This album explores obscure avenues of '70s soul,
concentrating on off shoots of small labels smooth soul, soft funk, and
boogie, highly danceable grooves that have been tagged as an off shoot
of the Northern Soul scene called "modern soul", every track on here has been played on the scene.
Whether the four-on-the-floor rises to the surface or not, the evolving sound of soul progressing from the 60,s is the
underpinning of the music here, present in such Philly styled cuts as
Eula Cooper's "Standing by Love" and Mind & Matter's "I'm Under Your
Spell," or the stylish breezes of Elvin Spencer's "Lift This Hurt" and
the Latin-tinged "No Matter" by La'Fez. Their charm is they were cut on the
cheap on labels looking for that one big hit.
That snazzy groove flows throughout these 20 songs, and it's what makes
the album worth hearing. The songs may not always
stick. and, certainly there are no stars here (Syl Johnson is the
closest, unless you count Prince's early band 94 East) but the rhythm
is infectious and the satin slickness is endearing, Northern soul had to move on as the times were a changing...Numero are certainly chasing Ace/Kent for that number 1 title in providing great soul!...Loaded with obscurities!
AMM
The Tasters!
27 comments:
Hey Thanks For This Great Surprise !
This looks like a great compilation, too. Thanks for review, P.
Thank you AMM, great compilation
I`ve heard of(but not heard ) some of these tracks.Would you correct this omission please AMM?
Cheers!
Bill
Great Cd thanks for putting this up for review .
Thanks AMM for the review.
Nice compilation of modern soul where I'm missing a few.
Thanks for sharing.
Yves
Nice 70’s music amm many thanks !
And another gem, so good :) Thx x 1000 ☮️☀️✌🏻
I'll never say no to some extra soul. Thanks, AMM!
Thanks AMM for adding this extra review today
Great Album Thank you very much AMM
Thanks AMM for the review
Thanks for this review.
/Jumpstart
This looks real good. Please and thanks.
This looks great, many thanks AMM for this review
BigD
Very nice, many thanks for the review.
Eccentric is a great label, always coming with fine comps.. Cheers, AMM.
thank you very much for this AMM
this looks great thanks AMM
Reb
Great stuff thanks AMM
Yes MM, Numero produce some top class stuff.
cheers,ELtel
Great comp and as always a great review. thanks for the tasters. Thank you AMM.
Thank you kindly for this beauty mate, fab review!
Some great and interesting stuff on this review. Cheers AMM
This looks great, AMM. Rare tracks on here.
Nice set of modern and SYL Johnson and Donnell Pitman is on this one,A for bonus for me Thanks AMM
Cheers Pedro
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