Tag: Pleasure

• ‘Suzie Super Groupie’ from 1976 is one of Walter ‘Junie’ Morrison’s masterpieces, an inspiration for DJs and hip hop producers – the much sampled father of funk is reissued by Be With Records

  Walter ‘Junie’ Morrison released his third solo LP, Suzie Super Groupie, in 1976 and is yet another essential album reissue from Be With Records this month. The killer Suzie Thundertussy is a favourite of taste makers like DJ Harvey, Theo Parrish and was brilliantly sampled by Madlib for Kanye West’s No More Parties In LA.…

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  September 10, 2020

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  (Not Just) Knee Deep, Dj Harvey, Ecstasy, Funk, Funkadelic, Kanye West, Madlib, MPC sampling, often-sampled Funky Worm, Ohio Players, One Nation Under A Groove, Pain, Pleasure, Prince, Solange, Suzie Super Groupie, Suzie Thundertussy, Theo Parrish, Walter ‘Junie’ Morrison

• Billy Brooks’ crucially sampled and sought after classic will be reissued by Wewantsounds – featuring instantly recognisable loop for A Tribe Called Quest

  

  This is a much needed quality reissue of Billy Brooks’ classic LP Windows of the Mind by French label Wewantsounds – OGs change hands for hundreds of dollars and this revive is fully licensed and remastered. Billy Brooks was a reliable session musician playing throughout the 1950s and into the early ’70s, playing with the…

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  July 17, 2020

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  African Songbird, Billy Brooks, Black Jazz Records, Cal Tjader, Calvin Keys, Clarence Johnston, Crossover Records, Dollar Brand, Earth Wind & Fire, Fourty Days, Freddie Roach, Funk, Herman Riley, James Moody, Jef Lee, Larry Gales, Letta Mbulu, Lionel Hampton, Luck of Lucien, People’s Instinctive Travels And The Paths Of Rhythm, Pleasure, Ray Charles and is jazz, Roy Ayers, Side Effect, Sylvia Striplin, Thelonious Monk, Tribe Called Quest, Wewantsounds, Windows of the Mind