Comments on: 70s and 80s Soul Music

70s and 80s Soul Music

KevinSkomsvold — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 22:59:22 -0800

4 Brothers Beats. This is a tribute to all the original music that built hip-hop – the best beats in soul, funk & jazz collected by four brothers. An amazing collection of out-of-print releases from the 70s and 80s.

By: kuatto

kuatto — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 01:32:59 -0800

holy shnickes...I'm up to 3.7 gigs

By: Hat Maui

Hat Maui — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 01:59:22 -0800

good lookin', skomsvold.

By: Wolof

Wolof — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 02:10:01 -0800

Syreeta! Narada has certainly manufactured a magnificent pile of cheese, though. Eek.

By: doctorschlock

doctorschlock — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 04:17:48 -0800

I'm an old skool DJ and people love it when i mix in some 70's funk/jazz/soul. Shuggie Otis and Ritchie Havens with a slice of Taj Mahal.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 05:13:56 -0800

Oh yes. Oh yes. This very good blog. This very good post. KevinSkomsvold in one fell swoop just became one of my favoritist FPPers.

By: tommasz

tommasz — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 06:26:20 -0800

Excellent. Can't wait to get home and snag some of this stuff.

By: fatcatslimslim

fatcatslimslim — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 06:29:26 -0800

I you like this, I HIGHLY recomend Ego Trip's Book of Rap lists. Funny. INformative. Fun.

By: pantufla

pantufla — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 06:37:00 -0800

thanks!!

By: KevinSkomsvold

KevinSkomsvold — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 06:39:27 -0800

Totally digging on Earth Wind and Fire's first album. Wow.

By: KevinSkomsvold

KevinSkomsvold — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 06:50:25 -0800

On a side note (meant to include this in my post), I really like the writing on this blog. I know next to nothing about hip-hop but find myself fascinated by nuggets like this: One album, two breaks – and you've got yourself some hiphop history! This is the Emotions "Untouched" from 1972 – impossible to pick up on vinyl since anyone who owns it would never put it up for sale! All because the album contains two breaks crucial to the evolution of hiphop. "Blind Alley" has one of the most recognizable breaks in the business – everyone's used it, but probably best known for being the backbone on Big Daddy Kane's "Ain't No Half-Steppin". The other break is from "If You Think It" – best used on RZA's great cut "Verbal Intercourse". Here they describe something I experience often (albeit with different types of music): The problem with having a lot of music around you (CD's, vinyls and various digital storage medias) is that you sometimes actually forget about certain albums that you really love – but, man, is it satisfying when discovering them again! That's exactly what happend over the weekend, when I stumbled across Karma's "Celebration" album from 1976! It was like re-uniting with an old lost friend – and just as rewarding! This just the kind of rare jazz funk that we all search for – groovy, funky and fantastic.

By: furtive

furtive — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 06:52:53 -0800

Thanks, I've got the following music blogs on my RSS reader, some of them previously linked on MeFi: Flea Market Funk Fufu Stew Funky 16 Corners This is Tomorrow Wake Your Daughter Up (hip hop) WEFUNK Radio

By: salvia

salvia — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 06:53:11 -0800

This is cool, thanks.

By: kosem

kosem — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:45:07 -0800

Good lookin' out KS!

By: MinPin

MinPin — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:15:35 -0800

Thank you Kev. With this and the Mark Vidler, I've been filling my hard drive with a shovel.

By: PeterMcDermott

PeterMcDermott — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:28:40 -0800

The thing I hate about crate diggers is the enormous amount of Jazz-Funk that they tend to offer up. Now I don't mind Jazz, and I love me the funk, but when you put the two together, somehow you get less rather than more. Neither funky jazz, nor jazzy funk but all too often a bunch of jazzers trying to cash in on music they don't seem to like or appreciate. Some great Philly up there though. O'Jays, Eddie Kendricks, etc.

By: PeterMcDermott

PeterMcDermott — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:46:11 -0800

Don't miss this Skull Snaps album though. I've got a few of the 45's, but I've never even seen a copy of the album.

By: niceness

niceness — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:33:20 -0800

Oh my, can't thank you enough... this is probably the best site I've ever seen...like a dream come true really... where do I start? ... I'll have the Leo's Sunshipp... 6 Leroy Hutson... the classic James Mason to save me from ripping the vinyl]... I'll try the 3 very obscure Placebo... and wow! Mancunian Jazz from the Pedddlers... must...get....it.....all.....before...i...wake...up.

By: wittgenstein

wittgenstein — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:50:25 -0800

The internet proves to be amazing again. I have never seen the video to Junior's wonderful "mama used to say" What a great song! What a great video!