Cool uptempo groover, impressive brass section!

Jazz Funk Factory

Buy 7" and download "In The Dirt" free from: hopestreetrecordings.com/spanishharlem 

Stop what you’re doing. Lovers of soul, funk, and all the other good grease need to get on this 45 real quick. HopeStreet Recordings brings you a collaboration between Australia’s hottest soul voice, Nai Palm, and Australia’s heaviest rhythm section, The PutBacks, on that classic, classic joint Spanish Harlem. The Worm, a typically heavy PutBacks instrumental on the flip rounds out two smokin’ sides of Burn City soul.  

Jerry Leiber and Phil Spector wrote Spanish Harlem for Ben E King in 1960, but it was Aretha Franklin took it to number one in 1970. In 2013, The PutBacks and Nai put it down one more time on 8 tracks of tape with the production team at HopeStreet Recordings and you sure can take that sucker home on wax, but you’d better be quick. After all – this release has been 50 years in the making. 

The B side on this record is for the B boys. The Worm baby. Lots of songs fade out, but how many fade in? Yeah. That’s real. This kind of lowdown funky break is what the PutBacks really love to put the back in. Ouch. Will someone sample this already so it can go for longer than three and a half minutes?

This record is raucous and rich in the rawness. The drums, bass, and percussion gallop through Spanish Harlem and swagger through The Worm. The guitar and organ howl and huff. Simple production lets the musicians do the talking, and boy, Nai Palm can shout. Sweet layered harmonies over a dirty minimal rhythm track. It’s a new thing, it’s an old thing, it’s a limited pressing and it’s yours at www.hopestreetrecordings.com. 

Also, we do know what year it is so yes, the vinyl does come with a download code for both sides plus a digital version of another PutBacks instrumental – In The Dirt. Value added. Special funky bonus. Get yours. 

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The Putbacks - In The Dirt

appears on "FEMI vs KCRW Soundclash!" (Downtown/Mercer Street Records) © Obrooni, ASCAP 2009

"(One of my) Top 10 tunes for 2008!"
- Nickodemus (Wonderwheel / ESL - NYC)

"The Musaics man connects with the Kuti dynasty with Ticklah in the mix. Righteous and bumpin' all at the same time!"
- Natural Self (Tru Thoughts - UK)

"At last - the combination of Femi's horns and voices and JSole's beats and bass gives Fela's legacy its proper dues. Hot."
- Lightning Head aka BiggaBush (Lion Head recordings - UK)

"JSole, Ticklah and Femi is a remix made in the thunderclouds of the African plains. This is EXACTLY how I like my Afrobeat...dirty, funky and raw."
- Dan Ubick/Connie Price (The Lions, The Keystones/Big Daddy Kane - LA)

"Classic afrobeat sound for future afrobeat heads. Jsole brings his Afro Funke' vibe to life on this remix!"
- J Boogie (Om Records - SF) 

"Serious dancefloor pressure. Really digging how hard the drums hit!"
- Jamie Strong (Stones Throw, The Do Over - LA)

"That's a bomb! Such an addictive groove and brilliant organ lines - pure energy on the dance floor!"
- Dusty (Jazz&Milk records - Munich)

"This Femi remix is tight, and Ticklah kills it!"
- DJ Sabo (Sol Selectas - NYC)

FEMI KUTI - "Tell Me (Jeremy Sole Remix feat. Ticklah)"

Straight out the Fela Kuti handbook, taken off the debut EP from Ohio DJ/producer @dedikate. 

More info and video at <a href="http://www.stampthewax.com/2014/02/05/seth-carter-baba-mi-feat-craig-huckerby/" target="_blank">Stamp The Wax</a>

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