Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Think again. Lee Fields, known as "Little J.B." to his friends "throughout the global funk community," has made a valiant effort to resurrect what he considers the fallen genre of "rough, nasty and genuine" '70s funk in this album. What the album lacks in musical talent (the band and the background singer have a few problems with consistency and staying together, and Fields himself isn't exactly James Brown), it definitely makes up for in character. Funk was played to bring smiles to people's faces and motion to their feet, and Let's Get A Groove On certainly does...
...303s as they try to create the definitive house anthem. Or maybe not. Fortunately, these dubious comparisons don't detract from the exquisite deep house sound of this album. Dubtribe Sound System are Sunshine and Moonbeam, a duo more usually seen playing live than recording, and judging from this effort, they must send dance floors mad. Flavored with touches of salsa and samba, the songs flow seamlessly into each other, from the infectious hooks of the opening "Hasta Luego Mi Hermano" to the delicate vocals of Moonbeam floating over the Latin beat of "El Regalo De Amor." True, Sunshine...
Think again, Lee Fields, known as "Little J.B." to his friends "throughout the global funk community," has made a valiant effort to resurrect what he considers the fallen genre of "rough, nasty and genuine" '70s funk in this album. What the album lacks in musical talent (the band and the background singer have a few problems with consistency and staying together, and Fields himself isn't exactly James Brown), it definitely makes up for in character. Funk was played to bring smiles to people's faces and motion to their feet, and Let's Get A Groove On certainly does...
...this campus came as a welcome and all-too-belated surprise to me; it's about time Harvard dancers received the venues, publicity and support they so obviously deserve. Mainyard, Adler and all their fine dancers have awoken many dance-illiterate to the beauty of the art, an effort that won't soon be forgotten. Crimson A. Haskover
...this campus came as a welcome and all-too-belated surprise to me; it's about time Harvard dancers received the venues, publicity and support they so obviously deserve. Minyard, Adler and all their fine dancers have awoken many dance-illiterati to the beauty of the art, an effort that won't soon be forgotten...