Maceo Parker - Maceo - Soundtrack (1994)

Tracklisting


1. Maceo Parker-cold sweet (9:06)
2. Maceo Parker-knock on wood (4:26)
3. Maceo Parker-new moon (7:24)
4. Maceo Parker-house party (7:36)
5. Maceo Parker-new song (5:10)
6. Maceo Parker-chameleon (10:38)
7. Maceo Parker-make it funky (15:00)
8. Maceo Parker-C jam funk (11:50)


Maceo Parker-house party

Daktaris - Soul Explosion (1998)

            "The Daktaris were an Afro-beat group on the New York-based funk revival label Desco, recording compact, Fela Kuti-style grooves that sounded as though they'd come straight out of 1970s Nigeria. At first, Desco did nothing to discourage that perception, packaging their 1998 album Soul Explosion to look like an authentically African collector's dream, and even giving some of the band members Nigerian aliases. But in reality, the Daktaris were Brooklyn-based studio musicians, many of them white, many of whom had already been assembled by Desco heads Gabriel Roth and Phillipe Lehman as the label's house band, the Soul Providers. Besieged by inquiries about the music's origins and demand for a Daktaris tour, Roth and Lehman soon acknowledged the hoax, but given the quality of the album, the backlash wasn't enormously great. There was no follow-up to the Daktaris' initial session, but some of the members formed a new Afro-beat revivalist group called Antibalas in the spring of 1998."

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Tracklisting

1. The Daktaris - Musicawa Silt (3:04)
2. The Daktaris - Musicawa Slit Part 2 (2:24)
3. The Daktaris - Quiet Man Is Dead Man (4:39)
4. The Daktaris - Modern Technology (3:58)
5. The Daktaris - Super Afro-Beat (3:45)
6. The Daktaris - Give It Up Turnit Loose (3:53)
7. The Daktaris - Eltsuhg Ibal Lasiti (5:09)
8. The Daktaris - Daktari Walk (4:53)
9. The Daktaris - Voodoo Soul Stew (4:27)
10. The Daktaris - Upside Down (4:13)

Daktaris - Super Afro-Beat

The Poets of Rhythm - Practice What You Preach (1993)

"German funk band Poets of Rhythm began in Munich after friends Boris Geiger and Jan Weissenfeldt were first exposed to the raw funk that came out of the U.S. in the late '60s and early '70s. Soon, they decided to form their own group, and with Geiger on percussion and vocals, Weissenfeldt on guitar, his brother Max on drums, and Jan Krause on bass, they started writing their own material. After releasing their first single, "Funky Train," in 1992, the Poets' (who had by now added Till Sahm on organ, Michael Voß on trumpet, and Malte Müller-Egloff on alto sax) debut full-length, Practice What You Preach, came out (it was later reissued in 2006 on Daptone). More 7"s came in the following years, though they were often credited to groups like the Pan-Atlantics, Organized Raw Funk, Bus People Express, the Woo Woo's, and the Soul-Saints Orchestra.

Though the bandmembers had already begun to make a name for themselves in Europe thanks to their brand of hard funk that was heavily indebted to important outfits like the Meters and Parliament, they had yet to have much exposure in the States. That changed when Quannum's Lyrics Born found one of their singles in a record store in New Orleans and was impressed by what he heard, though he knew nothing about the group. By chance, when Latyrx's debut came out in 1997, LB got into contact with Jan Weissenfeldt, who was distributing The Album in Germany. The next year, when the MC was looking to record solo material, he went to the Poets of Rhythm for backup help and in 1999 "I Changed My Mind," a minor hit in the Bay Area, came out. The Poets' true sophomore record (they had issued label "compilations," which mostly consisted of tracks from their various incarnations), Discern/Define, featured nearly the same lineup as before -- Wolfgang Schlick took over on sax and added flute as well -- was released on Quannum in 2001. What Goes 'Round came out the following year on Shadow, and the band also showed up on the song "The Bay" from Lyrics Born's 2005 album, Same !@#$ Different Day."

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Tracklisting

1. Poets Of Rhythm - More Mess On My Thing (4:10)
2. Poets Of Rhythm - Upper Class (3:38)
3. Poets of Rhythm - Funky Runthrough Pt. 1 & 2 (4:35)
4. Poets of Rhythm - What You Doin' (3:33)
5. Poets of Rhythm - North Carolina (2:49)
6. Poets of Rhythm - Practice What You Preach (3:25)
7. Poets of Rhythm - Strokin' The Grits (4:13)
8. Poets of Rhythm - It Came Over Me (3:26)
9. Poets of Rhythm - The Plan (3:04)
10. Poets of Rhythm - Choking On A Piece Of Meat (2:24)
11. Poets of Rhythm - Saltin' The Soup (4:10)

Poets Of Rhythm - Upper Class

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1991)

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"Few rock groups of the '80s broke down as many musical barriers and were as original as the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Creating an intoxicating new musical style by combining funk and punk rock together (with an explosive stage show, to boot), the Chili Peppers spawned a slew of imitators in their wake, but still managed to be the leaders of the pack by the dawn of the 21st century. The roots of the band lay in a friendship forged by three school chums, Anthony Kiedis, Michael Balzary, and Hillel Slovak, while they attended Fairfax High School in California back in the late '70s/early '80s. "

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Tracklisting

1. Red Hot Chili Peppers - 01 The Power Of Equality (4:04)
2. Red Hot Chili Peppers - 02 If You Have To Ask (3:36)
3. Red Hot Chili Peppers - 03 Breaking The Girl (4:55)
4. Red Hot Chili Peppers - 04 Funky Monks (5:23)
5. Red Hot Chili Peppers - 05 Suck My Kiss (3:37)
6. Red Hot Chili Peppers - 06 I Could Have Lied (4:04)
7. Red Hot Chili Peppers - 07 Mellowship Slinky In B Major (3:59)
8. Red Hot Chili Peppers - 08 The Righteous & The Wicked (4:08)
9. Red Hot Chili Peppers - 09 Give It Away (4:42)
10. Red Hot Chili Peppers - 10 Blood Sugar Sex Magik (4:31)
11. Red Hot Chili Peppers - 11 Under The Bridge (4:24)
12. Red Hot Chili Peppers - 12 Naked In The Rain (4:25)
13. Red Hot Chili Peppers - 13 Apache Rose Peacock (4:42)
14. Red Hot Chili Peppers - 14 The Greeting Song (3:13)
15. Red Hot Chili Peppers - 15 My Lovely Man (4:39)
16. Red Hot Chili Peppers - 16 Sir Psycho Sexy (8:16)
17. Red Hot Chili Peppers - 17 They're Red Hot (1:11)

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Sir Psycho Sexy