More 80's rare grooves

[wow27]

Wynd Chymes - Checkin out your stuff 1982
Mystic Merlin - Mr magician 82
Fredi Grace - head over heals 82
Fonzi Thornton - There goes my heart 82
Cat Curtiss - Yes i love you 82
Derrick - Boogie times 83
Shock - Waiting on your love 82
Philippe Wynne - Wait till tomorrow 83
Blueprint - Ritespot 83
Steptoe - Sure you're right 82
Nijel - Dance so fine 82

[Nano]

Well, at least I recognize 2 artists in this one. That is Mystic Merlin & Shock, but I don't remember those songs.

[QUINNY]

Wow: Wow!! Are these and the other tracks big on the rare groove scene or have you posted merely for their rarity? How big is the '80s rare groove scene? Just asking, honest answers appreciated.

[boogyjuice]

Here's the Wynd Chymes-track :

Video Wynd Chymes - Checkin' Out Your Stuff - music, funk - Dailymotion Share Your Videos


And the one from Mystic Merlin + a few more from the same album :

Video MYSTIC MERLIN ( 3 TITRES ) - modern, soul, funk, boogie, modernsoul - Dailymotion Share Your Videos


Enjoy,
BJ

[mancub]

Mystic Merlin also had:
Just Can't Give You Up (Classic)
60 Thrills a Minute
and last but not least Mr Magician which is a classic
Then you also have D-Train, Strikers, Stone, The Limit, Slave, Band AKA, the list is endless

[boogyjuice]

Originally Posted by QUINNY

Wow: Wow!! Are these and the other tracks big on the rare groove scene ?

Hey Quinny ,
Some of them can be heard any now and then @ online-streams , podcasts or other media online.
Also , the album on which Mystic Merlin's "Mr. Magician" appears , has been officially re-issued on cd by Capitol and can easily be found/purchased online.
I couldn't exactly tell for how much those posted tracks go for on places like eBay.
What i sometimes do is check the "completed auctions" on eBay , and after having done that a few times you sorta get an impression which tracks sell for much.
popsike.com - rare vinyl records auction results / price guide - record collector is another reference-source for what's popular in the collectors scene.

Originally Posted by QUINNY

How big is the '80s rare groove scene? Just asking, honest answers appreciated.

Not really shure , but i get the feeling that in France is a huge scene.
I've seen some online sites where many collectors share their purchases , from which some tracks i've never heard of.

A UK-seller told me once that at one point , French collectors mainly would buy albums and maxi-singles. But slowly they started to discover that a lot of rare 80's was exclusively released on 45-singles , so that's another format which has become popular.

The UK-scene was always a great reference for me , because i purchased many issues of the magazine Blues & Soul during the 80's. I don't know how big the scene over there is today though.

Japan also has an intersting scene.
I sometimes purchased a few ultra-rare releases from Japanese sellers.
Some of those releases i had never seen before , until i started to explore on eBay and such.
There have been reissued a good list of collectors-items , through quality remasters by the official Japanese-departments of major companies or sometimes by authentic Japanese labels like P-Vine.
I believe that P-Vine initially started to release rare P-Funk albums , but eventually broadened their catalogue.

The re-issue market of 80's boogie has grown and besides Japan , who were about one of the first starting this during the early 90's , now there are some solid companies in the UK , France , Germany and the Netherlands as well releasing the rare stuff.

In this digital-age it's sometimes hard to tell how big the total 80's scene exactly is , because people from all over the world are suscribed to specialised sites , blogs , MySpace and Facebook-pages , podcasts , forums ( like this one from discomusic ) , etc...

I'm regulary browsing in order to find new interesting communities who listen to or collect from this particular era.
Found some great 80's-forums located in Germany last year , so the scene lives there as well.

[buckaroo]

I have a few of those vinyls from my collecting daze. Are they worth big dough?