80's R'n'B/Electro-soul

craner

craner

Beast of Burden
Uh, I dunno, just cutting and pasting from Youtube. Sorry, I'm not very tech-savvy, but I will say that I can't embed on the Eurocult thread to my frustration, but can on this one. I have no idea how or why, but just accept it as one of those mysteries.

Thanks for the Kashif/Benson track, it incapsulates why I am enjoying his stuff so much, an almost alchemical ability to balance smooooth & silky with hard-edged & crystalline synths without making a fuss about it. Plus the beautiful melodies. I have really got into this early period of his and have no idea what he sounded like after, say, 1985. I gathered he had a production line with Paul Laurence in the early/mid-80s and some of my long-time favorite tracks have turned out to be his, like the Melissa Morgan and Melba Moore songs, for instance. Love Mtume too, who doesn't?

Jackie Moore is totally 70s disco, though, and I'm only censoring you because I started a Disco thread and it died. Mind you, I did start posting PiL songs on it.

This stuff is natural for me to like: I grew up on it, my mother used to play it while I was a kid playing Lego in our front room in Sketty. She used to rinse this endlessly, and I have inherited the 12":

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Then in my early 20s, when I was listening to 2-step and Todd E all the time, I picked up the Mastercuts 80s groove compilations which was an affirmation, particularly when Luka backed me up against the general disgust of most of my friends. This was followed by Chillin FM's amazing Sunday morning shows, when loads of the songs posted here were played out and I taped hours of it. They would be jammed into my walkman while on the beaches of France and Spain, as I swanned around in white t-shirts and espadrilles looking tanned and blond and handsome. I was so Yacht in those days it was ridiculous, even though I was always skint. Like an Aryan pauper BryanFerry in tortoiseshell specs (in my head). Certainly being a kid in late-80s sunny Swansea had a weird effect on me.
 
craner

craner

Beast of Burden
this thread came back up at the perfect time
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As long as Dissensus keeps going, this thread will recur every June. It's just a chemical fact.

Was this one done -- (?)

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craner said:
This stuff is natural for me to like: I grew up on it, my mother used to play it while I was a kid playing Lego in our front room in Sketty. She used to rinse this endlessly, and I have inherited the 12":

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Then in my early 20s, when I was listening to 2-step and Todd E all the time, I picked up the Mastercuts 80s groove compilations which was an affirmation, particularly when Luka backed me up against the general disgust of most of my friends. This was followed by Chillin FM's amazing Sunday morning shows, when loads of the songs posted here were played out and I taped hours of it. They would be jammed into my walkman while on the beaches of France and Spain, as I swanned around in white t-shirts and espadrilles looking tanned and blond and handsome. I was so Yacht in those days it was ridiculous, even though I was always skint. Like an Aryan pauper BryanFerry in tortoiseshell specs (in my head). Certainly being a kid in late-80s sunny Swansea had a weird effect on me.
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This was the music of the day when I was growing up and starting clubbing. It would be a night of 80’s groove, disco, soul, rare groove, latin jazz. Then in 87 house and techno came and changed the clubbing landscape. I think I was wearing 501’s, bomber jacket and monkey boots.
 
luka

luka

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i still got friends that think my professed love for r&b is an elaborate and tiresome practical joke. odd.
 
craner

craner

Beast of Burden
Jim thinks that. He thinks you're winding him up, pretending to like music 16 year old girls like, just because he used to be a deep house connoisseur and missed out on jungle.
 
the idiot

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drilla said:
Youtube has become the primary way for me to find old but new-to-me music that I would otherwise have no way of ever knowing about. Being pretty young, this kind of stuff was being made when I was just a toddler. Here's a handful I've found thanks to the tube:

Starpoint - Object Of My Desire

Loose Ends - Hangin' On A String

Shirley Murdock - No More

Cheryl Lynn - Every Time I Try To Say Goodbye (12" mix)


Loose Ends - Slow Down

Stephanie Mills - (You're Putting) A Rush

Dubby, electronic, lots in common with Chicago house, electro-funk, late disco, etc. I love anything remotely related... please add on. I'm not so much talking about the Prince-associated stuff though that's obviously big.
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back to back fm pirate radio (88.6 fm in London, but possibly available online) is great for this sort of stuff during the day. Beware of the lame 'soulful house' specialist shows they have though!
 
bruno

bruno

est malade
this is a cool thread.

i don't see the control remixes mentioned by oliver so here are two:

 
luka

luka

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The 90s fetishised warmth, soul, depth, authenticity and looked to the 70s but in the 00s nothing was lamer than a funk compilation
 
luka

luka

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No figure more contemptible than the white roots reggae fan, or hip hop backpacker
 
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