VA - Freestyle - Funk! (2019)
Artist: Various Artists
Title: Freestyle - Funk!
Year Of Release: 2019
Label: Freestyle Records
Genre: Funk, Soul, R&B
Quality: FLAC (tracks) / MP3
Total Time: 2:34:31
Total Size: 969 / 355 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:Title: Freestyle - Funk!
Year Of Release: 2019
Label: Freestyle Records
Genre: Funk, Soul, R&B
Quality: FLAC (tracks) / MP3
Total Time: 2:34:31
Total Size: 969 / 355 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
01. Speedometer - The Shakedown (Say Yeah) [feat. Martha High & Myles Sanko & The Stilhouettes] (04:00)
02. Boogaloo Investigators - Let's Work a While (03:32)
03. The Mighty Show-Stoppers - Shaft in Africa (04:08)
04. Martha High - Dragging Me Down (03:57)
05. Robert Moore - Make It Alright (02:57)
06. Speedometer - Four Flights Up (04:49)
07. The Fantastics! - Hey Mister! (feat. Sulene Fleming) (03:54)
08. Deep Street Soul - Soul's Come Alive (03:02)
09. The Sound Stylistics - The Players Theme (04:48)
10. Speedometer - It's My Thing (03:59)
11. The Fantastics! - Soul Child (feat. Noel McKoy) (03:55)
12. The Andy Tolman Cartel - You What (04:26)
13. Soulive - Too Much (feat. Nigel Hall) (04:16)
14. Speedometer - City Strut (03:01)
15. The Sound Stylistics - Night Theme (03:25)
16. The Apples - Killing (04:18)
17. Queens Community Show Band - Ghetto Funk (05:29)
18. Speedometer - Kool and the Gang (03:37)
19. King Hector & The Soul Dynamites - Broasted or Fried (05:18)
20. The Fantastics! - Sweetback (05:26)
21. Deep Street Soul - Kick out the Jams (feat. Tia Hunter) (03:05)
22. The Perceptions - Loopy Doopy (Exclusive 45 Version) (02:38)
23. The Apples - In the Air (feat. Fred Wesley) (04:09)
24. Big Pimp Jones - Fistfight in the Master Bath (03:18)
25. The Sound Stylistics - Shake and Hip Drop (02:36)
26. The Grits - Crazy Legs (02:52)
27. Lance Ferguson Rare Groove Spectrum - Egg Roll (03:13)
28. Soulive - For Granted (04:06)
29. The Perceptions - Hurricane Warning (04:57)
30. Randa & The Soul Kingdom - Not Gonna Let You (03:46)
31. The Fantastics! - Up Yours (03:41)
32. Baker Brothers - Space Funk (04:41)
33. Big Pimp Jones - Three Color Collar (02:41)
34. Deep Street Soul - What She Said (feat. Mighty May Johnston) (04:48)
35. Randa & The Soul Kingdom - Feel It in Your Soul (02:36)
36. Soulive - Up Right (03:42)
37. Speedometer - Again and Again (feat. Natasha Watts) (03:46)
38. Deep Street Soul - Soul Loco Suite (03:23)
39. High St Hustlers - Give It Up (04:45)
40. Randa & The Soul Kingdom - I Do What I Do (03:16)
According to Wikipedia 'Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960's when African-American musicians created a rhythmic, dance-able new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues'. That's a somewhat dry and academic description of one of the most influential of music genres of all time. Funk, whilst utilising jazz chords, and often incorporating latin rhythms is a fundamentally emotional and uncomplicated music - technical prowess taking a back seat to feel, guts and soulful expression.
Funk has been a major part of Freestyle Records DNA since the labels inception, and not only has Freestyle fostered many of the groups who revived the genre such as Speedometer and The Sound Stylistics, but also been lucky enough to release music by some of the artists rooted in the genre back in it's original heyday, Fred Wesley, Robert Moore, and of course James Brown's longest serving vocalist Martha High among others.
This selection pulls together some of Freestyle Records most renowned funky hard hitters, and stirs into the mix some slept on deep funk grooves from right around the planet - Australia's grittiest combo Deep Street Soul, London's The Fantastics!, the soundtrack inspired big band funk of The Andy Tolman Cartel, Tel Aviv's The Apples, UK super group The Perceptions, American legends Soulive and a whole host of other artists and musicians who all display their absolute mastery of The One!
Funk has been a major part of Freestyle Records DNA since the labels inception, and not only has Freestyle fostered many of the groups who revived the genre such as Speedometer and The Sound Stylistics, but also been lucky enough to release music by some of the artists rooted in the genre back in it's original heyday, Fred Wesley, Robert Moore, and of course James Brown's longest serving vocalist Martha High among others.
This selection pulls together some of Freestyle Records most renowned funky hard hitters, and stirs into the mix some slept on deep funk grooves from right around the planet - Australia's grittiest combo Deep Street Soul, London's The Fantastics!, the soundtrack inspired big band funk of The Andy Tolman Cartel, Tel Aviv's The Apples, UK super group The Perceptions, American legends Soulive and a whole host of other artists and musicians who all display their absolute mastery of The One!
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