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We are more than thrilled to share a second collection of deep grooves and unreleased songs from Algeria's Ahmed Malek sound track works with you. Ahmed Malek who has often been compared to Ennio Morricone recorded the majority of these songs in the 1970s and early 1980s. His first releases...
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180 Proof Records & BBE Music continue to bring new life to the Strata catalogue, this time with the short-lived label's swan song: Larry Nozero’s 1975 passion project, Time. The final album to be released on Strata Inc., Time is a dream- like mix of mood, an album full of...
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Now available for the first time on vinyl, the third effort by the eclectic psychedelic funk trio. A seamless blend of funk, psychedelia, turkish music, krautrock, cumbia, north african grooves from the sahel and latin vibes, a unique display of influences that could only mesh in a modern global world....
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Harvest is the first Balthvs album composed by all three band members and the name reflects where the band is currently. After 4 years of the industry grind they have seen massive growth in the digital sphere with over 15 million streams; as well as gracing theaters and festivals across...
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Cause & Effect is BALTHVS second record. An evolution from it's initial chill psychedelic sounds portrayed on 2020's 'MACROCOSM'. Owing to it's Colombian roots, the album has plenty of Latin american rhythms, as well as ventures into Deep House, Turkish Music, Vaporwave, Trip-Hop and Disco. Their signature psychedelic elements are...
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Free The Robots unveils the second installment of his tribute project to his Filipino roots. The veteran member of L.A.'s Low End Theory collective (alongside Flying Lotus, Gaslamp Killer, Daedelus, Nosaj Thing) keeps his trademark punchy drum breaks and deep bass, but this time adds 100% samples...
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Give Me The Night is the 1980 album by ten-time Grammy Award-winning American musician and singer-songwriter George Benson. Produced by Quincy Jones and originally released on Jones' start-up label Qwest Records, the album charted number one on both the Top Soul Albums and Jazz Albums Chart as well as number...
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Formed by drummer Bill Curtis in 1970 the Fatback Band signed to Perception Records who issued this debut album in America in 1972. Recorded at Blue Rock Studio in New York, “Let’s Do It Again” featuring the soon to be patented Fatback sound, the album included originals like ‘Street Dance’...
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Doing Their Own Thing MACEO AND ALL THE KINGS MEN Discover the album that is utterly fantastic and appeals to music fans across funk, jazz, and pop genres. Maceo and "All the Kings Men" famously broke away from James Brown to "Do Their Own Thing," creating something truly spectacular. Rumors...
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Raw funky sounds from Penza Penza – maybe one of the best psychedelic funk bands we've ever heard, and for good reason too – given that Misha Panfilov is involved, and really helps the group find their sound! The production is wonderful – all sorts of weird bits and spaces...
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Reissue of Mai Yamane's debut album in which Makoto Matsushita arranged all songs! Released in 1980, this work is Makoto Matsushita's first produced work. This is a city pop masterpiece of Mai Yamane, a talented female singer who later played a role in recording and live performances by Masaharu Fukuyama...
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Everybody’s still talking about the good ol’ days! A rough and rugged collection of ol’ dirty classics that have inspired swarms of killer beats. A head nod to the sounds of Shaolin, the twelve chambers of Shanghai’d Soul have moved lyrical chefs and production geniuses alike to compose some of...
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Audiopile Review: Back to back slam dunks from Astigmatic Records, the debut album from Uniri follows quickly on from the EABS album we highlighted last week. Uniri is helmed by drummer Tim "Chiminyo" Doyle, a mainstay of the UK jazz scene who has been behind the kit for acts like...
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Originally released in 1974 on the Stax imprint Truth Records, The Round Robin Monopoly's funk-soul extravaganza Alpha returns to vinyl for the first time in 50 years! Evoking the feeling of a car chase scene in a mid-'70s action movie, Alpha lives right at the intersection of top-notch musicianship and...
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Double LP version. Gatefold. Z Records are back with another instalment of badass funk from the disco era with Supafunkanova Vol. 3 which has been selected by prolific DJ, producer, remixer, and record collector, Woody Bianchi. Woody digs deep into his collection, compiling a high-quality album filled with lesser-known disco,...
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Licensed from "Warner Records Sweden" and remastered from original material in Warner Record's vaults by Shawn Joseph at Optimum Mastering Bristol. 180 gr heavyweight vinyl Manufactured in Optimal Berlin. Recorded between Istanbul and Stockholm, it captures the era between Okay Temiz's Don Cherry Trio touring and his own band Oriental...
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Highlights, Soul, Psych, Funk, Jazz
Audiopile Review: Massive groove-aligned meeting of the minds made up of three heavy hitters in the world of psychedelic-tinged jazz-funk—legendary French library producer Janko Nilovic, drummer Igor Zhukovsky of the Russian outfit The Soul Surfers and major contributor to the Funk Night Records imprint, and the in-demand German guitarist JJ...
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Highlights, Psych, Funk, Jazz
Audiopile Review: Prolific Polish jazz-funk group EABS drop their 8th album, once again issued by their long-time label, Astigmatic Records. Their team-up with the breakout Pakistani band Jaubi last year brought EABS newfound recognition beyond the contemporary jazz scene in Eastern Europe. Taking the new attention and drawing it back...
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Created by musician and multi-instrumentalist Jorge Queijo, Nelembe came up with some drum rhythms recorded at random and stored on a hard drive. From them, and in the middle of the pandemic, Jorge Queijo built a musical concept that goes beyond borders and styles, embracing afrobeat and highlife, without forgetting...
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ontinuing Mr Bongo’s series exploring the wealth of material released through the record labels of Sonny Lester, 1977’s Funk Reaction finds Hammond B3 organ virtuoso Lonnie Smith at his most dancefloor-friendly. Dripping with groove and swagger, this album skates between jazz-funk, cosmic disco radiance, beat-laden slow-jams and conscious psychedelic soul....
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Next up in Mr Bongo's Groove Merchant Records reissue series, sees an outing for a much-loved and heavily sampled funk/soul/blues album by Junior Parker. Originally issued under the title The Outside Man on Capitol Records in 1970 with an alternative cover, this reissue replicates the Groove Merchant release titled Love...
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Following the great success of BBE’s 2023 reissue of Remi Kabaka’s 1976 lost masterpiece 'Son of Africa' comes yet another neglected and hitherto-hidden slice of pure Kabaka goodness: 1980’s 'Roots Funkadelia'. While the 1976 album was recorded at Island Studios London, roots was recorded and mixed in L.A. in the...
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Descending out of the southern night sky through a turbulent cloud of dreams, memory, longing and psychedelia, Saigon Soul Revival’s second full length album — Mối Lương Duyên — represents the latest act in the group’s resuscitation of the raw, heavy and subversive sounds of 1960s and 70s Saigon. Roughly...
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With unprecedented prosperity and growing worldwide fame in broadcast, game, and synthesizers, the 1980s Japan entered a golden decade. New genre splashes from technopop, Pacifica, and AOR/City pop merged local sensibilities with jazz-funk and Latin influences. Spiced in sugary US West coast sparkle and boasting naive lyrics with opulent arrangements...
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Inspired by Italian cinema and iconic seventies gangster films, Dario Bassolino’s début album »Città Futura« presents a compact collection of stirring cinematic arrangements. The Neapolitan musician draws on Brazilian funk, but makes no secret of his more obvious influences. The groovy sound of Italian duo Nu Genea is unmistakable, which...
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Following the success of the "Out Of Luck" single, we're wrapping up the Ghia reworks chapter with "The Other Side" - a dynamic 12" vinyl loaded with three contemporary funk tracks and three instrumental cuts. The release starts off with the title track on which we can hear another collaboration...
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First Word Records is very proud to bring you a brand new mini-album from Takuya Kuroda! Takuya Kuroda is a highly respected trumpeter and arranger born in Kobe, Japan and based in New York City. 'Midnight Crisp' is Takuya's seventh studio album, entirely self-produced and following 2020's highly acclaimed 'Fly...
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70's Latin Funk that kicks! The King of Miami's Cuban music scene, the late Ray Fernandez, is featured here fronting his enormously talented family band on an album that first brought him into the spotlight. Heavily influenced by deep funk and Latin music, their psych-tinged creations also incorporated many other...
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Continuing Four Flies' dedication to delving into lesser-explored periods of Italian music, Africamore takes us on a captivating journey into the intersection of Afro-funk and the Italian soundscape during the six years between 1973 and 1978 - a time when disco was looming on the horizon and the nightclub market...
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After being blown away by a few tunes – probably just as you will be after listening to this - Samy Ben Redjeb travelled to the infamous capital city of Somalia in November of 2016, making Analog Africa the first music label to set foot in Mogadishu. On his arrival...
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A double album boil down of Numero's 2012 45 x 45RPM art object Eccentric Soul: Omnibus. Gathering 25 loose remnants from across the American soul diaspora, Minibus connects the dots between group harmony, funk, disco, and modern soul, 1966-1980. Housed in a deluxe gatefold, tip-on jacket and illustrated with copious...
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After scoring a surprise hit in 2006’s red-hot 7” funk market with their cover of “C.R.E.A.M.,” El Michels Affair quickly turned around another smash 7” double-single of re-imagined takes of the Wu-Tang Clan. “Duel of the Iron Mics” sees the hypnotic piano hook of the “Liquid Swords”-classic elevated to intriguing...
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Off of the backs of the 2006 release a pair of 7-inch singles called the Shaolin Series, El Michels Affair would eventually drop the LP “Enter the 37th Chamber” in 2009, which covered classics by the Wu-Tang Clan. To commemorate the 15th anniversary of the landmark full-length, Fat Beats Records...
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In 2006, the slight buzz of a Brooklyn band called El Michels Affair started to sound a bit more like a swarm of killer bees when their instrumental rendition of Wu-Tang Clan’s “C.R.E.A.M.” was released as a 7” vinyl single. The band’s namesake Leon Michels and his production partner Jeff...
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Transcendental outernational funk and psychedelic jazz from mystery L.A.- based collective Sun Atlas. The sound of Sun Atlas is mystical and cosmopolitan, combining afrobeat, cinematic soul, spiritual & ethio jazz with space sounds, hip-hop breaks and a garage funk vibe....
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Originally released on Fat Beats Records in 2009, El Michels Affair’s landmark album Enter the 37th Chamber celebrates its 15th Anniversary in 2024. Featuring reinterpretations of some of the Wu Tang Clan’s classic anthems, the album flips raw, stripped-back 90s production into soulful instrumental arrangements. Cover versions of tracks such...
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Fantastic funk from one of the hippest combos currently working on the planet – the mighty Misha Panfilov Sound Combo, a group who effortlessly blend 70s-style funk with some sweet spacey sounds! The "astral" in the title here is very well-placed – as there's a slightly cosmic vibe to the...
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En Route takes you on a futuristic journey to the golden days of European library music and music for cinema - bending and constructing different tones with instrumentations that creates a whole spectrum of sound with basement grit....
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Prince Igor is Igor Zhukovsky of the legendary funk group The Soul Surfers – and he teams up here with DJ Boora for a set of lean, funky grooves! The tunes all have plenty of funk drums at the core – layered up top with samples and all sorts of...
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Lots of funky drums here – serevd up by a British combo who keep things nice and lean, yet find a way to add in all these cool spaced-out touches to their music! The keyboards come in with some cool spacey bits all around the edges – and most tracks...
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Glass Beams have announced their highly anticipated EP ‘Mahal’, out on March 22nd on their new label home Ninja Tune. Released alongside the news is the EP’s titular track “Mahal”. The genesis for the Melbourne-based trio, which formed around founding member Rajan Silva, was through the rekindling of childhood memories...
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Issued in 1975, this is the articulation of Zambia’s “Zamrock” ethos, covers each major quadrant of the Zamrock whole: it came from the mines; its musicians were anti-colonial freedom fighters, it envelops Zambian folk music traditions. And it rocks. The album was given two separate mixes and two separate presses:...
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Highlights, Psych, Funk, Jazz
Audiopile Review: Following up from his 2022 debut, The Children of Scorpio, Project Gemini arrives with his second full length for the Mr Bongo imprint. Once again, this largely solo project of Paul Osborne continues to blend the worlds of folk, psych, funk and library grooves into a kinetic album...
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A timeless trip-hop sound with jazz and funk influences released in 1994 on British label Mo' Wax. A duo of producers who had worked with rapper MC Solaar released their first EP Tribulations Extra Sensorielles in 1994. Philippe Zdar and Hubert Boombass became known under the name La Funk Mob,...
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LP version. A stylish selection of jazz-funk from Japanese label Electric Bird, selected by DJ Notoya and featuring Yasuaki Shimizu, Shunzo Ohno, Bobby Lyle, Toshiyuki Honda, Mikio Masuda, David Matthews, and Ronnie Foster. Following the success of the Tokyo Glow compilation, Wewantsounds once again teams up with Japanese Tokyo-based DJ...
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Sabura Djâ Nfrontam by one of the biggest names in the triumph of the electrification of Funaná, the great José Casimiro. The album was recorded in 1981, celebrates music made in Portuguese-speaking Africa, finally reissued for the first time. Sabura is a new record label based in Lisbon, but its...
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Brothers Gerard Mendes (also known as Boy Ge Mendes) and Jean-Claude Mendes display the intriguing combination of Creole Portuguese-African polyrhythms, American boogie, and Brazilian samba; the duo became massive stars among the Cabo Verde diaspora. This LP includes the killer boogie anthem "Mitamiyo." Sabura is a new record label based...
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"Archival reissue of the Afro-prog-psych Zamrock masterpiece, presented for the first time ever in a yellow vinyl pressing. Witch's musical arc is contained to a five-year span and, in retrospect, is a logical one. The band's fifth and final rock album -- released before the band splintered and an offshoot...
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