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Sold Date:
September 1, 2014
Start Date:
April 13, 2013
Final Price:
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Funk Spectrum ~ Real Funk for Real People ~ Compiled by Josh Davis and Keb Darge
Double LP Set
Rare, 1999, U.K., Original, 1st pressing
BBE Records - BBEP017
Cover is VG++ to NM, with shink-wrap, and minor corner imperfections.
Includes custom inner-sleeves, VG++.
Vinyl are VG++ to NM, mostly NM
Includes original, custom: #1 is VG, with many creases, #2 sleeve is VG+ to VG++, a few, light creases.
Rare, OUT OF PRINT, Original, Import Album
" (aka ) and ,
is yet one more addition to the stable of essential BBE label
collections, a virtual primer in old-school funk that assembles 20
tracks likely familiar to only the most diligent of rare groove
collectors. According to '
liner notes, the omission of artist credits from the sleeve is in
homage to the code of B-boy secrecy, although it makes the disc damn
hard to critique; that said, the opening "Party Time" conjures the
spirit of to uncanny perfection, "Let's Do It Today" could be a lost track, and "Clap Your Hands" imagines an alternate reality where comprised sisters, not brothers. 's ten selections are excellent as well, most of them slavish in their devotion to the genius of -- some are actual covers ('s
up-tempo reading of the perennial "It's a Man's Man's Man's World") and
some are just mirror images (Ricky Caloway's "Tell Me," with its "Good
God!" interjections), but all boast the funk in spades. "
-allmusic.com