Automatic Soul, like my previously compiled Late Night Tales Music for Pleasure, is based very much on a sound. It's a sound that I feel has been overlooked: 80s R&B-infused music, with drum machines, synthesizers and invariably brilliant vocals. It's formed the bedrock of my rare groove sets for all the years I've played. It's not the most fashionable, but to me it's the perfect marriage of technology and soul, hence the title for this album, Automatic Soul. There are plenty of songs I could have included, and no doubt some that I shouldn't, but I've tried to represent what's best to me from this era. It's not a classic Late Night Tales. It's a pretty personal journey, which I hope some of you might be willing to share...
2 Sugardaddy Feat. Ronika - Don't Look Any Further
3 Meli'sa Morgan - Fool's Paradise
4 Bits N Pieces - Don't Stop the Music
5 Zapp - Heartbreaker (Part I, Part II)
6 Timex Social Club - Rumors
7 George Franklin Smallwood & Marshmellow Band - You Know I Love You
8 Royalle Delite - I'll Be a Freak for You
9 Rene & Angela - I'll Be Good
10 Donna Allen - Serious
11 Change - Change of Heart
12 The System - You Are in My System
13 The Gap Band - I Owe It to Myself
14 Alexander O'Neal - What's Missing
15 Thelma Houston - You Used to Hold Me So Tight
16 52nd Street - You're My Last Chance
17 Aurra - You and Me Tonight
18 Samson & Delilah - I Can Feel Your Love Slippin' Away
19 Wish Feat. Fonda Rae - Touch Me (All Night Long)
20 Sharon Brown - I Specialize in Love
Automatic Soul, like my previously compiled Late Night Tales Music for Pleasure, is based very much on a sound. It's a sound that I feel has been overlooked: 80s R&B-infused music, with drum machines, synthesizers and invariably brilliant vocals. It's formed the bedrock of my rare groove sets for all the years I've played. It's not the most fashionable, but to me it's the perfect marriage of technology and soul, hence the title for this album, Automatic Soul. There are plenty of songs I could have included, and no doubt some that I shouldn't, but I've tried to represent what's best to me from this era. It's not a classic Late Night Tales. It's a pretty personal journey, which I hope some of you might be willing to share...
