DJ Crook, DJ Hailey, and I are doing a tuesday night weekly party here in Sacramento at the Press Club (21st & P streets). come party with us to quality 80s underground classics. facebook page fo...
hey guys, thank you for reading and digging classic quality tunes with me on laser funk. This site will be on hiatus for an indefinite amount of time. I’ve been asked to contribute to Beat Elec...
This one should be an obvious pull for any disco funk fan, Patrick Adams production on Prelude. It’s a shame there isn’t an instrumental or dub version out there, if anyone is holding ple...
Captain Sky is the alter ego of Chicago bassist Darryl Cameron. His records have a definite P-funk influence which is immediately apparent in his superhero/scifi comic book cover art. Some of his tun...
Here is a great disco track from Lee Moore, who had some production chops and excellent taste but unfortunately only released a few tracks. Reachin’ Out has clean arrangement with minimal guita...
This tune by the Graingers has the most infectious bass line and is one of my favorite boogie funk jams. The Grainger brothers also worked with Pockets before recording on their own. As far as I know...
Here’s a nice lower tempo jam released Smokin’ records, a subsidiary of classic New York hip hop and electro label Tuff City. This tune has a beautiful smooth vocal delivery asking a gir...
Heat records was a Montage subsidiary electro/soul label active in the ’80s. Both labels released a slew of killer boogie and electro funk before closing after about ten years of activity. Mo...
Yvonne Gage is an excellent soul vocalist from Chicago. Her only LP on Chycago International is pretty ahead of its time in 1983 with a garage and house sound featuring minimal drum machine patterns...
Here’s a tight boogie track from Alfonzo Jones released out of Los Angeles in 1982. Alfonzo has a very similar delivery to another guy who made records in L.A. in the 80s. I think it is impre...
My friend Paul turned me on to this sick L.A. electro funk track when he played it at a summer backyard BBQ jam I was hosting. Eventually I found myself a super skated copy on the Saturn label. Just ...
Ebonee Webb are a group out of Memphis who cut two LPs for Capitol in the early 80s. Both records have solid jams and are worth picking up. I recently found their second LP Too Hot at a flea market...
Here’s a somewhat obscure Fantasy 12″ by Nijel aka LeMel Humes. As far as I know this was his first ever release and his only release under the Nijel moniker. This tune has all the right...
Mighty Fire was a short lived funk band from L.A. who released two albums for Elektra in the early 80s. Their first LP No Time For Masquerading is a little on the soft RnB and funk tip but is defini...
Hamilton Bohannon was a prolific bandleader and producer during the disco era. Bohannon started his career in music when he caught Stevie Wonder’s attention with his drumming abilities and was ...
I have been living without a pair of turntables at home since the fall, surrendering to the convenience of storing them at Sophia’s for my weekly thursday night gig. After our party with LeBaro...
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