VA - Tom Findlay: LateNightTales Presents Automatic Soul +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | Artist ..... : VA | | Album ...... : Tom Findlay: LateNightTales Presents Automatic Soul | | Year ....... : 2014 | | Label ...... : LateNightTales | | Cat.No ..... : ALND 38 | | | +-------------------------------[Release Info]-------------------------------+ | | | Genre ...... : Funk | | Tracks ..... : 20 | | Duration ... : 124:50 min | | Source ..... : WEB (wav) | | Street Date : Nov-03-2014 | | URL ........ : www.discogs.com/release/32438727 | | Webstore URL : www.latenighttales.co.uk/downloadcode | | | | Release Size : 286.1 MB | | Ripping Tool : n/a | | Encoder .... : Lame 3.100 | | Quality .... : 320kbps / 44.1kHz / Joint-Stereo | | Rip Date ... : Aug-27-2025 | | | +--------------------------------[Track List]--------------------------------+ | | | 01. Mtume - Juicy Fruit 05:52 | | 02. Sugardaddy feat. Ronika - Don't Look Any Further 03:50 | | (Exclusive Dennis Edwards Cover Version) | | 03. Meli'sa Morgan - Fool's Paradise 05:00 | | 04. Bits & Pieces - Don't Stop The Music 07:02 | | 05. Zapp - Heartbreaker (Part I, Part II) 07:22 | | 06. Timex Social Club - Rumors 04:48 | | 07. George Franklin Smallwood & Marshmellow Band - 05:19 | | You Know I Love You | | 08. Royalle Delite - (I'll Be A) Freak For You 05:09 | | 09. Rene & Angela - I'll Be Good 07:26 | | 10. Donna Allen - Serious (Extended Remix) 05:32 | | 11. Change - Change Of Heart 07:06 | | 12. The System - You Are In My System (Extended Vocal) 07:45 | | 13. The Gap Band - I Owe It To Myself 04:28 | | 14. Alexander O'Neal - What's Missing? 04:01 | | 15. Thelma Houston - You Used To Hold Me So Tight 05:42 | | 16. 52nd Street - You're My Last Chance (Reprieved Dub) 08:18 | | 17. Aurra - You And Me Tonight (Extended Version) 06:49 | | 18. Samson & Delilah - I Can Feel Your Love Slippin Away 06:30 | | 19. Wish feat. Fonda Rae - Touch Me (All Night Long) 09:34 | | 20. Sharon Brown - I Specialize In Love (Original 12" Mix) 07:17 | | ------ | | Total: 124:50 | | | +-------------------------------[Release Notes]------------------------------+ | | | ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ | | ██ ██ | | ██ Unmixed full length tracks. Came as a bonus digital download ██ | | ██ with the retail CD. ██ | | ██ ██ | | ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ | | | | 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 | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+