Released in 1978, Future Bound was the third album that Freddie Perren produced for Tavares and was the group's sixth album overall. Once again, Perren sees to it that Tavares provides a healthy blend of up-tempo dance numbers and romantic soul ballads like "Feel So Good" and "All I See Is You", Northern soul ballads that would have fit right in on a Stylistics, Delfonics, or Moments album.

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Fantastic 4CD box set featuring 58 Tracks from the legendary Donny Hathaway. It includes all his classics tracks including ‘The Ghetto’, ‘Valdez in the Country’ , ‘Love Love Love’ and ‘Trying Times’ plus a whole CD of previously unreleased studio material including the superb ‘Memory of our love’. There is also a complete CD covering his duets with Roberta Flack ‘Back together again’, ‘Where is the love’ and ‘Closer I get to you’. A further CD has unreleased recordings made at the Bitter end in 1971. The booklet has extensive notes from Charles Waring including input from Roberta Flack, Leroy Hutson and others. This set is a must have collection from a true Genius of 70?s Soul music.

A nice early 80s set from The Reddings – the group featuring two sons of Otis Redding and a sweet set of funk steeped R&B! Dexter Redding plays bass, and there's a whole lot of bass in the mix, bringing some funk into the groove very nicely – with some post disco pop soul melodic numbers, that work very well, too. The Reddings bring out a mix of tighter, leaner numbers with pop funk style with a couple of sweet, string accented slow jams on Class and it's solid stuff! Titles include "Class (Is What You Got)", "If You Feel It", "Main Nerve", "Hurts So Bad", "Love Dance", "Love Is Over" and more

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Spotlight on for the long awaited debut album by Tokyo Dawn's first lady Amalia! 'Art Slave' is a colorful manifesto for the passion of art, the strength of heart and the need for funk in all stages of life. This time, Amalia bravely commands her own starship and pays homage to the strong women of soul who catalyzed her ingenuity such as Chaka Khan, Sheila E, Eartha Kitt and Betty Davis. Produced by the Swedish funk extraordinaire Opolopo, 'Art Slave' is sonically and musically influenced by late 80s/early 90s New Jack Swing and Boogie, but definitely sets its own standards. AD Bourke, Atjazz & Son Of Kick deliver the bonus remixes for this release. Check 'Welcome to Me' and 'Luxurious' both are absolute killers!

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The new awaiting album by Howard Johnson is now for sale. It is released sooner than expected. It contains ten tracks in 'Old School' style. I've added some extra samples for this album. Check it out. The album is flying out the door!

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Paris Ford, aka Pee Wee Ford in the 80s, started his career 1980 on Arthur Baker's record label Streetwise with the tune 'Be My Girl'. In 1981 he was asked by Jacques Fred Petrus to be the bass player for the funk formation 'B B and Q Band'. They had a huge hit with 'On The Beat'. See the album cover for a early picture of Ford the debut album by B B and Q Band.  He also played the bass on most sampled track '7 minutes of funk' by Tyrone Thomas and The Whole Darn Family This track is sampled by: who not ;-) He toured and played bass for a lot off 80s artist like Rick James, Evelyn 'Champagne' King, New Edition, and Johnny Gill. He started his own record company Overlord Entertainment Group where he just released his Mega Maxi Single and Dance Anthem 'Chocolate Swirl'. This track features Kyon, DJ-Hype, Sheek Da Freak ans lost but not least 'James Robinson', former lead singer of the funk group 'Change'. This Single consist of 12 different mixes with or without Rap. The lyrics are inspiring and the music make u dance your ass off. For more information see http://www.myspace.com/parisford

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After two years since his last album 'So Strong' Jonathan Butler is back on the scene with a new album 'Grace & Mercy' which release date is set on 25th september. This album will be released by rendezvous records. The genre for this album is gospel in different styles like soul, urban and jazz.

The Main Ingredient was formed in Harlem in 1964 as a trio called the Poets, composed of lead singer Donald McPherson, Luther Simmons, Jr., and Panama-born Tony Silvester. In 1966 they were signed to RCA and after a couple of singles with small success they changed their name in The Main Ingredient. Unfortunately Donald McPherson who had taken ill with leukemia, passed away unexpectedly. Silvester and Simmons regrouped with new lead singer Cuba Gooding, who'd served as a backing vocalist on some of their previous recordings and had filled in on tour during McPherson's brief illness.

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Funkytowngrooves released the first time ever expanded - Remastered album of Champaign from the original mastertapes at Battery Studio's - New York. Originally released on Columbia in 1981 with the monster 'pop' hit 'How About Us'. The singer Pauli Carman was one on the members. This album reach #14 on the Billboard R&B Chart.

I had this album for years on the shelf but didn't took it to play. In all those years I missed great tracks like 'Can You Find The Time? '. A great boogie tune with nice synth sounds. Another nice track is 'Whiplash'.