The Getup are more than your average Hammond Funk outfit and this track proves it. A bubbling bass line kicks the track into a killer up tempo funk groove, having you reaching for the volume knob to crank it up as the first verse bursts out.  The track takes on a whole new dimension as the chorus reveals a four-on-the-floor solid dance groove, with Jamiroqui-esque tasty chord changes, and then the horns stab us back into the next verse.  A percussive, reverberant Hammond solo takes us into a drum break that is DJ and sampler's heaven, before the tunes rounds out with a double chorus and ends on more punchy stabs……. a midtempo vocal workout showcasing the sheer musicality of the band…….funk of the highest order!

The Getup - What If? 2 45

Produced and arranged by – C. Hynson, J. Tate
Written by – P. Wills, R. Moore

Dynamic Corvettes - Funky Music Is The Thing (Parts 1 & 2)

Back in September 2007, Freestyle Records released ´Black Feeling´ an album project brought to life by Australian musical supremo Lance Ferguson (The Bamboos, Cookin´ On 3 Burners, Lanu) 

Each track was presented under a pseudonym to give the impression of an album you would find whilst digging in a Caribbean record shop or American thrift store. As a collection of reworked classics, the album set dance floors alight across the world, indeed, the single ´Hippy Skippy Moon Strut´ by The Mighty Show-Stoppers became a huge selling 12 inch, and also notched up well over 350,000 individual viewings on You Tube to date!

Now in 2011, Freestyle Records is pleased as punch to be releasing this teaser 45 single that features 2 cuts from the forthcoming follow up album ´Black Feeling: Volume Two´ (FSRCD/LP090) and what total corkers they are too!

The A side is Lance & Co´s fantastic reworking of the anthemic ´Burning Spear´ under the moniker of The Poly-Tones, an intense and driving piece of soulful funk, and what could possibly equal that for the flip side? The Mighty Show-Stoppers giving Johnnie Pate´s blaxploitation soundtrack classic ´Shaft In Africa´ such a convincing and wonderful re-working, you will think you are back in time, on the film set whilst Richard Roundtree (that's John Shaft to you sucker!) kicks some serious ass!   
 

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The Mighty Show-Stoppers - Shaft In Africa

MFSB - Family Affair

BPDC with extra powder (Remastered)

A journey through light unfolds in layers, from silently glowing embers to horizons painted in radiant colors. Bridges rise above the invisible sky, carrying echoes of tomorrow through streaks of aurora and scattered fragments of blossoming heaven. Each track contains the pulse of renewal, a gentle revelation of sunlit truth, where silvery dawns dissolve into infinite rays and the future softly shines through the present moment.

Radiant Bloom

Paul Revere

This is one heavy slab of dirty funk.

The a-side is an absolute BRASS monster of a track titled "Harrow."  A cut that gallops from the first hits of the snare drum to the blaring sounds of horns, ultimately making our aural universe a better place.  The b-side, titled "Nautilus (Hijacked)," is an instrumental cover of sorts, containing recreated hooks from "Nautilus" (Bob James) and "Hijack" (Enoch Light), which were famously sampled by Slick Rick (Children's Story) and The Beatnuts (Watch Out Now) among others.  

BAND INFO:  This is the second 45 on the Kept Records label by Breakdown Brass, young veterans of Brooklyn’s soul and funk scene — its members tour and record with Antibalas, Sharon Jones & the Dap‐Kings,Charles Bradley, Lee Fields, Monophonics, Ikebe Shakedown, Slavic Soul Party & many others



Nautilus (Hijacked)

Practice What You Preach

North Carolina

Music of  Red Bull BC One Rio de Janeiro 2012

Funkshone - Chase The Dream (Loop)

Uptempo Funk/Soul banger from UK heavyweights FUNKSHONE. Contact mbandoni@hotmail.com for more info regarding the music, band, bookings etc
Buy it on 7" vinyl here: http://www.jazzmanrecords.co.uk/funkshone-aint-never-gonna-work-aberlday-fry

It Aint Never Gonna Work

Old skool vinyl junkie, slowly moving into 21st century, kicking and screaming.

Always one take, never use beat sync, minimal FX.

All mixes took as long to make as they do to listen to.

Break it till you make it 👍🏼

BPDC with extra powder (Remastered)

Don Croleone