The Twelve Inch 187 : Pull Up To The Bumper (Funk) : Funk/Post-Disco - 1982

I’ve got not one, but two mixtapes for you this week.

Pull Up To The Bumper sits right at the crossroads of what was happening in the early eighties. To show that, I’ve made two companion mixtapes, each exploring one of those diverging turns.
🎧 Take the Funk off-ramp and you’ll hear Grace followed by Skyy and Sharon Redd’s excellent Can You Handle It. Chic, Kool & the Gang, Odyssey, and Slave keep the groove going, while a few less-obvious gems — Empress’s Dyin’ To Be Dancin’, Gwen McCrae’s Doin’ It, and Heatwave’s Lettin’ It Loose — bring real flavour to the mix. The set closes with Unlimited Touch and one of my favourite early-eighties dance tracks, T.S. Monk’s Bon Bon Vie.

Enjoy the ride — wherever you take the off-ramp. 🎶