Busy making beats

Another instrumental I made in March 2010...



And with an acapella from High & Mighty feat. Mos Def it sounds like this:



MP3's: (320 kB High Quality)

DOWNLOAD THE HIGH & MIGHTY VERSION HERE:WITH ACAPELLA

DOWNLOAD THE INSTRUMENTAL HERE:INSTRUMENTAL

Abe's Faves 2

While we're at it, let's just post number two as well!

Tracklist:

001. Alvin robinson- Down Home Girl
002. Smokey Rogers- Dimples or Dumplins
003. Lord Creator- Big Bamboo
004. Randy Van Horne and the Tigers- Get A Load Of That Walk
005. Roland Johnson- Cincinatti Dancing Pig
006. Chuck Jackson- I Keep Forgettin'
007. Charlie Palmieri- Fat Papa
008. Charles Sheffield- It's Your Voodoo Workin'
009. Charlotte Leslie- Les Filles C'est Fait
010. Cornell blakely- I want my share
011. Clancy Eccles New Beat- Feel The Rhythm
012. Clarence Paul- Baby Don't You Leave Poor Me
013. Marsha Hunt- Hot Rod Poppa
014. Wanda Jackson- Tunnel of love
015. The Salt- Lucifer
016. Charles Chalmers- Chess
017. Contributors Of Soul- Look What You Done For Me
018. Dick Curless- Juke Box Man
019. Third Wave- Eleanor Rigby
020. Ramblin' Jack Elliot- Cigarettes & Whiskey


DOWNLOAD HERE:ABE'S FAVES 2

Abe's Faves 1

Hi All,

It's been a while but I'm back with a nice collection of some of my favourite rare gems, ranging from (freak)beat to reggea, from Northern Soul to Boogaloo....

Tracklist:

001. Edd 'Kookie' Byrnes- Like, I Love You
002. Gillian Hills- Tut Tut Tut Tut
003. Toots and the Maytals- Louie Louie
004. Little Willie John- My Nerves
005. Willie Mitchell- Take Five
006. Devotions- Devils Gotten Into My Baby
007. Little Johnny Taylor- Sweet Soul Woman
008. Bobby Darin- Me & Mr. Hohner
009. Show Stoppers- Houseparty
010. George Guzman- Lazy Boogaloo
011. Wilson Pickett- Mini Skirt Minnie
012. Steve Aldo- You're Absolutely Right
013. Bob McFadden and Dor- The Mummy
014. The Johnny Otis Show- Willie Did The Cha Cha
015. Chapparal Trio- Roxanne
016. Lynne Randell- Wasn't It You
017. Loot- Baby Come Closer
018. Anna Karina- Roller Girl
019. Epics- Louie Louie, Come Home
020. The Rare Breed- Beg, Borrow and Steal

DOWNLOAD HERE:ABE'S FAVES 1

Same Song, Different Name

I recently discovered "Heart Trouble" by the Welsh band "Eyes of Blue" on this fantastic compilation of rare 60's beat, freakbeat, RnB, psych & soul, called "Go Gear! vol.5" (released on a label called "13th Dimension").
When I heard it for the first time I immediately fell in love with the song.

The original single was released in 1967.
Sadly there's not a whole lot of information to be found on the internet about this group.



As I first listened to the tune I noticed that the lyrics sounded familiar to me, and not much later it came to me: Funkadelic's "You Can't Miss What You Can't Measure" from the band's "Cosmic Slop"-album (released in '73) has taken a good bit of the lyrics of this song.

After some more searching I found out that the original tune was written by the Parliaments and released in 1965, two years before the release of Eyes Of Blues' version.



The Parliaments, who's style at that time would be best described as Northern Soul, would later on turn into Parliament and Funkadelic; two bands consisting of the same members, recording for different labels, and as we all know, were the main performers of the soul- and funk subgenre known as P-Funk. So that's were it all comes together...



Have a listen to all three tunes, they are equally great:

Eyes Of Blue- Heart Trouble:



The Parliaments- Heart Trouble:



Funkadelic- You Can't Miss What You Can't Measure:



PS. Later on George Clinton did another solo version of "Heart Trouble" which is just too awful to post here...