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2-Feb-2007 |
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Tunes Update: Loud & Clear |
Greetings All,
newsflash: January's over and it's time to start partying again :-)
Technical bit:
Some users have been unable to play our Windows Media clips with the latest player (version 11). Problem now fixed.
Now dig these!
##ALBUM OF THE WEEK##
>> >>Howlin Records Presents Howlin' Hits - Various<<
The Man is back and he's brought with him some of the best in funky breaks. Freddy Fresh has taken the notorious 7' Single label Howlin' Records and compiled 20 of the funkiest tunes onto a CD compilation for your listening pleasure.
http://www.tunes.co.uk/tunes/featured/12317.html
##ALBUMS##
>> >>Good Things: The Story Of Saadia Recordings <<
The rarest and most coveted funk 45s from the Saadia catalogue, never before compiled, and their first legal reissue. These are some of the most in-demand rare funk & soul records ever made.
http://www.tunes.co.uk/tunes/featured/12336.html
>> >>Transport Recordings House Session<<
Transport Recordings was formed in 1998 by producer Miguel `Migs`, Marco Celone (a.k.a. Dj MFR) and Bruno Ybarra as an outlet to release deep, timeless, west coast based House Music. This cd covers all their major releases to date.
http://www.tunes.co.uk/tunes/featured/12335.html
>> >>Essential Dancefloor Artists Volume 5 - The Kay-Gees<<
The Kay Gees were a rock solid but little known funk and disco group of the 1970s, proteges of Kool & the Gang. this compilation spans the years of 1974 through 1979 and several producers such as Ronald Bell of Kool and the Gang and Patrick Adams.
http://www.tunes.co.uk/tunes/featured/12333.html
>> >>Streets Of Fashion Via Condotti Roma<<
The music, protagonist at every fashion show, softly glides from downbeat, classy r’n’b and sophisticated electronic tunes with great vocals to funky uptempo beats and chillhouse.
http://www.tunes.co.uk/tunes/featured/12329.html
>> >>52nd Street - Jazz Juice<<
Jazz Juice (DJ Graham B & Alain Eskinasi) have taken a fresh look at mixing the art of DJ'ing with live musicianship and have come up with an exciting new style. The result is a superbly refreshing sound that connects old school with future jazz.
http://www.tunes.co.uk/tunes/featured/12328.html
>> >>Techtonic People - Stockholm Cyclo<<
The second long player on Beatfanatic's Soundscape imprint sees Alexander Stahle's Stockholm Cyclo project on a tech-jazz-soul-house journey.
http://www.tunes.co.uk/tunes/featured/11972.html
>> >>Artful Time Reduction - Channel Two<<
Somewhere between a gorgeous and sexy, late summer sunset and a hot, sweaty soul music dance floor, lays the very complex debut release from Channel Two.
http://www.tunes.co.uk/tunes/featured/12327.html
>> >>Diggin Deeper - Speedometer<<
Speedometer, the UK's premier funk band started out as a quartet gigging in small clubs in the Southeast of England in 1999.This CD is a collection of tracks that are either unreleased or were vinyl only.
http://www.tunes.co.uk/tunes/featured/12322.html
>> >>Trenta - Eddie Roberts<<
Eddie Roberts´ 8th album as leader features the acclaimed Roughneck line up and further explores his jazz influences with references to Grant Green, Ramsey Lewis, Gabor Szabo and swinging 60´s soundtracks in the grooves of this latest recording session.
http://www.tunes.co.uk/tunes/featured/12318.html
>> >>Game Theory - The Roots<<
Def Jam Us promo vinyl of this highly acclaimed album from last year, which featured heavily in many people’s top releases of 2006! Limited copies.
http://www.tunes.co.uk/tunes/featured/12300.html
##SINGLE OF THE WEEK##
>> >>No Sun In The Sky - Kraak & Smaak<<
The latest single to be dropped from Kraak & Smaak´s debut album Boogie Angst and talk about saving the best till last. Three remixes, Henrik Schwartz with a deep house mix, Tom Belton takes it to the main room and Noogman (AKA Kraak & Smaak) gives us a cracking breaks mix.
http://www.tunes.co.uk/tunes/featured/12316.html
##SINGLES##
>> >>Classic Wax Volume 1: In My House / Superfreak - Mary Jane Girls / Rick James<<
Third release in the classic wax series and the title speaks for itself. A great oppurtunity to get these rare soul and funk tracks on piece of vinyl. Top quality pressing.
http://www.tunes.co.uk/tunes/featured/12331.html
>> >>Classic Wax Volume 3: Got To Give It Up / Brick House / All Night Long - Marvin Gaye / Commodores / Mary Jane Girls<<
http://www.tunes.co.uk/tunes/featured/12330.html
>> >>Traveller - The Haggis Horns<<
The Haggis Horns are back with a taster to their hotly anticipated first album due for release in early 2007. Traveller pt 1 has all the funky guitar licks and horn stabs you'd expect from these boys and with a baritone sax solo boot you couldn't fit anymore funk up in that ass!
http://www.tunes.co.uk/tunes/featured/12326.html
>> >>Are You Gonna (No Good Mix) - Mooqee<<
the second volume in the Bombstrikes series has lived up to the labels name and drops like a nuclear bomb everywhere it is played. An absolute monster of a track, "Are You Gonna" unleashes the famous Kravitz guitar lick in a party breaks work out with Kelly Charles "No Good´ vox placed like a cherry on the top.
http://www.tunes.co.uk/tunes/featured/12325.html
>> >>Supacat Police - Mooqee<<
Name to watch Mooqee intertwines elements of Bob Marley, Supacat and KRS One to create a dancefloor killer par excellence! Over on the flip it´s Stetsasonic who get the Mooqee treatment with the instantly funky "Jazz Talkin" rubbing shoulders with the pounding Missy infused "Hypnotic".
http://www.tunes.co.uk/tunes/featured/12324.html
>> >>See Mice Elf - Mooqee vs Beatvandals<<
An absolute gem of a beats work out with a bass line hook destined to shake any sound system it touches.
http://www.tunes.co.uk/tunes/featured/12323.html
>> >>El Nino - Colman Brothers<<
Wah Wah 45s return to 7-inches of pleasure, and slip you a length of latin/jazz pressure for only the most discerning of dance floors!
http://www.tunes.co.uk/tunes/featured/12321.html
>> >>Point To The Joint - 40 Thieves<<
Point To The Joint is a mid tempo stormer with wall of sound percussion, massive synth bass, headrush atmospherics, and raging, gorgeous keys
http://www.tunes.co.uk/tunes/featured/12319.html
........BACK IN STOCK.............................................
FDEL - Audiofidelity EP
Without a doubt this EP is a winner, quality funky breaks to file alongside Fort Knox Five, Kraak & Smaak and Dynamo Productions. Repressed due to popular demand.
http://www.tunes.co.uk/tunes/featured/12236.html
SkeeLo - I Wish
Re-press of this killer tune, ten years after. People of a certain age (and height) will dig it. Everyone else will dig it too. An essential. Limited stock.
http://www.tunes.co.uk/tunes/featured/11363.html
Z Trip - The Motown Breakdown
Inimitable Californian emperor of the turntables Z-Trip plucks classics from the Motown funk and soul archives and blends them into a nine minute showcase like only he can.
http://www.tunes.co.uk/tunes/featured/10995.html
90% - Amral's Trinidad Cavaliers
Wicked interpretation in of the Gwen McCrae classic a steel band style, flip for a chunky slice of funky piano bop.
http://www.tunes.co.uk/tunes/featured/12006.html
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