Music
Sound Experience brought their uptempo funk grooves to Boogie Nights and deserve to be more widely known than they were, even in their 1970s heyday. (more…)
New York vocal group The Persauders had their only UK hit with Thin Line Between Love And Hate long before before The Pretenders. (more…)
Sometimes a bassline just hits the spot – right there in the gut – and carries the whole song. (more…)
Undiscovered for decades, here is the full 33-minute version of Isaac Hayes’s psychedelic jam Do Your Thing. (more…)
James Brown channels his anger into a revenge fantasy in the influential funk classic The Payback, much sampled by hip-hop artists in later years. (more…)
This is probably the soppiest song I like. It’s the antithesis of the soul music I like best – the gritty, sweaty, southern soul of Stax and Muscle Shoals. And yet… (more…)
Headhunters served up this fat slice of funk in 1975, featuring a famous sample that’s formed the basis of countless hip hop tunes ever since. (more…)
This is another long jam for a summer’s day, fusing an R&B groove with the flightier embellishments of jazz. (more…)
The Five Stairsteps were five teenage brothers and sisters nicknamed The First Family Of Soul – a title that would soon be passed on to The Jackson 5. (more…)