Product Review

Import four CD box set that gives the listener full access to Nile Rodgers' Chic Organization Ltd. Archives. The boxset includes Chic's best tracks, rare versions, outtakes, remixes, unreleased songs and all of Chic Organization Ltd's main productions including 'We Are Family' by Sister Sledge, 'Upside Down' and 'I'm Coming Out by Diana Ross and many others. Rodgers, his musical cohort Bernard Edwards and Chic recorded eight albums and is one of the most sampled band in the world. The bass line from "Rapper's Delight" by Sugarhill Gang comes from Chic's "Good Times", "Lady" by Modjo comes from "Soup for One", Notorious BIG sampled "I'm Coming Out", Will Smith rearranged "He's the Greatest Dance" by Sister Sledge. In addition, many artists were heavily influenced by Bernard Edwards' bassline in "Good Times" such as Queen with "Another One Bites the Dust". a few years after the dawn of Disco, Rodgers and Edwards disbanded the Chic Organization Ltd. #but they kept on playing and producing. Rhino Records. 2010.