Rizm shares his favourite soul classics dug up during various record shopping trips over the last while.

Matthew Larkin Cassell is a perfect example of how the LA private press industry of the late 60s and 70s produced some of the most overlooked soul music of the period.  J.Dilla was hip to Africa years before anyone else thought of sampling them and Dorando reminded everybody what real soul music was all about on his EP ‘Let my People Go’ which was re-released on Ubiquity Records in 2006.

King Heroin must be one of James Brown’s most overlooked and insightful tracks which compliments the down the earth righteousness of Gil Scott Heron’s cover of the Marvin Gaye classic Innercity Blues perfectly. David T. Walker’s Lay Lady Lay inspired one of the strongest People Under The Stairs tunes from their 2004 album OST and Heatwave has to get a look-in on any mix of this nature.

Harold Melvin’s album Wake Up provided the piano that brought Kanye and Common together on the limited pressing (and now hard-to-find) 12″ ‘Food’; Sterelob rounds things off – perfect to follow up a Philly-soul master with a relatively new band and a track that saw Madlib and Jay Dee as Jaylib at their finest on ‘The Message’ way back in 2002.

Tracklisting
Matthew Larkin Cassell- All I’m Missing Is You
Africa – Here I Stand
Dorondo – Didn’t I
Gil Scott Heron – Innercity Blues
James Brown – King Heroin
David T. Walker – Lay Lady Lay
Heatwave – Star of the Story
Harold Melvin – Wake Up
Stereolab – Come and play in the milky night

Rizm – Soul Sleepers by ChoiceCuts