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"It Should Have Been Me" is a famous ballad track by Yvonne – done in a slow, building style, with a real weepy southern finish, one of her best tracks ever!

Funky disco at its best from a lesser known group, blending equal parts uptempo soul, soaring string laden disco arrangements and bottom heavy club grooves, put together without cliché.

The closest that Marvin ever came to a disco single – a 12" version of this long funky track from the Here My Dear album, expanded to 8 minutes for the single, and featuring an instrumental version too!

5 tracks – "I'm Back" featuring El Shaber, "Rebirth" produced by Buckwild, "The Essence" featuring Nas, "Take It Off", and "Hands In The Air". Beats by LES, Baby Paul and Buckwild.

A cool 4 track sampler of mellow spare neo classic soul off India Arie's debut LP. Wrapped up in a really cool envelope styled picture sleeve – and you get 2 copies of the 12" in the package! Sweet!

Probably the biggest hit that Gary Byrd ever had, and a conscious effort by this DJ/public speaker to compete with the hip hop 12" single. "The Crown" is a 10 minute track that features Byrd rhyming about wisdom, knowlege, and heritage – with instrumental backing by Stevie Wonder, who also contributes a bit of vocals.

Excellent single from the godlike hands of Patrick Adams & Greg Carmichael! The record's a club-heavy update of this Motown classic that's mixed by Larry Levan!

A mini disco symphony from Norman Whitfield and Undisputed Truth – just the kind of track to make us get up and go down to the clubs! The tune is a great extension of the righteous Whitfield sound forged back at Motown – deepened here a bit and extended into the disco years, but still plenty dark and heavy – with almost more funk in the mix than club! "You + Me" is an uptempo dancefloor burner that still has the group working in a great Norman Whitfield mode – bass bubbling at the bottom, while strings and soul soar over the top! Both cuts presented in very long versions!

Two of the better cuts off Stevie's Hotter Than July LP, a sleeper from the early 80s that we find ourselves going back to more and more. "Do I Do" snaps along nicely with a smooth modern soul feel, and "Rocket Love" is a wonderfully spacey ballad, with Stevie plying his some of his finest synth work ever!

Featuring Pete Rock & CL Smooth.

A great example of the way the Norman Whitfield groove translated nicely from the heady Motown era to the late 70s disco one – as "Showtime" is bold, funky, and a number that builds beautifully as it rolls along! Undisputed Truth match the genius of Whitfield's backings with some vocals that show plenty of spirit and imagination – never letting up for the nearly 9 minutes of the tune. "Misunderstood" is a mellower track, but still a nice one – and very different than what most other groups like this were doing at the time.