ERRANT NIGHTS | 02

"Find Me (Underneath the Sun) feat. Okcandice" - Modha

"I Got Love (Instrumental)" - Bobby Oroza

"Givin It Up Is Givin Up" - Patrice Rushen feat DJ Rogers

"You Want You Get" - Freddie Joachim

"So In Love" - Brock Berrigan

"Burnin Up" - Pauli Carman, Those Guys From Athens

"I Love You" - A Taste Of Honey

"There'll Never Be (Solidified Soul Mix)" - Lord Finesse, Switch, Bobby DeBarge

"Chicken Heads (B-Jam edit)" - Bobby Rush

"Stay" - Rufus & Chaka Khan

“My Sugar Is Gone (LNTG Edit)” - Late Nite Tuff Guy

"You Turned Me" - Jules Brennan

"Frozen" - Reva DeVito Roane Namuh

"Finally Made It Home Unreleased" - Arnold Blair

“Find Me (Underneath the Sun) feat. Okcandice” — Modha

A gorgeous slow-bloom opener issued by Sonar Kollektiv, the Berlin imprint born from Jazzanova that has curated the city's broken-beat, soul, and downtempo output since 1997. Modha is the duo of Dhanya Langer (drums, production) and Max Scholl (multi-instrumentalist), joined by Birmingham-Berlin poet okcandice. The single previews Modha's sophomore album At Your Pace (Sonar Kollektiv, March 13, 2026), which features Allysha Joy of 30/70, James Chatburn, and Conic Rose.

“I Got Love (Instrumental)” — Bobby Oroza

Scandinavian modern soul, courtesy of the Big Crown / Timmion axis. The instrumental sits on Get On The Otherside (Instrumentals) (Big Crown, November 2022), with Helsinki's Cold Diamond & Mink supplying the foundation. The original surfaced in February 2021 as a 7-inch A-side before landing on the Get On The Otherside LP. The track’s dry snare, steady kick, and guitar/organ carry the melody where the vocal sits on the original. Of a piece with the El Michels Affair catalog Big Crown has built around Leon Michels.

“Givin’ It Up Is Givin’ Up” — Patrice Rushen feat. D. J. Rogers

From Pizzazz (Elektra, 1979), recorded at Conway Studios in Hollywood, released between Patrice (1978) and Posh (1980). The album opened Rushen's run toward Straight from the Heart and "Forget Me Nots" three years later. D.J. Rogers brings his gospel-bred tenor opposite Rushen's keyboard precision, a study in held-back emotion. Note Rushen's full-credit role on the album: producer, arranger, writer, executive producer. She was 24.

“You Want You Get” — Freddie Joachim

A Joachim instrumental that lived on blogs and DJ shares before streaming rather than a physical release. The San Diego producer runs Mellow Orange with longtime collaborator Yusai, the imprint that frames his catalog from Midway (2010) through Fiberglass Kisses (2012) and beyond. Rhodes voicings move through close-miked drums with the unhurried confidence of a producer who has grown from beat-scene producer to in-demand jazz collaborator.

“So In Love” — Brock Berrigan

A two-minute vignette from Point Pleasant (Chillhop, May 2017) that flips Leroy Hutson's "So In Love With You," the Curtom-era ballad from Hutson's 1973 Love Oh Love. Brushed kit, walking bass, and a horn figure moving just behind the chop. A clean bridge between modern instrumental hip-hop and mid-’70s romance chords. Worth noting that Hutson took over Curtis Mayfield's chair in The Impressions after Mayfield went solo, which makes this the night's first Curtom card on the table. The second waits at the end.

“Burnin Up” — Pauli Carman

A modern-boogie collaboration on TSTD Edits 10 (Too Slow To Disco, September 2022), pairing Pauli Carman, the lead voice of Champaign, Illinois's Champaign (the band, "How 'Bout Us," No. 4 R&B / No. 12 Pop in 1981), with the Greek production duo Those Guys From Athens. The introduction came through TGFA's earlier rework of Champaign's "I'm On Fire," which got played on BBC Radio 6 in the UK and reached Carman. He liked it enough to give permission for an official follow-up, and "Burnin' Up" is the result.

“I Love You” — A Taste of Honey

From Another Taste (Capitol, 1979), the followup to the platinum debut that gave the world "Boogie Oogie Oogie." A slow soul stepper, with disco strings, jazz voicings, and a steady backbeat that sits comfortably in quiet-storm sets. The credit here belongs to Fonce and Larry Mizell, the brothers who produced Donald Byrd's Black Byrd and Places and Spaces, Bobbi Humphrey's Blacks and Blues, and a stack of Blue Note jazz-funk that hip-hop has been mining ever since. Recorded at Sound Factory and Golden Sounds Studio, Hollywood.

“There’ll Never Be (Solidified Soul Mix)” — Lord Finesse, Switch, Bobby DeBarge

Part of Motown State of Mind project commissioning new remixes of catalog standards, this Solidified Soul Mix keeps Switch’s 1978 arrangement intact while improving blend-ability. The cut features Bobby DeBarge on lead vocal, four years before DeBarge the family group made him a household name. Lord Finesse produced the remix through a Hip-Hop lens, adding heavier drums, more head space, and a chorus that retains Bobby DeBarge’s signature sound.

“Chicken Heads (B-Jam Edit)” — Bobby Rush

Released on Galaxy Records in 1971, "Chicken Heads" climbed to No. 34 on the Billboard R&B chart and earned Bobby Rush his first gold record at age 38, a working-musician's late breakthrough after fifteen years of session and bandstand grind on the Chitlin' Circuit. Greasy guitar, front-porch lyric, and a tight pocket that remains a blues-soul standard. The B-Jam edit isolates the riff and extends the runway for blends. Rush, born Emmett Ellis Jr. in 1933, is still active.

“Stay” — Rufus & Chaka Khan

From Street Player (ABC, 1978), the album where Chaka Khan and the band recorded their parts in separate sessions because the relationship had reached the point where a shared studio was no longer practical. "Stay" hit US R&B No. 3 and Pop No. 38, with Roy Halee co-producing alongside Rufus and Clare Fischer writing the strings. Halee, the engineer who shaped Bookends and Bridge Over Troubled Water with Simon and Garfunkel, brings an unexpected lineage to a Rufus session. The track was Khan's penultimate album with the band before her solo career began in earnest, which gives the title a slightly different reading. Erykah Badu recovered the song for her live set in 1997.

“My Sugar Is Gone (LNTG Edit)” — Late Nite Tuff Guy

Side B of RNT002, the second release ever from Brooklyn's Razor-N-Tape, now a flagship edit imprint. The source is Juicy's "Sugar Free" (Private I, 1985), produced by Eumir Deodato, best known to hip-hop heads as the sample foundation for AZ's "Sugar Hill" from Doe or Die (EMI, 1995). LNTG, real name Carmelo "Cam" Bianchetti, made his name in the '90s as Adelaide techno DJ HMC before reinventing as a Tuff Cut editor in his second act. This edit threads boogie, modern soul, and mid-tempo house through a single seam.

“You Turned Me” — Jules Brennan

"You Turned Me" appears on The Kyoto Connection EP (Scruffy Soul Recordings, 2020), a contemporary release built from sampled vintage soul vocals over modern bass and guitar. Jules Brennan is a Nottingham-bred multi-instrumentalist now based in Kyoto, and Secret Soul Society is the project of Cal Gibson, formerly of Neon Heights and Jockey Slut magazine. The 60s lilt is by design, the record is by 2020. The cut’s modern-soul feel is all restraint and charm.

“Frozen” — Reva DeVito & Roane Namuh

From Cloudshine, released February 14, 2012, and re-cut as Cloudshine Deluxe on Liquid Beat in 2013. The Portland duo's calling card, with DeVito's vocal weather drifting over Roane Namuh's Rhodes structure. Listen for the sampled vocal hook lifted from Digable Planets' "Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)" (1992), a quiet Easter egg that anchors the track's neo-soul aesthetic in jazz-rap's golden hour. DeVito’s later projects and collaborations in the Soulection/indie-R&B lane extend the aesthetic.

“Finally Made It Home (Unreleased)” — Arnold Blair

The Curtom bookend lands. Arnold Blair recorded "Trying To Get Next To You" for Gemigo, Curtis Mayfield's Curtom-affiliated label, in 1975. The Leroy Hutson production did modest numbers at retail and quietly became one of the more pursued names on the deep-soul want-list. According to Soul Strut, Blair was the Curtom office cleaner who wanted to record. Hutson took him on and used him on backing vocals across his own Feel the Spirit LP. Blair eventually left music, moved to Dallas, went into real estate, and was murdered at his home in 1996, the case unsolved. "Finally Made It Home" surfaced as a previously unreleased side cut at the same 1975 session, finally issued in 2016 on Hutson's Triumph imprint via Super Disco Edits, backed with "I Won The Big Deal (This Time)." This cut extends Blair's slim discography with strings, rhythm guitar, and a classic soulful lyric, a fitting end to the night’s explorations.

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