TURNTABLE LAB

the lab review

This is one of those mix cds that comes through here a couple times a month that hits an exact nerve ending, dead on. The scope is narrow, but the execution is so brilliant that the mix just rolls through the speakers with easy confidence. This one is "slow, funky soul burners," the kind of stuff that Matthew Africa (note: his real name) and B. Cause say is "70s era soul that's a little too soulful for the funk crowd, a little too funky for the soul crowd and too slow for the dancefloor." In other words the kind of great shit that never shows up on mixes because there's no sample, no miniscule Texas 7" history, no disco. Hats off for the Muscle Shoals Horns, Darondo, Hodges James Smith & Crawford, Lee Fields ("Honey Dove" hells yes), Clarence Coulter, The Apaches, Muchos Plus and everybody else on here.

reviewed by the mgmnt 05/11/2006