Love/Hate is from Bev­erly Hills Cop II sound­track, pro­duced by Andre Cymone. I’ve just recently “grown” to love 80s new jack swing and R&B and this track is prob­a­bly one of my favorites. Mech­a­nized R&B.

Peb­bles is also known as the for­mer man­ager of 90s R&B super­group TLC. Nowa­days she has aban­doned enter­tain­ment indus­try as she became a born again Chris­t­ian in 1997 and is now known as Sis­ter Perri. Gotta look for the 12″ even though in this case the sound is slightly more bland com­pared to the album version.

Peb­bles — Love/Hate (320k)

Frank Stal­lone — Take You Back (320k)

It’s the first one on the b-side, by Sylvester’s brother, and it’s from The Rocky III Orig­i­nal Motion Pic­ture Score LP. Frank’s the vocal­ist here while leg­endary Bill Conti scored, con­ducted and orches­trated almost the whole orig­i­nal score. This track is one of the excep­tions though, being pro­duced and arranged by Charles Calello.

Why does it feel like it’s sun­day already?

Right about now I’m drink­ing beer and blog­ging from Berlin. Vis­ited lots of record stores and ‘plat­ten­börsen’ and my bag is really heavy now I can tell you. Many good tracks to be blogged in the near future!

Track #7 from the Kyny­Nasty Vol. 1 is ‘Changes’ by Imag­i­na­tion which was British funk/soul/disco/pop band with lots of chart hits. When I first heard ‘Changes’ (I think it was the first) I thought they had female vocal lead. Not the first time for me to be wrong though. This song is from the album In The Heat Of The Night (excuse for the slightly poor qual­ity, go buy the 12″, it’s cheap). The visual aes­thetic is really enjoy­able too. Like seri­ously. Boogie?

Imag­i­na­tion — Changes (320)

Melba Moore: Got To Have Your Love (11,8MB 5:05 min)

One of the great­est r&b singers with some­how fish­net funk­ish r&b? Seri­ously groov­ing live bass play­ing pro­vided by Wayne Brath­waite. And the swing on the drum machine, ah, it really does it for me. I’m run­ning out of words now.