Soul Funk Forever (Vol.19)

17 - Leon Ware And Friends - Thelma Jones - I Can Dream

Aretha Franklin sample driven beat tape featuring some super talented beat makers presented by Throat Chop Music and TMB-Music.com.

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Dr. Quandary "Master of Eyes"

The Promises - "Living In The Footsteps Of Another Girl"



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KC and The Sunshine Band - I Get Lifted (soul 69 stretch)

The cracker edit is one of my favourite breaks but it leaves out the end of the original Thelma Jones track. This is a remake in the style of the cracker edit with the outro.


Thelma Jones - House That Jack Built(PZA Edit Of A Cracker Edit)

Includes excerpts from "The Bicentennial Blues", a track which I was none too fond of as a relative youngster, as it seemed to me then that The Blues was something older people invoked whenever they wanted to make you feel like you didn't know anything. I was also irritated by the very specific and (and to my very young self) seemingly meaningless political references in this track. For me back then, it was all about "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised", "Home Is Where The Hatred Is", "The Bottle" or "It's Your World".  

Well, time passes and I went on to become a huge GSH fan, so much so I would probably have been happy to sit and listen to him reading from the phone book, let alone recite the Bicentennial Blues, and what seemed to me almost passé then has proven to be remarkably prescient today: the names have changed, the culprits haven't. 

Let's hope that he achieves the artistic and cultural position he really deserves, and soon.  People like Gil don't come along very often, he will be sorely missed.

Gil Scott-Heron - Angola, Louisiana (Casbah 73 Tribute Edit)

Taken from the Olympic Cyclone Band album 'Breakbeat 45s' - now available to buy : https://olympiccycloneband.bandcamp.com/album/breakbeat-45s
For licencing and sync requests please contact hannah@pedigreecuts.com

Breakbeat 45s

Lambchop Hop

Free Download

The Meters - Just Kissed My Baby (Kiu D Re - Edit)FREE DOWNLOAD

Walking In Rhythm/The Blackbyrds

SINCE HE'S BEEN ON A ROLL MIXING & MASTERING RECORDS FOR THE LIKES SOUL CLAP, RAZOR N TAPE, BOSQ, SERGE GAMESBOURGH AND YOURS TRULY,  I COERCED CASERTA INTO DOING A NEW MIXDOWN OF MY "EVERYBODY DANCE" REWORK. 
WE WERE QUITE HAPPY WITH THE RESULTS AND FIGURED WE SHOULD SHARE IT.... ENJOY !

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Shiek - Everybody Dance ~ KON REWORK (Caserta Remaster)

JEFFREE/MR.FIX-IT

Here is a rework of my favorite Terry Callier track, "Holdin' On (To Your Love)", a groove pearl made of soulful horns, touching politically-conscious lyrics and Terry's incredibly warm voice at his best. The original song was released in 1978 as part of his classic LP "Fire On Ice".





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Terry Callier - Holdin' On (V4YS Rework)

Munich duo @coeo joins the https://soundcloud.com/razor-n-tape family with a pack of reworks destined for dance floor greatness! Heretofore known for deep house goodness on Let's Play House and Toy Tonics, the boys flex their edit muscles on these 4 tracks which range from the soulfully sublime 'Like It Is,' to the disco house fury of 'Long Night Ahead,' to the best damn Fela edit we've ever heard.

COEO
https://www.facebook.com/COEO-144561512327172/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVLFoBrnA0asu8clTzJCeAw

Razor'n'Tape
https://soundcloud.com/razor-n-tape
https://www.facebook.com/RazorNTape
https://twitter.com/RazorNTape

PREMIERE : COEO - Like It Is [Razor-n-Tape Reserve]

Uptown Syndicate Band was formed inNorman,OklahomaMay 1971. The band spanned Nine years and had nearly 50 band members. Uptown were renowned for "High Energy" performances of Funk, Rhythm and Blues with soulful ballads mixed in

Uptown was born out of the Fraternity and Sorority parties atOklahomaUniversityespecially the Alpha-Phi-Alpha and as their popularity grew encompassed campuses all over. Considered locally as the top show bands rivaling the Gap Band of Tulsa, yet still only managed to record 2 solitary singles, probably due to hard touring regime. The group consisted of a powerful horn section, two strong vocalists, a serious rhythm section that would have matched JB, The fact they never recorded a few Lps is a crying shame, but here we have their 4 recordings in their delightful and varied glory

"Fast Moving, High Stepping, Moving and Grooving to the beat of the Uptown Syndicate Show."

AOE 022B Uptown Syndicate - You're A Woman

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Big Crown Records is proud to present this killer two sider reissue from Sunny & The Sunliners.
Sunny Ozuna, who formed his band, Sunny & The Sunliners, in the early 60’s, is a true legend in the history of not just Chicano music, but American music. Sunny “Mr. Brown Eyed Soul” Ozuna is highly regarded as one of the architects of the sweet soul sound that has been comped on countless “Lowrider Oldies” collections, and his music has been pouring out of 1964 Chevy Impalas since, well, 1964.
Side A’s “Should I Take You Home” is one of his flagship tunes that embodies everything that makes Sunny’s music so appealing. A mid tempo masterpiece that is as cool and swaggy as it is sweet and innocent. In his honeyed voice, that's equal parts Little Wille John and Frank Sinatra, Sunny tells the tale of young love and it’s inherent defiance with lines like “there’s no excuse that she would understand, so when I take you home hold me by the hand”. When we asked Sunny about the tune he described it as “a very young thing, a cute thing”. There is undoubtedly something equal parts nostalgic and romantic about a young man puffing his chest out to authority for the love of his girl. It’s this blend of doo wop styled lyrics, B side soul ballad aesthetic, and Tejano vibes that makes this one of the biggest Chicano penned low rider tunes out there.
Side B finds Sunny covering the Harvey Averne Classic “My Dream”. It’s another perfect example of the distinctive blend of Tejano music and American soul that makes Sunny & The Sunliners so unique.
To say we are obsessed with the music of Sunny & The Sunliners would be to put it lightly. We have been working on a proper reissue project for a few years now and the full compilation will be out in 2017.

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Sunny & The Sunliners - Should I Take You Home - BC034-45 - Side A

Sinkane "Mars"

Stream new album via NPR:
http://n.pr/RtnDL7

BUY SINGLE W/ DAPHNI & CHANDELIERS REMIXES
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/runnin-single/id569944051

PREORDER ALBUM
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single reviews:
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/13020-jeeper-creeper/
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/13251-runnin-runnin-daphni-mix/

SINKANE - Runnin'

Julius Brockington & The Magic Force - This Feeling ( Casbah 73 Edit)

Sandy Barber - I Think I'll Do Some Steppin' (Casbah 73 Edit)

Yo Momma

Classic Ernie Hines vocal + classic Pete Rock beat.  A little something for the soulful DJs. 
(big shoutout to Uncle Nu who made the acapella available)

Soul Funk Forever (Vol.19)

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