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.

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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


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"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

The library genre is really a style you get into only once you're really in love with the 60's/70's : it's a mood genre, not really soft, not really danceable, but there to create a special mood and to shape the reality it surrounds. After all, nothing more logic : it's TV serie or movie music, made to "dress" images. Here is a brief selection of some of my favorite tracks ever in that genre, most of them by the magic KPM label trio: Alan Hawshaw, Alan Parker, Alan Moorehouse.

A musica "Library" e apenas um estilo que voce gosta um vez e realmente enamorado com a 60's/70's : e musica de ambiente, não e pra dançar nem relachar, e la pra criar uma atmosfera especial e para moldar a realidade no entorno. Alias, nada mais logico : e musica da TV o filme, feita para "vestir" imagems. Aqui e uma pequena seleção de minhas faixas favoritas neste estilo, a maioria do trio magico do label KPM : Alan Hawshaw, Alan Parker, Alan Moorehouse.

MrB librarymix1

1	David Lindup (KPM)	Calefaction
2	George Martin	Theme One
3	Laurie Johnson	Chase That Car
4	Brian Bennett (UK)	The Heist
5	Tom Manoff (USA)	Mr. Max
6	Bernard Gérard (France)	Le Crocodile Porte-Clé
7	Alan Moorhouse	expo in tokyo
8	The Rat Catchers	Johnny Pearson & His Orchestra
9	Alan Parker & Alan Hawkshaw	Girl At The Top A
10	Alan Parker & Alan Hawkshaw	Girl At The Top B
11	Alan Hawkshaw	Convenience Shopping
12	Dave Hamilton	marriage is a state of vibes
13	Ambros Selos	Freezimg / Jeff Hasky
14	Laurie Johnson	Avengers Tag
14	Ovation (France)	Burle Pie

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The 70s were mostly an horrible decade in many aspects, especially in politics (watergate, pinochet, pol pot, idi amin dada, the list is dam long...), but one thing is sure : amazing creativity emerged despite, or against, all this. Humans are mostly optimistic and only remenber good things (sometimes they regret it..) DISCO will be remembered from this decade, and it's easy to understand. Check this. Strings all over the place, amazing druming. I think this track is a re-edit from the track by The Atlanta Disco Band (that involves 70s legend Earl Young from MFSB, Salsoul Orchestra and more. (I actually don't have this lp yet, though it's on this way).

Os sententas foram uma decada terrivel em muitos aspectos, sob todo em politica (watergate, pinochet, pol pot, idi amin dada, a lista e grande...), mas uma cosa e certa : creatividade increivel saiu, apesar o contra isso. Os homens são inclinado a ser optimistos e apenas lembram das cosas boas (a vezes se arrepentem) DISCO e o que lembra-se desta decada, e nao surpreende. Confiram isso. Violão en todos lados, bateria fantastica. Acho que esta faixa e um re-edit da faixa da banda The Atlanta Disco Band (que tem como baterista Earl Young a lenda do MFSB, Salsoul orchestra e mais..)

Philly jams vol.1
buckhead (extended edit)
from The Atlanta Disco Band ?

raw disco !
turn the volume up

(there is a vinyl click at the beginning,
you can still take it off if you feel like doing you're own re-edit..)

any comments ?

Enough with the Ipod, Iphone and Apple !!!

sometimes i have the feeling that the only thing people discuss on the net or the press is the latest apple gadget, ipod/phone/stuff/geek whatever..

ok i got an ipod, and really it's just a pratical machine but is is worth so much attention, articles, fuss ??

Our culture has much more to offer than materialism, and the 70s are here to remind you that! Content will always matter more than anything engineers and marketers will imagine!

Another famously "dj-recycled" 70s disco bomb. Pete Heller sampled this one in this Big Love theme in 1999, making dance millions of ignorant hedonists who thought they were leaving in a time of fantastic musical creation !..

Outra bomba dos 70s que foi reciclada por Djs. O PeteHeller fez um sample dela na sua faixa Big Love em 1999, fazendo bailar millares de hedonistos ignorantes que pensavão viver num periodo de grande criação musical !..

Stargard - Wear it out (1979)
+ instrumental

mp3 320 kbps

When it comes to 70' dancefloor sounds some tracks crossed time more than others, often thanks to Djs reviving them. "Street player" by the band Chicago is one of them. The track is a wonder that really doesn't get a wrinkle, and Kenny Dope knew it when he re-edited it through the Bucketheads project in 1995.
The strange thing is that Chicago was more a Pop-rock band than a Disco-funk band.. god knows what happened to them that day!

My personal contibution to that amazing track is this 124bps dancefloor Paul Raymond edit from the 12".

Umas faixas dancefloor do 70s atraversaram o tempo mais que otras, muitas vezes pelos Djs queas ressuscitaram. "Street player" da banda Chicago faz parte dessas. A faixa e uma maravilha quem não envelhece, e Kenny Dope o sabia quando fez o re-edit dela com o projeito Bucketheads em 1995.
A coisa rara e que Chicago era mais uma banda Pop-rock que Disco-funk.. Apenas deus sabe o que lhes aconteceu este dia!

Minha contribuçao pela faixa mitica essa e o 124kbps dancefloor edit do Paul Raymond da 12" versão.

Street player by Chicago
124bps dancefloor Paul Raymond edit
320 kbps LAME mp3 from 12" vinyl

Time to advertise the amazing label FAR OUT, from the UK (again). Their great merit : to have resucitated one of the greatest 70s band ever, Azymuth. They just released the 1975 lp, the first by the band + a remix cd which is simply the greatest honour to the orginal cd that could be made. All tracks from the orginal cd are amazing, and remixes are just magic.

FAR OUT has a clean online shop where you can buy the cd or the mp3 files in 256kbps. You can pay VISA or Paypal. It's great, legal, and works fine.

While e-shopping, go check the latest Antonio Adolfo, Destiny, it's another really killer album that deserves attention.

You all know my passion for the 70s sounds and arts. I have decided to share it through mixed compilations, as I think they are the best way to make you feel my way of seeing that period as a time of exclusive musical enchantment.


Voceis ja sabem da minha passão pelos setentas. Decidei compartilha-a com mixagems que achou são o melhor jeito de fazer eles ver como eu veo este periodo, como um tempo de criação musical unica.

sound visions of the 70s vol. 1
a mr B selection of vintage grooves - mixed
mp3 256kbps

1. Walter Murphy - Dancin’
2. David Snell – International flight
3. Evie Sands – One thing on my mind
4. The blackbyrds – Dreaming about you
5. Tamiko Jones – Can’t live without your love
6. The counts – Latin disco
7. Gwen McGrae – All that love I’m giving
8. Alan Hawkshaw – Moody
9. Southside movement – I’ve been watching you
10. Reverend Julius Cheeks – Nobody’s fault but me
11. Traffic sound – Inca snow
12. Patato & Totico – Mas que nada
13. Azimuth – Tema de Maria Helena
14. Erasmo Carlos – Aquarela do Brasil
15. Edson Frederico - Sacode carola
16. Tim Maia – Sossego
17. Di Melo – Pernalonga
18. Jorge Ben – Errare humanum est

enjoy pure 70s pleasure

For your hollidays, if any, a nice funky mix from the guys behind the famous Spanish Ibiza club PACHA.

Para seu folga, se tem, um mix legal dos rapaz do clube Espanhol PACHA da Ibiza.

enjoy

THINK GREEN, NOW

stop buying products

• that directly pollute (SUVs, McDonalds and the junk food industry, canned drinks etc..)
  

• that need remote shipping (=additional pollution + unemployment at home)
  

• that are over-wrapped with tones of plastic, cardboard etc..
  

• that are disposable for no good reason (do you need to go to f... ing Starbucks Coffee that invented un-ecological coffee?!..)
  

• that cannot be recycled (but that's not enough as recycling generates pollution too)

• that are made and sold by companies that show little concern with ecology (so many I know..)

=> big corporations will change their approach of doing business only when their sales will start to decline because people avoid their non-ecological products and ethics

Things haven't changed since the first 70's ecological leaders opened their mouth, it's urging that we citizens take full responsability

Fresh from my 70's sound garden is the first volume of soundsofthe70's compilations : a summer selection of rare 70's grooves from brazil...

Do meu jardim de soms dos setenta sai o primera ediçao de soundsofthe70's compilações : uma seleção de 70's grooves brasileiros...

Summer in brazil setenta - vol.1
a mr.B selection of vintage brazilian grooves

1	Carlos Lyra	Samba De La Bendicion (Sarava)
2	Georgette	a moça do mar
3	Franko Xavier	sou doido por voce menina
4	Gerson Cortes (king combo)	nao volto mais aqui
5	Edson Conçeicão	filhos de ghandi
6	Paulinho da Viola	Nervos de Aco
7	Os intocaveis	Mas Que Nada!
8	Banda Black Rio	Cravo E Canela
9	Hyldon	Guitarras Violonos E Instrumentos De Samba
10	Erasmo Carlos	Triangulo Dos Biquinis
11	Ensemble Amaro de Souza	sua historia - baiao
12	A Turma da Gafieira	Rio Antigo
13	Diana	vou morar comigo
14	Claudia	Mundo Maravilhoso
15	Quarteto em Cy	Reza
16	Bola Sete	Lamento de Negro

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Superb and rare 70's African Soukous compilation. Soukous is the music from the Zaire-Congo area. REAL music, that will take you to the ROOTS of dance music.

Tremenda e rara compilaçao de som Soukous de Africa dos 70. Soukous e o som da zona Zaire-Congo. Musica de VERDADE, que lhe leva as raices da musica.

Lightening over the river - The congolese soukous guitar sound
(label : Nascente) 192kbps mp3

mrB supports Africa's amazing music and culture

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Visit Monsieur Willy's world, it's full of 70's gemms ! Check his afro-disco selections, especially these compilations of super rare afro-carribbean disco-soul goodies. A must have!

Visita Monsieur Willy's world, esta cheio de joias dos setentas! Confiram a sua seleção afro-disco, especialmente as compilações dele de Afro-Carraibe disco-soul. Imperdivel!

Monsieur Willy's African selection

mr B recommends !

Beginners guide to Gospel (on the excellent Nascente label) is Sounds of the 70's introduction to the Gospel soul style. Deep. Imagine funky or soul men (or women) expressing their faith in a funky mode! No more comments needed..

Beginners guide to Gospel (do excelente label Nascente) sirve de introdução no estilo Gospel soul em Sounds of the 70's. Imagine funky o soul irmãos espressando sua fe em forma funk! Nao e preciso falar mais..

Beginners guide to Gospel
cd 2 - Gospel soul
(label Nascente UK)
256kbps mp3

1	Al Green	Higher Plane
2	Dorothy Love Coates	I'll Make It
3	Otis Clay	When The Gate Swings Open
4	The Original Soul Stirrers	I Love The Lord
5	Cleophus Robinson Jr.	Praise The Lord
6	Shirley Caesar	I Feel Good
7	The Violinaires	Nobody But You Lord
8	Gerald Sisters	Lead Me
9	Bobby Jones	Call Jesus
10	Inez Andrews	Courage Lord
11	Vanessa Bell Armstrong	What He's Done For Me
12	Sensational Harmonizers	He Never Lost A Battle

Mr B favourite / Mr B gosta muito de

The original soul stirrers - I love the lord

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This post is to say hello to all the visitors who live in countries that i'd like to visit, Madagascar, Columbia, Salvador, Argentina, Peru, Iceland, so far from Europe...

This blog is meant to gather people from these various parts of the world in a common share of music, the only UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE.

The world is globaly doing bad these days (Bush, Chavez, Al Quaida, Pollution, individualism and selfishness as a rule, etc, etc..), and it's clear that people should take more time to relax and fraternise around music.

The lp that launched the success of Eliana Pittman, on RCA Victor in 1974. Pure sambas, from the classic repertory. And what a beautifull cover..

O elepe que lançou o sucesso de Eliana Pittman, no RCA Victor em 1974. Sambas finas, do repertorio classico. E que capa bonita...

Eliana Pittman - Tô chegando, ja cheguei (RCA 1974)
320 kbps

a samba gift from mrB sounds of the 70's collection

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