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


here

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

dont forget to comment if you liked it

Exclusive soundsofthe70s.blogspot.com
killer latin soul & boogaloo

One of the most amazing label of the 60-70s era was FANIA, the legendary latin label from New York. The story of Fania is the story of Jerry Masucci and Johnny Pacheco, who defined the FANIA touch through from late 60s until late 70s.
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.

my contribution to the revival/re-issue of the FANIA catalog is this great compilation "Our latin thing (vol.1 sampler)" that gather ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED straight from the vibrant 70s Spanish harlem.

Our latin thing (vol.1 sampler)
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 - Cuba, Joe
2. I Like It Like That - Rodriguez, Pete
3. Boogaloo Sabrosa - Santamaria, Monguito
4. Mercy Mercy Baby - Barretto, Ray
5. Subway Joe - Bataan, 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

download here

I strongly recommend all FANIA re-issues, in particular their amazing compilations and mixes

these "El barrio" compilations will hook you to boogaloo and latin soul for the rest of your days!

People : this Dj Format mix is just awesome. Dj Format is a Hip-Hop Dj, and he draws the best from the Boogaloo and latin beats here, the mixing of tracks give a superb perspective to the tracks, don't miss it !!!

Great mix, more salsa than the others in the same serie


the FANIA LEGENDARY INDEPENDENT LABEL
embodies what music label should all be : uncompromising and faithful to a culture, not commercially driven and decontextualized as most music rubbish now served.





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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.

enjoy, leave comments

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


enjoy

"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