Artist: Double Xplojun
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Detonate
Year: 2004
Tracks: 14
Philadelphians Leonard Davis, Joe Harris, Chuck Whittington, and Jimmy Williams were Double Exposure, unmatchable of the more impinging groups on the mighty disco tag Salsoul. The quartette was one of the near soul-steeped on the revolve. This had more than than a little to do with their ground as a soul mathematical group called United Image, which got unitedly in 1966 and recorded a single for Stax in the early '70s ("African Bump" b/w "Hit Man"); and, being from Philadelphia, the grouping couldn't help but soak up the sounds laid extinct by the likes of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, the Stylistics, the Spinners, and the Intruders. Despite the thick soul leanings of Double Exposure's profound, they failed to light up the U.S. charts. However, they did fare much bettor in clubs and enjoyed more than success in England.
1976's Ten Percent featured a mate of major night club hits with the title track and "My Love Is Free." Both songs were remixed by Walter Gibbons, wHO maximized the dancefloor appeal; his ten-minute coalesce of "X Percent" was ab initio issued to DJs and caught attack so flying that it was finally released to the public. Contrary to common tactual sensation, it wasn't the number 1 12" remix single, only it was one of the to the highest degree democratic of the format's early days. The album as well included a preferably controversial birdcall called "Everyman," which called for people to claim tutelage of their have necessarily (in the sung, a down-and-out person asks for change and gets a tongue-lashing instead). With the addition of a match ballads and a hide of Holland-Dozier-Holland's "Baby I Need Your Loving," Ten Percent is one of Salsoul's topper single-artist LPs.
1978's Four Play and 1979's Locker Room followed, and both were to a fault released on Salsoul. Neither reinforced on nor continued the strengths manifest in the debut, merely Locker Room's "I Got the Hots for Ya" became some other club front-runner. By the end of 1980, the group was no more than; in 1999, Charly issued The Best of Double Exposure, which ties up Double Exposure's brightest moments.
