Glorious Day b/w Easing Back
Sweet sweet summertime soul instrumentals! Gary Crockett and Jay & Dominic Glover are the driving force behind the Sound Stylistics and the ominous Delta Rhythm Section. Here are two wonderful heart warming cuts they recorded with a similar bunch of all star musicians for a Chappell library CD called “Retro Keys”. Both sides are only commercially available on this very Mocambo 45.
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Nassau Strut b/w King Midnite
The Delta Rhythm Section returns with a heavy disco-funk tune. Disco? Yeah, you’ve heard it right! But beware: this is not your average dance classic cheese. This is a deep clavinet-led groove with brass & moog synth building to a trombone solo reminiscent of Fred Wesley & the Horny Horns, really authentic sounding and a great one for the floor!
While ‘Nassau Strut’ is more a spaced-out disco tune, the flip, ‘King Midnite’ is an epic masterpiece, featuring a Stevie Wonder-esque harmonica over huge brass and string action as well as big, big drums!
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Nuyorica Fiesta b/w Hot Packet
Another superb 45 with timeless Speedometer material. As the title suggests, “Nuyorica Fiesta” is a heavy Latin Funk groover, while the flip side is a typical Speedometer deep funk monster.
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The Message b/w Freedom Sound Two more killer tracks off the Bruton Library album “Deep Funk”. By the time we had the labels and stampers ready, Freestyle re-released the entire album after the success of the first Mocambo 45s. Hence, we pushed them back and eventually forgot them until we found them in the warehouse in late 2023.
Listen Up b/w Free Vibes
Gary Crockett, Jay & Dominic Glover take a break from the Delta Rhythm Section and bring us another wonderful song that spotlights vintage keys. Jim Watson’s Clavinet solo is probably one of the funkiest ever recorded and the soulful Hammond-and-horn-loaded chorus just starts where “Funkin’ Fever” has ended. The Mocambo Allstars return with a cookin’ jam that has been recorded on 8-track tape at the beginning of 2007. The JB-esque “Free Vibes” pays hommage to the Godfather all while organist Jan Wurtl is pushing our cheap Italian Leslie speaker beyond its limits with a screaming B3-solo. The tune also welcomes Flute wizard Danny Kimaz aboard a Mocambo record for the first time.
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Do Watcha Like b/w Ode to the Groove
When it comes to authentic ghetto funk sound, Speedometer range among the scene’s best groups. The UK outfit has worked with many US legends as Sir Joe Quarterman, Eddie Bo, Marva Whitney, Robert Moore and Sharon Jones. The two uptempo deep funk numbers on this 45 have been favs of their live shows for a long time, and – to quote composer Leigh Gracie – “some DJ’s even got acetates pressed of this track to play at clubs”. Now they are on vinyl to be played whereever you want to “do watcha like”.
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Look-Ka Py Py b/w Ease Back
There are lots of Steel Funk recordings by huge orchestras from Trinidad and other Caribbean islands. The Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band instead combines an incredibly funky guitar-bass-drums-percussion rhythm section with a small line of pans (or steel drums). The 45 opens with a killer breakbeat that leads into an awesome rendition of the Meters standard (the title track of their second Josie album) with the themes being played in the street carnival sound of the West Indies, to “ease back” just a little on the flip side.
But where is the island of Bacao? What kind of mystery band is this? You work it out!
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Highway Patrol b/w Walkin’ the Walk
British organ genius James Taylor recorded a library album for Bruton in 2004. Though highly requested by fans to be released commercially, “The Hustle” has not yet been permitted for such a purpose by its publisher. We finally got the rights to release the brilliant tunes as part of our strictly limited vinyl series. Listen to both sides and you know why we did: both sides are blaxploitation-blockparty-bongo-breaks at their very best.
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Chicano Chaser b/w Last Man Standing
Originally cut in 1973, and now a part of the Bruton library, Ian Langley’s take on car chase funk opens with a phat drum/wah-beat and builds into a furious Latin Funk jam. While it has often been sampled and bootlegged, “Chicano Chaser” now gets its first official release on vinyl.
“Last Man Standing” dates back to 1968. A variation of “Only The Brave” Italo Western theme from the old RCA Film Archives, it was made available for library purpose by BMG Ricordi and Atmosphere Music Ltd. on a production music CD called “Spaghetti Western” in 1999. Gnarls Barkley licenced it for their massive 2006 No.1 UK single “Crazy”, giving Atmosphere a big share of the copyrights. This 45 brings the original, now legally available on your favourite format. Just add a simple drumloop and you can go crazy yourself.
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The Getaway b/w Back on the Streets
After bringing us a 45 each, The Delta Rhythm Section and The Sound Stylistics now go head to head and back to back on Mocambo 7″ number six. The Delta boys drop a furious cinematic car-chase slice of horn’n’Hammond funk that’ll get the dancefloor in a frenzy. On the flip the Hammond and funky guitar licks take centre stage on the mid-tempo “Back On The Streets”. Superb stuff.
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