General Run's Lossless Library [Archive] - Page 9

MrDap

January 13th, 2010, 11:06 AM

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Eddie Kendricks - He's A Friend
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Artist...............: Eddie Kendricks
Album................: He's A Friend
Genre................: R&B
Source...............: CD
Year.................: 1976
Ripper...............: EAC (Secure mode) / LAME 3.92 & Asus CD-S520
Codec................: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
Version..............: reference libFLAC 1.2.1 20070917
Quality..............: Lossless, (avg. compression: 72 %)
Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 HZ / 16 Bit
Tags.................: VorbisComment
Information..........:

Ripped by............: AJ Productions on 12/28/2009
Posted by............: AJ Productions on 1/12/2010
News Server..........:
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Included.............: NFO, SFV, LOG, CUE
Covers...............: Front

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Tracklisting
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1. (00:04:47) - (69.03%) Eddie Kendricks - He's a Friend
2. (00:03:21) - (58.11%) Eddie Kendricks - A Part of Me
3. (00:02:59) - (64.25%) Eddie Kendricks - I Won't Take No
4. (00:04:14) - (53.35%) Eddie Kendricks - Never Gonna Leave You
5. (00:03:13) - (58.31%) Eddie Kendricks - Get it While It's Hot
6. (00:03:27) - (67.63%) Eddie Kendricks - Chains
7. (00:04:58) - (58.48%) Eddie Kendricks - The Sweeter You Treat Her
8. (00:04:12) - (65.29%) Eddie Kendricks - It's Not What You Got
9. (00:02:53) - (65.57%) Eddie Kendricks - On My Way Home
10. (00:02:49) - (66.21%) Eddie Kendricks - All of my Love

Playing Time.........: 00:54:41
Total Size...........: 232.54 MB

NFO generated on.....: 12/28/2009 5:54:06 PM

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by Craig Lytle

From this album's inception to its end, the mellifluous string and horn
arrangements are irresistibly striking. The first of two singles was the title
track "He's a Friend." An inspirational number with a disco flair showing praise
to the Almighty without ever mentioning the word God. It scooted its way to
number two on the Billboard R&B charts; holding that position for three
consecutive weeks. The second release was the Caribbean flavored "Get It
While It's Hot." This joyous, bouncy number features some passionate female
background vocals. It slipped into the Top 30 at number 24. No album fillers
here. The vocals of Eddie Kendricks are wonderfully impressive as he injects
an incohesive texture to his delivery, but smoothly returns to his ultra-velvet
tone. This veteran singer masterfully utilizes his various vocal tools
throughout this album. The production, arranging, and savvy vocals of Eddie
Kendricks make this one marvelous album.
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Kosta

January 13th, 2010, 02:49 PM

SYREETA - One To One (1977, Motown)
CD>EAC>FLAC

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A1 One To One 4:50
A2 I Don't Know 4:22
A3 Rest Yourself 4:39
A4 I Too Am Wanting 5:38
B1 Tiki Tiki Donga 5:05
B2 Don't Cry 7:10
B3 Harmour Love 3:36
B4 One To One (Reprise) 4:50

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dadirtydj

January 13th, 2010, 04:31 PM

I tried 5 times to rip this Cd in secure mode. I got different errors each time. Maybe because it's a compilation disc. :dunno: Finally, I ripped it in burst mode on the sixth attempt. There are several good tracks here. If you listen to Smooth Jazz on the radio you've heard over half of this CD's selections. Check it out.

Marc Antoine – The Very Best Of (2003)

JAZZ | WAV | CUE | COVERS | LOG | 567 MB
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Though his simplistic arrangements and often-repeated themes mark him as an artist more likely to be heard in an elevator than a jukebox, Marc Antoine is among the best of the mood music merchants active during the '90s and 2000s. A soft-toned player of the Spanish guitar, Antoine has a gift for intricate yet non-complex playing as well as strong melodies, and his compositions occasionally reveal a surprising depth (if only he'd delegate the drum-programming duties to someone beside himself). This 12-track collection, The Very Best of Marc Antoine, spans five of his LPs for GRP, beginning with "Latin Quarter," (far and away his best performance). None of the rest rise above the level of Muzak, though the addition of live drummer Lil' John Roberts for "On the Strip" makes a big difference, and Antoine summons a bit of magic for the title track of Cruisin'. ~ John Bush, All Music Guide

LISTEN

~Track Listings~

1 Latin Quarter
2 Madrid
3 Mas Que Nada
4 Unity
5 Sand Castle
6 On the Strip
7 Children at Play
8 Sunland
9 Palm Strings
10 Follow Your Bliss
11 Cruisin'
12 Concache

Part 1 (http://rapidshare.com/files/331971716/MarkAnntoene_Very_Best_EAC_Burst_Mode_.part1.rar) | Part 2 (http://rapidshare.com/files/331979914/MarkAnntoene_Very_Best_EAC_Burst_Mode_.part2.rar) | Part 3 (http://rapidshare.com/files/332012345/MarkAnntoene_Very_Best_EAC_Burst_Mode_.part3.rar)

jacopass

January 13th, 2010, 10:04 PM

Con Funk Shun - To The Max [1982]
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Known for their up-tempo party songs, Con Funk Shun came strong on this album too. However, it was with the funk-driven ballad “Love’s Train,” with a lead by Michael Cooper’s husky, yet smooth tenor. Although the ballad was funk-driven, the romance in the song is manifested by the guitar and piano rhythms. Also noteworthy is the ballad “Everlove,” which features co-leads by Cooper and Felton Pilate. Although this song was never a release, it is a favorite among quiet-storm radio. Con Funk Shun’s only uptempo hit from this album was “Ms. Got-the-Body,” which is reminiscent of the Dazz Band’s “Let It Whip.” Nonetheless, the song offers a good vocal and arrangement. Aside from the aforementioned, the remainder of the album seems more experimental; however, Con Funk Shun maintains a high standard of musical quality. (Craig Lytle - All Music Guide)
Tracks:
01. Ms. Got the Body
02. Let’s Ride and Slide
03. Everlove
04. Hide and Freak
05. You Are the One
06. Take It to the Max
07. Love’s Train
08. Ain’t Nobody
09. The Freak

Vinyl Rip|Wav|Image & Cue|Log & Info|Covers

Listen (http://www.megaupload.com/?f=FKYCY0BT)

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whodshecoo

January 14th, 2010, 08:20 AM

Just my 2ct to reduce Kosta's wishlist :350:

High Inergy - So Right
Gordy 1982

VINYL | FLAC | COVER | 235 MB

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1. Journey To Love (3:39)
2. Don't Cha Love It (3:48)
3. Wrong Man, Right Touch (4:02)
4. Wanna Be Your Lady (3:59)
5. First Impressions (3:47)
6. So Right (3:18)
7. Show Me How (4:00)
8. Tired Of Being Alone (3:28)
9. Take A Chance (3:15)
10. Match Point (4:01)

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Link War The Music Band Vol.1&2 OK.

Thanks for checking the links, jaco!
It probably was a megaupload problem. Now i downloaded the missing two parts.
Still having problems to completely unrar vol.2 but don't worry - i can live with the 1st volume as i got the 2nd myself in wax.
Great post anyway!!
Thanks

Kosta

January 14th, 2010, 09:30 AM

Just my 2ct to reduce Kosta's wishlist :350:
High Inergy - So Right
Gordy 1982

:hubbahubba: THANKS Whod!! i had only a crap 128 rip; much appreciated:thumbs up:

MrDap

January 14th, 2010, 10:18 AM

(CNN) -- R&B legend Teddy Pendergrass died Wednesday evening, his former publicist said. He was 59.

Pendergrass, known for smash love ballads such as "Turn Off the Lights" and "Love TKO," died after a long illness, according to Lisa Barbaris, who described herself as a close friend and his last publicist.

He died at a hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was born.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Music/01/14/teddy.pendergrass.obit/index.html

Teddy Pendergrass - Teddy Pendergrass (Philadelphia International 1977)
NFO, M3U, LOG, CUE FLAC 229MB
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Teddy Pendergrass - Teddy Pendergrass
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Artist...............: Teddy Pendergrass
Album................: Teddy Pendergrass
Genre................: R&B
Source...............: CD
Year.................: 1977
Ripper...............: Exact Audio Copy (Secure mode) &
Codec................: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
Version..............: reference libFLAC 1.1.3 20061120
Quality..............: Lossless, (avg. compression: 62 %)
Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 HZ / 16 Bit
Tags.................: VorbisComment
Information..........:

Ripped by............: AJ Productions on 1/8/2009
Posted by............: AJ Productions on 1/14/2010
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News Group(s)........:

Included.............: NFO, M3U, LOG, CUE

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1. (00:04:07) Teddy Pendergrass - You Can't Hide From Yourself
2. (00:05:13) Teddy Pendergrass - Somebody Told Me
3. (00:05:17) Teddy Pendergrass - Be Sure
4. (00:04:23) Teddy Pendergrass - And If I Had
5. (00:03:59) Teddy Pendergrass - I Don't Love You Anymore
6. (00:04:28) Teddy Pendergrass - The Whole Town's Laughing At Me
7. (00:04:53) Teddy Pendergrass - Easy, Easy, Got To Take It Easy
8. (00:04:25) Teddy Pendergrass - The More I Get, The More I Want

Playing Time.........: 00:36:45
Total Size...........: 229.42 MB

NFO generated on.....: 1/8/2009 1:11:33 PM

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by Ron Wynn

The skeptics had their suspicions allayed quickly when Teddy Pendergrass'
debut album as a solo singer cracked the Top 40. Its lead single, "I Don't Love
You Anymore," was among his best uptempo tunes, and the follow-up ballad
"The Whole Town's Laughing at Me" ended any speculation that he was
returning to Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes. While many thought the album
would launch him to consistent R&B success, almost no one thought he would
be R&B's biggest male star in a couple of years.
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RunawayTrane

January 14th, 2010, 10:34 AM

whodshecoo

January 14th, 2010, 11:58 AM

(CNN) -- R&B legend Teddy Pendergrass died Wednesday evening ...

These are really sad news

but thanks for contributing Ted's 1st effort in CD-format. It's highly appreciated, MrD!

RunawayTrane

January 14th, 2010, 03:13 PM

Once again, Checksums and Accuraterip values
are in embedded into the audio files, but no EAC log

Pat Metheny Group - American Garage
SMOOTH | FLAC | CUE | CDTect LOG | 300DPI | 201MB | 35:22
ECM 1979

NO EXTRACTION LOG

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The back liner photo gives the impression of a grungy Midwestern garage band, but no, that doesn't describe this sophisticated jazz-rock quartet, which was simultaneously breaking into mass-market acceptance and away from the contemplative ECM stereotype. The arrangements are more structured, the playing often more intense and searching, with a more pronounced rock influence. On the title track, Metheny digs in and displays some authoritative rock-oriented licks and intensity, and the rhythms on "The Search" have a slight, at times asymmetrical Latin feeling. The nearly 13-minute "The Epic" finds the Metheny group developing some real combustion in the improvised sections as Metheny, keyboardist Lyle Mays, bassist Mark Egan and drummer Danny Gottlieb grow tighter as a unit. In hindsight, some of the music seems a bit too tightly conceived to allow adequate breathing room, but this is still high-quality jazz-rock for its time. ~ Richard S. Ginell, All Music Guide

TRACKLISTING

1. (Cross The) Heartland
2. Airstream
3. The Search
4. American Garage
5. The Epic

LINK (http://lix.in/-72d6fa)
pw: lisalisa

djrage

January 14th, 2010, 04:23 PM

Thanks alot for posting the Teddy Pendergrass CD. He will definitely be missed. RIP

dadirtydj

January 15th, 2010, 03:16 AM

If ripping in Burst mode, best to use Accuraterip results.
Not necessary in Secure mode but in Burst it's a must

The Accuraterip results are included in the log.

whodshecoo

January 15th, 2010, 06:39 AM

Atlantic Starr - Brilliance
A&M 1982

VINYL | FLAC | COVER | 223 MB

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1. Love Me Down (4:51)
2. Sexy Dancer (4:52)
3. Love Moves (5:08)
4. Your Love Finally Ran Out (4:47)
5. Circles (4:53)
6. Let's Get Closer (5:19)
7. Perfect Love (4:40)
8. You're The One (4:14)

AMG Review:
Atlantic Starr hit its commercial peak in the late '80s, when the bland, insipid adult contemporary ballad "Always" soared to number one on both the pop and R&B charts. That song put Atlantic Starr in the Whitney Houston/Lionel Richie realm -- in other words, people who associate Atlantic Starr with "Always" think of them as a crossover act. But from an R&B standpoint (as opposed to a pop/adult contemporary standpoint), Atlantic Starr provided their best work in the early '80s, when Sharon Bryant was still on board and the East Coast residents were being produced by James Carmichael. Released in 1982, Brilliance was the second of three albums that Carmichael produced for Atlantic Starr -- and it is also one of the band's finest and most essential releases. There is nothing not to like about this LP. The soul ballads "Your Love Finally Ran Out" and "Let's Get Closer" are excellent, and so are up-tempo funk/dance numbers like "Sexy Dancer" and "Love Moves" (which features Wayne Lewis on lead vocals and has a Slave/Steve Arrington/Aurra type of appeal). Brilliance, however, is best known for Bryant's soaring performance on the smash hit "Circles," which is one of those songs that is great on the dancefloor but is equally appealing if you want to simply sit down and listen to it. Bryant also excels on the single "Love Me Down," which wasn't as big a hit as "Circles" (it reached number 14 on Billboard's R&B singles chart), but is still a fine medium-tempo item. If you have only a casual interest in Atlantic Starr and only want to have a few of its albums in your collection, Brilliance should definitely be among them.

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rtownsend213

January 15th, 2010, 12:15 PM

[CENTER]Boney James - Send One Your Love (2009)
CD-Rip|Flac|Log|Cue

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Track-listing
01. Wanna Show U Sumthin'
02. Send One Your Love
03. Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart)
04. Touch
05. Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight [introducing Quinn]
06. Hold On Tight
07. I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little More Baby
08. City Of Light
09. Butter
10. I'll Be Good To You

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Disco

January 15th, 2010, 05:49 PM

Teddy Pendergrass - Life Is A Song Worth Singing [1979]
[cd-rip][flac][log][folder]

We've lost one of the great ones...

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1. Life Is A Song Worth Singing 4:12
2. Only You 5:05
3. Cold, Cold World 4:32
4. Get Up, Get Down, Get Funky, Get Loose 5:25
5. Close The Door 5:27
6. It Don't Hurt Now 6:00
7. When Somebody Loves You Back 4:58

AMG review:
This was the album that convinced anyone who had doubts about the wisdom of Pendergrass leaving Harold Melvin &the Blue Notes that he had made a good decision. Although he only got one R&B hit from the album, there were enough strong ballads and uptempo cuts to show that Pendergrass had the sound, personality, and style to cut it on his own. He would shortly become R&B's greatest male attraction, but in the interim, Philadelphia International was laying the ground work.

I have the good Teddy's and will post all of 'em, just wont post all at once. I don't want all my posts to end up in the "same post".

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James77

January 16th, 2010, 12:13 AM

Aurra - Live And Let Live - 1983 (1999 Re)

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Artist : Aurra
Title : Live And Let Live
Year : 1983 (1999 ReIssue)
Genre : Disco, Funk
Label : Unidisc / Salsoul
Catnum : AGEK-2486
Size : 420 MB
Source : CDDA
Grabber : EAC Secure Mode
Format : FLAC Lossless

Tracklist:

1 Such A Feeling 05:22
2 Coming To Get You 05:07
3 Live And Let Live 04:52
4 Undercover Lover 05:05
5 Baby Love 05:53
6 You Can't Keep On Walking 05:13
7 One More Time 04:48
8 Positive 05:12
9 Such A Leeling (Shep Pettibone 12' Mix) 06:31
10 Such A Feeling (Shep Pettibone 12' Mix Part2) 07:31
11 Such A Feeling (Shep Pettibone 12' Mix Part3) 06:28

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whodshecoo

January 16th, 2010, 12:23 AM

Patrick Gammon - Don't Touch Me
Motown 1979

VINYL | FLAC | COVER | 286 MB

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1. This Shit Is Bad (0:47)
2. Don't Touch Me (4:38)
3. Cop An Attitude (3:51)
4. My Island (5:39)
5. Yo' Chevy (5:29)
6. Infatuation (3:51)
7. My Song In G (4:46)
8. (There Is A) First Time For Surprise (5:39)
9. Later For Love (5:04)

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rtownsend213

January 16th, 2010, 01:05 AM

Welcome to the Citi James!! :respect-067:

James77

January 16th, 2010, 01:36 AM

Bar-Kays - Propositions

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Artist : Bar-Kays
Title : Propositions
Year : 1982 (2008 Reissue)
Genre : Funk
Label : Mercury
Catnum : UICY-90987
Size : 266 MB
Source : CDDA
Grabber : EAC Secure Mode
Format : FLAC Lossless

Tracklist:

1 Propositions 05:48
2 Tripping Out 04:57
3 Anticipation 05:50
4 (Busted) 02:06
5 Do it (Let me see You Shake) 06:05
6 She Talks To Me With Her Body 06:11
7 I Can't Believe You're Leaving Me 04:08
8 You Made A Change In My Life 04:17

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zacki

January 16th, 2010, 02:26 AM

Welcome to the Citi James!! :respect-067:

Nice to see you James :thumbs up:

zacki

January 16th, 2010, 03:30 AM

Zapp - Zapp III (1983)

CD-Rip|Wav|Cue|Log|Covers
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01. Heartbreaker (Part I, Part II)
02. I Can Make You Dance
03. Play Some Blues
04. Spend My Whole Life
05. We Need The Buck
06. Tut-Tut (Jazz)
07. Doo Wa Ditty-Live (With Introduction By Mo Ostin)

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Disco

January 16th, 2010, 04:36 AM

Teddy Pendergrass - TP [1980]
[cd-rip][flac][log][folder]

Teddy Pender, the female bender!

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1. Is It Still Good To Ya 4:35
2. Take Me In Your Arms Tonight 5:24
3. I Just Called To Say 4:28
4. Can't We Try 5:04
5. Feel The Fire 5:31
6. Girl You Know 4:03
7. Love T.K.O. 5:00
8. Let Me Love You 5:15

AMG review:
Teddy Pendergrass was near, if not at, the pinnacle of a prosperous music career upon this album's release, which spawned two Top Ten singles. "Can't We Try," with its tender introduction, slowly builds into a dramatic vamp in which Pendergrass' domineering baritone clinches each lyric with absolute conviction -- an awesome display of vocal power and control. The compassionate number peaked at number three on the Billboard R&B charts after 16 weeks. Pendergrass did not lose any steam on the charts. The follow-up single, "Love T.K.O.," came strong. His testimonial lead carried this crafty number to the second position on the charts, holding down that slot for five consecutive weeks before bowing after 18 weeks. However, the best track on this album is the duet with Stephanie Mills; "Feel the Fire," penned by Peabo Bryson, rings with passion and sensuality. Pendergrass and Mills' vocals strikingly contrast each other in an admirable way. The song was never a release, but remains a constant on Quiet Storm formats. On a few numbers, such as the Ashford & Simpson remake "Is It Still Good to Ya," Pendergrass labors through the verses, struggling to find his form. Though a great song, it does very little for the former Blue Note. Notwithstanding, there are quite a few gems here.

I have the good Teddy's and will post all of 'em, just won't post all at once.

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whodshecoo

January 16th, 2010, 04:56 AM

Welcome to the Citi James!! :respect-067:

Nice to see you James :thumbs up:

Absolutely! Welcome and thanks for your nice drops, fam! :350:

whodshecoo

January 16th, 2010, 06:06 AM

Gil Scott-Heron - Reflections
1981 Arista

CD | FLAC | SCANS | 220 MB

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1. Storm Music (4:54)
2. Grandma's Hands (5:24)
3. Is That Jazz? (3:46)
4. Morning Thoughts (4:40)
5. Inner City Blues (Poem : The Siege Of New Orleans) (5:49)
6. Gun (4:01)
7. B Movie (Intro, Poem, Song) (12:13)

AMG Review:
Although a major across-the-board hit always eluded the poet, singer, and activist Gil Scott-Heron, this album does contains one of his best-known songs. "B-Movie," an extended attack on Ronald "Ray-gun," unleashes 12 minutes of vitriol about the then recently elected president. Beginning with the declaration "Mandate, my ass," it's a laundry list of fears about Reagan, fantasizing that his election meant "we're all actors" in some surreal film. Delivered over a taut funk groove, parts of it are still funny. Elsewhere, Scott-Heron takes an early stab at endorsing firearm control on "Gun"; slows things down for "Morning Thoughts"; and explores reggae's rhythms and revolutionary power on "Storm Music," a direction he'd pursue more fully on his next album, Moving Target. The disc also includes a pair of covers that offer varying degrees of success: Bill Withers' "Grandma's Hands" is a natural for Scott-Heron's warm baritone and a bright soul-jazz arrangement from the Midnight Band, but the version of Marvin Gaye's "Inner City Blues," while it swings convincingly, has a lengthy spoken-word riff that fails to embellish on the pain implicit in the original. Overall, Reflections doesn't capture Scott-Heron at the peak of his game, though anyone who enjoyed the other works from his Arista period certainly won't be disappointed.

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James77

January 16th, 2010, 06:55 AM

Thelma Houston - Qualifying Heat

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Artist : Thelma Houston
Title : Qualifying Heat
Year : 1984 (2007 Remastered)
Genre : Disco
Label : Funky Town Grooves / MCA
Catnum : BBR-2057
Size : 319 MB
Source : CDDA
Grabber : EAC Secure Mode
Format : FLAC

Tracklist:

1 (I Guess) It Must Be Love 07:17
2 You Used To Hold Me So Tight 05:46
3 Fantasy And Heartbreak 05:05
4 I'd Rather Spend The Bad Time With You Than Spend The Good Time With Someone New 06:01
5 Shake You 04:01
6 Generate Love 04:35
7 Love Is A Dangerous Game 04:11
8 What A Woman Feels Inside 04:17
9 Standing In The Night 03:39

Qualifying Heat is the 13th album by Thelma Houston. While the back failed to make much impact in the Pop market, the album became a success in both the Urban and Club/Dance music markets. Includes the hits "You Used To Hold Me So Tight", "(I Guess) It Must Be Love" and "I'd Rather Spend The Bad Times With You Than The Good Times With Someone New." This album has yet to be reissued to CD domestically. On August 20, 2007, this album was reissued as an import title including a bonus track titled, "Standing In The Light" (from her 1983 album).

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whodshecoo

January 16th, 2010, 07:51 AM

Gene Dunlap - Tired Of Being A Nice Guy
Capitol 1983

VINYL | WAV | 241 MB

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1. When You're Hot (5:20)
2. Anytime You Want (4:28)
3. Take Back My Love (4:49)
4. There's Talk (3:28)
5. She Had No Place To Go (4:02)
6. Your Love Is Too Much (4:27)
7. Seems You've Been With Me (4:49)
8. In Just A Matter Of Time (4:20)

Gene Dunlap grew up in Detroit, where he took up the drums while in high school. He became friends with guitarist Earl Klugh and played with him in local clubs. He became guitarist Grant Green's drummer, then backed vibraphonist Roy Ayers. In the mid-'70s, he reunited with Klugh, with whom he cut a long series of albums over the next 20 years while adding percussion, guitar, synthesizer, and composing to his talents. His tenure with Klugh was interrupted by three solo albums he cut for Capitol Records, then resumed. In 1994, he released Groove with You, credited to the Gene Dunlap Band, on Avenue Jazz Records, but shortly after gave up performing to teach inner city youth in Detroit. In April 2000, he returned with his second Avenue Jazz album, Tales of the Phatman. ~AMG

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Disco

January 16th, 2010, 08:05 AM

Teddy Pendergrass - Teddy + It's Time For Love [1979 + 1981]
[web-rip][flac][log][folder]

Brilliant two-fer!

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1. Come Go With Me [5:49]
2. Turn Off The Lights [5:56]
3. I'll Never See Heaven Again [4:47]
4. All I Need Is You [4:34]
5. If You Know Like I Know [5:02]
6. Do Me [4:41]
7. Set Me Free [5:03]
8. Life Is A Circle [5:53]
9. I Can't Live Without Your Love [3:02]
10. You're My Latest My Greatest Inspiration [5:24]
11. Nine Times Out Of Ten [4:15]
12. Keep On Lovin' Me [4:35]
13. It's Time for Love [5:59]
14. She's Over Me [3:52]
15. I Can't Leave Your Love Again [4:45]
16. You Must Live On [3:50]

AMG review "Teddy":
In the midst of his late-'70s hot streak, Teddy Pendergrass slowed down his groove somewhat for most of Teddy, his third excellent album in three years, and reprised the hushed tone and bedroom motifs that had made "Close the Door" such a success a year earlier. Pendergrass had sung bedroom ballads before "Close the Door," but that song in particular resonated -- and still resonates -- with his listeners, Philly soul and quiet storm fans alike. It's not surprising, then, that Teddy begins with back-to-back seducers penned by Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff -- "Come Go With Me" and "Turn Off the Lights" -- that are clearly modeled after "Close the Door," and wonderfully so at that. Next come "I'll Never See Heaven Again" and "All I Need Is You," which keep the tempo laid-back and the mood sentimental, closing out the first side smoothly. The second side gets off to a jumping start with "If You Know Like I Know," one of the most ferocious songs Pendergrass ever recorded, a sweaty disco workout driven by a funky bassline that just doesn't stop and a long-winded rant of bellowed pleading. "Do Me" likewise jumps along but does so more lightly and playfully, and then "Set Me Free" and "Life Is a Circle" again up the intensity level and showcase Pendergrass in a frantic mood. The bipolar nature of Teddy, with its quiet storm first side and disco-soul second, gives it a consistent flow that prolongs the mutually stimulating moods of each side. This is a marked difference from the likewise rock-solid Teddy Pendergrass (1977) and Life Is a Song Worth Singing (1978), which generally alternated up-tempo steppers cuts with down-tempo slow jams. As such, Teddy does foreshadow Pendergrass' drift toward mass-market studiocraft, but he's far from being formulaic here on Teddy, where he's still ablaze and bearing the distinct mark of top-shelf Philly International.

AMG review "It's Time For Love":
Teddy Pendergrass showed no signs of slowing down in the early '80s. This was another R&B smash and crossover hit, again putting him the Top 20. He got two good R&B singles, remained a popular concert attraction, and demonstrated good rapport with Stephanie Mills on several duets. They teamed so well together that Pendergrass eventually appeared on stage with her during a tour of England.

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alfareis

January 16th, 2010, 08:39 AM

thank you very muc:498:h

James77

January 16th, 2010, 09:21 AM

Bobby Thurston - You Got What It Takes

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Artist : Bobby Thurston
Title : You Got What It Takes
Year : 1980 (2004 CD Reissue)
Genre : Disco
Label : Unidisc / Prelude Records
Catnum : SPLK7027
Size : 433 MB
Source : CDDA
Grabber : EAC Secure Mode
Format : FLAC Lossless

Tracklist:

1 You Got What It Takes 09:35
2 I Wanna Do It With You 07:05
3 Check Out The Groove 07:30
4 I Want Your Body 04:41
5 Sittin' In The Park 04:16
6 You Got What It Takes (Remix) 07:29
7 Check Out The Groove (Instrumental) 07:31
8 You Got What It Takes (Instrumental) 07:45
9 Check Out The Groove (Radio Edit) 03:52
10 You Got What It Takes (Radio Edit) 02:57

A pretty darn soulful album of disco tracks from Bobby Thurston -- produced with help from Willie Lester, Rodney Brown, and Al Johnson, who also sings in the backup vocal group. The album's got two killer mellow soul cuts -- the stretched out slinky groover "I Want Your Body", which has a super-dope 70s groove that would make Leroy Hutson proud, and a great remake of "Sittin In The Park", which Bobby had recorded earlier, but not as well as he does here. Other tracks include "Check Out The Groove", "You Got What It Takes", and "I Wanna Do It With You". CD features lots of bonus remix, radio, and instrumental versions of "You Got What It Takes" and "Check Out The Groove".

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rtownsend213

January 16th, 2010, 10:00 AM

[CENTER]The Bar-Kays - Black Rock & Gotta Groove (1994)
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Track-listing
01. Don't Stop Dancing (To This Music) Part 1
02. If This World Was Mine
03. In The Hole
04. Funky Thang
05. Jiving 'Round
06. Grab This Thing
07. Don't Stop Dancing (To This Music) Part 2
08. Street Walker
09. Yesterday
10. Humpin'
11. Hey Jude
12. Baby I Love You
13. I've Been Trying
14. You Don't Know Like I Know
15. Dance To The Music
16. A Piece Of Your Peace
17. Six O'Clock News Report
18. How Sweet It Would Be
19. Montego Bay

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zacki

January 16th, 2010, 10:15 AM

Sharon Redd - Redd Hott (1982)

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01. Never Give You Up
02. You're The One
03. Send Your Love
04. Beat The Street
05. In The Name Of Love
06. Takin' A Chance On Love
07. We're Friends Again

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whodshecoo

January 16th, 2010, 12:24 PM

Narada Michael Walden - Awakening
Atlantic 1979

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1. Love Me Only (5:55)
2. I Don't Want Nobody Else (To Dance With You) (4:19)
3. Give Your Love A Chance (4:12)
4. They Want The Feeling (4:08)
5. Awakening Suite Part I (Childhood~The Opening Of The Heart) (3:23)
6. The Awakening (4:27)
7. Listen To Me (4:52)
8. Full And Satisfied (3:32)
9. Will You Ever Know (4:58)

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whodshecoo

January 16th, 2010, 02:22 PM

Narada Michael Walden - The Dance Of Life
Atlantic 1979

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1. You're So Good (6:03)
2. I Shoulda Loved Ya (6:36)
3. Lovin' You Madly (5:16)
4. Crazy For Ya (3:51)
5. Tonight I'm Alright (5:15)
6. Why Did You Turn Me On (4:42)
7. Carry On (5:13)
8. The Dance Of Life (6:33)

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Kosta

January 16th, 2010, 05:53 PM

LENNY WILLIAMS - Choosing You (1977, ABC)
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A1 Shoo Doo Fu Fu Ooh! 3:21
A2 Look Up With Your Mind 4:40
A3 Choosing You 6:13
A4 Riding The High Wire 4:30
B1 Please Don't Tempt Me 7:52
B2 I've Been Away From Love Too Long 4:08
B3 Trust In Me 4:14
B4 Problem Solver 3:50

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James77

January 17th, 2010, 01:16 AM

DTrain - Music

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Artist : D Train
Title : Music
Year : 1983 (1996 CD ReIssue)
Genre : Disco-Funk
Label : Unidisc / Prelude Records
Catnum : SPLK-7060
Size : 510 MB
Source : CDDA
Grabber : EAC Secure Mode
Format : FLAC Lossless

Tracklist:

01. Keep Giving Me Love (Album Mix) 6:56
02. The Shadow Of Your Smile 6:47
03. Are You Ready For Me 7:11
04. Music (Remix) 8:12
05. Children Of The World 5:19
06. Let Me Show You (A World Of Wonder) 4:44
07. Don't Wanna Ride (The 'D' Train) 4:51
08. Keep Giving Me Love 6:46
09. Keep Giving Me Love (Radio Edit) 4:24
10. Are You Ready For Me (Radio Edit) 4:14
11. Music (Radio Edit) 4:48
12. Music (Dub Version) 7:04

D Train's second album for Prelude isn't on the level of their debut, as the amount of filler lessens the impact of the standouts, and none of the standouts match "You're the One for Me" or "Keep On." Both the title track and "Keep Giving Me Love" featured familiar sounds, but were different enough to keep the attention of fans of the duo's initial singles. James "D Train" Williams' rich, booming baritone and Hubert Eaves III's bold production are just as unique as ever — when you hear a D Train song, there's no mistaking who it is. Like its predecessor, Music is loaded with upbeat numbers and throws in a ballad to show that Eaves is much better at crafting energetic material for dancefloors. When Unidisc issued the album on CD in the early '90s, they did everyone a favor by including an assortment of alternate mixes and radio edits.

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James77

January 17th, 2010, 02:57 AM

Loose Ends - A Little Spice

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Artist : Loose Ends
Title : A Little Spice
Year : 1983 (UK Release)
Genre : Disco / Funk / Soul / R&B
Label : Virgin Records Ltd
Catnum : CDV 2301
Size : 246 MB
Source : CDDA
Grabber : EAC Secure Mode
Format : FLAC Lossless

Tracklist:

1 Tell Me What You Want 04:49
2 Feel So Right Now 05:27
3 Let's Rock 04:58
4 So Much Love 04:31
5 Dial 999 04:55
6 Music Makes Me Higher 04:58
7 Choose Me 04:37
8 A Little Spice 05:10

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MrDap

January 17th, 2010, 05:06 AM

These are really sad news

but thanks for contributing Ted's 1st effort in CD-format. It's highly appreciated, MrD!

Thanks alot for posting the Teddy Pendergrass CD. He will definitely be missed. RIP

Thanks Gents.

Disco did a really fantastic job of posting Theo's next 4 albums. Nice work on that Disco. :clap: :553: All that's missing is his work with Harold and the Blue Notes. Didn't someone post Wake Up Everybody on here previously? Well I got another. Will put it up later today

v84

January 17th, 2010, 06:18 AM

ehat does ozomatli mean?

Disco

January 17th, 2010, 07:24 AM

waldo24

January 17th, 2010, 08:29 AM

Love Unlimited Orchestra - Rhapsody in White - 1974
CD Rip - Flac - Covers - 271.37 MB

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The press may have dubbed Barry White "the walrus of love," but he was certainly the guru of something for many star crossed lovers across his Love Unlimited Orchestra output. While White rocketed up the charts with his solo "I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little Bit More" in 1973, it was that same year's smash single "Love's Theme" that shot Love Unlimited Orchestra right up alongside him. Mostly instrumental, all orchestral, and packed with "that" tchka tchka guitar and full-fledged disco sound well before the genre reached maturity, Rhapsody in White set the stage and showcased the sounds that would shortly inspire a generation of producers, arrangers, and performers to start a million mirror balls spinning the world over. This album, in all its admitted smarminess, is a triumph. From the opening bars of "Barry's Theme," Rhapsody in White unleashes a groove which really keeps it all mellow. And even though we have to listen through three tracks to first hear White's trademarked vocal come-on on "Midnight and You" it's well worth the wait. He gets a little more vocal on side two, across "Don't Take It All Away" and again at the beginning of "Baby Blues," which has shag rug in front of a fireplace written all over its arrangement. But the masterful finale, of course, is "Love's Theme." The song's lush strings and smooth wah-wah guitars not only typified a genre, they also became an aural catchphrase for an entire generation of clubbers. And because this is, underneath it all, a Barry White album, the teaser for the nightcap is delicious.
Review by Amy Hanson - All Music

Tracks:
Barry's Theme 4:28
Rhapsody In White 3:53
Midnight And You 5:10
I Feel Love Coming On 6:23
Baby Blues 5:30
Don't Take It Away From Me 4:25
What A Groove 4:00
Love's Theme 4:08

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MrDap

January 17th, 2010, 09:44 AM

MrDap, you're more than welcome! I think Blaq posted "Wake Up..." (at least at the other place).
I would love some more Blue Notes (have all on vinyl but if people can supply CD-rips that would be better).

Oh, and appenrently was the web-rip of the Teddy two-fer from a member here that goes under another name where I got it.
Kudos to you :thumbs up: and I didn't try to steal your thunder, just wanted to share Teddy's greatness!

On another note, some of you have PM:ed me, just so know, I can't reply, I'm not allowed to PM (don't have enough posts).

One last thing, I've downloaded some rips from Kosta that needs a Password.
Kosta could you PM me you Password, thanks a lot!

No problem D. I wasn't gonna put up any more Teddy so you're the Gold Standard there my man. Everything's solid on that level.

Can barely keep my eyes open so lemme get you this first Blue Note album with Gamble & Huff.

Enjoy

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1. (00:08:38) Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - I Miss You
2. (00:03:40) Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - Ebony Woman
3. (00:07:33) Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - Yesterday I Had The Blues
4. (00:03:26) Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - If You Don't Know Me By Now
5. (00:07:29) Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - Be For Real
6. (00:02:39) Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - Let Me Into Your World
7. (00:03:33) Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - Let It Be You
8. (00:04:08) Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - If You Don't Know Me By Now (Live)

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by Andrew Hamilton AllMusic

A fantastic debut by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes that wasn't meant to be.
Most of these songs, including "If You Don't Know Me By Now," were
originally written for the Dells, but the deal fell through. Harold Melvin got the
opportunity because his ex-drummer Teddy Pendergrass had a voice similar
to Dells lead singer Marvin Junior. The way Pendergrass tore into these
songs, nobody remotely suspected that these love dramas were written for
anybody but Teddy. He sounds like he's about to lose it when he sings "I Miss
You" as he pleads with his ex-love about how he has changed. The poignant
"If You Don't Know Me By Now" sold a million for the Blue Notes and did even
better years later for Simply Red. "Be For Real" is one of the finest recorded
pieces in R&B history; it's not a song, it's a pleader where a guy admonishes
his woman for looking down on people. They dusted off "Let Me Into Your
World" for the Blue Notes; this one was not written for the Dells, as Gamble &
Huff had recorded it a few years earlier with the O'Jays for Neptune
Records. A hard-hitting package that established Harold Melvin & the Blue
Notes as a force to be reckoned with.
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RunawayTrane

January 17th, 2010, 11:44 AM

It's getting a little confusing with all the TP posts (downloaded "Life Is A Song" twice), but it's all appreciated. Just got two Harold Melvin albums off Demonoid, so I'll thank you for the posts but won't be downloading them

RunawayTrane

January 17th, 2010, 11:45 AM

LENNY WILLIAMS - Choosing You (1977, ABC)
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Only way this could be better is if it was CD, but great post!!
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waldo24

January 17th, 2010, 02:44 PM

Con Funk Shun - Secrets - 1977
CD Rip - Flac - Covers - 229.75 MB

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Con Funk Shun's second album for Phonogram/Mercury, Secrets catapulted the group to national acclaim. The Vallejo, CA, natives presented a balance of songs featuring the smash single "Ffun," which hit the top of the R&B charts and also made the pop Top 40. That single was followed by "ConFunkShunizeYa"; with a catchy hook and swinging horns, it peaked at number 31. With the success of these two singles, the septet's name became popular among R&B lovers. Even though there were just two singles that charted from this album, any one of the tracks from this diverse collection could have easily made it to the charts. The title track is a laid-back, midtempo composition; "Indian Summer Love" is an uptempo instrumental utilizing the synthesizer technology of its day. Also, there are a few mellow compositions on this album, the first being "Who Has the Time," a social indictment of the public at large featuring Felton Pilate's resonating tenor. "Tears in My Eyes" showcases Pilate and Michael Cooper in an emotionally charged lyric, and "I'll Set You Out O.K." highlights Cooper's tenor and Pilate's falsetto in unison, rounded out by Paul Harrell's jazzy saxophone.
Review by Craig Lytle - All Music

Tracks :
1. DooWhaChaWannaDoo 3:28
2. Who Has The Time 4:48
3. Indian Summer Love (Interlude) 0:38
4. Tears In My Eyes 3:58
5. Ffun 4:11
6. Secrets 4:19
7. Confunkshunizeya 4:27
8. I'll Set You O.K. 4:16
9. Indian Summer Love 4:55

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drabman

January 17th, 2010, 06:09 PM

What an amazing job. Pity I'll probably never get to 100 posts before some of the links die! Ah well. Thanks anyway.

PS anyone who has 25 posts - get the Blacksmoke LP. I have it in storage somewhere and as I recall the opening track is great. Pity I can't grab it!

jacopass

January 17th, 2010, 06:22 PM

The Dazz Band - Let The Music Play [1981]
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Having already released two albums to little fanfare on 20th Century, under their original name Kinsman Dazz, 1980-1981 saw the band shorten their name, sign to R&B powerhouse Motown, and come back with the near-total reinvention of Let the Music Play. Bucking the early-'80s trend of synthesizing absolutely everything, the Dazz Band kept their music flowing around the more traditional funk trappings of exquisitely elastic basslines and brightly crafted horns. Keys were introduced only to make a sonic point -- they work to their best advantage on the rambunctiously quirky "Freaky Lovin'," and the mid-tempo moves on the title track. "Don't Stop," meanwhile, only adds to the upbeat energy with its snappy bass-driven danceability. The rest of the set, however, is dedicated to a softer, smoother, vocally focused R&B style that is spread liberally across "What Will I Do Without You," "This Time It's Forever," and "I Believe in You." "Knock Knock," the best of the bunch, emerged as Let the Music Play's sole charting single, reaching the Top 50 in August. Patchy in places, and leaning more heavily on a bland, soft style than the band needed, it's obvious that the Dazz Band were stretching their wings and finding the groove that would keep them in heavy chart rotation through the entire decade. (Amy Hanson - All Music Guide)
Tracks:
01. Let The Music Play
02. Freaky Lovin'
03. Knock! Knock!
04. What Will I Do Without You
05. Don't Stop
06. This Time It's Forever
07. Satisfying Love
08. Everyday Love
09. I Believe In You

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souled out

January 17th, 2010, 07:03 PM

WAV LOG

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1. Escravos Do Jo
2. Dona Cora
3. Gerladofla
4. Bengele
5. Lance Livre
6. Vera Cruz
7. Super Legal (Too Cool)
8. Sob O Mar (Underwater)
9. Zona Sul (South Zone)
10. Comeco Da Festa
11. Cravo E Canela (Cinnamon And Clove)
12. Misterio No Armazem 24
13. O Circo (The Circus)

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waldo24

January 17th, 2010, 07:29 PM

Randy Crawford - Naked and True - 1995
CD Rip - Flac - Covers - 378.36 MB

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Released when Randy Crawford was 43, Naked and True came 16 years after the singer enjoyed her greatest visibility with the Crusaders' 1979 hit "Street Life." At that point in her career, Crawford enjoyed little or no interest from urban contemporary radio. But then, Naked and True is hardly album that goes out of its way to appeal to urban contemporary tastes of the '90s. Much of the time, the CD sounds like it could have been recorded in the late '70s or early '80s instead of the mid-'90s. Dominated by cover songs, Naked and True finds the singer putting her recognizable stamp on R&B hits ranging from the Spinners' "I'll Be Around," Change's "The Glow of Love" and George Benson's "Give Me the Night" to Patrice Rushen's "Forget Me Nots" and Simply Red's "Holding Back the Years." Especially noteworthy is her cover of Prince's "Purple Rain," which she changes from a rock/soul ballad to a jazzier, more quiet storm-ish number. Naked and True often sounds dated, but dated in a good sense — if you consider the late '70s and early '80s a great period for R&B, you'll find a lot to like about this enjoyable, if less than essential, CD.
Review by Alex Henderson - All Music

Tracks:
01 Cajun Moon 4:02
02 Give Me the Night 5:06
03 The Glow of Love 7:38
04 Purple Rain 5:49
05 Forget Me Nots 5:46
06 I'll Be Around 3:50
07 Joy Inside My Tears 5:53
08 Come into My Life 7:10
09 What a Diff'rence a Day Makes 5:52
10 Holding Back the Years 5:25
11 All the King's Horses 4:27

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RunawayTrane

January 17th, 2010, 09:33 PM

American Blues Legends: Leadbelly/Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
BLUES | WAVPACK | CUE | LOG | TIFF ART | 427MB | 2 DISC COMPILATION | 33:37 + 51:21
Varèse Sarabande 2009

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Although it appears somewhat thrown together, this set is made up of live performances from Leadbelly (disc 1) and the Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee folk blues duo (disc 2) that convey the special connection each of these acts was able to make with audiences, particularly Leadbelly, who turns in impassioned performances of "Goodnight Irene," "Gallis Pole" and "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?," all three of which require different emotional nuances in order to work. Leadbelly shows what a natural and riveting performer he could be here, and to a lesser extent, so do Sonny & Terry, and one would have to say that all three of these musicians were at their best in small group settings like this.

DISC 1 - LEADBELLY:

01. In New Orleans (House of the Rising Sun)
02. Goodnight Irene
03. John Hardy
04. Gallows Pole
05. Midnight Special
06. Rock Island Line
07. Old Ship Zion
08. Ho-Day/Ain't Going Down To the Well No More
09. Go Down Hannah
10. Where Did You Sleep Last Night?
11. Pretty Flowers In Your Backyard
12. De Kalb Blues

DISC 2 - SONNY TERRY/BROWNIE MCGHEE:

01. Walk On
02. Down By the Riverside
03. Blues For the Lowlands
04. Right On That Shore
05. I'm a Stranger Here
06. Blowin' the Fuses
07. Trouble In Mind
08. Po' Boy
09. Early Morning Blues
10. Drinkin' In the Blues
11. In the Evening
12. Blues For Gamblers

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zacki

January 17th, 2010, 11:39 PM

Lenny Williams - Love Current (1979)

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01. If You're In Need
02. When I'm Dancin'
03. Doing The Loop De Loop
04. Last Night I Dreamed
05. Love Hurt Me, Love Healed Me
06. Let's Talk It Over
07. Sweet Ecstasy
08. Here's To The Lady
09. Though We Love Once

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whodshecoo

January 18th, 2010, 05:58 AM

GQ - Face To Face
Arista 1981

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1. Shake (5:02)
2. You Put Some Love In My Life (3:40)
3. Shy Baby (3:58)
4. Sad Girl (3:04)
5. I Love (The Skin You're In) (4:52)
6. Boogie Shoogie Feelin' (5:28)
7. Dark Side Of The Sun (5:07)
8. Face To Face (4:34)
9. You've Got The Floor (5:08)

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one question in between ...
Has anyone experiences with megaupload?
I subscribed to a one-month-premium account for testing purposes but it looks that nothing changed by comparison with a free membership.
Dld-speed is xactly the same as before and I sho don't want to install any download-manager-toolbar-crap before I'm not sure that it works without installing some spyware stuff (alexa?) on my system.
any information welcome!
thanks

whodshecoo

January 18th, 2010, 09:58 AM

Platypus - Cherry
Casablanca 1980

VINYL | FLAC | COVER | 251 MB

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1. Cherry (3:59)
2. Pearl (4:01)
3. Giving You All My Love (4:12)
4. Ice Cream Delight (3:45)
5. Have A Good Time (3:52)
6. Appreciate Your Love (4:13)
7. You And Me (4:28)
8. Color Blind (3:47)
9. Smokin' On The One (4:15)
10. N.Y. N.Y. (The World's My Home) (4:08)

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RunawayTrane

January 18th, 2010, 07:42 PM

Cadillac Records OST
SOUNDTRACK | WAVPACK | CUE | LOG | COVER | 261MB | 43:00
Columbia 2008

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Cadillac Records is Hollywood's version of the Chess Records story. Founded by Leonard Chess (played by Adrian Brody), it became the signature home of the Chicago blues, rhythm & blues, and early rock & roll. Its artist roster included Etta James, Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, Howlin' Wolf, Buddy Guy, Willie Dixon, and dozens of others. The official soundtrack features re-recordings of songs from Chess' classic catalog by contemporary artists -- who have prime roles in the film -- as well as new songs by current talent, and one original stalwart, thank goodness. As such, this set is a mixed bag, and one of two packages that features music from the film.

The album's first single is Beyoncé Knowles' (playing Etta James' cover of the latter vocalist's classic "At Last"). It's one of her three selections here, and on it Knowles possesses little of the legendary singer's power or edgy finesse. She's entirely too polished and restrained. Her phrasing doesn't come close in terms of inventiveness or inspiration, and her emotional conviction is lacking, to say the least. She fares far better on "I'd Rather Go Blind," that's closer to vintage Northern soul. She gets in a bit of the grit and looseness that the melody and lyric suggest. That said, her lone original "Once in a Lifetime," produced by Amanda Ghost, the Rural, and Ian Dench, could have come from either of her own solo records. It sounds insipid in this context. Jeffrey Wright plays Waters in this film, and his readings of "I'm a Man" and "(I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man" are excellent. Waters may have been the hardest of the originals to pull off. And Wright comes the closest vocally. He has the requisite vocal depth and can reach for that combination of otherworldliness, abandon, and slight menace that Waters possessed in abundance. He comes closer than hundreds of others who've attempted it over the past 50 years. Likewise, Columbus Short's reading of Dixon's "My Babe" is another highlight. Mos Def as Berry isn't nearly so successful. Berry's voice is one of the most recognizable in recorded history, and the rapper turned actor and -- now "blues" singer? -- doesn't have the authority, hedonistic rebellion, or sexual swagger in his vocal grain as Berry does. He can't seem to raise himself to the disciplined level of phrasing or storytelling, either. While the vocalists don't cut it, the backing bands mostly do, peopled with blues legend Hubert Sumlin, ex-Fabulous Thunbderbirds frontman Kim Wilson, Danny Kortchmar, Steve Jordan, Eddie Taylor, Jr., and bassist Larry Taylor, to name a few.

What's really strange here is the inclusion of new neo-soul cuts by Raphael Saadiq and Solange, and Mary Mary, all of which feel forced, stylized and, to be honest, quite cynical in getting the maximum bang for the buck by the album's producers. They need to get this on the radio, and Knowles, no matter how popular, isn't going to make Etta James sound contemporary enough for the suits who program radio or run record labels. Also included as the last cut -- inexplicably -- is an already released track by Nas in "Bridging the Gap," a blues-hop track with his dad, Olu Dara. Original Chess bluesman Little Walter appears here on the track "Last Night" that somehow, with Wright's contributions, redeems most of this slab. This will likely appeal to those moviegoers who are fans of the above stars, particularly Knowles. As far as the story of Chess goes, this music does little to illuminate the magic of the period or Chess' brand of turbulent, fast, loose, genius. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music Guide

TRACK-LISTING:

01. I'm a Man - Jeffrey Wright
02. At Last - Beyonce
03. No Particular Place to Go - Mos Def
04. I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man - Jeffrey Wright
05. Once in a Lifetime - Beyonce
06. Let's Take a Walk - Raphael Saadiq
07. 6 O'Clock Blues - Solange Knowles
08. Nadine - Mos Def
09. The Sound - Mary Mary
10. Last Night - Little Walter
11. I'd Rather Go Blind - Beyonce
12. My Babe - Colombus Short, Coco Short
13. Bridging the Gap - Olu Dara, Nas

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jacopass

January 18th, 2010, 09:07 PM

The Dazz Band - Funkology [Cd Compilation Edit in 1994]
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Easily the most comprehensive hits compilation for the Dazz Band, Funkology: The Definitive Dazz Band is a tasteful combination of not only their greatest hits from both phases of their career, but hard-to-find B-side alternate mixes and an amazing Megamix to kick off the album. Dazz delivers all of the goods you would expect from an Ohio funk group from that era: gorgeous production combined with well-thought-out songwriting arrangements wrapped around a slick bassline, topped off with a soulful melody. Since it is out of print, listeners would be well-served by checking out Universal's easily attainable 20th Century Masters -- The Millennium Collection: The Best of the Dazz Band. But if you can find this, by all means Funkology is the way to go. [Rob Theakston - All Music Guide]
Tracks:
01. Megamix
02. Nasty Boogie
03. There I
04. Ten Toes Up
05. Swoop (I'm Yours)
06. Keep It Live (On the K.I.L
07. A Love Song
08. Might as Well Forget About Loving You
09. Knock! Knock!
10. Heartbeat
11. Let It Whip [Extended 7 Mix]
12. Joystick [Extended 7 Mix]
13. Let It All Blow
14. Let the Music Play
15. Catchin' Up on Love
16. When You Need Roses

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rtownsend213

January 18th, 2010, 09:29 PM

[CENTER]Kool & the Gang - Emergency (1984)
CD-Rip|Flac|Log|Cue

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Track-listing
01. Emergency
02. Fresh
03. Misled
04. Cherish
05. Surrender
06. Bad Woman
07. You Are the One

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kingzoti

January 19th, 2010, 01:54 AM

plz reupload dj clue -the proffesional , that is the rarest album , it has nas-oochie wallie rmx , damn i need that always wanted that

Doctor-Rhythm

January 19th, 2010, 05:04 AM

VENUS DODSON
NIGHT RIDER

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[VINYL] Disco, Funk | FLAC, Covers

Label: RFC/Warner Bros. Records
Catalog#: RFC 3348
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: US
Released: 1979

Media conditions: NM
Reproduction device: Technics SL-1210-MK2 turntable + Shure M97XE cartridge & stylus
Preamplifier: TCC TC-750 Phono Preamp
Soundcard: Creative USB Sound Blaster Audigy 2 NX
Software: Wave Lab 4.0 (Recording), GoldWave (Downsampling)
Format of record (Bit/kHz): 24/88.2
Format of distribution (Bit/kHz): 16/44.1

Tracklisting:

A1 It's My Turn 6:49
A2 Shining 7:37
B1 Night Rider 6:39
B2 Where Are We Headed 4:13
B3 He Said, She Said 6:18

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whodshecoo

January 19th, 2010, 07:10 AM

Light Of The World - Check Us Out
EMI 1982

VINYL | WAV | COVER | 255 MB

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1. Famous Faces (3:51)
2. I Can't Stop (3:56)
3. Don't Run (3:48)
4. Check Us Out (4:04)
5. Tubbs In The Caribbean (0:34)
6. Soho (5:05)
7. No. 1 Girl (3:54)
8. (Everybody) Move (7:12)
9. Easy Things To Say (3:53)

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zacki

January 19th, 2010, 08:34 AM

People's Choice - Boogie Down U.S.A. (1975)

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01. Do It Any Way You Wanna
02. Are You Sure
03. Mickey D'S
04. I'm Leaving You
05. The Sooner You Get Here
06. Boogie Down U.S.A
07. Nursery Rhymes
08. Party Is A Groovy Thing
09. If You Want Me Back
10. Don't Send Me Away

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whodshecoo

January 19th, 2010, 10:12 AM

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Zacki, Disco, Jaco, James77, Kosta, Doc-Rhythm, funkysoul, Rtown, Waldo, MrDap, Blaq and for sure: Run, for your patience, pullin' this thing up

and @ all of the above for brighten up my life with your OUTSTANDING contributions over the last pages.
Y'all knock me OFF

(sorry Mr.D for borrowing your paint bucket for a minute .. ;)

rtownsend213

January 19th, 2010, 10:41 AM

^^^^^It's for the LOVE of music baby!:207:

whodshecoo

January 19th, 2010, 11:23 AM

Enchantment - Once Upon A Dream
ROADSHOW 1977

VINYL | WAV | Cover | 253 MB

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1. Sunny Shine Feeling (3:43)
2. If You're Ready (Here It Comes) (4:43)
3. It's You That I Need (5:59)
4. You're The One (4:30)
5. You Must Be An Angel (3:03)
6. Up Higher (2:05)
7. Silly Love Song (4:55)
8. Angel Of My Life (3:44)
9. Trying To Get Over (With You) (5:53)

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dadirtydj

January 19th, 2010, 12:05 PM

OK, Funkateers! I know I'm asking the wrong group but you never know.

Does anyone have Adam Lambert's CD?

Thanks,
Dirty

zacki

January 19th, 2010, 12:19 PM

OK, Funkateers! I know I'm asking the wrong group but you never know.

Does anyone have Adam Lambert's CD?

Thanks,
Dirty

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whodshecoo

January 19th, 2010, 12:27 PM

Mass Production - Believe
Cotillion 1977

VINYL | WAV | COVER | 286 MB

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1. Free And Happy (5:28)
2. Believe In Music (6:58)
3. Being Here (6:34)
4. We Love You (0:43)
5. Keep My Heart Together (4:06)
6. Cosmic Lust (6:05)
7. Superlative (4:48)
8. People Get Up (5:45)

AMG Review:
..... the Godfather did pave the way for numerous funk, disco, house, Latin freestyle, jungle, and trance artists who liked to stay on the groove. In the 1970s, the use of repetition worked wonders for everyone from Parliament/Funkadelic and the Ohio Players to Donna Summer and Cerrone -- and the value of repetition certainly wasn't lost on Mass Production, whose hypnotic funk-disco continued to sound fresh on its second album, Believe. There are no signs of a sophomore slump on this LP; the club DJs who went wild over MP's first album were equally impressed with exuberant, ultra-danceable offerings like "Free and Happy," "People Get Up," and "I Believe in Music." The record also contains a few dreamy soul ballads, including "Keep My Heart Together" and "Being Here." But Believe is party album first and foremost, and it's an exciting one.

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dadirtydj

January 19th, 2010, 12:50 PM

Found This: http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/2094401/775222/

Thanks, Zacki but I have no idea how to download a torrent. :sad:

rtownsend213

January 19th, 2010, 02:35 PM

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souldiv

January 19th, 2010, 03:53 PM

Some quality soul music here.
Thank everybody

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Some quality soul music here.
Thank everybody

Im looking for some Japanese Soul Reissues. Please let me know if you have some JP stuff

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Enchantment - Once Upon A Dream
ROADSHOW 1977

VINYL | WAV | Cover | 253 MB

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1. Sunny Shine Feeling (3:43)
2. If You're Ready (Here It Comes) (4:43)
3. It's You That I Need (5:59)
4. You're The One (4:30)
5. You Must Be An Angel (3:03)
6. Up Higher (2:05)
7. Silly Love Song (4:55)
8. Angel Of My Life (3:44)
9. Trying To Get Over (With You) (5:53)

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Kosta

January 19th, 2010, 10:14 PM

DIANNE STEINBERG - Universal Child (1977, ABC)
Vinyl rip:
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01 - Fantasy Come True
02 - Amazing
03 - The Merchant Song
04 - Baby I'm Yours
05 - Universal Child
06 - Precious Goods
07 - Where Do You Go From Love
08 - The Wish
09 - Lovers But Friends

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produced by David Pomeranz
ft. Jay Graydon, Jeff Porcaro, David Paitch, Michael Baird...

zacki

January 19th, 2010, 11:03 PM

Thanks, Zacki but I have no idea how to download a torrent. :sad:

Download this: http://rapidshare.com/files/338076833/Tools.rar.html

RunawayTrane

January 20th, 2010, 12:06 AM

Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes
SOUL | FLAC | CUE | LOG | ARTWORK | 271MB | 41:07
Philadelphia International 1972

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A fantastic debut by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes that wasn't meant to be. Most of these songs, including "If You Don't Know Me by Now," were originally written for the Dells, but the deal fell through. Harold Melvin got the opportunity because his ex-drummer, Teddy Pendergrass, had a voice similar to the Dells lead singer, Marvin Junior. The way Pendergrass tore into these songs, nobody remotely suspected that these love dramas were written for anybody but Teddy. He sounds like he's about to lose it when he sings "I Miss You" as he pleads with his ex-love about how he has changed. The poignant "If You Don't Know Me by Now" sold a million for the Blue Notes, and did even better years later for Simply Red. "Be for Real" is one of the finest recorded pieces in R&B history; it's not a song, it's a pleader where a guy admonishes his woman for looking down on people. They dusted off "Let Me Into Your World" for the Blue Notes; this one was not written for the Dells, as Gamble & Huff had recorded it a few years earlier with the O'Jays for Neptune Records. A hard-hitting package that established Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes as a force to be reckoned with. [The 2003 reissue of the record provides upgraded sound, new liner notes by noted soul DJ Dyana Williams, plus a bonus track: a live 1973 recording of the group's signature ballad "If You Don't Know Me by Now".] ~ Andrew Hamilton, All Music Guide

TRACK-LISTING

1. I Miss You
2. Ebony Woman
3. Yesterday I Had the Blues
4. If You Don't Know Me by Now
5. Be for Real
6. Let Me into Your World
7. Let It Be You
8. If You Don't Know Me by Now [live]

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Doctor-Rhythm

January 20th, 2010, 02:18 AM

DONNA MCGHEE
MAKE IT LAST FOREVER

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Disco, Funk | FLAC, CUE, Covers

Label: Toshiba-EMI
Catalog#: TOCP-64195
Format: CD
Country: Japan
Released: 2002
Original released: 1978

Donna McGhee was one of the many artists to work under the creative team of Patrick Adams and Gregory Carmichael. Make It Last Forever was originally issued in 1978 and promptly fell out of circulation, until this reissue by EMI Japan.

Like many Adams/Carmichael projects, Forever contains some essential dancefloor moments in the sublime "It Ain't No Big Thing" and "Mr. Blindman." These two songs rank among the best dance records of the 70s, true Paradise Garage classics. There's also the grooving title cut, which was popularized by Inner Life (another Carmichael project) in 1981.

McGhee, like fellow Adams/Carmichael protégé Venus Dodson, doesn't have the most distinctive vocal style, but she makes up for it with the sincerity she brings to the material. When required to be sassy, as on "Big Thing," McGhee's delivery is matter-of-fact, already resigned to the end of the relationship. When thrust into the sex kitten role on the sleazy "Do As I Do," she moans as effectively as Donna Summer.

Clocking in at a breezy five cuts in its original pressing, this reissue comes with bonus tracks in the form of edits of "It Ain't No Big Thing" and "Make It Last Forever" which aren't necessary. Pick this up to bask in the glow of some of disco's most soulful offerings.

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Tracklisting:

01. Make It Last Forever [0:08:19.60]
02. Do As I Do [0:10:15.57]
03. It Ain't No Big Thing [0:06:33.63]
04. Mr. Blindman [0:05:07.50]
05. I'm A Love Bug [0:04:19.50]
06. Make It Last Forever [Single Version] [0:03:11.42]
07. It Ain't No Big Thing [Single Version] [0:03:13.23]
08. It Ain't No Big Thing [Danny Krivit Re-Edit] [0:06:08.07]

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jacopass

January 20th, 2010, 06:17 AM

B.T. Express - 1980 [1980]
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In the 1970s, it wasn't uncommon to find a funk band that was entirely self-contained -- all of the producing, writing, and arranging was done by actual bandmembers, not outsiders. B.T. Express, however, was never totally self-contained; even its first major hit, "Do It ('Til You're Satisfied)," was written by someone who wasn't an official member: guitarist Billy Nichols. But it is safe to say that B.T. Express was more self-reliant in the beginning than it was in the early 1980s; at that point, Columbia was bringing in so many outside songwriters and additional musicians that the Brooklynites were becoming less distinctive. Depending on the band, outside influence can be either a positive or a negative -- in some cases, it can revitalize a band. B.T. Express, however, recorded its most essential albums when it was more self-reliant. Produced by Morrie Brown, this 1980 release is full of songs that weren't written or even co-written by B.T. Express members and employs its share of extra musicians (mostly keyboardists). B.T. Express 1980 is a mixed bag; although it isn't good to hear B.T. Express losing its identity, most of the material is decent -- "Takin' Off," "Funk Theory," and "Heart of Fire" are enjoyable, infectious funk-disco items even though they lack that distinctive B.T. Express sound of the 1970s. Meanwhile, the single "Give Up the Funk (Let's Dance)," which made it to number 24 on the R&B singles chart, is more recognizable as a B.T. Express tune. Some of the material is pretty generic, but overall, B.T. Express 1980 isn't a bad record -- in fact, it's an improvement over 1978's disappointing Shout!. Nonetheless, B.T. Express 1980 is the work of a band that was four years past its prime, and the LP is only recommended to completists and hardcore collectors. [Alex Henderson - All Music Guide]
Tracks:
1. Takin’ Off
2. Heart of Fire
3. Does It Feel Good
4. Give up the Funk (Let’s Dance)
5. Closer
6. Have Some Fun
7. Better Late Than Never
8. Funk Theory

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zacki

January 20th, 2010, 06:18 AM

People's Choice - People's Choice (1980)

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01. You Ought To Be Dancin'
02. If I Knew What I Know Now
03. Special Things For You
04. My Feet Won't Move But My Shoes Did The Boogie
05. Bad Dancin' Rita
06. Sweeter Than Honey
07. Warm Nights, Soft Lights

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Jimmy Castor - It's Just Begun / E-Man Boogie '83 (1983)

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A1 - It's Just Begun (Mix By Larry Levan)

B1 - E-Man Boogie '83 (Mix By Jimmy Castor And Gerry Thomas)

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jacopass

January 20th, 2010, 09:34 AM

Crackin' - Crackin' [1977]
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Crackin’ is a legendary group of Peter Bunetta and Rick Chudacoff featuring Leslie Smith. Their 1st album «Crackin’” was released in 1975 without Peter Bunetta. Then Peter jined the band and released three albums in 1977 and 1978. This 4th album, the last album of the group was produced by Michael Omartian and featuring Ernie Watts and Jay Graydon. And you may be aware of the name of R. Dupris… Yes, he is Robbie Dupree. After the group disbanded, Peter Bunetta and Rick Chudacoff made so many productions in early 80’s, including Robbie Dupree’s albums.(www.wcmusic.info)
Tracks:
1. It Just Takes A While
2. The Force Is Watching You
3. Fallen Dancer
4. I Know You Can
5. Do You Need More Time
6. Don’t You Wish You Could Be There
7. You Know Where I Am
8. The World’s A Fool For You
9. You’ll Feel Better

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whodshecoo

January 20th, 2010, 10:23 AM

Lenny Williams - Let's Do It Today
MCA 1980

VINYL | WAV | COVER | 237 MB

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1. Suspicious (5:20)
2. Don't Stop Me Now (3:40)
3. Let's Do It Today (5:13)
4. Ooh Child (3:58)
5. Messing With My Mind (4:28)
6. Looks Like You Made It (4:02)
7. Play With Me, Lay With Me (Stay With Me) (3:29)
8. If You Don't Want My Love (3:57)

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Disco

January 20th, 2010, 10:53 AM

Caress - s/t [1977]
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Brilliant soul album produced by Patrick "Genius" Adams!

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1. Opportunity 3:30
2. I Just Want To Be A Part Of You 4:03
3. Just Like In The Movies 3:13
4. I Just Want To Spend My Life With You 2:30
5. Brand New Love 3:05
6. Family Man 3:13
7. Lies, Lies, Lies 4:09
8. I Can't Let You Walk Away 5:48

Dusty Groove review:
A massively soulful album from legendary producer Patrick Adams -- and a key transitional set that bridges his earlier work on the east coast harmony scene, and his later club classics for P&P! Caress have a sweetly breaking vocal style that's simply wonderful -- as great as any of the older groups that Adams worked with, like Ace Spectrum or Black Ivory. They really sparkle on the gentle tunes -- and update an early 70s harmony soul approach with a few nicely placed mellow soul touches. A few tunes pick up the groove a bit more, sliding into a sweet Philly-styled groove that features Caress and Adams running neck and neck with the best of the Sigma scene at the time -- all warmth, love, and rhythm -- without any of the colder touches that show up more on the P&P work. The whole thing's great -- an overlooked east coast classic that rivals the best indie underground harmony soul albums of the decade! Titles include "Brand New Love", "Lies Lies Lies", "I Can't Let You Walk Away", "Opportunity", "I Just Want To Spend My Life With You", "Family Man", and a great remake of "Just Like In The Movies".

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whodshecoo

January 20th, 2010, 11:15 AM

Lenny Williams - Taking Chances
MCA 1981

VINYL | WAV | COVER | 241 MB

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1. Freefall (Into Love) (3:15)
2. I'm Sorry (3:27)
3. Where There's A Will There's A Way (3:33)
4. The Way You Love Me (4:29)
5. Responsible Man (4:10)
6. Take A Long Last Look (3:31)
7. Who's Gonna Love You (4:52)
8. Standing In The Middle (Of A So Called Perfect Love Affair) (3:51)
9. Taking Chances (4:28)

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zacki

January 20th, 2010, 11:42 AM

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THANKS !!! :respect-067:

whodshecoo

January 20th, 2010, 02:27 PM

Commodores - Midnight Magic
Motown 1979

VINYL | WAV | 255 MB

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1. Gettin' It (3:43)
2. Midnight Magic (5:23)
3. You're Special (3:33)
4. Still (5:48)
5. Wonderland (5:25)
6. Sexy Lady (3:35)
7. Lovin' You (4:30)
8. Sail On (5:29)
9. 12:01 A.M. (Reprise) (1:01)

AMG Review:
When the Commodores' seventh studio album, Midnight Magic, came out in 1979, one could safely assume that the LP would contain at least one adult contemporary ballad. And sure enough, Midnight Magic contains the ballad "Still," which was a number one pop hit (as well as a number one R&B hit) and became a staple on adult contemporary radio. The sappy ballad (which features Lionel Richie) wasn't without its detractors, who felt that the Commodores had become too much of a slick crossover act. But even if "Still" doesn't excite you, the rest of the album isn't bad. "Wonderland" (a number 21 R&B hit) is an enjoyable R&B slow jam, and fans of sophisticated funk (as opposed to hardcore funk) should appreciate "You're Special," "Gettin' It," and the disco-minded title song. "Sexy Lady" is the only thing on the LP that can honestly be described as hardcore funk; most of the up-tempo tunes favor the type of sophisticated funk that the Brothers Johnson, Rufus/Chaka Khan, and Heatwave were known for in the late '70s. Next to "Still," the album's best-known track is "Sail On," which reached number eight on Billboard's R&B singles chart (and number four on its pop single chart) despite the fact that it is essentially a pop-country song. Some R&B purists saw "Sail On" as a blatant example of how watered down the Commodores had become, but it's still a charming and likable tune — one that wouldn't have been out of place on a Dolly Parton or Glen Campbell LP. Midnight Magic isn't one of the Commodores' essential releases, and R&B purists are advised to stick to the band's pre-1977 albums. Nonetheless, this is a generally decent, if uneven, record that has more strengths than weaknesses.

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Kosta

January 20th, 2010, 05:28 PM

MINNIE RIPERTON - Come To My Garden (1970, Castle)
CD>EAC>FLAC

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1 Les Fleur 3:08
2 Completeness 3:27
3 Come To My Garden 3:16
4 Memory Band 4:06
5 Rainy Day In Centerville 5:21
6 Close Your Eyes (And Remember) 3:40
7 Oh By The Way 3:03
8 Expecting 3:54
9 Only When I'm Dreaming 3:26
10 Whenever Wherever 3:31

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zacki

January 21st, 2010, 07:47 AM

Melba Moore - Never Say Never (1983)

Vinyl-Rip|Wav|Covers
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01. Love Me Right
02. Keepin' My Lover Satisfied
03. Got To Have Your Love
04. Livin' For Your Love
05. It's Really Love
06. Never Say Never
07. Lovin' Touch
08. Lean On Me

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Doctor-Rhythm

January 21st, 2010, 08:04 AM

SILVER PLATINUM
SILVER PLATINUM

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[VINYL] Disco, Funk | FLAC, Covers

Label: Spector Records International
Catalog#: SW 70002
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: US
Released: 1981

Media conditions: VG++
Reproduction device: Technics SL-1210-MK2 turntable + Shure M97XE cartridge & stylus
Preamplifier: TCC TC-750 Phono Preamp
Soundcard: Creative USB Sound Blaster Audigy 2 NX
Software: Wave Lab 4.0 (Recording), Clickrepair (Default Percussion), GoldWave (Downsampling)
Format of record (Bit/kHz): 24/88.2
Format of distribution (Bit/kHz): 16/44.1

Tracklisting:

A1 Dance 6:02
A2 You Can't See It 5:12
A3 I Made It 5:59
A4 I Am 3:32
B1 Funky Part 4:04
B2 Hit And Run 4:44
B3 One More Chance 5:01
B4 Party's Over 5:32
B5 Dance (Reprise) 1:15

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rtownsend213

January 21st, 2010, 10:59 AM

Kid Creole & The Coconuts - Tropical Gangsters (1982)
Web-Rip|Vinyl

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Track-listing
A1 Annie, I'm not your daddy
A2 I'm a Wonderful Thing, Baby
A3 Imitation
A4 I'm Corrupt
B1 Loving you made a fool out of me
B2 Stool Pigeon
B3 The Love we have
B4 No fish today

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James77

January 21st, 2010, 12:57 PM

Gayle Adams - Your Love Is A Life Saver

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Artist : Gayle Adams
Title : Your Love Is A Life Saver
Year : 1980 (1992 CD ReIssue)
Genre : Disco
Label : Unidisc / Prelude Records
Catnum : SPLK-7035
Size : 416 MB
Source : CDDA
Grabber : EAC Secure Mode
Format : FLAC Lossless

Tracklist:

01. Your Love Is A Live Saver 5:54
02. Stretchin' Out 6:11
03. The Love Of My Man 3:34
04. You Brought It On Yourself 5:26
05. I Don't Wanna Hear It 3:59
06. Plain Out Of Luck 7:37
07. Your Life Is A Life Saver (12' Mix) 8:15
08. Stretchin' Out (12' Mix) 8:08
09. Your Life Is A Life Saver (Radio Edit) 3:45
10. Stretchin' Out (Radio Edit) 3:44
11. Baby Don't Make Me Do It 6:22

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Gayle Adams - Love Fever

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Artist : Gayle Adams
Title : Love Fever
Year : 1982 (2008 CD ReIssue)
Genre : Disco
Label : Unidisc / Prelude Records
Catnum : SPLK-7136
Size : 487 MB
Source : CDDA
Grabber : EAC Secure Mode
Format : FLAC Lossless

Tracklist:

1 Love Fever 06:42
2 Baby I Need Your Loving 05:06
3 Dont Blame It On Me 04:36
4 You Dont Owe Me Nothing 05:13
5 Lets Go All The Way 04:55
6 I Cant Get Enough Of You 04:44
7 Dont Jump To Conclusions 03:57
8 I Loved Every Minute Of It 05:49
9 Love Fever (Master Mix) 07:52
10 Emergency 06:12
11 Love Attraction 06:00
12 Love Fever (12 Version) 07:07
13 Love Fever (Radio Edit) 04:09

Rootiser material than usual for Prelude -- recorded with a mix of southern soul and modern groove styles, a great platform for the vocals of Gayle Adams, one of the label's best singers! A few numbers are definitely aimed at the dancefloor -- like the moogy groover "Love Fever", presented here in a Francois K mix -- but others have a nice sound that's more in a mid 70s Miami soul mode. Titles include "I Can't Get Enough Of You", "Don't Blame It On Me", "Let's Go All The Way", "Don't Jump To Conclusions", and "I Loved Every Minute of It". CD also features lots of bonus mixes too!

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Kosta

January 22nd, 2010, 12:49 PM

LOVE UNLIMITED - In Heat (1974, 20thC)
CD>EAC>FLAC

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1 Move Me No Mountain 3:55
2 Share A Little Love In Your Heart 5:53
3 Oh I Should Say, It's Such A Beautiful Day 3:30
4 I Needed Love - You Were There 3:47
5 I Belong To You 5:07
6 I Love You So, Never Gonna Let You Go 3:20
7 Love's Theme 3:59

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excel

January 22nd, 2010, 05:50 PM

DONNA MCGHEE
MAKE IT LAST FOREVER

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RunawayTrane

January 23rd, 2010, 01:37 AM

Kid Creole & The Coconuts - Tropical Gangsters (1982)
Web-Rip|Vinyl

Appreciate this man
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whodshecoo

January 23rd, 2010, 05:09 AM

Cameo - Nasty (Live)
Intersound 1996

CD | FLAC | FULL SCANS | 444 MB

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1. Intro (1:03)
2. Flirt (1:36)
3. She's Strange (2:37)
4. Back & Forth (5:54)
5. Skin I'm In (5:04)
6. Why Have I Lost You (6:10)
7. Sparkle (4:23)
8. Candy (4:45)
9. Shake Your Pants (Intro) (0:42)
10. Shake Your Pants (4:00)
11. I Just Want To Be (1:38)
12. Keep It Hot (5:11)
13. Word Up (6:44)
14. Come Fly With Me (3:57)
15. Nasty (3:47)
16. Mega Mix (6:28)

AMG Review:
Nasty, Cameo's first live recording, showcases Larry Blackmon's musical creativity and futuristic-sounding love songs. Everything is on time -- the horns, the sometimes hokey vocals -- and that cool New York-flavored lead bass struts on every cut. Guitarist Charlie Singleton's slicker-than-butter falsetto shines on the crowd favorite "Why Have I Lost You." Tomi Jenkins' tenor is steady on the moving and romantic "Sparkle." "Skin I'm In," with its staccato vocals and socially significant lyrics, makes you think. Delight at Larry Blackmon's Sugar Foot Bonner-sounding vocal on the heavily sampled "Candy." Two studio cuts augment the live songs: "Come Fly With Me" and "Nasty." Nasty's caboose is a 6:27 mega-mix of the live sides.

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whodshecoo

January 23rd, 2010, 10:02 AM

Dexter Wansel - Voyager + Time Is Slipping Away
1978/79 Philly International

CD | FLAC | SCANS | 476 MB

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Voyager (1978)
1. All Night Long (5:36)
2. Solutions (4:55)
3. Voyager (8:14)
4. I Just Want Lo Love You (6:36)
5. Time Is The Teacher (5:32)
6. Latin Love (Let Me Know) (4:50)
7. I'm In Love (3:39)

Time Is Slipping Away (1979)
8. I'll Never Forget (My Favorite Disco) (4:33)
9. The Sweetest Pain (5:44)
10. Funk Attack (4:00)
11. Time Is Slipping Away (3:14)
12. It's Been Cool (5:03)
13. Let Me Rock You (4:35)
14. New Beginning (4:40)
15. One For The Road (4:43)

... should go without any further comment :277:

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Nevus

January 23rd, 2010, 03:10 PM

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Classic Jazz Funk Mastercuts Volume 2 - 1991 [FLAC]

Tracklist

1 Idris Muhammad - Could Heaven Ever Be Like This (Original 12" Mix) 8:37
2 George Duke - Brazilian Love Affair (Original 12" Mix) 7:22
3 Al Jarreau - Easy (Original Full LP Version) 5:18
4 Donald Byrd - Dominoes (Original 12" Mix) 7:37
5 Ned Doheny - To Prove My Love (Original 12" Mix) 4:43
6 B. Baker Chocolate Co. - Snowblower (Original Full LP Version) 6:45
7 Roy Ayers - Poo Poo La La (Original 12" Mix) 6:32
8 Tania Maria - Come With Me (Original Full LP Version) 5:38
9 Herb Alpert - Rotation (Original 12" Mix) 6:48
10 David Sanborn - Chicago Song (Original 12" Mix) 6:58
11 Benny Golson - The New Killer Joe (Edited Original 12" Mix) 5:38
12 Crusaders, The - Keep That Same Old Feeling (Original Full LP Version) 5:38

Enjoy ! :350:

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jacopass

January 23rd, 2010, 03:15 PM

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Classic Jazz Funk Mastercuts Volume 2 - 1991 [FLAC]
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Excellent post, this is a good collection....with Covers?

Nevus

January 23rd, 2010, 05:18 PM

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Classic Jazz Funk Mastercuts Volume 3 - 1992 [FLAC]

Tracklist

1 David Bendeth - Feel The Real (Original 12" Mix) 6:47
2 Al Di Meola - Roller Jubilee (Original 12" Mix) 4:41
3 Herbie Hancock - Saturday Night 7:11
4 Donald Byrd - Love Has Come Around 7:47
5 Ramsey Lewis - Spring High 4:16
6 Roy Ayers - Love Will Bring Us Back Together (Original 12" Mix) 6:00
7 Bob James - Westchester Lady 7:18
8 Kool & The Gang - Summer Madness 4:16
9 Ramsey Lewis And Earth, Wind & Fire - Sun Goddess 8:25
10 Steve Khan - Darlin' Darlin' Baby 6:28
11 Aquarian Dream (2) - You're A Star (Original 12" Mix) 5:30
12 Lenny White - Best Of Friends 3:36

Enjoy ! :350:

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Nevus

January 23rd, 2010, 05:32 PM

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Classic Funk Mastercuts Volume 1 [FLAC]

Tracklist

1 Creative Source - Who Is He And What Is He To You 11:45
2 Fatback Band - Wicki-Wacky 3:20
3 JB's, The - Gimme Some More 3:02
4 O'Jays, The - For The Love Of Money 7:10
5 Ohio Players - Fire 4:28
6 Curtis Mayfield - Pusherman 4:50
7 Fred Wesley & The JB's - Blow Your Head 4:43
8 Mandrill - Fencewalk 5:26
9 Average White Band - Pick Up The Pieces 3:58
10 Blackbyrds, The - Rock Creek Park 4:35
11 Kool & The Gang - N.T. Pts 1 & 2 6:30
12 James Brown - Stone To The Bone 10:05

Enjoy these Funk Goodies ! :thumbs up:

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whodshecoo

January 23rd, 2010, 05:40 PM

Classic Funk Mastercuts Volume 1 [FLAC]
Classic Jazz Funk Mastercuts Volume 3 - 1992 [FLAC]
Mastercuts Classic Rare Groove Volume 1 - 1993 [FLAC]

Your contributions are greatly appreciated, bruh.
Thanks for your efforts!!
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Nevus

January 23rd, 2010, 05:55 PM

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Classic Mix Mastercuts Volume 1 - 1991 [FLAC]

Tracklist:
01. James Ingram / Ya Mo B There (John Jellybean Benitez 12 Remix) 06:40
02. Stephanie Mills / The Medicine Song (Mark Berry 12 Original Mix) 06:40
03. D. Train / You're The One For Me (Shep Pettibone 12 Remix) 07:22
04. Gwen Guthrie / Seventh Heaven (Larry Levan 12 Remix) 07:21
05. Serious Intention / You Don't Know (Paul Simpson 12 Remix) 08:18
06. Unlimited Touch / Searchin' To Find The One (Shep Pettibone 12 Remix) 06:49
07. Sharon Redd / Beat The Street (Shep Pettibone 12 Remix) 06:44
08. David Joseph / You Can't Hide Your Love (Larry Levan 12 Remix) 06:44
09. Gwen Guthrie / Ain't Nothin' Goin' On But The Rent (Mark Berry 12 Original Mix) 07:16
10. Sister Sledge / Thinking Of You (Original 12 Mix) 04:22
11. Change / Searching (Original 12 Mix) 08:02

Here's another one U might enjoy...!

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whodshecoo

January 23rd, 2010, 05:57 PM

Excellent post, this is a good collection....with Covers?

... as far as I could see, Jaco: YES!

:350:

Nevus

January 23rd, 2010, 07:00 PM

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Classic Salsoul Mastercuts Vol.2 - 1993 [FLAC]

Tracklist:
01. First Choice / Doctor Love (Original Tom Moulton 12'' Mix 07:35
02. Double Exposure / My Love Is Free (Edited Original Tom Moulton 12'' Mix) 07:08
03. Inner Life / Ain't No Mountain High Enough (Original Larry Levan 12'' Mix) 10:28
04. Eddie Holman / This Will Be A Night To Remember (Original Tom Moulton 12'' Mix) 05:48
05. Love Committee / Just As Long As I Got You (Original Tom Moulton 12'' Mix) 05:39
06. Moment Of Truth / Helplessly (Original Tom Moulton 12'' Mix) 06:25
07. Silvetti / Spring Rain (Original Tom Moulton 12'' Mix) 05:53
08. Inner Life / Moment Of My Life (Edited Original Shep Pettibone 12'' Mix) 04:49
09. Loleatta Galloway / Hit And Run (Original Walter Gibbons 12'' Mix) 11:05
10. Salsoul Orchestra / Ooh I Love It (Love Break) (Original Shep Pettibone 12'' Remix) 07:25
11. Candido / Dancin' And Prancin' (Original 12'' Mix) 06:53

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Nevus

January 23rd, 2010, 07:00 PM

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New Jack Swing Mastercuts Volume 1 - 1992 [FLAC]

Tracklist:
01. Johnny Gill / Rub You The Right Way (Original Extended Hype 12 Mix) 05:45
02. Guy / Her (Original 12 Mix) 08:35
03. Today / I Got The Feeling (Original 12 Mix) 04:34
04. Wrecks-N-Effect / New Jack Swing (Original 12 Mix) 05:27
05. R.Kelly Public Announcement / She's Got That Vibe (Original 12 Mix) 06:13
06. Guy / Do Me Right (Original 12 Vocal Remix) 06:23
07. Ralph Trestvant / Sensitivity (Original 7 Radio Mix) 04:42
08. Samuelle / So You Like What You See (Original Extended Album Mix) 04:59
09. Bell Biv DeVoe / Poison (Original 12 Mix) 04:25
10. Father MC / Treat Them Like They Want To Be Treated (Original 12 Mix) 05:52
11. Jasmine Guy / Another Like My Lover (Original Hip Hop 12 Remix) 05:48
12. Keisha Jackson / Mama Told Me (Original Full CD Mix) 04:10

For the New Jack Fans out there... Enjoy :thumbs up:

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MrDap

January 23rd, 2010, 09:46 PM

One of my favorite jazz artists
Can't understand one word she sings

Tania Maria - Intimidade
JAZZ | WAV | CUE | LOG | ARTWORK | 656MB | 56:09
Blue Note 2005

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Thank you for this amazing album!!

jacopass

January 24th, 2010, 12:03 AM

... as far as I could see, Jaco: YES!

:350:

Yes, is OK.....again...GOOD POST

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Machine - There But For The Grace Of God I [1992- Two LP: 1979.1980, Unidisc]
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Best known for its 1979 cult classic "There But for the Grace of God Go I," Machine was a soul/disco/funk band that tackled social and political issues at a time when many of its colleagues were afraid to. Machine was formed in New York in 1977, when the disco-era was in full swing and most R&B, disco, and funk lyrics were escapist in nature. The members of Machine -- who included lead singer Clare Bathé, lead singer/guitarist Jay Stovall, bassist Melvin Lee, keyboardist Kevin Nance, and drummer Lonnie Ferguson -- were big fans of the R&B message songs of the early '70s, and they regretted the fact that after 1975, many R&B artists had gotten away from social and political commentary. Machine set out to change that when, in 1978, it signed with RCA and recorded the single "There but for the Grace of God Go I" -- a brilliant piece of social commentary about Latino immigrants who move to the U.S. in search of a better life but quickly realize how dangerous the mean streets of the Bronx can be. Released in early 1979, the disco/soul masterpiece became a club hit and is considered a cult classic. Machine's self-titled debut album also came out in 1979, and in 1980, RCA released its sophomore effort, Moving On. Regrettably, Machine's second album was also its last. Moving On wasn't a big seller, and in 1981, Machine broke up. [Alex Henderson - Al, Music Guide]
Tracks:
01. There But For The Grace Of God Go I
02. You’ve Come A Long Way
03. Marisa
04. Get Your Body Ready
05. Machine Introduction
06. Power & Reason (Mr. Exx-On 52nd Street)
07. I Finally Found
08. Number Player
09. You Learned Your Lesson
10. Is It Love
11. You Really Didn’t Love Me
12. Thunder, Lightning And Rain
13. (In A World Of) Broken Dreams

CD Rip|Wav Image & Cue|Covers|Log and Info|Unidsc 1992.

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RunawayTrane

January 24th, 2010, 12:57 AM

It's an album full of covers, but Leela James has a distinct style
that fans of soul music will most certainly find refreshing.

Leela James - Let's Do It Again
SOUL | WAVPACK | CUE | LOG | TIFF ART | 426MB | 56:08
Shanachie 2009

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For adult contemporary R&B fans, it was disheartening that a vocalist as talented as Leela James went almost four years before releasing a follow-up to her flawed but promising debut. Coming into her second album with the knowledge that it is part of the Shanachie label's extensive series of all-covers sets, predominantly the province of artists twice James' age who are on album number ten or 20 instead of two, gauging the level of expectations is tricky. On one hand, it is frustrating that James' second album, after all this time, contains no original songs; on the other, it should be a loose, no-fuss affair, less measured than A Change Is Gonna Come and more like James' well-regarded live show. The latter, thankfully, is very much true. James' selections are mostly inspired, containing some natural (if obvious) material -- like the album's bookends, Betty Wright's "Clean Up Woman" and the Staple Singers' "Let's Do It Again" -- and some others that are bound to raise some eyebrows, just from seeing the titles. Womack & Womack's gently swinging "Baby I'm Scared of You" is a highlight, despite the absence of a sparring partner, which lends it a tone that is more serious than the Womacks' typically playful original. Phyllis Hyman's "You Know How to Love Me," perhaps the boldest inclusion (written and recorded when Mtume/Lucas and Hyman were at the peak of their powers), gets a faithful look, proving that James should do free-spirited and uptempo material more often. "I'd Rather Be with You" (Bootsy's Rubber Band) could use more sleaze and Bobby Womack's "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" lacks some necessary unease, and it would have been a nice twist for James to tackle something from the last 25 years, but overall, Let's Do It Again is one of Shanachie's best all-covers discs. May James find a support system that allows her to record albums of new material every other year (or so) from here on out. ~ Andy Kellman, All Music Guide

TRACK-LISTING:

01. Clean Up Woman
02. Miss You
03. It's a Man's Man's Man's World
04. Baby I'm Scared of You
05. You Know How to Love Me
06. I Want to Know What Love Is
07. Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
08. I Try
09. I'd Rather Be with You
10. Simply Beautiful
11. Let's Do It Again

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odarellmc

January 24th, 2010, 03:34 AM

okay so they took 3 post away from me saying i was "post horing" okay so i thanks someone for posting but cant reference the actual post

TelB

January 24th, 2010, 05:13 AM

Thanks General

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Gotcha

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Al Green
Greatest Hits - Vol.1
[Direct Rip]

Tracklist

1. Tired Of Being Alone
2. Call Me (Come Back Home)
3. I'm Still In Love With You
4. Here I Am (Come And Take Me)
5. How Can You Mend A Broken Heart
6. Let's Stay Together
7. I Can't Get Next To You
8. You Ought To Be With Me
9. Look What You Done For Me
10. Let's Get Married

WAV
389MB

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Part 2: http://rapidshare.com/files/151692924/Al_G_GHV1_Blaq_WAV.part2.rar

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Hello all you music lovers. You know I ain't never been the red carpet type. I'm the "Just Do It" type. So here is my contribution, my way of saying hello.... My music library

Thanks for all the fine music:553:

whodshecoo

January 24th, 2010, 05:36 AM

okay so they took 3 post away from me saying i was "post whoring" okay so i thanks someone for posting but cant reference the actual post

How would YOU call your behaviour?
I would say

:pleasestfu:

... and simply hit the thx button

jacopass

January 24th, 2010, 09:08 AM

Rick James & Stone City band - Live In Long Beach July 30-31, 1981 (Rarities Edition-Essential Collector's Edition)
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Part of the Rarities Edition series, which Universal distribution used as a way to spin off the second discs of its Deluxe Edition series, this disc, apart from an informational wraparound strip, looks identical to the original Street Songs. Unfortunately, the packaging masks the significance of the disc’s content, which amounts to the lone legitimate Rick James live set. A dynamite performance, it’s worthy of its own artwork and detachment from a catalog series. Technically taken from two Long Beach gigs that went down on July 30 and 31, 1981, as Street Songs was the number one R&B album in the U.S. — while opener Teena Marie held up the second spot with It Must Be Magic — the set is rather evenly spread between Street Songs and each of James’ earlier albums. James, backed by his Stone City Band, Punk Funk Horns, and Mary Jane Band, proficiently delivers everything (even “Mary Jane”) with a high level of energy. There’s plenty of stage-crowd interaction, with James acknowledging the Atlanta child murders, the killing of anti-racism activists in Greensboro, NC, and the death of Bob Marley, all recent events, yet without bringing down the party. A middle stretch features Teena Marie performing “I’m a Sucker for Love” (albeit with Levi Ruffin, Jr. taking James’ place) and “Square Biz” (which had just entered the R&B chart’s Top Ten). Of course, the remastered Street Songs itself, released in 2002 with the 12” mixes of “Give It to Me Baby” and “Super Freak,” is absolutely essential, but this release — for any Rick James freak — is pretty close to it. [Andy Kellman - All Music Guide]
Not the original Street Songs album, but maybe even better -- a Rarities Edition that stands alone as really the first-ever live album from Rick James' classic years on Motown! The package pulls together all the rare tracks that originally appeared on the second disc of the "deluxe edition" -- a full concert performance recorded in Long Beach in July of 1981 -- an amazing live testament of James' early genius in a concert setting. Titles include "Ghetto Life", "Big Time", "Come Into My Life", "You & I", "Super Freak", "Mary Jane", "Do You Want Some Funk", "Give It To Me Baby", "Fire It Up", and "Love Gun" -- plus "Square Biz" sung by Teena Marie, and "I'm A Sucker For Your Love" by Teena and Levi Ruffin Jr. [D.G.Inc.]
Tracks:
01. Intro
02. Ghetto Life
03. Big Time
04. Come Into My Life
05. I'm A Sucker For Love
06. Square Biz
07. Fire It Up
08. Love Gun
09. Do You Want Some Funk?
10. Mary Jane
11. Super Freak
12. You And I
13. Give It To Me Baby

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odarellmc

January 24th, 2010, 09:38 AM

How would YOU call your behaviour?
I would say

:pleasestfu:

... and simply hit the thx button

no you shut the fuck up, you mfs always assuming someone is trying to take advantage of work. i dont call it behavior, i call it simplying thanking someone who was responsible, i didnt know the rules stated you can quote posts,(why the fuck is there a "quote "button), or you can only say thanks by hitting the thanks button, all of this is in the rules right?. im going to take another look, but one, you dont know me well enough to talk to me like that, and two your not aware of the technical instructions ive received in from other members in order to start posting, more less of my efforts with other members to share. so if you want to say do this instead of doing that thats one thing, its another to try and bash me on this forum without knowing what the fuck youre talking about as it relates to me

whodshecoo

January 24th, 2010, 09:51 AM

I see you're familiar with the f-word - so what? Go cry on somebody elses shoulder.

... in order to start posting, more less of my efforts with other members to share

we've yet to see the proof of that.

do you - btw - think, any of those (of your) postings is helpful for just any member here??

diggin deeeeep in the ctrates on this one

that brother ali looks interesting

prince is a bad boy

looks goos

thanks for this

i want this but i only have 20 posts!

this looks interesting thnaks.

is thie syreeta like in stevie wonders syreeta?

thanks for sharing your collection

did we rise the minumum posts requirements

yea, you guys are back up!

looks good

nice

thx

thx

thx

nice, thx

some nice fattys in here thanks

thats a nice ass

now this is useful

OMG look at the amount of link, thanks anyway

thanks for this

waldo24

January 24th, 2010, 11:32 AM

Millie Jackson - I Had To Say It - 1980
CD Rip - Flac - Covers - 266.51 MB

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Over the years, Millie Jackson has often been compared to Etta James and Denise LaSalle — and both are valid comparisons. Another frequent comparison is Gladys Knight, who was a major influence on Jackson. But while Knight and Jackson have a similar vocal texture, you would never hear Knight delivering the type of sexually explicit monologues that Jackson became known for in the 1970s. Knight would never be as in your face as Jackson, whose wild sense of humor serves her well on I Had to Say It. This 1980 LP gets off to a hilarious and irreverent start with the title song, a rap number that finds Jackson attacking everyone from welfare queens to black men who refuse to date black women. Influenced by early rappers like the Sugarhill Gang and the Sequence, "I Had to Say It" sounds quite dated today but was bold for 1980 — back then, most R&B singers were afraid to tackle hip-hop. However, the title song isn't representative of the album on the whole; soul singing is Jackson's primary focus, and the vocalist is in good form on gritty soul offerings like "Somebody's Love Died Here Last Night," "Fancy This," and a remake of the Dobie Gray hit "Lovin' Arms." Jackson gets into more of a disco/pop groove on "Ladies First," but this is a soul album first and foremost. Although I Had to Say It isn't among Jackson's essential releases, it's a solid, respectable outing that her hardcore fans will appreciate.
Review by Alex Henderson - All Music

Tracks:
1. I Had To Say It 5:27
2. Loving Arms '81 4:13
3. Medley : The Rap '81/Stranger/The Rap '81 (Reprise) 11:30
4. I Ain't No Glory Story 3:54
5. It's Gonna Take Some Time This Time 4:02
6. Fancy This 3:27
7. Ladies First 3:40
8. Somebody's Love Died Here Last Night 4:02
9. You Owe Me That Much 3:43

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odarellmc

January 24th, 2010, 12:02 PM

I see you're familiar with the f-word - so what? Go cry on somebody elses shoulder.

we've yet to see the proof of that.

YOU started with the f-word, are u retarded? i dont have to prove anything to you, ha! i see you didnt respond to the other stuff i said, i see you're familiar with running your mouth without any substance, you just like to try to flame people and im sure i know why. do you know how many people probably come on this site without even an acknowledgment to the posters? im sure you do, so you're comments aren't smart or intelligent. youre like a punk ass cop stopping people for broken headlights, when there are drug dealers up the street. leave me alone and get a life.

RunawayTrane

January 24th, 2010, 12:04 PM

i didnt know the rules stated you can quote posts,(why the fuck is there a "quote "button), or you can only say thanks by hitting the thanks button, all of this is in the rules right?.

WRONG.

There is nothing in the rules that says you can't post a quote. It is just general knowledge and it's an annoying habit. We've all seen the post, so why would we want to see the whole thing over again and again? Not only that. but when you quote a post, you are actually doubling the bandwidth of the pictures uploaded (not to mention increasing the bandwidth of the site) and that could cause the hosts to delete the pictures. Most of us use free hosts to post pictures, but some also use PAID hosts, so you could be actually costing a cat money when you quote his pictures. Common courtesy dictates that you don't do it. Also common sense

Notice how I quoted YOUR post and did not include the entire thing?? That's all you have to LEARN how to do and no one will ever say anything to you or delete your posts again. Of course, it's not like you weren't ASKED not to do it previously. But I guess you were so busy doing it, that you never took time to read the private messages I sent to you asking you not to do that. It's only when your posts gets DELETED or someone tells you to STFU that you respond.

There it is all laid out for you (again). Now what? Where do you go from here?
There's two ways out: you can take the stairs or you can take the elevator

RunawayTrane

January 24th, 2010, 12:20 PM

Millie Jackson - I Had To Say It - 1980
CD Rip - Flac - Covers - 266.51 MB

This is an example of how to quote a post. This is also an example of how ALL noobs can earn respect when entering the Art of Noise

hint: it always help to PREVIEW POST before posting

THANKS WALDO!
:clap::clap::clap:

rtownsend213

January 24th, 2010, 12:49 PM

This is an example of how to quote a post. This is also an example of how ALL noobs can earn respect when entering the Art of Noise

hint: it always help to PREVIEW POST before posting

THANKS WALDO!
:clap::clap::clap:

I second that one RUN. I simply love myself some Millie, with here raunchy ass.

odarellmc

January 24th, 2010, 12:54 PM

thats all fine and good RunawayTrane, you have to do what u have to in order to manage the site, but when someones first response to me is "shut the fuck up" then only bad blood can happen from that point onwards, u feel me? your examples of how to reply with quotes are noted

whodshecoo

January 24th, 2010, 01:45 PM

i dont have to prove anything to you

Shure you don't. I'm also sure, you're simply not able to. Just as well as you weren't able to respond my PM before all that started.

What you can, evidentially, is downloading (not only) my stuff faster than i ever will be able to upload and call me and others MFs at the same time.
Should I say nice to meet you?
I'm tired wastin time with barking monads who don't have the foggiest notion of what I'm talkin bout.
One thing though.
Why not using your newly acquired knowledge to rip, scan, upload some of your stuff. Maybe that helps to wipe the fog from your lenses.

Ich habe fertig.
(Giovanni Trappatoni)

rtownsend213

January 24th, 2010, 03:02 PM

Another useful site for my audiophile buddies.
http://eachelper.okamihost.com/php/index.php

waldo24

January 24th, 2010, 03:41 PM

Leon Haywood - It's Me Again - 1983
CD Rip - Flac - Covers - 330.91 MB

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Overlooked later work from Leon Haywood -- an album for Casablanca that continues the funky groove he started at 20th Century in the 70s! The style's got a bit more boogie in the mix, and a touch of electro soul too -- more keyboards over the basslines, but used in a sweetly sneaky way that definitely holds up the Haywood funky tradition! The set includes a great remake of "I Wanta Do Something Freaky To You", re-fit with an 80s funk vibe, and almost a Zapp-ish undercurrent -- kind of a nod back to the generation that Leon's work inspired. Other titles include "I'm Out To Catch", "Secret Rendezvous", "TV Mama", "Keep It In The Family", "I'll Always Be Around", "Desire", and "Steppin Out". CD also features the bonus tracks "I'm Out To Catch (club mix)" and "Tenderoni".

Tracks :
01 - t.v. mama
02 - desire
03 - i'll always be around
04 - secret rendez-vous
05 - i'm out to catch
06 - keep it in the family
07 - i wanta do something freaky to you
08 - steppin out
09 - i'm out to catch ( Club Mix ) BONUS TRACK
10 - tenderoni BONUS TRACK

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whodshecoo

January 24th, 2010, 05:01 PM

Rance Allen Group - The Best Of
Stax 1988 (remastered 1990)

CD | FLAC | SCANS | 265 MB

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1. Ain't No Need Of Crying (3:58)
2. Just My Imagination (Just My Salvation) (3:21)
3. There's Gonna Be A Showdown (2:48)
4. That Will Be Good Enough For Me (4:32)
5. Hot Line To Jesus (4:50)
6. Gonna Make It Alright (2:39)
7. I Belong To You (3:32)
8. I Give My All To You (3:48)
9. Heaven Is Where The Heart Is (3:30)
10. Smile (3:36)
11. I Got To Be Myself (2:52)
12. I Know A Man Who (2:49)

AMG Review:
Infusing traditional gospel music with Memphis soul, Detroit-based singer Rance Allen helped pave the way for the secularized gospel sound of the '80s and '90s. After signing with Stax in 1969, Allen and his group proceeded to bring their hip brand of gospel to the masses by scoring several chart hits and opening concerts for the likes of Isaac Hayes. This hits package covers the group's successful run in the '70s, spotlighting Allen's incredibly flexible and powerful voice (one listens to cuts like "Ain't No Need of Crying" and "Gonna Make It Alright" and it's easy to figure out where Prince picked up his misty falsetto from). The selections include Allen's biggest Stax hit, "I Got to Be Myself," the spiritually reconfigured cover "Just My Imagination (Just My Salvation)," and modern gospel pioneer James Cleveland's "That Will Be Enough for Me." Allen contributes a handful of slick and spirited groovers, like "I Give My All To You" and "I Belong to You," and even goes in for a little disco on another original, "Smile" (considering Allen's devout nature, it's hard to tell if the more commercial elements in the music came from him or hit-minded producers). A bit of unintentional humor also finds its way into the set, with the raucous cut "Hot Line to Jesus." This spirited collection makes Allen's love of the music plain and offers a fine introduction to both his work and to the "new," yet (historically speaking) ancient mix of religious and secular black music.

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Nevus

January 24th, 2010, 05:52 PM

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Classic Reggae Mastercuts Vol. 1 - 1995 [FLAC]

Tracklist:
01. Wailing Souls / Very Well 05:49
02. U Roy / Chalice In The Palace 03:29
03. Lee Perry - Jolly Brothers / Conscious Man 07:01
04. Max Romeo / Chase The Devil 03:29
05. Don Carlos / Nice Time (Late Night Blues) 05:01
06. Vivian Jones / Red Eyes 08:20
07. Burning Spear / Marcus Say Jah No Dead 03:52
08. Jacob Miller / Keep On Knocking 06:08
09. Pablo Gad / Hardtimes 04:44
10. Aswad / Warrior Charge 05:23
11. Fabian / Prophecy 04:38
12. Fred Locks / Love Only Love 07:20

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dadirtydj

January 24th, 2010, 06:26 PM

Y'all got it cookin in here. Props!

It might be a week or so before I can post again...PC problems. :sAng_scream:

I've got some good shyt, too. Oh, well! :251:

Dirty

Nevus

January 24th, 2010, 06:46 PM

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Mastercuts Classic Rare Groove Volume 1 - 1993 [FLAC]

Tracklist

01. Eighties Laies / Turned On To You (Original 12 Mix) 05:29
02. Faze-O / Riding High (Original Full Album Version) 05:19
03. Leon Ware / Why I Came To California (Original Full Album Version) 04:11
04. Breakwater / Say You Love Me Girl (Original Full Album Version) 04:43
05. Steve Parks / Movin' In The Right Direction (Original Full Album Version) 04:16
06. Patrice Rushen / Number One (Instrumental) (Original Full Album Version) 04:58
07. Rome Jefferies / Good Love (Original 12 Mix) 05:57
08. Kinky Foxx / So Different (Original 12 Mix) 06:51
09. Sass / Much Too Much (Original 12 Mix) 05:59
10. Roberta Gilliam / All I Want Is My Baby (Original 12 Mix) 05:22
11. Labelle / Moonshadow (Original Full Album Version) 09:25
12. Ethel Beatty / It's Your Love (Original 12 Mix) 04:02

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jacopass

January 24th, 2010, 10:57 PM

Bobby Broom - Clean Sweep [1981]
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Bobby Broom's debut introduces a guitarist out of time -- while his funky, single-note style owes much to Grant Green's Blue Note LPs of the previous decade and effectively anticipates the acid jazz sensibilities of the decade to follow, Clean Sweep squeezes him into the GRP label's early-'80s house style, bulldozing his lithe playing with gelatinous fusion-inspired production that's dated badly. To his credit, Broom curtails GRP's signature slap-bass rhythms and thick synth textures in favor of a more straight-ahead jazz approach that better spotlights his estimable talents, but songs like "No Bad Vibes" and "Share My Love" still collapse under the weight of their too-smooth over-production. [Jason Ankeny - All Music Guide]
Tracks:
1. Clean Sweep
2. No Bad Vibes
3. Remember When
4. She's My Reason
5. Saturday Night
6. Niqui
7. Share My Love
8. Con Alma

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January 25th, 2010, 12:18 AM

[CENTER]Lakeside - Party Patrol (1990)
CD-Rip|Flac|LoglCue

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Track-listing
01. Money
02. Party Patrol
03. Sailing
04. You
05. So Fine
06. You're The Only One
07. Let The Moon Shine
08. U Got It Goin' On
09. Talk About Love
10. Think Twice

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January 25th, 2010, 01:01 AM

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1.I Heard It Through The Grapevine 3:44
2. You Are Everything 2:48
3. Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours 4:07
4. I'm Gonna Make You Love Me 3:56
5. Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing 2:48
6. Reflections 3:22
7. How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) 5:21
8. Ain't No Mountain High Enough 2:49
9. All In Love Is Fair 3:31
10. I Want You 4:27
11. Distant Lover 4:20
12. I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever) 5:05
13. Since I Lost My Baby 4:29
14. Too High 5:25

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January 25th, 2010, 01:20 AM

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The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love
APE (separated tracks), LOG, NO CUE | EAC + Monkey Audio | 270 MB | No scans

Tracklist
1. Exp
2. Up From the Skies
3. Spanish Castle Magic
4. Wait Until Tomorrow
5. Ain't No Telling
6. Little Wing
7. If 6 Was 9
8. You Got Me Floatin'
9. Castles Made of Sand
10. She's So Fine
11. One Rainy Wish
12. Little Miss Lover
13. Bold as Love

Jimi Hendrix's second album doesn't resonate through rock history the way its gatecrashing predecessor, Are You Experienced?, does. In places, it almost seems as if Hendrix is cruising, albeit sublimely. Yet it's a vital album, containing some of rock's molten milestones. There's the fluid psychedelia of "Castles Made of Sand," the viciously funky "Little Miss Lover," and the so-beautiful-it-hurts "Little Wing." Hendrix really hits altitude with "If 6 Was 9," where he waves his "freak flag high" over a tidal wave of guitar and a cacophonous army of Moroccan flutes, and he ends with "Bold As Love," based around Hendrix's typically far-fetched hankering for the axis of the planet to be tilted, thereby transforming life on earth. It works up into a head-melting frenzy of distorted guitar, a precursor to the staggeringly expansive leap forward he would take with 1968's Electric Ladyland. Hendrix dreamed the impossible and achieved it on his guitar. --David Stubbs

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January 25th, 2010, 01:20 AM

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The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland (1968)
Universal Music SHM-CD UICY-90759 Limited Release [2008]
EAC Flac File | Log + Cue | Complete HQ Scans w/ 24 page booklet | ~558 Mb |

TrackList:

1. AND THE GODS MADE LOVE
2. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN(TO ELECTRIC LADYLAND)
3. CROSSTOWN TRAFFIC
4. VOODOO CHILE
5. LITTLE MISS STRANGE
6. LONG HOT SUMMER NIGHT
7. COME ON(LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL)
8. GYPSY EYES
9. BURNING OF THE MIDNIGHT LAMP
10. RAINY DAY,DREAM AWAY
11. 1983...(A MERMAN I SHOULD TURN TO BE)
12. MOON.TURN THE TIDES...GENTLY GENTLY AWAY
13. STILL RAINING,STILL DREAMING
14. HOUSE BURNING DOWN
15. ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER
16. VOODOO CHILD(SLIGHT RETURN)

Japanese reissue on SHM-CD (Super High Material CD) developed by JVC and Universal Music Japan. Polycarbonate plastic with improved transparency is used for the disc surface for enhanced audio quality. *Plays on regular CD players. Written and produced by Jimi Hendrix, the album is seen as the peak of Hendrix's mastery of the electric guitar, and is frequently cited as one of the greatest rock albums of all time. It is not only the last of his albums released as the Jimi Hendrix Experience, but also the last of Hendrix's studio albums to be professionally produced under his own supervision. After Electric Ladyland, Hendrix spent the remaining two years of his life attempting to organize a new band and recording a breadth of new songs. Released as a double album, Electric Ladyland is a cross-section of Hendrix's wide range of musical talent. It includes samples of several genres and styles of music, including the psychedelia of "Burning of the Midnight Lamp" (previously a UK single in the summer of 1967), the bluesy guitar jam "Voodoo Chile", the New Orleans-style rock and roll of "Come On", the epic studio production of "1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)", and the social commentary of "House Burning Down". The album also features a cover version of Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower" that was widely praised by many, including Dylan himself, as well as "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)", a staple of both radio and guitar repertoire.

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whodshecoo

January 25th, 2010, 06:44 AM

Calender - It's A Monster
Pi Kappa 1976

VINYL | WAV | COVER | 242 MB

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1. Hypertension (5:56)
2. Good Old Funky Music (4:12)
3. Oh What A Pity (3:46)
4. Take The Time (To See Beauty Around You) (2:38)
5. Comin' On Strong (3:55)
6. Open Up Your Mind (4:47)
7. Ritmo Latino (5:23)
8. Monster (From The Black Toms) (4:47)

Ultra rare Funk nugget, freshly ripped and declicked
If interested, <A HREF="http://www.cdandlp.com/liste/?lng=2&srt=relevance&what=artiste&tete=Calender&affilie=safmdcom">check</A> the actual going rates @ CDandLP

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zacki

January 25th, 2010, 07:27 AM

Calender - It's A Monster
Pi Kappa 1976

Thanks !!!

Ich habe fertig.
(Giovanni Trappatoni) :bigmouthlaugh:

MUSICMACHINE

January 25th, 2010, 07:44 AM

Yes, is OK.....again...GOOD POST

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Machine - There But For The Grace Of God I [1992- Two LP: 1979.1980, Unidisc]

Tracks:
01. There But For The Grace Of God Go I
02. You’ve Come A Long Way
03. Marisa
04. Get Your Body Ready
05. Machine Introduction
06. Power & Reason (Mr. Exx-On 52nd Street)
07. I Finally Found
08. Number Player
09. You Learned Your Lesson
10. Is It Love
11. You Really Didn’t Love Me
12. Thunder, Lightning And Rain
13. (In A World Of) Broken Dreams

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DONNA MCGHEE
MAKE IT LAST FOREVER

Disco, Funk | FLAC, CUE, Covers

Label: Toshiba-EMI
Catalog#: TOCP-64195
Format: CD
Country: Japan
Released: 2002
Original released: 1978

Donna McGhee was one of the many artists to work under the creative team of Patrick Adams and Gregory Carmichael. Make It Last Forever was originally issued in 1978 and promptly fell out of circulation, until this reissue by EMI Japan.

Like many Adams/Carmichael projects, Forever contains some essential dancefloor moments in the sublime "It Ain't No Big Thing" and "Mr. Blindman." These two songs rank among the best dance records of the 70s, true Paradise Garage classics. There's also the grooving title cut, which was popularized by Inner Life (another Carmichael project) in 1981.

McGhee, like fellow Adams/Carmichael protégé Venus Dodson, doesn't have the most distinctive vocal style, but she makes up for it with the sincerity she brings to the material. When required to be sassy, as on "Big Thing," McGhee's delivery is matter-of-fact, already resigned to the end of the relationship. When thrust into the sex kitten role on the sleazy "Do As I Do," she moans as effectively as Donna Summer.

Clocking in at a breezy five cuts in its original pressing, this reissue comes with bonus tracks in the form of edits of "It Ain't No Big Thing" and "Make It Last Forever" which aren't necessary. Pick this up to bask in the glow of some of disco's most soulful offerings.

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Tracklisting:

01. Make It Last Forever [0:08:19.60]
02. Do As I Do [0:10:15.57]
03. It Ain't No Big Thing [0:06:33.63]
04. Mr. Blindman [0:05:07.50]
05. I'm A Love Bug [0:04:19.50]
06. Make It Last Forever [Single Version] [0:03:11.42]
07. It Ain't No Big Thing [Single Version] [0:03:13.23]
08. It Ain't No Big Thing [Danny Krivit Re-Edit] [0:06:08.07]

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zacki

January 25th, 2010, 07:55 AM

@MUSICMACHINE

Have 'Moving On' on CD, but not seen this one, so many thanks.

You Download Lossless files but your postings are only in mp3, WHY ???
And why you don't post Bombers in lossless? :dunno:

MUSICMACHINE

January 25th, 2010, 08:02 AM

Hi Zacki
I am new to Lossless, so i will be posting some soon.
I currently run a blog which is entirely mp3's, so please be patient.
I try to do everything in 320 quality, but i know Lossless is better.
Regards
MM

P.S. I always say Thank You

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RunawayTrane

January 25th, 2010, 08:16 AM

Bela Fleck & The Flecktones - Outbound
FUSION | WAVPACK | CUE | LOG | TIFF ART | 439MB | 60:00
Columbia 2000

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After a decade with Warner Bros., Béla Fleck jumped to Sony's Columbia Records, signing a five-record deal that called for two releases on Sony Classical, a solo album, and two discs with his band the Flecktones of which Outbound is the first. It is a typically eclectic effort. For example, the Fleck original "Shuba Yatra" (its title, he explains in the press materials, "is an Indian term that means taking a journey with a safe return") features a tabla player and Fleck on a "sitar banjo," an electrified instrument with a banjo head and a sitar bridge. Such instruments give the tune something of an Indian flavor, except that much of it is borrowed from traditional Irish music with a touch of South African rhythm. Such odd juxtapositions of instrumentation and style are typical not only from track to track but also within tracks. Fleck and his bandmates seem to view all styles of music as readily and randomly interchangeable, but sometimes, as with a colorblind person picking out clothes, the results clash or otherwise disturb, and the rest of the time they come off as flashy and insubstantial. Fleck really offers no defense to the charge of being a musical dilettante, he simply celebrates the surface pleasures of different varieties of music, offering an overlapping series of appetizers. A fan of any particular style is liable to feel that it has been trivialized, but Fleck doesn't mean any harm. His music represents the pursuit of facileness as a musical goal, one that he and his band achieve with alacrity. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

TRACK-LISTING:

01. Intro
02. Hoedown
03. A Moment So Close
04. Zona Mona
05. Hall of Mirrors
06. Earth Jam
07. Something She Said
08. Ovombo Summit
09. Aimun
10. Prelude
11. Lover's Leap
12. Outbound
13. Scratch & Sniff
14. Shuba Yatra
15. That Old Thing
16. Reprise

LINK (http://lix.in/-6ef018)
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whodshecoo

January 25th, 2010, 09:30 AM

Syl Johnson - Uptown Shakedown
HiRecords 1978

VINYL | WAV | COVER | 236 MB

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1. Mystery Lady (5:51)
2. Let's Dance For Love (4:39)
3. Gimme Little Sign (3:49)
4. You're The Star Of The Show (4:25)
5. Blue Water (4:14)
6. Who's Gonna Love You (4:37)
7. Otis Redding Medley (8:49)

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ivanohe

January 25th, 2010, 09:58 AM

TOWER OF POWER
Back On The Streets - 1979 (FLAC Image+cue)

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Rock Baby
Our Love
Heaven Must Have Made You
And You Know It
Nowhere To Run
Something Calls Me
It Takes Two (To Make It Happen)
In Due Time
Just Make A Move (And Be Yourself)

get it here:

PART 1 (http://rapidshare.com/files/340896907/topbonts.part1.rar)
PART 2 (http://rapidshare.com/files/340898636/topbonts.part2.rar)

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Kosta

January 25th, 2010, 11:31 AM

MANDRILL - Mandrilland (1974, Polydor)
Vinyl rip:
Stanton681>Dual,turntable>HarmanKardonPM645>SonyAD/DA>OpticalCable>Prodif,soundcard>WaveLab>ClickRepair

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A1 Positive Thing 3:25
A2 Positive Thing + 5:15
A3 Skying Upward 3:45
A4 The Road To Love 5:15
A5 Armadillo 1:48
B1 The Reason I Sing 3:22
B2 Bro' Weevil & The Swallow 4:48
B3 Khidia 4:55
B4 House Of Wood 7:59
C1 'Drill In The Bush 3:55
C2 El Funko 2:54
C3 Love Is Sunshine 4:22
C4 Folks On A Hill 6:22
D1 Mini-Suite For Duke 6:26
D2 Cal-Ipso 5:00
D3 After The Race 7:02
D4 Lady Jane 4:00

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Kosta

January 25th, 2010, 07:10 PM

Bobby Broom - Clean Sweep [1981]
THANKS Jacopass!!
i got it vinyl and was going to rip it, you saved me lot of time!
very good rip!
here's my scann of lp inside credits and labels since i know you like albums scann
but not featuring in this rip.
http://rapidshare.com/files/341109142/BOBBY_BROOM-1981-CleanSweep-scann_lp.zip
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Mulatoboy

January 25th, 2010, 09:13 PM

whats the pass to syreeta One to one?

jacopass

January 25th, 2010, 10:40 PM

Grey & Hanks – You Fooled Me [1978]
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A great little debut album from the team of Len Ron Hanks and Zane Grey — songwriters who’d scored earlier in the 70s with tracks for Jerry Butler and LTD, but who also strike up a pretty strong groove on their own! The pair are from Chicago, but are recording in LA — and their sound here follows almost the same move as Earth Wind & Fire’s when they hit the west coast, adding smoother production to a tight ensemble funk approach, compressing the groove up a bit, for a more soulful sound. No surprise, then, that the record features EWF horns by Don Myrick, Louis Satterfield, and Rahmlee on many cuts — and although vocals are by Grey, but he’s pretty heavily supported by backing singers on most cuts. Titles include “You Fooled Me”, “Never Let You Down”, “Way Out To Get In”, “How Can You Live Without Love”, and “Gotta Put Something In”. (DGA, Inc).
After authoring a series of hits for Tavares, L.T.D., and Jerry Butler, the duo of Zane Grey and Len Ron Hanks mounted its own recording career with You Fooled Me, a sturdy if unremarkable collection of silky-smooth funk grooves reminiscent of Earth, Wind & Fire (whose Phenix Horns -- Louis Satterfield, Don Myrick, and Rahmlee Michael Davis -- contribute the record's soulful horn flourishes). Grey and Hanks prove unable to write themselves a song as catchy and memorable as the hits they gave away, and the former is a pedestrian lead vocalist at best, buoyed largely by backing singers. Still, the Top Ten R&B hit "Dancin'" proved a major disco hit, and for good reason -- it's dynamic and infectious, and it's a shame the remainder of the record doesn't reach comparable peaks. (Janson Ankenky - All Music Guide).
Tracks:
1. Way Out To Get In
2. Gotta Put Something In
3. You Fooled Me
4. Never Let You Down
5. Dancin’
6. I Can Tell Where Your Head Is
7. Closer To Something Real
8. How Can You Live Without Love

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robertoblake

January 26th, 2010, 12:22 AM

Don't fake teh funk

TelB

January 26th, 2010, 04:37 AM

:respect-067:

RunawayTrane

January 26th, 2010, 08:09 AM

Charles Wright - Express Yourself
R&B | WAVPACK | CUE | LOG | PNG + JPG | 287MB | 37:10
Warner Brothers 1970

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The quintessential Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band record, Express Yourself displays the purposefully sloppy rhythms and shout vocals that would make this band a legend in soul circles. Every track on this album is a classic, from the oft-sampled and high-charting pop single "Express Yourself" to the first of many readings of "I Got Love" that would appear on the band's records -- and even Wright's solo works for years to come. The aching balladry of "Tell Me What You Want Me to Do" and the complex compositions "High as Apple Pie -- Slice 1" and "High as Apple Pie -- Slice 2" showcase a versatility found in other West Coast collectives such as War. Perhaps the treasure of this album is the opener, "Road Without an End," a charming, stepping groover punctuated by choppy horns and snapping drums that blend beautifully with one of Wright's best vocals of his career, all accented by sweeping strings. Express Yourself is '70s soul at its most creative and satisfying. ~ Douglas Siwek, All Music Guide

TRACKLISTING:
1. Road Without an End
2. I Got Love
3. High as Apple Pie - Slice I
4. Express Yourself
5. I'm Aware
6. Tell Me What You Want Me to Do
7. High as Apple Pie - Slice II

old links
Part 1 (http://lix.in/-31a35d) | Part 2 (http://lix.in/-3329fe)

new improved link
DOWNLOAD (http://lix.in/-8af880)

RunawayTrane

January 26th, 2010, 09:03 AM

Blackgirl - Treat U Right
R&B | FLAC | CUE | LOG | 300DPI | 411MB | 60:10
Kaper 1994

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Rich harmonies capture the ear on this mid 90's album. Blackgirl put together a collection of songs that are filled with creamy melodies and laid-back, funky beats. Unlike many of their contemporaries, the trio prefer to take the high road with more positive lyrics that articulate their own brand of black feminism. That pride equates into warm, romantic notions of the black family and a healthy love for their men. BlackGirl combines the soulful harmonies of days gone by with '90s production, resulting in closely woven vocals and temporally hybrid musical arrangements. Oddly, "Chains" the most intoxicatingly beautiful song on the album, was not one of their hits. The only song heard over the airwaves on a consistent basis, "90's Girl", was probably their worst song. ~ Run, Synciti.net

TRACK-LISTING:

01. Krazy
02. Treat U Right
03. Can U Feel It
04. Where Did We Go Wrong
05. Chains
06. Ooh Yeah (Smooth)
07. 90's Girl
08. Nubian Prince
09. Things We Used to Do
10. Can't Live Without U
11. Let's Do It Again
12. Home
13. 90's Girl (Encore Remix)

Part 1 (http://lix.in/-28f53b) | Part 2 (http://lix.in/-2a7bdc) | Part 3 (http://lix.in/-2c027d)

whodshecoo

January 26th, 2010, 09:32 AM

Disco

January 26th, 2010, 10:41 AM

Mtume - You, Me And He [1984]
[cd-rip][flac][log][cover]

Follow up to the "Juicy Fruit" album, a better album in my opinion.

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1. C.O.D. (I'll Deliver) 4:02
2. You Are My Sunshine 4:28
3. You, Me And He 4:27
4. I Simply Like 5:08
5. Prime Time 5:51
6. Tie Me Up 5:49
7. Sweet For You And Me [monogamy mix] 5:05
8. To Be Or Not To Bop That Is The Question (Whether We Funk Or Not) 5:05

AMG review:
This was one of Mtume's '80s "sophisti-funk" projects, with a mix of socially conscious lyrics, love songs, and uptempo cuts, plus collective vocals and sparing production and arrangements. The title cut was a huge R&B hit, peaking at number two and even generating some crossover pop action. Mtume got two other R&B smashes, one in the Top 20, and the album proved one of his best.

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rtownsend213

January 26th, 2010, 11:28 AM

RunawayTrane

January 26th, 2010, 11:51 AM

Harold Melvin/Blue Notes - Wake Up Everybody
SOUL | FLAC | CUE | LOG | 300DPI | 324MB | 46:03
Philadelphia International 1975

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One of the more successful Philly Soul acts, Melvin and the Blue Notes had been singing in the Philadelphia area for more than a decade before they hooked up with songwriters/producers Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff. Gamble and Huff fed the Blue Notes a steady diet of elegantly orchestrated love songs - without the Temptations psychedelic influences present in their O'Jays work. With most leads handled by Teddy Pendergrass, they ran up a bunch of successful singles including the much-covered "If You Don't Know Me By Now." Nothing on this disc rises to that level, partly because the arrangements have shifted into unimaginative disco territory, with the usual conga-fortified unchanging rhythm, string swirls, and that unrelenting high hat. The title track, a platitudinous "save the world number," was an R&B #1, but it's not particularly memorable, and drags on for seven and a half minutes with no instrumental variety. The other single was "Tell The World How I Feel About You Baby," but the key track is really the disco tune "Don't Leave Me This Way," which became an influential hit when covered by Thelma Houston. This was Pendergrass's last outing with the group, and Sharon Paige's first - she sings lead on "I'm Searching For A Love" and duets with Pendergrass on the slow disco "You Know How To Make Me Feel So Good." Four songs were written by the team of McFadden, Whitehead and Carstarphen, including the title track; as usual, instruments were played by Gamble and Huff's MFSB cabal. I suspect the early Blue Notes records were better, and I'll keep looking for them. --David Bertrand WIlson, WARR.org

TRACK-LISTING:

1. Wake Up Everybody
2. Keep On Lovin' You
3. You Know Who To Make Me
4. Don't Leave Me This Way
5. Tell The World How I Feel About 'Cha Baby
6. To Be Free To Be Who You Are
7. I'm Searching For A Love
8. Don't Leave Me This Way (Tom Moulton Mix)

LINK (http://lix.in/-75441c)
pw: lisalisa

rtownsend213

January 26th, 2010, 11:55 AM

[CENTER]For contributors only!!

Midnight Star - Planetary Invasion [1984]
CD-Rip|Flac|LoglCue

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Track-listing
01. Body Snatchers
02. Scientific Love
03. Let's Celebrate
04. Curious
05. Planetary Invasion
06. Operator
07. Today My Love
08. Can You Stay With Me

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zacki

January 26th, 2010, 12:08 PM

For contributors only!!

:thumbs up::thumbs up::thumbs up::thumbs up::thumbs up::thumbs up:

RunawayTrane

January 26th, 2010, 12:11 PM

May I ask a question?

Do we really need folks like the above who post 30 times the same sentence in the first 30 minutes after he registrates?

Probably better if you don't ask me.

(I really like this spot, but y'all can be sure I'll keep my eyes open for some other place where I can lay down my stuff if that doesn't improve)

This really isn't the place for that kind of question. And the one to ask would really be the owner of the site. It's all about her policy towards the members. Anyway, I will try to address it here, but I do not want this thread to become a place for beefing. We can kick it on music all day, but if you have grievances, please take it to Princess or other moderators via PERSONAL MESSAGES:

As for the importance of the previous new posters comments. If a person wants to say thank you, who are we to stop them? Everyone has to start somewhere. If all we do is discourage people from posting, even if it's a simple thank you, then we would never have anyone new posting anything at all. Just go back in time and remember YOUR first few posts. Not your first posts HERE, but your first posts EVER on a message board. I'd be willing to bet you probably made some of the same mistakes the newbies are making today. I KNOW I DID. It takes a little while to get the hang of it. So please try to be patient.

IF A PERSON IS POST WHORING HE DESERVES TO GET BLASTED. If a person is simply lurking for a few weeks, give them a break. They may just be trying to get a feel for what's going on here. On who they can approach and ask for help (it always turns out to be me damn it). I am willing to give a person a few albums before posting their own stuff just so they can see how we do things here. I'd rather have them wait and do it right, then them come in firing away with posts and they're full of mistakes. If they're still lurking 6 months from a now and it's apparent that they don't plan on ever posting anything we can always address it then. Give them the ultimatum of posting music or getting bounced off the forum. That's not a problem. But I say until then, we need to cut newbies a little more slack. This thread has always been about quality of posts, not quantity. And I've said it ever since the first time I posted an MP3 and uploaded it on Yousendit that ANYONE is welcome to download from me

anyway, that's all I wanted to say. If anyone has anymore comments, they can address it in private forums

RunawayTrane

January 26th, 2010, 12:23 PM

For contributors only!!
I really hate to do it like this but say thanks and I will send you the links.

you don't have to do it like that. There are codes you can use

rtownsend213

January 26th, 2010, 12:32 PM

you don't have to do it like that. There are codes you can use

What codes are you talking about? When I set it to a 50 post count all these fools do is go around spamming 50 times. I came in leeching myself don't get me wrong but I'm not built like that for the long run. Once I noticed the amount of music that was posted by yourself Blaq & Zacki the first thing I did was go out and buy music because I didn't have any soul. Mostly all of my old stuff has been recently purchased. I have spent lots of dollars over the past 7 months just so that I can give back to users like yourself Blaq, Zacki, Jacopass, etc.....
I love to share with you all but I refuse to be the one who builds up some leechers collection.

RunawayTrane

January 26th, 2010, 01:01 PM

What codes are you talking about? When I set it to a 50 post count all these fools do is go around spamming 50 times.

When that happens, then it's up to the moderators to take care of it. It's also YOUR responsibility to hit the REPORT button

I came in leeching myself don't get me wrong but I'm not built like that for the long run. Once I noticed the amount of music that was posted by yourself Blaq & Zacki the first thing I did was go out and buy music because I didn't have any soul. Mostly all of my old stuff has been recently purchased. I have spent lots of dollars over the past 7 months just so that I can give back to users like yourself Blaq, Zacki, Jacopass, etc.....

and likewise. When I started posting lossless, I had maybe 15-20 CDs. Now I have close to 100. I don't buy ANYTHING at retail though. I've also made dozens of trips to libraries all over Brooklyn and Manhattan just in the spirit of sharing. I think we all have....

and most newbies will too. (not all, but most) But we must give them the chance.

whodshecoo

January 26th, 2010, 01:28 PM

You're basically right, Run. And I know and really preciate that you are a patient man.
It wasn't my intention to bring bad blood, but in the last few weeks I just saw folks poppin up in here like mushrooms, with the only goal to rise their post account to at least 25, to get access to the coded links and then dld them in a row. Sometimes in a way that offended my intelligence. Many of the contributors here spend lots of time, work and money into their equipment (Cartridges, Soundcards, CDs/Vinyls - yeah some still buy the shit - .. and so on) to bring stuff to the Citi that you won't see anywhere else on the web. For me this is something special and I'm happy that I can be part of it.
If noone raises the word against the mentioned leeching-behaviour, it probably won't get better with the while.
When I started posting in Forums like this, I shure did not post 30 times thx, cool, disistheshit .. I was looking what I could bring in and THEN started downloading stuff from the folks there.
Just my 5ct. It's not that easy to say all that unambiguously in an almost foreign language. Maybe it sounds hard or even arrogant. Sorry for that, then.

Kosta

January 26th, 2010, 02:09 PM

Many of the contributors here spend lots of time, work and money into their equipment (Cartridges, Soundcards, CDs/Vinyls - yeah some still buy the shit - .. and so on) to bring stuff to the Citi that you won't see anywhere else on the web.
:thumbs up:

ivanohe

January 26th, 2010, 03:10 PM

P-FUNK ALL STARS
Urban Dancefloor Guerillas
1983 (FLAC Image+cue)

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51HfYIsCBEL._SS500_.jpg

Generator Pop
Acupuncture
One Of Those Summers
Catch A Keeper
Pumpin' It Up
Copy Cat
Hydraulic Pump
Pumpin' It Up (reprise)

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PART 1 (http://rapidshare.com/files/341544040/pfas-udfg.part1.rar)
PART 2 (http://rapidshare.com/files/341549343/pfas-udfg.part2.rar)

PW: ivanovitch

Kosta

January 26th, 2010, 10:23 PM

SINGLE TRACKS REQUEST
Can please somebody help me finding any of these 4 tracks in lossless ?...thanks!

http://i19.servimg.com/u/f19/12/69/02/81/jackso17.jpg JACKSON 5 - Don't Say Goodbye (GetItTogether'73)
http://i19.servimg.com/u/f19/12/69/02/81/jackso18.jpg JACKSON 5 - If I Don't Love You This Way (DancingMachine'74)
http://i19.servimg.com/u/f19/12/69/02/81/jackso19.jpg JACKSON 5 - Moving Violation (MovingViolation'75)
http://i19.servimg.com/u/f19/12/69/02/81/jackso20.jpg JACKSON 5 - We're Here To Entertain You (JoyfulJukeboxMusic'76)

ivanohe

January 27th, 2010, 10:58 AM

MTUME
Theater Of The Mind
1986 (FLAC Image+cue)

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Theme For Theater Of The Mind
P.O.P. Generation
Breathless
I Don't Believe You Heard Me (A Tribute To James Brown)
Body & Soul (Take Me)
New Face Deli
I'd Rather Be With You
Deep Freeze (Rap-A-Song) (Part 1)
Deep Freeze (Tree's Thing) (Part 2)

PART 1 (http://rapidshare.com/files/341953926/mtotm.part1.rar)
PART 2 (http://rapidshare.com/files/341954926/mtotm.part2.rar)

PW: ivanovitch

ivanohe

January 27th, 2010, 10:58 AM

MTUME
Juicy Fruit 1983 (FLAC Image+cue)

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Green Light
Juicy Fruit
Hips
Would You Like To (Fool Around)
Your Love's Too Good (To Spread Around)
Hip Dip Skippedabeat
Ready For Your Love
The After 6 Mix (Juicy Fruit Part II)

PART 1 (http://rapidshare.com/files/341958971/mjf.part1.rar)
PART 2 (http://rapidshare.com/files/341959852/mjf.part2.rar)

PW: ivanovitch

tpvmeffq

January 27th, 2010, 01:40 PM

SINGLE TRACKS REQUEST
Can please somebody help me finding any of these 5 tracks in lossless ?...thanks!

http://i19.servimg.com/u/f19/12/69/02/81/jackso16.jpg JACKSON 5 - To Know (Lookin'ThroughTheWindows'72)

here it is:
http://rapidshare.com/files/342023323/J5_-_To_Know.rar

if you want the whole album, just let me know...:)

Kosta

January 27th, 2010, 02:21 PM

here it is:
if you want the whole album, just let me know...:)
:553::clap::thumbs up::respect-067:
thanks!!! a lot..i need just the track,
but if you want to post the full album i'm think some here will enjoy!

jacopass

January 27th, 2010, 09:43 PM

George Duke - Master Of The Game [1979]
http://i64.servimg.com/u/f64/11/64/53/57/front258.jpg (http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=496&u=11645357)
Although George Duke first made his mark as a jazz instrumentalist, late-1970s classics like Reach for It, Don't Let Go, and Follow the Rainbow made it clear that he could also be an expressive R&B singer. But he didn't want to handle all of the lead vocals himself; so during that period, his role was that of a producer/keyboardist/songwriter who was more than happy to share the lead vocals with Lynn Davis, Josie James, and others. Davis enjoyed a lot of exposure on R&B stations when, in 1979, Duke featured her on "I Want You for Myself," the haunting single that made Master of the Game one of his best-selling albums. Her charismatic performance makes the listener wonder why she never had a solo career; the talent was certainly there. This album contains a few jazz fusion instrumentals (including the Latin-flavored "Dog-Man"), but it's an R&B release first and foremost -- and those who like Duke as an R&B artist will find this album to be enjoyable, if less than essential. "I Want You for Myself" and the mellow, Stylistics-influenced "Every Little Step I Take" are gems, but most of the other selections are merely decent instead of excellent. On the whole, this album isn't in a class with Reach for It, Don't Let Go, or Follow the Rainbow, which are arguably his most essential R&B-oriented albums. But it has more pluses than minuses and is worth having in your collection if you're a serious fans of Duke's late 1970s/early 1980s output. (Alex Henderson~All Music Guide)
Tracks:
1. Look What You Find
2. Every Little Step I Take
3. Games
4. I Want You for Myself
5. In the Distance
6. I Love You More
7. Dog-Man
8. Everybody’s Talkin’, Pt. 1
9. Pt. 1: The Alien Challenges the Stick/Pt. 2: The Alien Succumbs to the Macho Intergalactic Funkativity Of The Funkblasters.

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SINGLE TRACKS REQUEST
Can please somebody help me finding any of these 4 tracks in lossless ?...thanks!

http://i19.servimg.com/u/f19/12/69/02/81/jackso17.jpg JACKSON 5 - Don't Say Goodbye (GetItTogether'73)
http://i19.servimg.com/u/f19/12/69/02/81/jackso18.jpg JACKSON 5 - If I Don't Love You This Way (DancingMachine'74)
http://i19.servimg.com/u/f19/12/69/02/81/jackso19.jpg JACKSON 5 - Moving Violation (MovingViolation'75)
http://i19.servimg.com/u/f19/12/69/02/81/jackso20.jpg JACKSON 5 - We're Here To Entertain You (JoyfulJukeboxMusic'76)

Sorry Kosta, i don't have this tracks....

RunawayTrane

January 27th, 2010, 11:57 PM

Only available Les McCann in the NYPL system:

Les McCann - Swiss Movement
JAZZ | WAVPACK | CUE | LOG | TIFF | 403MB | 47:49
Atlantic 1969

http://www.onlinedisk.ru/cache/e01e86c6a179ec04cdb1846e89462885 (http://www.onlinedisk.ru/view/332643/L.MccannSM.jpg)

REVIEW (http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/w68c)

PERSONNEL:
Les McCann - Piano, Keyboards, Vocals
Eddie Harris - Saxophone
Benny Bailey - Trumpet
Leroy Vinnegar - Bass
Donald Dean - Drums

TRACK-LISTING:
1. Compared to What
2. Cold Duck Time
3. Kathleen's Theme
4. You Got It in Your Soulness
5. The Generation Gap
6. Kaftan

LINK (http://lix.in/-6e032d)
pw: lisalisa

whodshecoo

January 28th, 2010, 12:18 AM

FFF - Free For Fever
Epic 1993

CD | EAC | WAV | CUE | LOG | Full Scans | 570 MB

http://i63.servimg.com/u/f63/11/33/84/05/ffffff10.jpg

1. Stone To The Bone (5:57)
2. Des Illusions (5:19)
3. Mouche à Miel (0:13)
4. Silver Groover (4:45)
5. La Camisole (Drugs) (6:38)
6. Positive (5:15)
7. Wreye Sem (1:27)
8. Wiseman (4:15)
9. R U Real (4:57)
10. Tout Semble Flou (4:58)
11. Shot'im Down (7:17)
12. Leave Me Alone (4:53)
13. Où Tu Vas Y Aller (0:24)
14. King Of Party (6:20)
15. Free For Fever (5:03)
16. Emotion (4:56)
17. Back To The Bone (2:18)

Standing for Fédération Française de Funk (French Funk Federation), FFF was formed in Paris in 1987 around Marco Prince (vocals), Yarol (guitar), Niktus (bass), Krichou (drums), Felix (keyboards), and former Marquis de Sade bandmember Philippe Herpin (saxophone). Capable of amazing on-stage firepower, they were the only band to hit the big time among the early-'90s Parisian funk scene. Their first album, 1991's Blast Culture, featured a driving blend of funky rhythms and close-to-metal rock influences, and was effective enough to draw attention from George Clinton and Spike Lee themselves, the latter of whom directed their semi-hit "Marco"'s video. After the following tour, FFF went back to recording for the release of 1993's Free for Fever album. At the end of the Free for Fever tour, FFF began to lose focus, many of its members exploring new directions, so that they had lost a little bit of the public interest by the time of the release of their 1996 self-titled album. Its hit single, "Barbès," didn't hit hard enough to attract as much attention as before, and neither did "Alice" from their 2000 album Vierge.

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Only available Les McCann in the NYPL system

... there are two more available in the whoPL system .. are you interested?

ivanohe

January 28th, 2010, 12:21 AM

DON BLACKMAN
1982 ( FLAC Tracks )

http://www.radiocafe.co.uk/cfrm2/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/LARGE.jpg

Yabba Dabba Doo
Heart's Desire
Holding You, Loving You
Deaf Hook-Up Connection
You Ain't Hip
Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide
Since You Been Away So Long
Never Miss A Thing

LISTEN (http://rapidshare.com/files/342236901/db1982.rar)

PW: ivanovitch

zacki

January 28th, 2010, 12:47 AM

@ ivanohe

Great Uploads :clap:

souled out

January 28th, 2010, 04:27 AM

wav 712mb

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51k3CbJrGiL._SS500_.jpg

1. Top Of The Stairs - Collins And Collins
2. (A Case Of) Too Much Lovemakin' - Barry White, Gloria Scott, Tom Brock, Vance Wilson, Gene Page, Frank Kejmar
3. Let Me Make Love To You - Gene Chandler
4. Get Into Your Life - Beloyd
5. Come Get To This - Art Stewart, Cal Harris, Marvin Gaye, Steve Smith
6. It's Love Baby - Timothy Wilson
7. Tell Me You Love Me - Lawrence Payton
8. Loving You, Needing You, Loving You, Wanting You - Bobby Hutton
9. Booking Up Baby - The Topics
10. I Was Blessed The Day I Found You - Randy Brown
11. Gonna Find A True Love - Bottom & Company
12. I Know - Mojoba
13. If You Want A Love Affair - Jesse James
14. When I'm With You - Brenda Lee Eager
15. Keepin' Love New - Howard Johnson
16. No Limit - Jean Terrell
17. The Best Of You - Booker T. Jones
18. Pity A Fool - Barbara Brown
19. Dead - Carolyn Sullivan
20. I Haven't Got Anything Better To Do - Al Capps, Dee Dee Warwick, Paul Vance

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funkysoul

January 28th, 2010, 04:29 AM

DON BLACKMAN
1982 ( FLAC Tracks )

:shocked:

Thanks!

zacki

January 28th, 2010, 05:24 AM

Classic Jazz-Funk Mastercuts Vol. 1 (1991)

CD-Rip|Flac|Cue|Log|Covers
http://i49.tinypic.com/23ku885.jpg

01. Lonnie Liston Smith - Expansions
02. Ronnie Laws - Always There
03. Gil Scott Heron - The Bottle
04. Donald Byrd - Change (Makes You Want To Hustle)
05. Wilton Felder - Inherit The Wind
06. Spyro Gyra - Shaker Song
07. Azymuth - Jazz Carnival
08. Johnny Hammond - Los Conquistadores Chocolates
09. Eddie Henderson - Say You Will
10. John Klemmer - Brasilia
11. Harvey Mason - Till You Take My Love
12. Dizzy Gillespie - Unicorn

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ivanohe

January 28th, 2010, 09:49 AM

@ zacki & funkysoul : You're welcome guys, glad you liked the posts !

MAZE
Can't Stop The Love
1985 (Flac Image+cue)

http://www.onlyfunk.com/Affiches/Maze%20featuring%20Frankie%20Beverly/Oeuvre/Can%27t%20Stop%20the%20Love.jpg

Back In Stride
Can't Stop The Love
Reachin' Down Inside
Too Many Games
I Want To Feel I'm Wanted
Magic
A Place In My Heart

PART 1 (http://rapidshare.com/files/342429685/mcstl.part1.rar)
PART 2 (http://rapidshare.com/files/342431117/mcstl.part2.rar)

PW: ivanovitch

ivanohe

January 28th, 2010, 09:51 AM

BOOTSY'S RUBBER BAND
STRETCHIN' OUT IN
1976 (FLAC Image+cue)

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KqndcpjQSek/SJO-6UPnDKI/AAAAAAAAGXY/q7YbHplIDX4/s400/BOOTSY80.jpeg

Stretchin' Out (In A Rubber Band)
Psychoticbumpschool
Another Point Of View
I'd Rather Be With You
Love Vibes
Physical Love
Vanish In Our Sleep

PART 1 (http://rapidshare.com/files/342450515/BRBSO.part1.rar)
PART 2 (http://rapidshare.com/files/342451365/BRBSO.part2.rar)

PW: ivanovitch

whodshecoo

January 28th, 2010, 10:31 AM

Ivan .. you really started spoiling us with your contributions over the last few weeks.

THANKS FOR ALL THE GREAT STUFF!

It's GREATLY appreciated

:ten:

Kosta

January 28th, 2010, 11:51 AM

JESS RODEN - Stonechaser (1979, Island)
Vinyl rip:
Stanton681>Dual,turntable>HarmanKardonPM645>SonyAD/DA>OpticalCable>Prodif,soundcard>WaveLab>ClickRepair

http://i69.servimg.com/u/f69/12/69/02/81/jess_r10.jpg

01 - Prime Time Love
02 - Deeper in Love
03 - Brand New Start
04 - Believe In Me
05 - Bird Of Harlem
06 - If Ever You Should Change Your Mind
07 - Loving You
08 - One World, One People

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UK super classy blues singer;
this is his most soulful and sophisticated album
arranged by
Leon Pendarvis and Rob Mounsey
feat:
Pat Rebillot
Jeff Mironov
David Landau
Chris Parker
Rick Chudacof , Peter Bunetta & Arno Lucas (Crackin')
Anthony Jackson
Crush Bennett
Lew Soloft
Harold Vick
Luther Vandross........
.....

tpvmeffq

January 28th, 2010, 01:15 PM

JACSKON 5
LOOKING THROUGH THE WINDOWS
1972

http://talkinstuff.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/jackson_5.jpg

FLAC
from the torrent world...

1. Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing

2. Lookin' Through The Windows

3. Don't Let Your Baby Catch You

4. To Know

5. Doctor My Eyes

6. Little Bitty Pretty One

7. E-Ne-Me-Ne-Mi-Ne-Moe (The Choice Is Yours To Pull)

8. If I Have To Move A Mountain

9. Don't Want To See You Tomorrow

10. Children Of The Light

11. I Can Only Give You Love

12. Love Song

13. Who's Lovin' You (Live In Gary, Indiana)

Lookin' Through the Windows was a 1972 soul album released by The Jackson 5 on the Motown label. At this point, the group members, including thirteen-year-old lead singer Michael Jackson, were growing up, and no longer felt comfortable singing the same bubblegum pop records that had made them teen idols. Lookin' Through the Windows in fact marks the beginning of lead singer Michael's vocal change, from the boy soprano who fronted the Jackson 5's early hits, to the tenor who would later become a success as a solo artist. Though he could still reach his famed high notes, his voice was filling out, allowing him to also reach lower registers.

The sessions for this album also marked the beginning of the bad vibes between the Jacksons and Motown, as they found it difficult to deal with both the maturing Michael, who had an independent mind of how he wanted to sound, and his father Joseph Jackson, who managed the Jackson 5 and became dissatisfied with Motown's handling of the group. Most of the album tracks were recorded in late 1971 intended to be on an album for their hit single at the time "Sugar Daddy". Lookin' Through the Windows was the second-to-last Jackson 5 album to include any songs written by The Corporation (Berry Gordy, Freddie Perren, Deke Richards, and Fonce Mizell). The album spawned two hit singles "Little Bitty Pretty One" and "Lookin' Through The Windows". The album peaked at number 8 on Billboard 200 album chart. In Europe the album cut "Doctor My Eyes" was a top ten hit.

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ivanohe

January 28th, 2010, 01:19 PM

thanks, whodshecoo, enjoy cause next week i move for 2 month, ill come back with a vengeance in april ...

rtownsend213

January 28th, 2010, 01:41 PM

Classic Jazz-Funk Mastercuts Vol. 1 (1991)

One of those albums that you let play all the way through. Thanks

ivanohe

January 28th, 2010, 02:34 PM

BOOTSY COLLINS
Bootsy ? Player Of The Year
1978 (FLAC Tracks+cue)

http://www.tproe.com/invloed/collin_boot_bootsypla_101b.jpg

Bootsy? (What's The Name Of This Town)
May The Force Be With You
Very Yes
Bootzilla
Hollywood Squares
Roto Rooter
As In (I Love You)

PART 1 (http://rapidshare.com/files/342557572/bcpoty.part1.rar)
PART 2 (http://rapidshare.com/files/342568392/bcpoty.part2.rar)

PW: ivanovitch

rtownsend213

January 28th, 2010, 03:21 PM

[CENTER]Sylvia - Pillow Talk (1973)
CD-Rip|Flac|Log|Cue|Scans

http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/5443/frontvk.jpg

Track-listing
01. Pillow Talk
02. Give It Up in Vain
03. Sunday
04. Don't Leave Me Starving
05. My Thing
06. Didn't I
07. Had Any Lately
08. Not on the Outside
09. Cowards Way Out
10. Next Time That I See You
11. Gimme a Little Action
12. If You Get the Notion

Biography
Going strictly by the chart book, Sylvia was a one-hit wonder, hitting number three pop (and number one R&B) with her 1973 single "Pillow Talk," a slice of proto-disco bedroom funk. Few other one-hit wonders, however, had a career as multi-dimensional as Sylvia Robinson's. For one thing, she was actually no stranger to the hit parade when "Pillow Talk" started to catch on. In the 1950s, she'd been one-half of the rock & roll duo Mickey & Sylvia, remembered for eternity for their classic "Love Is Strange." As a one-named solo artist 15 years later, Sylvia would help lay the ground for disco, urban contemporary, and even rap with her cooing whispers and orgasmic sighs. Murmuring about romantic love with a seductive come-on that was pretty bawdy by early-'70s standards, she was the yin to Barry White's yang, if you will, offering a kinder, gentler brand of between-the-sheets soul from a feminine viewpoint. Unlike many of the singers who would follow a similar path, Sylvia was no producer's tool: she played guitar and co-wrote and co-produced most of her material, which was released on a record company run by her and her husband Joe. In the late '70s and early '80s, she would play a crucial role in the birth of rap as the co-founder of Sugar Hill Records.

"Pillow Talk" began life as a song that Sylvia hoped to pitch to Al Green. After nothing came of that plan, she issued it herself on the Vibration label, an imprint of the All Platinum company that she had founded with her husband in the late '60s in New Jersey. It would be her only major pop crossover hit, but she did have a handful of small R&B hits in the mid-'70s in a similar vein, her hushed sexy whispers backed by laconic funk-cum-disco grooves and occasional strings. Not nearly as risqué as Millie Jackson, this was nonetheless fairly forthright stuff for its era; when she pushed it to the limit, it could have passed for some of the milder routines on phone-sex lines. In this sense, she could be considered as a precursor not only to rap, but to R&B performers like Prince who would make plainly stated lust a centerpiece of their compositions. While her Sugar Hill activities took most of her time by the 1980s, she still found some time for recording, making the middle of the R&B charts again with a rap tune, "It's Good to Be the Queen."

Review
Features the sensuous, erotic "Pillow Talk," sung by Sylvia Robinson. The rest is interesting but doesn't have the commercial appeal. She remakes two Moment's songs: the sad, teary "Sunday," and the sweet soul classic "Not on the Outside," yet neither can hold a candle to the originals, despite the fact that Robinson co-wrote both songs, like she did most of the tunes on this LP. Holland Dozier Holland's "Don't Leave Me Starving" gets an update and comes off better than her own compositions, but you would never choose this one over the original. "Had Any Lately" sounds good enough to be a single, and it probably was. Robinson's niche is singing in a sensuous a whisper, when she does songs about pain and hurt she sounds melodramatic. Later singles and albums were far more pleasing than this debut released on one of the family of labels she owned with husband Joe Robinson.

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RunawayTrane

January 28th, 2010, 03:35 PM

JACSKON 5
LOOKING THROUGH THE WINDOWS
1972

:respect-067:

(I actually still own the 45RPM for Little Bitty Pretty One. I broke it a long time ago but it still plays)

RunawayTrane

January 28th, 2010, 03:35 PM

McCoy Tyner - The Real McCoy
JAZZ | FLAC | CUE | LOG | ARTWORK | 227MB | 37:07
Blue Note 1967

http://www.onlinedisk.ru/cache/bd6f6455f651f92f0c4792dd9e9f2d90 (http://www.onlinedisk.ru/view/333532/McCoyReal.jpg)

Two and a half years after his last recording as a leader for Impulse, pianist McCoy Tyner emerged to start a period on Blue Note that would result in seven albums. Having left John Coltrane's Quartet in late 1965, Tyner was entering a period of struggle, although artistically his playing grew quite a bit in the late '60s. For this release, the pianist is teamed with tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson, bassist Ron Carter, and drummer Elvin Jones for five of his originals. Highlights of the easily recommended album include "Passion Dance," "Four by Five," and "Blues on the Corner." ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

PERSONNEL:
McCoy Tyner - Piano
Ron Carter - Bass
Joe Henderson - Saxophone
Elvin Jones - Drums

TRACK-LISTING:
1. Passion Dance
2. Contemplation
3. Four by Five
4. Search for Peace
5. Blues on the Corner

LINK (http://lix.in/-6c946a)
pw: lisalisa

jacopass

January 28th, 2010, 03:53 PM

McCoy Tyner - The Real McCoy
JAZZ | FLAC | CUE | LOG | ARTWORK | 227MB | 37:07
Blue Note 1967

Joe Henderson and Ron Carter...great!

mitrik

January 28th, 2010, 04:08 PM

Thank you very much!

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Thank you very much for sharing with us!
:thumbs up:

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Thank you for sharing with us!
:thumbs up:

tpvmeffq

January 28th, 2010, 04:37 PM

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Artist: Edwin Starr
Album: War & Peace / Involved
Genre: soul, funk, r&b,
Year: 2002

FLAC + LOG + CUE
from the torrent world..

2 LPs on 1 CD w/2 bonus tracks

War & Peace (1970)
1. War (US No. 1/UK Top 40 smash in 1970)
2. Running Back And Forth
3. Adios Senorita
4. All Around The World
5. I Can't Escape Your Memory
6. At Last (I Found A Love)
7. I Just Wanted To Cry
8. Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head
9. Time
10. California Soul
11. I Can't Replace My Old Love
12. She Should Have Been Home

Involved (1971)
13. Ball Of Confusion (That's What The World Is Today)
14. Funky Music Sho Nuff Turns Me On
15. Stop The War Now
16. Cloud Nine
17. Stand
18. My Sweet Lord

Bonus tracks (non-LP B-sides)
19. Love (The Lonely People's Prayer)
20. Lonely Rainy Days In San Diego

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jacopass

January 28th, 2010, 08:42 PM

Bobby Broom - Livin' For The Beat [1984]
http://i64.servimg.com/u/f64/11/64/53/57/front259.jpg (http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=497&u=11645357)
An acclaimed modern day jazz guitarist and a jazz educator, Bobby
Broom developed his skill by working with many of the 20th Century leaders in the field of jazz music, including Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis, Art Blakey, Stanley Turrentine and fellow guitarist Kenny Burrell, among others. He has performed world-wide with such jazz masters in venues ranging from Carnegie Hall and Queen’s Hall in Edinburgh, Scotland, to the famed Village Vanguard jazz club in New York City.(Discogs)
Producer - David Spradley , Ted Currier
Tracks:
1. Beat Freak
2. Give Me Your Love
3. Magic Johnson
4. Find Yourself
5. Let It Go
6. Let's Stay Together
7. Rubye
8. He Said I Love You

[SIZE="3"]Rip From Cd|Wav Image & Cue|Covers|Log & Info

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mitrik

January 29th, 2010, 12:31 AM

Thank you very much for nice sharing!

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Good release, thank you very much!:553:

Black Stars

January 29th, 2010, 04:59 AM

Vanilla Ice
To The Extreme
[Internet Copy Rip Wav]

http://lossless-galaxy.ru/uploads/posts/2010-01/1263846488_cover000.jpg

Track List :

01. Ice Ice Baby
02. Yo Vanilla
03. Stop That Train
04. Hooked
05. Ice Is Workin' It
06. Life Is A Fantasy
07. Play That Funky Music
08. Dancin'
09. Go Ill
10. It's A Party
11. Juice To Get Loose Boy
12. Ice Cold
13. Rosta Man
14. I Love You
15. Havin' A Roni

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souled out

January 29th, 2010, 07:51 AM

wav 762mb

http://cdn.7static.com/static/img/sleeveart/00/002/659/0000265914_350.jpg

Review
Funky Notes from the West Coast collects some of the finest soul-jazz, funk and soul released by Capitol/EMI. One of the Blue Note's best-selling reissues, Funky Notes includes tracks like "She's My Summer Breeze" by the Reflections, Maze's "While I'm Alone," A Taste of Honey's "I Love You" and Gene Harris' "Losalamitoslatinfunklovesong." Worthwhile for any fan of jazzy, funky soul. ~ Heather Phares, All Music Guide

1. Music Is My Sanctuary - Bartz, Gary
2. Sky Islands - Caldera
3. Annie Mae - Cole, Natalie
4. Sunshine - Wilson, Nancy
5. As - Harris, Gene
6. Genie - Lyle, Bobby
7. I Love You - Taste Of Honey
8. While I'm Alone - Maze
9. Peace Of Mind - Allen, Rance Group
10. Inside You - Henderson, Eddie
11. Every Generation - Laws, Ronnie
12. She's My Summer Breeze - Reflections
13. Losalamitos (Latinfunklovesong) - Harris, Gene
14. About Love - Sidran, Ben
15. Dindi - Lawson, Janet

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whodshecoo

January 29th, 2010, 10:41 AM

24 Carat Black - Gone...The Promises Of Yesterday
Numero 2009 (recorded 1974)

CD | FLAC | 170 MB | [WEB]

http://i63.servimg.com/u/f63/11/33/84/05/24ceeb10.jpg

1. The Best Of Good Love Gone (5:40)
2. I Want To Make Up (6:39)
3. I Don't Love You (2:17)
4. I'll Never Let You Go (5:11)
5. Gone The Promises Of Yesterday (5:57)
6. I Begin To Weep (11:49)

An amazing musical discovery -- the lost second album from 24 Carat Black -- recorded right after the band's legendary debut for Stax Records, but unissued for over 30 years! All the righteous styles of the group's famous Ghetto Misfortune's Wealth classic are fully in place here -- and if anything, the record has an even headier feel overall -- really complicated sounds that are often deeply spiritual, but still have that snaking, bassline-driven, slow funk quality that we love in the group! The tunes each feel like mini-symphonies in soul -- and although the themes center more around love than politics, they're done in a way that goes way past any sexy soul cliches of the time. The group is amazingly laidback -- slow-stepping into each tune with a care and confidence that's amazing -- and letting the cuts come into their own organically, but always with a mystical sense of order. Numero have done a wonderful job excavating this work -- remastering the tapes for great sound, and telling the full story of the group and their too-short career.
~dustygroove

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ivanohe

January 29th, 2010, 11:51 AM

LEON HAYWOOD
The Best Of
468Mb (FLAC Image+cue)

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/6d/f7/55afc060ada0e880abf40210.L.jpg

Daydream
Strokin', Pts. I & II
Don't Push It Don't Force It
T.V. Mama
Come And Get Yourself Some
This Feeling's Rated Extra
I Want'a Do Something Freaky To You
That's What Time It Is
Keep It In The Family
Consider The Source
Long As There's You (I Got Love)
Sugar Lump
La La Song
One Way Ticket To Loveland
That Sweet Woman Of Mine
Who You Been Givin' It Up To
Just Your Fool
Believe Half Of What You See (And None Of What You Hear)
It's Got To Be Mellow

PART 1 (http://rapidshare.com/files/343001542/tbolh.part1.rar)
PART 2 (http://rapidshare.com/files/343007379/tbolh.part2.rar)
PART 3 (http://rapidshare.com/files/343016765/tbolh.part3.rar)
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Black Stars

January 29th, 2010, 12:37 PM

D.I.T.C.
Thick [CD-Maxi]
[Direct Rip Wav]

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4z_YFyxeS-8/SyTHaES5ItI/AAAAAAAAApk/kJmlw2qjf-Y/s400/R-1022590-1185098912.jpg

Track List :

01. Thick (Environmentally Friendly Version)
02. Thick (Blast In The Hood Version)
03. Thick (Instrumental) (To Get Your Flow On)

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RunawayTrane

January 29th, 2010, 01:08 PM

Once again, great posts everyone I love this thread. One problem though:
When ripping compact discs, you should always try to include an extraction log.
If ripping vinyl is not necessary (although appreciated), but should always
be included if it's a CD rip

If you don't want your name in file path on the log, then maybe place album
folder on Desktop. Or place folder outside of My Documents folder.

thanks

RunawayTrane

January 29th, 2010, 01:20 PM

Artist: Edwin Starr
Album: War & Peace / Involved
Genre: soul, funk, r&b,
Year: 2002

FLAC + LOG + CUE
from the torrent world..

password isn't working for me

EDIT

figured it out, password needs to capitalized. Instead of eswapi it should be ESWAPI. Not the same thing, please make the change in the post

tpvmeffq

January 29th, 2010, 04:21 PM

password isn't working for me

EDIT

figured it out, password needs to capitalized. Instead of eswapi it should be ESWAPI. Not the same thing, please make the change in the post
done the change, thanks for pointing it out...
and sorry for the problem, it seems I had caps lock on when I typed it in the rar file...

as for the log file, my first 2 posts here were taken from the net, not my rip..
I probably will post some old rips I did when I was 'experimenting' with eac & stuff like that, so they won't have a log or cue file, but all my latest flac rips are done in secure mode and come with log & cue files attached

mitrik

January 29th, 2010, 05:19 PM

Good rip, thank you!

Disco

January 29th, 2010, 07:07 PM

Plush - s/t [1982]
[cd-rip][flac][log][cover]

Rare album produced by Bobby Watson, Rene Moore and Angela Winbush!
It's the bomb!!

http://img38.imagefra.me/img/img38/2/1/29/modisco/f_sn59gm_4a649ff.jpg

1. Burnin' Love 3:44
2. We've Got The Love 4:13
3. Free And Easy 4:26
4. Coast To Coast 3:36
5. Gonna Get Ya 5:33
6. Livin For Your Love 3:56
7. Stranger Again 4:07
8. I Don't Know (Where Love Comes From) 3:10

Amazon review:
Watson, Moore and Winbush produced the debut for this group, sort of a Shalamar clone made up of Siedah Garrett, Tony Phillips and Ambrose Price II. R&A didn't push themselves too hard for new material: "Free And Easy" and "Strangers Again" are recycled from their own debut album. Two songs were written by band members, "Gonna Get Ya" and "Living For Your Love." Generally it's midtempo grooves ("I Don't Know"; "We Got The Love" - both Garrett leads), occasionally showing the buzzing synths that would be more prominent on future releases ("Burnin' Love," the single). The same year, the team also produced half of Janet Jackson's debut.

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January 29th, 2010, 09:34 PM

Plush - s/t [1982]
[cd-rip][flac][log][cover]

I have been thinking how can I say thank over the past hour for dropping this one. I just haven't been able to stop getting my boogie on so that I can type the message. This is the 80's at it's best right here. Much respect to you all for going into your collections and pulling out gems like this here. . :553:

funkysoul

January 30th, 2010, 12:07 AM

David Axelrod - Song of Innocence (1968) Reissue - 2000

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01.Urizen
02.Holy Thursday
03.The Smile
04.A Dream
05.Song of Innocence
06.Merlin's Prophecy
07.The Mental Traveler

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January 30th, 2010, 12:11 AM

[CENTER]The Isley Brothers – Between The Sheets (1983)
CD-Rip|Flac|Log|Cue

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Track-listing
01. Choosey Lover
02. Touch Me
03. I Need Your Body
04. Between the Sheets
05. Let’s Make Love Tonight
06. Ballad for the Fallen Soldier
07. Slow Down Children
08. Way out Love
09. Gettin’ Over
10. Rock You Good

Review
Compared to their past material, this album lacks the consistent mix of sultry ballads and funky dance numbers. There are really only two Isley Brothers' classics on this project: "Choosey Lover" and the title song "Between the Sheets." The former has a romantic flow and the latter is just shy of mid-tempo but not a bona fide ballad. When one thinks of a quiet thundering storm, this song's bassline comes to mind. As soothing as it is, it also has that trembling affect. It fell short of number one peaking at three on the Billboard R&B charts. "Choosey Lover" has that charismatic appeal.

After scores and scores of recording sessions, Ronald Isley's vocals maintain that zeal. It was becoming obvious that the group continuity was fading. Not so much from dissension within the group, but more so from dwindling interest in the music industry among group members, this was the group's last album as 3 + 3. Marvin and Ernie Isley and their brother in-law Chris Jasper would release an album the following year as Isley Jasper Isley. allmusic.com

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Kosta

January 30th, 2010, 12:29 AM

24 Carat Black - Gone...The Promises Of Yesterday

stunning album!! i didn't know about it

tpvmeffq

January 30th, 2010, 03:11 AM

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Artist: Junior Parker
Title: Love Ain't Nothing But A Business Goin' On
Year: 1971
CD release: 1997

FLAC + LOG + CUE
another gem from the torrent world

1. Love Ain't Nothin' But a Business Goin' On
2. Outside Man
3. Darling Depend on Me
4. Taxman
5. River's Invitation
6. (I Wonder) Where Our Love Has Gone
7. Just to Hold My Hand
8. You Know I Love You
9. Lady Madonna
10. Tomorrow Never Knows

from mojo;
"Herman Parker Jr. was born at the heart of the blues in Clarksdale, Mississippi in 1932. He died tragically young, from a brain tumour in 1971. In between, he produced some of the most soulful blues of the ’50s and ’60s. Mentored by Sonny Boy Williamson and Howlin’ Wolf and talent-spotted by Ike Turner, Parker started out as Little Junior who, with The Blue Flames cut the riotous Feelin’ Good and the eerie Mystery Train for Sun Records. Parker’s downhome late-’50s sides for Duke brought him success but when he moved away from hard blues he lost his audience. As a result, most scholars tend to write off Parker’s later, more soulful sound. This is a shame as his final recordings contain some of the most warm-heated sunshine soul of the period. Cratediggers rate this album (alt. titled Outside Man in its Capitol incarnation) because of Sonny Lester’s clear production, and in-the-pocket groove from Jimmy McGriff’s soul-jazz combo and Parker’s three Beatles tracks – Taxman, Tomorrow Never Knows and Lady Madonna – where the singer’s good-hearted character cuts through the clichés, even going so far as to blanche at the meanness of George Harrison’s lyrics on Taxman (“Oh, this is awful!”). Also worth tracking down is Parker’s glorious cover of Ain’t It Funny How Time Slips Away from the same period; an epic spoken-word reworking of the Willie Nelson country classic that deserves to sit alongside such other soul overhauls of white radio standards as Isaac Hayes’ By The Time I Get To Phoenix and Bobby Womack’s cover of The Carpenters’ Close To You."
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RunawayTrane

January 30th, 2010, 06:33 AM

done the change, thanks for pointing it out...
and sorry for the problem, it seems I had caps lock on when I typed it in the rar file...

that's why I say it's best just to have a uniform pass for all your posts, so you can avoid things like that. I've typed "lisalisa" so many times it's almost automatically done now. You can even setup Winrar (or Winzip or 7zip) to password protect automatically....doesn't even need to be anything complicated. It could be "...." and be just as effective

it's not mandatory to always use the same pass, but it can make things easier for the people you're sharing with

Nevus

January 30th, 2010, 12:29 PM

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Nina Simone - Baltimore (1978) (CTI 7084)
With Covers

Tracklist:
1 Baltimore 4:37
2 Everything Must Change 3:57
3 The Family 4:57
4 My Father 4:54
5 Music For Lovers 3:41
6 Forget 2:54
7 Rich Girl 3:11
8 That's All I Want From You 2:52
9 Balm In Gilead 2:24
10 If You Pray Right 3:17

The High Priestess of Soul meets CTI on this beautiful album from 1978. The sessions took place in Brussels and New York City, the unusually modern sound was arranged by David Matthews. Although Baltimore didn't bring no juke-box hits, it surely belongs among Nina Simone's best 1970's albums.

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January 30th, 2010, 01:55 PM

Chris Thomas King/Blind Mississippi Morris
Along the Blues Highway (Live)
BLUES | WAVPACK | CUE | LOG | TIFF ART | 443MB | 58:13 | SPLIT CD
Varese Sarabande 2003

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This split CD of live performances from Chris Thomas King and Blind Mississippi Morris features two excellent, but very different, approaches to the blues. King's acoustic set was recorded at the Kalamazoo Blues Festival in 2001. On King's excellent set he tackles seven originals on slide guitar, including "Red Mud," "I'm on Fire," and "O' Brother Where Art Thou." Morris was caught the same year but at a different location: the Sunflower Blues Festival in Clarksdale, MS. Backed by his working band, this set features electric workouts on the originals "Beale Street Tonight," "You Know I Like That," "Willie," "Bad to Worse," "Night Roads," along with the obligatory "Dust My Broom." King and Morris prove that the blues is alive and well and in good hands going into the new millennium. ~ Al Campbell, All Music Guide

CT KING
01. Red Mud
02. Why
03. Soon This Morning Blues
04. I'm on Fire
05. Alive
06. Me, My Guitar and the Blues
07. O Brother, Where Art Thou?

BM MORRIS
08. Dust My Broom
09. You Know I Like That
10. Willie
11. Beale Street Tonight
12. Bad to Worse
13. Night Roads
14. Going Back to Louisiana

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jacopass

January 30th, 2010, 04:52 PM

Future Flight - Future Flight [1981]
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Part of the ‘AOR Mellow Groove Series’. Japanese exclusive digitally remastered reissue of 1981 album for Capitol. Ten tracks including, ‘Walk Don’t Run’ & ‘24 Hour Service’. Produced by Lamont Dozier.
Future Flight’s album came out on Capitol Records and you can tell by the sleeve notes that the group are as bigger fans of Lamont as I am, and I know many of you are. The group comprise of a base of four artists, Sy Jeffries, David Swanson, Brynwood Tanner and Anthony Patler. The band draws on several additional musicians to give the overall fuller feel to the outing. Although there are several uptempo moments, Sy and David’s vocals tend to compliment the melodies when they drop down a gear or two. Without doubt, the highlight of this ‘blue-eyed’ soul set is the quite magnificent ‘Hip-notic Lady’. One of Lamont’s finest songs from this period. File under classic. (www.soulwalking.co.uk)
Tracks:
01. Hip-Notic Lady
02. Walk Don’t Run
03. 24 Hour Service
04. You Should’ve Been There
05. Don’t Pull The Plug
06. Red Light Row
07. Let Me Love You Where It Hurts
08. Foolish Things
09. Dues
10. Nite People Prelude / Nite People

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whodshecoo

January 30th, 2010, 08:36 PM

Masekela - Colonial Man
Casablanca 1976

VINYL | FLAC | Cover | 230 MB

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1. A Song For Brazil (4:12)
2. Vasco Da Gama (The Sailor Man) (5:30)
3. For The Love Of You (8:24)
4. Colonial Man (5:06)
5. Whitch Doctor (7:32)
6. Cecil Rhodes (5:14)

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RunawayTrane

January 31st, 2010, 01:10 AM

Chris Thomas King - Rise
BLUES | WAVPACK | CUE | LOG | 300DPI | 293MB | 46:50
21st Century Blues 2006

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New Orleans musician Chris Thomas King lost both a home and a recording studio when Hurricane Katrina had landfall at the close of summer in 2005, and it's hardly startling that his album Rise takes Katrina and the devastating aftermath of the storm as a central theme. The result is a tremendously elegiac outing, and even when King goes up-tempo, as he does on a cover of Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi," the song itself is all about incalculable loss and the incredible indifference of contemporary America to its own personal history. Things are drowning and washing away in song after song on Rise, and King isn't afraid to name names. In "Faith," the song's narrator clings to a rooftop as bodies float by and he realizes that President Bush is in a plane over New Orleans in the same instant, and it is a powerful moment that literally defines the notion of differing perspectives. Does he really care, the narrator wonders. Rise deals with loss, death and the hope for rebirth in mostly hushed tones, and while many still think of King as primarily a blues artist, the album is really closer to a kind of pop gospel outing, only stripped of much of the certainty and joy that gospel usually conveys. Rise is King's personal revaluation of America, and the truths he examines are unclear, as perhaps they have always been. Although it works as one long and mostly melancholy suite, a few of Rise's songs do stand out, like the ominous and ultimately resigned "Flow Mississippi Flow," a lightly rewritten version of "St. James Infirmary" (certainly one of the most death-haunted songs in the whole history of American music) and the elegant "'Tis the Last Rose of Summer," which is dedicated to King's mother, who passed in December of 2005. King didn't record this album to further his career so much as a way to stumble towards an understanding of America in the 21st century, using Katrina as a necessary lens. Again, he doesn't come up with answers, but sometimes it's the questions that matter most, although asking why, King suggests, isn't particularly useful when everything has been washed away. What now, is the real question, and the answer to that question is still up in the air. The nature of modern media is to move on to the next thing. King and others whose lives were forever changed by Katrina and its aftermath don't have that option. ~ Steve Leggett, All Music Guide

TRACKLISTING

01. What Would Jesus Do?
02. Faith
03. Baptized in Dirty Water
04. Flow Mississippi Flow
05. St. James Infirmary
06. When Magnolias Bloom
07. Big Yellow Taxi
08. Like a Hurricane (Ghost of Marie Laveau)
09. Deepest Ocean
10. 'Tis the Last Rose of Summer
11. What a Wonderful World

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January 31st, 2010, 02:49 AM

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Artist : Willie Hightower
Title : Willie Hightower
Genre: soul/R&B
Year: 2005

Tracks:
1. Walk a Mile in My Shoes
2. Back Road into Town
3. If I Had a Hammer
4. Nobody But You
5. You Used Me Baby
6. Time Has Brought About a Change
7. It's Too Late
8. (Take My Hand) Let's Walk Together
9. Poor Man
10. I Can't Love Without You
11. I Love You (Yes I Do)
12. It's Wonderful to Be in Love with You
13. Ooh Baby How I Love You
14. Somebody Have Mercy
15. Because I Love You
16. You Are Mine
17. It's a Miracle
18. (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons/You Send Me

Back in the heyday of acid house I used to deejay in the backroom of what was then one of London's hippest clubs. The record I associate most with those nights is Willie Hightower's version of Joe South's 'Walk A Mile In My Shoes'. Though most of the kids who heard it each week probably wouldn't have had any idea who Willie Hightower or Joe South were, let alone any understanding of what was meant by 'southern soul', every time I played that single the dance floor would be heaving. It's an irresistibly propulsive record with a loping, yet
undeniably funky beat. The choruses are an explosion of horns, rhythm and vocals - and it's the vocals that are the crowning glory. Sounding like a cross between Sam Cooke and Little Richard, Willie preaches as much as sings the words. The song starts with Willie doing his best roughed-up Sam Cooke vocal, but as things progress he starts to scream the words whilst the bass, drums and piano dance around him. Joe South's lyrics about interpersonal empathy are transformed into a hymn to interracial understanding that's a kinder cousin to Percy Mayfield's 'You're In For A Big Surprise' as sung by Ray Charles. It's musically and emotionally as perfect a three and a half minutes of music as you're ever likely to hear. It's a record that deserved a much better fate than to be corralled by retentive soul fans like myself. It was born to be heard booming from open windows on hot summer days, crackling and exploding from the speakers of radios and boom boxes.

It was producer Rick Hall's idea that Willie record 'Walk A Mile In My Shoes'. In a Swedish TV documentary filmed at the Fame studio in 1969 during the song's recording, Rick says, 'I don't think the production on the original record is very good, even though it's a big hit record, so I want to get an R&B version on it. I'm cutting it basically for an R&B record but I'm hoping it will go pop and pick up some sales that he'll miss. In fact, I think I've cut a better record than the Joe South version.' It's hard to disagree with that.

Willie Hightower was born in 1940 in Gadsden, Alabama, where - the proud grandfather of six - he still earns his living singing today. 'My grandkids like the records I made,' he tells me. 'You'd be surprised at how much the young people like the old music. I started singing at the age of six. I was singing in the church, in the choir. I've been singing all my life.' He began singing professionally in 1958 and spent the next six years performing small gigs around the South. 'I started singing in clubs when I was eighteen. I was singing Sam Cooke-type stuff. I've liked Sam Cooke since way back when he was in the Soul Stirrers singing gospel. I just loved the sound of his voice.'

Things changed when a local deejay called up Bobby Robinson - a record company owner and producer in New York. As Willie says, 'I got together with Bobby when Shelly Stewart, who became my manager, called New York and told Bobby he had to hear me. Shelly was a black deejay on WENN playing R&B and soul. He ended up managing me and stayed that way for a good ten years.' Bobby obviously valued Shelly's opinion because he flew Willie up to New York just to hear him sing.

'I loved New York. I'd never been to a place like that before. Working with Bobby was good too. He was the man to work with. It made a big difference to my life. I'd never even been in a studio before. I also got to play places like the Apollo in New York, where I'd just been playing little clubs before.'

Before signing with Bobby, Willie had only written one song, the mournful 'It's Too Late'. This became his first release - coming out on Enjoy, one of several labels owned by Bobby Robinson. Despite the fact that Willie says he wrote the song before hooking up with Bobby, it's credited to both of them. Very different in feel from most of the other material that Willie recorded over the next half dozen years, it displays none of the Sam Cooke influence that's so strong in much of Willie's other work.

Memorably described by writer Barney Hoskyns - in his classic 'Say It One Time For The Broken Hearted' - as sometimes sounding 'like Sam Cooke after a night on the tiles', Willie owed an immense debt to Sam Cooke, but he was far more than just a copyist. Just like Louis Williams of Memphis group The Ovations, Willie could sound uncannily like Sam, but he always got away with it because his voice not only recalls Sam's in tone and timbre but also in its spirit and soul. Just like Sam, Willie was a great communicator - of tenderness, sadness and vulnerability one moment, joy and optimism the next. Two of his most successful songs commune with the music that Sam Cooke was making just before his death.

'It's A Miracle' is Willie's personal favourite of all the records he released. Co-written by Willie and Bobby Robinson, it's a stately, gospel-tinged ballad that celebrates the redemptive power of love. 'Of all the records I made 'It's A Miracle' is the one I'm proudest of. I liked the arrangement a lot and I was more comfortable doing that song than anything else I've ever recorded.'

'Time Has Brought About A Change' - released on Fame and this time written by Willie alone -is perhaps the greatest of all Willie's compositions. It was conceived as a sequel to Sam Cooke's signature civil rights anthem 'A Change Is Gonna Come'. 'I loved that song because I knew that a change was on its way. I believed in the lyrics. There was a big change back then. It was on its way anyway. Things are much better now for blacks. We can go any place we like. We have the opportunity to get good jobs if we want them. Things are so much better.'

When Willie was playing live back then it would often be to segregated audiences, and even though he might be the featured artist his skin colour meant that he often had to enter clubs through the back door. Indeed it's hard to hear either of these Willie Hightower songs without reference to what was happening politically. Whilst not explicitly concerned with the civil rights movement they were undoubtedly touched by it. Though both are concerned with how one man feels, there's something about the way Willie sings them that makes them universal in theme. Back in the sixties Willie took part in civil rights demonstrations in his hometown in Alabama and the spirit of those marches can be heard in much of the music he recorded at the time. That spirit lends it much of the power it still has today.

Perhaps Willie's most obvious allusion to the civil rights movement is his interpretation - on Fury, another of Bobby's labels - of the Pete Seeger/Lee Hays composition 'If I Had A Hammer'. It had been a massive hit in 1963 for Trini Lopez - which makes it easy to forget that it was written as a protest song - though Willie learned it from a version by Sam Cooke on his 1964 live album from the Copa, an upmarket supper club in New York. Recorded before a largely white and well-to-do audience, 'Live At The Copa' is about as far away from soul music as Sam Cooke got, though with a voice like Sam's you could never stray far. Willie loved Sam's version of the song and incorporated it into his stage show, and this recording was one of Willie's biggest hits.

Willie signed to Capitol after releasing just three singles through Bobby's own imprints, though he continued to work with Bobby at Capitol, and his album for the label featured four of the six sides that he'd released with Bobby. When the Capitol deal came to an end, Willie was picked up by the Alabama-based Fame operation. Fame was owned by Rick Hall, who had already made a name for himself working with such big-name soul acts as Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding and Etta James; and who by the end of the decade had made the sleepy, richly musical backwater of Muscle Shoals as important a centre of Soul as Memphis or Detroit. 'Capitol and Fame were doing business together back then, and Fame was seen as their rhythm and blues label, and because I was a rhythm and blues artist they put me on Fame. So I joined with Rick Hall and I liked working with him. He was a good man to get along with. He changed the style as well. With Capitol I'd been closer to pop but with Rick it was very much rhythm and blues.'

Willie Hightower only released three singles whilst contracted to Fame, but they're three of the greatest soul records ever made, six simple songs that contain all that's magical about southern soul. They stand alongside anything to come out of Rick Hall's small studio, which is saying something when you count in classics like Etta James' 'I'd Rather Go Blind', Otis Redding's 'You Left The Water Running', Aretha Franklin's 'Do Right Woman, Do Right Man'. That's not even getting into the records that Rick released on his own Fame imprint by artists like Candi Staton, Spencer Wiggins and George Jackson.

After his stint at Fame, Willie signed to Mercury, where he recorded a number of high-quality singles. 'Rick let me go after those three singles. He let some of his other R&B acts go as well. People like Clarence Carter. I think he was moving on to a different thing. He had those hits with The Osmonds'. After leaving Mercury, Willie recorded only sporadically, but he never stopped singing. He's currently planning his long-awaited second album. 'I play round Alabama, anywhere they want me really. I still sing the old songs, pretty much all of them in fact. I still do 'Walk A Mile In My Shoes'.' It's good that Willie's still out there because the world needs singers like Willie, singers with real grit and belief, and genuine soul in the way they sing.

TIM TOOHER 2004

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rtownsend213

January 31st, 2010, 05:04 AM

[CENTER]Kashif - Kashif (1983)
Web-Rip|Image File|Log|Cue

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Track-listing
01 Don't Stop My Love
02 Stone Love
03 Just Gotta Have You (Lover Turn Me On)
04 Help Yourself To My Love
05 Rumours
06 Say Something Love
07 The Mood
08 All

Bonus Tracks(from the LP "Send me your love")
09 Baby Don't Break Your Baby's Heart
10 Send Me Your Love

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tpvmeffq

January 31st, 2010, 05:28 AM

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Artist: Eddie Hinton
Title: Letters From Mississippi
Year: 1990
Genre: soul, r&b

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1 Lettters from Mississippi (Hinton) 4:50
2 Everybody Needs Love (Hinton) 4:20
3 Uncloudy Days (Hinton) 3:07
4 I Will Always Love You (Hinton) 2:36
5 I Believe in Our Love (Hinton) 4:22
6 Ting-A-Ling-Ling (Hinton) 4:35
7 It's All Right (Hinton) 4:10
8 My Love (Hinton) 3:49
9 My Seaching Is Over (Hinton) 2:20
10 Sad and Lonesome (Hinton) 2:26
11 Everybody Meets Mr. Blue (Hinton) 3:25
12 I Want a Woman (Hinton) 3:12
13 Wet Weather Man (Hinton) 2:37
14 I'll Come Running Back (To You) (Cooke) 4:31

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Horseman

January 31st, 2010, 08:10 AM

Noel Pointer - Calling
UNITED ARTISTS 1980

VINYL | FLAC single files | Cover | 251 MB

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1. As Long As I Know (4:02)
2. Morning Song (3:24)
3. Love Is (4:11)
4. Tween The Lines (3:55)
5. I Don't Care (3:54)
6. Prelude (1:31)
7. Higher Than Heaven (3:53)
8. Precious Pearl (3:04)
9. Peace On Earth (4:07)
10. Take A Look (3:16)
11. Calling (6:22)

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Kosta

January 31st, 2010, 09:59 AM

JESS RODEN - The Player Not The Game (1977, Island)
Vinyl rip:
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A1 Misty Roses
A2 Sensation
A3 Lonely Avenue
A4 The Quiet Soun Of You And I
B1 The Hardest Blow
B2 Drinking Again
B3 Woman Across The Water
B4 In Me Tonight

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feat:
Leon Pendarvis
Rob Mounsey
Anthony Jackson
Francisco Centeno
John Tropea
Jeff Mironov
Buddy Williams
Arnold McCuller
Harold Vick....

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January 31st, 2010, 02:43 PM

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Artist : Various
Title: I Believe To My Soul
Year: 2005
Genre: soul
my cd->eac->wav->Dbpoweramp->Flac (level 6 compression)

Tracks:

1. You Must Have That True Religion - Mavis Staples
2. Both Ways - Billy Preston
3. Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You - Ann Peebles
4. The Same Love That Made Me Laugh - Irma Thomas
5. Mi Amour - Allen Toussaint
6. Keep on Pushing - Mavis Staples
7. As One - Billy Preston
8. Loving Arms - Irma Thomas
9. River Boat - Allen Toussaint
10. That's Enough - Mavis Staples/Billy Preston
11. Turvalon - Allen Toussaint
12. When the Candle Burns Low - Ann Peebles
13. We Are One - Allen Toussaint

Far and away the disc of the year. Even better, the news from Joe Henry, the producer, is this is the first of a series. This is Soul from the 60s, but it isn't retread songs. They went into the studio in LA and recorded each song with a smashing band that has the feel of the music, even though some of them are probably too young to remember it as it was played in its heyday. However, with singers and musicians such as are featured here you might have to be made of stone not to feel the depths and soul of this music. Singers such as Mavis Staples, 2 cuts and a duet with Billy Preston who adds 2 solo cuts, Ann Peebles, 2 cuts, Irma Thomas, 2 cuts, and Allan Toussaint, 4 cuts and plays piano on all the cuts and acts as a kind of musical director. There is not a weak cut on the disc. Each of the vocalists is in rare form and knows who else is coming on the disc and doesn't let up for even a nanosecond. I think a lot of the credit has to go to Joe Henry and
his vision for this disc. A quick aside here is that the liner notes are such an informative and entertaining read that they are well worth the finding of a magnifying glass and struggling with the burgundy type on very dark background (the only complaint with this disc). These artists have been around for a good stretch of time and the seasoning in their voices, their inflections. The depths of heart and soul that comes through the speakers is fantastic. These are emotionally inspired performances by inspiring performers. This is the most satisfying and uplifting disc to come around in a very long time. by Bob Gottlieb

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January 31st, 2010, 02:57 PM

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Artist : Candi Staton
Title : Who's Hurting Now
Year : 2009
Genre : soul

track listing

1. Breaking Down Slow
2. Who's Hurting Now
3. I Feel The Same
4. Mercy Now
5. I Don't Know
6. Lonely Don't
7. Get Your Hands Dirty
8. Dust On My Pillow
9. Cry Baby Cry
10. I Don't Want For Anything
11. The Light In Your Eyes

In which the first lady of Southern soul picks up where she left off in 2006, exploring her roots with a voice that remains one of the most instantly recognisable in music today.
In that previous album, His Hands, Staton tackled uncomfortable subjects head on, an approach reprised in Who's Hurting Now? The key difference between the two records, however, is that this album emerges from the pain with its fists clenched and a ready smile.

Before it does Staton again examines weighty issues. None are heavier than world peace, which Mercy Now looks at in its observation that leaders are reaching "towards another mushroom cloud". Mary Gauthier's song deals with big and small, so that Staton sings to friends and relatives as well as her country, concluding with the upward looking message that "I love life and life itself could use a little mercy now".

It almost goes without saying that the legendary Staton tonsils remain in formidable condition, that familiar combination of raw soul shot through with hard life experience. Her versatility is there for all to see, as she tackles songs written by country, blues and pop luminaries, and even makes songs she initially took a dislike to her own.

Will Oldham, who penned the uncomfortable home truths of domestic violence on His Hands, offers one song for this album - Get Your Hands Dirty, where Staton demands more input from her man. She does precisely the opposite in Dust On My Pillow, a song addressing Viagra and its negative influence in breaking up long-running relationships.

She ends on an upward curve. There's a sense of contentment running through I Don't Want For Anything, a song that refuses to push for material gain, while the closing Light In Your Eyes portrays everything good about this album, with an inner strength coming through triumphant.

Mark Nevers resumes his position at the controls for this album and turns out some beautiful arrangements, such as the string harmonies that lace I Don't Want For Anything or the quietly reverent guitar of Mercy Now. The dusty drum sound and soft bass seem to evoke the outdoor plains of the South, while the odd frisson of brass gives the music an occasional sideways glance towards funk.

Ultimately, though, he quite rightly defers to Staton's voice, the primary instrument, which completes the healing process started by His Hands. As authentic soul voices go, they don't come any more bona fide than this one.

- Ben Hogwood

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waldo24

January 31st, 2010, 02:58 PM

One Way - Cutie Pie
CD Rip - Flac - Covers - 362.076 MB

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COMPILATION
Label:MCA Records
Catalog#:MCAD-20562
Format:CD
Country:US
Released:08 Dec 1992
Genre:Funk / Soul

Tracks :
01 Cutie Pie 5:26
02 Lady You Are 5:24
03 You Can Do It 7:06
04 Wild Night 5:36
05 Don't Fight The Feeling 4:23
06 Don't Think About It 5:40
07 Dynomite 4:51
08 If I Knew 4:59
09 Mr. Groove 4:44
10 You Better Quit 4:11

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tpvmeffq

January 31st, 2010, 02:58 PM

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cd->eac->foobar->flac level 5

Tracks:

1. Candlelight
2. Roll Out
3. Superlover
4. System
5. The Truth Will Set You Free
6. Without You in My Life
7. Tears For The World
8. Dear Rosa
9. How Long
10. Miss Otis Regrets

Feminism has come a long way since these ladies were fortifying women with songs of power and reclaimed sexual agency. The impact and daring of Labelle singing messages about strong women running their own lives and relationships may be lost on a generation spoon-fed on Lil Kim's hyper-sexuality and Queen Latifah's fearless might. However, when Labelle shed the sequined gowns, blonde wigs and sweet ballads of their Patti Labelle and the Bluebelles days for jeans, afros and liberation songs, they paved the way for legions of girl groups to follow their unconventional path. It is not hyperbole to state that there could have never been a TLC or a Spice Girls without Patti Labelle, Sarah Dash and Nona Hendryx. When Labelle dared to venture into the all boy P-Funk territory of funky costumes and pyrotechnic shows with their concert levitations and outrageous LeGaspi and Erker space suits, they smashed all assumptions about what a girl group could do and what they must represent. Moreover, they had fun doing it. The women and gay men who frequented their role models' shows found affirmation in Labelle's open arms and the powerfully messaged support those 70s pioneers needed to shatter all those glass-ceilings. That Labelle's legacy has recently been reduced to a single hit about commercial sex work shortchanges these Nightbirds in ways profoundly revisionist and nearly criminal. So, it was with gratitude and excitement that I received a reunion album representing the real Labelle, not the Lady Marmalade fantasy concocted since the group's 1976 farewell.

The culmination of a reunion thirty years in the making, Back to Now is a roaring return from sexy sexagenarians who look more like mothers than grandmothers. The artistic success of this mostly timeless ten-song suite proves that Labelle is not done blazing new paths. When so many veterans are tepidly releasing cover albums, singing smooth jazz or fearfully "running back" to gospel, Labelle proves that veteran acts can still develop and release albums of relevant, original material that not only sings, but rocks! Boldly sung and exquisitely harmonized with voices that can still carry notes straight to the moon, Labelle hasn't lost any of the presence and power that made them legends. This isn't a lovely Patti Labelle album; this is a Labelle album vibrant with political messages, piercing concern and a ripe, mature sexuality.

Producers Lenny Kravitz, Nona Hendryx and a surprising return by Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff of Philadelphia International Records fame have shepherded a Labelle album that could have easily been released in 1975. Songs like "System," "Dear Rosa," "Hold On" and "Tears for the World" are rife with energy, compassion and an undertone of disappointed rage, all elements that personified the best of Labelle's socio-political commentary. The country flavored "Superlover" reflects off "If I Can't Have You" from Moon Shadow and "(Can I Speak To You Before You Go To) Hollywood" from the group's under-rated Pressure Cooking. Meeting Patti, Sarah and Nona's power ballad quota, "Without You In My Life" echoes "Let Me See You In The Light" and "Last Dance," also from Pressure Cooking. "The Truth Will Set You Free" returns them to the funk and church of "Get You Somebody New" from Chameleon. Only Wyclef Jean's ear-bleeding, auto-tuned girl power, "Roll Out," attempts to diminish Back to Now with obvious commercialism.

If cuts from Back To Now sounds like the 70s, it's partially because a couple of the songs were written or recorded then, including the sultry ballad "Candlelight" and a live, baroque performance of Cole Porter's "Miss Otis Regrets." The unreleased standard is yet another example in a long line of classic material that Labelle's transformative interpretations have turned inside out, a tradition that includes Jagger's "Wild Horses" and Simone's "Four Women."

Back To Now is the Labelle album people have been waiting for. Don't let the misguided single, "Roll Out," fool you. Seasoned yet fiery, Labelle is back to once again to show the naked, manufactured young ladies of contemporary music what empowered female rebellion, wholly-owned sexuality, and inspiring provocation looks like when it uplifts people more than it shocks. Labelle's phoenix is a resurrected beacon of light musically guiding the dispossessed as these ladies always have: by example. Highly Recommended.

By L. Michael Gipson

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James77

January 31st, 2010, 03:10 PM

Ashford & Simpson - Street Opera

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Artist : Ashford & Simpson
Title : Street Opera
Year : 1982 (2009 Re-Edit)
Genre : RnB, Disco
Label : EMI Music Japan / Capitol
Catnum : QIAG-70006
Size : 220 MB
Source : CDDA
Grabber : EAC Secure Mode
Format : FLAC Lossless

Tracklist:

1 Love It Away 04:30
2 Make It Work Again 04:19
3 Mighty Might Love 04:46
4 I'll Take The Whole World On 05:11
5 Street Opera Part 1 Working Man 02:05
6 Part 2 Who Will They Look To 03:00
7 Part 3 Street Corner 04:22
8 Part 4 Times Will Be Good Again 02:36
9 Reprise Working Man 01:15

Their Capitol debut, and it starts strong, with the irresistably funky "Love It Away" and yearning "Make It Work Again." Side two is turned over to the 13-minute title suite, telling the story of a relationship strained by poverty. It works surprisingly well, tugging at heart strings on "Who Will They Look To" and "Times Will Be Good Again" - they still have a knack for describing situations everyone can relate to without descending into cliché. Mostly the arrangements are slow and stately, except for the bouncy funk "Street Corner," which became a successful single. It's not a masterpiece, but it's quite enjoyable, and I don't see why this wasn't more successful. The band is mostly the same as Still Good, with Yogi Horton on drums and Leon Pendarvis arranging strings and horns; Richard Tee appears on the ballad "I'll Take The Whole World On." (DBW)

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rtownsend213

January 31st, 2010, 08:52 PM

There has been a lot of posting going on over the past couple of weeks and for a change I have been able to listen to it all. Many thanks to you all for taking the time to share music, good music at that. "SHARING IS CARING".

RunawayTrane

January 31st, 2010, 11:18 PM

Chris Thomas King - The Roots
BLUES | FLAC | CUE | LOG | 300DPI | 383MB | 63:00
21st Century Blues 2003

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Recorded and released in 2003, the "Year of the Blues," Chris Thomas King's The Roots is a tribute album of originals and covers celebrating Leadbelly, Skip James, Blind Willie Johnson, Tommy Johnson, Son House, and Robert Johnson. With King leaving his hip-hop blues visions in the laboratory, this is a tried and true recording of traditional blues music played mostly on a lone acoustic or National steel guitar. King's performances of tunes like James' "Hard Time Killing Floor" and "Cypress Grove" may feel a little reverential, but only on first listen. King's reads of these tunes are through the eyes of a younger man who grew up with this music as a monolith. This sounds especially true of his performances of Blind Willie Johnson's (whose character he played in Wim Wenders' film Soul of a Man) "Trouble Will Soon Be Over" and Leadbelly's "CC Rider." But these songs, too, are stunning in their ghostly modern incarnations, with King's amazing voice expressing nuances in the music that went unheard in the past. But it is King's own songs that are the crowning achievements here. "John Law Burned Down the Liquor Sto'," "Watermelon Man," "Dark Clouds," and the closer, "Raining Angels," among others, offer the true weight of the album's importance. These are modern folk-blues songs that sound as timeless and hunted as the music that came from the Delta and migrated later to Chicago. King's no academic; he's a singer with great soul and emotion and he's a writer with a keen sense not only blues history but of soul music phrasing, offering a solidly new chapter in the blues tradition. Highly recommended. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music Guide

PERSONNEL:
Chris Thomas King - Vocals, Guitar
James Cotton - Harmonica
Darryl White - Drums
Monique Moss - Actress
Earl J. Smith - Vocals

TRACK-LISTING:
01. Hard Time Killing Floor Blues
02. Cypress Grove
03. John Law Burned Down the Liquor Sto'
04. O Brother, Where Art Thou? [Acappella]
05. Come on in My Kitchen
06. Watermelon Man
07. Trouble Will Soon Be Over
08. Dark Clouds
09. If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day
10. Death Letter Blues
11. Sinking Feelin'
12. Canned Heat Blues
13. Southern Chick's Blues
14. Rock Island Line
15. Midnight Special
16. Martha's Blues
17. Cotton Fields
18. C.C. Rider
19. Raining Angels

LINK (http://lix.in/-6a3772)
pw: lisalisa

ivanohe

January 31st, 2010, 11:47 PM

SILK
Prelude records 1977
(FLAC Image+cue+log+scans)

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things haven't changed
i'll be waiting
answer my prayers
gone away
get ready for that day
simply beautiful
people
i never had a love (like this before)
dogs of war

PART 1 (http://rapidshare.com/files/344179473/klis.part1.rar)
PART 2 (http://rapidshare.com/files/344180074/klis.part2.rar)

PW: ivanovitch

whodshecoo

February 1st, 2010, 12:04 AM

Chris Thomas King - The Roots
BLUES | FLAC | CUE | LOG | 300DPI | 383MB | 63:00
21st Century Blues 2003

Great drop. Never heard of. Just know a Chris Thomas live version of 'John Law..' which is really the sh*t .. preciated!!

:thumbs up:

zacki

February 1st, 2010, 12:32 AM

JKD Band - Dragon Power (1979)

Vinyl-Rip|Wav|Covers
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01. Let Your Body Do The Talking
02. Dream Machine
03. Africa
04. Dragon Power (A Special Tribute To Bruce Lee)
05. Everything Thats Part Of You
06. Hooked On The Boogie
07. Mellow Terrain

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Doctor-Rhythm

February 1st, 2010, 08:30 AM

AL JOHNSON
BACK FOR MORE

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[VINYL] Disco, Soul, Funk | FLAC, Covers

Label: Columbia
Catalog#: JC 36266
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: US
Released: 1980

Media conditions: VG++
Reproduction device: Technics SL-1210-MK2 turntable + Shure M97XE cartridge & stylus
Preamplifier: TCC TC-750 Phono Preamp
Soundcard: Creative USB Sound Blaster Audigy 2 NX
Software: Wave Lab 4.0 (Recording), Clickrepair (Default Percussion), GoldWave (Downsampling)
Format of record (Bit/kHz): 24/88.2
Format of distribution (Bit/kHz): 16/44.1

Tracklisting:

A1 I'm Back For More (Featuring - Jean Carn) 5:07
A2 Saved By The Bell 4:40
A3 You're A Different Lady 4:06
A4 School Of The Groove 4:46
B1 I've Got My Second Wind 5:32
B2 Tonight's The Night For Love 5:38
B3 You Are My Personal Angel 5:02
B4 Peaceful 4:38

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nils24

February 1st, 2010, 09:29 AM

:grin:

Rychead84

February 1st, 2010, 10:54 AM

Thumbz Up for the post! I've been looking out for this one!!

zacki

February 1st, 2010, 01:11 PM

O'Bryan - Be My Lover (1984)

Vinyl-Rip|Wav|Covers
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01. Lovelite
02. Be My Lover
03. You Gotta Use It
04. Go On And Cry
05. Breakin' Together
06. You're Always On My Mind
07. Too Hot
08. Lady I Love You

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tpvmeffq

February 1st, 2010, 01:23 PM

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FLAC + LOG + CUE

Track listing
Disc 1
"Spacefruit" featuring Debi Nova
"Dirty Beauty" featuring Erykah Badu
"I Swear" featuring Noni Limar
"Melodee N'mynor"
"He Say She Say"
"Traffika"
"Souls Brother"
"Bitch Baby"
"Love Czars"
"Gemini's Rising" featuring Rozzi Daime
"The Bone Song"
"White Cloud" featuring Rozzi Daime & Lil' Kenny
"Move Your Ass"
"Love Today"
"Can I Get You Hi"
"My Star" featuring Erika Rose
"Cosmic Ball" featuring the Gary Bartz Quartet
Disc 2
"Spaceways Theme"
"Just Like a Baby"
"Double Dutch (Co Co Pops)"
"Death of a Star (Supernova)"
"Powder Bump"
"Hangin' by a String"

Sa-Ra's rep as future-soul avatars has seemed more myth than reality, with a messy discography that includes an unreleased debut for Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Music (part of which emerged on 2007's The Hollywood Recordings) and several contributions to Erykah Badu's epic New Amerykah Part One (4th World War). But the glorious Nuclear Evolution finally realizes their potential, with lyrical themes swerving from cocaine abuse to prostitution to redemptive love, over swaggering synth funk ("White Cloud"), melancholy psychedelica ("Dirty Beauty," featuring Badu), and giddy soul jazz ("Love Czar"). Fusing spirituality and sin, cynicism and optimism, it's a panorama that throws you into dark nightlife, then lifts you out, invigorated, into a new day.

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RunawayTrane

February 1st, 2010, 02:01 PM

O'Bryan - Be My Lover (1984)

Vinyl-Rip|Wav|Covers

05. Breakin' Together

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teddybear4703

February 1st, 2010, 02:31 PM

Reupload

One Way - Fancy Dancer (1981)

CD-Rip|Wav|Cue|Log|Covers
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[/B]

On part 3, RS is saying: "The download link has been manipulated and is therefore not valid". Do you know what does it mean, Zacki? Thanks for your response.

Kosta

February 1st, 2010, 08:02 PM

ALICIA MYERS - Alicia (1981, MCA)
Vinyl rip:
Stanton681>Dual,turntable>HarmanKardonPM645>SonyAD/DA>OpticalCable>Prodif,soundcard>WaveLab>ClickRepair

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01 - Don't Stop What You're Doin'
02 - If You Play Your Cards Right
03 - Spirit Of The Boogie
04 - We Can't Stay In Bed Forever
05 - Reservation For One
06 - I Want To Thank You
07 - Reggae Funky Dance
08 - Life, Joy and Happiness

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jacopass

February 1st, 2010, 08:39 PM

Deco - Fresh Idea [1983]
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Firstly, the Deco album was recorded and completed, through to it’s final packaging, and then withdrawn leaving a few cut-outs circulating at the time. The time was 1983 and Deco were Zane Giles and Phillip Ingram. The album was due for release on Quincy Jones’s Qwest label and was produced by the great man additionally. The artistic input included the ‘dynamic duo’ of Patrice Rushen and Sheree Brown. Of the tracks that were on offer here, ‘I’m So Glad I Met You’ was popular amongst soul fans, however, I was busy hunting the set out for the excellent offering ‘Delicious’. Really summery sound from a fine album that never saw the official light of day. Shame.(soulwalking.co.uk)
Tracks:
1. Fresh Idea
2. I’ ll Be There
3. I’ m So Glad I Met You
4. Someone Special
5. Let This Be Your Night
6. Burned By A Bad Match
7. Live My Fantasy
8. Delicious
9. Let’ s Pretend

Cd Rip|Wav|Image & Cue|Covers|Log

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omar2

February 1st, 2010, 10:14 PM

Anyface - Duct Tape Soul (1996)

01 - Blandscape
02 - Black & Green & Brown
03 - Pour Confusion
04 - Sigh
05 - Tricky
06 - The Last To Know
07 - Squirt Gun
08 - Dirty Secret
09 - She's Right Where She Belongs
10 - The Bride Quits
11 - Admission
12 - Beautiful Vagrant
13 - The Ballad Of A Punk Rock Legend

Genre: Punk Rcok. Enjoy

RunawayTrane

February 2nd, 2010, 12:06 AM

Anyface - Duct Tape Soul (1996)

Enjoy

enjoy what?? Am I missing something or is there nothing to download?
:confused-8:

RunawayTrane

February 2nd, 2010, 12:18 AM

On part 3, RS is saying: "The download link has been manipulated and is therefore not valid". Do you know what does it mean, Zacki? Thanks for your response.

Unfortunately, I think it means the link is dead. This was one I missed getting too back when the board went down last year for an extended period of time. I think unless Zacki has these same files archived somewhere, he will have to do the entire thing over again

RunawayTrane

February 2nd, 2010, 01:22 AM

Looking for their first 2 albums

Poor Righteous Teachers - Black Business
RAP | FLAC | CUE | LOG | COVERS | 323MB | 52:17
Profile 1993

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The Poor Righteous Teachers offered more Islamic and Afrocentric raps on this album, sometimes becoming overly pedantic, but also keeping the raps and rhymes flowing and the beats moving. Their material's propagandistic tone was offset to some extent by the use of reggae and funk influences, but few groups are more open about their religious and political affiliations and beliefs. ~ Ron Wynn, All Music Guide

TRACK-LISTING:

01. 144k
02. Da Rill Shit
03. Nobody Move
04. Mi Fresh
05. Here We Go Again
06. Selah
07. Black Business
08. Get off the Crack
09. None Can Test
10. Ghetto We Love
11. Rich Mon Time
12. Lick Shots

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zacki

February 2nd, 2010, 02:20 AM

Unlimited Touch - Unlimited Touch (1981)

Vinyl-Rip|Wav|Covers
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01. Feel The Music
02. Private Party
03. I Hear Music In The Streets
04. Love To Share
05. Happy Ever After
06. Searching To Find The One
07. Carry On
08. In The Middle

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rtownsend213

February 2nd, 2010, 02:24 AM

[CENTER]The Glass House - Inside the Glass House (1971)
Web-Rip|Flac|No Log or Cue

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Track-listing
01 Look What We've Done to Love
02 You Ain't Livin' Unless You're Lovin'
03 I Surrendered
04 Hey There Lonely Girl
05 If It Ain't Love (It Don't Matter)
06 Hotel
07 Touch Me Jesus
08 Heaven Is There to Guide Us
09 Crumbs Off the Table

Review
Eddie Holland, Lamont Dozier, and Brian Holland handpicked the members of Glass House: Scherrie Payne (Freda's sister), Ty Hunter, Pearl Jones, and Larry Mitchell. A common occurrence at Invictus/Hot Wax Records, Chairmen of the Board, 8th Day, the Honey Cone, and 100 Proof (Aged in Soul) were formed the same way. The album starts on a mellow note with "Look What We've Done to Love," led by Hunter who sang with Dozier in the Romeos, the Voice Masters, and later took over for C.P. Spencer in the Originals. Hunter's falsetto croons the hurting lyrics about the perils of taking love for granted, the LP version flows over four minutes, the single only gave you 2:45 of the harmonious ballad. Their biggest record, "Crumbs Off the Table" led by Payne, has snappy lyrics and a hesitating groove; it reached number seven on the Soul chart, but failed to crack the Top 40, stalling at number 59. Other tasty nuggets include a remake of "Hey There Lonely Girl," "Heaven Is There to Guide Us," "Touch Me Jesus," and "You Ain't Livin' Unless You're Lovin'" led by Jones. <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:fpftxqt5ld0e~T1">allmusic.com</a>

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tpvmeffq

February 2nd, 2010, 02:51 AM

Looking for their first 2 albums

Holy intellect & Pure poverty ?
I can try to get them from what.cd if you wait a little.. :350:

omar2

February 2nd, 2010, 05:19 AM

Aqua - Greatest Hits (Collection)(Lossless)
FLAC
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01 - Back To The 80's
02 - My Mamma Said
03 - Live Fast Die Young
04 - Happy Boys And Girls
05 - Barbie Girl
06 - Around The World
07 - Doctor Jones
08 - Aquarius
09 - Cuba Libre
10 - Lollipop
11 - Cartoon Heroes
12 - Be A Man
13 - My Oh My
14 - Freaky Friday
15 - Belong To The Sea
16 - Roses Are Red
17 - Halloween
18 - Turn Back Time
19 - Goodbye To The Circus
FILE 1 (http://rapidshare.com/files/305947542/2009.Greatest.Hits.Collection.Lossless.part1.rar) | FILE 2 (http://http://rapidshare.com/files/305947542/2009.Greatest.Hits.Collection.Lossless.part1.rar) | FILE 3 (http://rapidshare.com/files/305946969/2009.Greatest.Hits.Collection.Lossless.part3.rar) | FILE 4 (http://rapidshare.com/files/305944163/2009.Greatest.Hits.Collection.Lossless.part4.rar)

omar2

February 2nd, 2010, 06:56 AM

Thanks for help me fix the Aqua

teddybear4703

February 2nd, 2010, 01:17 PM

Unfortunately, I think it means the link is dead. This was one I missed getting too back when the board went down last year for an extended period of time. I think unless Zacki has these same files archived somewhere, he will have to do the entire thing over again

Thanks, Trane. Zacki kindly fix it and all parts are working fine. Still don't know what's the meaning of this new message from RS, which I had to read again yesterday when clicking on a Jacopass post (so sad!) Hope won't be a regular practice to diminish traffic or a rude way to say: pay!

MrDap

February 2nd, 2010, 03:19 PM

Classic Jazz-Funk Mastercuts Vol. 1 (1991)

Great album!! :thumbs up:

Gents, please don't forget there's a fantastic jazz thread. If you got jazzy stuff to drop unload it there too :350:

http://www.synciti.net/forum/showthread.php?t=6763

whodshecoo

February 2nd, 2010, 04:44 PM

Brass Construction II
United Artists 1976

VINYL | FLAC | 255 MB

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1. Ha Cha Cha (Funktion) (5:48)
2. Get To The Point (Summation) (4:18)
3. Sambo (Progression) (5:18)
4. Screwed (Conditions) (5:41)
5. The Message (Inspiration) (4:42)
6. Now Is Tomorrow (Anticipation) (5:56)
7. Blame It On Me (Introsprction) (3:20)
8. What's On Your Mind (Expression) (3:25)

AMG Review:
Brass Construction leader Randy Muller took the group in a wider direction on their sophomore effort, Brass Construction 2 issued in December 1976. Their second LP was still funky, horn-punctuated disco; it just wasn't non-stop funky disco as their gold self-titled debut. Adding more Latin/Afro Cuban rhythms,they had a Top 10 R&B hit with the first single "Ha Cha Cha." It also introduced the irving Spice strings, who give the urgent radio-aired "Screwed" a swirling, almost tipsy feel. The LP also had mellow tracks. "The Message" is almost inspirational in its theme. Both it and its flipside, the seriously funky "What's On Your Mind(Expression)" received airplay with "..Mind" becoming the source sampling material for several rap and hip-hop artists in the '80s and '90s. Brass Construction 2 the band's second gold album is also a testament to their influence on the acid jazz movement of the '90s.

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February 2nd, 2010, 06:56 PM

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Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - To Be True (PIR)
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Artist...............: Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes
Album................: To Be True
Genre................: R&B
Source...............: CD
Year.................: 1975
Ripper...............: Exact Audio Copy (Secure mode) &
Codec................: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
Version..............: reference libFLAC 1.2.1 20070917
Quality..............: Lossless, (avg. compression: 161 %)
Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 HZ / 16 Bit
Tags.................: VorbisComment
Information..........:

Ripped by............: Torrent Rip 1/18/2010
Posted by............: AJ Productions on 2/2/2010
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Included.............: NFO, SFV, M3U, LOG, CUE
Covers...............: Front

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Tracklisting
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1. (00:03:26) Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - Where Are All My Friends
2. (00:04:45) Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - To Be True
3. (00:05:44) Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - Pretty Flower
4. (00:03:44) Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - Hope That We Can Be Together Soon
5. (00:04:24) Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - Nobody Could Take Your Place
6. (00:04:57) Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - Somewhere Down The Line
7. (00:06:28) Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - Bad Luck
8. (00:05:30) Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - All Because Of A Woman

Playing Time.........: 02:35:20
Total Size...........: 210.66 MB

NFO generated on.....: 2/1/2010 6:07:45 PM

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by Craig Lytle

The third album from the melodramatic vocal quintet features an array of R&B
classics. While Teddy Pendergrass was featured on this album, he did not
lead every song. The three releases were "Where Are All My Friends," "Bad
Luck," and "Hope That We Can Be Together Soon." All three were Billboard
R&B Top Ten winners with the latter reaching number one. "Where Are All My
Friends" and "Bad Luck" mirror each other in that both are uptempo numbers
that depict the misfortunes of a man. The former has a smoother vocal
presentation with a mid-verse rhythm change-up. The latter has an incessant
groovin' rhythm where Teddy Pendergrass cuts into the lyric with conviction
with his robust delivery as he does on each selection he leads. "Hope That
We Can Be Together Soon" features the velvety smooth vocals of Sharon
Paige on this easy-flowing number. While Harold Melvin carries most of the
vocal duties, Pendergrass steps in for a one-liner and closes out on the
vamp. Whereas most ballads climax towards the end of the song, the most
climatic part of this number one song is the string and horn intro. The title
track "To Be True" is a sleeper. Not just for its conciliatory melody, but also
for the lyrical content that calls for two lovers to find time for each before all
is lost. Harold Melvin's debonair vocals are featured on lead. This is one of
four consecutive great albums to come from the Philadelphia vocal quintet.
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