Thursday, January 12, 2023

Various Artists - Funk The Essential Collection (2009) Union Square/Intro - Box Set 3 x CD + Mini Booklets (FLAC)

A Long deleted collection of great funk and soul all tracks are full length versions!...On CD1  Do you promise to funk the whole funk and nothing but the funk? Then put on those dancin shoes and strut on in! You're about to enjoy 20 Killer Klassiks that will fill your feet full of good times and your mind full of sunshine. And we also have a taste of the 70s street scene here and a dash of the undiluted reality funk that made the blaxploitation movies so much more than just a commercial enterprise. So get ready to groove to some of the greatest funk ever recorded - and that's just for starters!......On CD2 In case you got the impression that life in the struttin' 70s and soulful 60s was one long party, here you'll find a few jams to remind you that times were tough then too. However, that means that the party nights were more important than ever and the grooves were every bit as fierce as their era. There was more than one way to bust out of the ghetto, you didn't have to rob a bank or go looking for your 40 acres and a mule in the country, you could forget yourself for a little while in some funky basement. And here's the musical proof...On CD3 Here we are in those steamy basements and packed project apartments where the tunes were sizzling and the people came to party. As celebrated by Mr Fred Wesley, the house party might be to celebrate something or to celebrate nothing. It might be to pay the rent or just because your friends are heaven sent. Whatever the reason, the tunes were designed to get feet moving and hips groovin', and each one of the tracks here does just that. So party hearty, as old/young as you are! There are some cracking tracks on here with smooth,raw,northern Soul and funk, stay motionless at your peril!

AMM/Liners

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18 comments:

pedro B said...

Some classic tracks on this set should please all soul bro's Thanks AMM

Cheers Pedro

gmortars said...

Now this is what I call a funky drop! 😎 Thanks, AMM!

Kenji said...

yes! greet cd!

pmac said...

Nice curated set of music- when you lead off with The Meters, you are damn serious! Many thanks for this splendid offering, AMM! Waiting with baited breath on this one!

soultime said...

Some great tracks on this compilation , lots of stand out stuff on here but my fave is Funkadelic one nation under a groove . brilliant review .

PeterH said...

What a great collection! Thanks for review, P.

RMstorm said...

Thanks AMM for the introduction to this collection

Bob Mac said...

Looks like a good 3 CD set of Funk, many thanks for the review.

Simon said...

this looks very tasty so yes please!

richsoul said...

What da funk?? Great collection some known and unknown. Thank you AMM

Anghellic67$ said...

Great 3 Disc Collection AMM,Much Appreciated

MusicFan59 said...

Very nice collection of funk. I have the majority of these but it's great to see them compiled into this great 3 CD set. Thanks AMM!!!

hakase said...

thanks for this another funk comp looks NOLA stuffs much in it

PhilN said...

Thanks AMM. Packed full of great tracks.

Rush said...

Thanks for the review its just what the Dr ordered

Bill Pritchard said...

Like most on here I've got a lot of these but the ones I haven't got look very appealing.

reb.jukebox said...

Thanks AMM for this fine Funk compilation box Reb

ELtel said...

Huge hunk of funk here MM, thank you.
cheers,ELtel