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70ts Soul, R 'n' B, Funk, Jazz Fusion
Exceptional CD Reissues and Remasters
"...Funk It Down..."
Funky as a gnat's fuzzy wuzzy funky bits - this is the kind of CD compilation that puts a smirk on my wizened visage and the kind of neck-jerking body-moving Monster Ace Records of the UK are just so damn good at. Details...
Released Friday, 28 September 2018 - "Westbound SUPER BREAKS - Essential Funk, Soul And Jazz Samples And Breakbeats" by VARIOUS ARTISTS on Ace/Westbound CDSEWD 163 (Barcode 029667090827) offers 19 tracks from 1969 through to 1976 (74:23 minutes). There's a 16-page illustrated booklet with new liner notes from Soul Expert and genre aficionado DEAN RUDLAND with high quality mastering from long-time Ace Engineer DUNCAN COWELL.
While names like Funkadelic, Junie, Ohio Players, The Detroit Emeralds and Denise LaSalle will be familiar to most Soul lovers - especially those who treasure those 70ts grooves - obscuro-types like the James Brown excitable King Errisson and the flute driven bass pump-action of Pleasure Web will be new and most welcome. Same goes for Caesar Frazier - as the hip-cat singer chants "...I can feel the Funk!" at the beginning and end of the 5:05 minutes of his "Funk It Down" - it's the kind of fantastic brass and bass slow sexy groove you want to rave about and one that will drive most dancefloor shufflers into bottom-wiggling overdrive (look out ladies).
The saucily titled "The Fuzz And Da Boog" by Fuzzy Haskins is pure instrumental Funk - all tight synths and brass jabs as it motors along. Then there's granny and the "Funky Worm" by The Detroit Emeralds - what fun (pictured in its label bag on Page 7 of the booklet). Spanky Wilson does a very cool Hammond keyboard-jabbing live cover of Bill Withers' fab groove "Kissing My Love" (such a tender sender). The Detroit Emeralds show yet again why they're a Soul Treasure amongst those in the know – the sexy, sexy shuffle of "Baby Let Me Take You (In My Arms)". And there's so much more where that came from...
Ignore the rather naff artwork - this is another winner from Ace and after 40 years of hitting us with forgotten grooves that need to be rediscovered - you'd think they be slowing down by now. On the evidence of this rather groovy little Boogaloo - there's little chance of that...
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