A great little set of groovers from LTD – both of them nice boogie numbers! We're partial to "Back In Love Again" – one of the group's best cuts in our book, a tight little groover with a great little hook! (Soul) 12-inch, Vinyl record
2 tracks from Cheryl's Preppie album – a sweet little early 80s groover, with plenty of electro touches! "Free" is awash in heavy bass pedals and keyboard bits – but also features Cheryl's deeply soulful vocals strutting out over the top, creating a nice juxtaposition that's ... (Soul) read more12-inch, Vinyl record
"Got To Be Real" is one of the most amazing tracks of all time. Not only did it bridge the disco and soul worlds at the time, but through hip hop sampling, it also became an essential old school classic. Still sounds great today, and it's a cut that we can never get enough of. (Soul) 12-inch, Vinyl record
An early Madonna single – featuring some sweet Niles Rodgers production and some clubby Jellybean touches on "Like A Virgin"! (Rock) 12-inch, Vinyl record
(Cover has some surface wear, a few scrapes and small blemishes, lightly bent sides and corners, and is lightly stained across the bottom edge with bumped corners.)
2 sides of work by this oft-overlooked late Chicago soul group! The real gem here is "Share My Love With You" – a sublime harmony soul ballad, and the kind of track that rivals the best of the New Jersey vocal group scene of the early 70s! A wonderful track that should have been ... (Soul) read more12-inch, Vinyl record
Nicola Conte, we love you – and if we ever needed a reason why, this single sure is proof! Sabrina's one of the better modern bossa divas around – really classic in approach, but with a great energy for the dancefloor – and here, she gets a Schema-styled taken courtesy of Conte ... (New Grooves) read more12-inch, Vinyl record
A classic electro groove – and one of the tracks that's a contender for the origin of the word "hip hop"! A very nice groove with an early Arthur Baker feel, and the kind of cut that we slept on during the 80s, but which sounds totally great today! 3 different edits. (Hip Hop) 12-inch, Vinyl record
Probably the best track off the second Mantronix LP. The 12-inch version fills out the trademark Mantronix sound with more syth and effects and the Freestyle dub is the more spare version. And then everything drops out but the bass kick and high hat on the 'bonus beat' version. (Hip Hop) 12-inch, Vinyl record
The classic Juice Crew posse cut with Master Ace, Big Daddy Kane, Craig G and Kool G Rap, all at the height of their careers! (Hip Hop) 12-inch, Vinyl record
An offshoot of the 4AD rock scene from the UK, this number sampled Rakim from "Paid In Full" to great effect – and it made quite a bit of sense that the track was issued on 4th & Broadway in the US (probably also a legal move, so that the label wouldn't sue 4AD for copping a ... (Soul) read more12-inch, Vinyl record
A tasty 80s pop soul number from the Mary Jane Girls, produced by Rick James, and showcasing his ever-growing command of the mainstream soul market at the time! This longer single version offers a fair bit more than the chart version of the cut – not only a much more extended take on the ... (Soul) read more12-inch, Vinyl record
"She's Got The Papers" is a much later entry in the Shirley Brown/Barbara Mason song cycle started way back at the beginning of the 70s – that tug-of-war about a shared man and all the things bought and bills paid – hence the title! Barbara may not have the papers on all the ... (Soul) read more12-inch, Vinyl record
(Promo in a stickered sleeve, with wear and aging, bent corners, unglued top seam, BPM in marker, and duct tape holding the spine. Label on one side has BPM and some squiggles in marker.)
Another smoooooth NuSoul number from Maxwell, off the Embrya album, with his typical odd names for the mixes, which are all largely the same, sort of like different dubs of the album take. (Neo Soul) 12-inch, Vinyl record
(Promo in a stickered sleeve. Label has a light sticker spot.)
The stepper's mid 90's retro-classic that helped establish this "new classic soul" movement, served up here in 5 mixes, including the super-chilled "Mellosmoothe". One of the best tracks off the Urban Hang Suite LP – spare funky soul, with lots of warm classic touches, a ... (Neo Soul) read more12-inch, Vinyl record
A great one from Maxwell – smooth, mellow, sexy, and with a great Marvin Gaye kind of groove overall. The cut's presented here in an extended single that features the cut as "The Opus" – and each part is connected together in a slyly soulful way! (Neo Soul) 12-inch, Vinyl record
The LP and midnight mixes have that commercial friendly eazy jazz sound. The gangsta mix (not 'gangsta' at all) is completely different, and ends up sounding like something from the days when Lyte was dope. (Hip Hop) 12-inch, Vinyl record
Extended version of the track from Lyte's second LP. With a similar subject to "Cram to Understand", but the production style leans a little bit toward new jack swing and has singing on the chorus. (Hip Hop) 12-inch, Vinyl record
If you want to appreciate BDP's "South Bronx", you've gotta hear this one. If ya don't know... MC Shan recorded "The Bridge", saying hip hop started in Queensbridge, Queens. BDP replied with "South Bronx", setting the record straight (as we see it). "South ... (Hip Hop) read more12-inch, Vinyl record
One of those early hard to find Next Plateau single, before they were distributed by Polygram. Maybe we're off in our geography, MC Sugar Ray sounds almost like a Brooklyn version of Big Daddy Kane. (Hip Hop) 12-inch, Vinyl record
(White label promo in a stickered Next Plateau sleeve, with light wear. Labels have an ink stamp.)
Another nice mid-80's Profile MC that somehow never put out a full length LP. It really is a shame. Probably our favorite use of the James Brown "Talkin Loud" sample. (Hip Hop) 12-inch, Vinyl record