Title: Chasin' A Dream Artist: Tashan Label: Funky Town Grooves Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 5060196469888 Genre: Soul/R & B Release Date: 2016-09-27 Number of Discs: 1 Additional Details: BONUS TRACKS, EXPANDED VERSION
Digitally remastered and expanded edition including four bonus tracks. The 1980s saw considerable changes in the way that R&B was produced. The types of instrumentation one typically associates with 1970s R&B the orchestral string arrangements of Philadelphia International Records, the punchy horn sections of Parliament/Funkadelic, the Bar-Kays, the Ohio Players and Tower of Power went out of fashion at urban radio stations, and urban contemporary (that is, post-1970s R&B) became a high-tech world of synthesizers, sequencers and drum machines. Even Cameo, who were the epitome of a horn-powered funk band in the late 1970s, downsized and adopted a much more electronic approach. Yet the more things change in music, the more they stay the same and in the 1980s, there were some R&B singers who combined the high-tech production techniques of urban contemporary and hip-hop with a passion for 1960s and 1970s soul. One such artist was Tashan, whose 1986 debut, Chasin a Dream, was arguably a precursor to the hip-hop soul that made Mary J. Blige, Lauryn Hill, Erykah Badu, R. Kelly and D Angelo famous in the 1990s.
Tracks: 1.1 Strung Out on You 1.2 Got the Right Attitude 1.3 Chasin' a Dream 1.4 Oooh We Baby 1.5 Read My Mind 1.6 So Much in Love 1.7 I Dont Ever 1.8 Love Is 1.9 Thank You Father 1.10 If Words Can Express 1.11 Ream My Mind (Long Version Remix) 1.12 Chasin' a Dream (Special Mix) 1.13 Read My Mind (Short Version Remix) 1.14 Chasin' a Dream (Single Version)
