Funk-Soul Brothers
Gil Scott-Heron And Brian Jackson - Messages [LP SBPJ 26 UK 2006 24-Bit FLAC] As a young man, Gil Scott-Heron's The Bottle was an anthem at the more discerning clubs that I frequented between 1985 & 1987. These were the days were the DJ wasn't the hero, it was thankfully the musician. Back then, you wouldn't be surprised to hear Trouble Funk, Tackhead, A Certain Ratio, Mantronix, Cabaret Voltaire, Death Cult, Sisters Of Mercy, War, The Beginning Of The End, Funkadelic & James Brown mixed around some early house, go-go and hip-hop all in the same set. Back then, a banger was the beat-up motor vehicle you cruised the provincial towns in search of a house party - mixtape in back pocket (always). I recall forking out a lot of my hard earned cash for an original seven-inch of The Bottle (a 1975 French pressing from memory) and it remained a centre piece of my party mixes until I sold it on to another collector at the end of the eighties. Since then I have built a ...