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'Various Assets - Not For Sale 2013' is a collection of some of the music that was made during the Red Bull Music Academy during four early summer weeks in New York City last year. The double CD contains 30 tracks composed, improvised and discovered by the 62 international participants and a cast of high-profile studio team members, who all got their fingers dirty on synths, Mellotrons, vibraphones, drum machines and anything else they could lay their hands on. Enjoy!

Known as Los Angeles' "Ambassador of Boogie Funk," Damon Riddick represents the citizens of the Funkmosphere to the fullest. Anyone who grooves to the likes of Slave, Aurra, early Prince and Prelude Records, will knoe what to do when they hear "No More Love."

Written by Damon Riddick (US). Produced by Dâm-Funk.

'Various Assets - Not For Sale 2013' is available for free download from January 15th, 2014 via <a href="http://rbma.bandcamp.com">RBMA Bandcamp</a> and <a href="http://soundcloud.com/redbullmusicacademy">Soundcloud</a>.

Dâm-Funk - No More Love

Cojones De Oro

Beautiful funk 45 recorded in Waupun Correctional Institution and pressed on Oshkosh custom label "Love". A great, heartbreaking YT video made by the group leader's daughter after his death and featuring unreleased track "Come On With Your Come On" can be seen here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYqYxgpnrm8

Upheaval - "Paradise Lost" (Love)

A sublime disco track from this early 80s Milwaukee family/kid band. The "C" is for Charles (Smith), the band's leader. Sweet Thang records also released a hopelessly rare 12" EP by the group, who had changed their name to Dazzle in the interim. The EP features a nice synth and percussion heavy remix of 'In the Disco', as an instrumental and retitled 'Disco's Out'. 1980.

"C" On the Funk - In the Disco (Sweet Thang)

The rare 45 mix of Penny Goodwin's classic early 70s down-tempo rare groove. It excludes the LP versions double-time ending where Penny starts ranting about acid and track marks, but probably ends up being a generally more cohesive piece of music. Penny is from Milwaukee and still sings here occasionally to this day. The sessions that produced this record and the rest of her 'Portrait of a Gemini' LP were done in Chicago, however, with Richard Evans stepping in on arrangements. His string charts in particular really add a lot to this track. The title is taken from an old Jewish proverb, with lyrics cleverly adapting the sentiment for the switched-on kids of the late 60s/early 70s generation. Sy Lefco, the writer, penned many other tunes for black and white groups in Milwaukee at the time- effortlessly crisscrossing genre and racial boundaries. 



Penny Goodwin - Too Soon You're Old (Sidney)

Jimmy Bo Horne - Is It In

I am a passionate man who from a very young age has been  interested in various Genres of Music , avidly seeking music that interests me . Having a vast Vinyl and CD collection , Soundcloud has become an extension of this . 
Ska , Reggae , Tamla Motown , Stax and Atlantic got my Mojo started . Followed by David Bowie , Lou Reed and Roxy Music . This was also cemented by Youth Culture alliance . 
Having been a prolific and to a lesser extent today , a Club attendee my taste for music is on going . At various stages of my life I have played my music as a Dj .
For a period I was contributor for a magazine that specialises in Soul old and new . It is called Manifesto , published in the UK . A fantastic enjoyable and informative specialist publication . 
 I hope you enjoy my selections that I put into Albums to assist your enjoyment .   


Louisiana Funky Butts

The live-performance with full brass band sound: Pumpin’. Groovin’, Rockin’.

Fat beats from the two drummers, deep drones from the sousaphone and the full blast of five horns. The Louisiana Funky Butts wildly cross over all style boundaries – they swing, they rock, they funk up the house. AfroBeats, Latin Grooves, French Pop, Southern Rock, Cajun Boogaloos, Club Sounds and traditional 2nd Line Jazz all wrapped into one stunning live show.
Music with a message, a sly wink and a kick in the ass. The Funky Butts sing and rap about nearly everything in different languages, good times and bad times, love troubles and amour fou, small things and big issues. Real music, with no artificial additives or preservatives, well-travelled and stage-seasoned from Stuttgart to Berlin, from the South of France to the North of England.

“ We will rock the stage and roll the club”
"We make the streets dance, the club shake and the stage quake."

1st Trumpet Bernhadt - Le Petit (USA)
1st Trumpet + Artistic Words - Don Maria Flor (ES)
Bari Sax - Lady Olga Douhdapskaja (RUS)
Tenor Sax + Vocals - Toni Riba (I)
Trombone - Marc The Rose (NZ)
Sousaphone - Jean Mariè Le Boeuf ( F)
Snaredrum - "El Animal" Pomito del Toro (BOL)
Bassdrum + Vocals + Show - Commander Betman (D)

Cojones De Oro

Louisiana Funky Butts BB

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