Incredibly funky track from High Inergy for MOTOWN, 1979, from their 3rd and best LP

High Inergy - Voulez vous (Gordy Mortown 1979)

Original vinyl rip mp3 320kpbs

Slow boogie as I love it.... deep and stirring !

From genius Grey & Hanks, 2 legendary composers who defintely left their groovy imprint in the 70s music landscape !

Candy Bowman covered the track the same year.

Grey & Hanks - I'm calling on you (1981)

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Monster RAW soul by Soul Diva Gloria Jones, more famous for her Tainted Love hit.

Gloria Jones - Tin Can people (1973)

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As you may hav noticed in my blog, I have a huge collection of Brazilian 70s music. I will start posting some of my all time favorite track from Brazil, I hope you will enjoy them as I do.

This track is from a very very obscure band, performing for the OST of a "novela" movie from the 70s

A Tribo - Sei la (Tema de Maria)

from the OST Assim na terra como no ceu (1971)

Extract from this unsual and great compilation gathering 70s funk and library themes from Spain

Marquez - Melao (1977)

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Kocky - Just keep on dancing

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Fantastic rare groove of this 70s Diva, written by Grey & Hanks, produced and arranged (once again) by Bert de Coteaux!

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Backing Vocals - Brenda White , Gwen Guthrie , Ullanda McCullough

Bass - Bob Babbitt

Congas - Jimmy Mallin

Drums - Jimmy Young

Engineer [Mastering] - Joe Gastwirt

Engineer [Recording] - Douglas Epstein , Godfrey Diamond , Harvey Goldberg , Neil Ceppos

Guitar - Jeff Mirinov, Kenneth Hatfield , Lance Quinn

Keyboards - Bert Keyes , Bert deCoteaux , Leon Pendarvis

Producer, Arranged By - Bert deCoteaux, Brad Shapiro

Thelma Jones - How long (Columbia records 1978)

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Sublime track from the same 1976 Motown LP that produced ´"Dont leave me this way"

Magic..

Thelma Houston - Dont't know why I love you (Motown 1976)

Accuphase vinyl rip 320 kbps

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Dee Dee Bridgewater at her best... I love this track and need an edit. Soundcloud talents, go!

Dee Dee Bridgewater

Lonely disco dancer (Elektra 1980)

Splendid track by William Bell from his 1976 LP

William Bell - Relax (Mercury 1976)

original vinyl rip

Let's keep on playing the Jazz-Funk I love.... Now is the turn of Mike Mandel, with this great track from his Vanguard 1980 LP Utopia Parkway.

Mike Mandel - The glider (1980) vinyl rip

Personnel:

Bass - Wilbur Bascomb

Drums - Brian Brake

Guitar - Jeff Layton, Steve Kahn

Keyboards - Mike Mandel

Saxophone - George Young

Trombone - Barry Rogers

Trumpet - Alan Rubin , Jon Faddis

Heavy weight deep jazz-funk track from the 1976 LP "In a special way" by maestro Gene Harris.

Personnel list is impressive:

Gene Harris . piano

Chuck Rainey, Verdine White : bass

Harvey Mason : drums, percussion

James Gadson : drums

Myuto Correa, Phillip Bailey : percussion

John Rowin, Al McKay : electric guitar

Lee Ritenour : electric & acoustic guitar

Charlotte Politte : electric piano, synthesizer

Jerry Peters : electric piano, synthesizer, string emsemble

Azar Lawrence : tenor saxophone

George Bohannon : trombone

Sidney Muldrow, Marni Robinson : french horn

Ed Green : violin (on 4)

Gene Page - Theme for Relana (1976)

Accuphase 1979 /Tascam vinyl rip

Superb instrumental version of this legendary 70s track. Many nice loops here!

Smiling Faces Sometimes" is a soul song written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong for the Motown label. The song was originally recorded by The Temptations in 1971. Producer Norman Whitfield had the song re-recorded by The Undisputed Truth the same year, resulting in a number-three Billboard Hot 100 position for the group. "Smiling Faces" was the only Top 40 single released by the Undisputed Truth, and was included on their debut album The Undisputed Truth.

Bobbi Humphrey - Similing faces sometimes

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Sweet and funky, from 1978 debut LP by Rachel Sweet.

Another highly sampled track.

Rachel Sweet - It's so different (1978)

I know this is a mega classic (from 1981), but it is still SO GOOD time after time (especially when re-edit) that it deserved a post

Chaka Khan - Fate 1981 (todd Terje edit)

Amazing video telling the story of the greatest studio of 70s music history:

SIGMA SOUND STUDIO Philadelphia

Dimitri from Paris presents "Get Down With The Philly Sound" from BBE Music on Vimeo.

Obscure and killer 70s Latin Disco cover of Joe Bataan song, apparently arranged by the French Disco project formed around Pezin (teledisco), here for Fania records

W.R.L.C

Johnny's no good (Fania records, 1975)

Monster edit by RAY MANG from the superb Mangled Again Compilation.. Can anyone recognize the original sampled here? It is a hit, but I cannot locate it...

Ray Mang

Can't keep running

I love this latin funk cover of Tighten Up by Archie Bell and the Drells... enjoy

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Orchestra Harlow presents Ismael Miranda

Horsin' Up (1968)

I am breaking many rules recently, posting not strictly 70s music but also music rooted in the 70s directly or not.

Of all the contemporary brazilian bands Democustico ranks very very high. This band is just stunning, a mix of electro sounds created by Roc Hunt from FarOut Records and one of the deeper voices of the contemporary scene, Gabriela Geluda. The band fuses a huge amount of influences here, from Brasil to India.

Splendid!

"Far Out release the self-titled debut album from Democustico this October the 16th. Fusing Brazilian samba and folk with Indian vibes, London beats and the phattest global breaks and noises ‘Democustico’ is a contemporary world musical odyssey - imagine Milton Nascimento jamming with the Thievery Corporation and you’re on the right track. Whilst individual tracks combine many different styles - the bhangra and bossa of ‘Grito’, folk and trip-hop of ‘Nunca Never’ and 60s sitar-funk & samba of ‘Vaga-Lume’, ‘Democustico’ is much more than the sum of its parts. The different styles combine symbiotically to produce a coherent world musical fusion with Gabriela Geluda’s mellifluous vocals joining the dots from Brazil to London via India. With fans as diverse as world music guru Andy Kershaw (Radio 3), leftfield jazz cat Gilles Peterson and electronic-ambassador Laurent Garnier (Radio Nova) ‘Democustico’ follows on from a series of critically acclaimed single releases: ‘Brazil’, ‘A Sereia’, and ‘Vaga-Lume’ (as featured on Gilles Peterson’s recent ‘Back to Brazil’ Compilation) and will appeal to fans of downbeat/lounge as well as nu-jazz and nu-Brazil. With it’s eclectic sound ‘Democustico’ looks set to follow in the steps of other recent contemporary Far Out crossover CDs such as Sabrina Malheiros’ ‘Equilibria’ and Troubleman’s ‘Time Out Of Mind’. Democustico are Mauro Berman (bassist for famous Brazilian Rap star Marcelo D2) and Gabriela Geluda (Azymuth/ Mamond) as well as Far Out uber-producer Roc Hunter. Mauro and Gabi are a carioca couple who met at college in Rio in 1987. They moved to London in 1996 where Mauro and Gabi met Joe @ Far Out through a mutual friend Marcos Valle. Having heard Gabi sing Joe knew just the person to feature on vocals on some tracks Roc Hunter had been working on. The results were ‘Brazil’ – a hypnotic percussive vocal groove that featured keyboards from Mauro - turning Democustico into a trio. A follow up single ‘A Sereia’ was recorded – keeping the Brazilian vibes strong the track also had a heavy Indian influence coming from the time Gabi had spent meditating in India. In 2001 Gabi and Mauro returned to Brazil and for the next four years a trans-national musical exchange began. Roc Hunter would send beats and loops from London to Mauro and Gabi to work on in Brazil - Mauro working on ‘noises, synths, mpcs, street vibes and bass’ and Gabi working on melodies and harmony both in Rio and India which she visited again in 2002 for more inspiration. The album was finished when Roc Hunter spent three months with Mauro and Gabi in Rio in 2005. Gabi explains what each member of the band brought to the mix: “Mauro brought the wild side through wicked bass lines, keyboard sounds and unconventional arrangements of the songs, I brought the Indian/ Brazilian flavour from my trips to India and love of classic Brazilian singers such as a Tom Jobim and Milton Nascimento whilst Roc Hunter brought an amazing collection of sounds from where we got a lot of inspiration. She adds: “Far Out has a great roster of wonderful Brazilian artists who have made history such as Marcos Valle, Joyce, Azymuth and Os Ipanemas yet we are from a new generation. Those people showed Brazilian music to the world yet we are taking the world to Brazilian music”. “I love the Democustico album so much. Another stunning release on the label” Laurent Garnier “Fantastic idea and perfect music for me. Will be championing this throughout” Pathaan (BBC ASIA)

Democustico - A sereia (2006)

Hip hop is not really coming from the 70s but it owes a lot to the period given the extensive use of samples in most tracks. Although lousy samples are quickly boring, subtle samples can really give any 70s track the best refresh it could hope.

DJ Seiji from Japan does an amazing job in the "Crate diggaz" mix series, by mixing in sequence pairs made of an original 70s track and a hip hop track incorporating a loop of the previous one.

The whole mix flows very well and also works as a great blind test of all these superb 70s tracks geniously sampled. Terrific!

Dj Seiji - Crate Diggazz vol.1

320 kbps mp3 from original cd

01. John Dankworth & His Orchestra / Two piece flower

02. Gangstarr feat. Inspectah Deck / Above the clouds

03. Brenda Russell / You’re free

04. Lateef & The Chief / Best of me

05. The Ebonys / You’re the reason why

06. Ali Vegas / I feel like a king

07. Eugene Record / Here comes the sun

08. De La Soul feat. Gfk / He comes

09. Klymaxx / Offer I can’t refuse

10. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony / Get up & get it

11. Geroge Benson / Livin’ inside your love

12. Time Machine / On the moon

13. Ceasar Frazier / Sweet children

14. Common / Real people

15. Ahmad Jamal / Ghetto child

16. Common / They say

17. George Duke Ooo / You & me

18. Time Machine / Personal ads

19. Marc Hannibal / Forever is a long long time

20. Royce Da 5?9 / Boom

21. Bob James / Tappan zee

22. Lightheaded / Outro

23. David Shire / Books & basketball

24. Rasco / Take it back home

25. Stan Getz & Luiz Bonfa / Saudade vem correndo

26. Mya Feat. Fat Lip & Tre / Fallen(Remix)

27. Love Unlimited / I can’t let him down

28. Nodesha / That’s crazy

29. Curtis Mayfield / Short eyes

30. Ashanti feat. Ja Rule / Turn it up

31. Benny Golson / I’m always dancin’ to the music

32. Para Beats feat. Carmen Reece / U got me

33. LTD / Love ballad

34. De La Soul / Much more

35. Billy Paul / I think I’ll stay home today

36. Memphis Bleek feat. Denim / Smoke the pain away away

37. John Barry / Diamonds are forever

38. Kanye West / Diamonds

39. Mfsb / Old san juan

40. Kanye West / Diamonds (Remix)

41. Bdk / Long live the kane

42. Urbie Green / Lumps

43. SAC / Motibate

44. Public Enemy / Son of public enemy

45. DMX / Pump ya fist

46. Labelle / Goin’ on a holiday

47. Nick Cannon feat. Ying Yang Twins & Fatman Scoop

48. The Main Ingredient / Everybody plays the fool

49. Memphis Bleek / Like that

50. And more…

enjoy

Thanks to TJ Gorton, the Dj being the great 70s blog Americanathlete.blogspot I discovered this incredible mix of super cool 70s soft-rock, done by Matthew Hamilton aka Dj AOR DISCO from London.

As the title suggests, this is perfect music for driving on a beautiful Californian road, or just dreaming of it.. Just great!

01. Intro
02. BILL HOUSE – you’re no better than a common thief
>>>Brooke Shield’s radio i.d.
03. ERIC JUSTIN KAZ – come with me
04. JOHNNY RIVERS – outside help
>>>superfast jellyfish commercial
05. DENNY CORRELL – your love
06. ROBBIE DUPREE – steal away (into the night)
07. PETER GALLWAY – sunday basketball
>>>40-year old virgin on Michael McDonald
08. RICHARD TORRANCE – circle of confusion
09. ROGER VOUDOURIS – get used to it
10. LAUREN WOOD – never been so in love
>>>30 rock: Tracy Jordan comeback
11. SANFORD & TOWNSEND BAND – shake it to the right
>>>30 rock: Tracy Jordan vs. The Black Crusaders
12. CRACKIN’ – don’t cha love me
13. VAPOUR TRAILS – don’t worry baby
14. CLOVER – take another look
>>>stoned airlines with spliff
15. LEBLANC & CARR – stronger love
16. LENNY LEBLANC – midnight mourning
>>>Starsky & Hutch: snoop dog on kay bay
17. CHICAGO – old days
18. STEVE MARRS – how was i to know
19. BRUCE HIBBARD – calling
20. JIM PHOTOGLO – steal away
21. Outro: gilbert o’ sullivan

Splendid track from the 1980 LP arranged by Ashford & Simpson (again!..) Groove flows as usual with this magic combination of talents

Gladys Knoght and the Pips

Get the love (1980)

Vinyl Rip with 1979 Accuphase HiFi system

Nice Disco Boogie track mixed by tony Humphries, not litteraly 70s (1982) but feeling like it... and feeling good

Stargaze - You can't have it (1982)

mixed by Tony Humphries

SOUNDSOFTHE70S has been covering a wide spectrum of 70s beats and sounds from worldwide, but Bollywood was missing as India produced a few 70s gemms too.

Enjoy this super funky 70s bollywood track extract from a rare Bollywood compilation.

O.P. Nayyar - Title music

(India, bollywood 70s)

ABSOLUTELY MONSTER track from JAZZ FUNK master Airto Moreira, who spread gemms during the 70s and the 80s.

This track is from 1989 actually, but it sounds damm 70s so I have no shame posting it!

Sampled by Basement Jaxx in their first album

Airto Moreira

Samba de Flora (1979)

Top notch pop rock 1979 track from Robert Palmer, one the rare rock singer who incorporated and played with old skool funk/blues sounds from players like the Meters

Robert Palmer

Love Stop 1979

Hi Folks

So far I never posted any video on the blog. I will start today and will break the rule twice, as the video I want you to watch is not 70s focused, although it is related to the 70s indirectly.

This short documentary, sponsored by the fashion brand Diesel, was made by Orlando Von Einsiedel. It shows how skate is helping rebuild society in Kabul Afganistan. The topic and the images are incredibly powerful and beautiful.

We tend to forget that a simple thing as skating means freedom actually, and that what may seem leisure for us is a life saver for others. It's a deep message to remind us how we should enjoy simple things and cherish them. But also how we should share them with more people.

Skate was born in the 70s, and as an ocasional skater myself I felt this video had its place here

Skateistan.org, the website

Great disco at Soundsofthe70s today with this special pick:

Alton McClain - More of you 1979 (Polydor)

Robert Brookins / Madeline Carroll / Terry Mc Fadden

Guitars: Paul M. Jackson / Wah Wah Watson / L. Marlo Henderson

Percussion : Jack Ashford

Drims: James Gadsen

Bass: Nathan L. Watts

Original 1979 US pressing LP vinyl rip with 1979 Accuphase (Japan) HIFI system

"More of you" is a great 1979 disco track from Alton McClain second album. The quality of Alton's band (see the lineup) and music surely had to do with producer and arranger Frank E. Wilson as well as to the fact that Alton was friend (and eventually married) with legendary songwriter producer Skip Scarborough. The band arrived late in the 70s and was bound to be short-lived as time changed...

Although the counter speaks, comments are always welcome!

Super cool 1979 Jazz-Funk-Disco-Reggae from Airto Moreira best album from where also comes the legendary "Toque de Cuica" track.

Airto Moreira - Movin on up (Warner 1979)

arranged by Marcos Valle and Airto Moreira