Definitive Groove Collection

Slave featuring Steve Arrington - The Definitive Groove Collection [2CD] (2006) Music

Posted by BlondStyle at May 4, 2022

The Definitive Groove Collection amounts, roughly, to a combination of two older Rhino compilations: 1994's Stellar Fungk: The Best of Slave and 2003's Party Lights: More of the Best. With a couple minor exceptions, it contains all of Slave's charting singles (such as "Slide," "Just a Touch of Love," and "Watching You") as well as several spectacular tracks that never hit the charts ("Party Lites," "Steal Your Heart," and "I'll Be Gone," just to name a handful). As with its predecessors, this two-disc set also contains some but not all of the notable material released by Steve Arrington and his Hall of Fame ("Feel So Real," "Dancin' in the Key of Life," "Way Out"). Covering all the bases with Slave and its various spinoffs (Steve Arrington's Hall of Fame, Aurra, Young & Company, Starleana) within two discs would be impossible, but this is the most comprehensive and helpfully annotated Slave anthology released to date.

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Chic - The Definitive Groove Collection (Remastered) (2006) Music

Posted by Rtax at Oct. 23, 2021

Chic - The Definitive Groove Collection (Remastered) (2006)
FLAC (tracks) - 989 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 354 MB
2:32:54 | Funk, Soul, Disco | Label: Rhino

There is no doubt that Chic was disco's greatest band. Working in a heavily producer-dominated field, they were most definitely a band. By the time Chic appeared in the late '70s, disco was already heading toward mainstream saturation and an inevitable downfall. Chic bucked the trend by stripping disco's sound down to its basic elements. Specializing in stylish grooves with a uniquely organic sense of interplay, Chic's sound was anchored by the scratchy "chucking"-style rhythm guitar of Nile Rodgers, the indelible, widely imitated, and sometimes outright stolen basslines of Bernard Edwards, and the powerhouse drumming of Tony Thompson.

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Stuff - Albums Collection 1976-1980 (5CD) [Japanese SHM-CD 2012] Music

Posted by Designol at May 24, 2024

Stuff was an American, New York City-based jazz-funk band active in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The members were Gordon Edwards (bass), Richard Tee (keyboards), Eric Gale (guitar), Cornell Dupree (guitar), Chris Parker (drums), and later Steve Gadd (drums). Collection includes: Stuff (1976); More Staff (1977); Live Staff (1978); Staff It (1979); Live in New York (1980).

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Janiva Magness - Albums Collection 2001-2014 (4CD) Music

Posted by Designol at Jan. 28, 2023

Detroit-born blues and soul singer known for her passionate phrasing and vocal delivery. Collection includes: Blues Ain't Pretty (2001); The Devil Is An Angel Too (2010); Stronger For It (2012); Original (2014).

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Slave - Original Album Series (2009) 5CD Box Set Music

Posted by Designol at Feb. 18, 2024

Original Album Series contains the first five albums from the mighty Dayton funk band Slave: Slave (1977), The Hardness of the World (1977), The Concept (1978), Just a Touch of Love (1979), and Stone Jam (1980). Each disc is in a thin cardboard pouch with reproductions of the original front and back sleeve designs. Since the series limits itself to five discs, the band's phenomenal sixth album – Show Time (1981) – couldn't fit, but this is a convenient way to snap up the majority of the output from one of the planet's best funk bands. Not even the two-disc The Definitive Groove Collection covers all the great singles and album cuts featured within this small box.

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Chic - Rarities, Oddities and Exclusives (2019) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at April 12, 2019

Chic - Rarities, Oddities and Exclusives (2019)
FLAC (tracks) | 01:31:59 | 635 Mb
Genre: Soul, R&B, Disco / Label: Rhino/Atlantic

Chic released four new albums during the 2000s (three compilations, and one live album): The Very Best of Chic, Good Times: The Very Best of the Hits & the Remixes, A Night in Amsterdam, and The Definitive Groove Collection. A box set, Nile Rodgers Presents The Chic Organization, Vol.1: Savoir Faire would be released in 2010, covering Rodgers and Edwards' productions both for Chic and for other artists up to the original break-up of the partnership in 1983.

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Mass Production - The Definitive Collection (2020) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at April 20, 2020

Mass Production - The Definitive Collection (2020)
FLAC (tracks + .cue,log,scans) | 03:38:07 | 1,4 Gb
Genre: Soul, Funk, Disco / Label: Robinsongs

For the very first time you can now get your hands on a triple CD Definitive Collection of the Funk & Soul sensation that is Mass Production.Robinsongs have compiled the biggest and best tracks from all their Cotillion albums, this package also includes the 7” versions of their biggest singles.Disc One features tracks from the albums “Welcome To Our World” and “Believe” plus a track from “Three Miles High”. The title track from their first album “Welcome To Our World (Of Merry Music)” was to become a dance floor classic and the band’s first charting single.Disc Two includes tracks from the albums “Three Miles High”, “In The Purest Form” and “Masterpiece”. The standout tracks being Mass Production’s biggest hit ‘Firecracker’ and the instrumental ‘Shante’.Disc Three concludes the package featuring cuts from the albums “Turn Up The Music”, “In A City Groove” and “83” plus the seven bonus 7” single versions of key tracks.“Turn Up The Music” was Mass Production’s most successful album peaking at #6 in the Billboard R&B chart.

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The Jimmy Castor Bunch - The Definitive Collection (2022) Music

Posted by Rtax at June 30, 2024

The Jimmy Castor Bunch - The Definitive Collection (2022)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 1.2 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 471 MB
3:20:53 | Soul, Funk, Disco, R&B | Label: Robinsongs

Unique 3CD compilation of The Jimmy Castor Bunch. Featuring all of Jimmy Castor’s RnB chart hits.This package is jammed packed full of Funk.With sleeve notes by MOJO and Record Collector journalist Charles Waring.Despite unashamedly injecting an infectious sense of fun and irreverence in his take on funk – as evidenced on early 70s hits ‘Troglodyte (Cave Man)’ and ‘Bertha Butt Boogie’ – Jimmy Castor was a serious musician who more than lived up to his nickname, “The Everything Man”. He could sing as well as play the saxophone, piano, vibraphone, and assorted percussion instruments, and if that wasn’t enough, he was also an accomplished bandleader, arranger and producer.

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VA - Greatest Ever! Punk & New Wave: The Definitive Collection (2013) Music

Posted by delpotro at Feb. 25, 2019

VA - Greatest Ever! Punk & New Wave: The Definitive Collection (2013)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) | 03:04:44 | 1,25 Gb
Punk Rock, Pop Punk, Post-Punk, New Wave | Label: Union Square Music

Greatest Ever Punk & New Wave brings together some of the most important tracks from this unique period of musical history. Taking material mainly from 1977 to 1982, the album features classic punk, new wave, ska and pop on 3CDs. From the scorching social commentary of Stiff Little Fingers 'Alternative Ulster', to the spooky groove of The Specials 'Ghost Town', Greatest Ever Punk & New Wave pays tribute to the artists - and the music - that shaped a new dawn of popular culture.

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VA - 80s Groove: The Ultimate Collection (2015) Music

Posted by Rtax at Jan. 7, 2024

VA - 80s Groove: The Ultimate Collection (2015)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 2.7 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 899 MB
6:32:46 | Funk, Soul, R&B, Disco, Pop, Dance | Label: Union Square Music

Love the 80s? Then this album is especially for you – 5CDs of pure 80s Groove greatness!
Having brought you the electronic and pop side of the 80s with 80s Anthems, Union Square Music now presents the more soulful side of the decade with 80s Groove.
Throughout the 80s a smooth dancefloor friendly genre developed that saw beats slowing down and basslines being cranked up. Hit after hit saw clubs up and down the country packed out as Jocelyn Brown, Mantronix, Maze, Simply Red, Mica Paris, Loose Ends, Soul II Soul, Neneh Cherry and many more produced classic after classic, many of them on this fantastic compilation.

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