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.