Dynasty - Adventures In The Land Of Music (276 kbps)
Camp Lo - Luchini AKA This Is It (224 kbps)
Angie Stone - Lover's Ghetto (244 kbps)
This week's crossword centers around one of our favorites– 80s disco-funk group Dynasty and their best album, Adventures In The Land Of Music from 1980. We love Dynasty because they glide so easily between silky ballads and uptempo dance numbers; plus we can never turn down male/female vocal synergy. The title track is of the slower variety, but punctuated with stabs of brass, the perfect foundation for some hip-hop/r&b cuts. 90s Bronx rappers Camp Lo sampled it in their graceful-yet-street '97 track 'Luchini AKA This Is It,' and Sugar Hill r&b/neo-soul diva Angie Stone used it in 04's 'Lovers' Ghetto.'
Dynasty - Groove Control (257 kbps)
Bag Raiders - Shooting Stars (Shazam Dub Mix) (192 kbps)
The next piece of the puzzle features our favorite Dynasty track, 'Groove Control'– so slick, so funky, those strings, that xylophone! So dope. Shazam's dub of Bag Raiders' 'Shooting Stars' from '09 which samples it is... well, let's just say, we love Bag Raiders and we love Shazam and we're generally not ones to get picky about sampling, but we think the degree of sample here is a little cheap. Kinda clever, and definitely sounds sexy, but cheap (again, with all due respect to Shazam/BR). Well, we'll let you be the judge. It's all for the love of the crossword, y'all! Drop in again next Wednesday, won't you?
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