The Magic Disco Machine - Disc-O-Tech

Year : 1975
Label : Motown
Genre : Funk/Soul
Style : Disco

The Magic Disco Machine was a collective of Motown's own producers including Jesse Boyce (of The Fame Gang, Dillard & Boyce) and Freddie Perren (the man behind the hit of Gloria Glaynor "I Will Survive"). Disc-O-Tech explores the disco movement nascent and reminds some of the best soundtracks from the Blaxploitation, featuring the Motown's studio musicians and its backing vocals bands : The Devastating Affair and The Sisters Love (formed on the Raelettes' ashes, the vocal group of Ray Charles). The collective produced two albums which seem especially designed for nightclubs & DJs. Some of the tracks were sampled many times, including the popular "Scratchin" by Hip-Hop artists such as RUN DMC in "Jam Master Jay" (1984) & DJ Shadow in "Lesson 4" (1991).

Various - Black Rio 2 ~ Original Samba Soul 1968-1981

Year : 2009
Label : STRUT
Genre : Latin, Soul
Style : Funk/Soul, Samba

Compiled by DJ Cliffy and released under the British Afro music Label "STRUT", Black Rio Vol. 2 brings together some of the best Brazilian Soul & Funk songs recorded from the late sixties to the early eighties. Some of which are belong to a new musical genre arising in the mid-seventies, called Black Rio, the meeting between typical Brazilian sound and the music of James Brown. The Black Rio matches to a style mixing Afro-Samba & Funk influenced by the Black Power movement, whose the most representative actors then were Miguel De Deus, Toni Tornado, Tim Maia, Emilio Santiago, Dom Salvador, Banda Black Rio (and its fisrt incarnation "Cry Babies") or Bebeto with the song "Princesa Negra De Angola" included in this compilation.

DISC 1 : Zeca Do Trombone & Roberto Sax - Coluna Do Meio / Renata Lú - Faz Tanto Tempo / Balanca Povo - Novo Dia / Guimaes E O Grupo Som Sagrado - Our Sound / Rubinho E Mauro Assumpção - Ta Tudo Ai / Emilio Santiago - Bananeira / Watusi - Oio Gere / Os Diagonais - Não Vou Chorar / Som Nosso - Pra Swingar / Super Som Lord - BR Samba  

  

DISC 2 : Pete Dunaway - Supermarket / Marilene - Sinal Vermelho / Avan Samba - Ibere / Azambuja & CIA - Tema Do Azambuja / Cry Babies - It's My Thing / Edson Frederico E A Transa - Bobeira / Bebeto - Princesa Negra De Angola / Sonia Santos - Poema Ritmico Do Malandro