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█████▀ VA - The Real Sound Of Chicago ▀█████
████▀ Underground Disco From The Windy City - Compiled By Mr. Peabody ▀████
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████ GENRE...[ Disco GRABBER.[ EAC ████
████ LABEL...[ BBE ENCODER.[ Lame 3.98.4 ████
████ YEAR....[ 2010 QUALiTY.[ vbr 216kbps ████
████ SOURCE..[ CDDA MODE....[ Joint-Stereo ████
████ PLAYTIME[ 126:35 min REL.DATE[ 04.22.2011 ████
████ TRACKS..[ 24 RiPPER..[ TEAM OMA ████
████ SiZE....[ 195,10 MB SUPPLiER[ TEAM OMA ████
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████ 01 Premonition - Your Love Is In The Pocket 04:23 ████
████ 02 Loveship - Love So New 05:57 ████
████ 03 Larry Houston - Promise (Instrumental Version) 06:12 ████
████ 04 Lajohn & Sheela - Too Far Gone 05:32 ████
████ 05 Yohon - B.T. (Boogie Terrestrial) 07:10 ████
████ 06 Billy Hinton - A Challenge 03:48 ████
████ 07 Maxx Traxx - Don't Touch it 04:44 ████
████ 08 On Stage - Hooked On Your Love 05:18 ████
████ 09 Sidney Thomas - Look, Let's Make Love 03:53 ████
████ (And See If You Like It) ████
████ 10 Bilalian Express Feat. Paula & Larry Henderson - 03:24 ████
████ Disco Nights ████
████ 11 Martin L. Dumas, Jr. - Attitude, Belief & 09:47 ████
████ Determination ████
████ 12 Ghalib Ghallab - School Days (Mr. Peabody's Edit) 07:09 ████
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████ CD2 ████
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████ 01 Expo feat. J. Eliot Robinson - Road To Sunshine 04:37 ████
████ 02 Gregory James - Happy Baby 04:01 ████
████ 03 Carmen Amez - Never Gonna Fall In Love Again 07:02 ████
████ (Like I Fell In Love With You) ████
████ 04 Tomorrow's People - Open Soul 05:05 ████
████ 05 The Moore Brothers - Bass Come Back 05:04 ████
████ 06 Lonnie Givens - Runnin' To A Disco 06:22 ████
████ 07 The Esquires - What Is Good Music 03:37 ████
████ 08 Synergy feat. Jimmy Tillman - Can You Feel It 04:07 ████
████ 09 Brighter Side Of Darkness - Disco Ball 04:30 ████
████ 10 Fantasie - The Composer (Mr. Peabody's Edit) 05:54 ████
████ 11 Cheryl Berdell - Fall In Love 03:50 ████
████ 12 Cold T - Funky Preacher (Mr. Peabody's Edit) 05:09 ████
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████ TOTAL:126:35 ████
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████ Chicago, A place known for its talent of ████
████ musicians across many genres of music. Soul, ████
████ Funk, Rock, Jazz, Blues, etc. In modern times, ████
████ ChicagoÆs dance floors have a worldwide ████
████ reputation for House Music. ItÆs a sound that ████
████ has pretty much reached to areas all across ████
████ the globe. In the Early developmental stages ████
████ of the Chicago dance era (mid-late 1970Æs to ████
████ early 1980Æs), there were scores of musicians ████
████ recording dance music hoping to be the next ████
████ mainstream success story. Well, for the ████
████ artists on this compilation it didnÆt quit ████
████ turn out that way. Instead, budget problems, ████
████ politics, being told, ôI donÆt like itö, or ████
████ simply having the door slammed in their face, ████
████ is what many of these artists were faced with ████
████ instead. Nevertheless, the musicianship those ████
████ artists possessed by far equaled or defined ████
████ infinite status of what todayÆs market call ████
████ ôGood Musicö. WeÆve been distributing rare ████
████ dance gems across the globe together now for a ████
████ little over a decade. Being the music ████
████ enthusiasts, that we are, 4 years ago, we ████
████ opted to bring the art of record collecting to ████
████ a higher level. So, while walking down the ████
████ street, we decided to open a record store. Mr. ████
████ Peabody Records was the name we decided on. ████
████ Now, The name doesnÆt quite fit 2 black guys ████
████ from the South side of Chicago but according ████
████ to our math, it worked, which it did. WeÆve ████
████ spent many years traveling various ████
████ destinations, home and abroad in an effort to ████
████ snare every possible unique vinyl gem we came ████
████ across. We supported our massive record ████
████ collecting habit by selling a wide genre of ████
████ collectible vinyl globally to people of the ████
████ same passion. As far as us being dance floor ████
████ DJÆs, our selections gravitates towards rare ████
████ and unplaced dance material from the past, ████
████ with of course a few modern day exceptions. We ████
████ are pretty strict in our programming so expect ████
████ nothing but the best. Since the opening of our ████
████ store, weÆve acquired so much more. So much ████
████ so, we decided to do a specialized compilation ████
████ for BBE. The first of its kind, highlighting ████
████ dance floor material exclusively from the ████
████ Chicago area, mid 70Æs to early 80Æs. This ████
████ compilation is a musical insight to the black ████
████ underground dance material made in Chicago ████
████ before house music kicked in. We call it, The ████
████ Real Sound Of Chicago. ████
████ ████
████ Premonition û Definitely in a class of itÆs ████
████ own, this groovy, soulful, cosmic dance oddity ████
████ by premonition has the sound that gains all ████
████ the attention on the dance floor. A perfect ████
████ introduction setting the tone for whatÆs to ████
████ come on the rest of this compilation. Only a ████
████ handful of tracks from this release are ████
████ believed to exist and ironically, it walked ████
████ right through our doors on a summer day a few ████
████ years ago. ████
████ ████
████ Loveship û Hailing from the Southside of ████
████ ChicagoÆs Cash Ear record label, this modern ████
████ style dancer masterpiece by Loveship has it ████
████ all. From an uplifting chorus with added ████
████ seasoning from Angie Ditto on vocals, to the ████
████ deep rippling bassline from the band section. ████
████ This one seems to never end. The band ████
████ consisted of 3 guys and some females, a proper ████
████ blend of talent put together to turn out a ████
████ fantastic dance floor cut such as this one. ████
████ Retrieved from a box of dusty albums sitting ████
████ next to furnace in a basement on the east side ████
████ and finally reaching a proper home to the ears ████
████ of deserving listeners. ████
████ ████
████ Larry Houston û We found our first copies of ████
████ this record 12years ago sitting in the bins of ████
████ a local record store on the north side amongst ████
████ a bunch of 80Æs commercial dance ████
████ twelve-inches. In those days, gems like this ████
████ would go undiscovered for months until we came ████
████ along. This stomping crossover disco record ████
████ has the word ôclassicö written all over it. ████
████ But, in the days of low budgets for promotion, ████
████ it remained underground till years later. ████
████ ████
████ Lajohn & Sheela û We were surveying a few ████
████ storage units in the west suburbs of the city, ████
████ which contained the remains of a popular large ████
████ Westside bar that was popping from the late ████
████ 60Æs to early 80Æs. Amongst it we found, ████
████ posters, bar stools, cooking equipment, ████
████ speakers, a Bozak mixer and more. After moving ████
████ along to the next unit, we found about 10,000+ ████
████ records and in the 3rd storage unit and an ████
████ additional 3000+ records. Buried within lied ████
████ this nice mellow boogie tune. YearÆs later ████
████ after tracking down Lajohn, who is now a ████
████ police officer, we obtained other copies. An ████
████ extraordinary tune of its time and definitely ████
████ a dance floor hit in our eyes. ████
████ ████
████ Yohon - At the height of the E.T. phenomenon, ████
████ there many tracks made with the theme. A ████
████ little after we met and teamed up, we visited ████
████ a good friend and now deceased dealer here in ████
████ Chicago named Art Morales. He was very well ████
████ known amongst 45 collectors. This day he had ████
████ found a load of 70Æs & 80Æs dance singles. ████
████ Being that we were probably the only guys in ████
████ the city buying large loads of dance twelveÆs ████
████ at the time; he turned them over to us. ████
████ Amongst many rare gems on this skid was this ████
████ marvelous warm early 80Æs dance track. ████
████ Listening to it literally puts you into a ████
████ cosmic dream. Most people back then would have ████
████ played it and said ôNaaaö, we said ôyeahhhö. ████
████ This was a time when hardly anyone would ████
████ appreciate the sound a record like this had to ████
████ offer. Luckily, it made it into the right ████
████ hands. ████
████ ████
████ Billy Hinton û This group of talented musician ████
████ at the time headed by 25yo Billy Hinton, and ████
████ consisting two younger siblings 19yo Curtis ████
████ and 17yo Beverly, combined to form the group ████
████ Beige in the 70Æs to 80Æs. They bought aboard ████
████ Maxine Gardner (introduced to them by Terry ████
████ Marshall Of Maxx Traxx) to lay down the ████
████ vocals. A fine job they did with this Chicago ████
████ soulful dance groove with the primary ████
████ arrangment being done by Keith Henderson Also ████
████ Of Maxx Traxx. Billy did a fine job putting ████
████ everyone together on this production. We ████
████ obtained the first copies of this record from ████
████ a now long gone distributor from the South ████
████ East Side. ████
████ ████
████ Maxx Traxx û Formally known as the 70Æs Soul ████
████ group Third Rail, this artist re-invented ████
████ themselves to roll out a dance tune with a ████
████ cutting edge sound. Sharp, cutting, and ████
████ screaming synths throughout along with a ████
████ blanket of joyous male vocals. We have many ████
████ memories of getting together down in Mikes ████
████ basement where we would jam it on regularly. ████
████ ItÆs a true Peabody anthem of sorts. Amazing ████
████ how in todayÆs time, a record that wouldnÆt ████
████ even sell at $7 would weigh in current times ████
████ at over $300 Dollars. But with todayÆs global ████
████ interest, itÆs to be expected from a record of ████
████ this caliber. ████
████ ████
████ Sidney Thomas û This release was Obtained from ████
████ a former musician Larry of a Chicago based ████
████ record label. While sitting down having a ████
████ chat, he said ômusicians would literally swap ████
████ each others material and pass it along as a ████
████ primitive style of networking to get a buzz ████
████ going amongst the Chicago nativesö. Look, ████
████ LetÆs Make Love is a really feel good track ████
████ that was released on the Chicago based east ████
████ side independent label, Parallel Records. ItÆs ████
████ a galloping disco tune with female vocals that ████
████ will seduce and gain all menÆs attention on ████
████ the dance floor. ôSee if you like itö. ████
████ ████
████ Billilian Express û Yet another discovery ████
████ amongst a rodent infested basement on the West ████
████ side. Ever played a 45 that was off center a ████
████ little bit? Well this one sounds similar but ████
████ the track was designed that way. It defines ████
████ the raw soulful experimentation where ████
████ musicians totally went against the grain to ████
████ try something new. Disco Nights is a really ████
████ groovy ride with strong blaring horn ████
████ re-enforcement. A real dance floor blaster ████
████ brought to you by Likes Of Larry Henderson, a ████
████ figurehead and key producer on ChicagoÆs ████
████ underground soul scene. ████
████ ████
████ Martin Dumas û This one is yet another rare ████
████ find amongst the more obvious of records ████
████ coming thru the shop. Attitude, belief, and ████
████ determination give new definition to the term ████
████ ôSpiritualö with plenty of groove power packed ████
████ behind it. This track definitely is a down ████
████ tempo soulful track that will have you assured ████
████ that good things are bound to happen, and it ████
████ has ôAnthemö written all over it as well. Get ████
████ ready for 10 minutes of pure bliss. ████
████ ████
████ Ghalib Ghallab - This selection was recorded ████
████ at the Chicago Bulls Jazz Club In The CityÆs ████
████ Lincoln Park Area On The North side. The club ████
████ was literally underground in a basement with a ████
████ smoky dark culture with paintings along the ████
████ wall. Ghallab was a Southside native attending ████
████ ChicagoÆs Harlan High School. He had a natural ████
████ knack for keyboards and played with ambient ████
████ energy. His style spanned across many genres ████
████ of music, from soul to classical. Recorded in ████
████ 1981, this rare groove by Ghallab has a theme ████
████ we all can relate to. A really good summer ████
████ song with a fantastic sax solo from Dr. Edwin ████
████ Daugherty. ████
████ ████
████ Expo û While checking out a record collection ████
████ at a home in the SouthsideÆs Pullman district, ████
████ this guy brings out a few boxes of LpÆs that ████
████ had obviously been picked through. We asked ████
████ him, ôDo you have any other records that have ████
████ not been seen?ö He returns from a guest ████
████ bedroom and replies, ôI found these while ████
████ cleaning up a couple months agoö. Turns out, ████
████ the records belong to his brother from New ████
████ York who had stayed with him for a short time ████
████ in the 80Æs. The very odd thing is that the ████
████ 45Æs weÆre all in sleeves and in immaculate ████
████ shape, much different than the LpÆs he had ████
████ just previously showed us. Amongst the ████
████ selection of mostly independent 45Æs was this ████
████ unique spin. Another independent early 80Æs ████
████ boogie bomb tune from a Local group named ████
████ Expo. A very bright and moving track with the ████
████ vocals being laid down by J. Elliot Robinson. ████
████ This inspirational track quickly became one of ████
████ our dance floor favorites. ████
████ ████
████ Gregory James û This oddity on the Kelli-Arts ████
████ label later fell along the way side to the ████
████ labels more popular group, Magnum Force. This ████
████ group was a collaboration between 2 Guys, ████
████ Gregory Bibb and James Norris. A very smooth ████
████ and sophisticated disco release with warm ████
████ horns, nice keys, and excellent complimentary ████
████ female vocals. The break goes into a groove ████
████ that has a soulful trance like element to it. ████
████ We had this record in the shop from time to ████
████ time, and it fell on the deaf ears and went ████
████ neglected for the most part. Maybe it wasnÆt ████
████ played loud enough. However, we always loved ████
████ it. Now if anyone goes to retrieve this tune ████
████ other than this compilation, they're most ████
████ likely going to have to pay from this point ████
████ on. ████
████ ████
████ Carmen Amez û Classic soap opera disco but ████
████ arranged right! HereÆs the story -We were in a ████
████ warehouse in the Midwest around 11 years ago. ████
████ We were in separate areas going through skids ████
████ of vinyl, Mike yells out from the other side ████
████ ôI Bet This OneÆs Tightö. He broke out the ████
████ portable player and dropped the needle on the ████
████ disc. We both started laughing. A very common ████
████ reaction when we found what we called a ôCutö. ████
████ This one turned out to be a fantastic disco ████
████ track with a break that will leave you mouth ████
████ hanging open to the floor. ████
████ ████
████ TomorrowÆs People û This maximum disco/funk ████
████ head nodder from the Stage Productions label ████
████ is very sought after on the collectorÆs scene ████
████ at this moment. Our gift to you! The band ████
████ consisting of 6 brothers got together to ████
████ conceive this awesome masterpiece ôOpen Soulö. ████
████ Seven minutes of deep funky basslines, ████
████ screaming vocals, and fantastic instrument ████
████ solos will leave you mesmerized. The original ████
████ track on the Rare 6 Track Lp is timed at ████
████ around 20 Minutes (One Entire Side Only). ████
████ WeÆve shortened it here to save space on this ████
████ comp, and of course to give the collectors ████
████ something to dig for. DonÆt worry; this 7min ████
████ version will do more than wet your whistle. ████
████ ████
████ The Moore Brothers (Debut 1st Release) û One ████
████ day all is going as normal in the shop. Then, ████
████ an elderly lady shows up with a box of Gospel ████
████ LPÆs, mostly Savoy label stuff and some ████
████ various others. Literally, right in the middle ████
████ of the box we were going through, there was a ████
████ solid white cardboard sleeve. We immediately ████
████ pulled it out and inside turned out to be ████
████ acetate titled, ôThe Moore Brothersö. Being ████
████ that Chicago had many ôMooreÆsö we really ████
████ didnÆt have the confidence in finding the ████
████ makers of the material. So by initiating some ████
████ hard work and bouncing from person to person, ████
████ we found Mr. Moore right here in Chicago. He ████
████ informed us that the acetate in our possession ████
████ was the ôonly existing copyö of the recording, ████
████ which originally belonged to their former ████
████ manager. He stated again ôWe did some 45Æs but ████
████ this one was never made it to press, the ████
████ original tape was destroyed by accident after ████
████ we recorded itö. After playing the track for ████
████ him, he added, ôWow, I never heard this after ████
████ we recorded itö. HeÆs positive that this ████
████ acetate we possess is the only existing copy ████
████ in the world. So there you have it, from the ████
████ Peabody Archives To You Ears. WeÆve restored ████
████ the disc to the best of our abilities. Enjoy! ████
████ ████
████ Pick Of The Liter û Over repetition is ████
████ something most music lovers agree is a pet ████
████ peeve. This selection is most likely the ████
████ exception to the rule, and on the dance floor, ████
████ it will bring a phenomenal response. This ████
████ intense rare 70Æs disco treasure under the ████
████ production of Lonnie Givens is definitely one ████
████ that sends you runnin though a wall, to get to ████
████ the disco, to hear it! Plenty of percussion, ████
████ synthesizers, keys, and screaming voices make ████
████ up this track. A Fairly simple make-up, but it ████
████ definitely has a mind blowing sound. ████
████ ████
████ Esquires û The make-up of this northern ████
████ Chicago region release by the esquires is the ████
████ answer to the title, ôWhat is good musicö. A ████
████ Percussive drum section, with smooth warm ████
████ layovers of synths and harmony amongst the ████
████ vocals, which is reminiscent of the doo-wop ████
████ era sound. A grossly underrated track for the ████
████ great sound that it consumes. Success was ████
████ halted after marketing and promotion came to ████
████ an unexpected stop. We still find copies of ████
████ this from time to time but in todayÆs growing ████
████ popularity of collecting independent media, it ████
████ wonÆt last for long. ████
████ ████
████ Synergy û While going through the basement of ████
████ a former record store some 8 years ago, we ████
████ obtained our first copies of this disco-funk ████
████ rarity made by a husband and wife team. This ████
████ south-side couple along with some musicians ████
████ conceived this pumping disco track. It ████
████ literally winds up at the beginning then itÆs ████
████ off to the party. An overly amplified ████
████ synthesizer is heard busting in and out of the ████
████ track, which adds more definition. This title ████
████ is pretty much to the point of extinction and ████
████ is yet another long time favourite of ours. ████
████ ████
████ Brighter Side Of Darkness û Lennie Lacour ████
████ collaborated with this Chicago Group to add a ████
████ Disco Ball to the Magic Touch Arsenal. ████
████ Although the label had a moderate sized ████
████ catalog for an independent label. Scarce ████
████ demand prevented many of the titles from ████
████ earning the status ôSuccessfulö. This up-tempo ████
████ runner caught our ear as an exceptional dance ████
████ floor piece. We found the first copies around ████
████ 9 years ago. We played hooky from our 9-5 jobs ████
████ to check out a collection at a residence in ████
████ K-Town. We showed up at the front porch, ████
████ introduced ourselves, and the guy tells us, ████
████ ôOne Minuteö, he went back inside and came out ████
████ with 2 boxes of records a couple of smaller ████
████ box 45Æs. He had 10 copies of this and some ████
████ other various releases from the label. ████
████ ████
████ Fantasie û Our first copy of this production ████
████ was obtained from the basement of a drug store ████
████ (formally a record shop years earlier) on the ████
████ south side. At an earlier time in Chicago, it ████
████ was not uncommon to see records amongst a loaf ████
████ of bread and some cough syrup. Back in the ████
████ days records were very plentiful in most ████
████ businesses, until cdÆs took their place. Many ████
████ people over look tons of great records because ████
████ they simply didnÆt let the track play long ████
████ enough. In the Case of The Composer, It starts ████
████ as classical piano and ends with the sound of ████
████ a circus themed soundtrack. WhatÆs in between ████
████ is what we describe as ôThe Soundö. ████
████ ████
████ Cheryl Berdell û We had recently had our ████
████ outdoor overhead sign installed and were ████
████ inside doing construction preparing for our ████
████ grand opening. A guy knocks on the door and ████
████ ask, ôAre you guys open?ö we replied ôNoö. ████
████ Noticing he had a box of vinyl, we let him in ████
████ to take a look, which brought us this ████
████ selection û More classic soap opera disco done ████
████ right! By the make-up of this selection, it ████
████ would make a fantastic climax but an even ████
████ better closing track that will leave everyone ████
████ wanting more. The sound of the sixties and ████
████ seventies has never been so sought after as at ████
████ the present moment. You could even argue that ████
████ modern music just isn't good enough. As ████
████ evidence consider this: contemporary producers ████
████ and artists are often looking back to get ████
████ inspired (insert staggering number of examples ████
████ here) so you can safely say that even in this ████
████ digital age the beating heart of modern R&B ████
████ and hip-hop is still vintage soul, funk and ████
████ jazz. ████
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