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Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Super Bad Super Black: Can Yall Dig It?

 
1. Cleopatra Jones
2. Coffy
3. Black Caesar
4. Human Tornado
5. Shaft
6. Mack
7. Trouble Man
8. Truck Turner
9. Slaughter
10. Black Mama, White Mama
11. Superfly TNT
12. J.D.'s Revenge
13. Amazing Grace
14. Blacula
15. Book of Numbers
16. Black Shampoo
17. Slaughter's Big Rip Off
18. Bucktown
19. Blackgunn
20. Claudean
21. Cornbread, Earl & Me
22. Dr. Black & Mr. Hyde
23. Five on the Black Hand Side
24. Friday Foster
25. Ghetto Freaks
26. Hell Up in Harlem
27. Lady Sings the Blues
28. Legend of Nigger Charlie
29. Mandingo
30. Monkey Hustle
31. Nigger Lover
32. Save the Children
33. Sheeba Baby
34. Soul II Soul
35. 3 Tough Guys
36. Together Brothers
37. Trick Baby
38. Black Belt Jones
39. Black Rodeo
40. Buck & The Preacher
41. Abby
42. Black Steet Fighter
43. Education of Sonny Carson
44. Spook Who Sat by the Door
45. Sugar Hill
46. Uptown Saturday Night
47. Watts Stacks
48. Willie Dynomite
49. Young Blood
50. Dark Town Strutters
51. Thing With Two Heads
52. Boss Nigger
53. Disco 9000
54. Scream Blacula Scream

Moviegrooves.com
Genius. A whopping collection of bad-ass blaxploitation radio spots (adverts) from the 70's - they're all here; Shaft, The Mack, Black Caesar, Slaughter's Big Rip Off, Sheeba Baby, Coffy and absolutely loads more. Also contains Bonus soundbites and DJ Tools! Perfect for blaxploitation movie lovers and an absolute godsend for DJs. Sometimes shit is just too cool...and believe us - this shit is chilly the most!

Saturday, September 6, 2008

The Human Tornado (1976)



















Starring:

Storyline
Dolemite (Rudy Ray Moore) is back and badder than ever in THE HUMAN TORNADO! After being run out of town by a racist sheriff, Dolemite returns to LA only to discover that Queen Bee's (Lady Reed) club has been taken over by the mafia. On top of that they have also kidnapped two of Queen Bee's top girls! With the law hot on his tail, Dolemite rounds up the toughest Kung-Fu fighting badasses in Southern California to take on the mob, culminating in one of the craziest surprise endings in blaxploitation film history!

Book of Numbers (1973)


















Starring: 


Storyline
Raymond St. Jacques both directs and stars in The Book of Numbers. St. Jacques and Philip Thomas play depression-era African Americans, barely making out an existence as waiters in a deep-south community. Both men decide that there's more money to be had on the shadier side of the law, so they set up a successful rural numbers racket. All goes well until the operation attracts the attention of white crime boss Gilbert Greene. Though no one is particularly admirable in The Book of Numbers, the audience remains firmly on the side of the black characters, if only by default. The film was based on a novel by Robert Dean Phaar. 


Link to soundtrack review:
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Book of Numbers (1972)

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Heavy Traffic (1973)







Starring:

  • Joseph Kaufmann
  • Beverly Hope Atkinson
  • Frank DeKova
  • Terri Haven


IMDb.com
An animated feature which begins, ends and occasionally combines with, live-action filmed on location. A white dropout struggles to create comics and animated films, drawing inspiration from the harsh, gritty world around him. Still sharing his run-down apartment with his middle-aged parents, an oafish slob of an Italian father and a ditzy nut-case of a Jewish mother, he is ridiculed and looked down upon by his friends, hypocrites who run with violent gangs and the Italian Mafia, and a shallow Black girl who makes her living downtown with the pimps and pushers. This cartoonist gets a chance to pitch a film idea to a movie mogul, but the story proves too outrageous: a far-future Earth, destroyed by war and pollution, where a mutant anti-hero challenges and kills God. Complications ensue when the cartoonist's parents react in irrational ways to his various involvements.


Link to soundtrack review
Ed Bogas & Ray Shanklin - Fritz The Cat & Heavy Traffic