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Soul
The Manhattans
1965–1985
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9 albums
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Souldies
Souldies is a modern revival of classic lowrider “oldies” soul—slow, tender ballads rooted in 1960s and early-’70s sweet soul and doo‑wop aesthetics, reimagined by a new generation of largely Chicano/Latinx artists in Southern California.
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Classify
Classify is a streaming-era microgenre that blends light classical technique with contemporary pop repertoire, typically presented as unobtrusive instrumental covers. It prioritizes soft dynamics, gentle tempos, and intimate recording to create a calm, elegant backdrop suitable for studying…
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Deep Funk Ostentacao
Deep funk ostentação is a moody, late‑night variant of São Paulo’s funk ostentação, emphasizing deeper sub‑bass, sparse percussion, and atmospheric pads while retaining the genre’s themes of luxury, status, and upward mobility.
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Disco
Disco is a dance-music genre and nightlife subculture that crystallized in the United States during the 1970s, drawing especially from African-American, Italian-American, Latino, and queer club communities.
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Philly Soul
Philly soul (Philadelphia soul) is a lush, orchestrated strain of soul music defined by sweeping strings, punchy horns, tight rhythm sections, and silky vocal harmonies. It balances gospel-rooted emotion with pop polish and sophisticated arrangements, often featuring extended chords, modulations…
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Boogie
Boogie (often called boogie-funk or post-disco) is a mid‑tempo, synth-forward strain of R&B that emerged as disco’s luminous sheen gave way to sleeker, funkier production.
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Smooth Soul
Smooth soul is a polished, romantic strain of soul music defined by velvety vocals, lush string and horn arrangements, and immaculately produced, mid-tempo grooves. It maintains the emotional directness of classic soul while softening its edges with gentle rhythms, extended jazz-tinged harmonies…
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Classic Soul
Classic soul is the 1960s–early 1970s strain of soul music that fused gospel's emotive vocals and church-derived harmony with the backbeat and instrumentation of rhythm & blues. It emphasizes powerful lead singing, call-and-response with background vocals, tight rhythm sections, and punchy horn…
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Motown
Motown (often called the "Motown Sound" or Detroit soul) is a sleek, hook-driven form of soul that fused Black gospel fervor and rhythm & blues groove with pop songwriting craft and radio-friendly production. Born out of Berry Gordy Jr.’s Motown Records in Detroit, the sound emphasized strong…
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Funk
Funk is a rhythm-forward African American popular music style that centers on groove, syncopation, and interlocking parts. Rather than emphasizing complex chord progressions, funk builds tight, repetitive vamps that highlight the rhythm section and create an irresistible dance feel.
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Soul
Soul is a genre of popular music that blends the spiritual fervor and vocal techniques of African‑American gospel with the grooves and song forms of rhythm & blues and the harmonic palette of jazz and blues.
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R&b
R&B (Rhythm and Blues) is a vocal- and groove-centered popular music tradition that blends blues tonality, jazz harmony, and gospel-inflected singing with a steady backbeat. It emphasizes expressive lead vocals, call-and-response, lush harmonies, and danceable rhythms.
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Electronic
Electronic is a broad umbrella genre defined by the primary use of electronically generated or electronically processed sound. It encompasses music made with synthesizers, drum machines, samplers, computers, and studio/tape techniques, as well as electroacoustic manipulation of recorded or…
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Ballad
A ballad is a narrative song form that tells a story in simple, singable stanzas, traditionally using quatrains in ballad meter (alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and trimeter with an ABCB rhyme scheme). Ballads typically recount dramatic events—love, betrayal, tragedy, murder, the…
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Albums
1985
Too Hot To Stop It
The Manhattans
Boogie
Disco
Electronic
1983
Forever by Your Side
The Manhattans
Soul
1980
After Midnight
The Manhattans
Funk
Soul
1978
There’s No Good in Goodbye
Manhattans
Soul
1976
The Manhattans
The Manhattans
Ballad
Disco
Soul
1974
That’s How Much I Love You
The Manhattans
Soul
1970
With These Hands
The Manhattans
Classic Soul
Motown
Philly Soul
1968
Sing For You And Yours
The Manhattans
Classic Soul
Motown
Philly Soul
1965
Dedicated to You
The Manhattans
Classic Soul
Motown
Philly Soul
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The Spinners
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The Stylistics
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The O'Jays
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Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes
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David Ruffin
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Archie Bell & The Drells
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Motown
Northern Soul
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The Dells
Philly Soul
Chicago Soul
Classic Soul
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Michael Jackson
Soul
Pop
Contemporary R&b
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