Purple Snow: Forecasting the Minneapolis Sound
by Various Artists
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7.0

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83

Universal acclaim - based on 10 Critic Reviews

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  1. Rolling Stone
    Jan 3, 2014
    70
    This two-disc set tells the story of that sound ["The Minneapolis sound"], from the proto-disco Seventies to the synthed-up Eighties.
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  2. NOW Magazine
    Dec 19, 2013
    80
    The 30 songs follow the scene’s progression: the first half is classically minded R&B and soul that evolves on disc 2 into danceable funk, with Alexander O’Neal’s new wavey Do You Dare and Ronny Robbins’s electro-rap track Contagious.
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  3. Mojo
    Dec 18, 2013
    80
    Highlights include the Earth, Wind & Fire-esque horns and harmonies of The Lewis Connection's Got To Be Something Here and tracks by Flyte Tyme, whose singer Cynthia Johnson left for Lipps Inc and Funkytown one-hit-wonderdom, but who on this evidence clearly deserved much better, [Jan 2014. p.108]
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