One Rare Track
Our bi-weekly nod to tracks you may not have heard... and we think are awesome.
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Taken from Sem Fantasia compilation - orig. released some time in the late 60's
Somehow both wonderfully bizarre .. while oozing a deadly sex appeal.. like the haunting forefathers of Portishead... with a touch of Lee Scratch Perry.
Unreleased..
The details are scarce .. we know he is a one-man-funk band from Japan armed with an array of vocoders, drum machines, synths .. and an unending love for classic 70s/80s soul and funk.
# apparently Nile Rogers' favourite of his own compositions
# will they ever make Coming To America 2??
Taken from 'Covers' album - 1982 - reissued on Captured Tracks
Could've/Should've been massive. Think of an ice-cool cocktail mixing INXS, Thomson Twins.. even a touch of Fela Kuti.
Legend has it, this fell of EMI's release roster due to over expenditure on Tina Turner's 'Private Dancer' album - a crying shame.
Originally released on Mercury records - 1979
No .. not a Tom Jones cover but beaming flamenco disco vibes from Norway.
Unearthed and brought into the light by the legendary Dj Harvey.
Taken from 'Into My Own Thing' compilation on WestSide records - 1971
There is soul and there is SOUL. This is SOUL.
And check out the Four Tet club edit here.
Taken from Hustle! compilation on Soul Jazz records (orig. rec 1980)
If the King of Pop was from Kingston..
Killer dance-floor reggae cover of a seminal disco anthem.
Re-issued on Athens In The North records
The kind of record that leaves rare vinyl collectors uncontrollably salivating..
No information out there on who exactly Willie Dale is. No picture can be found. Just this extraordinary slice of funk, soul, psyche and garage rolled into one dazzling epic.
Re-issued on Finders Keepers records
Coquettish, teasing and a little zany.. irresistible really..
File under: fuzzy, scuzzy, funked up Urdu grooves.
