Soul parade.For your buddies' macking pleasure, there's Ultimate Isaac Hayes: Can You Dig It? (Stax): Covering his work from Shaft to Chef, this double disc (plus DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. ) compiles the finest hard-hitting Memphis soul Memphis soul is stylish, funky, uptown soul music that is not as hard edged as Southern soul. It is a shimmering, sultry style produced in the 1960s and 1970s at Stax and Hi Records in Memphis, Tennessee, featuring tasteful, melancholic, melodic horns, organ, bass, and drums. and '70s soundtrack grooves from the man once christened "Black Moses." The soul train continues with Gilles Peterson Presents the BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. Sessions (Ether]: U.K. radio tastemaker taste·mak·er n. One that determines or strongly influences current trends or styles, as in fashion or the arts. cherry-picks in-studio performances from leading lights of neo-soul, down-tempo and hip-hop. Philly newcomer Jazmine Sullivan should give Alicia Keyes fans pause. Keep their booties shaking with DJ Dan's Lift (Thrive): It's a consistently thrilling seat-of-the-pants two-CD set of dark, funky house and techno, programmed by this perennial people's favorite--and gay--club music groundbreaker. |
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