Spread across a handful of records spearheaded by King Floyd’s ‘Groove Me’, a new sound in soul appeared in late 1970 that put Jackson, Mississippi’s Malaco Studios on the recording map, seemingly overnight. The Malaco Sound might have felt like it came out of nowhere, but it was the end product of hard graft and some disappointment along the road to success.

After ‘Groove Me’ had been rejected by many important soul labels, Malaco put it out themselves, initially as a B-side. A New Orleans-based DJ went crazy for the track and began plugging it mercilessly. The record soon busted out of the south and, with national distribution by Atlantic Records, became a #1R&B/#5 Pop smash in early 1971. The record established Malaco, their Chimneyville label and former mailman King Floyd at a stroke, paving the way for more hit singles and two extremely good albums over the next four years.

For the first time on a UK CD, those singles and the best album tracks are collected here on “I Feel Like Dynamite”. The compilation contains all of Floyd’s important dance hits, several of which have been sampled by hip hoppers over and over again, plus the great deep soul sides that were a highlight of his albums and B-sides. For those who have known tracks such as ‘Please Don’t Leave Me Lonely’ and ‘Handle With Care’ for years, but who have never owned them on CD, these and others like them will be a welcome addition to their collections. For those who have never heard them before, they will be a revelation.
40 years on, ‘Groove Me’ and other great King Floyd hits such as ‘Baby Let Me Kiss You’, ‘Woman Don’t Go Astray’ and our title track sound just as original and vital as they did when they were first released.

1.What Our Love Needs
2.Groove Me
3.Baby Let Me Kiss You
4.Please Don't Leave Me Lonely
5.Got To Have Your Lovin'
6.Let Us Be
7.Let Me See You Do That Thing
8.It's Wonderful
9.Everybody Needs Somebody
10.Woman Don't Go Astray
11.Think About It
12.Here It Is
13.Messin' Up My Mind
14.So Glad I Found You
15.A Day In The Life Of A Fool
16.My Girl
17.Do Your Feeling
18.It's Not What You Say
19.Thank You
20.You've Got Me
21.Hard To Handle
22.So Much Confusion
23.I Feel Like Dynamite
24.Handle With Care