Cat. No.:SESHDCD244
 
Title Electro Funk Sessions
Subtitle The Finest Electronic Street Jams From Back In The Day
Artist various    
Format:Double CD
Barcode:698458624420
Playing Time:Over 2 hours


 
Electro Funk Sessions brings together over 2 hours of the most progressive, electronic and original ‘robot music’ ever to be crammed onto a 2CD set. Featuring the original Electro pioneers such as Man Parrish, Whodini, Shannon and many, many more, these fantastic tracks sounds as fresh and relevant today as they did when they were first released some 25 years ago. See Reviews

Track List

CD1

1     WHODINI - Magic's Wand
2     MAN PARRISH - Hip Hop, Be Bop (Don't Stop)
3     TYRONE BRUNSON - The Smurf
4     JOYCE SIMS - All And All
5     LISA LISA & CULT JAM WITH FULL FORCE - I Wonder If I Take You Home
6     NEWTRAMENT - London Bridge Is Falling Down
7     DAVY D - One For The Treble (Fresh)
8     TRICKY TEE - Johnny The Fox
9     C.O.D. - In The Bottle
10     AIR FORCE ONE - See The Light Feel The Heat
11     BONZO GOES TO WASHINGTON - Five Minutes
12     JOHNNY CHINGAS - Phone Home
13     G-FORCE FEAT. RONNIE GEE & CAPTAIN CEE - Feel The Force
   

CD2

1     SHANNON - Let The Music Play
2     XENA - On The Upside
3     NAIROBI & THE AWESOME FOURSOME - Funky Soul Makossa
4     HANSON & DAVIS - Hungry For Your Love
5     THE EARONS - Land Of Hunger
6     SOUNDS OF JHS 126 BROOKLYN - Chill Pill
7     KURTIS BLOW - Nervous
8     FULL FORCE - Alice, I Want You Just For Me!
9     DIMPLES D & MARLEY MARL - Sucker DJ
10     NEWCLEUS - Jam On Revenge (The Wikkie-Wikkie Song)
11     THE BAR-KAYS - Sexomatic
12     WILL POWERS - Adventures In Success
13     RENE & ANGELA FEAT. KURTIS BLOW - Save Your Love (For #1)
     
 
       
Anyone venturing out into the bars and clubs in Hoxton, London these days is liable to find themselves experiencing something of a musical time-warp. As one walks through the maze of original Victorian streets marvelling at the creativity of urban renewal in what was once the industrial hotbed of London, it’s apparent that a particular sound is pumping out of virtually every sound system. Rock solid machine-driven rhythms, ferocious basslines, metronomic percussion and a variety of classic synthesisers intertwine with urban raps and are skilfully mixed in and out of todays pumping beats. It’s very much the sound of urban London in 2007.

And it’s the sound of 80’s Electro!

Following on from Electro Sessions, we decided to continue mining the delicious seams of the Electro groove which sound as relevent today as they did some 25 years ago, when they were first released.

So where did this sound come from?

Speaking from a personal perspective, as a relatively well-known D.J. at the top of his game throughout the 70’s and 80’s playing to a seriously contemporary crowd in the state-of-the-art club Leeds Warehouse, I became painfully aware that a musical revolution was brewing on the other side of the Pennines over in Manchester and Wigan. Playing to one of the most musically aware crowds in the UK was always nicely challenging but never more so then when a guy called Greg Wilson appeared on the scene playing what was then called ‘Robot Music’ by the Soul/Funk/Disco fraternity at the time. Whether I liked it or not, a musical revolution was happening and the traditional 4/4 Soulful Dance/Disco sound was about to be turned on it’s head. As a veteran soulboy at the time, I thought this was nothing short of anarchy!

It seemed that every week my core crowd would return from a night out in Manchester asking for more and more ‘Robot Music’ and, over a period of a few weeks, I had to learn to programme these new beats in with the more regular fare in order to keep everyone happy. The nucleus of all this activity stemmed from a shop called ‘Spin-In’ in Manchester where Kev Edwards would happily hand over a pile of brand new U.S. import 12”’s with a gleam in his eye and tell me that these were all “massive records for Greg Wilson”.

I eventually came round to the sound and soon the Warehouse’s legendary sound-system was belting out Whodini, Man Parrish, Newcleus and many of the other tracks featured on this album. In fact, Shannon’s “Let The Music Play” was the first record signed to the Warehouse’s own record label before it went on to become a UK Top 20 smash in late ’83.

So welcome to Electro Funk Sessions. Truly the sound of a revolution which has now come full circle!

Ian Dewhirst 2007
 
 

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