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UPTOWN FUNK EMPIRE - The Empire Strikes Back Again - Vinyl (LP)
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December 8, 2023
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Free delivery on many items. Same-day despatch, no-question returns. Authorised dealers - full technical support. Online since 1997. Shop categories Information UPTOWN FUNK EMPIRE The Empire Strikes Back Again (LP) Soulab France
Cat: SOULABLP 002. Rel: 15 Jun 20
Funk/Rare Groove
Side 1 - Track 1. Take You OutSide 1 - Track 2. I'm A ManchildSide 1 - Track 3. I Guess That You Don't Mind (feat JRM)Side 1 - Track 4. Please Mister PostmanSide 2 - Track 1. Good Time (Bye Bye Mr Dynamite)Side 2 - Track 2. Walkin Like The GingerSide 2 - Track 3. PartySide 2 - Track 4. Last Trip To Nowhere
Before becoming the multi-instrumentalist and producer extraordinaire behind most of Favorite Recordings' disco, boogie and jazz-funk flavoured releases, Bruno 'Patchworks' Hovart delivered one of the best revivalist funk albums of the 21st century, 2009's "The Empire Strikes Back", under the Uptown Funk Empire alias. Here he revisits the album, gathering together a bunch of killer cuts previously included on digital versions of the set but omitted from the vinyl release. As you'd expect, it's an authentic-sounding affair full of killer grooves, brilliant instrumental arrangements, fluid solos and dancefloor-ready workouts shot through with knowing references to 1970s black American music. There's one previously unheard gem - the righteous and celebratory "Party" - and a whole lot of insatiable good-time grooves.
