James Blount, I kiss you...

1.skit
2.Blackrock - Yeah Yeah
3.Black Merda - Cynthy-Ruth
4.Doug Anderson - Mama, Here Comes The Preacher
5.Iron Knowledge - Showstopper
6. ?
7.LA Carnival - Blind Man
8.Preacher - Life Is A Gamble
9.Sir Stanley - I Believe I Found Myself
10. ?
11.Jade - Paper Man
12.Gran Am - Get High
13.Curtis Knight - The Devil Made Me Do It
14. ?
15.Hot Chocolate - What's Good For The Goose*
16. ?
17.skit
18.Creations Unlimited - Crystal Illusion

*I think this is Hot Chocolate is not the "You Sexy Thing" Hot Chocolate but another one entirely.

More on the other Hot Chocolate

!!!!!!!!

Only with the beat miner community (or whatever the heck they call themselves), could you get something like this. And even then it's only a select few. I've got tons of old funk 45 comps where the compilers state the efforts they went through to contact the original artists and whatnot. Sometimes going as far as to say "if you're one of the artists featured here PLEASE get it touch!"

I guess it just irked me because I was actually in the process of listening to a couple great comps I just bought tonight, Ghana Soundz and Funk Cargo. The first has amazingly detailed liner notes; the latter just a track listing but also a small heartfelt dedication to one of the artists, who had recently died.

I mean I don't what these folks think they got out of doing the comp- money, notoriety what-have-you. The least they could do is honor the ACTUAL PEOPLE WHO MADE THE FUCKING MUSIC.

But James, if folks are brazen enough to boot the likes of the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, etc. and get away with it, you can't tell me these people were actually scared of a bunch of forgotten men in their 50's who will almost certainly never see this thing.

I'm not even talking about giving them money or anything like that. I'm just saying put there name on there, so people like you and me can say "wow, Timmy McNutt and the Funky Fritters sure did smoke!" I mean lets acknowledge that some human being somewhere struggled to make the music, not that some overweening hipster found the records in a basement.

But Chaki, they own the vinyl used to produce the comp themselves.

I understand where you're coming from wrt not caring too much - you listen to enough of these type of comps and it all sort of whizzes by in a blur. But I am interested in learning things like, which cities were producing most of this stuff, which labels were prolific, what crazy-ass group names did they come up with...

A couple of tracks are from Memphis, lot from Ohio, one even from an Omaha band, apparently.

As for the tracks unaccounted for in the listing above, I can add the following:

#6 is supposedly by someone called "Jacobs Kelly," don't know the title
#10 is a mystery, but is supposedly from a Bay Area band
#14 is "Black Cobra" by Cody (or maybe Curly) Davis and the Uniques
#16 is "Keep On Pushing" by Stone Cold White

1.skit
2.Blackrock - Yeah Yeah
3.Black Merda - Cynthy-Ruth
4.Doug Anderson - Mama, Here Comes The Preacher
5.Iron Knowledge - Showstopper
6.Jakobs Kelly - Funk Key
7.LA Carnival - Blind Man
8.Preacher - Life Is A Gamble
9.Sir Stanley - I Believe I Found Myself
10.Young Senators - Ringing Bells pt. 2
11.Jade - Paper Man
12.Gran Am - Get High
13.Curtis Knight - The Devil Made Me Do It
14.Curly Davis & Uniques - Black cobra pt. 2
15.Hot Chocolate - What's Good For The Goose
16.Stone Cold White - Keep On Pushing
17.skit
18.Creations Unlimited - Chrystal Illusion

matos, it's the same band. i've been looking for one of their cds for a while now (i think i actually gave up/don't care anymore)

if anyone wants to know what else the dude who made this comp is putting out, he's got a project called Express Rising that (to me) sounds kinda like dj shadow w/o all the studio tom-foolery. my friend says it's a great album. i dunno

http://turntablelab.com/dailyshipment/dailyshipment2.html

Can't wait to read James Porter's book on black rock...

Anyone else heard Express Rising?

From another forum: ‘Dante once again evokes a minimalist style, where he will find the emotion of a sample and ride it out. In this day and age of where everyone is sampling and layering the shit out of everything. Carfanga finds those gems in that record collection he has and uses them to the full capacity. [...] And that being said what was the basic premise of "hard funk"? Do y'all find the lyrics to those funk records repetitive.. Do you find the drum beats and baseline repetitive. Yes you do.. But all that shit doesn't matter. What does matter is how its said and what you feel when you hear that shit.. [...] I don't think this album really is about trying to push the boundries of sampling, I think its trying to go deeper than that,its really about finding the emotion.. [...] songs that have the "ghost" quality to them...’

I agree!

http://www.deepfunk.org/lutherfax.htm

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Tuesday, February 24
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