Release :
Artist : VA-Totally Wired & Illicit Grooves
Album : The Birth Of A Scene 1987 To 1990
Genre : Acid Jazz
Source : CDDA
Label : Beat Goes Public BGP Records
URL :
Date : 11-02-2007
Encoder : LAME 3.97 / -V2 --vbr-new
Quality : 190kbps 44100 kHz Joint Stereo
Tracks : 13
Time : 76:38 min
Size : 106.12MB
1 Galliano - Fredrick Lies Still 4:59
2 The Brand New Heavies - People Get Ready 4:02
3 The Night Trains - The Killer 4:22
4 A Man Called Adam - Earthly Powers 9:35
5 Patrice Rushen - Haw Right Now 8:03
6 King Truman - Like A Gun 5:35
7 Quiet Boys Featuring Galliano - Let The Good Times 6:12
Roll
8 The Lazee Mothers - Cut & Run 4:16
9 The Brand New Heavies - Got To Give 5:35
10 Caesar Frazier - Mighty Mouse 5:19
11 The New Jersey Kings - Spinning Wheel 5:19
12 Bukky Leo - Rejoice In Righteousness 9:39
13 Snowboy - Mr Pc 3:42
Tremendous grooves from the earliest (and best) years of the acid jazz scene --
all recorded at a time when London was exploding with sounds from the 60s and
70s, and turning out some of the hippest music on the planet! Although the term
"acid jazz" was soon mishandled and mis-managed here in the US, the earliest
days of the movement were really a tremendous time in London -- a period when
folks returned to the core elements that made funk, jazz, and soul great -- and
shook off all of the too-electric and too-stiff modes that had crept in during
the 80s! Most of the work here is in a really spare, stripped-down funky mode --
a cross between soul jazz of the 60s and blacksploitation funk of the 70s, with
possibly a few more contemporary elements thrown into the mix. And in these
years way before the current deep funk revival, what's even more important is
the way these songs were produced -- with a warmth that other groups hadn't had
in years, and a real love of the way these tracks might have sounded in older
studios a few decades before. The package contains a number of key rare singles
from the Acid Jazz label, other album tracks, and even a few classics that had a
big influence on the London scene. Titles include the rare pre-Acid Jazz single
"Got To Give" by The Brand New Heavies, the sublime "Rejoice In Righteousness"
by Bukky Leo Quintet, and the tracks "Cut & Run" by Lay Zee Muthas, "Like A Gun"
by King Truman, "The Killer" by Night Trains, "People Get Ready" by The Brand
New Heavies, "Haw Right Now" by Patrice Rushen, "Earthly Powers" by Man Called
Adam, "Mr PC" by Snowboy, "Spinning Wheel" by New Jersey Kings, "Let The Good
Times Roll" by The Quiet Boys, and "Mighty Mouse" by Caesar Frazier. Loads of
great notes too -- a really detailed look at the London scene at the end of the
80s!