Into The Groove (14)

Hello, Into The Groove takes a dip into the jazzdance world, in fact what i have here is almost 4 hours of party music, Blue Break Beats album is an excellent warmer, it has plenty of recognition moments and elements to move the head or hips to, by the time you put on " It's Jazz Thing" dancing is almost ineveitable, 70 min later when you spin Verve remixed, the latin house of willy Bobo will keep those feet moving, but time is moving on , people get tipsy and sentimental, and when your girlfriend starts singing along with " Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby " you know it's time to chill out and thats what you get. Seriously these albums do nicely at a small party at home or as background in a bar. Whatever there's plenty to compile your own set here.. Have yourself a great friday evening/night.

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VA - Blue Break Beats (92, 79min 185mb)

The music on Blue Break Beats dates from the late '60s and early '70s, when a large portion of Blue Note's soul-jazz artists began experimenting with funk and rock, creating dense electric fusions that concentrated on rhythm, not improvisation. None of this music has ever received much critical praise from jazz purists, but in the late '80s and early '90s, scores of hip-hop and dance DJs discovered these old records and began sampling the original tracks to use in new rap and dance songs. By the early '90s, this jazz-rap-funk fusion had become hip, which led Blue Note to assemble the Blue Break Beats compilations. All of the tracks feature multi-layered percussion, organs, and guitars. The deep funky grooves should appeal to appeal to fans of contemporary funk and rap, or rock-influenced soul-jazz.



01 - Richard "Groove" Holmes - Grooving With Mr. G (4:14)
02 - Grant Green - Sookie, Sookie (11:05)
03 - Lou Donaldson - Who's Making Love (6:45)
04 - Donald Byrd - Weasil (9:01)
05 - Eddie Henderson - Kudu (6:07)
06 - Bobbi Humphrey - Harlem River Drive (7:51)
07 - Jimmy McGriff - Blue Juice (5:03)
08 - Grant Green - The Final Comedown (3:28)
09 - Lou Donaldson - Turtle Walk (7:54)
10 - Three Sounds - Your Love Is Too Much (2:43)
11 - Donald Byrd - Black Jack (6:18)
12 - Herbie Hancock - Olilloqui Valley (8:26)

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VA - It's a Jazz Thing 2 ( 93, 70min. 159mb)

As a response to the dominating acid/house dancefloor dominance, The Jazz/rare groove scene started, playing funkier material, and opening up to rappers. DJ Gilles Peterson called this funky style Acid Jazz and the jazzdance movement was revived, purists lost ground and new artists found a platform to take the music , experiment and fuse the old with new technology. This is a compilation by Graham B an english jazzdance DJ who settled in Amsterdam in the late eighties.



01 - Brecker Brothers ft. Veera - Big Idea (4:43)
02 - Guru & Donald Byrd - Loungin (Jazz not Jazz mix) (3:45)
03 - Donald Byrd - Street Lady (5:39)
04 - Cymballistic - Blues for Sarah (4:42)
05 - US3 - Cantaloop (3:41)
06 - Mangu - La Playa (Pomo short mix) (4:25)
07 - Soon(e) MC - Sur le Boulevard du Rhythm' Funky (3:59)
08 - New Concept - What's Mine and What's Yours (4:47)
09 - Ronny Jordan ft. Dana Bryant - The Jackal (7:03)
10 - Grant Green - A Walk in the Night (6:44)
11 - Greg Osby - The Gutterman (4:08)
12 - Phillip Bent - World is a Ghetto (3:17)
13 - Take 4 - First Take (4:33)
14 - Ronny Jordan - So What (5:07)
15 - Corduroy ft. Sherine - Something in my Eye (3:22)

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VA - Verve Remixed 1 (02, 69min 161mb)

Verve Remixed tackles serious classics from the canon of vocal jazz, focusing especially on female vocalists: Billie Holiday (two songs), Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Nina Simone, Carmen McRae, and Shirley Horn. As is nearly always the case with tributes or remix albums, the results are mixed; several productions triumph in either equalling or enhancing the intent of the original, but too often a complex arrangement of a pop standard is trampled by insistence on a constant groove, whether it's of downtempo or more clubby house origin. Well that is if you know the original, which is likely not the case, and thus the best soul / jazz artists from the Verve heyday, mixed with plentiful amounts of deep house and downtempo by some of the best remixers around result in this album to chill out after the beats clubbed your ears, or just like that on a sunny afternoon .



VA - Verve Remixed 1 ( ^ 74mb)

01 - Willie Bobo - Spanish Grease (Dorfmeister Con Madrid De Los Austrias Muga Reserva Mix) (7:23)
02 - Carmen McRae - How Long Has This Been Going On? (MJ Cole Remix) (4:56)
03 - Astrud Gilberto - Who Needs Forever? (Thievery Corporation Remix) (4:11)
04 - Dinah Washington - Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby? (Rae & Christian Remix) (4:57)
05 - Nina Simone - Feelin' Good (Joe Claussell Remix) (6:03)
06 - Shirley Horn - Return To Paradise (Mark De Clive-Lowe Remix) (5:52)

VA - Verve Remixed 1 - 2 ( ^ 87mb)

07 - Ella Fitzgerald - Wait 'Till You See Him (De-Phazz Remix) (3:51)
08 - Billie Holiday - Don't Explain (dZihan And Kamien Remix) (4:49)
09 - Nina Simone - See-Line Woman (Masters At Work Remix) (10:04)
10 - Sarah Vaughan - Summertime (UFO Remix) (6:49)
11 - Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit (Tricky Remix) (3:18)
12 - Tony Scott - Hare Krishna (King Britt Funke Mix) (6:57)

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