I was just looking for something positive and happy today, and this one popped in my head. It’s perfect for the pre-party BBQ, impromptu celebrations, or daytime chill fests. Makes me smile to hear it everytime……hope you feel the same!
Author: DJ Nitekrawler
Seville was a short-lived apparition, made up of musicians from various DC groups who took it upon themselves to cut one single in their downtime between other projects. “Show Me The Way” sails ahead with strings and smile-inducing horns that lead you into a headbob groove with positive lyrics on top.
Raw Dope Posse was an NJ based hip hop crew that cut one 12″ single in 1988, and man did it cook. Starting out with a sampled introduction from Otis Redding’s live version of “Good To Me”, the single then moves into a heavy thumping collage of drums, horns, and stuttered phone samples, on top of which the MCs preside.
Placebo were a Belgian jazz band with a four-piece brass section that cut albums from 1971 to 1974. Their debut LP, Balls Of Eyes, is known as being their best effort (it also won a prize at 1972’s Montreux Jazz Festival). Off that LP comes this track, “Humpty Dumpty,” with a fusion of jazz, funk, and chillness. Famously sampled by J. Dilla.
At this point in time, I’m in Thailand, and hoping beyond hope that I can score a cheap copy of the following, “Give It Up“, via the album on which it resides, “Hot Pepper“. Now, the group in question,”The Impossibles“, actually hail from Thailand, and cut this LP in the 70s. From what I’ve been…
