Various Artists - You Can Be A Star (Deep Disco & Soul 1972-1982)The definitive survey of Americas independent 70s soul scene, and a companion piece to Now Agains long running Soul Cal series. (Soul Cal) captures the retro utopian vision of a past where every smalltown record store or garage in the US might have hidden a virtuosic funk outfit; the thrill of knowing that jobbing musicians might be getting paid for the first time; plus the bittersweet knowledge that those that passed on are getting deserved

and flower children of the 60's with a big fat raspberry

Muzik City (named after Dodd's record store on East Queen's Street)

radical transformation

this is most definitely an album which is greater than the sum of its parts

this album should dispel any such feelings

"Rat’s Bag"

Bassist Giles Barrett and drummer Will Connor come from funky afro beat influenced band Tigercats

aka Les Rallizes Dénudés

Fuzzy Haskins’ solo works fits right in with many of the other great P-Funk side projects and was sampled by renowned artists and acts from the likes of Prince

but vague and open-ended

Anemic revs spiked by pig squeals (or is it a screeching train

He has also written a score for Shinichirō Watanabe’s forthcoming anime series