T GROOVE レコード& CD

Review: Yuki "T-Groove" Takahashi has long been one of the most in-demand remixers on the 21st century "nu-boogie" scene. He's not released many solo records, though. In fact, "Move Your Body" is his debut album. Put together with a crack team of musicians and a string of soulful guest vocalists (Enois Scroggins, Jovan, B Thompson, Winfree and the Precious Lo's all feature), the album sits somewhere between Incognito, Galliano, original New York boogie, slick, radio-friendly '80s soul and, on a couple of notable occasions, 21st century R&B. It is, of course, stylistically on-point - think punchy, Teena Marie style horns, George Benson guitars, D-Train synths and cowbell-laden drum breaks - and many of the songs sound like nu-disco anthems in the making.