Soul Shack – Club Soul LP

“The Soul Shack sessions in the Midlands are a homage to mind-blowing and spine-tingling black music gems. They encompass the cerebral jazz fusion preciseness of Larry & Fonze Mizell’s peerless productions, the simple rawness of New Orleans funk (check out “Dap Walk” by Ernie And The Top Notes for quintessential Soul Shack), NuYorican Latin Strut frenzy, the rhythm driven angry polemics of Gil Scott-Heron, the sheen of Philly Soul, the Big Apple Soul Disco genius of Patrick Adams, and, inevitably, the Soul and Funk of Detroit’s many music alchemists. The soundtrack is a potpourri of blistering horns, splintering percussion, haunting flutes, discordant trumpets, metronome beats, emotions-tearing and goosebumps-inducing so-Soulful drenched vocals, sometimes sweet, sometimes bitter, (and often both), extravagant 12-inch remixes segueing into primitive street beats and dancing in outer space Brit Funk grooves designed to trip your mind. They are all integral parts of a time and place called Soul Shack.”

tracklist:
Jean Shy – I’m A Bad Go Getter
Eddie Bo – Our Love (Will Never Falter)
Francine King – Two Fools
Little Buck – Little Boy Blue
Ricky Allen – Cut You Loose
Soul Suspects – Funky Drop

Gil Scott-Heron/Brian Jackson – The Bottle
The Ohio Players – Love Slipped Thru My Fingers
Brief Encounter – Get A Good Feeling
Continental Showstoppers – Not Too Young
Uncle Remus – Number One
Lee Moses – Time & Place