Robinsongs is so proud to be releasing the first Double CD Career Anthology of the R&B supergroup Con Funk Shun. Between January 1977 and October 1986, Con Funk Shun, a seven-piece group originating from Vallejo, a waterfront city in Northern California's Bay Area, racked up 25 R&B hits in their native USA, including the No. 1 R&B single, ‘Ffun’. They were renowned for serving up addictive slices of brassy, dance floor funk but also had a profoundly romantic side; excelling at slow, smooth, passionate ballads. The group was driven by the twin talents of vocalists and songwriters, Michael Cooper and Felton Pilate II, whose contrasting musical characteristics would come to define the group's distinctive sound and style.
Grand Funk Railroad took their veiled Motown/Stax influences and grafted them onto a fuzz-drenched hard blues-rock template, and muffler dragging roared out of Flint, Michigan like the little engine that could, confounding the critics and building an impressive record sales portfolio in the 1970s by giving their ardent, blue-collar fans no more and no less than what was expected of them…
Jazz Funk Classics vol.1 is a collection of 30 of the greatest Jazz Funk tracks and the first in a new series of Street Sounds albums, across various music genres. These new albums signal a renaissance of the Street Sounds brand and Jazz Funk Classics vol.1 will take you on a special journey. Every track on this album is an essential, seminal classic which are as exciting, enjoyable and vital today, as they were when originally released. Every Street Sounds album is compiled with a great deal of TLC. We are aware that a buyer of a Street Sounds album expects nothing but the best - therefore we ensure that each track is the full length, original 12 extended or album version and meticulously remastered to the highest quality, a connoisseur and audiophiles dream.
The first 30 seconds of Voodoo Funk Project's debut album will send listeners scurrying to the liner notes looking for the recording date: "Black Magic" is Blackbyrds-style funky soul-jazz, right down to the vintage synth whooshes that lazily ripple across the sound field and the introduction of an extremely 1970s-vintage clavinet part about two minutes in. The rest of the album maintains this retro vibe, unsurprising since the brain behind this U.K. foursome is producer and programmer Geoff Wilkinson, formerly half of acid jazz pioneers Us3.