Philly Fame

David Bowie Young Americans RCA Records 1975

03. Fascination 04. Right 08. Fame I recently heard David Bowie's "Fame" in a DJ set and it really fit well with some James Brown tracks I use. After doing some research, I found that it was his first number one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and the Young Americans album that the track was on was Bowie's first departure from his usual glam rock style. With this album, he explored the Philadelphia soul sound.

Bombs Away

The Bomb Squad Sophistiafunk BSPro 2002

03. Hey Good Lookin 04. Gemini 07. Sophistafunk I first heard about this band back in 02 when they were still a fairly unknown indie band. They were just starting to make a name for themselves. I was going to post this album just on the strength of them being a sick band. As I was researching to find the most recent news on them I found out that in 03 they got an AMA award for new independent band (not that anything that the AMA does is worth anything), but they did get to perform. Probably the only thing that the AMA did that I respect. Cuz this is definitely a sick band.

Chillin with My Kool-Aid

TLC Crazy Sexy Cool Arista 1994

03. Kick Your Game 04. Diggin' On You 10. Let's Do It Again

Straight from Brooklyn

OC Hidden Gems Next Mill Entertainment 2007		05. Crooklyn Feat Chubb Rock & Jeru The Damaja 07. Day One Feat DITC

MF Killa J

J Dilla, MF DOOM, Ghostface Killa Sniperlite Stones Throw 2005

01. Sniper Elite Feat MF DOOM 02. Murder Goons Feat Ghostface Killa 03. Sniper Elite & Murder Goons Ghost and Doom were rhyming over some Dilla tracks off of Donuts before it dropped and some of these tracks have made it out to the ears of the masses. Some on Ghost's Fishscale and some would have made it out on a Doom Dilla colabo but after Dilla passed the project was postponed. Here we have 2 back to back tracks from Donuts with Doom and Ghost rippin it up. 2 tracks seperately and blended together.

Over Night Killah

Eddie Holman A Night to Remember Salsoul 1977

03. Immune to Love 05. I've Been Singing Love Songs 08. It's Over

Smooth

Ramsey Lewis Ivory Pyramid Grp Records 1992

01. Brazilica 02. People Make The World Go 'Round 04. Sarah Jane 08. Pavanne

House Colors

Amos Lee
Amos Lee
Blue Note Records 2005

01. Keep It Loose, Keep It Tight 04. Give It Up 07. Colors The first time I heard Colors was on an episode of House. That shit was real soulful. So I started hunting for this guy's stuff and it has a real down to earth feel. Just some real chill music.

Tony En Quest

Lucy Pearl Lucy Pearl Beyond Records 2000

03. Dance Tonight 08. Without You 14. You Feat Snoop Dogg & Q-Tip Combining members from Tony! Toni! Toné!, En Vogue, and A Tribe Called Quest, Lucy Pearl burst onto the scene and dropped 2 songs and then vanished into the night like a ninja. A shame too, cuz they really dropped some dope tracks. Dance Tonight was a mainstream hit and You was a hidden gem on that album.

Jungle Hunt

Van Hunt On The Jungle Floor Capitol Records 2006

02. If I Take You Home 03. Hot Stage Lights 05. Ride, Ride, Ride 14. The Thrill of This Love

Monkey Music

Mandrill Mandrill Polydor Records 1970

01. Mandrill 03. Symphonic Revolution 04. Rollin On By far one of my favorite bands of all time. So I figured what other way to introduce them to y'all than to give you guys a taste of their first album. Enjoy!

Police Rock

The Police Outlandos d'Amour A&M Records 1978

01. Next to You 03. Roxanne 05. Peanuts

Daddy Linus

Bobby Caldwell Carry On Sindrome Records 1982

04. Words 07. You Belong to Me 08. Carry On

Machine Gun Funk

Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsies Capitol Records 1970

02. Machine Gun 04. Power to Love 06. We Gotta Live Together

Just Too Damn Lovely

Amel Larrieux Lovely Standards Blisslife Records 2007

01. If I Were a Bell 03. Lucky to Be Me 05. Shadow of Your Smile This is for my Sis-Star. Happy Birthday!!

Where Brooklyn At

Smif-N-Wessun Dah Shinin' Nervous Records 1995

02. Wrektime 05. KIM 06. Bucktown 07. Stand Strong 12. Wipe Ya Mouf All you gotta say about this album is Bucktown. Bucktown. What a fucking track.

Will You Be the Love Supreme

T-Connection T-Connection Dash Records 1979

01. Funkannection 05. Saturday Night 08. Love Supreme I caught this record one day when I was diggin, but not in the crates. One of the employees was playing Love Supreme over the store sound system and after hearing that track I had to have it.

Gooodddd Mmmooorrrnnniiinngg Vvviieetttnnaammm!!

Good Morning Vietnam Original Soundtrack Touchstone Pictures 1987

02. Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - Nowhere to Run 04. Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders - Game of Love 13. Them - Baby Please Don't Go 18. Robin Williams - Adrian Cronauer Segment 7 This movie was a sentimental choice. Its not as big a cult classic as Ferris Bueller, but I remember being a little kid and playing air guitar to the cassette of this soundtrack. Now, these songs are forever etched in my mind and whenever I hear them I see Robin Williams and Vietnam.

The Ex Mrs Miles

Betty Davis Nasty Gal Island Records 1975

01. Nasty Gal 02. Talkin' Trash 03. Dedicated to the Press 07. Gettin' Kicked The funk version of Madonna before Madonna, Prince influencer, and Miles Davis inspirer. Yes this woman was all those things.

Jaaaaammmmmm... Oooohhh Jaaaammmm...

Slave Stone Jam Atlantic Records 1980

04. Sizzlin' Hot 08. Stone Jam My boy Steve from my old job put me onto Slave. They're definitely one of the funkiest groups to come out of that decade.