i wonder if anyone here know's who this track is by?

i asked the person who uploaded it, but they turned out to be some weird cunt who said it was some sort of secret and they couldn't tell me for some fucking unknown reason. what a sad wanker they are.

if anyone knows, feel free to tell me. there's also another track which sounds like its from the same group or artist.

[Edited 10/29/11 8:58am]

bump, anybody know

With that 82-85 dance based synth sound , it sounds like any hired gun studio musicians put together to make an album. With nobody singing behind the tracks, who can tell who they are, I'd say Kool & The Gang but really don't know.

Sorry, not a clue - but your thread did remind me to do something I've been meaning to do for ages: search for services that can identify music (purely out of curiosity really).

And I found this: 5 Free Ways to Identify t... Your Head


I tried playing those 2 samples on Midomi but for some reason it's recording the samples at too low a volume for it to identify (despite the fact that I recorded directly from my sound card at top volume). You might have better luck with it, or you could try one of the other suggestions on the above link.

I also tried Audiotag and it suggests the following for the first sample:

But for the second sample it just says Sorry, our database doesn't have anything matching your file. Cannot identify.

I did a search for "music identification online" and I haven't yet checked out all of the results. I'm ignoring any that require software to be downloaded and any that are based on waiting for other people to listen to and recognise it, but I'm sure there's at least a few more similar services that upload and analyse on the fly. If I find anything else worth trying I'll post.

[Edited 10/30/11 10:48am]

I Just listened to the samples of Freeez -I.o.u on Amazon and it could well be the same song, it's certainly very similar, but I can't tell for definite. Your ears are probably younger and less deaf than mine, so maybe you'll be able to tell definitively.

[Edited 10/30/11 11:29am]

Sounds tight and also "Instrumental #1." Maybe you could identify it with Shazam.

I don't have it installed yet but here's the site: Shazam

Shazam is a commercial mobile phone based music identification service, with its headquarters in London, England.

Shazam

Possibility that these are new funk tunes and not actually from the 80's at all. Shazaam couldnt find anything.