Forgive me pulling this from a vaguer Song I.D. thread, but I'm slightly desperate and I want to get it noticed!
Does anyone know the name of this song - very disco-y (maybe even Italo?) where the chorus is something like "This is funky reggae music" over and over, and later in the song the singer(s) say something like "feel the african sound" and "feel the jazz sound" or something like that. It was playing distantly in the background of a room I was in.
The main thing I noted was that it *wasn't* actually funky reggae music.
Any ideas? Thanks!
― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Monday, 16 November 2015 17:57 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2mzMlHmxYo
― Οὖτις, Monday, 16 November 2015 17:59 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ym7PxjFfP4
http://www.discogs.com/Steel-An-Skin-Reggae-Is-Here-Once-Again/master/221438
Maybe this?
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 16 November 2015 18:58 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIO-I6Y6Aco
― John Dope Assos (Noodle Vague), Monday, 16 November 2015 19:01 (eight years ago) link
fm by steely dan?
― kurt schwitterz, Monday, 16 November 2015 20:19 (eight years ago) link
I feel like I ought to know what this is but I don't
― canoon fooder (dog latin), Monday, 16 November 2015 21:14 (eight years ago) link
Immediately thought of brotherlovesdub suggestion. Also the dub version is brilliant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejxH_jGzkRY
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 06:29 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TZJSm_t4AQ
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 17 November 2015 09:09 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3TEl21h9n8
― xelab, Tuesday, 17 November 2015 09:24 (eight years ago) link
It isn't any of these but they're all great - that Steel An' Skin comes the closest; it was very upbeat.Great playlist either way! Thanks for your suggestions
― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Tuesday, 17 November 2015 10:01 (eight years ago) link
YRML - don't think it's on this thread, but it's a decent treasure trove of this kind of music examples of DISCO-REGGAE
― canoon fooder (dog latin), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 11:21 (eight years ago) link
Thanks again - I ended up emailing the place I heard the record playing and said "I imagine this is a huge long shot..." - and amazingly they came back to me. And it's this...
(It's "DANCE TO funky reggae music," first of all, and then it's "you can hear the African feeling," and it's really NOT Italo-y!)
Rim and Kasa - "I'm a Songwriter")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PDRyXlBGik
― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Tuesday, 17 November 2015 16:25 (eight years ago) link
Ah, that's a fairly recent reissue. Just saw it on the wall at Dusty Groove. Should have picked it up.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 17 November 2015 17:34 (eight years ago) link
Album is on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/2kPcCswTH2nDKvzGAFpi29
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 17 November 2015 17:35 (eight years ago) link
Never heard it before! Great one.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 18 November 2015 07:32 (eight years ago) link
So I made a small spotify playlist (set to private... although I think you can share it even if it's private?) Inspired by this reggae-disco thing. Some of my favorite are unfortunately not available in there (clout's sunshine baby and steel an skin come to mind) but there's some songs you might enjoy, several which I didn't see mentioned on the disco reggae thread, in case you want to take a listen for your own sets/playlists:
https://open.spotify.com/user/moteldemoka/playlist/6ObTLc46jR2QPzUvtEWESp
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 18 November 2015 21:10 (eight years ago) link
Just sold an original copy of that record for many $$$. And it sure is good! Guess since Tom Tom Club predates this they influenced it, maybe? Got that feel from it anyway.
― ellaguru, Thursday, 19 November 2015 00:09 (eight years ago) link
Reggae Like It Never Was!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXRuWshJH0c
― Paul, Thursday, 19 November 2015 04:12 (eight years ago) link