https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ecqBPamBgw

B.B. King recorded his version of "The Thrill Is Gone" in June 1969 for his album Completely Well. King's version is a slow twelve-bar blues notated in the key of B minor in 4/4 time. The song's polished production and use of strings marked a departure from both the original song and King's previous material.

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BB King - The Thrill is Gone (RocknRolla Soundsystem Edit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsNAErFSMkk&list=PLbZSSAO6TG-PHSUAktnzY7U_tj-9JjJC7

George Benson's percolating latin bump version of Donny Hathaway's "The Ghetto".  Original cut on "Absolute Benson".

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George Benson - The Ghetto (RocknRolla Soundsystem Edit)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucumbFbW4BU

Classic tune from the early 70s, Superstition was written with crossover success firmly in mind. It was originally intended for Jeff Beck as a thank you for the guitarist’s help on the Talking Book album, but when Motown heard it they released Wonder’s version as a single.

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Stevie Wonder - Superstition (RocknRolla Soundsystem Edit)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7KccoCCWU8

"TB Sheets" is a  nine and a half minute psychedelic R&B opus.  Irish lyricist Van Morrison narrates the true story about a girl with whom he once lived suffering from tuberculoses. It’s a slow burn of a song.  A slinky lead guitar slides over a constant beat and atmospheric organ which winds you up in a feverish, Otis Redding-style delirium. The song first appeared on Van Morrison's debut solo record, 1967's Blowin' Your Mind.

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Van Morrison - TB Sheets (RocknRolla Soundsystem Edit)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3pOTXlljfg

Oldschool hiphop version of "Input Source Select" by Dutch rock group "De Staat" formed around frontman Torre Florim. The song is heavily winking to the musical style of the Beastie Boys. It appears on the album "Vinticious Versions" released in 2014.

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De Staat - Input Source Select (RocknRolla Soundsystem Edit)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tJbqNRGSl0

Chain of Fools is a song written by Don Covay originally intended for the majestic Otis Redding. It is claimed that the song is an unauthorized rewrite of a gospel song named "Pains of Life" recorded by Rev E Fair & The Sensational Gladys Davis. Covay recorded his demo version of Chain of Fools while singing Gospel with his brothers and sisters. After listening to the demo Jerry Wexler, an Atlantic Records producer, chose to place the song with their rising female star Aretha Franklin in 1967 rather than with Redding as he felt a women’s voice would do more right to the song.

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Aretha Franklin - Chain Of Fools (RocknRolla Soundsystem Edit) | 7" on Act Of Sedition Records

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fic2EyVQoAM

Double time beat groove by The Allman Brothers iconic slide guitarist Derek Trucks. This blues tune was originally written by the great Buddy Guy and first released by O.V. Wright in 1974.

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Derek Trucks - Blind, Crippled and Crazy (RocknRolla Soundsytem Edit)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkRoiIlWhf8

Chigago born Laura Lee is critically acclaimed for her recordings which discussed and celebrated women's experience.  She launched her  solo career as a R&B singer in clubs in Detroit and alongside replaced the great Della Rees in The Meditation Singers in 1956. 

Before boosting her career with Motown producers, Holland, Dozier Lee had her first hit with "Women's Love Rights"on Chess Records.Lee's profound sound of concious soul and gospel was most successful in the 1960s and 1970s with tracks as "Crumbs Off The Table"  and "Rip Off".

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Laura Lee - Crumbs Off The Table (RocknRolla Soundsystem Edit)

Dig through any old stack of underground disco and boogie vinyl from the late '70s and mid-'80s. If the name Leroy Burgess isn't in the credits of at least 1 out of the first 50 you scan, consider it a waste of time...

Find here our Instrumental disco take on his Salsoul single Stranger from 1983.

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Leroy Burgess - Stranger(RocknRolla Soundsystem Remix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9C71Ru0hCE

Spirits of dub, reggae and mid-'70s soul: The song "Come Smoke My Herb", from extraordinary bassist and singer Meshell Ndegeocellom was featured on her 5th album "Comfort Woman".  It was released in 2003 on Maverick Records. 

Our dreamy dub retake is done with respect to the original by RocknRolla Soundsystem.

Me'Shell Ndegéocello - Come Smoke My Herb (RocknRolla Soundsystem Edit)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBTL7zJWQAo

Blessed, with a bruising Otis Redding like voice the young Toots had been discovered singing in a barbershop in Trench Town. By 1973 Toots and The Maytals had their rabble-rousing bar-room reggae down to a fine art. Funky Kingston, recorded at the Dynamic Studios in Kingston for Warwick Lyn and on Island Records, ramps the soul side of their sound for one of the most uplifting reggae songs of all time. 
 
Toots and the Maytals became a favourite of rock critics in the 70s and listening to Funky Kingston, it is easy to understand why. The muscular rhythms, “Toots” Hibbert’s hoarse exhortations and his slightly surreal lyrics appealed to the spirit of a more fundamental age that rock music had lost.

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Toots & The Maytals - Funky Kingston (RocknRolla Soundsystem Edit)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P_UOIQfh_U

French electronic beat-maker and producer Guts with a heavy hip-hop base takes us on a uplifting pop journey with And The Living Is Easy. The song contains a sample of Billy Stewart's "Summertime". Guts is one of the co-founding members of Alliance Ethnik, the inspirational and trend setting hip-hop French band from the 90s. 

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Guts - And The Living Is Easy (RocknRolla Soundsystem Edit)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qM2mY3p_yE

Dedicating their signature track to "all the killers . . ."   New York's Mobb Deep cooked gangsta rap down to its inkiest, most nihilistic essence. A snippet from a Quincy Jones soundtrack infuses the song with its sinister hiss. The song is told from the perspective of inner-city youths engaged in territorial warfare and struggling for financial gains.

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Mobb Deep - Shook Ones (RocknRolla Soundsystem Edit)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MBhKR7wMBE

Gem Archer (Heavy Stereo) goes George Harrison on the sitar in this slow-burner taken from Oasis's 7th and final studio album. An Oasis track without guitars? The result is actually a lot more interesting than rock lovers would expect.  The track holds epic burbling under the surface atmospherics that The Verve used to have before they tried to sound like Oasis.

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Oasis - To Be Where There's Life (RocknRolla Soundsystem Edit)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTcNch2D6-8

Roebuck "Pops" Staples won a contemporary blues Grammy in 1994 for his final album Father Father,  The title track shows the power of Pop's soft touch and strong  beliefs. His thin, whispery moan blends perfectly with daughter Mavis her full-throated shouts that everybody knows oh so well from the legendary "Staple Singers" era.

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Roebuck "Pops" Staples - Father Father (RocknRolla Soundsystem Edit)

"Hate To See You Go" is a song originally made famous by Little Walter in 1955. Walter's vocal abilities have always been overshadowed by his phenomenal harp playing, which was mostly based on licks by Louis Armstrong. With this Stones effort Walter Jacobs himself would smile in his grave. It’s a perfectly executed blues track with Mick Jagger's slightly distorted voice in particular fine form behind the mic and on the harmonica.

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The Essential Disc 2

The Rolling Stones - Hate To See You Go (RocknRolla Soundsystem Edit)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISZbio6obdc

Our first release on Springbok Records will hit the stores on the 5th June (Traxsource exclusive). Other platforms 2 weeks later. 

Side 1 of this double A-side release slams Biggie Smalls, The NYC Peech Boys and The Beegees together. Kinda catchy if you ask us.

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Going Back To Cali (Springbok Records)

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Our first release on Springbok Records will hit the stores on the 5th June (Traxsource exclusive). Other platforms 2 weeks later.

2nd part of this double A side release features 2-Pac in the lead backed up by Dolly Parton (yes that famous 33rpm version) and a touch of MJ as the track progresses. Dance floor friendly vibes.

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Jolene, How You Want It (Springbok Records)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v4rTKuGxsc

Taking Roy Ayers his intimate disco beat of Liquid Love to top it of with Grandmaster Flash's lyrics of The Message. This one has been on the shelf for a while....... Thought we'd better give it away for free.

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Liquid Love is The Message (RocknRolla Soundsystem Mashup)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szqG9f-t3VE

"Red Right Hand" is a 1994 song from the band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. A dark, malicious alternative rock track that became one of Cave's signature tracks. "Red right hand" is a line in John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost that refers to the vengeful hand of God. It features as the main theme for the BBC television show Peaky Blinders.

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Red Right Hand (RocknRolla Soundsystem Edit)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dWcwjzOpPQ

Frank sure loved to sing about towns. Taken from the 1967 Album "The World We Knew" the track was written by Lee Hazlewood and recorded by Sinatra in 1967.

This retreat is done with respect to the original by RocknRolla Soundsystem and Joris Vos

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Frank Sinatra - This Town (RocknRolla Soundsystem Edit)

The sun's out so about time we dropped this one. A remix done in cooperation with Star Wax Magazine France on Dubamine's track Nicodemus out on Dub-Stuy Records Brooklyn NY. Available on 7" Vinyl. Check both links for successful living - PROMO ONLY -

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Dubamine - Nicodemus (RocknRolla Soundsystem Remix) | 7" on Star Wax Records

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Emu6VFFP4Kw

Palmer is backed on this Island Records funky cut by The Meters and Lowell George of Little Feat. Palmer sang confidently on this album, despite being backed by more accomplished musicians such as Lowell George, Art Neville and New Orleans singer-songwriter Allen Toussaint.

Track was made available for Nu Blends compilation #17. Click here for a free download of the compilation: http://www.nublends.net/portal/discography/compilation-vol-17/

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Robert Palmer - Sneakin' Sally Through The Alley (RocknRolla Soundsystem Edit)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JGyWy-VAvY

‘Like Sugar’ by legendary disco queen Chaka Khan will feature as lead single on her forthcoming album due to be out out later in 2018. Khan hasn’t released an album in 11 years.  The single was produced by Switch, Major Lazer founder and producer for M.I.A, Beyonce and Rihanna.

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Chaka Khan - Like Sugar (RocknRolla Soundsystem Edit)

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1 - Loneley Town, Lonely Street
2 - Nobody's Fault But Mine
3 - Troubleman

RocknRolla Soundsystem - Organic Edits EP (Vehicle Records)

100 Yard Dash" comes with a traditional soul vibe, tambourine shakes and a stiff back-beat. The song is seen as exemplary of "top-rate" soul songwriting in which Saadiq takes unorthodox metaphors and builds variations on them in a uncharacteristically high pitched voice. It was released as a single but surprisingly did not chart.

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Raphael Saadiq - 100 Yard Dash (RocknRolla Soundsystem Edit)

The Queen of Funk Chaka Khan opens softly but builds Hello Happiness into a funky, infectious dance tune that puts the iconic singer up front of a call and response number over an early 80s beat (That we've worked on a little)

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Chaka Khan - Hello Happiness (RocknRolla Soundsystem Edit)

Cold Coffee & Cocaine is the eighth track on the 2018 posthumous album Piano & A Microphone, documenting a solo piano rehearsal by Prince from 1983. 

No studio version is known to exist, and it is not known if the track was ever intended for Purple Rain or any other project. The lyrics of the song are sung in Prince's "Jamie Starr" voice, suggesting that the track may have been done with The Time in mind.

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Prince - Cold Coffee & Cocaine (RocknRolla Soundsystem Edit)

The Mouse Outfit are a nine piece  hip hop (live) band from Manchester. This rework is the title track is from their 2015 Step Steadier album which holds a blistering array of absolute bomb tracks.  The song is massive to begin with and has a damn funky bass hook. We only added some vibe and stuff to dance to.

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The Mouse Outfit - Step Steadier (RocknRolla Soundsystem Edit)

We do edits, quite good ones actually... 

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