Cold Heat: Heavy Funk Rarities 1: 1968-1974
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 2005-03-22
Music Label: Now Again
Soundtracks:
- The Thing/Carleen & The Groovers
- Free Your Mind/Amnesty
- The Stretch (edit)/Detroit Sex Machines
- Loaded To The Gills (edit)/Michael Liggins & The Supersouls
- Go For Your Self (edit)/Kenny Smith & The Loveliters
- Slipping Into Darkness/Dayton Sidewinders
- James Brown Medley (I Made A Mistake/Lowdown Popcorn edit)/The Apollo Commanders
- Cold Heat/Lil' Lavair and The Fabulous Jades
- The Cissys Thang/The Soul Seven
- Color (original 7" version)/L.A. Carnival
- Don't Go/The Aristocrats
- Drugs Ain't Cool (instrumental)/Ebony Rhythm Band
- Mr. Chicken ---- (alternate take)/The Soul Seven
- Street Scene/Leon Mitchison
- Scorpio/Kashmere Stage Band
- The Sad Chicken/Leroy & the Drivers
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Hit: 5 Stars
Many eons ago, hard funk troupes roamed the land, supplying supertight musicianship and sinister grooves to underfunkdafied peoples. These are the cats you can totally imagine getting on up while opening local shows for James Brown or playing in seedy clubs with the early Funkadelic. Many record companies and producers are now collecting mega-rare singles by these forgotten funkateers. This particular compilation is not the definitive overview of rare underground funk from the golden age, but it's definitely a worthy sampler that could turn the knowledgeable funk fan into a serious crate-digging collector. It's surely just the tip of the iceberg, but the nasty funk herein offers a bootyshakin' taste of what was once an unheralded but oozing scene.
There are a few glimpses of real ambition and innovation here, particularly from Amnesty and Kashmere Stage Band (if their track "Scorpio" wasn't the theme song to a righteous blaxploitation flick, it should've been). Many of the acts here clearly embody, and sometimes outright imitate, the key influences on the early heavy funk -Lil' Javier & the Fabulous Jades aren't even trying to NOT sound like JB, L.A. Carnival try way too hard to sing like the Temptations, and Leon Mitchison supplies Superfly's twin brother in "Street Scene." But otherwise, like the best of no-nonsense early fongk, most of the tracks here deliver insistent grooves with no messing around. Faves include "The Stretch" by Detroit Sex MacHines and "Slipping into Darkness" by Dayton Sidewinders (in both these cases, the song titles and band names couldn't be more accurate). And there is a real collector's find in the Aristocrats, the members of whom should be tracked down and convinced to deliver that righteous groove once again (but sadly, slammin' foxy singer Linda Blakely is no longer with us). The rare hard funk collected here is surely outrageous, but you'll soon ask yourself how much is still out there and ready for worship. [~doomsdayer520~]
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