And Groovy vol 3 & 4 is also out on Irma
shuriken
----- Original Message -----
From: Park, James R S <jrspar@essex.ac.uk>
To: 'Ilya Rasskazov' <syamisen@mail.ru>
Cc: <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 2:55 PM
Subject: RE: Re[2]: rare groove
> They are called simply Groovy (Vol 1 & 2 I think)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ilya Rasskazov [mailto:syamisen@mail.ru]
> Sent: 16 May 2000 10:48
> To: Marco Baroni
> Cc: dchapman@ucla.edu; acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
> Subject: Re[2]: rare groove
>
>
> Peace!
>
> May be you guys should try some compillations released by Irma records.
> There were a couple of compillations of rare groove, i don't remember the
> exact name.
>
> Ilya
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marco Baroni <baroni@humnet.ucla.edu>
> To: dchapman@ucla.edu
> Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 00:29:34 -0700
> Subject: Re: rare groove
>
> > I have the very same problem, and I am very glad you asked this, since I
> > hope that the very knowledgeable people inhabiting this list will
provide
> > us with lots of information on what, exactly, constitutes rare groove.
> >
> > Anyway, I can recommend some "rare groove" compilations, not because
they
> > really explain what rare groove is, but because they contain some great
> > music:
> >
> > Classic Rare Groove 1 & 2 (Mastercuts)
> > Capitol Rare 1, 2 & 3 (Blue Note)
> > Strange Games & Things (BBE)
> >
> > All these compilations contain a mixture of modern soul and jazz-funk
> > tracks (on the smooth side of jazz-funk, I would say), which are "rare"
in
> > the literal sense that they come from hard-to-find and extremely
expensive
> > lost singles and albums.
> >
> > Also, you can download from the kcrw site (www.kcrw.net) the Chocolate
> City
> > show in which Garth Trinidad (is this the right name?) interviews Norman
> > Jay, who is often said to be the father of rare groove. If I remember
> > correctly, what emerges from this interview is simply that rare groove
is,
> > well, rare soul and funky music from the seventies -- the kind you are
not
> > going to hear on oldies stations.
> >
> > A long time ago, I've read something about the rare groove movement
being
> > related to the need of hip hop djs to sample rare stuff, in order to
sound
> > original and cool, and to avoid being sued by James Brown...
> >
> > I hope somebody else on the list can give us more information about rare
> > groove.
> >
> > Marco
> >
> > >Hey,
> > >
> > >I'm trying to get a handle on what it is, exactly, that constitutes
"rare
> > >groove." Can anyone point me in the direction of any good books,
> > >articles, discographies, CD compilations. . . anything would help, as
the
> > >little that I've seen of things talking about it has been hopelessly
> > >vague.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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