VA - Mirage Soul & Funk Collection Vol. 3 [Remastered] (2009)

The third volume of Soul & Funk from the great Mirage back catalogue is packed with 15 tracks from back in the day, the great sound of the ‘80’s again full of 12” mixes, remixes and extended tracks for your enjoyment. For the first track we have the Jason Bryant produced First Love and Can I Be With You Tonight, then all 6 minutes 39 seconds of Brenda K. Starr’s Pickin Up Pieces, produced by Arthur Baker. Next up is The System with Pleasure Seekers (12” Version) produced and written by Mic Murphy and David Frank, mixed by Tom Lord-Alge. Then comes The Spinners and Show Me Your Magic produced by Maurice Starr followed by a Sandy Linzer production of T.S. Monk with Too Much Too Soon. The 12” mix (5:51) of Blue Magic’s See Through comes next written and produced by Butch Ingram, then straight into the Taka Boom track Climate For Love mixed by Tom Lord-Alge and produced by Billy Rush. Track 8 is The Spinners with She Does which was remixed by Patrick Adams and produced by Ashley Irwin followed by Hypnotize from Terri Jones another track produced by Patrick Adams. Another big track from Ingram, Smoothin Groovin written by James Ingram and produced by the Ingram Family comes before a rare Mirage hip-hop track from The Incredible Body Mechanix (featuring Omega Clash MCs) and B-Boy Your Best (12" version) produced by Craig Peyton and Nelson Cruz. Back to Mic Murphy and David Frank with The System’s 12" Vocal Remix of I Don't Run From Danger, with help from Chris Lord-Alge in mixing, after this the 12” Version of Gail Freeman and Mr. Right produced by Richie Weeks and Danny Weiss. Track 14 brings the extended version of Jean Knight’s My Toot Toot produced by Isaac Bolden, we finish off with the extremely popular hip-hop track Break Dance Party from Break Machine (6:32) produced by Jacques Morali.