A lovely album by the Brasilian muse, Joyce, with her bandmate, Nelson Angelo, released in 1972. So folky. So dreamy. The artwork cover photo is nice, too.
A totally fresh, jazzy, sample-free, 100% vocal hip hop album released in 1999 by Tek9 a. k. a. Dego of 4Hero, featuring Chase Infinite (of Self Scientific, L.A.), What? What? (NYC), Opio (of Souls of Mischief, Oakland), Capital A (Philadelphia), Rob Yancey (Philadelphia), M.A.D. (London), Sha Sha (London) and Pariss (NYC), in addition to the remixes by I.G. Culture and DJ Spinna. Simply dope beats and flows.
The 2nd album of Pizzicato Five released in 1998, when they were still underground and in brown-eyed soul style with male vocals, not in the typical 'catchy' style of Pizzicato Five with the bubblegum girls' pop style vocals. Young, fresh and soulful.
23 tracks to overview the miracle of 'the voice of Brasil'. Compiled and released in 2003 in Japan. Simply, so beautiful.
Following to the last entry, here's another funky album with a great artwork photo. As you can feel and imagine from the artwork, funky enough.
8 tracks of funk from the brother Jack McDuff on Chess in 1976. What an artwork!
Counting from 1990, when this forgotten Motown classic album was released, 6 more years are out there: by the album entitled "25 Years Later", the living house-music legend Blaze has produced the 14 tracks of Afro-American life and music. Not just a house music. So soulful. So powerful.-image009.jpg)
An album by a bossa nova / tropicália / MPB muse in 1973 has got a bit kinda strange feelings, though, the voice is lovely and the artwork is so nice enough.
The white album by the Scottish funk band, Average White Band, released in 1974 featuring the classic, "Pick Up Pieces".
Released in 1968 when the tropicália movement hit Brasil, the muse of bossa nova expressed her potential as an artistic singer in this tropicálian album. The artwork cover photo is lovely, too.
The soundtrack album for the cultural movement of music, art, poetry, fashion, etc. in Brazil in 1960s, featuring Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Nara Leão, Gal Costa and Os Mutantes. Released in 1968. Radically experimental. So tropical.
A cool album with cute artwork cover photo by the legendary French man, Serge Gainsbourg, recorded in London in 1971.
Another sexy album with a sexy artwork cover by Terry Callier released in 1073. Jazzy, folky, soulful and yet spiritual.
An album released in 1998 by Black Jazz Chronicles, another alias by the man who has worked as so many units with different people for each, Ashley Beedle, with Marc Woolford this time. So jazzy. So black. So futuristic.
A Japanese dub classic album by the legendary band called Mute Beat. Cool band name. Cool album title. Cool artwork photo. Sounds dope and yet sentimental. Released in 1988.
A mellow soul classic by the singer / songwriter / producer behind the 60/70s soul music factory. Simply mellow, sexy and smooth groove. Released from Motown in 1976.
An lovely lover's rock album with a nice artwork photo from Ariwa in 1984, featuring Sandra Cross on vocals. Produced by Mad Professor.
A comfortable instrumental album by a Japanese musician / producer. Sounds of relaxation. Electronic, dreamy and yet organic.
One of the best machine groove music compilations so far, dedicated to the people in Detroit of past, present and future. Released in 2002. Dope, electric and yet soulful. Nice artwork, too.
One of the classic albums in 90s produced by Masters At Work, featuring the legendary musicians such as Roy Ayers, Bob James, George Benson, Jazzy Jeff, etc., including the hit singles, "I Am the Black Gold of the Sun", "It's Alright, I Feel It!", "Sweet Tears", "Runaway" and "You Can Do It (Baby)". So latin, so disco, so funky, so jazzy, and so soulful. Simply good music.
Although he's famous as a film director, Vincent Gallo has made a remarkable work as a music producer in 2001. Lazy, jazzy, moody and laidback sound of musical relaxation.
An interesting musical experiment by two skateboarding legends, Tommy Guerrero and Mark Gonzales. Lazy groove. Released in 2001 and (probably) not available now.
Imagine a Brazilian sings Bowie songs in Portuguese with acoustic guitar. This man in light blue shirt and red beanie, Seu Jorge, plays unique and beautiful enough, much further beyong the imagination. Lazy and laidback.
A long-lost rare groove classic, originally released in 1974. Mellow, sweet soul music.
A soulful tribute to the Civil Rights movement by 1/2 of 4Hero, Marc Mac, from his own Omniverse in 2006. It's not clear if there's actually the motion picture, although, this conceptual album is full of the mood of late 60s, with the sound of jazzy, soulful, laidback blackness in instrumental hip hop mode. Cool one.
Following to the previous entry, the part 2 of excellent Stevie Wonder compositions mixed, one by BOBBITO aka DJ CUCUMBERSLICE and another DJ SPINNA.
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