RARE FUNK (87)

Javi Frias - Get Down [Funk Pimpin EP - Midnight Riot]

Intrigue - Call Of The Heart (Funk 1984)

Track from Far East Recording. Year 1991.

Ripped from youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQCi8fKaPyY

Soichi Terada & Shinichiro Yokota - Shake Yours

KOMIKO - FEEL ALRIGHT

Flavia Fortunato - Se Tu Vuoi (1982)

Disco Power

David Mancuso presents The Loft (Disc 1)

Risco Connections - Ain't No Stopping Us Now - 1979

Luxury Elite - Rain

Raphael Toine - Femmes Pays Douces

Juliane - Blanc E Noir

Alex Rosa - Sistem

Yorgantz - Unknown

Fever - Dreams And Desire [Promo]

Raoul Denis Jr. - Ti Gaçon Fe Respew

Buy/Stream Nan Fon Bwa  https://melissalaveaux.lnk.to/RadyoSiwel

Written and composed by Frantz Casséus (Haïti)
adapted, arranged and performed by Mélissa Laveaux and ALBERT (Vincent Taurelle, Vincent Taeger et Ludovic Bruni)

Mélissa Laveaux •  Nan Fon Bwa

JUNO: http://bit.ly/SHDW005JUNO
PHONICA: http://bit.ly/SHDW005PHONICA
RED EYE: http://bit.ly/SHDW005REDEYE
DEEJAY.DE: http://bit.ly/SHDW005DEEJAYDE
LOBSTER: http://bit.ly/SHDW005LOBSTER

And they’re back. Birmingham based party starters Shadow City Records return with a four track EP, bursting with dancefloor goodness. At the controls for SHDW 005 it’s Salary Boy - hustling hard by day, making tunes to get you hustling harder by night.

‘There Is A Way’ opens with a soiree of shuffling percussion, which drives it forward throughout. The tune holds its nerve and refuses to cash in, constantly bubbling and building as layer upon layer unfolds almost to breaking point. An exhilarating statement of intent. Never looking back.

Side A comes to a close with ‘Tricks’. It confidently boasts a heavy hitting kick drum, set to shake speakers and alter heartbeats. A relentlessly positive guitar sample and buoyant bassline set the mood of a lively cut, which builds to a pay-off that brims with shimmering brass and crisp hats. A sunshine filled stormer, sure to get even the most cynical city worker moving.

Drums, drums, drums.  As ‘Mistakes’ begins we’re swept away by Salary Boy’s effortless command of groove, before a booming bassline snatches back at our attention. “Everyone makes mistakes” is the refrain from the vocal sample. I’d usually agree but our hard hustling, hi-hat wielding hero hasn’t put a foot wrong so far.

An evocative piano loop anchors ‘Cry’, a tune made to define the early hours. Equally adept at touching the heart, as it is at moving the feet. Endings are important, and this is as strong as they come.

Don’t wait for pay day, cop that new Salary Boy now.

C+C

Valeria Carnevali