DON'T IT DRIVE YOU CRAZY / SEND HIM BACK - PILOOSKI MIX by THE POINTER SISTERS

Phat party-rocking grooves from the ever-legendary Pointer Sisters. Before their endeavors on the mainstream of the major label disco circuit, Pointer Sisters made their name with their instrumentally masterful grooves on the rawest edges of 1970s soul sensuality, classic funk that continues to drive so many genres forward with the original substance of sample-based dance musics. The irresistible midtempo anthem “Don’t It Drive You Crazy” comprised the sample for the legendary Gang Starr hardcore masterpiece “Execution Of A Chump” to provide an urgent and most relevant example. But beyond its future expropriation, “Don’t It Make You Crazy," along with "Send Him Back” - edited with learned cunning by Pilooski here are examples of the eclectic arsenal of the earliest NYC club culture, before four-to-the-floor disco had entirely taken root. It’s records like these that actually birthed 'disco' proper, releases created expressly for the club before this institution (at least in the United States) became really entrenched with the die-hard roots of 1970s-era hedonism. Pressed on high quality 12” vinyl, these alpha classics still sound as fresh and devastatingly effective as they must have done in 1977 and 1972 respectively. Timeless pieces of American soul music !