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Tavares - Madam Butterfly (1979) [2012, Remastered & Expanded Edition] Music

Posted by BlondStyle at Nov. 4, 2022

"Madam Butterfly" is the 7th album by American soul/R&B group Tavares, produced by Bobby Martin and released in 1979 on the Capitol label. By this stage in the group's career, they had become known as a disco act due to successful singles such as "Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel", "Whodunit" and "More Than a Woman." However, Madam Butterfly is noted for its lack of anything approaching disco material, and, as such, is considered to be more akin in style to the group's 1973-'75 albums than to their '76-'78 Freddie Perren-produced output.

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Loleatta Holloway - Loleatta Holloway (1979) [2014, Remastered & Expanded Edition] Music

Posted by BlondStyle at Oct. 17, 2023

Loleatta Holloway was a dance music legend. Her amazing vocal talents gained her the reputation as one of the premier vocalists of soul and dance music during the 70's and 80's. Holloway started her singing career with Queen of Gospel, Albertina Walker (and her Caravans) before striking out on her own. She released her first single Rainbow 71 on the fledgling Apache label before moving to Aware to record her first two albums prior to her work with Gold Mind/Salsoul. Loleatta Holloway, released in 1979, was the singer's third album on Gold Mind/Salsoul Records and was the follow up to Queen Of The Night. For this self-titled LP Holloway was teamed with producers Floyd Smith (who took on the majority of tracks) Bobby Womack and Bunny Sigler.

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Platinum Hook - Platinum Hook (1978) [2014, Remastered & Expanded Edition] Music

Posted by BlondStyle at Oct. 18, 2021

Platinum Hook was a slick R&B/Funk combo who released three albums on Motown between 1978 and 1983. Having signed to the label for their debut eponymous release in 1978, Platinum Hook offered up a smooth and engaging R&B/Funk sound that more than matched their label mates and other rivals of the time. Platinum Hook opens with the tight club groove Bittersweet, a horn and synth led track that introduces the groups lead vocalists Tina Renee Stanford and Stephen Daniels to blistering effect. Track 2 is an excellent cover of Shotgun's mid-tempo funk jam from the previous year, Hotline. ''Til I Met You and Lover What You've Done (To Me) are both smooth soul ballads that still bring the funk into the rhythms and help round out the albums overall sound. Standing On The Verge (Of Getting It On), a cover of the Funkadelic classic, can hold its head up high to the original.

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Fern Kinney - Groove Me (1979) [2013, Remastered & Expanded Edition] Music

Posted by BlondStyle at May 10, 2023

Fern Kinney’s 1979 debut album “Groove Me” did not produce any across the board smashes like Anita Ward or Stephanie Mills did. But it did produce two club classics that set dance floors on fire and that was no easy feat during Disco obsessed 1979. Both the title track and “Baby Let Me Kiss You” became regulars at clubs across the country. A closer listen to Fern Kinney’s full length album shows the Northern Soul vocalist at home with Disco, R&B, Quiet Storm ballads and Pop Music. An accomplished vocalist, Kinney at times sounds like Deniece Williams. “Under Fire”, “Angel On The Ground”, “Pillow Talk”, and “Together We Are Beautiful” are all lush mid-tempo R&B songs with a driving Disco beat. “Sun, Moon, Rain” is the sole ballad on the set and Kinney handles it well.

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The Charlatans - A Head Full Of Ideas & Trust Is For Believers (Live) (Deluxe Edition) (2021) Music

Posted by Rtax at Oct. 26, 2021

The Charlatans - A Head Full Of Ideas & Trust Is For Believers (Live) (Deluxe Edition) (2021)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 990 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 326 MB
2:22:27 | Brit Pop, Alternative, Indie Rock | Label: Then Records

"A Head Full of Ideas" is a career spanning best of that sums up their remarkable progress from 1990 Manchester scene hopefuls to one of the UK’s most enduring and best-loved bands.
The band have notched up 13 Top 40 studio albums - three of them number ones - alongside 22 hit singles, four of them top 10. The rollercoaster highs have been accompanied by some shattering lows, any which one of them could have felled a less resilient band, from nervous breakdowns to near bankruptcy and the deaths of two founder members.

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The Jam - The Gift (Super Deluxe Edition) (1982/2012) Music

Posted by Pisulik at Dec. 30, 2019

The Jam - The Gift (Super Deluxe Edition) (1982/2012)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) - 1.2 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 467 MB | 03:12:34
New Wave, Power Pop, Mod Revival, Punk Rock | Label: UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)

As good mods, the Jam always had a healthy respect for R&B and soul even the first album featured the revved-up Northern soul of "Non-Stop Dancing." With The Gift, however, Paul Weller seems to have become completely absorbed in it, and more specifically, in Stax-style soul with more than a hint of psychedelia à la "Psychedelic Shack." An uneven album marked by overindulgences like the instrumental "Circus" and unnecessarily long songs, The Gift still has no shortage of terrific songs, like the simply sublime "Ghost," "Town Called Malice" (the hit), and the funk workout of "Precious."

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VA - The Backbeat of Rock and Roll 1948 - 1962: Seminal Sounds from the Instrumental Epoch (Deluxe Edition) (2014) Music

Posted by Rtax at Nov. 8, 2022

VA - The Backbeat of Rock and Roll 1948 - 1962: Seminal Sounds from the Instrumental Epoch (Deluxe Edition) (2014)
MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 694 MB
4:44:54 | Rock 'N' Roll, Instrumental | Label: Famous Flames Recording Company

Throughout the 1950s, the concept of the instrumental track was wrestled away from the cloying strings of MOR orchestras and into the hands of screwdriver-wielding guitarists, sleazy saxophonists, primal garage bands and dance craze creators. The teenage generation demanded music with everything and non-vocal versions of the hits sat next to specially created rabble-rousing gems that transcended genres and styles. This was music where words were just not enough.

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Vicki Sue Robinson - Never Gonna Let You Go (Expanded Edition) (1976) Music

Posted by Pisulik at Aug. 11, 2021

Vicki Sue Robinson - Never Gonna Let You Go (Expanded Edition) (1976)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) - 301 MB | Cover | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 96 MB | 00:41:43
Disco, Funk, Soul | Label: RCA/Legacy

When "Turn the Beat Around" became a major hit in 1976, many of the people who heard that disco-soul classic on the radio bought the single and skipped Vicki Sue Robinson's debut album, Never Gonna Let You Go. But those who did hear the rest of the LP found that most of the other tracks were decent, if unremarkable. Club DJs, unlike radio DJs, didn't play "Turn the Beat Around" exclusively some of them found "We Can Do Almost Anything" useful and the exuberant, sunny title track (which is arguably the second best song on the album) enjoyed a lot of club exposure.

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Wagner - Complete Operas (Limited Edition): Box Set Series 43CDs (2013) Re-up Music

Posted by Discograf_man at May 17, 2019

Wagner - Complete Operas (Limited Edition): Box Set Series 43CDs (2013)
Classical | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 7,41 Gb | Scans 188 Mb
Label: Deutsche Grammophon | Release Year: 2013

Richard Wagner, the most controversial figure the arts have ever seen, whose music can move and overwhelm like no other, continues to divide the spirits even today. The year 2013, when we celebrate the 200th anniversary of his birth, is inevitably going to be devoted to the man and his work.
The Complete Wagner Operas offers the best of Deutsche Grammophon, two operas each from Decca and the BBC and EMIs Rienzi.

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The Band - Northern Lights - Southern Cross (1975) {2001, 24-Bit Remastered & Expanded Edition} Music

Posted by popsakov at Sept. 14, 2018

The Band - Northern Lights - Southern Cross (1975) {2001, 24-Bit Remastered & Expanded Edition}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 304 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 130 Mb
Scans Included | RAR 5% Recovery
Roots Rock, Country Rock, Americana | Capitol Records #7243 5 25394 2 0

The first studio album of Band originals since 1971's Cahoot – in many respects, Northern Lights-Southern Cross was viewed as a comeback. It also can be seen as a swan song, in that its recording marked the last time the five members would work together in the studio as a permanent group, with a commitment to making a record they would tour behind and build on as a working band. The album was also, ironically enough, the Band's finest since their self-titled sophomore effort, even outdoing Stage Fright. It was spawned after a series of battery-recharging events – the move of all five members out of Woodstock, New York and to Malibu, California, into a new, state-of-the-art 24-track studio that not only felt right but offered them (especially Garth Hudson, working with Moog synthesizers and other new instruments, as well as brass and reeds) a bigger creative and sonic canvas than they'd ever known before…

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