VA - Purple Snow: Forecasting The Minneapolis Sound 2CD (2013)

In the late 1970s, a peculiar sound began bubbling up from the land of 10,000 lakes. Buried beneath 50 solid inches of annual snow, Minneapolis made a Sound quite different than what the pop world foresaw. It issued forth as a slick, black, technologically advanced fusion, poised to storm the charts. Never known for sizable African-American populations, the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul in fact harbored a tight-knit community of musicians working feverishly through the late 70s and early 80s toward a radical manipulation of American dance music, coating futuristic funk with the glamorous sheen of guitar rock. Synthetic ebony and ivory met electricity, with sexed-up results sent shockingly across the pop heavens like violet lightning.

TRACKLIST

CD1:

01 – If You See Me (94 East)
02 – Taste of Love (Aura)
03 – I Love You (Herman Jones)
04 – Oh Lover (Orville Shannon)
05 – I’m Under Your Spell (Mind & Matter)
06 – Waiting For The Moment (Haze)
07 – Get It On (Prophets of Peace)
08 – Expense (Cohesion)
09 – Sunshine Lady (Mind & Matter)
10 – Higher (The Lewis Connection)
11 – Lady (Herman Jones)
12 – You’re All I Need (Michael A. Dixon & J.O.Y.)
13 – Stone Lover (Music, Love, and Funk)
14 – Cohesion (Cohesion)
15 – I Do Love My Lady (Haze)
16 – Got To Be Something Here (The Lewis Connection)

CD2:

01 – I Have Love At Home (Walter Lewis & The Blue Stars)
02 – Can You Deal With It (Quiet Storm)
03 – Quick (Steven)
04 – If You Love Me (The Stylle Band)
05 – I’ve Got My Eyes On You (The Girls)
06 – Should I Or Should I Not (Sue Ann Carwell)
07 – Do You Dare (Alexander O’Neal)
08 – Contagious (Ronnie Robbins)
09 – Borrowed Time (Alexander O’Neal)
10 – One Life To Live (Orville Shannon)
11 – Do It Baby Do It (Walter Lewis & The Blue Stars)
12 – Somebody Said (André Cymone)
13 – Together (Rockie Robbins)
14 – No One Else Can Do It To Me Baby (Mind & Matter)