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Here is my edit of one of my all time favorite records. Made an instrumental out of it. Thank you for the support. Update high quality mix now. You can buy original on link provided.

Ghetto Groove by George Benson (Hippie Torrales Edit )

Retro Soul track taken from our upcoming album 'Soul Man'
A collection of 9 Original Songs, with a timeless feel.
Releasing on ALL PLATFORMS 6th November 2025

Happy Loving Man

Ain’t No Midnight Without You

The Magic Of The Blue: Greatest Hits

Just Don't Want to Be Lonely

Ahh...The Name Is Bootsy, Baby!

Ahh...The Name Is Bootsy, Baby

The Natural Four

Can This Be Real?

Thump Pick Six Tierra

Together

Every Great Motown Hit Of Marvin Gaye

Ain't That Peculiar (Single Version)

The Third Cup

The Stylistics - The Original Debut Album

You Are Everything

Rockin' Roll Baby

Round 2

You'll Never Get To Heaven - If You Break My Heart

To commemorate the passing of the great jazz trumpeter Donald Byrd today, I'd like to share my edit, originally released on the Editions Disco label, of one of my favorite songs of his - the jazz-funk and breakbeat classic "Think Twice".  Produced by the incomparable Mizell Brothers, it was sampled (and provided the basis) for three straight-up classic records: A Tribe Called Quest's "Footprints", Main Source's "Looking At The Front Door", and Armand Van Helden's house masterpiece "Flowers".

Byrd's records were a gateway for many of us who got into the nascent jazz-funk, rare groove and breakbeat scenes of the 1990s as DJs and collectors.  But his 1970s albums for Blue Note like Street Lady, Places & Spaces, as well as those of his protégés the Blackbyrds, were not just a rich trove of hip-hop samples for the eager beat-digger - they contained great songs that helped us to appreciate jazz as a popular art-form that was still engaged with contemporary soul, funk and R&B music, and encouraged investigating its infinite musical dimensions further.  He was, and is, tremendously important to my development as a DJ and lover of music.  We've lost a giant today.  RIP.

Donald Byrd - Think Twice (Edit De Prince Language)

Roy Ayers - Mystic Voyage (DJ Jazz Instrumental)

You'll Never Get To Heaven - If You Break My Heart

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