MFSB (short for "Mother Father Sister Brother") was a pool of more than thirty resident studio musicians based at Philadelphia’s famed Sigma Sound Studios. They worked closely with record producers Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff and Arranger Thom Bell, and backed up such groups as The Bluenotes, O’Jays, Stylistics, Spinners, Intruders, Three Degrees, Jerry Butler, Wilson Picket, and Billy Paul. Starting in 1974, MFSB started recording for the Philadelphia International label. "Love Is The Message", has been a favorite of dance/disco DJs since its release; countless remixes, both official and unofficial are available. Here is the full Larry Levan Disco Version.
The Mac Band was an R&B group from the late 80's\early 90's consisting of a group of four brothers: Ray, Derrick, Charles, and Kelvin McCampbell and musicians Ray Flippin (bass), Rodney Frazier (keyboards), Mark Harper (guitar), and Sly Fuller (drums). The McCampbell brothers hail from Flint, Michigan.In 1988, The Mac Band released their debut album "The Mac Band Featuring the McCampbell Brothers" which peaked at #109 on the Billboard 200 chart and #22 on Billboard's Top R&B\Hip-Hop Albums chart.The group's hit single, "Roses are Red" peaked at #1 on Billboard's Hot R&B\Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart.
I'm a bit of a fan of a decent megamix, this is a fav it isn't a 30 min job but a great mix to play.
Desiree Heslop (born 27 November 1961) is a British singer, who uses the stage name Princess. In the late 1970s she worked with the group, Osibisa. Her first solo album Princess (1986) was composed and produced by Stock Aitken Waterman. It spawned her best-selling single, "Say I'm Your Number One", which was a UK Top 10 hit in 1985, and sold over a million copies worldwide.The album also included three further Top 40 singles including my favorite found right here =)
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Kurtis Mantronik never imagined that his "King Of The Beats" hit would achieve not only the title of Hip Hop quintessential tune, but also the status of Amen Break sample-based's first standard. The Amen Breaks line, based on the legendary breakbeats took from The Winstons classic "Amen, Brother" (1969) stayed in the shadows until "Amen, Brother" was included on Ultimate Breaks And Beats Volume 1 (1986), a quintessential compilation sery made for all the Breaks lovers.A major piece of the history of Hip Hop, "The King Of The Beats" consolidated Mantronix as one of the essential names of the genre. The tune brought a magnificent collage of quintessential breakbeats samples from 'The Winstons – Amen, Brother' s beats on the start to "Same Old Thing" by The Meters (including the quote "Same old thing! One steel is good, yo!"), "Scratchin’" by The Magic Disco Machine and the beats of 'Bob James – Take Me To The Mardi Gras' (1975) on the second half of the tune.The result is a total devastation on the dancefloors that influenced an incredible amount of producers since then ("Take Me To The Mardi Gras" beats, for example, were used since then as a basic ouverture on many Hip Hop contests, and the Amen Breaks became known to a whole new generation of producers and listeners, some of which would use them on their Hip Hop, Breakbeats, Jungle & Drum n' Bass tunes). I just love this cover to, although not the tracks sleeve, this has got to be one of the best Breakbeat covers EVER =)
Probably one of the 5 most well known and influential proto-electro tracks of all time, Jerry Calliste and Aldo Marin cut this back in 1983 and the rest is history - featured on one of the early issues of the seminal Streetsounds Electro albums and cut up many times at the DMC finals in the 80's.
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