samplers

Our monthly updated samplers section is the place to listen to music by newly signed artists and composers, new album/soundtrack releases and seasonal collections.

January 2012

Featured tracks for January 2012

Wish You Were Here

If these samplers were trips abroad, then this is the Package Holiday. Like a holiday romance with the Waiter, sparklers in ice-cream, or dancing on tables after too many cocktails, sometimes its more fun not being cool when you are somewhere hot!

Summer Breeze

We tried to avoid the now cliched 'Cafe del Mar chill-out' style comp and instead cast the net a bit wider for tracks that evoke the feeling of lazing in a hammock, watching the waves lap against the shore whilst drifting into a sun-kissed daze.

Sounds Exotic

Latin, Cuban, Samba and Salsa... A wonderful compilation of tracks to add flavour and flare with groove, passion and rhythm. Songs to soundtrack a carnival and a fiesta, or to wake you from the slumber of a siesta..!

Cool Summer

Summer themed songs from our fantastic roster of singer/songwriters and bands.

Party People

Get a groove on and party with your friends.

Hard Travellin'

Folk and Country tales for the campfire and those drinking at the last chance saloon.

Sweet Sorrow

Sweet Sorrow - a collection of melancholy and poignant tracks, perfect for emotional scenes.

Beware The Moon

Beware The Moon - Spooky tracks for high-tension scenes.

featured music archive

hidden gem

Each month we climb down into the synclinks mine to dig out a hidden gem… the work is dangerous and the hours are long, but just listen to what we found this month…!

“Uptown” - Johnny Thunders & Patti Palladin

Uptown was the first writing credit for Betty Mabry in 1967 after the track was released by The Chamber Brothers. One year later, she met jazz legend Miles Davis in New York, influencing him with psychedelic rock, and introducing him to Jimi Hendrix -personally inspiring the classic album 'Bitches Brew’, and they were married by the end of summer 1968.

This version of the song was recorded by Johnny Thunders and Patti Palladin and was released on their Copy Cats album in 1988. The track has a fantastic funk groove with great vocal interplay between Johnny & Patti and instantly takes you to the streets of Harlem and its delights.

Betty’s own catalogue is essential investigation for any fans of Soul/Funk. She has a unique vocal delivery that is both aggressive and sexual, flamboyant and tender and her songs are raw and relevatory with real kick-ass funk and soul-fire.

Uptown
J. Thunders, P. Palladin
Betty Mabry

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