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Trax featured Kolorz, Universal Robot Band, Fatback Band, Studio Apartment feat. Terrance Downs

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A little love  –  Kolorz (Quartet released a 5 trak E.P (extended play) on Scotti Brothers Records which got some U.S. airplay … arranged and produced by Michael Denton)

Space Disco  –  Universal Robot Band (released on Greg Carmichael’s ‘Red Greg Records’ imprint – this trak has Patrick Adams’s wacky but deeply original synthesizer programming written all over it … featuring Donna McGhee on background vocals)

Nija Walk (Street Walk)  –  Fatback Band (Assigned to New York’s Perception/Today Records – The Fatbacks’ brand of ‘Street-Funk’ was built around the neucleus of Bill Curtis, Johnny Flippen, Gerry Thomas & Johnny King)

We are lonely  –  Studio Apartment feat. Terrance Downes (Known for being the featured vocalist for Chris Brann’s Ananda Project … duo Masanori Manori & Noboru Abe are ‘Studio Apartment’ – from the album “People to People)

 

Trax featured Lorraine Johnson, The Sylvers, Fatback Band, Underground Dwellers presents Ja’nel

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If you leave me now  –  Lorraine Johnson  (Chicago had a hit with this but  –  Lorraine made it Soulful)

Do you know where you are going to  –  The Sylvers  (Family group in the same vein as The Jackson Five covers the film ‘Mahogany’ theme song  … prod. by Giorgio Moroder)

Keep on steppin’  –  Fatback Band  (One of the hardest thing in life is to create something simple and memorable … this is Brilliant)

I’m a Queen  –  Underground Dwellers presents Ja’nel (Released on Tony Humphries’s  Yellorange label … this is what a Dance trak should sound like)

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Trax featured Margie Joseph, THP Orchestra, Fatback Band, Shawn Christopher

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Stop in the name of love – Margie Joseph (Cover of The Supremes hit – you’ll be ditching the original after hearing this)

Two hot for love – THP Orchestra (Full name Three Hats Production – of Canada, originally released on the wonderful Butterfly Records)

Mr. Bass Man – Fatback Band (Wonderfully Dirty ‘Street Funk’ – there is also a remix just as great)

Sweet Freedom  – Shawn Christopher (you are the magic … says it all)

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