Soul & Funk
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Operating in a basement studio at the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, pipeline man Howard Neal and his appropriately named Shoestring label was Alton, Illinois’ answer to a question no one asked. Pressed in minuscule numbers and barely outside the 62002 zip code, the singles by The James...
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The largest set so far in this excellent series of American soul releases from Mississippi Records – and like the previous volumes, an expansive set that really digs deep into the most soulful corners of the 60s and 70s! The work here is a mix of obscure tracks and overlooked...
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Cairo Records, an imprint of Mississippi Records, presents volume 2 of this rare American soul compilation series. Following the precedent set by Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, which focused on folk, blues, gospel and old timey, this collection concentrates on soul music recorded between 1955 and 1972—expect plenty...
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Venomous Tex-Mex R&B and early rock n' roll from San Antonio's West Side scene. From 1961-67, Bexar county kingmaker Abe Epstein cut every teen combo to grace the Patio Andaluz stage, launching the careers of Doug Sahm, The Royal Jesters, Sonny Ace, The Dreamliners, and hundreds more throughout the decade....
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The Madlib Invazion Music Library Series was created by Madlib and Egon over the course of the Pandemic, and was a chance to give their creative friends the ability to stretch out and indulge in whatever type of music they wanted for release on the label. The music had to...
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We Release Jazz announces the release of a very limited-edition double LP for Boillat Thérace Quintet's 1974 Montreux Jazz Festival performance, with three bonus studio tracks! This gem from the Geneva, Switzerland band follows the acclaimed WRJ reissue of their 1974 self-titled album and 1975's My Greatest Love, their full-length...
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The second album that former Ikette P.P. Arnold recorded for the Immediate label was entitled ‘Kafunta’ and was produced by Andrew Loog ldham. A fine collection of classic covers including ‘As Tears Go By’ by Mick Jagger andKeith Richards, a beautiful take of Beach Boy Brian Wilson’s ‘God Only Knows’,...
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Two absolute MONSTER space disco jams from Jambonne. 110% party stating material - don't miss! Carpet Ride / Touch Down by Jambonne...
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Stephen Bruner, bka as Thundercat returns with his follow up to 2015’s “The Beyond / Where the Giants Roam”. The latest album titled “Drunk” is released via Brainfeeder and features production from Flying Lotus. Following his Grammy award winning contributions on Kendrick Lamar’s “To Pimp A Butterfly”, Bruner delivers arguably...
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On 2002's Some Boots, Boston indie rock trio Karate further plumb the depths of their omnidirectional musical explorations. Every chord and beat works to deepen the pensiveness of Geoff Farina's impressionistic lyrics, that explore the emotional complexities of nostalgia. The eight-song LP is housed in a tip-on jacket, and includes...
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The LA-based multi-instrumentalist and composer Nailah Hunter has been recording mystical folk and ambient-inspired music since 2019, releasing a series of singles and two EPs: Spells and, most recently, Quietude. Now signed to Fat Possum, Lovegaze is Hunter’s debut full-length, an enthralling album that draws listeners into her enchanting cosmology....
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Alan Tew's driving jazz-rock, sleuth-funk masterpiece, Drama Suite Part I is finally reissued to sate your appetites for arguably the very best library two-parter in existence. Originally released in 1976 but wonderfully timeless, Drama Suite Part I is at the top of every library funk collector's list. Racing out the...
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Ray Charles' self-titled 1957 album was one of the first handful of LPs issued by Atlantic (and was later retitled Hallelujah I Love Her So). As AllMusic reviewer Bruce Elder notes, the album is weighted about three to one in favor of Charles' own compositions, with the hits "Hallelujah I...
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The guts of the story are this: While on tour with the Bar-Kays in August 1967, Otis Redding's popularity was rising, and he was inundated with fans at his hotel in downtown San Francisco. Looking for a retreat, he accepted rock concert impresario Bill Graham's offer to stay at his...
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"... another thing I noticed with the sound is ... this one opens up as you would expect a 45 to, but there's much more detail in the mid-range so that is really impressive and a key to my enjoyment of this album as a whole." — Scott Wilson, The...
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Audiopile Review: <span data-sheets-root="1" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"One of the first releases in Numero’s beloved Eccentric Soul series was their incredible compilation of singles from the Miami imprint Deep City, which, among others, helped reintroduce the world to the incredible sounds of both Helene Smith and Betty Wright. Deep City collapsed after their...
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For 23 straight Saturday nights of 1982, The Chicago Party dance show assaulted Chicagoland UHF eyeballs with Spandex, Southside fly guys, tender tenderonies, magicians, contortionists, prismatic video gimmickry, and lip-synched singles by a rising regime of local post-disco casualties. Unfettered nightlife and outlandish humor poured out of oddball outpost The...
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From 1967-1980, Kansas City’s Forte Records captured nearly every iteration of popular Black music; basement beehiver-y from The Ray-Ons and Four Darlings, funky soul from Gene Williams Lee Harris, Louis Chachere, and The Fantastiks, downtempo disco ballads from James Whitney and Sharon Revoal, and the newly independent work of James...
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Late Night Tales reissues the classic and hard-to-find ‘Late Night Tales: Jamiroquai’, compiled by none other than Jay Kay himself. The 10th edition of what is now a classic series of compilations was originally released 20 years ago, and hasn’t been available on vinyl for over 15 years. A blissful...
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Labi Siffre burst onto the UK’s blossoming singer-songwriter scene with his debut album in 1970, alongside contemporaries like Elton John, Bill Fay and Mike D’Abo. Featuring early hit “Make My Day” and “A Little More Line”, the album was arranged and produced by Ian Green, noted 60s hit arranger. ...
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The most striking thing about Sampha has always been that voice. It's soul-wrenchingly beautiful. The kind of effortless, wavering tone that pulls at heart-strings, making each word brim over with emotion. It's stood out in his releases alongside SBTRKT, his previous EP for Young Turks back in 2010, and his...
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Brown Sugar is the debut studio album by American R&B singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist D'Angelo. It was released on July 3, 1995, by EMI Music. The album was recorded during 1994 and 1995 in sessions at Battery Studios and RPM Studios in New York City and at the Pookie Lab...
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Worldwide Underground is a confident 2003 album from US neo-soul queen with guests including Queen Latifah, Lenny Kravitz, Common & Raphael Saadiq. The album features the singles "Love of My Life," "Danger," and "Back in the Day (Puff)." ...
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Mama's Gun is the second studio album by American singer Erykah Badu. It was recorded between 1999 and 2000 at Electric Lady Studios in New York and released on November 21, 2000, by Motown Records. A neo soul album, Mama's Gun incorporates elements of funk, soul, and...
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YĪN YĪN, the highly touted Dutch quartet from Maastricht, returns with a sonically expansive third album Mount Matsu. Recorded collectively in their own studio in the Belgian countryside, the album is a kaleidoscope of sounds and influences, occupying a no man's land between Khruangbin and Kraftwerk, surf music, and Southeast...
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It is perhaps apropos that Queenie Marie Lyons's best known song is titled "See And Don't See." For all the acclaim that song has accrued, and all the times it has been compiled, reissued and bootlegged, Queenie herself has somehow remained unseen. How did a singer from Ashtabula, Ohio record...
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The Madlib Invazion Music Library Series was created by Madlib and Egon over the course of the Pandemic, and was a chance to give their creative friends the ability to stretch out and indulge in whatever type of music they wanted for release on the label. The music had to...
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Before electronic dance music blossomed and bloomed in the late 1980s and came to dominate the British club scene in the 1990s and beyond, house parties and dances were dominated by radically different sounds - from reggae and soul to funk and boogie. Like Death is Not the End's rave...
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Over the past few years, London based DJ and curator Sam Don has shone new light into the Reggae sub-genre of Lovers Rock with his comps 'For the love of You'. His deep, yet deeply accessible selections have opened the ears of many to the genre. With this new compilation...
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Two singles originally released on 7" by Risco Connection's Otis Gayle brought back to record collections in remastered 12" format. On the A side, Dr. Hook's worldwide charting "Sexy Eyes" kindly recreated in Reggae cover version. On the B-side Domenic Troiano's "We All Need Love" in a disco/reggae beat featuring...
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Mr Bongo is thrilled to announce a special RSD Black Friday edition of 'Speak Your Peace,' a stunningly beautiful album by the legendary Terry Callier. Featuring new cover art designed by Mr Krum, obi strip & limited edition transparent green vinyl. 'Speak Your Peace' is a testament to Callier's enduring...
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Psych Funk á la Turkish drives you again through the Turkish '70s psychedelic funk heritage, with another incredible collection of rare and unknown tracks for your groovy eastern dance sessions. You got your wig jumping with Volume 1 so you know what to expect! Comes with detailed liner notes and...
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Psych Funk á la Turkish is a welcome addition to the many reissues and comps of Turkish psych and funk that have been released in the last years (some of them strangely just dropping the same well-known songs again). Diggin' deep in Turkish sounds from the '70s and '80s, Turk-A-Disk...
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South London is bursting with creativity, new artists are refusing the conventional music industry model - they're collaborating and releasing freely, driven by the power of the internet. Tom is part of a truly exciting scene which also includes rising stars such as, Loyle Carner, Jordan Rakei, Cosmo Pyke, Laura...
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The ‘imaginary’ soundtrack to the adventures Of Kindaichi Kosuke, the cult detective book series by writer Seishi Yokomizo is on many DJ want-lists. Arranged by soundtrack master Kentaro Haneda and featuring a mysterious group of the best 70s Japanese Funk musicians, the album is pure undiluted Disco Funk. This reissue...
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On his sole album as a leader, bassist Melvin Jackson - a veteran of the Eddie Harris band (this album includes two Harris originals) - plays with a bow, plucks and plugs his upright bass into a Maestro G-2 filter box, a Boomerang, an Echoplex, and an Ampeg amp. The...
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This highly anticipated release quickly started to catch buzz following the single being premiered on Gilles Peterson’s BBC 6 radio show. The track brilliantly blends together spacey synth melodies, scratch guitar riffs, and a hypnotic vocal chorus with a disco-funk bass and percussion groove. It’s like if Atmosfear and Hi-Tension...
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One of the greatest double albums of the vinyl era, Sign 'O' the Times shows Prince at his peak. Here, Michaelangelo Matos tells the story of how it emerged from an extraordinary period of creativity to become one of the landmark recordings of the 1980s. He also...
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Like all double albums, Songs in the Key of Life is imperfect but audacious. If its titular concern - life - doesn't exactly allow for rigid focus, it's still a fiercely inspired collection of songs and one of the definitive soul records of the 1970s. Stevie Wonder was unable to...
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The story behind the making of the album that signaled the descent of Sylvester Sly Stone Stewart into a haze of drug addiction and delirium is captivating enough for the cinema. In the spacious attic of a Beverly Hills mansion belonging to John and Michelle Phillips (of the Mamas and...
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Funk, Psych, Rock, Soul, Soul & Funk
‘The Changing Tides Of Dreams’ refers to the way our lives and selves are constantly transforming, learning and growing; never fully sculpted or content. Written during a time of personal transformation for SHOTLO, the project balances unapologetic ethereal textures with a deep sense of nostalgia and longing, drawing on disciplines...
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Best of 2023, Funk, Jazz, Psych, Rock, Soul & Funk
"With this new release under psych/funk/jazz outfit Penza Penza, Panfilov stretches boundaries yet again while remaining melodic, accessible, and deeply funky. This instrumental record is chock-full of catchy earworms that effortlessly channel a heavy mix of Stax, Motown, Blue Note, Muscle Shoals, and the Brill Building: equally funky, heavy, jazzy,...
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London-based singer and producer George Riley is set to release her forthcoming EP Un/limited Love in November 2023 via Ninja Tune. Through a progressive sound that encapsulates soul, forward thinking electronics, ambience and so much more, Riley has, over the space of two critically acclaimed projects in interest rates, a...
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Released in August 1970, as well as detonating hard and reaching #4 in the US R&B charts, Stand By Your Man became a break-through single for Candi Staton, spending 14 weeks in the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 24. When it came to the follow-up to ‘Stand By Your...
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Recording both as Parliament and Funkadelic, George Clinton revolutionized R&B during the ’70s, twisting soul music into funk by adding influences from several late-’60s acid heroes: Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, and Sly Stone. The Parliament/Funkadelic machine ruled black music during the ’70s, capturing over 40 R&B hit singles (including three...
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Parliament's second album (following 1970's Osmium), and their first to be released on Casablanca Records. The album was released on July 3, 1974. It's title track was Parliament's first chart hit and remains one of the most well-known P-Funk songs. The album also contains a funk reworking of The Parliament's'...
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Limited 180 gram vinyl LP pressing. The album is full of the up-tempo funk that the band would be known for as well as the vocal harmonies of The Parliament's. "Let Me Be" draws on jazz as well as gospel influences. "Together" is a remake of "Together in Heaven" by...
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Funk Night Records is very proud to announce the first full-length LP ever by Rickey Calloway. A definite must have for all funk and soul collectors. Featuring backing tracks from The Dap Kings, Will Sessions, The Soul Surfers and The Soul Motivator <iframe style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3527652638/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/"...
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