The
Craig Charles Funk & Soul Club returns - and Volume 3 is a truly
international round up of all things hip, happening and gorgeously groovy!
Since
Volume 2 was released a year ago, Craig Charles has continued to spread the sound
of good grooves right around the world, not just via his radio shows on 6Music
and BBC Radio 2, or by DJ-ing to a huge sea of humanity at Glastonbury Festival
2014, but he also took his trunk of funk to Australia to spread his kind of dance
floor dynamite to Antipodean audiences hungry for fresh soulful sounds and some
foot stomping funk.
Hisbrand
new selection really does have it all - the feel good, piano pumping, hand clapping
work out Do Your Thing by 6ix Toys is a joyous opener that should have anyone
with a working pair of legs jumping up to get down.
There is
a great selection of seductive, female voices across Volume 3 - Sophia
Bastians' gutsy, blues drenched Breaking is a minor key wonder, Sena Dagadus'
strutting afrobeat anthem Accra City People rolls over the horizon like a steam
train with no brakes - and Juliette Ashbys' sexy and sassy Like A Bass Guitar
digs down deep into a funk heavy groove in all the right ways, and The Getups'
featured vocalist Sabina Challenger rides on the bands trademark tight Hammond
funk groove like an award winning surfer.
21st
century neo-soul makes it's presence felt too - Harleighblus' crisp and rugged
'Play Me' leads perfectly to the UK Soul Don #1 Omar's massive tune The Man,
the track that became an instant classic and saw the album of the same name top
charts and reach places you might not expect, as even long time fan Prince
Charles owns a copy!
Omar
isn't the only legendary male voice featured - ladies and gentlemen, hold my
calls! He's got the legend that is Afrika Bambaataa featuring onThe
Mighty Mocambos funking hip hop roof raiser It's The Music Part 1 - and
Australian superstar Daniel Merriweathers' bluesy vocal on Cookin On 3 Burners
Losin' Steak makes it clear why people like Mark Ronson beat a path to his door
when its talented man tonsils they require!
Boogaloo,
soul-jazz and latin sounds feature strongly too - Sunlight Squares' Vamanos Pal
Monte will without doubt make your dancing feet itchy,Speedometers huge selling
reworking of Pharell Williams Happy will have you soul clapping and spinning
like you are at Wigan Casino - and Ray Lugo & The Boogaloo Destroyers El
Ritmo De Nuevo York will make you feel like your back in late 60's New York
partying with Ray Barreto & Mongo Santamaria, and The Andre Espeut
Quintets' Let It Go is jazzy enough to make even girls grow a goatee beard.
The
Craig Charles Funk & Soul Club Volume 3 does even more than it says on the
tin - 19 personally selected, party starting slices of full fat grooves proves,
as the saying goes that 3 is indeed the magic number!
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