Tonight
There are two Steve Harvey's and both have links to funk and R'n'B, there is the American born actor Steve Harvey who used to play a retired funk musician who teaches highschool in downtown Chicago in a short running sitcom back in 1999, and then there is Scottish born musician Steve Harvey who also lives in the US that produced two of the most perfect synth led proto house funk tunes of the early eighties. They make it hard to google one another.
Tonight and Something Special both have a contemporary quality to them, like they could have been produced in Paris yesterday by some up and coming producer on the current house or 'nu-funk' scene. Tonight gets slightly less shine, but I think the dub version of that particular track has one of the most transcendent basslines to come out of the eighties. Steve did a couple of garage house records in the early nineties too, although as for what he has been up to recently I don't know, he is still working in LA somewhere I would imagine.
Posted by Black Shag | 6 comments
Labels: dub, electro funk
June 22, 2011 at 1:44 AM
thank you. great tune.
June 22, 2011 at 7:51 AM
sounds awesome. I only wish I had the boombox from that photo to listen to it with!
June 22, 2011 at 10:19 AM
great song! steve harvey also produced some tracks on the total contrast lps.
June 28, 2011 at 9:57 AM
so sweeet...!
June 30, 2011 at 11:21 PM
are you going to post the track "something special"?
July 2, 2011 at 9:21 PM
I did, two years ago.. http://beatelectric.blogspot.com/2009/08/one-pound-please.html