Description
PRESSED ON PURPLE VINYL
The 1970 debut album from Kool and the Gang scored a couple of hits with 'The Gangs Back Again' and the title cut, but more importantly, it heralded the arrival of what was to become a juggernaut on the R&B scene. This all-instrumental record is years away from the commercial successes of 'Jungle Boogie' and 'Celebration,' and a few light years away stylistically, too. But that unique mixture of jazz, funk, and R&B punctuated by those tremendous horn arrangements (and some great drum breaks) that characterizes Kool and the Gang at its best is here in full force. That's why original copies of this record go for a 'kool' sum. It's a funk classic you need to check out if you haven't heard it. Many of the tracks drum breaks and horns were sampled throughout 80's and 90's hip-hop and producers still revisit some of these classic breaks today.
Tracklist:
A1. Kool & the Gang
A2. Breeze & Soul
A3. Chocolate Buttermilk
A4. Sea of Tranquility
B1. Give It Up
B2. Since I Lost My Baby
B3. Kools Back Again
B4. The Gangs Back Again
B5. Raw Hamburger
