33Hz, Codebreaker, Chromeo concerts to go

If you happen to be in New York July 5th 2007 and dig old school/Nu skool future funk, go see 33hz and Chromeo at Hiro for free if you're on the guest list or RSVP online.

You may leave a contribution on your way out, knowing how incredible these guys live and on records are and considering you can't get in at a club for less than 10 or 20 bucks... it'll go to a charity.

33Hz, Chromeo and more
July 5th 2007
Hiro Ballroom
371 west 16th at 9th Ave.
New York NY
21+ with ID only

Wait! There's more.. If you're in San Francisco July 23rd, you'll get to see Codebreaker and Chromeo at:

Codebreaker and Chromeo
The Mezzanine
444 Jessie st.
San Francisco California
From 10PM to 2AM

More about Chromeo at DiscoStyle.com
More about 33Hz at DiscoStyle.com
More about Codebreaker at DiscoStyle.com

Hurry up and RSVP Now for Free Admission for the New York show

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New Level 42 DVD Retroglide Tour

For the bass guitar licks and the jazzy funk! ... and the hits.

The Retroglide Tour DVD has been available at the official Level 42 website since May 30th 2007.

The DVD is Region free(0), and NTSC so will play in all multi-format players anywhere in the world. It has true 5.1 surround and Stereo audio

Filmed live at the New Theatre, Oxford, England (October 31st 2006).

Tracklist:

1. Dive Into The Sun
2. To Be With You Again
3. Hot Water
4. Rooted
5. World Machine
6. Retroglide
7. Leaving Me Now
8. Kansas City Milkman
9. Starchild
10. The Sun Goes Down
11. Running In The Family
12. Lessons In Love
13. Something About You
14. Dune Tune Improv
15. Love Games
16. Sleeptalking
17. The Chinese Way
18. All Around (soundcheck)

Official Level 42 website

View Level 42 music videos and concert videos now

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New Bar-Kays House Party: 15 years too late

New Bar-Kays latest' House Party album is 15 years too late

"Oh damn! A new Bar-kays album", was curious and gave it a listen!

15 years ago, it would have been a hitter! Very Blackstreet, Suge Knight/Dre, Joe ... remember them? Too far ahead from '81 "Hit and run" or '82 "She talks to me with her body" or '84's "Sexomatic" and "Freakshow on the dancefloor". Frankly, it's quite good if you're into the 90s funk sounds. The cover is representative with sort of a "G" look; bling, dollar sign, palm trees for the California "thang".

For comparison... , the funny thing is, Musiq Soulchild's latest cd released last March '07 is very mid-90s, tired hip hoppy soul like most of today's R&B (no evolution in 15 years), Bar-Kays' House Party is way better 20 times! Go figure.

Glad to know they're still around recording and performing, it would have been nice to have it nu 80s style instead, in the meanwhile, we'll stick to their late 70s and 80s classics.

Listen to all tracks at Amazon.com

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The Deele in Cincinati

Grammy winning recording artists the Deele, wowed the crowd last month at the R&B Spring Jam in Cincinnati, Ohio. They put on a fantastic show for a sold out crowd, and brought them to their feet in a standing ovation. The suave vocalists sang such favorites as "Two Occasions," "Body Talk," and Shoot'em Up Movies," among other popular hits. They performed along with The Isley Brothers, featuring Ron Isley, and the S.O.S. Band.

This was the Deele's first performance since being signed to the Dallas based record label D-Town Records, with many more projects on the horizon. The label is currently in talks with the "Tom Joyner Radio Show" and the "Steve Harvey Radio Show" about the Deele performing in upcoming events. They are also bringing the group into the studio, to record a single with label-mates Keingz Ransom, an immensely popular R&B group out of Dallas.

"Babyface" Redmonds and L.A. Reid are their most prolific members, they left the group in 1988 to found LaFace records the following year.

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James Brown obscure recording unveiled

Surprisingly, those aren't old 50s and 60s stuff, nope, actually they are from the 90s, quite recent in perspective to his long standing carreer. Now honestly they're not all great, but one or two warrants the attention of James Brown fans.

TK Disco records founder Henry Stone is responsible for this release, he says ...

"I have been with James
Brown since the beginning of Please, Please, Please, as a mentor and as
a friend. In the early 90s, we formed the Brownstone record label and
put out several releases over the years. James sent me a number of tracks
to be released and tested on the Brownstone label. After James'
sudden death, I felt it was important to put out this CD, "James Brown
A Family Affair", in honor of James' memory, to release these tracks
to the world as James Brown would have wanted. This collection includes
material that he sent me from himself and his two daughters, Yamma Brown
and Venisha Brown"

More about it and listen to a few songs below,

James Brown "A family affair" cd at HenryStoneMusic.com

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Best of 70s Nigerian afro funk

DJ Obafunkie Jr and the guys at BoogieHeads have assembled the best of 70s Nigerian Afro-Funk for your listening pleasure. If you're curious, check it out!

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New nu tracks by Fatback for 2007

The Fatback Band's leading and founding member Bill Curtis has new tracks to cater to both lovers of soulful house and discostylish nu grooves for 2007. Like Roy Ayers Ubiquity where his past classics were given the new millenium treatment by today's top djs/remixers/producers, Fatback has collaborated numerous times with the French group Bah Samba among others.

Bill Curtis wants to know what you think, listen to the new tunes and give your feedback here at the Fatback website.

1998 may have been the year disco officially came back mutated into disco and funky house, but it is in the new millenium (the exception is Tom Jones with Mousse T for Sex Bomb in the late 90s) we witnessed the pioneers slowly coming back to recording dance music, often alongside djs, remixers and producers from generation X and Y; there's Tom Moulton, Vince Montana Jr, Melba Moore, Earth Wind and Fire, Charlie Wilson, Sergio Mendes, Claudja Barry, Duran Duran, Depeche Mode and the list is getting longer and longer every year.

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