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Out of stockPu poo platter is a flying saucer stranded in Brooklyn, NY back in 2019 It carried a group of (non-resident) aliens They feed on music and listen to food Despite struggling with life on Earth, they’ve grown to love the sunshine and donuts, and find fat white cats most intriguing They try to make their own music, both to practice...
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A concept EP based on a journey into interstellar space and on towards a super massive black hole A discovery mission in alien territory fraught with lost communication A blend of heavy and funky organic drums fused with cosmic textures Like Funkshone, the groove is strong, the sounds are sweet and the vibe is a fusion of all...
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Out of stockJackpot is honored to be releasing these four mighty reissues from Booker T & The MG's during their hot streak from 1965-1968 Likely, the most well known, respected, and beloved instrumental band of all time, their recorded output has also become one of the most cherished ever put to tape (AAA) all analogue process sourced...
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Jackpot is honored to be releasing these four mighty reissues from Booker T & The MG's during their hot streak from 1965-1968 Likely, the most well known, respected, and beloved instrumental band of all time, their recorded output has also become one of the most cherished ever put to tape (AAA) all analogue process sourced...
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Jackpot is honored to be releasing these four mighty reissues from Booker T & The MG's during their hot streak from 1965-1968 Likely, the most well known, respected, and beloved instrumental band of all time, their recorded output has also become one of the most cherished ever put to tape (AAA) all analogue process sourced...
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Betty Davis was a musical maverick with vision Image, substance, sex, and grit combined with a badass band that could deliver the funk bed backbone to the sultry music between the sheets After cutting two notorious discs for the Just Sunshine label (Betty Davis and They Say I’m Different), and Nasty Gal for Island...
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Life On Mars is the 1976 debut album by the American R&B/jazz fusion singer, arranger, musician, composer and conductor Dexter Wansel The album is considered to be a "space-funk" classic, inspired by David Bowie's "Life On Mars" Wansel composed his own sci-fi sounds with swirling, ring-like oscillators, cosmic sub tones, and...
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Out of stockPrised from their archive ’82-’86, the duo’s thwarted 2nd album ‘Déjà Vu’ is a party guaranteed session for debonaire dancers, laying the vibes down thick as treacle between the percolated, horny disco funk of ’Suspira’, the below-the-belt thrust of ‘Dance Baby’, and George Benson grease of ‘You’, with a...
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Inspired equally by the soul and funk of the Black Rio movement and the samba rock innovations of Jorge Ben, Serginho Meriti’s classic debut album presents one of the best – if least known – examples of funky Brazilian soul Brazil’s Black Rio movement had a lasting impact on the country’s marginalised black youth...
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One can hardly imagine the genre-busting, culture-crossing musical magic of Outkast, Prince, Erykah Badu, Rick James, The Roots, or even the early Red Hot Chili Peppers without the influence of R&B pioneer Betty Davis Her style of raw and revelatory punk-funk defies any notions that women can’t be visionaries in the...
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Out of stockOne can hardly imagine the genre-busting, culture-crossing musical magic of Outkast, Prince, Erykah Badu, Rick James, The Roots, or even the early Red Hot Chili Peppers without the influence of R&B pioneer Betty Davis Her style of raw and revelatory punk-funk defies any notions that women can’t be visionaries in...
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1970 seminal second album by New Orleans’ The Meters is one of their most beloved releases Produced by one of New Orleans’s preeminent musicians, Allen Toussaint Between backing such names as Lee Dorsey and Betty Harris, The Meters cranked out a follow-up that was even funkier than its debut Pressed on limited green vinyl...
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The Meters is the debut studio album by the New Orleans band of the same name It is an essential album in the funk scene and one that contains a lot of energy and soul Organist Art Neville led the quartet which consisted of guitarist Leo Nocentelli, the rhythm section of bassist George Porter and drummer Joseph 'Zigaboo'...
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Similar in sound to Look-Ka Py Py, Struttin' distinguished itself with its increased emphasis on Art Neville‘s vocal stylings (As opposed to the call-and-response shouted choruses from previous albums) The album included the R&B Singles hit "Chicken Strut," soulful covers of Lee Dorsey, Ty Hunter, and even Jimmy Webb, and...
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Over a period of 12 years from their Westbound debut album to the release of 1981’s “The Electric Spanking Of War Babies”, Funkadelic, piloted by George Clinton, redefined the way that black music was recorded and presented They scored 20 R&B chart hit singles and a dozen chart albums, but their influence was far greater...
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ESG were one of the first bands to sign to British indie label Factory Records, working with famed producer Martin Hannett on their early EPs The band's signature guitar sound from iconic single 'UFO' has been sampled in hundreds of hip hop records, and everyone from Karen O to Kathleen Hanna lists the South Bronx group as a...
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In this remarkable book, Douglas Wolk brings to life an October evening in 1962, at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem – an evening at the height of Cold War tensions In great detail, Wolk pieces together what took place (and what was recorded) that night, and illustrates beautifully the enduring power of one of James Brown's –...
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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 be great and able to be presented as a stand alone album...
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The only album “Milk” by the sister unit MILK that incorporates the PRE-HOUSE sound Also active as a backing singer for Hideki Saijo and Tomoko Aran Released as an independent album in 1987, this album is a remarkably re-evaluated Japanese boogie in recent years, a phantom rare edition The long-awaited re-press has been...
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Reissue, originally released in 1981 An essential album for lovers of Brazilian boogie During the 1970s, Marcos Valle moved to the US, tired of living under the repressive military dictatorship in Brazil He collaborated with musicians like Leon Ware and Chicago in Los Angeles Upon returning to Brazil in the 1980s, he recorded...
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Pierre-Alain Dahan & Mat Camison's Rythmiques is another iconic release in the hallowed Tele Music catalogue First appearing in 1973, it features tense funk, blunted jazz and heavy breaks all the way Considered the rightful sequel to Continental Pop Sound, it's a vital album for producers and DJs French drummer, percussionist...
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Reissue for the first time worldwide, originally released in 1976 Jazz funk masterpiece For every celebrated record in jazz, soul, and related music, there are probably thousands more with all the genius for which widespread recognition never came or was delayed In 1976, Dana Kaproff released one of the most wanted jazz-funk...
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Don't Stop is the third album retrospectively released by Ghia As the subtitle Early Works & Artefacts 1984-1987 implies, it features some of their earliest compositions as well as tracks that were recorded during the same period as their Curaçao Blue LP A range of genres, including electro, funk, soul, jazz-funk, synth pop,...
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Out of stockBBE Music is excited to present the first repress since 2006 of Roy Ayers classic Virgin Ubiquity albums, with brand new sleeve notes by Sean P When two volumes of previously unreleased Roy Ayers tapes entitled ‘Virgin Ubiquity’ hit the racks courtesy of BBE in 2004/5, it was a little mystifying as to why these recordings...
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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 they were collected on the aptly named Virgin...
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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 class and getting...
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Jimmy Jam Harris was just 16 when he began writing and arranging for Minneapolis 11-piece Mind & Matter Boasting a perfectly calibrated vocal quartet, an aggressive rhythm section, and stacks of Rhodes, Rolands, and Hammonds, the danceable act failed to win favor with frigid Midwest audiences Tracked in 1977, this bundle of...
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Mysteries Of The World is the stunning final studio album from legendary Philly supergroup MFSB Expertly co-written and produced with the mighty Dexter Wansel, it features the untouchable, sparkling masterpiece Mysteries Of The World The whole album is truly exquisite; a stylish, classy collection of pure Philly soul and...
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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 was monitored and filtered but Jaan...
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Texas born guitarist Melvin Sparks is one of the godfathers of Acid Jazz He first came to prominence in the bands of Jack McDuff and Lou Donaldson, providing an essential element in their funky groove- based classics of the late 60s He then became part of the Prestige Records funk team, under the tutelage of producer Bob Porter He...
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Out of stock‘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 Detroit — as a branch of Westbound Records...
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Repress with new master 1974's 'Moving World' is a holy grail of Ghanaian groove alchemy The title track and 'Brotherhood Of Man' are hard, grinding funk outings, while 'Jungle Music' has a more soulful groove There's also a bit of reggae in 'Dracula Dance' and old-skool highlife in 'Wale Tobite' The Kelenkye Band never recorded...
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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 thousands of recordings, including some of the most...
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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 Byrd was listening to, but not...
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Out of stockRecorded 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 Byrd was listening to, but not...
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JEROME BRAILEY funk drummer and former member of George Clinton’s PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC is most famous for co-writing PARLIAMENT’s 1976 gold hit single “Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Of The Sucker)" But thanks to poor management, in 1978 he and several other members mutinied and left the group That same year Jerome...
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Out of stock5 dance-able tracks in Side-A were written, composed, arranged and produced by Toshiki Kadomatsu who met with Anri’s previous title “Heaven Beach” Tracks in Side-B, Takeshi Kobayashi, one of Anri’s band member for that moment, produced them with moody & mellow tune This title was the 1st one of 3 titles by Toshiki...
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Out of stockFinally available in vinyl format! This record includes “CAT’S EYE” and “Kanashimi ga Tomaranai (Sadness Can’t Stop)”, both of which were produced by Toshiki Kadomatsu PBLA · Anri -...
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Out of stockDue to becoming a big hit from her previous record, “Timely!!”, Anri was brought to record her next album in LA with producer, Toshiki Kadomatsu The studio musicians that took part in making of this album include Leon Chancler・Ed Green (Dr)、Nathan East (B)、Paul Jackson Jr・Calros Rios (Gt)、Don Grusin (Key)、Ernie...
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15 tracks on 180 gram gatefold 2LP with liner notes Artists: Chakachas, Mad Unity, René Costy, Alex Scorier, Open Sky Unit, Plus, André Brasseur, Les Hélions, Chicken Curry & His Pop Percussion Orchestra, Placebo, Black Blood, SSO (feat Douglas Lucas & The Sugar Sisters, Nico Gomez & His Afro Percussion Inc, and...
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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 be great and able to be presented as a stand alone album...
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When a passionate DJ and crate digger intuitively selects music for a DJ compilation, without artistic compromise and without the burden of trends, AfroMagic vol1 emerges from the depths of his soul Herewith we present the new favorite phonomancer’s tool for all the DJs who experience the dance floor as a sanctuary and...
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Out of stockPaul Jackson (born in Oakland, California in 1947) needs little introduction Paul began playing bass at the age of nine and was considered by many of his teachers to be a musical prodigy Jackson was known as a “Musician’s Musician” and shaped a sound that launched a new direction in contemporary music: the so-called...
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"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 'If It Were Left Up To Me' for their...