Carl,
sounds like the studio version of Summer Madness by Kool and the Gang. There
is a live version too but your description seems to fit the studio version
ie it's more 'laid back'. Hope this helps.
Al.
->Could anyone identify a track for me? I know so little about
->this track that
->it is unlikely that anyone will recognise the one I'm talking
->about, but
->I'll give it a go.
->
->I heard the track first on a cassette of a soul radio show my sister
->recorded in the mid-eighties. The track itself sounds like it
->might be early
->eighties or late seventies.
->
->All I can do to pinpoint the track is to say that 'Gone are
->the Days' (of
->summer madness) by the Ganja Kru (DJ Hype, Zinc, True Playaz
->etc. released
->in 1997) was based on it. Although it didn't use the break,
->there are lots
->of sounds on the Ganja Kru record that were lifted from the
->tune I'm after.
->You can actually hear the Ganja Kru record at
->http://hjem.get2net.dk/indajungle/list/gkru_gonedays.htm. Its
->very good.
->
->Most notably the record I'm after ends with a very
->distinctive note that
->rises very quickly in pitch. It is very unusual indeed. It
->featured at the
->start of the Ganja Kru record. I've also heard this sound in
->the background
->of a tune on the Badu album 'Baduizm' but I don't know if it
->was sampled
->from the record I'm after or is just a similar noise.
->
->The only other thing I can say is that the track is an
->instrumental (or the
->version I heard was) and has got a very chill sound. It's
->basically the
->groove and a synthesiser playing over the top. The
->synthesiser sounds a
->little bit like the ones heard on 'Everybody loves the
->Sunshine' by Roy
->Ayers (though only a little bit like it). The tune certainly
->has that kind
->of slow groove.
->
->Does it ring any bells? Probably not. But thanks for thinking
->about it.
->
->Carl
->
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