitation To Love (1981)

A killer start to the 80s for the Dazz Band – with great tunes in a funky mode as well as more measured group soul numbers – and it all adds up one of their best albums ever! Tunes like the opener "Shake It", plus "Shake It Up" and "Magnetized" bring the funkier vibes – with a vamping guitar, thumping bass groove, punchy horns, and top notch vocals from the group – while tunes like the title track and "Beyond The Horizon" have a more soaring arrangement of horns and some strings,still with an impeccable core groove. It's not as smoothed out in the production booth as some of their later grooves of the 80s – a total gem! ~ dustygroove.com

01. Shake it up (5:05)
02. Invitation to love (5:01)
03. Magnetized (4:00)
04. Hello Girl (4:24)
05. Skate Lovers (4:20)
06. Carry on (4:24)
07. Do it again (4:57)
08. Sooner or later (3:42)
09. Beyond the horizon(4:32)
Bonustrack:
10. Invitation to love (Single version) (3:28)