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: - Outta Sight Soul Essentials - the New York
Sound- Frankie Crocker; Miami Soul Sisters; Black Rhapsody – Little
Beaver; Hooked on the Blues; Lee Moses – Time and Place; Johnnie Taylor
– Live at the Summit Club; The Rich Records Story; ; East Coast Soul Connection; Marvin gaye – In our lifetime; The Dells –
The Very Best of, Standing Ovation; outta Sight Soul Esentials – Soul
Twins; Carla Thomas – The Queen Alone; Shaun Robbins Sunday Soul
selection; Joe Quarterman & Free Soul; Leroy Burgess – Throwback
– Harlem 79-83; Outta Sight Soul Essentials – Tears full of Soul;
Shirley Brown; Choice FM Carnival Classics; Wildstyle 25th
Anniversary Edition
To Come:
Choice FM Carnival Classics
Just great fun really, covering the whole gamut of Summer Carnival
Sounds Soulful, Reggae and Soca. No real
surprises but everyone likely to get you up and shaking!
Choice
FM Carnival Classics Tracklisting
- Arrow - Hot Hot Hot - Listen
- Bob Marley & the Wailers -
Sugar Sugar - Listen
- Maceo And The Macks - Cross The
Tracks - Listen
- Tom Browne - Funkin' For
- Commodores - Brick House - Listen
- Mac Band Feat. The McCampbell
Brothers - Roses Are Red - Listen
- Bobby Brown - Don't Be Cruel - Listen
- Cameo - Candy - Listen
- Slave - Just A Touch Of Love - Listen
- Central Line - Walking Into
Sunshine - Listen
- Earth, Wind & Fire - Boogie
Wonderland - Listen
- Rob Base and Dj EZ Rock - It
Takes Two - Listen
- Digital Underground - Humpty
Dance - Listen
- NWA - Express Yourself - Listen
- Rupee - Jump - Listen
- Junior Marvin - Police And
Theives - Listen
- Desmond Dekker - You can Get It
If You Really Want - Listen
- Toots And The Maytals - 54-46
Was My Number - Listen
- Jimmy Cliff - the Harder They
Come - Listen
- Dave & Ansell Collins -
Double Barrel - Listen
- Harry J & the Allstars -
the Liquidator - Listen
- The Upsetters - Return of
Django - Listen
- Apache Indian - Boom Shaka Lak
- Listen
- The Family Stand - Ghetto Heaven
- Listen
- Soul II Soul - Get A Life - Listen
- Cheryl Lynn - Encore
- James Brown - SexMachine (Part
1 & 2) - Listen
- Eveyln "
- The Emotions - Best Of My Love
- Listen
- Fatback Band - I Found Lovin' -
Listen
- Dennis Brown - Money In My
Pocket - Listen
- Janet Kay - Silly Games
Wildstyle
25th Anniversary Edition
“CD1 - Original
SoundtrackCD2 - BONUS DISK: Unreleased instrumental beats and loops, scratch
tool & Wildstyle lesson.
Plus 12” sampler MRB12037 feat. Instrumentals,
scratch tool and lesson.
Originally released in 1983, Wildstyle movie falls into the cult status league
of art house movies.
• The first and best hip hop movie soundtrack.
• When the brains behind Blondie and Chris Stein, teamed up with Fab Five
Freddy a legend was born...
• Worldwide sales exceed 100,000
• Tracks have been sampled by the likes of: Wiseguys, De La Soul, A Tribe
Called Quest, Beastie Boys, Beck, Cyprus Hill, DJ Shadow, Nas and Public
Enemy.”
Great film,
groundbreaking, and great to see it getting some profile, wow 25 years. Seems only yesterday queuing to see.
What is the
overriding thougtht on listening to this again is how fresh it still sounds,
and therefore how innovative it has been as a film. Ok it’s a bit dated and HipHopCulture
has moved on but it wouldn’t do any harm to move back to the Four
Elements which this film did a lot to stylise and portray.
Leroy Burgess – Throwback
“12
unreleased tracks from the legendary singer/songwriter/producer recorded in
late 70’s/early 80’s.Some are the original demo’s of tracks
he wrote for others like ‘Its So Easy (You
Can Do It –dino terell) ’, ‘Moment Of My Life’ (inner
life), and ‘Fly Girl’ (intrique) and ‘Youre My Number
One’ (change) which all stand up well against the released versions
because Leroy’s voice is so good. Of the 7 new songs the best are the
classic Burgess boogie tracks like ‘Scandal’, ‘Midnight In
The Streets’ , ‘Keepin On’, ‘Under Da Radar’ and
‘Hold up’ whilst ‘All Into You’ is am id tempo groover.
The live cover of the Isleys ‘Hello Its
Me’ is also interesting. This brilliant project is unmissable if
you are into Burgess, Boogie or early 80’s uptempo soul.”
A commendable
release and interesting product and wil be of great interest for old Soul fans,
however despite being a lover of 80’s Soul and Boogie, and its purely a personal taste thing, I simply just do not lik
ethis very much. I’m sorry to have
to say that an I realy don’t know why because it
has all the right ingredients but it just doesn’t do it for me –
it’s somehow just a bit too messy. Keepin on, which is stripped down just
a little is my particular favourite, or maybe You’re
my number one which stands the test of time much better.
1. Midnight In The Streets 2. Scandal 3. Keepin' On 4. Hold Up 5. It's So Easy 6. In
The Moment 7. Fly Girl 8. Moment Of My Life 9.
All Into U 10. Under Da Radar 11.
You Are My Number One 12. Hello It's Me
Sir Joe
Quarterman http://www.soulbrother.co.uk/joe_quarterman_and_free_soul_album.html
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JOE QUARTERMAN & FREE SOUL
Re-mastered
and extended version of this great Classic Funk album from 1973.
‘I’ve Got So Much Trouble In My
Mind’ is of course a well known classic, but of an equal standard from
the original album are ‘Trouble With Trouble’, ‘The Way They
Do My Life’, ‘Find Yourself’ and ‘I Made A
Promise’.
Added here are the non
album singles ‘Thanks Dad’ , ‘This Girl Of mine’ ,
‘Get Down Baby’ , ‘Im A Young Man’ and the brilliant
and often sampled ‘Im Gonna Get You’, plus 3 tracks that were
unreleased at the time the best of which is ‘How High’. A Great album which now sounds incredibly fresh and punchy.
Unlike the Leroy
album, this is one I do get, a fantastic slab of funk, and is more than worthy
of attention. This style of music seems
to be breaking through to the younger student generation which hopefully help
garner some healthy sales. Sounding fresh, thoughtfu,
conceptual, individual and very very funky. I prefer the slightly
mellowed down with that strained voice but still ever so funky, tracks like
Trouble with Trouble.
Of
its time but still essential.
1. So Much
Trouble In My Mind 2. I Made A Promise 3. Trouble With Trouble 4. Way They Do My Life 5. Find Yourself 6.
Gonna Get Me A Friend 7. Give Me Back My Freedom 8. I Feel Like This 9. Live
Like Brothers 1.
Thanks Dad 2. I'm Gonna Get You 3. This Girl Of Mine
4. No 5. Get Down Baby 6. I'm A Young Man 7. How High 8. Let Me Be What I Am 9.
You Know It's Time
Shirley
Brown – Shirley Brown http://www.soulbrother.co.uk/shirley_brown_self_titled_album_cd.html
“Shirley Brown
was born in
In 1972 she cut ‘I Aint Gonna Tell’ on the Abet label (Mojo in the
In 1974 her manager
Albert King secured a deal for her on Stax’s Truth label. Her debut for
the company ‘Woman To Woman’ was a No 1 R&B hit and is one of
the most recognisable 70’s soul tracks with its monologue intro. After
Shirley’s album and two more singles were released, Stax finally closed
down in 1975.
Two years later Don
Davis signed Shirley to his fledgling Arista label where she cut this fantastic
album produced by Bettye Crutcher and Jeff Stewart in
The line up of
musicians includes some of the cream of southern soul ft Lester Snell on keyboards,
Booker T’s Donald ‘Duck’ Dunn on Bass and Willie Hall on
Drums with DJ Rogers on Background vocals on one track. These musicians provide
the sympathetic backing that Shirley’s voice soars above showing both the
power and at times the vulnerability of her voice. This is quite simply one of
the last great Southern Soul albums ever recorded before the dreaded
Synthesizers changed that sound forever.
In 1979 a re-launched Stax issue an album of unreleased material ‘For The
Real feeling’ , she cut a one-off single for 20th Century a year later,
and in 1984 recorded another of her best albums ‘Intimate Storm’
for Sound Town. After a few more one-off singles she signed to Malaco where she
has remained for the last 18 years recording a further eight albums.
We are proud to
present Shirley’s finest album on CD for the first time anywhere in the
world, re-mastered from the original master tapes and sounding better than
ever.
Laurence Prangell
Soul Brother Records
July 2007”
Well I would hazard a
guess that since I purchased this on issue in 1977, this album has received
more play than 98% of my collection. It was essential then and it is essential
now, its beauty, class and craft simply does not diminish, her notes are simply
spine chingling – Blessed and Love Somebody are is simply two of the tracks of all
time.
Nice one Laurence for
prising this out of Arista, essential.
1. Blessed Is
The Woman (With A Man Like Mine) 2. When You Really Love
Somebody 3. Said I Wasn't Gonna Give You No More Love 4. I Need Somebody
To Love Me 5. Givin' Up 6. Long On
Lovin' 7. Midnight Rendezvous 8. I'll Be Right
Here Lovin' You 9. Mighty Good Feeling 10. Lowdown Dirty Good Lover 11. Honey Babe 12. I Can't Move No
Mountains
Outta Sight Soul Essentials – Tears full of Soul
The much-anticipated sequel to the acclaimed Basement Tracks album
of 2002, Tears Full Of Soul is an inspiring double
album of heartache and heartbreak by Soul music’s finest balladeers.
Released in association with top Soul magazine In The
Basement, this majestic set represents the finest collection of classic and
rare downbeat Soul. It’s ten years since the
revered music journalist Dave Godin introduced a wider world to Deep Soul and,
overnight, popularized the genre. This sensitively compiled album is a fitting tribute
and will join its forebears in the timeless Soul archives.
Review – Apretty exceptional compilation, as always a few
personal favourites and hard hitters.
The first one that really, really grabbed me was Gloria 'Towanda' Barnes
- Old Before My Time, a pretty simply structured song and not full on
powerhouse ‘Deep’ but 7 minutes of lilting wonderness. This is
followed by Ray Gant & The Arabian Knights - Don't Leave Me Baby which is a
powerful strong ballad, full on production, pleading delivery and lyrics,
strings and chorus, great stuff indeed,
Jimmy James - I'm Glad is worthy of mention, which is possibly
unexpected simply because of his ‘image’, but this track has all
the right ingredients, moody, sweet chorus and great vocals. Of the sweet soul
tracks, I have a soft spot for Soul Generation - I Wonder What She's Doing
because the vocals are always so crystal clear.
Pat Dennis - It's So Easy has a certain simplicity for something so
intense. Though on
here Jimmy Briscoe & Little Beavers - Where Were You (When I Needed You)
runs it close.
On the male vocal, sort of classic deep soul, we have excellent
tracks by Lee Charles, Charles Brimmer, bobby Patterson and Lee Moses. Female
of course there is the inimitable and stunningly wonderful Linda Jones, I dunno
what it is about her, the material isn’t always brilliant but
there’s something about her vocal that makes it her own, and its hard to get through anything of hers with clear eyes!
And the Charen Cotton 45 - A Little Bit Of Love has
long been a favourite of mine. Jean Carn - Do My Best shows all the polish and
class that she later went on to exude.
Eleanore Mills – Telegram is a bit of a strong track too, moody
and lilting, interesting, not falling into any particular mould.
The Dynamics - Let Me Be Your Friend is probably my pick of the
male vocal groups, sensational.
Tommy Keith - On The Real Side is very
interesting, and good! A completley different take on a well
known song from its author.
The only ones that don’t do much/anything for me are Lezli
Valentine - Love On A Two-Way Street. The Carstairs -
Story Of Our Love I’m struggling with a bit, the
good bits are superb but there are bits where it goes right off in my
ears……….’scuse me that’s a bit Randy Jackson!
The rest are not bad at all, two solid Cd’s, two hours of
ultimate soulfullness, meandering between deep and sweet, male, female and
group, just sit back, take in, maybe not all will hit your personal high spot
but I guarantee most will
Tracklisting
Disc 1 -
- Jimmy
James - I'm Glad
- Odds
& Ends - Talk That Talk
- Brown
Sugar featuring Clydie King - Weep For Me
- Lee
Charles - I Just Want To Be Loved
- Black
Ivory - Time Is Love
- Gloria
'Towanda' Barnes - Old Before My Time
- Ray
Gant & The Arabian Knights - Don't Leave Me Baby
- Soul
Generation - I Wonder What She's Doing
- Pat
Dennis - It's So Easy
- Brook
Benton - You Were Gone
- The
Trumains - Girl Don't Let Me Down
- Lezli
Valentine - Love On A Two-Way Street
- Charles
Brimmer - Please Let Me Come Home
- The
Carstairs - Story Of Our Love
- Linda
Jones - I Can't Make It Alone
- Tommy
Keith - On The Real Side
- The
Dynamics - Let Me Be Your Friend
- Charen
Cotton - A Little Bit Of Love
Disc 2 -
- Marion
Jarvis - Hell Of A Fix
- (You're
Living) In A Dream World
- Val
Martin - What Can I Do
- Jean
Carn - Do My Best
- Positive
Express - Not On The Outside
- Bobby
Patterson -
- Lonnie
Youngblood - Girl I'm Gonna Miss You
- Communicators
& The Black Experience Band - One Chance
- Mark
Greene - I'm So Lost
- Jean
Knight - Don't Ask For 24 Hours
- Jimmy
Briscoe & Little Beavers - Where Were You (When I Needed You)
- Louis
Williams - I Care For You
- Eleanore
Mills - Telegram
- The
Barrons - I'm So Lonely
- Lee
Moses - I Can't Take No More Chances
- Susan
Philips - He's Gone
- First
Class - What About Me
- Dave
Baby Cortez - Unaddressed Letter
VARIOUS ARTISTS - SHAUN ROBBINS' SUNDAY SOUL SELECTION http://www.soulbrother.co.uk/various_artists_sunday_soul_selection.html
16 Great 70’s Modern soul classics heavily featured on Sean
Robbins Sunday morning shows.Inc the dancers Dells ‘Don’t trick Me
Treat me’, Grace Jones ‘Sorry’, Caroline Crawford ‘Nice
Feeling’ , Leon Thomas ‘Love Each Other’, Pulse
‘Sunshine’, Mac Davies ‘I’m Just In love’,
Anthony White ‘Yes You Need Love’, Dramatics ‘No Rebate On
Love’, Mary Mundy ‘You’re Putting a Hurt on me’ ,
Drifters ‘Put Your Little Heart Out’ , Tobi Kang ‘I Just Want
To Love You’ , Major Lance ‘Don’t you Know I Love You’
and Presidents ‘Its All Over’, plus the mid tempo madness of
Dynamics ‘We Found Love’, Ralph Graham ‘Aint No Need’
and Jean Plum ‘Here I Go again’. Classic
70’s Soul .Fantastic.
Review – To tie in with Shaun’s show on solar radio, and lovingly put
together by its sponsore at Soul Brother. Difficult
one this because I have a huge amount of respect for Soul Brother and
Shaun’s Aradio show which is very highly regarded in Soul Circles, and in
reality there is nothing particularly wrong with any of the tracks. They are all classic 70’s (what is
regarded as) Modern Soul, they are all eminenty soulful, and will satiate the
crossover/tent/whatever breed that exists in the
However I feel it nothing to get excited about, but this is more a
personal thing, the way my heads been going over the last year or so. Two years
ago I am sure I would have been positively raving about this. As I said individually it is pretty difficult
to criticise any of the tracks, and in a lot of respects it is great to have
these tracks available.
Highlights for me are the Dells, always will be I guess. Grace Jones pop soul ish catchy Sorry is quite pleasant. Ralph Graham’s Ain’t
no need is strong and ward, vocally great. And top track for me is the Dynamics
1. Sunshine - PULSE (5) 2. Love Each Other -
JOE QUARTERMAN & FREE SOUL
Re-mastered and extended version of
this great Classic Funk album from 1973.
‘I’ve Got So Much Trouble In My
Mind’ is of course a well known classic, but of an equal standard from
the original album are ‘Trouble With Trouble’, ‘The Way They
Do My Life’, ‘Find Yourself’ and ‘I Made A
Promise’.
Added here are the non album singles ‘Thanks Dad’ ,
‘This Girl Of mine’ , ‘Get Down Baby’ , ‘Im A
Young Man’ and the brilliant and often sampled ‘Im Gonna Get
You’, plus 3 tracks that were unreleased at the time the best of which is
‘How High’. A Great album which now sounds
incredibly fresh and punchy.
(I Got) So Much Trouble In My Mind, I Made A
promise, The Trouble With Trouble, The Way They Do My life, Find Yourself,
Gonna Get Me A Friend, Give Me back My freedom, I Feel Like This, Live Now
Brothers, Thanks Dad Pts 1&2, Im Gonna Get You, This Girl Of Mine, Get down
baby pts 1 & 2, I’m a young man, How High, Let Me Be What I Am, You
know its time (cd only)
LEROY BURGESS - THROWBACK:
12 unreleased tracks from the legendary
singer/songwriter/producer recorded in late 70’s/early 80’s.Some
are the original demo’s of tracks he wrote for others like ‘Its So
Easy (You Can Do It –dino terell) ’,
‘Moment Of My Life’ (inner life), and ‘Fly Girl’
(intrique) and ‘Youre My Number One’ (change) which all stand up
well against the released versions because Leroy’s voice is so good. Of
the 7 new songs the best are the classic Burgess boogie tracks like
‘Scandal’, ‘Midnight In The Streets’ , ‘Keepin
On’, ‘Under Da Radar’ and ‘Hold up’ whilst
‘All Into You’ is am id tempo groover. The live cover of the Isleys
‘Hello Its Me’ is also interesting.
This brilliant project is unmissable if you are into Burgess, Boogie or early
80’s uptempo soul.
Midnight In The Streets, Scandal, Keepin' On,
It's So Easy (You Can Do It), In The Moment, Moment Of My Life, Fly Girl, Hold
Up, You Are My Number One, All Into You, Under Da Radar, Hello It's Me
Carla Thomas – The Queen Alone
A remastered version of The Queen Alone album and 5 bonus
unreleased cuts and atlternates. Whilst
I like carla Thomas on some material I find her vocals
a bit twee, yet on some I really like her delivery, such is the paradox. This album does both for me, hits some high
spots (Iwant to be your baby, for example0 but at times irritates (Take it to
my baby).
The cream cut is the gospel styled I’ll always have faith in
you, complete with monologue, closely followed by Unchanging love.
Of the bonus tracks, Me and My Clock is more old style
stax, and is the pick
Good to see Stax back, but this only ranks as Ok.
1. Any Day Now 2. Stop Thief 3. I Take It to My Baby 4. I Want to
Be Your Baby 5. Something Good (Is Going to Happen to You) 6.
When Tomorrow Comes 7. I'll Always Have Faith in You
8. All I See Is You 9. Unchanging Love 10. Give Me
Enough (To Keep Me Going) 11. Lie to Keep Me from Crying 12. Me and My Clock [#][*] 13. Same Thing [#][*] 14. Your
Love Indeed [Alternate Take][#][*] 15. I Want to Know
[Take 2][#][*] 16. I Wonder About Love [*]
Outta Sight Soul Esentials – Soul Twins
rtist
J.J. Barnes / Debbie Taylor - Born Again /
Comin' Down On You - Soul Twins Volume 1
Castle Music Release Date 28/5/2007 Catalogue
Number CMQCD1501 Bar Code 5050749 415011 Format CD
Product Info
The fourth in the Outta Sight Soul series continues the
Patrick Adams has been a pivotal figure in the music business for
over 30 years scoring hits at Salsoul and Prelude with Jocelyn Brown, Fonda
Rae, Loleatta Holloway, Musique and Inner Life. He has received the ASCAP
Songwriter of the year three times and collected 32 Gold Records along the way.
This deluxe edition includes a 12 page fully illustrated booklet
with extensive liner notes.
Review – Whilst
this CD contains two albums, it is essentially comprised aroiund two great
album on Perception, produced, conceived and written by Patrick Adams. The artists are James Brown and Debbie
Taylor, but there are some bonus tracks by Black Ivory.
JJ Barnes is well known and loved in the
Debbie Taylor, also known in Northern Soul
Circles, delivers powerful vocals, which again is forefront in the production,
and it is on the deep ballads where she excels, with, for me Second to None,
hitting all the right spots, worth the admission money alone. The uptempos will be the better knownbut it
really is the ballads that make it worthwhile.
Male, female, now male group harmony –
Black Ivory deliver sweet sweet soul delivered to perfection – No
if’s is sublime.
Tracklisting
Disc 1 -
- J.J.
Barnes - Can't See Me Leaving You
- J.J.
Barnes - Time Is Love
- J.J.
Barnes - Good Men Don't Grow On Trees
- J.J.
Barnes - You're Just A Living Doll
- Wishful
Thinking
- J.J.
Barnes - You Owe It To Yourself (Part 1)
- J.J.
Barnes - You Owe It To Yourself (Part 2)
- J.J.
Barnes - No Ifs Ands Or Buts
- J.J.
Barnes - I Just Make Believe (I'm Touching You)
- Debbie
Taylor - No Ifs Ands Or Buts
- Debbie
Taylor - (I Just Can't Believe I'm) Touching You
- Debbie
Taylor - Too Sad To Tell
- Debbie
Taylor - Second To None
- Debbie
Taylor - Romance Without Finance
- Debbie
Taylor - Leaving Him Tomorrow
- Debbie
Taylor - No Deposit, No Return
- Debbie
Taylor - Eye Doctor
- Debbie
Taylor - Jeremiah
- Black
Ivory - Time Is Love
- Black
Ivory - No Ifs Ands Or Buts
- Black
Ivory - Wishful Thinking
Marvin gaye
– In our lifetime; 25th Anniversary Edition
This is a wonderful album, a much better album possibly than is
remembered. This package is here with
all its history, the original studio release, th
eoriginal unreleased Marvin Gaye approved album, the complete unreleased Love
Man Sessions, and outtakes and singles. So a period of some mystery and
acrimony is brought together, and it is interesting to compare the two. I think the studio album comes across a
little bit warmer, and the Odyssey mixes are sparser with the voice more
upfront and less of the at ‘Marvin’ feel, so I guess you could
deduce tahat the studio wanted to stay in the tried and tested Mrvin Groove,
whilst Marvin the artists wanted to move on.
Whichever your preference these cuts are quality and stand the test of
time.
There are some differences like Ego Tripping wasn’t on eth
studio album but came out as a single,Far Cry being on the album.
The Love Man Sessions are first class as well, and I particularly
like Life is now in session, or the funky I offer you nothing but love.
Disc: 1 1. PraiseListen
Listen 2. Life
Is For Learning Listen Listen 3. Love
Party Listen Listen 4. Funk
Me Listen Listen 5. Far
Cry Listen Listen 6. Love
Me Now Or Love Me Later Listen Listen 7. Heavy
Love Affair Listen Listen 8. In Our
Lifetime Listen Listen 9.
Nuclear Juice Listen Listen 10. Ego
Tripping Out Listen Listen 11. Far
Cry Listen Listen 12. Ego
Tripping Out Listen Listen 13. Ego
Tripping Out Listen Listen Disc:
2 1. Praise Listen Listen 2. Life
Is For Learning Listen Listen 3. Love
Me Now Or Love Me Later Listen Listen 4. Ego
Tripping Out Listen Listen 5. Funk
Me Listen 6. In Our
Lifetime Listen Listen 7. Love
Party Listen Listen 8. Life's
A Game Of Give And Take Listen Listen 9. Life
Is Now In Session Listen Listen 10. I
Offer You Nothing But Love Listen Listen 11. Just
Because You're So Pretty Listen Listen 12. Dance
'n' Be Happy Listen Listen 13. Funk
Me Funk Me Funk Me Listen Listen 14.
Lover's Plea