This is courtesy Illegal Arts MP3s an excellent source for music and audio downloads, programmed more-or-less monthly by guest curators. The track is the classic late-60s R&B wonder Tighten Up by Archie Bell and the Drells. (Simpsons reference: when Bart wants to get a job, Homer recounts his one-man band as a teen, and in the flashback tells the gathered crowd that he's Archie Bell "and I'm also the Drells and this is how we Tighten Up!" He plays the scratchy riff and is then attacked by an organ-grinder monkey).
Illegal Art's July programmer Decomposure sums up the song nicely:
i know there's some marginally talented rapper out there itching to deface this song with another stinking pile of insincere cliches, and this song is just too perfect to allow that. If you can crank this up, hear that beautiful bassline in the breakdown and not feel protective of this song, you have no soul.
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