Kenny Dope - Strange Games And Funky Things III (2000)

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Artist: Kenny Dope
Title: Strange Games And Funky Things III
Year Of Release: 2000
Label: BBE
Genre: Jazz, Funk, Soul
Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue)
Total Time: 3:07:15
Total Size: 1.09 GB
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

Disc 1
01. Kenny Dope - Intro
02. Don Blackman - Holding You, Loving You
03. Pleasure - Thoughts Of Old Flames
04. Deniece Williams - Free
05. Kenny Dope - Interlude
06. Roy Ayers - Everybody Loves The Sunshine
07. Ramp - Daylight
08. Parliament - Mothership Connection (Star Child)
09. Barry White - Playing Your Game Baby
10. Labi Siffre - I Got The
11. Leon Haywood - I Wanna Do Something Freaky To You
12. Johnny Guitar Watson - Superman Lover
13. Rufus & Chaka Khan - What Am I Missing?
14. Lonnie Liston Smith - A Chance For Peace
15. Love Unlimited Orchestra - Strange Games & Things
16. MFSB - Freddie's Dead
17. Marvin Gaye - T Plays It Cool
18. Jerry Butler - I'm Your Mechanical Man
19. Melba Moore - Standing Right Here
20. Herbie Hancock - Stars In Your Eyes
21. Parliament - I've Been Watching You (Move Your Sexy Body)
22. Nubian Crackers - Cracker Beats

Disc 2
01. Don Blackman - Holding You, Loving You
02. Melba Moore - Standing Right Here
03. Deniece Williams - Free
04. Herbie Hancock - Stars In Your Eyes
05. MFSB - Freddie's Dead
06. Rufus & Chaka Khan - What Am I Missing?
07. Jerry Butler - I'm Your Mechanical Man
08. Love Unlimited Orchestra - Strange Games & Things
09. Parliament - Mothership Connection (Star Child)

Disc 3
01. Barry White - Playing Your Game Baby
02. Parliament - I've Been Watching You (Move Your Sexy Body)
03. Labi Siffre - I Got The
04. Pleasure - Thoughts Of Old Flames
05. Sylvester - Was It Something That I Said
06. Johnny Guitar Watson - Superman Lover
07. Lonnie Liston Smith - A Chance For Peace
08. Leon Haywood - I Wanna Do Something Freaky For You
09. Roy Ayers - Everybody Loves The Sunshine
10. Marvin Gaye - T Plays It Cool
11. Ramp - Daylight
12. The Deidre Wilson Tabac - I Can't Keep From Cryin' Sometimes

With many consumers all but giving up on often dubious domestic R&B compilations featuring '70s and '80s R&B and jazz tracks, BBE was an English label that went the extra mile. The Strange Games series became one of the label's most successful sets. The 2001 three-CD set Strange Games & Funky Things, Vol. 3 is no exception. Compiled and mixed by Kenny Dope, this has 23 tracks, some hard to find, others not, most essential. The mixed CD here is particularly potent. Don Blackman's always great "Holding You, Loving You" is employed the best here. Dope also groups and reconfigures prime Roy Ayers tracks and productions -- "Love From the Sun" and "Everybody Loves the Sunshine" -- and Ramp's gorgeous "Daylight." Unlike DJ Spinna's take on tracks on Strange Games and Things, Dope seems a bit tentative to really "play with" most of the songs on the mixed CD. Marvin Gaye's effortlessly funky "T Plays It Cool" all but begs for some scratches and deft edits yet receives none. The unmixed CDs are bogged down due to the fact of readily availability and or the ho-hum nature of some of the songs. The tracks from Parliament are readily available elsewhere. The set's title track, Love Unlimited Orchestra's "Strange Games & Things," isn't so "rare" anymore. Other tracks like Jerry Butler's "I'm Your Mechanical Man" and Rufus & Chaka's "What Am I Missing" weren't that great to begin with. All in all, Strange Games & Funky Things, Vol. 3 is an enjoyable set, but it lacks the sense of fun and wonder to be definitive. ~ Jason Elias

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