Artist: Musique
Title: Keep On Jumpin’
Year Of Release: 1978/1997
Label: Unidisc/Prelude Records [SPLK-7034]
Genre: Disco, Funk, Soul, Dance
Quality: MP3 320kbps (m3u,scans)
Total Time: 60:51
Total Size: 158.18 MB
This 1978 album, long a favourite of hardcore disco fanatics, provides a great showcase for the talents of producer Patrick Adams. Like most of Adams' groups, Musique was a studio creation (featuring the talents of future solo star Jocelyn Brown) designed exclusively for the discotheque. It produced two major dancefloor favourites in the title track and "In the Bush"; the former effectively contrasts a stately string-section riff against a double-time rhythm section beat, and the latter is a lusty dance epic that contrasts bouncy, keyboard-driven verses with blaring bursts of horns and a sexy, overheated performance from the vocalists. The album is rounded out by "Summer Love," a hypnotic, mid-tempo dance ballad built on a sultry blend of strings and keyboards, and "Summer Love Theme," an all-instrumental version of "Summer Love." On the downside, Keep on Jumpin' is a bit slim on melody, but the rhythms are so insistent and the arrangements are so inventive that this flaw is easy for a disco fan to overlook. All in all, casual listeners may want to track down the hits on a compilation, but Keep on Jumpin' remains a slick, punchy album that is recommended to anyone with an interest in the club-oriented side of disco.
Prelude's claim to fame was that all of their albums featured four disco-length songs. The whole aim of the label was to put product in the hands of the disc jockeys in the hot clubs that proliferated in those days.
1 In The Bush 8:05
2 Summer Love 7:49
3 Keep On Jumpin' 5:39
4 Summer Love Theme 7:58
5 In The Bush (Remix) 7:40
6 Keep On Jumpin' (Remix) 7:03
7 Summer Love (Radio Edit) 4:30
8 Summer Love Theme (Radio Edit) 4:32
9 Keep On Jumpin' (Radio Edit) 3:40
10 In The Bush (Radio Edit) 3:32
