Boogie Classics
Aaron
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What are the boogie tracks you do not leave home without?
1) Steve Arrington - Nobody Can Be You
2) Kashif - I Just Got To Have You
3) Lillo Thomas - Sexy Girl
4) Teena Marie - Behind The Groove (2 copies)
5) Toney Lee - Reach Up
Bonus Question: Would you consider SOS Band's Groovin' (That's What We're Doin') a steppers track? I've always been confused about what makes a steppers track a steppers track.
1) Steve Arrington - Nobody Can Be You
2) Kashif - I Just Got To Have You
3) Lillo Thomas - Sexy Girl
4) Teena Marie - Behind The Groove (2 copies)
5) Toney Lee - Reach Up
Bonus Question: Would you consider SOS Band's Groovin' (That's What We're Doin') a steppers track? I've always been confused about what makes a steppers track a steppers track.
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Carol Williams - Just Can't Get Away (Ray "Pinky" Velasquez Dub Mix)
Deele - Body Talk
Weeks and co - Rock Your World
G - Five - Keep On
David Morris - Saturday Night
80% of my crate is usually boogie
boogie is the FUNKY shit alot of folls round here call Modern Soul for the most part.
Boogie is post disco and it's slower 108 - 115 bpms. Also characterised by loads of synths, dub mixes, boomy linn drums.
also see Electro Funk... which was the term in the UK but tends to pull in a broader range of elemeents.
Modern Soul - non 4 /4 undanceable music listened to by straight white hipsters while sipping lemonade
Boogie - the shit that got played, danced to in the clubs back in the day, primarily black, puerto rican and gay.
see the following for textbook example:
you will note music is much slower than disco, much more electronic and infinitly more dubbed out.
also note that it is still 4 on the floor and more importantly MIXABLE.
additional bonus points for Divaisms.
Price check? I read on some site that is is one of the rarest and most sought after Levan remix projects, but most info by same writer seemed a little suspect (read: writer's personal opinion) I came across a copy a few weeks ago, Padlock rmx is too hot.
Some of my fave boogie tracks:
Fantastic Aleems- Get Down Friday Night
Unlimited Touch- Music in the Streets
Skyy- Call Me
O'Jays- Put Our Heads Together
Raw Silk- Do it to the Music
And, of course, D-Train, D-Train, D-Train
Plaese label individually ("GOOD MUSIC" label not permitted):
Skyy: Skyyline LP
Rod "Shake It Up"
Tanaa Gardner: "Heartbeat"
Delroy Wilson: "I'll Do Anything For You"
Janet Jackson: Say You Do / You???ll Never Find 12??? A&M
Rhetta Hughes: Angel Man 12??? Aria
Denroy Morgan: I???ll Do Anything For You / Inst. 12??? Becket
Sinnamon: Thanks To You / Inst. 12??? Becket
Leprechaun: Loc-It-Up / Inst. 12??? Citation
Vin Zee: Funky Bebop / inst. 12??? Emergency
Gayle Adams: Love Fever / inst. 12??? Prelude
Lime: Your Love 12??? Prism
Sharon Brown: I Specialize in Love / Inst. 12??? Profile
Gary???s Gang: Knock Me Out / Inst. 12??? Radar
Lakeside: Your Love Is On The One / I Love Everything You Do 12??? Solar
Midnight Star: I???ve Been Watching You / Open Up To Love 12??? Solar
S.O.S. Band: Just Be Good To Me / long 12??? Tabu
Taana Gardner: Heartbeat 12??? West End
The Gap Band: Humpin??? / No Hiding Place 12??? (pic sleeve) Mercury UK
Young & Company: I Like What You???re Doing To Me! LP Brunswick
This modern soul shit is getting kinda convoluded.
By the way would the whole Khemistry album count as "boogie"? I need to subdivide my musical subdivisions properly
I basically agree with this, but the tempo bit is more of a generalization than a rule, plenty of boogie gets into the 120's.
And be wary of using the term electro funk, that may fly in GB, but IMO that is a whole different genre
Hmmm...it's funny because all of this stuff that you're describing used to be called "garage" or "loft" music etc., which seemed a suitable enough categorization. Then, when the term "boogie" started to gain currency (mostly on the internet as far as I can tell), I easily assumed it applied to boogie-oriented disco (i.e obscure, mid70s-early80s, P&P, rollerskating-type disco that actually references the word "boogie" etc.) which was also becoming more popular at the time. Again, that seemed like a useful categorization to me, so that's how I've been using it- if only in my head. But what am I supposed to call boogie-oriented disco music (i.s music that often literally begs you to boogie to it) now that the name has been attached to another kind of music from a later, slicker period that you don't really even "boogie" to per se???
Guzzo- what's the release year on that Khemistry lp?
I like the Unltd Touch LP, D-Train is cool in smaller doses. Plus some of that Shep Pettibone stuff. Mary Clark is some good diva shit and I loooove that Escorts - Make Me Over (on +2)
I think it isn't very danceable because of the fashions at the time: hair (men) and unwieldy neon plastic accessories (women)
Gemini - "It's Friday Night!!"
Logg - "I Know You Will"
Ronnie McNeir - "Come On Be With Me"
Vernon Burch - "Special Rhyme"
Michael Wycoff - "Diamond Real"
Mighty Fire - "Sweet Fire"
SG
I though HI-NRG was gay music?
I always took boogie as mostly rollerskating type disco (With no fucking violins).
And alot of times (but not always) was Instrumental.
Hmm, learn something new everyday.
Skyy: Skyyline LP - BOOGIE
Rod "Shake It Up" - DISCO
Tanaa Gardner: "Heartbeat" - BOOGIE
Delroy Wilson: "I'll Do Anything For You" - CAPITOL B BOOGIE
Rhetta Hughes: Angel Man 12??? Aria - BOOGIE
Sinnamon: Thanks To You / Inst. 12??? Becket - BOOGIE
Leprechaun: Loc-It-Up / Inst. 12??? Citation - BOOGIE
Vin Zee: Funky Bebop / inst. 12??? Emergency - BOOGIE
Lime: Your Love 12??? Prism - i call this stuff QUEBEC DISCO
Gary???s Gang: Knock Me Out / Inst. 12??? Radar - i don't consider gary's gang boogie.. not enough synths, dub or drum machines
Taana Gardner: Heartbeat 12??? West End - BOOGIE
Young & Company: I Like What You???re Doing To Me! LP Brunswick - BOOGIE
from what i heard of that it qualifies as QUIET STORM nothing you could play in a club.. maybe my needs to be refreshed but their aint no funk on there.
big with the steppers though
quiet storm?!?! I thin you might be thinking of another album. The whole thing is pretty much uptempo. If I remember, next time I'm home I'll post an MP3 from the album
well boogie music is concurrent with the Loft and more apty the garage. But people in 1982 didnt calle that Garage music they called that shit Boogie.
not that this matters though.
if somebody says LOFT music to me i think Date With the Rain, Voyage, Candido, lots of latin percussion and hippy free dancing.
Garage is more coked out dubby and synthy
that's really the main distinction for me is the level of synth / dru mmachines and studio dub techniques involved.
Rob - Shake it Up for example isnt boogie for the main reason that its produced with trad instruments - drums, piano, live bass guitar etc. it doesnt have hardly any synths or drum machines and no dub stylee WHATSOEVER.
in my opinion the truest boogie would be jams like Can't Get Away - Carol Williams which is solidly drum machine, 115bpms, and dubbed to hi heaven.
Thank you!
Marco, we all know it's good music, but for those of us who like to set up a theme to our sets, it's generally a good idea to categorize. There are stylistic differences, after all. Quit being difficult.
A few more:
Tom Browne - Thighs High
Odyssey - Inside Out
The Whispers - It's A Love Thing
this month it's:
michael sterling - desperate
xavier - work that sucka
legacy - groove is here
bobby nunn - 2nd to nunn (don't front, you know you love it)
That's pretty much what I thought - that most of those were indeed BOOGIE.
But I was confused because you defined BOOGIE as having "loads of synths, dub mixes, boomy linn drums" and it didn't seem that most of the above BOOGIE tracks have much, if any, of those.
I'm feeling the "rollerskate jam" definition of BOOGIE above any other stated here. Say "rollerskate jam" and I know what you mean - 'cos I was there!!!
CHUNE...
I just played that. Love that record...
im pretty sure im thinking of the same record... paul e styrene brought it over to my crib one time.. we popped it on, didnt do shit for me and he mentioned selling it for some decent coin due to it's "modern soul" popularity.
it has the two dancing cuttout type characters on the cover no?
yeah thats the one. I'll just let the MP3 speak for itself then.
Honestly it reminds me of that first Kashif album a bit, but more uptempo
If I were to guess what qualifies something as steppers, it would be slightly slower and even more pronounced 4 on the floor.
Don't get me wrong - I'm ALL for labels and categories. They help immensely. I did a gig recently and my crates were separated into electro, eurodisco, boogie, disco, hiphop, discopunk, 80s, etc.
I just want some better definitions posted up so when I say BOOGIE I'm not saying MODER.