Black Devil - "H" Friend from Disco Club (1978, RCA)

Kebnekajse - Stupet from Vi Drar Vidare (1978, Mercury).

Charles B - Lack of Love from In the Key of E (1988, Desire Records).

Dear visitor from the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area:

I am fascinated by the fact that you Googled my name along with that of Cornelius Reid. Who are you? What do you want? We should talk! We should sing together!

WE SHOULD GET MARRIED.

The Alan Parsons Project - Mammagamma [Inst.] from Eye In the Sky (1982, Arista)

Peter Brown - Baby Gets High from Back to the Front (1983, RCA).

I discovered this track via the House of Enigma, whose Father Aaron Brown posted a video of himself practicing vogue to this track, which he called an Old Way favorite. A little investigation revealed that not only was Peter Brown the first artist to have a million selling 12", but he also co-wrote a major early hit of Madonna's, "Material Girl."

Anyhow, this is some smooth funk with unobtrusive bass, high-riding strings, and something that I always hear people professing to hate—the cowbell. Y'all need to shut the hell up as soon as possible.

Lula Côrtes & Zé Ramalho - Regato da Montanha from Paêbirú (1975 / 2005, Shadoks Music).

Björn J:son Lindh - Your Own House from Sissel (Metronome, 1973).

Nomi - You'll Never Know from The Enlightened Family: A Collection of Lost Songs (Voodoo Eros, 2005).

Has no one even mentioned the fact that this Nomi chick is obviously a transsexual but that it obviously doesn't matter because she has a hell of a voice, a killer body, and some amazing hip hop production in the back, making this song (which appears, strangely, on the Voodoo Eros comp that I've talked about so much, The Enlightened Family: A Collection of Lost Songs) one of the most original-sounding R&B cuts I've heard in a long time. From her MySpace profile: "Sounds Like: | Wu Tang Clan's The RZA on beats with Sade on vocals."


Her debut album, Lost in Lust, drops this Fall. I have never been so excited about a tranny.