You and me turns thirty

Both thumbs up for the choice of sample, for the edit and for reminding me Round Trip's version which I like a teeny-tiny bit better than the original. And for bringing it back 30 years later.



Pabzzz soundcloud page is like the perfect Christmas and New Year's gift, so you better find the time to check it out and kick off this new year ahead of us with atmospheric jazzy hip-hop sounds that kick ass.

Have a great time y'all. And groove it up a notch.  :-)

tracks' info: 
-Pabzzz - You and me
2014

-The O'Jays - You and me
Family Reunion
Philadelphia Interntional Records 1975

-Round Trip - You and me
Round Trip
MCA Records 1981

Stroke from the past

Hello everyone! Just got back from 1998 where I accidentally fell a few minutes ago when I pressed play to this track, while I was scanning through some files in my hard drive.

Although it was never my favorite and I haven't heard it in at least 12-13 years, oh-my-god, what a nice surpirse that was! You can tell how excited I got from all the exclamation marks I used in this post!

track's info:
House of Glass - Playing with my mind (Bini& Martini Vocal mix)
Azuli Records 1998

Melba reworked

69-year-old Melba must be feelin' quite thrilled and enthusiastic that in ending 2014, beginning 2015, young people still get inspired by her '70s-'80s songs and experiment on them, bringing them back to our ears and soul. This is one of the latest edits that I came accross by Moscow's Rare Cuts.



Love's comin' at ya, from the forgotten 1982, right back at ya, reworked and refreshed!

Thank you Melba for the great legacy of your music and your voice, thank you Paul Lawrence Jones III for writing this song and thank you Rare Cuts for bringing it back to my speakers.

Take a look at an older post about editing Melba here. 

track's info: 
Rare Cuts - Comin' at ya (RC Dub)
2014

(original track)
Melba Moore - Love's comin' at ya
The ohter side of the rainbow
Capitol Records 1982

Young boy in a world without love, can you see where you're going?

There have been quite a few upsetting things goin' on in Greece the past month, provin' once more –not that there was ever any doubt- that the government and the state is as rotten as hell would be if it actually existed and that most citizens of this country -and other countries as well for that matter- are so ignorant and indifferent, it hurts. 

Having said that, this post today ain’t about sharing music. It’s about sharing the very profound will of mine that someday we will all be able to search for our inner selves, leave the superficial, vain and materialistic part of us behind, unite and truly love each other, so that we finally understand that we need no fancy stuff, we need nobody to rule us, nobody to make decisions for us and nobody to say what’s right and what’s wrong.

Cause everything could only be right then. And people wouldn’t have to go on hunger strikes, facing death, to claim human rights.

Stretch your mind and unite, people. There’s your power.
It ain’t cool to be an outsider in this.

track's info:
Jon Lucien - Search For The Inner Self 
Ampex Records 1971

Find peace

I bet all my delivery flyers (you do know how important delivery flyers are, don't you?) that the Bamboos and Funk'n'Stein definitely had this in mind when they started makin' music.

Absolute funk from the late '70s and Experience Unlimited. One of those pieces of music that its lyrics make you think, but its melody gives you peace, even when the rest of the world has totally lost it. And I won't even begin talking about the vocals by Melva "Lady" Adams and Donald R. Fields.

Peace.

track's info:
Experience Unlimited - Peace gone away
Free yourself
Black Fire 1977