VA - Tom Findlay: LateNightTales Presents Automatic Soul +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | Artist ..... : VA | | Album ...... : Tom Findlay: LateNightTales Presents Automatic Soul | | Year ....... : 2014 | | Label ...... : LateNightTales | | Cat.No ..... : ALNCD 38 | | | +-------------------------------[Release Info]-------------------------------+ | | | Genre ...... : Funk | | Tracks ..... : 01 | | Duration ... : 78:32 min | | Source ..... : CDDA | | Street Date : Nov-03-2014 | | URL ........ : www.discogs.com/release/6282294 | | | | Release Size : 151.0 MB | | Ripping Tool : EAC | | Encoder .... : Lame 3.100 -V0 | | Quality .... : VBRkbps / 44,1kHz / Joint-Stereo | | Rip Date ... : Aug-27-2025 | | | +--------------------------------[Track List]--------------------------------+ | | | 01. Tom Findlay - Automatic Soul 78:32 | | ----- | | Total: 78:32 | | | +-------------------------------[Release Notes]------------------------------+ | | | It is 1983 and you've just stepped into your Ford Capri with your | | girlfriend Julie. You live in Harlow, but in your head you're really | | somewhere near Salou in Spain, next to your yacht. But the thing you | | really love is soul and they play nothing but at Sups in Loughton. OK, | | so It's not 1983 at all. It's 2014, but listening to this electrofied | | soul, will put you back in the zone. Tom Findlay, one half of Grammy- | | nominated Groove Armada, has put this collection together: a stamp of | | authenticity in itself. Tom has also put a few of these through the | | edit wringer, reworking many of the tunes for maximum towelling | | sockability. You'll probably recognise a few tunes. There's Mtume's | | incredible "Juicy Fruit", still sounding advanced and modern, while "I | | Specialize In Love", mixed by disco legend Tee Scott is even older yet | | sounds equally perky. The 1980's was a period that was pretty much | | owned by Minneapolis thanks to Prince and former cohorts Jam & Lewis | | and the latter weigh in with a pair of killer productions, Thelma | | Houston's "You Used To Hold Me So Tight" and Alexander ONeal's "What's | | Missing". And since this is Late Night Tales, there is always our | | exclusive cover version, this time done by Findlay and Tim Hutton's | | Sugardaddy who've delivered an ace version of "Don't Look Any Further" | | Grab yourself a bar stool, order a cocktail, take a sip and make | | believe you're lying on a shagpile carpet with the soul star of your | | dreams. | | | | Automatic Soul, like my previously compiled Late Night Tales Music For | | Pleasure, is based very much on a sound. It's a sound that I feel has | | been overlooked: 80s R&B-infused music, with drum machines, synths and | | invariably brilliant vocals. It's formed the bedrock of my rare groove | | sets for all the years I've played. ItÆs not the most fashionable, but | | to me it's the perfect marriage of technology and soul,hence the title | | for this album, Automatic Soul. There are plenty of songs I could have | | included, and no doubt some that I shouldn't, but I've tried to | | represent what's best to me from this era. It's not a classic "Late | | Night Tales". It's a pretty personal journey, which I hope some of you | | might be willing to share... | | | | Tom Findlay, Groove Armada - September 2014 | | | | | | TRACKLIST: | | | | 01 - Mtume - Juicy Fruit | | 02 - Sugardaddy feat. Ronika - Don't Look Any Further | | (Exclusive Dennis Edwards Cover Version) | | 03 - Meli'sa Morgan - Fool's Paradise | | 04 - Bits & Pieces - Don't Stop The Music | | 05 - Zapp - Heartbreaker (Part I, Part II) | | 06 - Timex Social Club - Rumors | | 07 - George Franklin Smallwood & Marshmellow Band - You Know I Love You | | 08 - Royalle Delite - (I'll Be A) Freak For You | | 09 - Rene & Angela - I'll Be Good | | 10 - Donna Allen - Serious (Extended Remix) | | 11 - Change - Change Of Heart | | 12 - The System - You Are In My System (Extended Vocal) | | 13 - The Gap Band - I Owe It To Myself | | 14 - Alexander O'Neal - What's Missing? | | 15 - Thelma Houston - You Used To Hold Me So Tight | | 16 - 52nd Street - You're My Last Chance (Reprieved Dub) | | 17 - Aurra - You And Me Tonight (Extended Version) | | 18 - Samson & Delilah - I Can Feel Your Love Slippin Away | | 19 - Wish feat. Fonda Rae - Touch Me (All Night Long) | | 20 - Sharon Brown - I Specialize In Love (Original 12" Mix) | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+