man, this album is hot! and it should be with the help of artists such as d'angelo, ?uestlove, femi kuti and positive force, macy gray, nile rodgers, sade, kelis, dead prez, meshell ndegeocello, talib kweli, common, bilal, roy hargrove and many more. go check it out:

http://retail.mcarecords....layer.html

i still play my red hot & blue disc almost every week...


Neneh Cherry's Under My Skin is the song

kdlangs sooo blah and bored, "In Love With You" is wonderful and sad...

How about a mention for Fela Kuti? It is a tribute album in his honour after all.

Drops this coming week...

Essence said:

I'm looking forward to that as well.Fela Kuti was a Badd Cat.Peace

I don't know. I'm only feeling "So Be It" by Kelis. The rest of the record didn't meet up to my lofty expectations. I was hoping for more since it has such a stellar constellation of stars (e.g. Res, Macy Gray, Ndegeocello, etc.) Those are all my favorite artists, but I wasn't feeling the beats or the music on the record. Maybe I need to take another listen?

JANFAN4L said:

Maybe you just don't dig afro-beat or Fela, this isn't a collection of D'Angelo, Macy Gray etc written songs.

JANFAN4L said:

yes you do.

FELA'S TRIBUTE ALBUM TRULY IS...

RED HOT

As Essence points out the sound is afrobeat and not nu-soul/r&b so it may take time for some folks to get accustomed to it.

As well as the above-mentioned artists, the compilation also includes an appearance by Nikki Costa 'Water No Get Enemy' (backing vocals) AND Tony Allen - one of my all-time favourite drummers and percussionists!

It's HIGHLY recommended!!!
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I JUST HAVE TO REITERATE...

This album remains the funkiest record I've heard all year!

'Water No Get Enemy' and 'Shuffering + Shmilling' are killer grooves. Brilliant!!!

JANFAN4L said:

in short, yes

all great records take a while to catch on...