Black Music Sound on 7inch Singles

The Phillysound brings the move

Funk & Soul Music celebrated its greatest sales successes in the 7" singles segment in the early 1970s. The beginnings of this were laid in the late 1960s with the first globally successful "Black Music" cult songs from the legendary Motown label. From the mid-70s onwards, the so-called "Phillysound" first conquered the discos and then the charts worldwide. The great thing about the Soul & Funk classics from that time is that their sound has lost absolutely none of its freshness to this day. From the late 70s onwards, the previously very independent Black Music" merged with the emerging disco wave.

In the home of Reggae in Jamaica, the Reggae sound in its special original form had been available in abundance on 7" singles since the 1960s. Heaps of small labels and self-distributors filled the shelves there. In Germany, on the other hand, almost exclusively the radio-friendly Pop-Reggae was played Singles were released, but these were mostly real hits that are still popular today because they haven't lost any of their dynamism.