The Hilo Hi-Flyers - Witchcraft
Dancefloor, spiritual & modal jazz, exotica music, sleazy titty shakers, rhythm & blues boppers, tropical sounds, nasty rock-a-billy, wild surf, popcorn tunes, ska, northern soul, soundracks & tv themes, crazy mambos, excitting bossa nova, polyrhythmic afro beats, boogaloo, middle east music and strange, weird, forbidden & rare grooves from global area
Hi Records, the jewel in the Memphis Soul crown has a rich and glorious history that has spanned five decades and is still going strong today. Hi had it all, charismatic stars, innovative producers and prolific composers all held tightly together by the famous ‘Hi Rhythm’ section that drives this up-tempo classic Soul selection. In addition to providing the driving beat of the sixties – represented here by Willie Mitchell, Ace Cannon and Gene Miller – Hi also pioneered the smooth groove of the seventie. Download
In 2004, The Supertones—Tim Sullivan, Mike
Mandina, Simon Chardiet and Presley Acuna—have recorded their own unique
‘60s tribute CD entitled Cinema Surf. On it you’ll find definitive ‘60s
instro covers of favorites like “The Munsters Theme”, “Music To Watch
Girls By” and “Star Trek” played alongside chart-topping U.K. classics
like “Wonderful Land” and “Atlantis”.(R. StevieSilver) Download
A parody of both seaside teen flicks and cheezoid '50s horror movies,
Psycho Beach Party has a highly appropriate soundtrack album: a cool
retro-style background score from Ben Vaughn
and seven cuts (most previously released) from a handful of
contemporary nuevo-surf bands. Vaughn's soundtrack music sounds fine,
and cannily blends late-'50s/early-'60s rock archetypes with the
minor-key menace of horror soundtracks, but it also comes off like movie
music, which means it's supposed to lurk in the background rather than
stand out front. As a result, Vaughn's score is enjoyable without being
very compelling by itself. As for the rest of the album, it's no
surprise that Los Straitjackets and Man or Astro-Man?,
two of the best instrumental bands extant, would serve up the strongest
songs here (amusingly, MOAM?'s selection, "Mermaid Love, turns out to
be one of their rare performances with vocals), while the Halibuts, the Hillbilly Soul Surfers, and the Fathoms sound strong but not exceptional. Psycho Beach Party
is good fun for surf revivalist enthusiasts, but you're probably better
off buying an individual album by any of the artists involved than this
set, which only offers a taste of what they do well.All Music - Download
Here we present 24 tracks charting the early recording career of
“Little” Esther Phillips. Esther Phillips began recording at the age of
13, having been discovered by the legendary Johnny Otis. She enjoyed a
string of hits with Otis’ Orchestra in the late 50’s, all of which are
included here. She then went on to enjoy success as a solo artist, and
was also acclaimed as a leading exponent of her art. Her instantly
recognisable blues drenched vocals always belied her very young age. Her
career enjoyed a renaissance in the late 70’s with a string of jazz /
fusion / disco recordings including the massive international hit “What a
Difference A Day Makes”. Download