This mix should persuade those who believe that soul music was dying by the mid-1980s of their error. There is much that’s great on this mix, and among tracks that did not make the cut. Some of the songs are surprising. Cameo are more usually associated with funk and camp codpieces, not deep soul music as this duet between Larry Blackmon and Barbara Mitchell of Hi Inergy (who featured on Any Major Soul 1976-77 ). Denise LaSalle , during the time covered by this mix, had a hit with the awful Don’t Mess With [...]
I thought that this series would come to a natural end with 1979, but the early 1980s were not as deficient as one might imagine. The difference resides in the volume of quality and the widening chasm between the great and the utterly abject in the ’80s. A lot of bad soul music was created in the ’80s, and the genre has never recovered. The next couple of installments of Any Major Soul will, I hope, highlight the bright spots in a declining genre. The two opening tracks, by Clyde Milton and Sam Butler , [...]
U.S.A. Soul / R n' B / Booty-Funk We here at Sex 4 Ears have a bit of a love affair with Patrice Rushen , the 80's songstress responsible for " Forget Me Nots ", which was the basis of Will Smith 's hit theme track to the film Men In Black , and also sampled by George Michael in his [...]
Patrice Rushen - Watch Out (Shawn Ryan Edit) Mediafire | YSI | 320 kbps
Big disco this week that you will surely recognize. It turns out that Will Smith's big hits take no small inspiration from these classic disco tunes. Blew my mind. I've been playing them out a few weeks and these originals turn heads. They're familiar, but not everyone will know why. It will puzzle them, excite them, and scare them in places they never knew existed. Bring an extra pair of shorts! The Whispers - And The Beat Goes On vs. [...]
Uglyman's video "Whip Game Proper" feat. Big Bone - don't hate, don't hate Dubstep Datsik - Nuke 'Em IRON DJ / MP3 / VOTE | killer dubstep Starkey - Bang Bang The Witch Is Dead IRON DJ / MP3 / VOTE MRK1 - Frank IRON DJ / [...]
Чуть ускорив, включаешь эту композицию в середине сета, и на танцполе истерика. Если кто-то и сможет уберечь рассудок от фантастического баса, этого чудака гарантированно догонит соло. Patrice Rushen - Forget Me Nots (ysi)
Do your musical tastebuds a favour and feast on these: Download: Forget Me Nots – Patrice Rushen (1982) (Right Click, Open in new window) (Alt Link) * This 80s hit song has been sampled by a plethora of artists including as the main sample for Will Smith ’s “Men In [...]
With the acclaim she won at the Monterrey Jazz Festival in 1972, keyboardist/singer Patrice Rushen became an in-demand session player for much of the '70s, performing with jazz stalwarts like Jean-Luc Ponty, Lee Ritenour, and Stanley Turrentine. She also released several albums of her own which featured Rushen's brand of jazz, R&B, and funk. However, her solo success was relegated to the R&B charts with her only single to chart on the pop Hot 100 being 1980's Haven't You Heard , which just missed the US Top 40, peaking at #42. In 1982, Rushen issued her seventh [...]
(image via Winnie's fave street style blog Dam Style ) Geeeez... was this the longest week ever or what!? Here's your feel good Friday tune. Patrice Rushen - Number One Yes bartender, make mine a double.
Yeah, I know. It's more "techno", as some people like to call it. Well, there actually is a difference between "techno" and "house". House music is much more sample heavy, and is usually at a much slower pace than what's traditionally called "techno". Not to mention, it's many times - and I don't mean this as a slight towards techno - much more uplifting and soulful. That's just the long and short of it. Well, I yanked out a few more of my old house records and have recorded them as mp3s on my hard drive, and am now sharing [...]
Of course you're familiar with the ever popular Forget Me Nots and probably even Remind Me , both from the highly recommended 1982 album Straight From The Heart . Besides being soooo heavily sampled, Patrice Rushen is also a classically trained pianist. The keys figure prominently in this amazing, lesser known track here: Patrice Rushen - Haven't You Heard (Larry Levan Edit) The original by itself is so nice, there's really no need to sample or tweak much... but the track might [...]
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