VA - Can You Feel It? Vol.4: Modern Soul, Disco & Boogie 1976-85 (2023)

Tramp Records' Can You Feel It series, which here reaches its fourth instalment, has always been one of the more reliable sources of obscure, hard-to-find modern soul and boogie, with many tracks plucked from the vaults of tiny labels or private press releases. Naturally the selections this time round are spot on and will be unfamiliar to all but a handful of dedicated diggers. Highlights include (but are in no way limited to) the flash-fried, solo-heavy psych-funk of Vantage Point's 'All Night', the disco rush of Keith lowery's 'Super Dude', the low-slung, War-esque brilliance of 'You Shake 'Em Things' by Synod, the horn-heavy jauntiness of Street Life 80's 'Steps On A Cloud', and the killer boogie-funk badness of Ditto Memo's 'Upside Down'.
Tracklist
1. Matter of Taste - Step by Step (5:07)
2. Vantage Point - All Night (7:34)
3. Kim McCrae - I'm Feeling It Too (4:34)
4. Frankie Staton - Bi-Centennial - 1976 (feat. Speckled Rainbow) (2:46)
5. Kathy Lowery - Super Dude (4:19)
6. Royal Touch - What Am I Gonna Do Baby (2:40)
7. Synod - You Shake Them Things (4:13)
8. Pat Carpenter - Love You Use to Be so Easy (3:10)
9. Swankk - If It Takes All Night (3:12)
10. Ocean Orchestra - Skinflint (4:09)
11. Street Life '80 - Steps on a Cloud (4:18)
12. Jackie Berns - I Still Love You (3:06)
13. Tory Wynter - Real True Voices (4:23)
14. Chatham - I'll Be Good to You (2:52)
15. Dalton Reed - Giving on into Love (3:31)
16. Panama Gold - Gettin' Lucky (3:31)