17 July 2011




When latin NY funky latin 70s vibes meet rock'n'roll !

Bobby Valentin - Good lovin' (fania records)







Kicking boogaloo track from the ultra hard to find ON TOP Lp by Mongo Santamaria.


Mongo Santamaria - Puchi's boogaloo (Fania records)




16 July 2011





Pure late 60s NY funky latin groove !

Kako & his orchestra - Live it up (1967)





05 July 2011




Super lovely duet by 70s master Norman Connors

Norman Connors - Anyway you want (1980)





18 June 2011




Another exclusive soundsofthe70s nugget find:

Extract from the excellent Sun 1980 album (all LPs from this band are good), this track is a completely overviewed and superb piece of Disco Jazz Funk that competes with best Jazz Funk tracks from the 70s

Sun - The quest (instrumental)
Capitol records 1980

ripped with ACCUPHASE hifi material for original 70s feel







11 June 2011




Super dope and deep R&B/soul track by this 70s act quite similar to Average White Band in essence.


Kokomo - Rise & Shine (1975)



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02 June 2011




Genius 70s crossover soul, amazingly well arranged by Brad Shapiro's crew !

Brandye - I love the way you love (1978)






28 May 2011



Disco jazz funk at its best...

Webster Lewis - Touch my love (1978)




26 May 2011



I guess I have not much to comment here, this is just PURE soul...

Martha Reeves & the Vandellas - I Want You Back (1971)





21 May 2011



Feeling like New York Chinatown in 1977? Here you are, from a Latin Funk perspective !

Jose Mangual - Chinatown (1977)




20 May 2011



Great track by Lamont Dozier, and funky edit by DannyBlue


Lamont Dozier - Ain't Never had it so good 1981 (DannyBlue Edit)




14 May 2011




Fantastic uplifting track by this great DISCO FUNK act, made famous with the classic Love isn't really my game

Brainstorm - Hangin'on (Tabu records 1977)



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06 May 2011




I have so much energy to spend that I felt like passing on some of it to you guys (and girls) who have been following me in the past months/years

This hard to find track should do... loud playing recommended,


Voyage - I love you dancer (instr.) 1981





01 May 2011


Short notice to announce that more the blog has passed the 500.000 hits, slowly but surely !

There has been remarkably few file deletion due to the fact that all the tracks posted here are 100% out of print, which makes the blog so special and vintage !


30 April 2011





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




29 April 2011




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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20 April 2011





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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17 April 2011




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)



02 April 2011




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

Marquez - Melao (1977)



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13 March 2011



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Kocky - Just keep on dancing



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12 March 2011




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

Check out the taskforce here...

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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06 March 2011




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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03 March 2011




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)



19 February 2011





Splendid track by William Bell from his 1976 LP

William Bell - Relax (Mercury 1976)
original vinyl rip




05 February 2011




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



30 January 2011





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




16 January 2011




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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08 January 2011





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

Another highly sampled track.

Rachel Sweet - It's so different (1978)





06 January 2011




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)




05 January 2011




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

SIGMA SOUND STUDIO Philadelphia