September 70 Sounds: January 2011

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Monday, January 31, 2011

Library Heavyweights

CHAPPELL Dance and Mood Music Vol 19

Pierre Dutour et son orchestre - No Man's Land (France)

Pierre Dutour et son orchestre - Earliness East (France)

The Big Beat Vol 2 [KPM 1067] (1970)

Alan Moorehouse - Angelic Gas (UK, 1970)

KPM 1043 : Beat Incidental (1969)

Keith Mansfield - Teenage Chase (UK, 1969)

It's difficult not to be in thrall with the KPM 1000 series. The same can be said for the Chappell DMM's.

Both labels have a very distinctive sound and equally distinctive artists - KPM had the mighty Keith Mansfield, Alan Hawkshaw, Alan Moorehouse, Brian Bennett, John Cameron & Alan Parker, the list of quality musicians is endless. Chappell boasted Jack Arel, Pierre Dutour, Jean Claude Petit, Paul Piot, Roger Roger & Rene Costy, and again, the quality shone through.

I've put four songs up here to compliment just how down and funky some of these tracks could be.

Enjoy.