DannyBlue - Forgotten Soul EP

I've just released an EP of soul and disco edits - take a listen.

Forgotten Soul by DannyBlue

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Peace.

Tony Allen - Too Many Prisoners

Tony Allen is back and has a new album out this summer. The man known best for the distinctive stuttering drums that drove Mr. 'Death in my Pocket' Kuti should need no introduction. The first single immediately engages with its refresh of the horn riff from his 1975 track Jealousy. It has all the ingredients you'd expect and want and, despite his huskily understated protest lyrics, there's an airy bright feel about it. It sounds a little like he's been artificially constrained into a verse chorus structure and not been allowed to let the instrumental groove stretch out (it's under six minutes rather than over 10 as you might have expected from his earlier recordings) - maybe that's the influence of Damon Albarn - but it probably makes it more accessible. Anyway you can check it out here.

Chemise - She Can't Love You

First heard this again as an adult opening a Ben Liebrand High Fashion Dance Music mixtape, with this rip slightly pitched up. Sweet.

Chemise - She Can't Love You - 12" - 1982

Where have I been? Searching, listening, dancing in bed during the sacrosanct sunday lie in. I might be back, I might not be. We'll see. Anyway this page still gets lots of hits, and I've had some nice messages and it warms me that there are still so many great people finding and loving so much great music.

Carl Craig

Me - Your Arms Tonight - 2008

I knocked this up today - would love to know what you aficinados think, and if anyone can recognise the song sampled...

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Mux

All new mux for ya

Grover Washington Jr. - Black Frost - Mister Magic - 1974

Grover Washington Jr. - Black Frost - Mister Magic - 1974

Patrice Rushen - Haven't You Heard - Pizzazz - 1980

Patrice Rushen - Haven't You Heard - Pizzazz - 1980

Esther Phillips - One Night Affair - What A Diff'rence A Day Makes - 1971

Esther Phillips - One Night Affair - What A Diff'rence A Day Makes - 1971

Music - One Way feat. Al Hudson

One of the less played tracks from this album, a nice straight ahead disco tune.

Music - One Way feat. Al Hudson - One Way - 1979

Creative Source - Pass The Feelin' On

One of those tracks where they nail the groove so well you wish it was twice as long.

Creative Source - Pass The Feelin' On - Pass the Feelin' On - 1975

Reuben Wilson - In The Booth...

Silky smooth.

Reuben Wilson - In The Booth, In The Back, In The Corner, In The Dark - Got To Get Your Own - 1975

Csaba Deseo Ensemble - Behind the Csitári Mountains

In honour of my Easter trip to Budapest...



...and a loan of some suitable music from Vuk, a great viola-led piece of central European folklore.

Csaba Deseo Ensemble - Behind the Csitári Mountains - Hungarian Jazz Anthology (Tom Wieland) - 1991

Khaliq Al-Rouf & Salaam - Malcolm, The Call

Joyous music. Dance and spin and look to the heavens, it doesn't matter if you fall over.

Khaliq Al-Rouf & Salaam - Malcolm, The Call - The Elephant Trot Dance - 1979

Paul Jackson - Burning In The Heat [Of Your Love]

Recorded in Japan while on tour with Herbie's Headhunters; slow-burning verse and driving chorus.

Paul Jackson - Burning In The Heat [Of Your Love] - Black Octopus - 1978

Rodney Franklin - Felix Leo

Made when he was 21 with 'Seawind' on horn. A lion tamer.

Rodney Franklin - Felix Leo - You'll Never Know - 1980

Roy Ayers & Wayne Henderson - For Real

A lazy summer vibes version of the classic Richard Flowers song.

Roy Ayers & Wayne Henderson - For Real - Step Into Our Life - 1978

Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey

You thought I'd disappeared right? Well not quite, and I've just been given a load of new old music fresh from Lagos - on more of a JuJu, Highlife tip. First up is this, the ominously named Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey, who, in fact, sounds rather gentle. It's tough getting any background information on this. The photocopied cover says that this is track, number 5, is called Eye To Ma Ba Kowe Ke, and the album in "Eversongsgreen...20". However a bit of Internet searching lists the album as the more obvious "Evergreen Songs 20" with slightly different track listings.

For those of you who listen to this and think it's all a bit 'world', a bit sandals, please persevere. It gets particularly good after about 11 minutes, when a riff starts circling and the atmosphere starts to feel like something you could find on Lovefingers. One for fans of With Comb & Razor and Benn Loxo Du Taccu.

Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey - Eye To Ma Ba Kowe Ke(?) - Evergreen Songs 20 - 2003(?)

JR Bailey - Everything I Want I See In You

Soul is best when it sounds like it comes through a badly tuned car stereo and you're racing down the palisades on your way back to the city in the wee small hours after an emotionally charged weekend...

JR Bailey - Everything I Want I See In You - Just Me 'N' You - 1974

Blue Mitchell - Blue Funk

Straight-forward, straight-laced. straight-ahead good times.

Blue Mitchell - Blue Funk - Graffiti Blues - 1973