Moniquea - Red LightModern funk meets house on Moniquea's 'Red Light,' produced by XL Middleton. Bouncy synth bass and leads give this one a recognizably west coast feel, but the pulsating house beat and detuned chords give this one appeal for dance floors everywhere. The '97 Remix on the b side nods to Moniquea's g funk roots while the bonus Applejac remix of 'Hate To See It blends dance oriented sensibilities with thick synth strings that hearken back to peak era

buttery Rhodes layers and fiery vocals

The A side ‘Body II Body’ is a straight dance floor edit

Basic Club

you just have to sing that it already goes a little better"

the actual King of Sudanese Jazz (he actually won that title in a competition in the early 1970s)

“The MBO Theme” (1983) has been a dance floor favorite since decades

a sound so recognizably his

subverting expectations in pursuit of forwarding the genre while paying homage to its past

and we love it

and in so doing have

They shared the effortless cool and tough countenance of the great bebop players from the ’50s without verging into jazz-rap parody

Solid and ready for action