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VA - Funky Nassau: The Compass Point Story 1980-1986 (2008)

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Date: 24 Feb 2019 19:04:04

VA - Funky Nassau: The Compass Point Story 1980-1986 (2008)

On a session-to-session basis, in slightly varying combinations, drummer Sly Dunbar, percussionist Uziah "Sticky" Thompson, bassist Robbie Shakespeare, keyboardist Wally Badarou, guitarists Barry Reynolds and Mikey Chung, and engineer Alex Sadkin made up the in-house team at Island founder Chris Blackwell's Compass Point, a studio located just outside Nassau in the Bahamas. As Blackwell recalls in David Katz's excellent liner notes to this set, titled Funky Nassau: The Compass Point Story 1980-1986, "I wanted a new, progressive sounding band. I wanted a Jamaican rhythm section with an edgy mid range and a brilliant synth player." That's what he got, and more, and it made – or, in the case of Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club, enhanced – some of the most advanced and adventurous music of the '80s, a great deal of which went down a storm in clubs across the planet. The "Compass Point All-Stars", as they were called, were as malleable as they were distinctive – check the range between Grace Jones' Warm Leatherette, Joe Cocker's Sheffield Steel, Black Uhuru's Chill Out, and Gwen Guthrie's Portrait, all of which sound clearly connected, plump, bright, and ringing. For the most part, the choices pulled together for this disc are representative, if somewhat arbitrary; just about any other Compass Point track from Jones, Guthrie, or Sly & Robbie would've been as functional. There are several golden truffles pulled up here that were previously known only to the most keen: Guy Cuevas' skywalking "Obsession" (off a France-only 12"), Cristina's wobbling "You Rented a Space" (produced and written by Robert Palmer, it is the oddest thing he did, "The Silver Gun" excepted, but it wasn't released until a reissue of Cristina's Sleep It Off), and a Sly & Robbie goof-off in the best possible way – a delirious cover of Yarbrough & Peoples' "Don't Stop the Music," issued under the name Bits & Pieces. The collective's output documented throughout these seven years doesn't loom as largely as that of the teams that made Motown or Stax, but when it comes to unduplicated behind-the-scenes innovation of the last 35 years, you can put them up there with the Mizell brothers, the Chic Organization, Martin Hannett, Jam & Lewis, the Bomb Squad, and Timbaland.

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Tracklist ::
1 Grace Jones - My Jamaican Guy (12" Version) 7:03
2 Tom Tom Club - Genius Of Love 5:35
3 Talking Heads - Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On) 5:47
4 Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Lady O K'pele 2:29
5 Set The Tone - Dance Sucker (Francois Kevorkian Mix) 6:15
6 Guy Cuevas - Obsession (Nassau Mix) 5:56
7 Gwen Guthrie - Padlock (Larry Levan Mix) 6:55
8 Bits & Pieces - Don't Stop The Music 7:00
9 Sly Dunbar - River Niger 6:29
10 Cristina - You Rented A Space 3:23
11 Ian Dury & The Seven Seas Players - Spasticus Autisticus (Version) 6:56
12 Chaz Jankel Feat. Laura Weymouth - Whisper 5:07
13 Will Powers - Adventures In Success (Dub Copy) 8:55

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