What Blues / R & B / Soul or other Black Music are you listening to right now?

[mikeweil]

Thanks!

Listening to samples/tracks lon the web does not really convince me. The sound of the MAW mixes is so much better.

[JSngry]

With how much of the MAW output are you familiar with? They were arguably the leading hose production team of the time (individually and collectively), both original and remixes. They always get my attention for their creativity. But it IS dance music, so it is that. Groove Uber alles.

A fun example:

 

[mikeweil]

Will check this out, although I'm kind of bored by most remixes, due to the dominant heavy disco beat most of the feature, at least on the two concord picante discs I just revisited:

[JSngry]

I would quibble about the term "disco"...this stuff if definitely for dancing, but it's evolved way past the stereotypical "disco" beats. A lot more parts to the drum patters.

At least the better stuff is. There's always plenty of shock.

There are repetitive patterns, to be sure. It is dance music and it is programming. But like anything else some people use use it and others actually work with it, sometimes radically som

 

[JSngry]

 

[mikeweil]

19 hours ago, JSngry said:

I would quibble about the term "disco"...this stuff if definitely for dancing, but it's evolved way past the stereotypical "disco" beats. A lot more parts to the drum patters.

At least the better stuff is. There's always plenty of shock.

There are repetitive patterns, to be sure. It is dance music and it is programming. But like anything else some people use use it and others actually work with it, sometimes radically som

 

This is nice, but in the long run I prefer music made on "real" instruments. I am not up to date on the latest developments in the genre as I lost interest during its disco beat phase.

[JSngry]

Now THIS is disco

And funny as hell!!!

 

[mikeweil]

[Rabshakeh]

Suffocation – Effigy Of The Forgotten

[JSngry]

 

[mikeweil]

Expanded version from this box set;

[Chuck Nessa]

[mikeweil]

[BFrank]

G. Calvin Weston - Drums
Vernon Reid - Guitar
Jamaaladeen Tacuma - Bass

[felser]

[Simon8]

[HutchFan]

[Rabshakeh]

On 4/12/2025 at 5:47 AM, BFrank said:

G. Calvin Weston - Drums
Vernon Reid - Guitar
Jamaaladeen Tacuma - Bass

Such a great line up but I was a bit disappointed with this one. What's your view?

[BFrank]

11 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

Such a great line up but I was a bit disappointed with this one. What's your view?

Well, I haven't listened to it much - which probably says something

[mikeweil]

As a tribute to the late Foday Musa Suso and The Gambia:

[mjazzg]

On 5/30/2025 at 7:53 PM, mikeweil said:

As a tribute to the late Foday Musa Suso and The Gambia:

They all look very interesting 

[mikeweil]

2 hours ago, mjazzg said:

They all look very interesting 

Foday Musa Suso's solo CD is very nice and relaxed. The other two are field recordings and maybe more for specialists.

[Rabshakeh]

12 minutes ago, mikeweil said:

Foday Musa Suso's solo CD is very nice and relaxed. The other two are field recordings and maybe more for specialists.

What is the third of them?

[JSngry]

 

[Rabshakeh]

Leroy Hutson – Hutson