I had heard tunes like “Heart’s Desire”, “Holding you, Loving You” and “You Ain’t Hip” before and liked them very much but I never paid real attention to the artist behind it. Until I bought this absolute masterpiece. All tunes mentioned before are on it. It’s one of those records that blow you away from start to finish and which make you wonder why you didn’t notice it sooner. Funkadelic / Parliament and Lenny White / Twennynine are never far away (he did session work for both of them) but this LP can easily stand next to the best work of those. The record that’s best reference is Bernard Wright’s “‘Nard”. For which Don Blackman wrote and sang “Haboglabotribin’”, a tune most of us will recognise through the sample Snoop used. For the sample spotters, Skee-lo used Bernard Wright’s “Spinnin’” for his “I Wish” hit. Both LP’s are loaded with samples. Another common thing is that both LP’s are produced by Dave Grusin.

For all who loves Rare Groove, early eighties bass heavy Funk or afternoon sessions at Southport this is essential. And it’s a great staring point for trips to the work of Tom Browne, Twennynine, George Duke and others. I love it when 1 piece of vinyl opens the door to an entire world of great music.