Soul & Funk
$42.99
Funk, Jazz, Soul, Soul & Funk
The late ‘70s were such a creatively fertile period for Roy Ayers and his associates that many of his finest recordings never made it onto the official releases. Ayers kept the master tapes in storage until Peter Adarkwah of BBE Records in London got wind of them, at which point...
$29.99
Best of 2023, Funk, Psych, Rock, Soul, Soul & Funk
Silver Vinyl. Real people music recorded at a Quaker Boarding school in the mid-'70s. Mixing soft psych, vocal jazz, and sunshine soul, Shira Small and her high school music teacher Lars Clutterham created a peerless artifact of outsider magic. Imagination, wonder, the existential dread of Vietnam and math...
$29.99
Bewilderment - the feeling of being perplexed and confused - is the inspiration behind Pale Jay's new album. It's a soulful exploration of a family's gradual disintegration due to years of avoidance and miscommunication. During this difficult time, Pale Jay began to question the stories he had always lived with...
$39.99
The 1977 self-titled album from legendary Brazilian artist, Tim Maia. A fusion of soul, boogie, disco and MPB, featuring ‘E Necessario’. Tim Maia is rightly recognised as one of the biggest icons in Brazilian music. He was born in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro 1942, and released over 30...
$44.99
Third repress of 500 copies of this now-classic compilation of Estonian trumpeter Jaan Kuuman and his Instrumental Ensemble, a record originally released back in 2013. You won't find any funkier jazz on the eastern side of the iron curtain from this period in time. In those days all recorded music...
$39.99
‘Producer Bob Porter brought the Texan guitarist to Prestige in 1970, where he recorded three albums as a leader and over a dozen as a session player, showing himself to be a wizard at playing funky licks and energised solos. When Porter left Prestige to set up Eastbound Records in...
$64.99
Expanded edition which now features five extra tracks! This ground-breaking album features non-stop killer reggae versions of original funk and soul classics in a disco style. Reggae disco updates of seminal classics by Anita Ward (‘Ring My Bell’), Chaka Khan (‘I’m Every Woman’), Michael Jackson ‘Don’t Stop ‘til You Get...
$54.99
Recorded at Audio Video Studios - New York, NY 1956 by Alfred Lion and Rudy Van Gelder. It would be difficult to overstate the importance of the Jones brothers Thad, Hank and Elvin on the world of jazz. Between the three of them, their performances can be heard on literally...
$54.99
Recorded at Van Gelder Studio - Englewood Cliffs, NJ 1970. The experimentations taking shape in jazz at the end of the '60s with Miles Davis leading the pack pushed jazz in many new directions. Released six months after Bitches Brew, Electric Byrd shows legendary hard bop Detroit trumpet player Donald...
$54.99
Recorded at Van Gelder Studio - Englewood Cliffs, NJ 1970. The experimentations taking shape in jazz at the end of the '60s with Miles Davis leading the pack pushed jazz in many new directions. Released six months after Bitches Brew, Electric Byrd shows legendary hard bop Detroit trumpet player Donald...
$36.99
“The journey of South London collective Speakers Corner Quartet to where they are today has been a self-less, community driven calling. Starting as the house band at the legendary Brixton spoken word and hip hop night Speakers Corner in 2006, they spent the following decade backing up other artists and...
$32.99
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...
$34.99
Stoned Soul Picnic is vibraphonist Roy Ayers' third and probably best solo album, made in 1968 while he was still a part of Herbie Mann's group. The album dates from the earlier part of Roy Ayers' career as a leader, before he delved heavily into R&B and Funk fusions and...
$39.99
Soul & Funk, Soul, Funk, Rock
"Stripped down and funky beyond words, 1973's Fresh is quite simply the last great album by Sly & the Family Stone. Funkadelic guru George Clinton, a man who knows something about genre cross-wiring, tabbed Fresh as one of his all-time favorites and convinced the Red Hot Chili Peppers to cut...
$46.99
Limited edition of 1500 individually numbered copies on red coloured 180-gram audiophile vinyl. Introducing brings together ten seminal track from Shuggie Otis's core catalog: Here Comes Shuggie Otis (1969), Freedom Flight (1971), and Inspiration Information (1974). Shuggie Otis' three solo releases from the 1970s are now regarded as some of...
$44.99
Some musical nuggets have sometimes difficulties to reach the public at the time of their release, by lack of promotion or, simply, the misfortune of their destiny… That doesn’t prevent them, with time, to take value and to become pearls to be had in one’s discotheque. What Is It,...
$29.99
Northern soul floor fillers of the Eccentric variety. Compiling 17 handpicked gems from across the Numeroverse, this album keeps the faith for both newcomers and veterans alike. Soaring vocals, driving beats, and syrupy strings… expect a blend of classic Motown-inspired sounds with a unique British flair that is sure to...
$34.99
Soul & Funk, Soul, Funk, Hip-Hop, Rock, Indie Rock
One of five albums released by SAULT in late 2022, originally only available from a password-protected folder which initially disappeared after five days. Available on vinyl now for the first time....
$39.99
Funk, Hip-Hop, Indie Rock, Rock, Soul, Soul & Funk
One of five albums released by SAULT in late 2022, originally only available from a password-protected folder which initially disappeared after five days. Available on vinyl now for the first time....
$34.99
Funk, Hip-Hop, Indie Rock, Rock, Soul, Soul & Funk
One of five albums released by SAULT in late 2022, originally only available from a password-protected folder which initially disappeared after five days. Available on vinyl now for the first time....
$54.99
Funk, Hip-Hop, Indie Rock, Rock, Soul, Soul & Funk
One of five albums released by SAULT in late 2022, originally only available from a password-protected folder which initially disappeared after five days. Available on vinyl now for the first time....
$26.99
Frontier's Edge is the 2023 EP by the fiery, energetic, genre-defying group The Budos Band. Their first release after departing their two-decade-long home of Daptone Records and joining Diamnd West Records — founded by the Budos' own Thomas Brenneck and Jared Tankel — Frontier's Edge finds the group hungry, passionate...
$52.99
In association with DJ Amir's 180 Proof Records, BBE is honored to present another gem from the small-yet-significant Strata catalogue. A precursor to New York's Strata East, Detroit's Strata Records was founded in the late 1960s by former Blue Note artist Kenny Cox. Starting life as a music-led community organization,...
$54.99
Nina Simone's Baltimore can be seen as the one true hidden gem in her discography. Without any promotion or lead singles, Baltimore was a commercial failure with no chart position. In recent years, the album has been rediscovered and Baltimore has become one of her most popular songs of the...
$36.99
Soul & Funk, Soul, Funk, Rock
The Hunter is one of Ike & Tina’s most blues-oriented albums. It was cut during the blues revival period of the late 1960s. Released just a few years after the epochal Phil Spector-produced River Deep Mountain High, The Hunter boasts several fine blues workouts in the inimitably electrifying Ike and...
$39.99
Prince’s debut album, released in April 1978, marked the arrival of a heavyweight talent on the music scene. At just 18 years old, Prince Rogers Nelson wrote, performed, arranged and produced the entire album (with the exception of a co-write on single “Soft And Wet”). <iframe title="YouTube video player" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2-hcFcWYM08"...
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Reissue from the original Warner (Bros.) Records stereo master with digitally recreated original cover. Released in 1988 as the follow-up album to 'Sign O' The Times', 'Lovesexy' saw Prince rehash some of the material originally intended for the ill-fated albums 'Crystal Ball' and 'Black Album', reissued here along with additional...
$39.99
By 1994, Prince had changed his name to [Love Symbol], and his relationship with lifelong label Warner Bros. Records was under great strain, and Come was just one of several albums that Prince delivered in quick succession to release himself from his contractual commitments. Despite a lack of support from...
$36.99
Celebrating the band’s 40th anniversary with the reissue of the classic genre-busting debut album by the Bronx sisters ESG, ‘Come Away With ESG’. So the story goes Anthony H hooked up with Ed Bahaman and the band’s debut album, ‘Come Away With ESG’ was created. In the intervening years, it’s...
$36.99
One of the funkiest and most creative organists of all time, Dr. Lonnie Smith was first brought into the Blue Note fold by alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson who featured the B3 virtuoso on late-1960s soul jazz classics including Alligator Bogaloo, Mr. Shing-a-Ling, and Midnight Creeper. Smith went on to sign...
$18.99
French, Funk, Jazz, Soul & Funk, World
The track PSYCHOSE, unreleased to date, was recorded by CORTEX in 1977, for a film whose film was unfortunately destroyed in a fire.
The original soundtrack, fortunately saved, has recently been found.
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After his first album L’obsession, Louis Fontaine is back with Ritmi Moderni, a second album in which he explores all aspects of rhythm and groove, always in a cinematic style. “Ritmi Moderni” is an album inspired by the library music of the sixties and seventies, each track can lead to...
$36.99
Magic Source invites you to a journey to the obscure side of disco music. Led by producer & notorious tape operator Björn Wagner (of Mighty Mocambos, Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band and Mocambo Records), the group follows up on their rootsy cosmic debut LP Earthrising and last year's EP Riviera...
$39.99
Originally recorded in 1978 Un homme dans l'univers was composed by Janko Nilovic. This album was intended to describe musically the world events, a look at the news in sum. It's the most cinematic album he ever made and it will be repressed by Broc Recordz in 2019 for the...
$44.99
Mr Bongo presents a much anticipated second volume of ‘É Soul Cultura’, curated by the charismatic Manchester based DJ Luke Una. In May 2022, ‘É Soul Cultura’ Vol.1 seemed to land at exactly the right moment. Post-lockdown, optimism was back on the rise and the dance floors swelled again. For...
$39.99
Ebo Taylor “Twer Nyame” is being reissued on vinyl by Comet Records, pressed on high quality vinyl, with label designs and artwork as per the original release. Originally released in 1978 on Philips-West African-Records. Classic highlife sounds; uptempo grooves, vocals, tons of percussion, guitar, horns and organ lines. Featuring the...
$39.99
A Ghanaian funk LP from the afrofunk master. one of Ebo Taylor's rarest and most sought-after! Ebo Taylor and The Pelikans is being reissued on vinyl by Comet Records, pressed on high quality vinyl, with label designs and artwork as per the original release. Originally released by Ghanian Abookyi label...
$29.99
Fueled by the financial drippings of number runners and boosted by Hall-of-Fame running back Jim Brown, Cleveland, Ohio’s Way Out Records offered asylum for a rising crop of rogue soul men, rust-belt vocal ensembles, and trial-by-fire producers. Helmed by a friendly consortium of hustlers, police officers, and gridiron giants, pet...
$39.99
Three years we told the world about Columbus, Ohio’s secret soul history, Numero returned to the scene of the crime for further exploration. Victim: Clem Price and George Beter’s no-rep custom studio Harmonic Sounds and its Prix imprint. Built around a few stray boxes of demos, including Penny &...
$32.99
The 20th volume of our flagship Eccentric Soul series has all the boxes checked: Gun-toting, skip-tracing record producers, child stars, rip-offs, the “World’s Greatest Bail Bondsman,” swindles, soaring falsettos, and a dwindling rust-belt cityscape offering mere glimpses of hope before the record industry escaped for the coasts. Helmed by the...
$36.99
Black Rhythm Revolution! Is the first solo album from the jazz-funk legend Idris Muhammad, a New Orleans-bred rhythm king who successfully made the leap from the finest soulful jazz records of the ’60s to the nastiest fusion funk of the ’70s. Here we catch him literally on the cusp of...
$36.99
<span data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The very definition of ‘70s soulful jazz, Where I’m Coming From has all the hallmarks of Prestige Records at its finest, with an all-star cast of sidemen (The legendary Idris Muhammad! Hello to Madlib’s uncle, Jon Faddis! Greetings to the funky flute of Hubert Laws!) recorded at Van Gelder’s...
$39.99
"The Heliocentrics' debut album, Out There (2007) was a confounding piece of work. Drawing equally from the funk universe of James Brown, the disorienting asymmetry of Sun Ra, the cinematic scope of Ennio Morricone, the sublime fusion of David Axelrod, Pierre Henry's turned-on musique concrète, and Can's beat-heavy krautrock, Out...
$44.99
Funk masters The Meters influenced many groups in Soul music, with their as-tight-as-a-metronome grooves, exciting interplay and infectious vocal group shouts. The band released Rejuvenation in 1974, their best album to date. The crystal clear production was an improvement on the band's earlier works, maintaining their stripped down song structures...
$39.99
Soul & Funk, Funk, Rock, Psych
Funkadelic's self-titled debut may have touched upon drug-induced acid rock, but on their 1970 follow-up, Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow, the band blows the door off its hinges. Look no further than the album-opening ten-minute title track -...
$124.99
PARTYNEXTDOOR is a 21-year old producer, songwriter and singer from Mississauga, Ontario signed to OVO Sound. He released his self-titled, critically-acclaimed mixtape in July of 2013 led by the singles “Over Here” and “Break From Toronto” on iTunes. PARTYNEXTDOOR contributed to “Own It” and “Come Through” on Drake’s Nothing Was...
$32.99
Reissue, originally released in 1963. Texan rhythm and blues icon Barbara Lynn made an incredible impact in 1962 with the chart-topping debut single, "You'll Lose A Good Thing," which has since been covered by Aretha Franklin, Freddy Fender, and countless others. A southpaw guitarist who wrote her own material, debut...
$36.99
Razor-sharp production of the highest order from two of the masters of the early 80’s Rio de Janeiro boogie sound, Robson Jorge and Lincoln Olivetti.
Both were highly acclaimed music producers of the time, starting around the mid-70’s. Over the course of his career Olivetti worked with...
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