Vinyl Masterpiece, a Dutch reissuer of great funk albums, has just reissued two fantastic albums by Kool and The Gang. One of the two is the album 'Everbody's Dancin'' from 1978 original pressed on DE-LITE Records.

This and the other reissue album 'The Force' are recorded for the period that Kool and the Gang hit the charts with 'Celebrations', 'Ladies Night', 'Too Hot' and a few years later with 'Cherish' and 'Fresh'.

This album is pure funk and nothing else but the funk. The 8 minute title track 'Everybody's Dancin'' fooles you in the first 45 seconds. Watch my words. Get your 'Dancin Shoes' just like 'Big Chief Funkum' are both funk tracks of the first kind with lots of bass, brass, synth sounds. Track #4 'I Like Music' looks like a precessor for the coming period. Midtempo, less funk. The same is true for 'At The Party'. Nice tracks though. The smooth downtempo track 'Stay Awhile' sounds very fresh with nice guitar, and violin work. Great vocals. 'It's All You Need' is superb. Another great reissue on CD. Check the samples. You won't be disappointed. Sound samples and CD available at vinyl Masterpiece

SWITCH members are Bobby Debarge, Attala Zane Giles, Phillip Ingram. SWITCH released Six albums from 1978 till 1984. The first album SWITCH released in the seventies is 'Switch' on GORDY Records. Other albums that SWITCH recorded are 'Am I Still Your Boyfriend?', 'Reaching For Tomorrow', 'Switch II', 'Switch V'. Five albums of SWITCH reached the billboard Top R&B Albums chart. The highest charted album was 'This Is My Dream' from 1980. This reissue album `Switch II' reached #8 on the Top R&B Albums. This album holds 7 fantastic soul and boogie tracks. Now available on CD by vinyl-masterpiece.

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This week i recieved the album "Beyond Comprehension" of the American Soul and Gospel Singer Freddie Lee for review. This album was original released in 2008. But Freddie has been making waves on the UK soul scene recently with his debut album. Next month he will be featured in Blues and Soul Magazine and Soul Survivors Magazine after hitting No.12 in the Solar Radio album charts. Music from the album is currently playing on all BBC regionals stations, Solar Radio, Starpoint Radio, Newstyle Radio FM.

 

Cool Million (Rob Hardt and Frank Ryle) just released their third album '111' on the German Sedsoul Label. The disc contains fourteen funk, dance tunes in the 'famous' eighties sound. Some 'old school' singers collaborated on this album like Kenny Thomas, Peggi Blu. They selected for the other tracks other promising 'new school' artists. Great tunes are 'When We loved'. 'It's Your life' has the D-train sound.

This album is available in the stores from 2nd July.

Bobby DeBarge (keyboards), Greg Williams (keyboards) and Jody Sims (drums) collaborated in the Ohio-based funk band White Heat in the early 70s. After recording an album in 1975 produced by Barry White, the trio left the band, enlisting Philip Ingram (vocals),Bobby and Tommy DeBarge (bass) and Eddie Fluellen (guitar) to form First Class. Jermaine Jackson discovered the band and helped them to secure a contract with Motown Records and produced their first album titled Switch, for which they were renamed to Switch.

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BACK IN THE DAY - BACK TO THE FUTURE; the return of THE SECOND RE$$URRECTION. One cannot forget the immortal sound (studio and stage) behind the late great Joe Tex's biggest hit, "Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman)." After reviving many stars' 2nd coming, the time has come for this musical aggregation to shine on its' own. Producing a cross of funk, R&B and southern soul, the era of instrumentation and the band has returned. Ladies and gentlemen, stars in their own right, The Second Re$$surrection Band. Stanson Records.

Marcus Miller released a new album called Renaissance on Concord records.

Lynne Fiddmont is not new in the music scene. She has worked as background singer for the greatest soul artists like Stevie Wonder, Carl Anderson, Patti Austin, Babyface, Norman Brown, Bill Withers and Whitney Houston. She also appeared on the soul scene in 1991 with Linsey , a husband-and-wife team consisting of keyboardist/songwriter Wayne Linsey and Lynne Fiddmont. The album they recorded was 'Perfect Love '.

Following the recent success of ‘Holland-Dozier-Holland: The Complete 45s Collection’ - a 14 x CD compendium celebrating the 45th anniversary of soul labels ‘Invictus’, ‘Hot Wax’ and ‘Music Merchant’, the good folk at Harmless Records are pleased to announce; ‘Holland-Dozier-Holland: Rare 45s Box Set’, released 8th December.

Due to overwhelming popular demand to make some of the previously unreleased acetates, test-pressings and remixes available on a 7” vinyl format, Harmless Records have delivered once more on this important part of soul history making this a much sought after set of vinyl.

Another great Re-Issue album The Vision by Howard Johnson. On this album Howard used another production team that consist namely of Vincent Brantley, Monte Moir, and James 'jimmy Jam' Harris Iii Terry Lewis. Howard Produced also a few tracks by himself. This album is Howards third on A&M records, and his last. On this album there a two hits. 'Knees' and 'Stand up' both also released on twelve inch.

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Epic/Legacy, a division of SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT, will release on 17 April 2012 A new collection of 15 seldom-heard deep album tracks and movie soundtrack songs by Luther Vandross. It will be released just three day’s prior to Luther’s birthday on April 20. The liner notes are written by Luthers collaborator Fonzi Thornton. The album was compiled in collaboration with Luthers Family. Epic was Luthers record label for 15 years. His first recording for Epic was the album 'Never Too Much' from 1981.