This guy ´s soooooooo ill!!!!!!!

absolute FANTASTIC !!!! check it

V.A. - Dimensions in Sound Vol.2

Yes y´all!!!

Couldn´t find any review about that, but let me talk about it in my own words:
This is the 2nd installment in this series and a very dope collection of library tunes. Posted the 1st part before here on this blog (for those who might not recognized that).
Some tunes might be well-known to some of you from the Dusty Fingerz series, but some of the tracks on this compilation never appeared on the DF comps, so enjoy these great tunes folks. For tracklisting click on the pick above;-)


spacey! cheerz

Cortex - Inedit ´79

Lost funky work from Cortex -- previously unissued material from this famous 70s combo from France -- filled with jazzy rhythms and plenty of great keyboard work! The style is a bit more soul-based than on the first few Cortex albums -- with English language vocals on most numbers, soaring out along with the keyboards into the grooves -- but the overall sound of the album is still super-tight, and very much in the mode of the best US jazz funk from the late 70s with vocals -- such as later work on Kudu or Fantasy Records. The uptempo numbers have a nice clubby feel -- but never one that's too disco, just jazz funk for the dancefloor -- and the LP features 1# numbers that include "Said I Do", "Stand & Move", "Moanin", "I Heard A Sigh", "Back To My World", "A Winning Team", "High On The Funk", "Mailys", "Emily" & the bonus track "Where Do You Come From".

You can´t go wrong with that ... nice jazz-funk (more funky) and only 500 copies ww, if you want a piece, hurry up!!!

stay blessed, Sf

Cortex - Vol.2 (1977)

Back to France!

A few cats out there should know that album, previously posted somewhere before on the blogs, but can´t hide that from you who dunno that super jazz-funk collabo.
I´ve been searching the first album for a long time since i heard that, but no doubt, i´ll get that one day,yessir!

For further info, check out the internet, i´m lazy to write some news about that, just listen to this, the music will speak for itself,trust me.


allright?!? now here you go ... SWEEEEEEEEET!!!

The Mood Mosaic 5 - Supervixens

Ohweee Ladies & Gentlemen!

I´m proud to present to you the wonderful picture EP to the 5th Mood Mosaic in the series ... again packed with some rare funky tunes. I love this series and i think even the Dusty Fingerz Compilations can´t compete with these, just brilliant and wonderful.

This EP contains 6 tracks from the whole album, and here´s the tracklist:

1. William Goldstein - Midnight Rapsody
2. Marta Acuna - Dance, Dance, Dance
3. Touchdown - Ease Your Mind
4. Mona Rae - Do Me
5. Roundtree - Get On Up
6. Hiroshima - Lion Dance
   

I can only say, have fun with this guys ... it´s showtime .. so groove to the music!!!

cheerz

William Bell - Phases of Reality (1972)

Many of Stax's releases in its final years were dull soul. But by the standards of the era, William Bell's second-to-last Stax LP was an above-average affair that was more diverse than many such efforts of the time. The three songs he co-wrote with guitarist Horace Shipp jr. were socially conscious tunes in a different bag than the straightforward romantic odes Bell usually purveyed. "Save Us" was indebted to Marvin Gaye´s What´s goin on era, with a Philly-influenced funk/soul groove, and "Fifty Dollar Habit" was, of course, about drug use. Elsewhere, Bell stuck mostly to love songs, self-penned and otherwise, getting into a pre-disco lope on the title track, with the sweet soul balladry of "What I Don't Know Won't Hurt Me" and "If You Really Love Him," and the light, reggae-influenced rhythms on "Lonely for Your Love."

Nice little album 4 all you Stax lovers out there with some nice musical background by the Muscle Shoals Sound Rhythm Section!!!!

check him out, peace

Quincy Jones - OST The Deadly Affair (1966)

HAPPY NEW YEAR to everybody who´s coming over here!!!!!!!

Hope you started all well, if not ... enjoy this 1st post for 09!

About the movie:

This film is a time-tunnel trip to a Cold-War-Spy-Thriller movie era and there lies its rather faded charm. A thriller with superficial political innuendos, not hard to guess plot twists, and then unpronounceable sex issues (nymphomania, just mentioned very obliquely of course). All of it based on the novel by then-omnipresent John Le Carré -- the thinking man's answer to Ian Fleming -- featuring a nice bossa-nova theme moodily sung by Brazilian Astrud Gilberto, a jazzy score by Quincy Jones and a classy international cast.

This is a film from a time when thriller plots were supposed to be "honest", meaning the director/screenwriters gave the viewers clues to actually outguess the plot (very unlike today, when plot twists are so convoluted and far-fetched you just have to exercise suspension of disbelief, and when the umpteenth outrageous plot twist comes you just roll your eyes and sigh "Oh Jeees..."). A film from a time when tricky games of international espionage and counter-espionage were something average people could still grasp... Well, in "Deadly Affair" you'll probably outguess the plot in advance if you don't fall sleep with so much talking. Maybe the real problem is that Lumet wanted to entertain AND make a ponderous political thriller as well, but Costa- Gavras he ain't!!

The real shame here is the waste of the female cast. While James Mason, Maximilian Schell and Harry Andrews have fun with their roles, the two leading ladies, both great actresses, were treated badly. Simone Signoret's face is always fascinating, but her role is underwritten, unexplored and utterly dislikable. And what to say about poor Harriet Andersson? She -- who did such great acting jobs for Bergman, including one of the most difficult of them all, the schizophrenic Karin in "Through a Glass Darkly" -- is completely miscast, badly dubbed, badly photographed, badly directed. Please don't judge her for this movie, it's probably her worst performance ever!

Oh lala ... what a critic! But everybody, who love Quincy´s work, knows that the music to this movie is quite good. Not the best soundtrack from him, but well worth a listen for diggers and non-diggers. So give this album a try and let me know what you think folks!!!

cheerz2u, Soulfinga