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matthew larkin cassell - matt the cat - outsider - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Funk / Soul

1. More
2. Fly Away
3. Young Girl
4. Love To Love (bonus track)
5. Hold Me
6. All I'm Missing Is You
7. Another Day Gone
8. Close To You Tonight
9. When I Go Down (bonus track)

Here’s an overdue reissue of Cassell’s second effort, “Matt The Cat”, - the 1978 produced album fuses funk, R&B with soul-jazz and 70s pop - “All I’m Missing Is You”, sampled by People Under The Stairs.

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Originally from San Francisco, Matthew Larkin Cassell is a talented songwriter, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist. During the ‘70s-80s, Cassell fronted a trio in the Bay Area, opening for major acts like The Tubes and Sylvester. Playing an unique fusion of funk, R&B, jazz and soft-rock, he recorded his first LP, “Pieces” in 1977, followed by a 12” titled “Matt The Cat” in 1978. Both were privately pressed and modestly distributed at the time.



Fast forward to the early ‘00s: Cassell’s albums are discovered by beat diggers & hip-hop producers, which led to some his songs being sampled and included on mixes by people like Kon & Amir, Madlib and M.F. Doom. Famous labels such as Stones Throw and P-Vine reissue his music at the same time that his original albums reach outrageous prices in the collector’s market.