Various Artists - Uptown Soul, Downtown Funk Vol. 2 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Kicking off 2026 in style! Here we have volume 5 of the annual Razor-N-Tape Family Affair series. As always a wide-ranging collection of vibes and grooves from the extended international Razor-N-Tape network, this year's vinyl sampler includes tag newcomers and veterans across 6 tracks. Recloose, Medlar & Daisybelle, Misiu, Saucy Lady, Anoraak and Marina Trench deliver in their respective signature styles, taking us on a genre-bending tour of genres and sounds. From House to Disco, Dub to Breaks, and Chuggers to Pumpers, there's bit of something for everyone here... fun for the whole Family!Tracklisting A1. Recloose ft. Hazmat Live - Dance GirlA2. Mike Misiu - Hold Your BodyA3. Medlar & Daisybelle - Body AcheB1. Mpharanyana - Disco (Anoraak Edit)B2. Saucy Lady - FallingB3. Marina Trench - Icy

UK collection. It's been almost three years since Sean Hampsey and the Southern (California) Soul Spinners created InchThis Is Lowrider SoulInch for Kent Records, and the ensuing acclaim and enjoyment have made this second volume essential. Only three artists are repeated, which shows the depth of the genre, and two of those - Barbara Mason with her Philly slow-burners and Lee Williams & the Cymbals' fantastic East Coast harmonies - epitomize the Lowrider soul sound between them. The Lovers are also featured again, providing sweet soul from the Pacific coast. A big talking point will be the previously unissued ballad 'Can't Nobody' from Detroit's top vocal group Brothers Of Soul, which they cut for Galaxy in 1969. That was the year in which the more obscure Mark-Keys, from the same city, offered their re-interpretation of J. T. Rhythm's 'My Sweet Baby'. Detroit also provides the Perfections' tour de force 'Don't Take Your Love From Me', a Jack Ashford gem from the previous year, and harmony was still strong in the city in 1972 when the Houston Outlaws What Am I Going To Do' was released by Westbound. It failed to gain the acclaim it deserved - until now, currently one of the most sought-after and expensive Detroit sides on the Lowrider collectors' scene. Philadelphia also specialised in this sound as the 60s turned into the 70s, and the Ethics Sad Sad Story' is a classic of it's kind, in a similar vein to the offerings of Little Ben & the Cheers, the Vanguards and Johnson, Hawkins, Tatum & Durr; mid-Western groups trying to capture that same soulful feeling. Three tracks were rescued from the tape vaults and released on Kent CDs in the late noughties. East Coast stalwart Benny Gordon's protégés the Exceptions, New York outfit the Radiations and Los Angeles' very own Magicians all deliver accomplished and ready-to-hear soul ballads. It is testament to the depth of tale

20 great funk classics including Stevie Wonder's InchSuperstition,Inch Commodores' InchBrick House,Inch Average White Band's InchPicking Up the Pieces,Inch Kool & the Gang's InchJungle Boogie,Inch Ohio Players' InchFire,Inch Rose Royce's InchCar Wash,Inch Isaac Hayes' InchShaft,Inch Patti LaBelle's InchLady Marmalade,Inch Curtis Mayfield's InchSuperfly,Inch Earth, Wind & Fire's InchShining Star,Inch Parliament's InchFlashlightInch and more. Album Tracks 1. Brick House - Commodores 2. Pick Up the Pieces - Average White Band 3. Shining Star - Earth Wind & Fire 4. Jungle Boogie - Kool & the Gang 5. Lady Marmalade - Labelle 6. Mr. Big Stuff - Jean Knight 7. Kung Fu Fighting - Carl Douglas 8. Car Wash - Rose Royce 9. Tell Me Something Good - Rufus 10. Superfly - Curtis Mayfield 11. Shaft - Isaac Hayes 12. Fire - Ohio Players 13. Flashlight - Parliament 14. (Every Time I Turn Around) Back in Love Again - L.T.D 15. Good Times - Chic 16. Forget Me Nots - Patrice Rushen 17. Word Up - Cameo 18. Early in the Morning - the Gap Band 19. Don't Stop the Music - Yarbrough & Peoples 20. Super Freak - Rick James