Investigation - (3:54)
126 BPM Close To You - (5:09) 97 BPM
Black Bag - (2:34) 96 BPM
Think It Over - (3:33) 89 BPM
Your Game - (4:12) 94 BPM
Get Down Philly Town - (3:03) 68 BPM
It Ain't Right - (2:47) 93 BPM
The Pot's Hot - (2:29) 101 BPM
Review: Germany's premier vinyl-sniffing label, Tramp, consistently impresses with the quality of their obscure funk and soul reissues. Here, they unearth a slept-on 1974 album from Carl "Sherlock" Holmes, a Philadelphia-based funk musician who started life as a twist artist in the early 1960s. Investigation No. 1 was his only album. It mixes rousing funk workouts (see the blazing "Investigation"), occasional Latin boogaloo experiments (see "Modessa") and heavy party jams ("Get Down Philly Town") with some odd but endearing downtempo moments, not least a sugary cover of dewy-eyed standard "Close To You".