THE BBN:
So In To You
(Flipside Recordings 12")
Groovy and jazzy vocal house off the FlipSide label. Really really good music.
METRO AREA #4:
A1. Miura |B1. Let's Go |B2. Strut
(Environ Recordings 12")
Morgan Geist with a new Metro Area 12". It is deep and so good. Perfect!
16 BLOCK featuring JON LUCIEN:
Morning Sun
(Nuphonic Recordings 12")
The jazzy Morning Sun from Block 16's album gets the house music treatment by Pepe Braddock and clocks in on 11m 39s. Cool stuff for groovers.
DANIEL PAUL:
Outta Space
(Mermaid Recordings 12")
The funky Meitz remix!!
JON CUTLER featuring E-MAN:
Its Yours
(Chez Recordings 12")
Do you want it? And if you had it, would you flaunt it? Well, its yours.
The girl talking to the sales person in the record store urged me to pick up this record when I was about to put it back, saying that I should bring it home and play it loud at least twice, and then I would understand. She said it was one of the best records of the year. I agree!
MIGUEL MIGS:
Underwater Sessions EP
(NRK Recordings 12")
The San Francisco deep house don weighs in with a double pack of prestine deep and tracky
house music. Underwater Sessions comprises of four new tracks and two dubs, each one stamped with Miguel's unmistakable sound.
THUNDERBALL:
Scorpio Rising
(Eighteen Street Lounge Music)
Off Thievery Corporations label comes this album with funky beats from the Washington D.C combo Thunderball. Sid Barcelona and Steve Raskin hail from the city that has always been home to covert operations and subversive forms of music. From the rhythmic beat of Go-Go to the intensity of DC hardcore, the city's cultural diversity set the framework for Thunderball's
multifaceted approach to music.
In March of 1999, Thunderball released their first full-length album, Ambassadors of Style. Now its time for the their newest album, Scorpio Rising.
The album opens with the soulful Heart of The Hustler and across to the high noon soundtrack Angela's Lament it captures the essence of early '70s cinema sound with funk driven music with underlying orchestral arrangements. The immediate musical references are of course the film scores by Curtis Mayfield, Isaac Hayes and Dennis Coffey.