Declassified Grooves

Black Heat | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 15, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Label M.
• ASIN: B00005BGU2
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #118,081 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. The Jungle

2. Chicken Heads

3. Street Of Tears

4. Barbara's Mood

5. Chip's Funk

6. Wanaoh

7. You'll Never Know

8. Honey Love

9. Send My Lover Back

10. Time Is Gonna Catch You

Disc: 2

1. No Time To Burn

2. You Should've Listened

3. Check It All Out

4. Love The Life You Live

5. Super Cool

6. M&M's

7. Things Change

8. Rapid Fire

9. Times Have Changed

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH !, June 6, 2001

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Eddie Landsberg "My 10th year as a reviewer !... (Tokyo, Japan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Declassified Grooves (Audio CD)

Man, I've been waiting a century for this to come back in print ! ! ! We're talking sizzling '70s funk here right along the lines of Mandril, War, early Funkadelic, Ripple and Rasputin Stash... cuts with the rare energy of soul classics like Edwin Starr's WAR and James Brown's Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved - - now you know stuff like that is hard to beat ! An Atlantic label funk group from the early '70s, The sound is fat, lot's of bottom, sizzling Hammond, crackling congas, angry horns, driving Hammond... Pure energy... tight production, I've had beat up copies of three of their albums for almost 15 years, and trust me... they've never warn out... (Apparently rappers haven't gotten tired of 'em either... though I'm surprized probably their most heavily sampled tune "Zimba Ku" didn't make it !) - - If you haven't heard Black Heat... something is missing in your life... definitely, grab this while its still available and play it LOUD ! ! !

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Solid deep funk album, October 13, 2003

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souldrummer (Washington, DC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Declassified Grooves (Audio CD)

Hadn't heard about Black Heat but decided to pick up a bargain copy of this album. I was pleasantly surprised. Solid musicianship that sounds like an extension of War and Mandrill in being very percussion driven. I dig the organ in the mix. Vocally, they seem to have a passable band vocalist rather than a knock an audience dead front man, and that may be one reason they didn't get the sales that would have led to longevity.

If you're wise enough to cover "Love the Life I Live", one of my favorite Kool and the Gang tunes, and can do it with the Funk, you can get a positive review out of me. I dug "Jungle" as well. Get your War compilations, and your Kool and the Gang stuff funk for jazzy instrumental based funk. Nevertheless, this is a solid set of deep funk worthy of investigation for those building a comprehensive funk collection with some choices outside of the beaten path.

5.0 out of 5 stars An ingenius and innovative cd, January 31, 2007

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Robert P. Bennett "Future Self" (Renton Wa USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Declassified Grooves (Audio CD)

I certainly do not have a tremendously extensive background in music, however I think this c.d. should be rated with 6 stars. The cd is well mixed, and by that I mean, the balance between the songs which are instrumental and those who have vocalists are well balanced. Which is something most bands never grasped the importance of. If you have ever listened to a cd with 20 songs by the same artist or the same group of 4 or 5 people you can understand that. I would put this cd in a class of jazz fusion, and the only other group which mixes instrumentals with vocalists and is as well, ingenius and innovative is the band Galactic. My friends who have listened to this cd have given me the same reaction, which is basically "wow, this is great. Most generally I prefer club compilations simply because they have a better balance of artists and instrumentation than other venues. I also believe club music will set trends for all other music venues: jazz, funk, pop etc.