Sounds of the 70s present a new compilation of 

rare and out-of-print 70s music

Back to basics

a string of musical bits to please your brain

Today's crisis is partly due to the lack of control of the tools that have been developped since the 70s : complex computerised algorithms in market finance and insurance are one of them.

Many Frankensteins have been released in the past 3 decades and it is time to take time and think about what mankind really can handle especially in science and technics. Time to reconsider what moral limits to impose here.

So what about rethinking our system and "values" (or what's left..) and go back to basics? 

Back to basics

a string of musical bits to please your brain

1	Eumir Deodato	Rodando por ai (Rudy's)
2	Mantrap	Fantasy Of Love
3	Carl Sherlock Holmes	It Ain't Right
4	Coke	Te Amo Mas
5	Charles Kynard	Summer breeze
6	Mongo Santamaria	Last tango in Paris
7	Roy Ayers Ubiquity	The Old One Two
8	Dan Hartman	Love is a natural feeling
9	Cedric Im Brooks	Blackness Of Darkness
10	Ramon Morris	People Make The World Go Round
11	Candeias	Sambaiana
12	Dave Hamilton	Blue Vibes
13	The Lebron Brothers	Together
14	Carl Carlton	Signed Sealed Delivered
15	bonus track 1	Stubborn Kind Of Fellow [Live]
16	bonus track 2	Outro [Live]

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I love more and more instrumental tracks in whatever style: Rodando por ai from the perfect album Os Catedraticos 73 (released as Skyscrapers in the USA) by Deodato as a brazilian beat jerk exemple, Last Tango in Paris from the amazing Fuego by Mongo Santamaria in a funky latin-jazz way. Charles Kynard's Summer breeze from Your mama don't dance is a superb jazz-funk track, with a strange almost sinister intro for a summer track. Blackness of darkness by Cedric Im brooks is a cool reggaejazzfunk track that can warm any atmosphere!

But some good old funk/disco/boogaloo is necessary to balance that : Carl Carlton cover of the Stevie Wonder Signed Sealed Delivered (here to celebrate the election of Barack Obama), or the Lebron Brothers in the funky latin soul gemm Together.

To close the compilation are 2 tracks from one of the very last Live session from an artist you all know. The outro is touching, the artist evokes the end of his life and career (over a totally killer jam groove that needs attention)... he died soon after shot dead by his father.

Some posts in this blog are dedicated to promote music labels that participate to the digging/remastering work that help rediscover 70s gemms

Today I present BROWN SUGAR, a german label that is among my favorite 

All of their compilations are fantastic. If you have to choose among them I strongly recommand one the most (if not the best) AcidJazz/Jazz-funk/Jazz-soul compilation I have ever listened to; Every track is a bomb from the best labels (Prestige, Verve etc..), and the cd comes with great notes and pictures, really really worth to get.

You can count on me - various artists

You Can Count On Me, 02:12
SAMMY DAVIS JR 
Work Song, 02:51
THE PAZANT BROTHERS & THE BEAUFORT EXPRESS 
Attica, 04:17
BERNARD PURDIE 
The Letters, 02:36
LOU RAWLS 
Bet You I`ll Win, 03:18
LITTLE MILTON 
Wa-Tu-Wa-Zui, 07:57
CHARLES KYNARD 
It Ain`t What You Do (But How You Do It), 02:07
LAURA LEE 
Sugar, Let`s Shing-A-Ling, 02:53
SHIRLEY ELLIS 
Some Say, 02:11
NINA SIMONE 
Is You Is Or Is You Ain`t My Baby, 03:31
JIMMY SMITH 
Don`t Stop, 02:46
BILLY LARKIN & THE DELEGATES 
Psychedelic Sally, 02:47
EDDIE JEFFERSON 
Get The Money, 03:28
MONGO SANTAMARIA 
Soul Cookin`, 02:24
WILLIE BOBO 
Conquisadores, 03:35
CHICO HAMILTON 
Gumbo Filet, 03:18
PONY POINTDEXTER 
Oh Baby (I Believe I`m Losing You), 03:04
BILLY HAWKS 
I Got The Blues, 03:29
DELLA REESE 
These Boots Are Made For Walking, 03:37
PETER HERBOLZHEIMER 
Moanin, 05:34
ART BLAKEY & THE JAZZ MESSENGERS 
Streak O`Lean, 05:57
RUSTY BRYANT

Available at www.dustygroove.com or directly at the publishing company www.zyx.de

 

Sounds of the 70s presents

a new compilation of rare out-of-print tracks

from my secret vault

Crossed notes, a soulful melodic blend

Manu Dibango - Lakisane

Monguito Santamaria - Crying Time

Labi Siffre - Doctor Doctor

James Last - I Can't Move No Mountains

Mascara - Golden Years

Johnny Hammond - Fantasy [The Visioneers Beat Drop]

Isaac Hayes - Part-Time Love

Darongo - Let My People Go

La Clave - Soul Sauce

Ismael Rivera - Bamba Cure

Tipica 73 - Baila que Baila

Fania All Stars - Noche

enjoy

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Brasil funk, soul, disco lovers : rejoice !

Dj nuts from Brasil just published his amazing mixes on blogspot,
ready to download !

www.dj-nuts.blogspot.com


each of them is a goldmine of samba funk, samba soul
and every sound related to funky 70s in brasil

Sounds of the 70s is back on the funky tracks!

Hope your summer 2008 was good and that you took time to think, away from the day-to-day buzz

I came back overbusy, so here is a brilliant commercial compilation (not home made), deleted and hard to find on the market. This compilation shows what many exiled Brazilian artists produced in the 70s, or inspired to French ones.

Brazilissimo, various artists - 12 unique tracks from the French scene 70'/80s

1. Nega De Obaluae - Erica Chiquinho Et Les Show Rio
2. Liberalia - Geminiani, Vincent
3. Ponteio - Trio Bonavita
4. Minorias - Maria, Marcia
5. Galaxie - Teca & Ricardo
6. Maracatu - Ney De Castro
7. Agua De Poco - De Souza, Amaro Ensemble
8. Makum Bahia - Wyzuj De Carvalho, Bruno
9. La Ville Est La - Aubret, Isabelle
10. Carcara - Barbosa, Zelia
11. La Nuit Des Masques - Barouh, Pierre & Dominique
12. Samba Novo (CD/bonus track) - Trio Bonavita

that will please my friends from Japan, big fans of France and Brasil.

enjoy and comment!

Joe Bataan is one of the most talented Latin-Soul crooner from the 60/70´s
One of his best song is a cover of the Nina Simone To be young, gifted and brown song.

In this moment of political campaign in the USA, I could not help the direct reference to Barack Obama and share this amazing track:

Joe Bataan - Young, gifted and brown

For those who want to dig deeper, another amazing compilation (with comprehensive inliner notes and photos) from
FANIA remastered series

The 70s, last decade of innocence before we crossed the ultimate border,
the border of LIFE?

In 1980, in the "Diamond vs Chakrabarty" ruling, the United States Supreme Court held that that a live, human-made microorganism is patentable subject matter.

1987 : a genetically modified Oyster is patented

12 april 1988 : first genetically modified mouse patented

Jan. 1998 : Delta and Pine Land Co. designs a "repressor gene" that impedes reproduction of any seed it modifies, stopping natural reproduction like a contraceptive but IN the ADN. Monsanto buys the company 2 months after the public patenting.

This repressor gene is straitgh away inserted in the ADN of all Montsanto seeds to make them a PERISHABLE PRODUCT and not anymore a nature's creation, ruled by the essencial nature of LIFE : it's ability to freely reproduce, out of any logic.
And of course, it is easy to imagine the huge profits made when all peasants to go the "supermarket" to buy seeds instead of doing what has been done since 15.000 years : save seeds from one season to replant them the following one!..

Slowly but surely the meaning of LIFE is being altered. The market and its logic of profit, embodied by firms like Monsanto, Novartis, Limagrain, Celera, etc and the lobbies behind, argue that this is always for the sake of man (and especially the thirld world man) that we get rid of natural seeds and go for sterile, and supposedly pesticide proof ones (this pesticide resistance is another big environnement issue by the way).

The arguments are not only questioned on a pure scientific standpoint, but above all they open the door to arguments in favor of

massive patenting of LIFE, and now HUMAN LIFE.

Patented genes on human ADN are in course
A new race of human will emerge after a few generations (of modified reproductions), leading to PERFECT HUMANS?


The 60s and 70s were big decades of progress as for civil rights, when societies started to realise the dangers many greedy industries or politician had led us to.

The 80s and the 90s were dominated by the non-stop expansion of the market, with little concern for the meaning and consequences of it

Time to wake up again and oppose resistance to the slow but certain domination of market and profit logic into our lifes, and now in the ESSENCE OF LIFE


a good reading on these issues, by Jeremy Rifkins (Al Gore conselor among other things)

http://www.amazon.com/Biotech-Century-Jeremy-Rifkin/dp/0874779537

Sounds of the 70s presents another summer 2008 selection

UNDER THE DUST... GOLD - hand digged solid sound gemms

a new compilation of burried tracks
out-of-print, promotional use only

1	Juan Pablo Torres	Ey! ...Op.1
2	Roberto Roena	Traicion
3	Joe Bataan	Es Tu Cosa
4	Dianne & Carole	The Fuzz
5	Benitez And Nebula	Viejo
6	The Soulful Strings	Soul Message
7	S.O.U.L.	Burning Spear
8	Crystal Image	Gonna have a good time
9	Davis, Tyrone	A Woman Needs To Be Loved
11	Donny Hathaway	Tryin' Times
12	The New Swing Sextet	Honeybee
13	Roy Ayers	If You Love Me
14	Caetano Veloso	Jorge da Capadocia
15	Sebastiao Tapajos	Belem

I hope you will enjoy the wierdest latin intro I could imagine !
pure 70s madness

I like this mix a lot, the groove is right, play it mixed in your mp3 player

I hope to enlighten your summer evenings until the next compilations in september

peace, love, take care of mother nature and keep fighting ignorance (it´s BIG), greediness, that both ruins this world


here

Sounds of the 70s strongly recommends

Benitez and Nebula
double album cd : Night life / Essence of life
Vampisoul records


I recently discovered this latin rock/funk/soul project and bought the superb VAMPISOUL re-edition cd.
My advise : if you liked this blog and all the stuff in it, you sure will love this band

the dustygroove review (below) is right : TREMENDOUS albums !!!

2 tremendous 70s albums from Eddie Benitez -- both of them a great mix of jazz, funk, and Latin soul! Eddie's style here is totally great, and very unique -- a laidback approach to the groove that has echoes of the Chicano soul coming out of LA in the early 70s -- but which is often a lot more fluid, and with strongly jazzy overtones on guitar. Most numbers feature great organ or keyboards -- really setting up the flow of the record nicely -- and there's almost a Santana-inspired quality to some of the tracks -- but one that really goes back towards Latin music much more strongly, thanks to lots and lots of heavy congas and percussion! CD version features 19 tracks from both albums -- with titles that include "Nightlife", "Viejo", "We Are The One", "Hey Girl", "Dreams Can Come True", "Love's Way", "Waiting For Your Love", "Anyone", "Essence Of Life", "Latin Thing", "Hermano", and "Nueva Generacion".

This re-issue cd is from the highly respected VAMPISOUL label (spain), that has released a lot of amazing and remastered 70s material

so naturally i will not post it, but rather invite you to get the real cd sound and the superb cd-pack these guys released.

To give you feel of the album and convince you, here is one sample track : Eternal life

cd on sale at:

Vampi soul
Dusty groove
Amazon.com
Ebay..
etc..

Sounds of the 70s presents a new summer compilation
of super hard-to-find out-of-print material :

Frequency 70.4 FM - a radioscopy of 70´s funky airwaves

this is my introduction to summer 2008, a cool mix of various 70s pearls that once were aired on mainstream radios... (these days are far...)

all tracks original reaps from out-of-print cds or lps

1	Teddy Pendergrass	Set Me Free
2	Ray Barretto	Fat Mama
3	Barbara Lynn	Love Ain't Never Hurt Nobody
4	Pérez Prado	Mambo Bump
5	Art Pepper	Mambo De La Pinta
6	Locksmith	blackjack
7	Harlem & 42nd	Deep Sensation
8	Jack Ashford	black jack
9	Roberto Roena	Que Se Sepa
10	Original Tropicana Steel Drum Band	Spanish hustle (Kon 12 edit)
11	Leroy Hutson	Cool Out
12	Brazilian Singers	Esperancas Perdidas
13	So samba	In the mood (B funky edit)

enjoy

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Exclusive soundsofthe70s.blogspot.com
killer latin soul & boogaloo

One of the most amazing label of the 60-70s era was FANIA, the legendary latin label from New York. The story of Fania is the story of Jerry Masucci and Johnny Pacheco, who defined the FANIA touch through from late 60s until late 70s.
To me, the best from FANIA label are the LATIN SOUL and BOOGALOO albums/tracks, and there are a lot! The list would be too long to mention here, but if you are not a record digger FANIA has recently re-issued a few killer compilations that will do the job for you.

my contribution to the revival/re-issue of the FANIA catalog is this great compilation "Our latin thing (vol.1 sampler)" that gather ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED straight from the vibrant 70s Spanish harlem.

Our latin thing (vol.1 sampler)
FANIA ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED

out of print
mp3 320kpbs - promotional use only
all FANIA re-issues available at
Dustygroove.com
Amazon.com
Juno.co.uk
and at all the best record dealers...

1. Bang Bang - Cuba, Joe
2. I Like It Like That - Rodriguez, Pete
3. Boogaloo Sabrosa - Santamaria, Monguito
4. Mercy Mercy Baby - Barretto, Ray
5. Subway Joe - Bataan, Joe
6. Hit The Bongo - Puente, Tito
7. Gotta Do My Number - Averne, Harvey
8. Willie Wopper - Colon, Willie
9. Consolacion - Roena, Roberto Y Su Apollo Sound
10. Change Had Better Come - Dimmond, Mark
11. Soul Makossa - Fania All Stars
12. Quimbara - Cruz, Celia & Johnny Pacheco

download here

I strongly recommend all FANIA re-issues, in particular their amazing compilations and mixes

these "El barrio" compilations will hook you to boogaloo and latin soul for the rest of your days!

People : this Dj Format mix is just awesome. Dj Format is a Hip-Hop Dj, and he draws the best from the Boogaloo and latin beats here, the mixing of tracks give a superb perspective to the tracks, don't miss it !!!

Great mix, more salsa than the others in the same serie


the FANIA LEGENDARY INDEPENDENT LABEL
embodies what music label should all be : uncompromising and faithful to a culture, not commercially driven and decontextualized as most music rubbish now served.





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Sounds of the 70s compilation of the month

This compilation gathers tracks that, as always in my compilations, will try to convince you that the creative burst of the 70s has some times something to do with miracles.

GOD MADE US FUNKY !
an inspired election of 13 stirring grooves for the happy few

unmixed, 256kps - promotional use only - support out-of-print reissues

1	African Music Machine	Camel Time
2	Hampton Hawes	Pink Peaches
3	Letta Mbulu	Where Does It Lead
4	Charles Earland	I Was Made to Love Her
5	Foxy	People Fall in Love
6	Sheila Skipworth	Look what you´ve done to me
7	Pete And Louie	Evil Ways
8	El gran combo	combolu (mrB edit)
9	Ray Barretto	New York Soul
10	Modulo Quatro	Ao Cair da Tarde
11	Trio Samba	Mas que Nada
12	Avan samba	eu sou eu
13	Rosana	Alegria No Ar

ps : note the amazing cover of "Evil ways" in a boogaloo mode, blasting!!!


enjoy and shout your faith in the 70s !

MrB strongly recommends:
Feeling depressed? RUSH to your record dealer and get this AMAZING 2CD pack of true classics that will rock your world like no others, including hits and impossible to find remixed gems from their nine albums recorded at Warner Bros Records from 1973 - 1982.
In addition, the package includes a disc of Ashford & Simpson songs from that same era that have been recently remixed by some of dance music's current top remixers including Tom Moulton, Joey Claussell, Joey Negro and Dimitri From Paris.

Get the original CD sound for a few $, the quality of the recording is just blasting!

includes MrB top5 disco tracks ever :

Stay free
+ the great re-edit by Dimitri from Paris

Love Don't Make It Right
+ the splendid remix by Joe Negro.

NO DOWNLOAD
sorry guys i´m not the one who will harm such a great publishing initiative


Disc 1
1. Over And Over (12" Disco Mix)
2. Have You Ever Tried It
3. Everybody's Got To Give It Up
4. One More Try (12" Disco Mix)
5. Tried, Tested And Found True (12" Disco Mix)
6. Send It
7. Top Of The Stairs
8. Don't Cost You Nothing (12" Disco Mix)
9. It Seems To Hang On (12" Disco Mix)
10. Found A Cure (12" Disco Mix)
11. Nobody Knows (12" Disco Mix)
12. Love Don't Make It Right (12" Disco Mix)
13. Stay Free
14. Bourgié Bourgié

Disc 2
1. Found A Cure (A Tom Moulton Mix)
2. It Seems To Hang On (Tommy Musto Re-Touch)|
3. One More Try (Dimitri Re-Edit)
4. Bourgié Bourgié (Joe Claussell's Classic Remix)
5. Over And Over (Simphouse/M&M Mix)
6. Stay Free (Dim's The Missing Mix)
7. Love Don't Make It Right (Joey Negro Mix)
8. Tried, Tested And Found True (Simphouse/M&M Soulful Mix)
9.Stay Free (Dim's Club Mix)

Sounds of the 70s mix

RICH BLEND
70s best sound crops, carefully packed by mrB

Julie Driscoll Brian Auger	Season Of The Witch
Freda Payne	I get high (on your memory)
Baby Huey	Hard Times
Frequency	Loosen Up
Erasmo Carlos	E Proibido Fumar
Tito Rodriguez	Mi Guajira Si
Pete Rodriguez	Pete's Boogaloo
Sylvia Vrethammar	Blasvart Samba
Cortex	Maïlys
Manzel	It's Over Now
Webster Lewis	Song Of Joy
The Beginning Of The End	Pretty Girl
Willie Colón	MC2 (Theme Realidades)
Som Imaginário	Tema Dos Deuses (Milton Nascimento)
Elias Dia Kimuezo	Zum Zum
Sebastiao Tapajos	laberinto

In this selection I tried to pack a condensate of 70s blends, as a rich coffee or champagne would do. These sounds should excite your senses (and your 70s nostalgia), at least for the time of the listening.

Nessa seleçao experimentei condensar uma mistura de som 70s, como no cafe o no champagne. Estes soms deveriam exitar seus sentidos (e sua nostalgia dos 70s), ao minimo para a duraçao do disco.

enjoy, leave comments

Post-scriptum 1: due to volume variations between tracks, i recommend the use of the sound levelling feature in itunes.

Post-scriptum 2 : this compilation will celebrate soon the 100.000th visitor...
Big thanks for your support to keep the 70s alive

Don´t kill record dealers

Many music blog tend to abuse on the volume of music they post.

Well let me tell you that many record dealers selling out-of-print music in vinyl suffer a lot from that, and many are closing down already

Is it what we want? No. Professional record dealers are the one who keep alive the flow of out-of-print music on the market.

For that reason I inform you that Sounds of the 70s will reduce its posts to once a month.


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Crisis?

In the 70s the main economic fear was inflation (Inflation, that eroded purchase power day by day, was a recurrent issue in 70s music by the way).

In 1979, Paul Volker was appointed chairman of the Federeal Reserve Bank (the FED) and reappointed in 1983 by the superbad Reagan.
Paul Volker broke inflation for the first time in US and world´s economy, through a strict monetary policy, leading to low interest rates too.

This could have been a great step forward for the people...

27 years later the question is : who benefited it?
Companies and their shareholders? or the people?
On the one hand companies have outrageously increased their profits (check the S&P 500 increase since 1981).
On the other hand the middle class is worlwide stuck and didn´t see it purchase power increase in real terms, despite low inflation.
With low inflation + deregulation the financial sphere could grow protected, and distribute credit like never before.

The same happened with globalisation and free trade. Initially a good idea, it just eventually served the interests of large corporations who used it as a way to delocate and at the same time blackmail the manpower they couldn´t get rid of in their territories.

Since demand is not driven by salaries anymore, credit took over as the only way to maintain demand and feed companies. Who pays : the people, again..

Enough said : companies and their shareholders have been the only winners since these post-70s economic big bangs that were meant to change the world

VOTE
(DEMOCRATS)

THINGS MUST CHANGE

POWER TO THE PEOPLE

Kenny dope ranks among the best 60s-70s deejay in the world right now. But even more : he manages to have access to original mastertapes of obscure funk labels. His label Kay-Dee is his showcase of re-edits of lost funk gemms, wisely redone from the original reels. Just great. Check his work on genius Manzel artwork too...

O Kenny Dope faz parte dos melhores Djs dos 60-70s hoje. Alem, ele tem accesso aos faixas originais (mastertapes) de obscuros joias funk. Seu label Kay-Dee presenta seu trabalho de re-edicao, so fantastico. Confiram seu trabalho con a obra do genio Manzel..

enjoy :

KAY DEE RECORDS
Phillip Right- keep her happy (Kenny Dope long edit)
Fire - You don´t know (Kenny Dope edit)
Fire - Deeper in love (Kenny Dope edit)

Great boogie from 1981 but with a real 70s sound (arranged by the disco king Patrick Adams), to start the year funkily.

The main ingredient, feat. Cuba Gooding
Save me / Party people

listen first to the track on the 70s radio (sidebar) !

Paradise Garge Larry Levan favorite, Bad mouthin´n, made this unusual motown project headed by Michael Lee Smith famous in 1978. The whole lp is very disco, with a very distinctive sound though. Includes superb vibes solos, strings and bass (Jermaine Jackson). And what a funky cover!!

O favorito de Larry Levan do Paradise Garage, Bad mouthin´n, fez este inhabitual projeito da Motown liderado pelo Michael Lee Smith famoso em 1978. O disco inteiro e muito disco, com um som bem distinto. Jermaine Jackson toca baixa aqui.

Motown sounds - Space dance 1978


enjoy

"Papa was a rolling stone", "I heard it through the grapevine" : you know these don´t you? Well I´m sure you ignore "Stand up and cheer for the preacher" by the genius composer Barrett Strong who composed all these gemms for TAMLA back in early 70s.
The instrumental version is just good enough to turn you crazy, perfect strings instrumentation, keybord layers, shaft-style guitars... all is there, evolving around a simple but yet irresistible theme.

"Papa was a rolling stone", "I heard it through the grapevine" : voce conhece estas faixas verdade? Mais estou seguro que ignora "Stand up and cheer for the preacher" do genial compositor Barrett Strong quem fez essas joias pela TAMLA no inicio do 70s.

Barrett Strong - Stand up and cheer for the preacher (1973)
original 320kbps rip from 7inch record
+ bonus mrB chords edit

enjoy this 70s gemm