I just found this gem in a Easy Cash shop near my place for 50 cents. I didn't have a clue how was this record when I digged it. I just found the title pretty cool: The Voodou Juju Drug. Back home I googled the name and realised that this 7" had already been posted on a very good blog (http://dj-alfonso.blogspot.com/) and was worth around 50 euros !!!! The first side, called The Voodou Juju Drug is a freaky breakbeat number with a nice sitar sound. Side 2, Killersteen's Voodou Juju is nice slice of pop afrobeat. According to DJ Alfonso, this record can be credited to library music composer Janko Nilovic.
Once an average teen 60's French pop singer, Sheila enjoyed a huge success in France until the end of the 70's, churning out middle of the road and unbearable shitty records, completely in the hands of her producer and her record label. Her only good career choice was to capitalize on the disco craze to try a come back and to choose recording with the kings of disco Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards, then at the best of their inspiration. It's even a surprise to consider that those two geniuses accepted to work with Sheila. The story goes that they were looking for a European singer to break the European market. Sheila's label, Carrere, heard the story and proposed to the duo to produce an album for the fledging artist. Nile Rodgers and Benard Edwards accepted to the condition to have a complete freedom and the final say on the record. They locked Sheila in a studio and made her work The Chic Organization way. Sheila notoriously didn't like the result of the recording sessions but changed her mind when Spacer stormed the charts and still is her biggest hit to date. If The Chic Organization fans can go for the complete album, King Of The World, the two best cuts, Spacerand Don't Go, are on the 7'. Sheila's career never really recovered from this huge success and she felt back into mediocrity and low sales. Despite several liftings and several tries, she never really came back one more time.
Ex-indie kid and trip hop French producer Kid Loco digged deep in his 70's library music records collection to gather this brilliant volume of the Funk Experience serie. This is an excellent opportunity to discover funky pieces composed for specialized labels like Tele Music, Sonorama or Pema by unknown studio or session musicians called Bernard Estardy, Guy Pedersen or André Ceccarelli. Two tracks on the records cannot to my sense be linked to library music: Course De Ten, by Alain Goraguer, an extract from La Planète Sauvage OST and Africadelic by Manu Dibango. For the rest, you'll find what you can expect: groovy shit clearly inspired by blaxploitation soundtracks with plenty breaks to sample. Don't miss especially Basse Duettino by Raymond Guiot.
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