Dexter Wansel
Life on Mars/What The World Is Coimng To/Voyager/Time Is Slipping Away
£13.99
Format: CD
Dexter Wansel’s Life On Mars, What The World Is Coming To, Voyager & Time Is Slipping Away have been made avaiable on 2CDs from the BGO label. The CD package highlights some of the best output from the talented arranger, writer, musician and performer’s four albums for Philadelphia International Records, dating from 1976, 1977, 1978 and 1979. Wansel started off in music as a keyboardist and synth player for some of the Philadelphia studio bands, such as MFSB and Instant Funk, while also getting gigs with the likes of Archie Bell and the Drells and Don Covay. The musical body of Wansel’s work consists of space-age jazz funk grooves, mixed with symphonic soul and bouncy disco cuts. Highlights include the astral jazz-funk of Theme From The Planets, the romping Life On Mars, the sultry two-step of The Sweetest Pain and the swinging disco of I’ll Never Forget My Favourite Disco. Wansel’s sound is totally unique, the jazzier edge of Philadelphia International Records, which took on a form similar to Gamble and Huff productions but featured more experimental instrumentation and synthesis, while still carrying that characteristic Sigma Sound signature. Broad strokes of jazz funk, painted over the canvas of the Philly sound.
Track listings:
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01 A Prophet Named K.G by Dexter Wansel
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02 Life On Marrs by Dexter Wansel
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03 Together Once Again by Dexter Wansel
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04 Stargazer by Dexter Wansel
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05 One Million Miles From The Ground by Dexter Wansel
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06 You Can Be What You Wanna Be by Dexter Wansel
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07 Theme From The Planets by Dexter Wansel
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08 Rings Of Saturn by Dexter Wansel
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09 First Light Of The Morning by Dexter Wansel
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10 Dance With Me Tonight by Dexter Wansel
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11 Holdin’ On by Dexter Wansel
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12 Ode Infinitum by Dexter Wansel
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13 Disco Lights by Dexter Wansel
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14 What The World Is Coming To by Dexter Wansel
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15 Going Back To Kingston Town by Dexter Wansel
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16 Dreams Of Tomorrow by Dexter Wansel
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17 Prelude 1 by Dexter Wansel
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18 All Night Long by Dexter Wansel
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19 Solutions by Dexter Wansel
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20 Voyager by Dexter Wansel
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21 I Just Want To Love You by Dexter Wansel
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22 Time Is The Teacher by Dexter Wansel
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23 Latin Love (Let Me Know) by Dexter Wansel
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24 I’m In Love by Dexter Wansel
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25 I’ll Never Forget (My Favourite Disco) by Dexter Wansel
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26 The Sweetest Pain by Dexter Wansel
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27 Funk Attack by Dexter Wansel
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28 Time Is Slipping Away by Dexter Wansel
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29 It’s Been Cool by Dexter Wansel
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30 Let Me Rock You by Dexter Wansel
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31 New Beginning by Dexter Wansel
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32 One For The Road by Dexter Wansel
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