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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,...
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Prised 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 massive...
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Soul, Funk, Soul & Funk, Rock
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...
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Soul, Funk, Soul & Funk, Rock
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...
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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....
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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...
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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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Psych, Funk, Soul & Funk, Rock
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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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Reissue her third best album released in July 1984 at 2LP / 33rpm! Including the collaboration number “Koi wa Magic” with Yoshinori Monta, it was recorded only in this album. An album containing rare songs such as the famous urban groove songs “A LOVE AFFAIR” and “I LOVE YOU SO”...
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Second album including hi-fi set covers, “Sky Restaurant” and “You & I”. A masterpiece of city pop arranged by Akira Inoue, Hiroyuki Namba and Hiroshi Shinkawa. ...
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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...
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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,...
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Soul, Psych, Funk, Soul & Funk, Rock
The third LP from Black Market Brass is a new take on afrobeat that combines traditional grooves with heavy, hypnotic, sci-fi sounds that reflect the band's myriad of influences as record collectors across genres. <iframe style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3779859158/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/" seamless><a href="https://blackmarketbrass.bandcamp.com/album/hox">Hox by Black Market Brass</a></iframe>...
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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...
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Soul, Funk, Jazz, Soul & Funk
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,...
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Soul, Funk, Jazz, Soul & Funk
BBE 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...
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Soul, Funk, Jazz, 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...
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Best of 2023, Soul, Psych, Funk, Soul & Funk, Rock
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...
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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...
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Soul, Disco, Funk, Soul & Funk
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 orchestral...
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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...
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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...
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‘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...
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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'....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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5 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...
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Finally 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.
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Due to becoming a big hit from her previous record, “Timely!!”, Anri was brought to record her next album in L.A. 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...
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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...
$34.99
Reggae, African, Disco, Funk, Soul & Funk, Reggae/Dub, World
When a passionate DJ and crate digger intuitively selects music for a DJ compilation, without artistic compromise and without the burden of trends, AfroMagic vol.1 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...
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Paul 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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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Soul, Funk, Soul & Funk, Rock
Reissue, originally released in 1968. Husband-and-wife soul duo Ike & Tina Turner produced an astounding string of hits during the 1960s and '70s, before Tina went solo. Unjustly overlooked at its time of release, the duo's first blues album finds Tina's passionately powerful voice holding plenty of grit and Ike's...
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Indie Rock, Soul, Funk, Soul & Funk, Hip-Hop, 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....
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Indie Rock, Soul, Funk, Soul & Funk, Hip-Hop, 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....
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Indie Rock, Soul, Funk, Soul & Funk, Hip-Hop, 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....
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Soul, Indie Rock, Funk, Soul & Funk, Hip-Hop, 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....
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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...
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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,...
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