Motown, Stax, Chess, Fania, Salsoul, and all other successful Black Music indepdent record labels....
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All your favorite Soul, Latin, Afro-Everything, Disco Soul Records from the 80's.
Soul music, Dance music with a Afro-Latin Flavor. Songs to dance to laugh to cry to. Labels like Philiadelphia International, King, CTI, Verve, Blue Note, BBE, Compost, Tommy Boy, Salsoul, Celluloid, Prelude, Rams Horn, Fania, West End, Stax, Talkin Loud, Acid Jazz, and other which I will list going forward...
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A subsidiary of TURP CREATIVE GROUP, LLC. Cottage Groove Recordings(formally known as Cottage Groove Innertainment) was founded by Lono Brazil(Wit a little help from his friends). The idea was simple and so is the paradim. "We like good records. And we will work a good record till the grooves are gone".
Lono Brazil a well respected record executive and DJ/Producer/Remixer originally started Cottage Groove as an imprint to put out a white label. But decided to use his exprience in production, artist development, marketing, promotion, art direction, sales, lifestyle co-ordination and a love for "GOOD RECORDS" to create an organization that could expidite this process and do what the MAJORS DO! SALE RECORDS!
Genres include Deep Soulful House, Afro-Beat, Broken-Beat, Downtempo, Acid-Jazz & Nu-Jazz, Soul, Rare Groove and DJ Compilations.
The first release on the label was on Jan 11, 2003 "Abreast Of Soul Vol.1" mix CD. With distribution partially handled by KSD & scheduled for a re-release Nov 2005 in Europe & Asia and distribution handled by Redline Music Distribution.
The first single released was on April 25, 2004 on then named Cottage Groove Innertainment was "Ooh! Love Is.... Produced by Lono Brazil. It included a re-edit Vocal version by Danny Krivit. The follow-up single "Enfermo del Amor" by Lono Brazil, and additional production and mixing done By Jere McAllister Producer of Mr. A.L.I. (West End Records).
A Chicago native and New York resident, Founder Lono Brazil a former Executive at Capitol/EMI Records. He is better known in the music industry in Hip-Hop & R&B circles as an Executive Producer/Artist Manager/Consultant launching the careers or working with artist such as The Beastie Boys, The Pharcyde, Foxy Brown, Kool Keith, Adriana Evans, Channel Live, Spragga Benz, Ras Kass to name a few. As a recored executive, Mr. Brazil is a well respected record consultant, promotion man and artist development specialist working with labels like LOUD RECORDS, ISLAND, GEE-STREET, RCA, BLUE NOTE, TOMMY BOY & DEF JAM to name a few.
Originally from the first wave of House Music Producers, DJ/Promoters from Chicago, Lono was instrumental in bringing Soulful Dance Music, African, Latin and Electronic to the forefront of the music scene and is still to this day regarded as an true ambasador of Quality Music.
Artist; Odu Mwalimu, JAZZILLMATIC ARKESTRA, Lono Brazil
Contact Info;
COTTAGE GROOVE RECORDS & TAPES
A Subsidiary of TURP CREATIVE GROUP, LLC
P.O. Box 3661
New York, New York 10185
info@cottagegroove.com
URLs:
www.myspace.com/turpcreativegroup
www.myspace.com/turpmagazine
Lono Brazil on KPFK 90.7FM Los Angeles
or if you have iTUNES you can dwnload to your iPod for free!
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