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Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Limited Edition for Record Store Day 2018! Two seminal cuts from Norman Whitfields standout project, The Undisputed Truth. Remastered and reissued on 180g vinyl.
If you’re not familiar with “You + Me = Love”, well that bass synth intro will have you hooked from the off. “Sandman” on the B side is a funk bomb nestled on the Smokin’ LP….must have!

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2LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Westbound)

Westbound Disco

22,99 €*

State Property / J.D. Hall

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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"In the beginning disco was the sound of New York’s underground clubs, and only those in the know understood what was happening. One of the key figures was Tom Moulton who virtually invented the extended disco mix. Detroit’s Westbound Records saw that using Tom’s skills could tailor their records to the dancefloor. “Westbound Disco” pays homage to this era.

This eight-track double vinyl album collects the strongest disco mixes to appear on the label. Five are by Moulton and others are by Issy Sanchez and Hippie Torales. Generally only originally available as promo 12”s or within commercially released albums, they are fine demonstrations of the skills of the mixers as well as the talents of the artists.

The music stretches from the extended soul groove of the Detroit Emeralds’ ‘Feel The Need’, to the proto electro sounds behind the Clark Sisters’ ‘You Brought The Sunshine’, and includes CJ & Co’s ‘Devil’s Gun’ – the first record to be played at the iconic Studio 54 – as well as obscurities by Eramus Hall and the Crowd Pleasers.

Featuring striking sleeve art based on the range bags in which some of the 12” singles were originally housed and complete with in-depth notes, this is a must-have compilation.
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Slow Love / I Wanna Get Into You

12" | 2018 | US | Original (Ultra Rare)

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Can't Stop Lovin' You / I Did It Again

Charm / Jessie Henderson

12" | 2018 | US | Original (Ultra Rare)

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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12" | 2018 | EU | Original (Columbia)

Hubert Laws

Family

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You Know How to Love Me (Long Version) / Living Inside Your Love

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The original 12” version of this badboy will set you back near on £150, so it’s a much welcomed official, remastered reissue. A favourite from the likes of Sadar Bahar and Mr Scruff you’ll be hearing this one a lot come summertime.

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Phyllis Hyman

12" | 2018 | EU | Original (Arista)

LP | 2018 | CA | Original (Inner Ocean)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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American soulstress Phyllis Hyman gets two of her much loved anthems officially reissued on 180g vinyl.
"You Know How To Love Me" is a 7 and a half minute lesson in love. It's got that full bodied production of this golden era - layering strings seamlessly with a busty brass section and a flute line that even the most hardened can't help but smile at. Couple this with Phyllis' sultry yet powerful vocals bolstered by a backing group containing, amongst others, the mighty Gwen Guthrie.
On the flip, "Living Inside Your Love" hits you with a soul jam, heavy on the funk - complete with hands in the air chorus. Just as perfect to close out a set, as it is to warm up the floor.
Two essential tracks for any soul & disco aficionado!

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Michele Manzo

Lonely Horizon

25,99 €*

12" | 2018 | EU | Original (Cree)

Release: 2018 / CA – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves

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Lonely Horizon is the 1st full length solo album by the talented funk musician and composer Michele Manzo. Drifting along a crest of lush chords, rhythmically driving vintage drum machines and rich, piercing bass lines Manzo has created a work which puts the mind at ease and compels the body to move.

Manzo’s Lonely Horizon was produced in his Italian studio and mastered by the legendary Dave Cooley of Elysian Masters in Los Angeles. With brilliant features from long respected Brooklyn MC J-Live and Mo’Funk Records resident boogie queen Moniquea, This 8 track vinyl is a must have for groove hounds, dance floor junkies and perpetual chillers alike.

In mid march of 2018 Manzo will be touring with UK soul staple Omar in promotion of Lonely Horizon’s record store day release. Two additional Italian vocal edits are included on the cassette recording and both cassette and vinyl are complete with exciting artwork which fits the sounds so closely that the lines between your visual and audio experience may feel blurred. Don't stress though, you’re just drunk on the funk.

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Leston Paul

Let's Party Tonight

12" | 2018 | EU | Original (Best Record Italy)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Limited edition vinyl!
Only one copy per customer!
Being totally infected in the mid Seventies by the new possibilities analog synthesizers were offering in sound and studio production, Leston Paul became the pioneer in electronic music production in the early Eighties in Trinidad. Leston Paul is one of the most in-demand music producers and arrangers in the Carribeans. It is said that he has worked as a producer on more than twenty thousand recordings.
In 1983 Leston Paul felt the time was right to record his debut album, 'The Arrival' which was done at K.H. Studios in Port of Spain. His obsession with synthesizers led to a heavy use of electronic instruments like an Oberheim synth, a Roland bass machine, a Roland drum machine and a Simmons Digital Clap Machine on this record. Most of the instruments were played by Leston himself. On vocals he used well known singers like Charmaine Forde, Nadie La Fond, Carl & Carol Jacobs, Joanne Wilson and Peter Britto.
Due to lack of proper distribution sales weren't very good. This circumstance makes this record very rare today and sought after.
Leston was introduced to Kool & The Gang's background vocalist Barbara Hernandez by his friend Jeff Medina. Leston had started to write and record All Nite Tonight in Trinidad and brought the song to New York. At the Millford Plaza Hotel Hernandez and Paul finalized the song and decided to re-record the track at the Sound Lab Studio. Kool & The Gang were playing a gig the same day of the recording session in New York and Leston managed to get them into the sudio to record the horn section.
Barabara Hernandez took Leston to Kool & The Gang's home studio in New Jersey and was very impressed by the sound quality they were able to produce and decided to adopt this model in Trinidad. While working on the recording of Arrow's 'Hot Hot Hot' album in New York in 1982 he had his first encounter with an Apple Macintosh computer being used in a studio and was deeply impressed. From the money he made from the production of Arrow's album he bought a Tascam eight-track recorder and an Apple Macintosh computer.
In the bedroom of his apartment in St. Augustine he set up the first home recording studio in Trinidad. Here he produced his next album 'Keys To The City' in 1987, which was completely done on a computer and showcases the potential of electronic music production. The track Everyday Life is very popular among djs and electronic music enthusiasts.

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The One "O" Ones

Radio Cosmo Disco

Giant RSD 2018 Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Official limited edition reissue of one of the rarest italian cosmic disco release from 1977. Previously available only as a 7" with short vocal and instrumental cuts for radio play. Now reissued as 12" including for the first time the extended disco version remastered from the original master tapes directly from the archives of the italian radio 101 that produced this song during mid seventies.

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Johnny Guitar Watson

LP | 2018 | UK | Original (Culture Factory)

30,99 €*

12" | 2018 | US | Original (Get On Down)

Release: 2018 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Limited edition for Record Store day 2018!

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Indian Ocean

School Bell / Treehouse

Don't You Know I Love You

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Chances are if you are reading this, you are probably already familiar with Dinosaur L's “Go
Bang” and danced countless times to Loose Joints' ""It's All Over My Face"". A prolific musician,
Arthur Russell produced an abundant amount of recordings over the course of his career.
Although a classically trained cellist, he released a number of successful underground dance
hits under various monikers and collaborations. As a solo artist however, his inability to
complete projects resulted in a limited amount of official releases; World of Echo (1986) being
his only full-length solo effort to see release in his lifetime. After releasing a number of
Club singles on labels like West End & Sire, Russell went on to form Sleeping Bag Records with
Will Socolov as an outlet for a sound not as restrictive as his ""disco"" material.
The initial concept was that Russell would provide the musical direction while Socolov handled
the business side. The label had huge success early on with Class Action’s “Weekend” remixed
by Larry Levan, and Russell’s seminal “Go Bang,” credited to Dinosaur L and remixed by Francois
Kevorkian. Although Russell and Socolov shared a lot of musical common ground, the difference
in vision began to show. Russell’s avant-garde sensibilities and perfectionism were not
compatible with an industry standard to release singles in quick succession, and his ""work in
progress"" approach began to be financially draining, ultimately resulting in the dissolution
of their partnership around 1983. With Arthur's departure, Sleeping Bag moved away from the
experimental and towards a successful hip-hop route with the growing involvement of Kurtis
Mantronik and leading to propel the careers of artists like Todd Terry, Just-Ice
and EPMD.
By the mid-80s, Russell’s health began to deteriorate after contracting HIV. Although the
business partnership did not work out, Socolov and Russell maintained their friendship. Aware
of the time he had left, Russell reached out to Socolov to record what was to become Indian
Ocean, his last release on Sleeping Bag and the last great collaboration between Arthur and
his old friend Walter Gibbons.
Unlike the rest of Russell's Dance collaborations, “School Bell/Treehouse” is very intimate
composition, putting to the forefront all the elements that defined him musically; with his
own voice and cello as the anchors to a piece that keeps growing in intensity, melding the
tribal rhythms of Mustafa Ahmed’s conga with percussions that sound like distorted drum
machines. There is a lot of beauty in this piece, with Peter Zummo's melancholic trombone lines
and Arthur's keyboard playing. Adequately ""mixed with love"" by Walter Gibbons, ""School
Bell/Treehouse"" really synthesizes the energy and soundscapes of Arthur's dancefloor.

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Star Quake

7" | 2017 | EU | Original (Athens Of The North)

Babyman (Carsten Erobique Meyer)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A Super rare disco / modern Banger to end the year. Star Quake came out ofColumbus,Georgiaand that's about as far as they got. 'Don't you know I love you' is A Relatively recent spin with O.G copies easily going for over $1000 and with good reason. A disco floater over some brilliant bass, I also edited the B side to remove the fade in so it can now be dropped easily in a club. Happy new Year.

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a sexy-Box

5x7" | 2017 | EU | Original (a sexy)

74,99 €*

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Schenkelspreizer presents

Büchsenöffner Volume 6

12" | 2017 | EU | Original (Schenkelspreizer)

9,99 €*

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Schenkelspreizer returns with their next chapter Büchsenöffner Vol. 6.
Fall is here to Spreiz!

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Nu York Groove Sessions #2

LP | 2017 | US | Original (Nu York Groove Sessions)

18,99 €*

12" | 2017 | US (Brooklyn North)

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Nu York Groove Sessions drops another hot LP of rare boogie, disco dub & holy grail cuts! Followers of Larry Levan's Paradise Garage, crate diggin fanatics & trainspotters alike should jump for joy as thus runs the full spectrum for you & yours. Super limited pressings so don't miss out!

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Brooklyn North

Volume 1

Release: 2017 / US

Genre: Organic Grooves

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She's Just The Type Of Girl

Circuitry

12" | 2017 | US | Original (Peoples Potential Unlimited)

12" | 2017 | US | Original (Cultures Of Soul)

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Circuitry is... Electro Wayne & Lo Joe

Written, Composed, Produced and Arranged by Circuitry for Circuit Shock Productions.
Recorded Live at: Short Circuit Studios 1985-1987
Drum Machines: Roland TR707, Roland TR808, Oberheim DMX,Kawai r50e
Keyboards:Roland Jx10, Yamaha Dx7 & Dx 5, Roland Jx-3p,Oberheim Matrix.

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Junior Byron

Trying To Hold On

Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Cultures of Soul is back! This time it's with a new set of 12"s - the Carib Boogie Synth series. Featuring the iciest synths, the slickest basslines, and other '80s-sounding vibes from the Caribbean islands, all of the tracks are fully licensed. First up in the series is the killer Junior Byron track "Trying To Hold On," written and produced by Wild Fire's Oliver Chapman and originally released on the Wild Fire label back in 1985. The A-side includes the original mix as well as the Version. On the B-side we've got the epic "Megamix." The track was reworked by Gerd Janson, who created the mix old-school style with two copies of the record, a mixer, and an EFX box. Adding the final touches to this track is mixing and mastering engineer LOPAZZ, who mastered many of the best techno tracks in the Get Physical catalog and released the seminal dance-classic "I Need Ya" on Output.

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Bad Luck / Don't Leave Me This Way Feat. Teddy Pendergrass Tom Moulton Mixes

12" | 2017 | EU | Original (Philadelphia International)

Phoenix / East 6th Street

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes were one of the most popular groups on Gamble & Huff's Philadelphia International label, clocking up a number of hits in the mid 70's.

This release featuring two of their recordings, typify the cream of Philadelphia International and Sigma Sound studios dominance of the mid 1970s dance-floor at the absolute height of their creativity and power.

"Bad Luck" spent an unprecedented 11 weeks on the No.1 slot on Billboard's U.S. Dance chart in 1975 and has since become one of the biggest dance-floor staples ever recorded.

On the flip we have the original full version of the classic "Don't Leave Me This Way".
Both songs are mixed to perfection by Tom Moulton and both are state-of-the-art lessons in what exhilarating Dance Music is all about. Fully remastered on limited
edition 180 gram heavyweight vinyl.

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Aquarian Dream

12" | 2017 | EU | Original (Buddah)

Life On Mars / The Sweetest Pain

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Norman Connors produced Aquarian Dream first appeared in 1976 with their debut album on Buddah, featuring the extremely popular 'Phoenix' along with the club dancer 'East 6th Street'.
Both tracks were only released previously on 12" in the UK and quickly became a huge collector's item with the release averaging £50 on Discogs some 38 years later.
Fully remastered on limited edition 180 gram heavyweight vinyl, officially reissued for the first time since its original release.
A much loved & timeless disco track sampled many times in the house music community.

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Dexter Wansel

12" | 2017 | EU | Original (Philadelphia International)

It's a Better Than Good Time / Saved By the Grace of Your Love

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Yet another highly in-demand 12" from the Philadelphia International stable and an artist whose records never go out of date! This is a killer double-sided beauty with the frenetic and jazzy "Life On Mars" from his debut 1976 album on the top-side and the mellow all-time classic and soul boy anthem "The Sweetest Pain" from 1979 on the flip.
Two very different sides of a great artist, both of which show the level of diversity that he was capable of producing. The last legitimate release of this was back 1999 and a Mint copy will currently set you back circa £50, if you can ever find one.
Fully remastered on limited edition 180 gram heavyweight vinyl.

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Gladys Knight & The Pips

12" | 2017 | EU | Original (Buddah)

It's In The Rhythm Unreleased Mixes

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Following on from our previous Gladys Knights & The Pips 12" ('Love Is Always On My Mind'/'Bourgie Bourgie' Cat No: DISCO115) it gives us great pleasure to re-issue her most sought-after and in-demand 12" - the Walter Gibbons remix of "It's A Better Than Good Time" backed with the full version of "Saved By The Grace Of Your Love".

This is a legendary and super-rare 12" which was only ever issued in Canada and has become something of a holy grail for serious dance music collectors over the years.
A decent condition copy will currently set you back £300+ and that's only if you're lucky enough to find one! it's a Gibbons master-class like you know he can.
Fully remastered on limited edition 180 gram heavyweight vinyl.

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Man Friday

12" | 2017 | US | Original (Soundmen On Wax)

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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12" | 2017 | EU | Original (Preservation)

Thelma Houston

Summer Nights

20,99 €*

Electric Lady / Under The N Fluence

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Thelma Houstons' unreleased Soulful AOR tracks from 1980!
After Thelma ended her contract with Motown, she went to work with Terry Woodford to record a set of tracks for her next album. Unfortunately it didn't happened and the tracks was shelved for 36 years. Until now.
Smooth breezy soulful AOR with the Wishbone inc signature sound, (Byrne and Barnes, Robert Byrnem Mac McAnally and others) remastered and released on vinyl for the first time.
Coverart by Yoko Honda - Limited to 500 worldwide!

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Love Cryme

12" | 2017 | US | Original (Eddie Pendergrass Presents)

18,99 €*

In Praise Of Mitochondria

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Eddie Pendergrass presents Love Cryme’s 45rpm 12-inch “Electric Lady" and "Under The N Fluence” .
This great boogie/new funk releases contains the vocal and instrumental versions.

Love Cryme is back with another club-ready pressing of their signature Sacramento based boogie funk sound. This is the much anticipated follow up to their sought after 2013 debut on RysQue’ Records, and is Eddie Pendergrass Present’s first 12-inch offering.

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Minoru 'Hoodoo' Fushimi

2LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Left Ear)

28,99 €*

Maurice Moore And Family Affair Band

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Oddball Japanese electro-fueled vocoder funk with occasional raps from the 80s, including unreleased material...

Japanese Electro original, Minoru Hoodoo Fushimi, self-released four albums. Two vinyl LPs and two CDs between 1985 and 1992. Melbourne`s Left Ear Records have selected twelve tracks from Minoru`s four albums, and a further two from the archives, for a double vinyl retrospective.

Minoru set out to combine his love of all things Funk with traditional instruments and song from his homeland. He uses shamisen on Thanatopsis. Where Parliament`s Flashlight, George Clinton`s Atomic Dog, ride with Osamu Kitajima`s Masterless Samurai. Shakuhachi on Mizuko No Tamashii Hyakumademo. Nohdashi puts koto with a Jimmy Castor riff. All set to popping and locking beats.

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Everything That Shines Ain’t Gold

12" | 2017 | EU | Original (Melodies International)

12" | 2017 | EU | Original (Best Record Italy)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A few years ago, Melodies family members Floating Points and DJ Red Greg got their hands on a couple of original 70s obscurities. While these standout records shone brightly in their own right, the two DJs saw the potential to create their own edits behind the scenes, finely attuning the original versions to modern-day dancefloor standards. Of these new recordings, they cut only five copies for themselves and a few DJ friends of theirs.

Today, Melodies International is very proud to bring you MEL006 and MEL007. Fully licensed, lovingly mastered to the highest possible standards and carefully edited to dial up that dancefloor enjoyment, these two ‘You’re A Melody’ classics weren’t originally meant to get official releases. But due to popular request, they are now available to play and share in very special moments at parties around the world.

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Billy Woost

Body Body Love

The New Jersey Connection

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Best Record Italy came out with another obscure italian disco record from 1977. This 12" release contais three solid dancefloor funky disco burners like 'Body, Body Love' unreleased Disco Version) and on the B side : 'Please Touch Me' and 'Sleep' from the Billy Woost Album.

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Red Light Green Light Feat. Cynthia Wilson

7" | 2017 | UK | Original (Super Disco Edits)

11,99 €*

12" | 2017 | US | Original (Cultures Of Soul)

Release: 2017 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Well back in 1981 The New Jersey Connection gained cult Jazz Funk status at the very first time of trying!! The record "Love don't come easy" was a worldwide smash. Unfortunately no follow-up materialised. But the core of the group stuck together with writer and producer Eddie Saunders at the helm. Roll on to 1987 and a few musical ideas were recorded in the studio. Roll on to 2017 with a few new members a brand new beautifully crafted soul disco tune has emerged! With the writing skills of Eddie Saunders and his partner Perthea Brown plus the dynamic vocals of Cynthia Wilson we are happy to bring you "Red Light Green Light" A classic love struggle asking are you together or not!

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Benjamin Ball

I Just Keep Dancing

LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Wan Chai)

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The second single from the Cultures of Soul compilation, Boogie Breakdown: South African Disco 1980 to 1984, Benjamin Ball's "I Just Keep Dancing" is a synth and drum machine-fueled track that also reveals Ball as one of South Africa’s earliest rappers.
Boston-bred DJs, Soul Clap provide an excellent rework of the track adding some big room club flavor to the track for DJs around the world. Soul Clap are the globe trotting DJ duo of Eli Goldstein and Charles Levine who've done everything from headlining clubs in Ibiza to creating DJ mix albums for Fabric and DJ Kicks to making records with George Clinton, Sly Stone, and Robert Owens. Licensed directly from the artist and housed in a custom disco sleeve this edit won't be available anywhere else.

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7-A-Side

Super Dancing Hits

21,99 €*

12" | 2017 | US | Original (Queen Constance)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Wan Chai Records is a Hong-Kong based label, specialized in rare Asian records and quality reissues.
For their first release, they wanted to highlight a promotional record released at 500 copies only in Hong-Kong for a famous Soda brand. It was offered with a pack of bottles in 1977 and never been released.
Produced and arranged by Noel Quinlan, this Album is a mix of Funk and Soul covers. The result is an awesome LP including groovy covers, from the classic “Lowdown” by Bob Scaggs, to a Funky “I Shot The Sheriff” by Bob Marley with a deep Fender Rhodes, and 12 other outstanding tracks.

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Cloud One

Doin' It All Night

12" | 2017 | US | Original (Austin Boogie Crew)

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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DBH Music welcomes Queen Constance Records to the label Family! Another fantastic label runned by the Mastermind Peter Brown from New York City. We're honoured to present you in future some pearls of Disco & Funk on black gold! Starting with the essential and hard to find "Cloud One - Doin' It All Night/ Dust To Dust" from 1979, written and produced Peter Brown & Patrick Adams!

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Diamond Ortiz

Goodies EP

LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Habibi Funk)

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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San Francisco native and modern funk wiz Diamond Ortiz makes his first appearance on Austin Boogie Crew Records with "Goodies", a sweet and enticing 12” EP of quality jams!

Coming off the buzz of his acclaimed "Loveline" LP, Diamond takes a slightly more chill but equally party-centric approach on Goodies. This is the first 12” release on ABC and it’s fire from front to back!

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Al Massrieen

Modern Music

24,99 €*

LP+CD | 2017 | EU | Original (Schema)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Al Massrieen: Disco, Funk and modernized Arabic Pop from Egypt

In the beginning of Habibi Funk, our search was focussed on vinyl records. Around a year ago though, we got to the point where we realized that it became substantially harder to discover music, that we enjoyed and hadn’t heard before. It became apparent that it was time to start looking for other formats. Cassette tapes were the obvious alternative. These were introduced in the arabic world around the late 1970s. In some countries they took over a bit earlier, in others a bit later, but eventually they pushed the vinyl format out of the market in the 1980s. In Egypt this trend already even started in the late 1970s.

Al Massrieen was one of the first bands I learned about once I discovered the tape format for myself. They were really popular in Egypt in the 1970s and the more of their music I found on either tapes or Arabic pirate mp3 sites, the more I was becoming a fan. Only very few bands from the region can match the band’s versatility as well as their strive for innovation. Hany Shenoda is the man behind the Al Massrieen band. He is a reknown figure of the Egyptian music scene and has worked with everyone from Abdel Halim Hafez to Mohamed Mounir. Al Massrieen was his attempt to introduce his ideas of modernizing Egyptian music, heavily encouraged by Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt's only winner of the Nobel Price for literature) after discussing his ideas with him.
Al Massrieen's sound goes from lush disco like “Sah” to psych rock like “Horreya” or incredible jazz fused pop on songs such as “Edba Mn Gded”. I was shocked to realize the band seemed to be hardly known outside Egypt, even though I feel they're at least on the same level as Ahmed Fakroun. An relative obscurity which I largely attribute to the fact that their releases never have been pressed on vinyl (apart from a Greece best of LP which wasn’t a strong compilation of the group’s songs). One way or another it felt like this band and especially their composer, band leader and overall brain Hany Shenoda was in need to get some recognition outside of Egypt. The release is fully licensed from the band and comes with an extensive booklet with liner notes, interviews and unseen photos.

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Rovi (Piero Umiliani)

Discomusic

LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Türküola)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Considering the incredibly wide range of styles adopted by Piero Umiliani during his career, it will come as no surprise for you to know that he also produced disco. At that time in Italy disco had still an exotic appeal and was considered apt to accompany a genre of movies that was at once erotic and comic. “Discomusic” is some sort of a white version of a sound that is inherently black, a unique record within Umiliani‘s discography. The track “Discomania” became popular as the closing theme of 90° Minuto, a famous Italian football TV show.

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Baris Manco

Kayalarin Oglu 2023

21,99 €*

12" | 2017 | EU | Original (Favorite)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Türküola’s new vinyl release of Kayalarınoğlu 2023 is based on Barış Manço & Kurtalan Ekspres’ 1975 album “2023”. On the other hand you can hear tracks like “Estergon Kalesi”, “Ben Bilirim Ben Bilirim” as well. “Estergon Kalesi” was the latest single released before the 2023 LP and “Ben Bilirim” was the A side of the single which contained single version “2023” at the flipside. In addition to these additional tracks you can hear the unedited version of “Kolbastı” first time on vinyl.
2023 was Manço’s most experimental album which contained a lot of electronic sounds of analogue synthesizers and also early drum machines. The track “Kayaların Oğlu-2023” has a touch of early electronic music of its age just like Jean Michael Jarre and Chezlaw Niemen. “Ben Bilirim” is a power funky song while the band’s experiments in Baykoca Destanı drives us to concept albums of pogressive rock groups such as Genesis, Yes, Renaissance etc. You can hear moody Anatolian Rock ballads in “Uzun İnce Bir Yoldayım” and “Yol Verin ağalar Beyler”. In both tracks you can hear a powerful rhythm section formed of two drummers and one percussionist.
The cover art also reflects the esthetic approach of Türküola during 1970s and 1980s. After the accurate reissues of 2023 by different companies, Türküola gives a new path to interpret the album once again but this time in a new vision.

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Calvin B. Rhone

I Believe!

13,99 €*

12" | 2017 | EU | Original (Hi & Fly)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Favorite Recordings proudly presents this new official single reissue of I Believe! by Calvin B. Rhone: A very rare Gospel/Disco masterpiece, originally released at only 1000 private-press copies, and surprisingly unknown and underrated until today.
Calvin Bernard Rhone, a native of Los Angeles, has been ministering in word and song for more than 40 years throughout the US and abroad. He acknowledges that he is passionate about music; yet purposed for ministry. Beginning his professional singing career at age eight, he has shared the stage with possibly every major Gospel artist from the 60’s to present.
In 1983, he released the album Intimate Friends on his own label, C.B.R. Records. Recently discovered by DJ and collector Charles Maurice, the LP has never received the attention and fame it deserves. It was anyway obvious for the DJ and Favorite Recordings, that some of the tracks it includes would for sure become real classics for all Disco and Funk music lovers and deejays.
Officially licensed to Calvin B. Rhone himself, it’s today reissued for the first time, as a 3 tracks vinyl single.

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Trevor & Lisa

L.A. Nights

11,99 €*

12" | 2017 | US | Original (Hobo Camp)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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L.A. Nights, their new EP on Hi & Fly is a new milestone in the band discography, setting it to a next level. The title track is a cover of the famous Yasuko Agawa’s track (itself based on Light of the world’s “London Town”) inspired by strong Zapp and West-Coast influences. Fat basslines, tight horn riffs and funky talkbox parts galore!
“Break Droppin’” and “The Battle” are infectious medleys played by the band with an extended line-up including extra brass, strings and percussions. In “Breaks Droppin’”, you’ll find a carefully selected mix of cuts, ranging from the Hawaiian Hal Bradbury’s “You win, I Lose”, to Julius Brockington’s “This Feeling (Freedom)”, passing through CTI and other sampler friendly tracks.
“The Battle” is a b-boy style up-tempo selection, mixing Latin influences with some classic battle cuts and evolving to a Disco finish, with a cover of the great Brothers’ break “Under the Skin”. It is 10’ long, the beats & percussions are heavy and the extended band is in top condition. It won’t let some rest to your feet for sure!
Last but not least, it's also the comeback of Hi & Fly, a French diggers' reference since 2000. So, one reason more to have a listen… Enjoy!

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M5K

Absolutely Real EP

20,99 €*

12" | 2015 | EU | Original (Digging Deeper)

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Melbourne's M5K...where G-Funk, Modern Funk, Boogie, House, and Hip Hop all intersect to give you the most bang imaginable (via real synthesizers and drum machines). West Coast Lead Lines meet Detroit Sub Bass Frequencies; Raw Drum Machine Stabs Snap and Crack while Lush Chords flow from Analog and Digital synths. Ultimately, deep vibes are created, arranged, and mixed down into undisputed dance-floor bangers, making real thick and juicy jams for the ears and bodies of party-goers. The "Absolutely Real" EP on Hobo Camp Records bangs out 5 tracks of Raw Street-Level business (featuring Midnight Runners on the track "Let's Try It Out"), straight from M5K's Melbourne Studio right to your sound-system.
Instruments used: tr808, SCI Drumtraks, Oberheim DX, Roland JV1080, JX 3P, JX8P, Juno 106, Juno Alpha, Fender Rhodes MK1, Polymoog, RE 201, Tascam Portastudio

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Jay Airiness

Disco Riental

10,99 €*

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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4 surprising tracks tailored for the dance floor and ready to delight the open-minded and
curious listener.

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Brazilian Disco Boogie Sounds Volume 2

CD | 2015 | EU | Original (Favorite)

CD | 2015 | EU | Original (Favorite)

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Just one year after the release of Brazilian Disco Boogie Sounds’ compilation, Favorite Recordings presents the 2nd edition of its acclaimed series.

At the control this time is French DJ and producer Charles Maurice, digging again in his collection and travelling to Brazil for the occasion in order to find some local hidden treasures. The result comes as nine additional obscure hits from the Brazilian Funk-Boogie-Disco scene during the years of 1977 to 1984.

At that time musicians and arrangers such as Lincoln Olivetti, Robson Jorge, and Oberdan Magalhães along with Banda Black Rio were responsible for the new music scene. They’d dominated the studios with sophisticated and original arrangements that have forever transformed Brazilian musical. This music, at that point, had gained a new style and great international respect that has remained still.

Brazilian Disco Boogie Sounds Vol.2 pays tribute to this great era, coming out in a deluxe vinyl edition with old-school tip-on jacket, including notes and original artworks.

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Voilaaa

On Te L'Avait Dit

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Pursuing their explorations of international Funk and Disco music, Favorite Recordings and Patchworks present us Voilaaa. Following a first 2 tracks single acclaimed this summer and clearly revealing the Afro-Disco inspiration of this new experience, here comes Voilaaa’s first album, titled On te l’avait dit. After his projects such as The Dynamics, Mr President, Mr Day, Patchworks Galactic Project, or Taggy Matcher, the insatiable French producer therefore returns to his first love and specialty, Disco music, staring this time at the African and Caribbean influences. The 10 tracks of the album are instantly up to expectations, chaining hit after hit tirelessly, and offering brilliant collaborations with Sir Jean, Pat Kalla, Renaud Bilombo, or label mates Hawa and Fouley Badiaga.

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CD | 2015 | EU | Original (Favorite)

AOR Global Sounds

13,49 €* 14,99 € -10%

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Following French Disco Boogie Sounds, DJ and producer Charles Maurice is back, this time engaging a musical World tour, in the search of hidden productions with a touch of AOR style. The result is AOR Global Sounds, a new compilation made of 8 forgotten and rare tracks produced between 1977 and 1982 in all parts of the globe. From Erik Tagg in Netherlands, and Arian in Ex-Yugoslavia, to Diane Tell in Quebec, and Nohelani Cypriano in Hawaï, Charles Maurice found a real link between these 8 great songs and artists, in their music clearly infused with this special AOR touch, in a Soulful and Disco way. This perfect soundtrack for the summer has been fully remastered from original versions!

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LP | 2015 | UK | Original (Cache Cache)

Plastic Dance Volume 1

18,99 €*

12" | 2015 | US | Original (Peoples Potential Unlimited)

Release: 2015 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Pop

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Having spent exactly ten years living off the small change and 45 adapters of each others pockets, Finders Keepers/Cache-Cache Records co-founders Andy Votel and Doug Shipton spread their wings and pool their DJ bags for a new series of sporadic various artists compilations focussing on the global punk and makeshift electro records that have kept their beer soaked dance floors and distorted sound systems moving in recent years. Meet the younger sarcastic sisters of some of the classic Finders Keepers family and their spotty friends then watch what happens when jazz punk underdogs cock their legs to their overqualified elder brothers.

Plastic Dance presents ten unacquainted and elusive slices of synthetic squat pop, angular funk, teapot kosmische and fraudulent disco from self-propelled imprints and global co-ops. Named after Günter Bernas obscure DIY anti-band this ongoing series combines rare, unknown and untravelled wax nuggets of night club punk, art school Zeuhl and quasi-political pop united by soldering irons, C-60s and sarcastic synth tones. Featuring a cross section of unobtainable unreleased unknown and unwanted reluctant punk and snide synth pop with sleeve-notes by respected DJ/Haç hack/Situationist addict John McCready and artwork by airbrush legend Terry Pastor (Ziggy Stardust/Soft Machine/Arthur C. Clarke) Plastic Dance becomes flexible under heat.

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Junei

Let's Ride

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This is the real late nite music, recorded in 1987 at his home studio NEI (Gary, Indiana), Willie Junei Lee Jr's music is beyond this time. Guitarist, Director, Vocalist, Songwriter, Composer, Producer, Junei is still booking dates today.

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Too Slow To Disco Volume 2

2LP | 2015 | EU | Original (How Do You Are?)

George Smallwood & Marshmelloe

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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16 relaxed tracks by Hall & Oates, Joe Vitale, Niteflyte, Eric Kaz & more fine people.

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Hey Mamma

7" | 2015 | US | Original (Peoples Potential Unlimited)

12" | 2013 | US | Original (Peoples Potential Unlimited)

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Exact replica repress!! George gave us his orginal metal stampers and we were able to press a limited run of these before the plate broke! Best sound quality here.. don't miss this sought after modern soul masterpice. Perfect for all the still clubbing moms on the dancefloor.

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Psychic Mirrors

Charlene

Toeachizown Volume 5 - Sky

Release: 2013 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Another Boogie classic on PPU! So, so good!!!

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Dam-Funk

LP | 2012 | US | Original (Stones Throw)

Toeachizown Volume 4 - Hood

Release: 2012 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Finally available on single LP format! All 5 parts of Dam-Funks magnum opus!

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Dam-Funk

LP | 2012 | US | Original (Stones Throw)

12" | 2012 | EU | Original (Shanti)

Release: 2012 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Finally available on single LP format! All 5 parts of Dam-Funks magnum opus!

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Zodiac

Pacific

9,99 €*

LP | 2012 | US | Original (Post Present Medium)

Release: 2012 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Soviet space-disco legend returns! Originally released in late 70s, "Disco Aliiance" by Zodiac has become a real classic of soviet electronic music. Shanti re-releases it's biggest hit "Pacific" with 3 modern remixes - 80s funky piano-house by Pete Herbert, true italo-killer by Ilya Santana and a mellow balearic rework by Mellophonia!

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SFV Acid

SFV Acid Volume 2

20,99 €*

Peoples Potential Unlimted Presents:

Release: 2012 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Producer and Dublab DJ Zane Reynolds, aka SFV Acid, is pairing acid house beats with the fresh boogie funk of the '00 years!

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PPU Video Party - Volume 2

DVD | 2012 | US | Original (Peoples Potential Unlimited)

I Like The Way You Do It Feat. Lisa Warrington

Release: 2012 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Another hour+ of video tape madness from the PPU Archives. Featuring live public access performances from Glass Pyramid Band (Oklahoma), Pleasure (DC), and The Incredible Rock City Band (Arkansas). Rare music videos from Jerry J of California Flight Project, and Uku Kuut (Estonia), plus even more unseen home video clips, and forgotten party freaks.

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Loni Gamble Band

12" | 2010 | US | Original (Peoples Potential Unlimited)

2LP | 2010 | US | Original (Stones Throw)

Release: 2010 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Back in! Obscure Philly disco from 1984 recorded at Sound Modification, includes Tom Noble Edit on the flip!

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Dam-Funk

Adolescent Funk

27,99 €*

12" | 2010 | US | Original (Spider-Mo)

Release: 2010 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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“New” album recorded 1988-1992 ... At the request of Peanut Butter Wolf, Dam went through many of these recordings, all made on cassette, going back to his teenage years. As Wolf tells it, “Dam told me, ‘this is your project Wolf. Do whatever you want with it. I leave it in your hands. I don't even wanna see it til it's done. Have fun.’” ... so have fun, people! LP is limited to 1000 copies!

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The Pinch

Shot Out

Release: 2010 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Back in! It all started in a local club in Pine Bluff Arkansas where Mojo and Spider played in their first group together Zodiac in the mid 70s. Spider played lead guitar, and Mojo held the brass section. Sam "Spider" Rice was also the music director for a vocal group called "La Pinch" which included vocalist Gary Pinchom (Pinch). As the 80s approached La Pinch was looking for a new sound. After relocating to the East Coast "The Pinch" was born. New York and Jersey was quite a change. Spider wanted to write a song to address the drug abuse he was seeing all around him. "Shot Out was a street term we used to describe someone with an excessive drug habit", recalls Spider. "We built a voice box from a horn driver, a couple of switches, and some tubing". They had some money stashed from a Zodiac gig and picked up a Prophet 5 and Roland Drum machine. After recording the track in 1981, the song was mastered at the legendary Power Plant in NYC. That would prove to be the major limitation for the release, since they were out of money now and could only afford to press 200 copies of the 7". Distributed in Texas and locally on the east coast, "Shot Out" would be the only release from The Pinch. UNTIL NOW! Re-mastered for the first time on 12" vinyl, this 80s funk masterpiece is finally back on wax.

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Chicago Boogie Volume 2: This Love Will Last

Tape | 2022 | US | Original (Star Creature)

26,99 €*

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Joog With Me 2024 Repress

Donnell Pitman

7" | 2018 | US | Reissue (Star Creature)

12,34 €* 12,99 € -5%

7" | 2022 | EU | Original (G.U.S)

Release: 2018 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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DONNELL PIMAN of "LOVE EXPLOSION" & "YOUR LOVE IS DYNAMITE" returns to STAR CREATURE for his second modern 7" on the hometown connection label. Features production duties from WINGS OF SUNSHINE and Japan's LIQUID PEGASUS. Both tracks are 120 bpm plus and both slap!

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Odyssey & Co

It's On

11,39 €* 11,99 € -5%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Splendid Production OF This Inedit Track, Recorded During 1983 AND Never Released Before

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2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Music On Vinyl)

Disco Collected

35,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Use Vinyl)

Arlecchino Volume 3

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Peoples Potential Unlimited)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Third and final volume for the collection dedicated to the Arlecchino disco of Santa Maria Codifiume in the province of Ferrara, once again a double vinyl that collects the best of Afro, Funky, Rare Groove and Black Music, proposed in the club by resident DJs Giancarlo Lelli , DJ Ghello and DJ Frank.

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Wilkie And The Wayy

Love Juices

24,29 €* 26,99 € -10%

12" | 2023 | EU | Original (Energy Level)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Another one from the original dirty south in the ATL. "Love Juices" LP features 9 unreleased tracks from Wilkie and the Wayy, also includes the recording from his sole 7 inch single released in 1983 on the infamous Cold Wave Records, "It Only Happened Once". Feels good to be able to finally tell the band, "It's Happened Again"! Special thanks to Angelo Angione for all your time making this happen and hunting down the DATs, tapes, and reels!

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Linda Jo Rizzo

I Love Fashion

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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12" | 2022 | EU | Original (Energy Level)

Paul Parker

Rock That Boogie

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2023 | TR | Original (Ossi Müzik)

Ayla Algan

En Iyileriyle Ayla Algan

21,84 €* 22,99 € -5%

Release: 2023 / TR – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Dial My Number Orange Vinyl Edition

R. Bais

12" | 2023 | EU | Original (Blanco Y Negro)

23,99 €*

Mishell Ivon & Andrew Napoleon

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Romano Bais is probably one of the most prolific composers and producers of italo disco hits. He was not a front artist and this is one of the few tracks he released under his own name. But what a classic on Many Records, deserved to be re-issued.

This special edition includes 4 tracks, they’re all from 1985, but 2 of them never previously released on vinyl: Extended Mix and Instrumental Mix.

Limited orange vinyl edition.

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Idiosyncratic

7" | 2023 | EU | Original (The Sleepers Recordz)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The dynamic funk duo Mishell Ivon and Andrew Napoleon are back with this head nodding funk bomb! Featuring a g-funk inspired bass groove at it's core, the song oozes sass and swagger right from the start, and is an ode to standing proud and embracing individuality. The groove is infectious with the duo’s signature synth-heavy grooves and funky guitar licks present. Idiosyncratic has bags of attitude and is a track that gets better with each listen! B-side Mesmerise won't disappoint as well, featuring Andrews trademark synth grooves and Mishell's powerful lead vocals, the song has that classic 80s funk charm the pair are known for, with a chorus so catchy it will stay in your head for days.

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Cosmic Disco Machine Volume 7

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Cosmic Disco Machine)

27,99 €*

7" | 2010 | EU | Reissue (Personal)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Another bunch of late 70s disco and early 80s alternative electronic disco songs.

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Ilija Rudman

What Am I Gonna Do?

My Baby / Love Will Find Its Way

Release: 2010 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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This Banger form 2010 by croatia`s finest Ilija Rudman get a 7" re-issue treatment from personal records. A soulful pre-house journey filled with 80's keyboards and a heavy bass! With the Instumental on the flip.

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3TOB

7" | 2023 | UK | Original (Six Nine)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jazz Montez Presents Volume II

LP | 2023 | Original (Jazz Montez)

23,99 €*

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Midnight Driver / I'm Still Winning Black Vinyl Edition

Joel Sarakula

7" | 2023 | US | Original (Cqql)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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12" | 2023 | UK | Original (Athens Of The North)

East Coast Love Affair

I'm So Glad

17,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" | 2023 | UK | Original (Tramp)

Matter Of Taste

Step By Step

10,79 €* 11,99 € -10%

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Holy Grail)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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** German Disco - first time on 7" **
"Matter of Taste" released their debut album on the small german Flame label in 1979. "Step By Step" is a monstrous Disco track while the flip side ("Haselief") is completely different and certainly surprises the listener.
- as comped on "can YOU Feel IT Vol. 4"! - 300 copies pressed! - first time on 7"! - 33 1/3 RPM!

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Tomorrow's Wish

On My Mind

28,49 €* 29,99 € -5%

Combo Aspik, Magic Manfred

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Gospel meets Modern Soul & Boogie on this second never before released LP containing unreleased songs & demos from the vaults of Atlanta, Georgia based group Tomorrows Wish led by vocalist Lester Carr (who now travels with the Tams) & backed by Mary Spencer & Kimberlyn Williams They recorded several R&B singles in the 1970s that never saw the light of day. In the 1980’s, they went on to record a full gospel album under Glory Bound Records. Shortly after, the group disbanded & never recorded or released anything again until now. “On My Mind” contains a ensemble arranged by producer Emanuel Campbell (of Emandolynn Music) & backed by guitarist, Harry Case (known for his highly sought out after LP “In A Mood”) as well as keyboardist: Oliver Wells & bassist: Ricky Keller (both of fusion group Life Force fame).

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Combo Aspik

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Ouvo)

26,99 €*

Across The Universe (Prologue)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Combo Aspik is a session band project founded and led by musician, producer and DJ Magic Manfred. The bass player teamed up with some of Berlin’s finest session musicians to produce a self-titled debut album fusing live music and club culture. The tunes are heavily influenced by Boogie and Jazzfunk of the late 70s and early 80s such as the music of Bernard Wright, Don Blackman or any underground Disco gems.

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Starcatcher

7" | 2023 | UK | Original (Hattrick)

13,49 €* 14,99 € -10%

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Tarallo Records)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Hattrick Innovations takes dance music seriously, and therefore there's no wonder why they time-travel back to the early 80s in this third release from the label. Here Starcatcher blends the raw edge and all-around synthetic sound which became a popular spin amongst DJ's like Ron Hardy and Larry Levan in the NY and Chicago underground scenes. This release also showcases two unique styles of dance music from that era, one being italo and the other Hi-Nrg. "Across the Universe" has a stripped back, darker approach while "Space Talk" is more spiritual, uplifting and melodic.

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Breakstarr (Capinera)

Caramelle

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Keep On Dancin'/Body Move

Temu

7" | 2023 | EU | Original (The Sleepers Recordz)

CD | 2023 | UK | Original (Mr Bongo)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Over heard an old song so good you wish you knew it when it came out? The chief at Sleepers Recordz heard Keep On Dancin’ and felt compelled to press it to vinyl. A masterful blend of 21st Century Pop, Funk, and Soul that never fails to get folks groovin no matter the age or background. Inspired by the pop sounds of the era, Temu crafted the perfect ear worm tailored for an audience in Copenhagen, Denmark, where he once resided in 2010. It instantly became an infectious local smash hit and it still slaps now. Temu revisits this jam from over a decade ago with a newly remastered cut, remixes and a stripped down version available on all streaming platforms. On the B-Side of the vinyl is a window into what would become one of Temu’s signature sounds, “Body Move”. Tailored specifically for the robotic “Popping” style of streetdance in 2015, Temu crafted an entirely new instrumental groove using a sample of his talkbox from his song “Magic & Sorcery” found on the Relic of the Mothership album. However, pro street dancer or not, the chances of anyone being able to stand still while listening to this are very, very low.

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Minas

Num Dia Azul

17,99 €*

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Mr Bongo)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Minas 'Num Dia Azul' is a sublime slice of private press bossa nova meets jazzy MPB perfection. Warm and bubbling with youthful spirit, the music is simultaneously loose in swagger, yet slick and tight. The album was originally released in 1983 and reflects the great music coming out of Rio at the time, yet 'Num Dia Azul' wasn't recorded in Rio, but actually in the USA.

Recorded in North Carolina just after Patricia and Orlando Haddad had graduated from the North Carolina School of the Arts, the record was only released for the Brazilian market on their own Blueazul Records imprint. As with most private press labels, they could only afford to have it pressed in small quantities. To add to its later obscurity, hundreds of copies were also destroyed in a house fire. They say cream always rises to the top, and fast forward to the 2010s, the word amongst collectors and DJs was spreading about this mythical under-the-radar recording. People from across the globe were contacting Patricia and Orlando for more information, hoping to secure themselves a copy. Luckily the original tapes had remained with the artists and were in great condition, so in 2016 the pair ran a successful Kickstarter campaign to have it remastered and repressed.

For this Mr Bongo 2023 re-issue, we have tried to keep it as close to the original 1983 version as possible, both in the packaging and audio presentation. The CD version comes with bonus tracks. We are super proud to keep Patricia and Orlando's serene recordings in the circulation that they deserve to be. One for fans of Brazilian artists such as Burnier & Cartier, Edu Lobo and Joyce. We are sure those fans will lose themselves in the alluring textures of 'Num Dia Azul'.

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Minas

Num Dia Azul

24,99 €*

Private Recordings August 1970

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sylvester

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Dark Entries)

21,99 €*

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Soundway)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Disco legend Sylvester comes to Dark Entries with Private Recordings: August 1970, an intimate collection of vintage jazz, blues, and gospel. While Sylvester is best known for his chart-topping collaborations with producer Patrick Cowley, such as “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real),” this release reveals his passion for the sounds of the 30s and 40s. In 1970 a 22-year-old Sylvester had moved to San Francisco and found himself involved with the Cockettes, the infamous psychedelic performance art troupe. Among this milieu was Peter Mintun, a pianist and record collector living in a commune devoted to retro culture. According to Mintun, “We were like hippies who lived in the twenties. We lived in a house that didn’t have anything modern in it. Nothing in it was made after World War II.” Mintun and Sylvester bonded over their love of Black singers of yore and were allotted a slot during Cockettes performances reviving the music of the Prohibition Era. One afternoon, Sylvester and Mintun recorded a number of their shared favorites using a high-end microphone a friend had acquired. Private Recordings features 9 songs from this session, including standards like “Stormy Weather,” “Happy Days Are Here Again,” and “God Bless the Child.” Sylvester’s unmistakable falsetto brings depth and a dash of camp to these familiar tunes. The recordings are casual and intimate, even capturing banter between Sylvester and Mintun; their brief rendition of “When My Dreamboat Comes Home” has the duo working out a melody in real time. In addition to their sonic explorations of decades past, Sylvester and Mintun also staged photographic shoots in vintage couture. Private Recordings comes with a 16-page booklet on firm cardstock featuring images from these never-before-seen shoots as well as liner notes from Mintun detailing his friendship with Sylvester and their experiences recording. All this is housed in a metallic silver sleeve designed by Eloise Leigh featuring a 1920’s Art Deco aesthetic. The record will be released on September 6th which would have been Sylvester’s 76th birthday, and all proceeds from Private Recordings will go to the two charities that Sylvester left his royalties after his death: Project Open Hand and PRC (formerly Aids Emergency Fund). This essential release documents the earliest known recordings from one of disco’s greatest talents.

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Ayo Manuel

1983-90

26,99 €* 29,99 € -10%

Love Was Born For Me / Do We Have A Love

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Soundway Records presents Ayo Manuel ‘1983-1990’, a collection of selected works by one of Nigeria’s DIY pioneers. This mini compilation selects the stand-out cuts from his two albums Love Candidate and Party Time, showcasing the evolution of Ayo’s music. Side A is led by Song Of Love (Instrumental) - mid-tempo, synth-heavy music toeing the line between lo-fi crunch and sophisticated charm. This is followed closely by afro-disco melters Don’t Stop and the aptly titled Fun Time. Both with strong American, disco-funk leanings but full of Nigerian flavour, they come signed, sealed and delivered for any discerning dancefloor. Sojourn (Ajo) lights up side-B, a coming-of-age journey that sets the tone for the rest of the album. With slick US production, but with its feet firmly planted in Yoruba culture, we find a more developed artist combining talking drums with distinct ’90s production, that deliver a unique blend of afro-pop. Gboro Mi Ro echoes the influence of Nigeria’s biggest musical export, Fela Kuti, but still retains its own particular character. Do Goodfollows in the footsteps of its predecessors but with added drama and depth.

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Mantis

7" | 2023 | UK | Original (Epsilon)

14,39 €* 17,99 € -20%

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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EPS023 is the second Mantis 45rpm on Epsilon Record Co.
This is a sensational previously unissued double sider from 1976.
Do We Have Love is a beautiful sweet soul side with killer vocal from Rocky Whitaker.
Click on play and put on your dancing shoes!

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With Love: Volume 2 Compiled By Miche Black Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Mr Bongo)

23,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Mad About)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Compiling the follow-up to a very successful first album is always a tricky task, but just 12 months since the release of volume one in the 'With Love' series, miche has excelled himself once again with another glorious, deep dive into the world of rare soul. 15 tracks of independently released music, created by magnificent artists with stories to tell and primed for rediscovery.

The ambition to celebrate under-the-radar artists has remained, but instead of a facsimile of volume one, what we have here is a selection shaped by life changes. Volume two is for the dancers; still soulful, still ultra-rare and slept-on records from the USA, Chile, Brazil and beyond, but the dynamics of the collection have shifted slightly. It represents a move from being immersed in a week in week out environment of beautiful, soulful music in a cosy, dimly lit hi-fi bar to playing livelier, more energetic, dancefloor-focused music in nightclubs. This volume will get you on your feet, make you move and unleash whatever it is that makes you get down.

One of the jewels in the crown of this compilation is a joyous, anthemic gospel version of Stevie Wonder's 'As' by The Family Tree (a project produced by the fantastic Julius Brockington). We are also treated to a rare and sought-after Pennsylvanian funk / AOR bomb by Maxwell, a stunning modern soul tune 'High On You' by Freedom, and self-released Brazilian 45s by Banda 22 and Zé Da Lata. P.J. City's 'Straight Forward (Non-Stop)' is gospel-disco perfection, and we also have 'Dame Solamente Amor’, a sublime, soul beauty from Chile by Rogers Mitchell. Many of these artists featured in this compilation aren't household names, but they deserve their moment to shine, to be heard, loved and appreciated for their artistry.

As Miche says it, “I hope this compilation helps in some way to keep this glorious music alive and play a part in connecting generations of music lovers from the worldwide soul family. As always, it has been made ‘With Love’.”

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Leila Pinheiro

28,49 €* 29,99 € -5%

12" | 2023 | UK | Original (Heavenly Star)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Leila Pinheiro is a legendary Brazilian singer, songwriter, and pianist. Over her 41-year career, she has released over 20 albums, showcasing her musical versatility and creativity. Her debut album, "Leila Pinheiro,” included the boogie anthem “Tudo em cima”, which featured the participation of renowned musicians such as Tom Jobim, Ivan Lins, Francis Hime, João Donato, and Lincoln Olivetti.

In 1970, Leila began her piano studies under the guidance of the legendary Guilherme Coutinho. As part of celebrating the 40th anniversary of this important milestone in Brazilian music, Mad About Records presents a worldwide vinyl reissue for the first time.

Under exclusive License by Leila Pinheiro

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La She Ba

You've Been Hunchin'

12" | 2023 | UK | Original (Heavenly Star)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A slice of seriously sought after US disco from La She Ba on Heavenly Star Records that has been a firm favourite of master selector Hunee and trades hands for £125+ on the secondhand market, gets a fresh reissue and remaster for a new generation of listeners.

Formed of Catherine Miller on vocals, produced and written by Harvey Miller and arranged by the mighty Patrick Adams, La She Ba – You've Been Hunchin' hits in all the right spots. Exquisite instrumentation with swooning strings, enchanting chords and tight drums laying the foundation for Miller’s celestial vocals to be the star of the show. Heavenly by name, heavenly by nature this is a must have 12 inch for any collection.

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Cloud One

Flying High

Shuya Okino / Pirahnahead

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A certified Patrick Adam’s classic from the Heavenly Star Records back catalogue, Cloud One - Flying High, gets a much-needed remastered reissue. A welcome sight to many, considering originals sell for over £100. One of countless studio projects that Adams put his name to, ‘Flying High’ saw the multi-platinum, award winning producer and songwriter join forces with P&P head honcho Peter Brown to produce this blindingly brilliant cosmic disco number. Stratospheric synths, beefy drums and heavyweight basslines coupled with celestial vocoder refrains, will have your head flying through the clouds at the drop of a needle.

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Shine Root Soul Boogie Remix / Sun Will Rise Feat. Diviniti

7" | 2023 | JP | Original (At Home Sound)

19,94 €* 20,99 € -5%

7" | 2023 | EU | Original (Early Sound)

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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AT Home Sound is pleased to announce the release of a split 7inch single by world-renowned DJ/producer Shuya Okino and his close friend and Detroit prodigy Pirahnahead!! Both sides feature the singer Diviniti on a soulful jazzy house track!! Shuya Okino himself has been playing these killer tracks in Japan and abroad, and only its existence was known to the public. Now, it has finally been officially released!!

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Pellegrino & Zodyaco

Malia

17,99 €*

Estate / S'Inghelada (Il Tramonto) Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Pellegrino & Zodyaco, with their new single 'Malìa', continue the aesthetic and sonic journey of the project led by the Neapolitan producer, with a mixture of Neapolitan disco-funk and fusion steeped in Latin flavour that already explored the innermost corners of the soul with 'Quimere'. This new work captures the frenzy and vibrant character of Naples, with its rarefied atmospheres and infectious groove that evoke the beating heart of the city and take us on a journey through the wonder of life in search of the Mediterranean essence. The 'Malìa' is enchanting, it’s that mysterious force that hides deep inside, transforming itself into a vortex of emotions through the fusion of involving rhythms and reflections on inner battles, on the importance of finding the 'light' to overcome conflicts and difficulties that hinder the ability to choose, a dreamlike mirage that opens a window on human vulnerability, a hymn to authenticity, to self-acceptance.

The celebration of dance in the Caribbean Escapade version is also an exhortation to escape from everyday life; it takes us into a sonic imagery that plays with the Neapolitan musical tradition and the freshness of Caribbean and Latin sounds. This summer single becomes an ode to the vital energy of dance music: there is no more time for hesitation, one must let oneself be carried away by the enthralling embrace of 'Malìa', like a call to awareness and the search for authenticity in life. Malìa becomes the guiding thread, the mystery that urges us to go beyond the confines of everyday life, to explore and celebrate the complexity of existence.

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Dana

12" | 2023 | EU | Original (Disco Segreta)

26,99 €* 29,99 € -10%

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Disco Segreta sets your summer on fire introducing the reissue of one of the rarest and most obscure Italian disco records ever! Dana was the moniker of the very first band led by Sardinian singer Gianni Virdis. The band had a short life, from 1977 to 1980, and later disbanded to be renamed into another band called "Mediterraneo" and only released a 45 single. It contained two tracks: “Estate” and “S’Inghelada”. The first one is sung in Italian and is a sexy, summer-infused lyrics disco track with gummy moogs, while “S’Inghelada” - with the typical 70s falsetto singing - is possibly the only disco tracks ever sung in Sardinian language, which makes this record of even higher historical importance, as it renders the amazing variety and originality of the Italian disco scene of the era, contributing to put a piece of the puzzle of the ‘70s Italian disco scene back in its place. Originally released as a privately-pressed 45 in the spring of 1977, on Franco Idini’s “Tekno Record”, a Sassari-based label which mainly released local folk, but also some rock, along with this disco gem. Unfortunately, all the copies pressed were badly mastered and printed, resulting in low quality of the originals. But 46 years after its original release, Disco Segreta reissues Dana in a new fully remastered 12” edition on a super lush 180g. “Sardinian Sunset” marbled vinyl edition, bringing back “Estate” and “S’Inghelada” to its original glory, for a newer generation of the Italian disco sound aficionados. Note this release is strictly limited and numbered to 100 copies and only available on Disco Segreta website as well as to the subscribers of the Disco Segreta Record Society and as for all of our 2023 releases, will never be reissued again in this format.

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Tribal Rites - Brooklyn Disco 1974-5 Black Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Ace)

32,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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12" | 2023 | EU | Original (Kalita)

Addmoro

Rock & Roll Skate

12" | 2023 | EU | Original (Disco Bizarre)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Kalita are delighted to announce the first ever re-release of Los Angeles-based outfit Addmoro"s three sought-after recordings from their privately released invisible 1985 boogie grail "Keep On Trying".

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Rose Cornelius

Here

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Here we‘ve got two tunes that come with a fascinating story. Recorded in the late 70’s, but never released, this music was thought to be lost.But let’s go back to the beginning. Rose was originally a member of family affair called „The Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose“ heralding from Dania Beach, Florida. The group had early success with a recording contract with United Artists, which produced two albums in 1972 & 73 respectively, plus an extensive number of single release taken from these albums, which included the million seller ‘Too late to turn back now’. But Rose’s story starts even further back, singing solo and as part of the Gospel Jazz Singers in the late 60’s, with even a solo appearance on The Ed Sullivan TV show. In 1970, at her mother’s request, she returned home to form the family group and to use her contacts in the music industry to move things forward. The group stayed together until 1976. Soon after Rose returned to a solo career, but few further releases appeared. During this time she recorded a number of tracks in Miami at The Music factory with producer Shirley Cowell, who later received a grammy nomination for her work with Lena Horne. Arrangement was done by gold-certified studio veteran Frank Owens. By this time the Disco sound had taken over much of the music industry and these tracks had a Hi-Energy feel that was much in favour at the time. This session produced the titles ‘Here’ and ‘I want you to stay with me’ but no release was forthcoming. For many years they became almost forgotten, until the next chapter of the story.In 2018 DJ and record collector Dave Thorley saw an old & dusty acetate disc for sale online, credited to Rose Cornelius. When listening to it he realised that this was indeed Sister Rose of the aforementioned group and purchased it, initially with the intention of simply playing it in his DJ sets. Dave offered the disc to his friends of the Disco Bizarre crew from KitKatClub / Berlin for their record label. Rose, in turn, was contacted and she was kind enough to give permission for its release and additional contemporary remixes/ re-edits. Thus New York producer veteran DJ Duke and San Francisco Disco authority Jim Hopkins landed on the bill. You now have the results of this story on Disco Bizarre’s latest release - a story that has spanned fifty plus years. We at Disco Bizarre are excited about the final results and are happy we‘re able to share it with you.

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Awaaz Original Soundtracks Recordings From The Archives Of Cbs Gramophone Records & Tapes India 1982-1986

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Naya Beat)

38,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie, Soundtracks

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Bollywood rarities handpicked and remastered on a double LP release with laminate gatefold and multi-layered flower petal foldout. Featuring rare, overlooked or not-previously-on-vinyl music from Bappi Lahiri, R. D. Burman, Ilaiyaraaja, Kalyanji-Anandji, Anand Milind, Raamlaxman and Kirti Anuraag released between 1982 and 1986. Mastered for and cut to vinyl by multi Grammynominated Frank Merritt at his mastering studio The Carvery. Naya Beat is incredibly proud to present the first in our series of ‘Awaaz’ (‘sound’ in Hindi) archival projects focused on uncovering the sounds of 1980s Bollywood Original Soundtrack Recordings (OSTs). Series 1 focuses exclusively on the musical output of CBS Gramophone Records & Tapes (India) Ltd. Active during India’s peak disco era – a time when synthesisers and drum machines became a mainstay in Indian popular music – CBS India became a home for established composers to be experimental, up-and-coming composers to get their start, B-movie soundtracks, and straight-to-VHS releases. Expertly curated by Naya Beat co-founders Turbotito and Ragz, who were given unprecedented access to the original label archives, this compilation is not just a collection of four-to-the-floor Bollywood disco (although there are plenty of those). ‘Awaaz’ is designed to take listeners on a musical journey that includes everything from leftfield electronic and mood music to outrageous proto house. Be it classic and hard to find cuts like Ilaiyaraaja's "Aye Zindagi Gale Lagaa Le" and “Mere Jaisi Mehbooba” (Bappi Lahiri’s Hindi remake of Herbie Hancock's “Rockit”), or the instrumental mood music of Kirti Anuraag’s VHS movie soundtracks, to the proto house of Raamlaxman’s “Dil Gadbad Jhala” and Kalyanji-Anandji’s “Aage Bhi Dushman,” or the synth and guitar drenched breakdance madness of R. D. Burman’s “Dekho Idhar Jano Jigar,” the music on this compilation captures the output of a label that was unique as it was unconventional. An homage to the genre, every detail in this stunning release has been lovingly crafted. From the laminate cover to the absolutely incredible foldout, to the cut-out and collage design, to the font type and layout, there are countless authentic details and nods to classic Bollywood releases of the era. As much of the album has been made in India as is possible. The sleeves have been handmade in New Delhi. The liner notes have been compiled by music archivist Nishant Mittal (aka Digging In India).

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Mr Bongo Record Club Volume 6 Red Vinyl Edtion

2LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Mr Bongo)