Mos: Downtown Funk / Various Mos: Downtown Funk / Various CD

2015 three CD set. Ministry of Sound presents Downtown Funk, a collection of one our most loved music genres. With the sun just around the corner what better album to get your groove on and heat things up for the imminent summer ahead than Downtown Funk. A major influence on disco, funk music is a sound familiar to all which has been heavily sampled in dance related genres including hip hop, house and drum 'n' bass not to mention featuring in countless iconic film soundtracks (Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Shaft to name but a few). Of late, the sound has had a huge pop resurgence and looks set to be one of the sounds of 2015. The essential tunes from your favorite artists all feature including James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson, the Academy Award winning 'Theme from Shaft' by Isaac Hayes, James Taylor Quartet with the 'Theme from Starsky & Hutch', Curtis Mayfield, Chic, Bobby Womack, Bobby Byrd, Sly & The Family Stone, Bill Withers, Funkadelic, The Jackson Sisters, The Isley Brothers, The Fatback Band and Aretha Franklin to mention just a few. 60 tracks of grooves and cuts that defined an era, from Stateside to Southport, these are the records that provided the soundtrack to a generation. So go uptown to get downtown funk!

1. James Brown - Get Up (I Feel Like Being a Sex Machine) (Part 1 ; 2) 2. Kool ; the Gang - Jungle Boogie 3. Average White Band - Pick Up the Pieces 4. Charles Wright - Express Yourself 5. Curtis Mayfield - Move on Up 6. The O'Jays - for the Love of Money 7. Sly ; the Family Stone - Dance to the Music 8. The Temptations - Papa Was a Rollin' Stone 9. Earth Wind ; Fire - Shining Star 10. The Isley Brothers - It's Your Thing 11. Isaac Hayes - Theme from Shaft 12. Blackbyrds - Rock Creek Park 13. Commodores - Brick House (Single Version) 14. Wild Cherry - Play That Funky Music (Single Version) 15. Edwin Starr - War (Single Version) 16. KC ; the Sunshine Band - Get Down Tonight (Edit) 17. The Gap Band - Oops Upside Your Head 18. Tom Browne - Funkin for Jamaica 19. Rick James - Super Freak 20. The Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight 21. Michael Jackson - Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough 22. Chic - Le Freak 23. Marvin Gaye - Got to Give It Up (Single Version) 24. George Benson - Give Me the Night 25. Oliver Cheatham - Get Down Saturday Night 26. The Whispers - and the Beat Goes on 27. The Jackson Sisters - I Believe in Miracles 28. Gwen McCrae - All This Love That I'm Giving 29. Aretha Franklin - Rock Steady 30. The Chi - Lites 31. Paches ; Herb - Shake Your Groove Thing 32. Heatwave - Boogie Nights 33. Diana Ross - Upside Down (Single Version) 34. Odyssey - Going Back to My Roots 35. Shalamar - There It Is 36. Yarbrough ; Peoples - Don't Stop the Music 37. Bobby Thurston - Check Out the Groove 38. Brass Construction - Movin' (Single Version) 39. Roy Ayers - Love Will Bring Us Back Together Again 40. Bill Withers - Who Is He 41. James Taylor Quartet - Theme from Starsky ; Hutch 42. Bobby Byrd - I Know You Got Soul 43. Fred Wesley ; the JB's - Blow Your Head 44. Ohio Players - Love Rollercoaster 45. Lyn Collins - Think (About It) 46. Incredible Bongo Band - Apache 47. The Fatback Band - (Are You Ready) Do the Bus Stop 48. Maceo and the Macks - Cross the Tracks (We Better Go Back) 49. Funkadelic - Red Hot Mama 50. Herbie Hancock - Charmeleon (Single Version) 51. The Meters - Cissy Strut 52. Sly ; the Family Stone - Thank You (Falettinme Me Be Mice,) 53. Lakeside - Fantastic Voyage 54. Bobby Womack - It's Party Time 55. Kiki Gyan - Disco Dancer 56. Family Tree - Family Tree 57. George Duke - Shine on (Single Version) 58. Parliament - Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker) 59. Zapp ; Roger - More Bounce to the Ounce 60. Bob James - Nautilus