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Thursday 11 March 2021

Brian Power Feat. Hil St. Soul & Richard Burton [2021] - Just Us (DJ Spen Remix) [Quantize]


Brian Power's previous single prior to the great cover of Sounds Of Blackness' 'Optimistic' is this collaboration with Hil St. Soul and Richard Burton.  Whilst it was originally released last September, it's just had a DJ Spen Remix for 2021, available from 18 Mar 2021.

It's currently sitting at #4 on Traxsource Soul / Funk / Disco chart.


Details
Format: Single
Media: Digital
Label: Quantize
Cat No: None
Year: 2021
Key: 2B
BPM: 118
Value: £1


DTR Project [2021] - No Limits (Danny Krivit Edit) [Launch Entertainment]


DTR Project is an alias for DJ Rae (vocalist), Danism (Dan Liquid and Dan Gresham), Train (UK) who released this soulful house track back in 2019. It gets a fresh mix for 2021 by Danny Kravit.


Details
Format: Single
Media: Digital
Label: Launch Entertainment
Cat No: None
Year: 2021
Key: 8B
BPM: 124
Value: £1


Moon Rocket Feat. Kelli Sae [2021] - Take You Back (Original Mix) [Moon Rocket Music]


Hot on the heels of her last single 'Good Love', which is riding high at the top of the Traxsource Soul/Funk/Disco chart, is another from Kelli Sae, this time in collaboration with Moon Rocket. It's available from Traxsource now but will be on general release on 18 Mar 2021.


Details
Format: Single
Media: Digital
Label: Moon Rocket Music
Cat No: None
Year: 2021
Key: 1A
BPM: 124
Value: £1


The Vision Feat. Andreya Triana [2020/2021] - Mountains [Defected/Reel People]


This track was released last year (2 Mar 2020) but has just had a 'Joey Negro (Dave Lee) Live & Direct Extended Mix' released on a compilation 'Soulful Deep & Dope 2021' by Reel People Music on 9 Mar 2021.

It doesn't seem to be available to buy yet on Amazon but is available from Traxsource.

Here's both versions.


The Vision feat. Andreya Triana - Mountains (Joey Negro Live And Direct Extended Mix)


Details
Format: Single
Media: Digital
Label: Defected / Reel People
Cat No: None
Year: 2021
Key: 9A / 8B
BPM: 123 / 123
Value: £1


Leanbacker [2021] - Diamond Cut [Beats Since Birth]


The latest single from Leanbacker (aka house producer Ross Couch) released 11 Mar 2021 is 'Diamond Cut'.



Details
Format: Single
Media: Digital
Label: Beats Since Birth
Cat No: None
Year: 2021
Key: 3B
BPM: 95
Value: £1


Diane Mathis [2020] - Welcome Back Home [Blaque Bagg] / The Debonaires Discography


This single was released in Nov 2020 but has only just been posted on YT (4 Feb 2021).


Details
Format:Single
Media:Digital
Label:Blaque Bagg
Cat No:None
Year:2021
Key:4A
BPM:85
Value:£1

D'Y-Ann Marie Mathis aka Diane Hogan dated Stevie Wonder for 2 years whilst she was at college. She joined The Debonaires as lead singer (aged 15) after they recorded their first single, which to my calculation would make her 70/71 this year.

The Debonaires recorded four singles on Golden World followed by two on Solid Hit. She also released a solo single on Capitol in 1969 as Diane Hogans.

In the seventies, she was on the road with The Undisputed Truth and various other Detroit groups.

The Debonaires were a young girl group from Detroit who started out as a trio Elsie Baker, Dorothy Garland and Joyce Vincent. Diane Hogan joined after the first single.

Discogs states that the original members were Thelma Hopkins, Joyce Vincent, Diane Hogans and Elsie Baker, however an article on SoulfulDetroit says it was Dorothy Garland, Joyce Vincent, Diane Hogan and Elsie Baker i.e Dorothy Garland not Thelma Hopkins.

Thelma (Telma) Hopkins became an actress in the late 70s after she had been a member of Tony Orlando's Dawn.  There are several articles about her on the net and none of them menton her being in The Debonaires so I tend to defer to the Soulful Detroit account. 

Joyce Vincent was later known as Joyce Vincent Wilson and joined Tony Orlando's Dawn at the same time as Telma Hopkins around 1970/71. Prior to this Dawn were actually two sessions singers, but Orlando needed to form a group to tour after the success of a couple of singles. It is also claimed that she was chosen to replace Mary Wilson in The Supremes but the goup was disbanded by Motown as no original members remained with the group, but she did later perform with FLOS (Former Ladies Of The Supremes).

I can't find any info on Dorothy Garland as have to plough through dozens of pages referring ot Judy Garland's character in Wizard Of Oz! Neither can I find anything on Elsie Baker.

The Debonaires - Discography

A: Doo-Wop / early 60s
B: Doo-Wop / early 60s

A: Northern Soul
B: Doo-Wop / early 60s

A: Northern Soul
B: Poppy early 60s girl group sound

A: Northern Soul
B: Northern Soul

1966 - Headache In My Heart / Loving You Takes All My Time [SH-102]
A: Northern Soul
B: ?

A: Northern Soul
A: Northern Soul

Diane Hogans

1969 How Does It Feel / Love Is All Around [Capitol #2478]
A: ?
B: Sweet Soul Ballad


Stacii Adams Feat. Mr. Smoke [2021] - Who's Gonna Love You [Self Released] (Full Album)


A new single from Stacii Adams (The Boss Of The Blues) is a deep neo southern soul ballad.  It was released on 25 Feb 2021 but curioulsy it doesn't feature on his new (debut?) album 'The Baggage Claim' released  1 Mar 2021.


Listen to Full Album here.



2018 - Step Just Because

Single released in 2018 and also featured on the new album 'The Baggage Claim'.


Details
Format: Single
Media: Digital
Label: Self Released
Cat No: None
Year: 2021
Key: 8B / 8A
BPM: 55 / 95
Value: £1


Surya [2021] - Rainy Daze [Self Released]


From a new album 'Collage' released 10 Mar 2021. This track samples Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes  Feat. Sharon Paige 'You Know Make Me Feel So Good' from their 1975 'Wake Up Everybody' album.

The album is predomnantly R&B/hip-hop, however, another decent track is 'Hold Up' which samples Destiny's Child - 'Girl'.  Other tracks sample Kanye West ('Beat 5' and 'Beat 6'), Lauryn Hill 'To Zion', N.E.R.D 'Tape You' (outro loop) and F.O. (Frank Ocean) 'We All Try'.

The album is probably of not much interest to soul people, but you can listen to it here.


Details
Format: Album
Media: Digital
Label: Self Released
Cat No: None
Year: 2021
Key: 10A
BPM: 91
Value: £1


Kim Tavar [2021] - My Story [Self Released] (Full Album)


I've already posted Kim Tavar's debut album on 27 Feb 2021, but at that time it was only available on BandCamp. It is now available on Amazon from 8 Mar 2021 and has been posted on YouTube.



Details
Format: Album
Media: Digital
Label: Self Released
Cat No: None
Year: 27/02/2021
Value: £9.99


Joanna Law [2021] - Rhythm of Years [Tangential Music] (Full Album)


A new album from Joanna Law released 8 Mar 2021. She is the sister of Simon Law ('The Funky Ginger') who was a member of Soul II Soul who has been releasing music since 1988 and had a minor chart hit in 1990 with a cover of Roberta Flacks' First Time Ever' which reached #67 on UK pop chart.

It's a difficult album to categorise as it contains ambient, jazz, jazz funk, carribean and breakbeats similar to what Soul II Soul were doing back in the day. 

I believe that many (if not most) of the tracks were originally recorded (or have been re-recorded) in her earlier days e.g. 'First Time Ever' (1990) and 'Song For Theo' (2001), 'Celebrate Love' (1992), 'Love Is Not Enough' (1990), 'You're Mine' (1992),  'Warm Love' (1992), 'Skin On Skin' (1994).

The album has 21 tracks, but many are remixes (i.e 3 mixes each of 'Love Is Not Enough', 'Warm Love', 'First Time Ever' and 2 of 'Song for Theo'), So essentially there are only 14 tracks with 7 remixes, but album price is still only £7.49.

'Immediate' tracks are 'Skin On Skin', 'First Time Ever', 'Song For Theo', but I've gone for the 'obvious' track to feature, 'First Time Ever (Extended Mix)'.

Listen to Full Album here.


Details
Format: Album
Media: Digital
Label: Tangential Music
Cat No: None
Year: 2021
Key: 10A
BPM: 103
Value: £7.49