07 December 2008
23 November 2008

09 November 2008
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] |
11 October 2008
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
24 September 2008

19 September 2008
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
28 August 2008
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.
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
enjoy and comment!
03 August 2008
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

FANIA remastered series

20 July 2008
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
12 July 2008
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
28 June 2008
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..
15 June 2008
Sounds of the 70s presents a new summer compilation
of super hard-to-find out-of-print material :
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
dont forget to comment if you liked it
17 May 2008
killer latin soul & boogaloo


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.
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 -
2. I Like It Like That - Rodriguez, Pete
3. Boogaloo Sabrosa - Santamaria, Monguito
4. Mercy Mercy Baby - Barretto, Ray
5. Subway 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






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