Artiste: The Lions
Album: Choices Volume 1
Spotlight Track: “Think” (About It) featuring Noelle from Rebirth
Label: Ubiquity
Production Credits:
Produced by the Lions, Arranged by Todd Simon
Recorded at Lion’s Den studios, Topanga, CA by Dan Ubick and Todd Simon.
Mixed by Steve Kaye, Dan Ubick and Todd Simon.
Ubiquity records have been holding fort over the last decade in pushing new grooves and expanding genres across the board since 1990. The label is owned by both Michael Mcfadin and Jody who both started their dream in San Francisco as an outlet to their strong passion for music. Over the last decade, Ubiquity has forged a very strong catalog of releases in the genres of Soul, Funk, Jazz, Disco, Electonica and Nu Jazz. A cult like customer base has been developed through this last decade providing customers with a choice of quality recordings and hard to find gems over hugely publicised and advertised musical productions.
Most notable of their sub labels apart from the Ubiquity label, is the “Cubop” Imprint which focuses solely on Latin, South American, Brazilian sounds. Artistes featured here range from the infamous Pucho and the Latin Soul Brothers, Soul Bossa Trio, Snowboy, Bobby Matos and many others. For lovers of rare gems from the past, do check our their other sub label “Luv N’Haight” which features Disco, Deep Jazz and Funk classics rehashed and brought to life!!! Thanks to Mcfadin and his crew, we the people get to enjoy much of the sought after recordings of Arthur Verocai’s self-titled album (a true Brazilian Lo-Fi experimental blending of funk and superb soundtrack style music!!) Also for lovers of Rare Groove and Funk, you can now legally get your hands on Harry Whittaker’s “Black Renaissance” which many honchos regard as the holy grail of rare groove music.
Now, coming back to the spotlight track this week titled “Think”, originally composed by James Brown in the early 70’s. JB originally released this back on his own record label called PEOPLE which is still available under the Polydor label (Another must have for fans of this Dark Lord of da Funk). The reason why I chose this version is due to the way it was rehashed into a Ragga, Ska’ish feel instead of the usual funky playing styles. It of course still retains the funky elements from the original version, but with a little more spice and oomph! Raise Your Hands in da air posse………………………; )
My ratings for this EP are: “Must have”, “Die Die must buy”, “Bo Lui, Rob A Bank” , ” Bestest of the Restest” and finally “10 stars and 100 Moons.”
Tangkap This!!!
-Marcel
