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Artist:
QUARTERMAN & FREE SOUL, SIR JOE
Title:
Sir Joe Quarterman & Free Soul
Label:
GSF RECORDS
Format:
LP
Price:
$11.50
Catalog #:
GSF 1009LP
Exact repro of the sole album from Joe Quarterman, originally released in 1973. Socially conscious funk, featuring tracks "(I Got) So Much Trouble In My Mind," "I Made A Promise," "The Trouble With The Trouble," "The Way They Do My Life," "Find Yourself," "Gonna Get Me A Friend," "Give Me Back My Freedom," "I Feel Like This" and "Live Now Brothers."
Artist:
SKULL SNAPS
Title:
Skull Snaps
Label:
GSF RECORDS
Format:
LP
Price:
$12.00
Catalog #:
GSF 1011LP
Exact repro vinyl edition, gatefold sleeve. "Skull Snaps is a legendary funk album that has long been shrouded in obscurity. The band recorded their self-titled debut and a handful of singles in 1973, and then vanished without a trace. In recent years, their vinyl has become ubiquitously sampled and highly collectible. The monstrous break that opens up their classic cut, 'It's A New Day,' furnished the beat for countless hip-hop hits of the mid-'90s (along with James Brown's 'Funky Drummer' and Sly & the Family Stone's 'Sing A Simple Song,' 'It's A New Day' contains the most sampled break in music history). More than just a treasure trove for the hip-hop community, though, Skull Snaps stands as a classic in pure funk and soul. The band's irresistible sound embraces the black vocal group sound of early '70s Temptations, Chi-Lites, and Dramatics, cut with an unmistakable originality. Every song is blessed with a gospel-soaked call and response dynamic that contrasts gritty lead vocals with the band's perfect harmonies."
Artist:
SKULL SNAPS
Title:
It's A New Day/I Turn My Back On Love
Label:
GSF RECORDS
Format:
7"
Price:
$11.00
Catalog #:
GSF 501EP
"The Skull Snaps evolved from an earlier R&B outfit known as The Diplomats, taking their name from a comment by Lloyd Price to the effect of 'your music is so powerful it just cracks people's skull, man,' a statement that was true in '73 and remains truth to this day. Just as the group started to get spins and attention on the
It's A New Day
single, the GSF imprint closed their doors and the Skull Snaps went on to languish in obscurity. Or, they would have if not for the beat laid down by drummer George Bragg that turned 'It's A New Day' into one of the most sampled cuts in history having been used by Eric B & Rakim, ODB, Digable Planets on through to DJ Shadow and The Prodigy. Here, 'It's A New Day' is backed with the less sampled (but perhaps you've heard it on Main Source's 'Just Hangin' Out') 'I Turn My Back On Love' presented for the first time ever on lavender 7" vinyl."
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