Too Slow to Disco, Vol. 2 Various Artists

• 1 Alone Too Long 03:20
• 2 Hey Hey Baby 03:30
• 3 Be That Way 02:37
• 4 Come with Me 03:24
• 5 Stronger Love 03:47
• 6 Leave Me Alone Tonight 04:09
• 7 Keep on Holding Me 03:41
• 8 Who’ll Be the Fool Tonight
 04:12
• 9 Never Gonna Stop Lovin' You 03:32
• 10 Medicine Woman 03:29
• 11 Step on You 03:08
• 12 If You Want It 04:31
• 13 Never Turnin’ Back 03:15
• 14 Shades of Winter 04:50
• 15 Fat City 03:06
• 16 Capsule (Hello People a Hundred Years From Now) 05:17
• Total Runtime 59:48

Info zu Too Slow to Disco, Vol. 2

It took How Do You Are and DJ Supermarket one year to finally come back with volume 2 of 'Too Slow To Disco'. This time they've dug even deeper into the sun-drenched, relaxed, funky, smooth and megalomaniac west coast sound of the late 70s / early 80s: from singer / songwriter-funk, yacht-pop, blue-eyed soul to AOR-disco. Tracks somewhere between delusion of grandeur and a mountain of soul. Again there are Hall of Fame honoured megabands like Hall & Oates or Michael Nesmith (from The Monkees) placed next to a completely lost troubled genius like Jimmy Gray Hall, who only released three promo 7's in his short life, that we just rediscovered. The relevance of this sound for todays music is easy to hear: in the latest albums by Father John Misty, BC Camplight, Andrew Combs, Liam Hayes, Silk Rhodes, the complete soundtrack of Guardians Of The Galaxy and even in the cocky sound of Austrian youngstersʼ Bilderbuch.

A compilation dedicated to funk and pre – zouk period, which has never been documented before. It is compilated by specialists of the genre: Julien Achard (Digger's Digest) and Nicolas SKLIRIS (ex-Superfly Records).

After the success of Kouté Jazz, Heavenly Sweetness comes back with a dancefloor but not jazz compilation, enough to move your feet at through the whole summer ! 13 disco, boogie and Zouk tracks recorded in the 80’s in the West Indies.

The advantage of this selection is precisely that it reveals a broader spectrum than the zouk music style that are badly defined. Most of the tracks, were not much broadcasted even if interpreted by some big names in Caribbean music (Pierre-Edouard Decimus / Patrick St. Eloi / Eddy La Viny). They were too fast classified as Zouk. These Tracks reveal this will of singularity, this merger between traditional and other rhythms genres (funk, disco, afro-beat, Latin Brazilian ...), with the addition of new instruments such as synthesizers and drums machine in the creative process.

In many zouk’s albums, this period often included one or even several, tracks that were qualified as "proto-zouk" and "funky-zouk" or the "boogie-zouk" to emphasize the fusion of genres . But these tracks have remained unknown to the general public because only the "hits" were played on the radio, dance floors (the famous "tan" or “zouk”), clubs and bus.

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