Various - Tru Thoughts 10th Anniversary

  by Spencer Robertshaw

published: 7 / 10 / 2009

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Review

The Tru Thoughts label is synonymous with quality soul, jazz, funk, beat-breaking, bossabopping, cool strutting music. This release celebrates 10 years of delivering 100% of pure passion to it’s club nights and release buyers. Name checked by 'The Guardian' and legendary DJ Gilles Peterson as a source of ideals and purity in the ‘rebirth of the cool’, this release offers a true insight into what drives the label, its artists and staff. Modern funky jazz and it’s soulful complements are a bit scarce at the moment, Tru Thoughts have the tunes to put the rut back in your strut and some glide in your stride, showing that there are still some very good bands cutting the cloth on select dance floors country and European wide. The compilation starts with a CD of laid back tunes (still covering all ground in music terms). It would be unfair to pick a favourite as every track has quality treaded all the way through and I have found that each play brings out more and more from the compilation. The tempo picks up on the second CD delivering tracks that make it impossible to resist a trip to the dance floor, ahd which are brilliant and mood enhancing wherever they are played. The Tru Thoughts posse have got it nailed when it comes to artist selection. It doesn’t surprise me that the club nights they run are such a roaring success. If I had to sum up the release using a list it would go something like this: Soul Jazz Funk Crisp and clear Hammond organ Brazilian Northern soul Motown James Brown Sax Trumpet Latino Old school New school Rebirth of the cool Strutting Vocal silk That’s Tru Thoughts, sharper than an Armani suit on Daniel Craig.

Track Listing:-

1 Bonobo- Terrapin
2 Nostalgia 77- Quiet Dawn
3 Alice Russell- Hurry On Now
4 Natural Self- The Rising
5 Milez Benjiman- Chop That Wood
6 Hint- One Woman Army
7 Quantic & Nickodemus- Mi Swing Es Tropical
8 Bonobo- Kota
9 Lizzy Parks- Raise The Roof
10 The Limp Twins- Sunday Driver
11 Hot 8 Brass Band- What's My Name? (Rock With The Hot 8)
12 Flevans- The Notion
13 The Nostalgia 77 Octet- Musical Silt
14 Flowering Inferno- Cuidad Del Swing
15 Kinny- Desire
16 Freddie Cruger- Pushing On
17 Saravah Soul- Nao Posso Te Levar A Serio
18 The Quantic Soul Orchestra- Super 8
19 The Bamboos- Step It Up
20 Quantic- Transatlantic
21 TM Juke- Come Away
22 Lanu- Dis-Information
23 Natural Self- Shake Down
24 Belleruche- Northern Girls
25 Alice Russell- All Over Now
26 Quantic- Mishaps Happening (Prins Thomas Edit)
27 Nirobi & Barakas- Bungee Jump Against Racism
28 TM Juke & The Jack Baker Trio- Party Favours
29 Kylie Auldist- Community Service Announcement
30 Quantic- Don't Joke With A Hungry Man
31 Me&You- The Hoop Loop
32 The Broken Keys- The Witch
33 Various- Tru Thoughts 10th Anniversary (Continuous DJ Mix)