I Wish You Would

I recently dropped this track on a little set we did on Sergio Fedasz's KALX show. It's such a solid tune. I kind of want to make an edit, but then part of me says "why edit something that already sounds good?", and I reply "because I want to!"

Most notable for her tune "Somebody Else's Guy" and "Love's Gonna Get You", Jocelyn Brown can make your ears bleed (in a good way). At certain times her vocal chords rock harder than a diamond encrusted AC/DC record. I only wish she had made a few more tracks with talented producer's Fred McFarlane and Allen George. Now, try not to cry when the slap bass pops straight out of your download window and slaps you in face...

Jocelyn Brown - I wish you Would (side A)

Drum Machine Soul

It's been a little nutty around here lately... sickness, surprise Swedish girls, and going out to Paradise Lovers Disco has kept us busy so we had to take a break form posting for a couple of days. But we're back now, strait form the top, with Act 1 and a little more obscure though not outrageously hard to find track from Lady Margaret & The Stovall Sisters.

"If It Is Let It Be" and "Party Hardy People" are a couple tracks more along the soul/funk line. the reason I picked them is they both have great sounding early analog drum machine tracks. And though they have this definite synthesized backing beat they incorporate live hand claps, piano, and guitar to keep that really soulful human element that we strive to look for here on Tough Track. It also helps that these were taken from 7"s as they have a unique sound unto their own.

Also, To make up for not posting enough the last 2 days We've included a little Tres Lingerie edit we did of and RFC medley called "Startrax". Downloads away!!!...

If It Is Let It Be - Lady Margaret & The Stovall Sisters
Party Hardy People - Act 1
Startrax - (Tres Lingerie Edit)

Quick Slick

I only recently found out about Syreeta Muhammad. Don't know much about her except that Syreeta was the former wife of Stevie Wonder and she recorded some music with Billy Preston. I picked up here track Quick Slick on 7". I guess it's not a very rare record to find out here in CA, but I never came across it in NYC. Then again I haven't been looking for disco-funk-boogie stuff for very long...

Quick SLick has a great bass line. It's a synth bass, analog, but it sounds like the producer, Hal Davis, decided to have the synth player stack about 4 pulse-wave and 2 sawtooth oscillators on top of each other to produce this slightly phased dynamic I can almost imagine my Prophet 600 making in "unison track" mode. Anyway, it's a sweet playful track that Syreeta sings great on. See what you think.

Syreeta - Quick Slick