Sounds of the 70s presents a new compilation of super rare out-of-edit soulful musical material from the golden age (the 70s of course)

Sounds of the 70s christmas party pack

24 tailored made goodies to celebrate in fashion

1	Fritz the Cat	Scarborough Street Fair
2	The Young Holt Trio	Ain't There Something...
3	Lulu	Feelin' Alright
4	Clark Terry & Chico O'Farrill	Spanish Rice
5	Ricardo Ray Orchestra	Soul Man
6	Brigitte Bardot	Tu Veux, Tu Veux Pas
7	The G/9 Group	Sambou...sambou
8	tami lynn	Mo Jo Hanna
9	B.T. Express	The House Is Smokin'
10	Som Livre House Band	Papa Don't Take No Mess
11	Joe Torres	Get Out Of My Way
12	Chuito & The Latin Uniques	Hey Funky Mama
13	Tono Quirazco Y Su Show	Asi Me Gusta
14	Orquesta La Solucion	Sufriendo
15	Roberto Roena	Yo Soy Candelon
16	Joe Bataan	Rap-O Clap-O (7" Version)
17	Skylite	Smile
18	Loleatta Holloway	Runaway
19	Roberto Delgado	Batucada
20	Marijo	Fio Maravilha
21	Paulinho da Viola	Miudinho
22	Leci Brandão	Questão De Gosto
23	Os Originais Do Samba	Jogo Numerado
24	Tarantula	Melô Do Aplauso ( Rap-O Clap-O )

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What it is! funky soul and rare groove (1967-1977)

Sounds of the 70s recommends this great 4cd box as a splendidly packaged christmas gift of juicy rare groove, digitally remastered

extract from the publisher website (Rhino):

"A four-CD, 91-track compendium that would take incalculable hours to assemble from dusty bins at disappearing record shops, What It Is! is culled mainly from the treasure-filled vaults of Atlantic, Atco, and Warner Bros. Records. It's an unprecedented shadow history of funk, pulling together rare sides from well-known artists and definitive grooves from less-known but supremely gifted masters of the art form.

Deluxe packaging houses a massive booklet with rare photos, liner notes, and track-by-track commentary."

Grab it for less than 40€ on amazon.co.uk

As this blog address music lovers ready to invest (some) money in their (portable) hifi system, here is a suggestion to help you increase dramatically the way you enjoy music on you pc or ipod : a headphone amplifier + digital-to-audio decoder.

I did some research and bought one recently : a small "made in Germany" headphone amp that works on battery or USB, designed by Jan Meier under the brand name CODA.

The result is blasting : though my main pc has a pro 24bit soundcard, my laptop has an average one and listening to music with has never been satisfactory (despite my Grado Headphone). Plugged in the USB port this headphone amp bypasses the native pc card thanks to the Digital Analogic Converter (DAC) of the CODA (a Texas Instument) and delivers superb sound. 

Moreover the CODA has a proprietary cross filtering sound enhancer that gives a smoother sound and reduces the excessive stereo effect that headphone mechanically create. So when used with the ipod (plugged directly to the ipod dock to avoid the poor filtered sound from the jack) it is a powerfull way to increase sound quality. And it is fully portable.

for those who were lacking ideas for christmas give a look at the cute CODA MOVE3 at Meier Audio 

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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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comments on tracks:

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

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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


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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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