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Roger Damawuzan & Les As Du Benin

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Raised amid the rich musical culture and history of the San Francisco Bay Area, Monophonics proudly carry the torch through the generations into today’s musical landscape. Holding on to tradition, but by no means purists of any kind, they play their own brand of music known as “Psychedelic Soul.”

The 2012 release of Monophonics last album In Your Brain saw the band pulling influences from such acts as early Funkadelic, Sly and The Family Stone and the The Temptation's Norman Whitfield produced records. With the new album, Sound of Sinning (April 14, 2015 on Transistor Sound Records), the band has grown in all areas of record making and felt a need to explore other important in- fluences. While the group has come to cherish these inspirations, With Sound of Sinning they started venturing beyond, to the groups that were inspiring those soul acts to embrace the psychedelic sound of the 60's and 70's. Bands such as The Zombies, The Beatles, Beach Boys and Pink Floyd. Even with the experimentation of new musical territory, they display the sound that people know and love about Monophonics. Touching on Northern soul, doo-wop, rock and roll, Psych pop, and cinematic music, Monophonics show off their diversity while remaining true to their roots. Overall it's heartfelt music and old school vibes, without losing sight of the present. This is is music steeped in that timeless feeling when people could write and produce songs that you could listen to over and over again. Sound of Sinning was produced by Kelly Finnigan & Ian McDonald and recorded on an old Tascam eight-track 1/4” tape machine at Transistor Sound Studios in San Rafael, CA.

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Wait For Me

2LP | 2015 | EU | Original (Hot Casa)

Shirley Ellis / Lynne Randell

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Nine unreleased and rare tracks from the amazing Roger Damawuzan also known as the “James Brown from Lomé”, backed by the tremendous “Les As du Benin” orchestra, and recorded between 1972 and 1981.

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Soul Time / Stranger In My Arms

7" | 2015 | UK | Original (Outta Sight)

13,29 €* 13,99 € -5%

James Reese & The Progressions

Release: 2015 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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All Time Northern Soul Classic With The Perfect Title, The Perfect Intro And The Unforgettable Chant “Ready, Get Set, 2-4-6-8-10, 2-4-6-8-22”!

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Joker (Where Did You Come From) / He'll Never Go

7" | 2015 | UK | Original (Super Disco Edits)

10,19 €* 11,99 € -15%

Release: 2015 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Personnel: William “Chicken” Murphy - Guitar, Willie Hall- Drums and Percussions, Robert Goforth - Bass, James Reese - Piano and Trombone, John Lamkin II - Trumpet and Rudolph Riley - Alto and Tenor Sax. A Couple of String Players from the Memphis Symphony. Lead Vocals - Rosalyn Foster.

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LP | 2015 | UK | Original (Outta Sight)

Give ’Em Soul Volume 1

Universal Togetherness Band

Release: 2015 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Red Edition Brings Together 14 Major Label Killer Cuts Which Are Milestones Dating From 1953 To The Early Sixties Feature Key Artists In The World Of R&B And Soul That Are On Every Djs Hit List, Everyone A Winner!

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My Sentiments / Missing You

7" | 2015 | US | Original (Numero Group)

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Love Is A Hurtin' Thing / Brother Less Than A Man

Gloria Ann Taylor

7" | 2015 | US | Original (Luv N Haight)

9,99 €*

Wish I Didn't Miss You / Hex Hector Remix

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Originally released on Gloria and her husband Walter Whisenhunt’s label Selector Sound as a 7in single, “Love Is A Hurtin’ Thing” features her soaring vocals
backed by luscious strings, orchestral horns and a searing guitar. On the flip is “Brother Less Than A Man” which sounds like a proto Funkadelic
/Parliament psychedelic funk bomb. Pressed as a 7in single on the House Guests label, it highlights a grittier side of her singing that matches the song’s depth and intensity. Backed by a rhythm section featuring Bootsy Collins and brother Catfish who along with Gloria and her husband founded the label
after leaving James Brown’s band. Look for the similarly titled anthology of Gloria’s ouput on the Selector Sound label to drop later in 2015.

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Angie Stone

7" | 2015 | UK | Reissue (Outta Sight)

Release: 2015 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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3LP | 2015 | US | Original (Stones Throw)

Dam-Funk

Invite The Light

46,99 €*

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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As always, D_m flexes his multi-instrumentalist talents by handling all the production but still makes time for guests including rapper Q-Tip, the father-son duo of Leon Sylvers III & IV, and funk giant Junie
Morrison of the Ohio Players, who opens and closes the album with
dire warnings of what could happen in a world without funk. Rest
assured, D_m is here to make sure that never comes to pass. As he
puts it, "funk is the underdog, the black sheep of black music," and if
that's true, D_m-Funk is its shepherd.

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LP | 2015 | UK | Original (Cache Cache)

Plastic Dance Volume 1

18,99 €*

LP | 2015 | US | Original (Fat Possum)

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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Ann Peebles

Greatest Hits

30,99 €*

My Name Is Doug Hream Blunt

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A delicate, slinky figure with a powerhouse voice, Ann Peebles occupied a special place among the many great talents that roamed the halls of Memphis' iconic Hi Records in the 1960s and 1970s. While producer Willie Mitchell was the company's heart, musicians the Hodges Brothers its soul, and Al Green its top star, it was Peebles who gave the label its first national success, and a lasting female identity. Over the course of seven albums and dozens of singles for Hi, Peebles expressed a complex range of moods and emotions in her music. Her songs were alternately pleading and defiant and destructive, but always, utterly soulful.

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Doug Hream Blunt

LP | 2015 | EU | Original (Luaka Bop)

7" | 2015 | UK | Original (Outta Sight)

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Introducing California cult legend Doug Hream Blunt, featuring the hit "Gentle Persuasion". Tip!

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Shane Martin / Taj Mahal

I Need You/A Lot Of Love

Release: 2015 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2015 | UK | Original (Outta Sight)

Give 'Em Soul Volume 2

Release: 2015 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Give It Up, Turn It Loose / It's A Family Thang

The Real Thing

7" | 2015 | UK | Original (Super Disco Edits)

James Reese & The Progressions

Release: 2015 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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After recording various psych soul and funk tracks on the Whiz record label, The Real Thing carried on after leaving the label to record more studio cuts with musician and producer Stu Gardner. Here they let it rip with an incredible fast version of James Browns "Give it up, turnit loose" and they left in that all important secret ingredient of a lovely long drum break. Stu Gardner himself took to the microphone on this track, with various background vocals and screams, and did the vocals for the amazing b-side "It's A Family Thang"!

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Fool For Love / You Can Make It

7" | 2015 | EU | Original (Super Disco Edits)

Anyway You Want Color Vinyl Edition

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Here is the second lot of songs from the reels the SDE crew found last year. Its almost criminal to think these two beautifully crafted soul songs, where musicians have put all their time and efforts into, were shelved because so called executives thought them "ahead of their time". Essential!

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Harvey

7" | 2015 | US | Original (Tri-Phi)

Rose Valentine / Susan Barrett

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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/ She Loves Me So

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I’ve Gotta Know Right Now / What's It Gonna Be

7" | 2015 | UK | Original (Outta Sight)

14,99 €*

7" | 2015 | EU | Original (Schema)

Release: 2015 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Two Northern Soul Favourites Back-To-Back On A Nicely Designed Lookalike Label 45

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Alex Puddu

The Bull

LP | 2015 | EU | Original (Habibi Funk)

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This 45rpm single anticipates the new full-length album by Alex Puddu, a real specialist in
the field of groovy imaginary soundtracks with a strong ‘70s vibe. The title of this 7’’ is “The
Bull”, and it’s the most representative track from the upcoming record “In the Eye of the
Cat”, which undoubtedly is one of Puddu’ s best and cohesive works to date.
As Nils Markvardsen (editor of the film magazine eXtase and film festival curator) says in
his liner notes featured on the album, “The Bull” confronts you with some intense flute and
a killer groove and here it’s easy to imagine a mob of armed gangsters robbing a bank in
an Italian crime film/poliziottesco!
As a B-side we have “Sequenza Erotica” (Erotic Sequence), an unreleased track that can
only be found on this 7’’, spreading that sexy cinematic feeling typical of Puddu’s production
(see for example his “Golden Age of Danish Pornography” series).
As for “In the Eye of the Cat”, Nils Markvardsen also defines it as a reference to the Italian
giallo film genre of the 1960s and 70s. These lurid murder mysteries/thrillers, featuring
black gloved killers lurking in the dark, gorgeous young ladies being chased and artistic displays
of blood and cruelty, usually had horrifying and imaginative film titles, in many cases
with the words; eye(s), black, blood, death, killer and the name of an animal of some sort
thrown in the mix. [...] A nice homage to giallo maestro Dario Argento from fellow Roman
Alex Puddu.
The North African influence on the percussion can be found throughout the album; it has
that groovy, vibrant 70s vibe. The varied selection of instruments (organ, flute, moog, bongos,
cello, violin, drums, bass, acoustic and electric guitars etc.) blend flawlessly into each
other and make this

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Fadoul

Al Zman Saib

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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8 tracks of raw Arabic funk music, none of these have ever been reissued before. It took 2 years and countless trips to Morocco to find the artists family to license the release from them. Vinyl and CD edition come with liner notes, unseen live photos and lyrics translations.

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Christians Catch Hell: Gospel Roots 1976-79

2LP | 2015 | UK | Original (Honest Jon's)

Little Ann / The Turn Arounds

Release: 2015 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Utterly magnificent, sublimely soulful survey of the Gospel Roots label, subsidiary of the mighty TK Records at the height of the Miami Sound. Beautifully presented, the LPs come with a 12"-square, full-colour, sixteen-page album of photos and original artwork and truly outstanding notes, including insightful new interviews across the board; mastered at Abbey Road.

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Deep Shadows / Stay Away

7" | 2015 | UK | Original (Deep Soul)

Release: 2015 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Barbara Lewis / Carla Thomas

The Stars / I Play For Keeps

7" | 2015 | UK | Original (Town)

Release: 2015 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2015 | TR | Original (Rainbow 45)

Rebel Moves

All The Best

Release: 2015 / TR – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ork: The Complete Singles Box Set

Box Set | 2015 | US | Original (Numero Group)

123,99 €*

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2015 | EU | Reissue (Easy Action)

Sister Pat Hall

Do Your Thing

29,99 €*

LP | 2015 | UK | Reissue (XL)

Release: 2015 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Released For The Very First Time In The Format It Was Recorded For. The Holy Grail Of Bolan's Unreleased Soul Recordings As Producer For Sister Pat Hall, Includes Completely Unheard Version Of Do Your Thing Taken From Newly Acquired Original Reels Features Completely Reworked Version Of Classic T. Rex Tracks 'Jitterbug Love', 'Get It On', 'Sunken Rags', And The Never Released In Marc's Lifetime 'Sailors Of The Highway'. Besides Some Self-Released Gospel Recordings, Pat Hall Was A Much Sought After Vocalist In The Late 60's Early 70's, Having Worked With Joe Cocker As One Of The `Sanctified Sisters' Along With Gloria Jones.In 1972 Pat (& Hloria) Became Backing Singers On The U.S T.Rex Concerts And In Mid To Late 1973 Marc Bolan Decided He Was Going To Produce An Album By Pat, Being Well Ahead Of The Then Interest In Black American Soul By Fellow Pop Stars David Bowie John Lennon And Elton John. The Album Was Recorded But Never Released (On Vinyl), Until Now!Pat Hall Never Released Anything Again, This Album Remains The Sole Released Recordings Of This Extraordinary Singer.

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Adele

S.P.A.C.E. Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2015 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Pop

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Always best selling Adele is back with a new set of heartfelt anthems.

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Calibro 35

LP | 2015 | EU | Reissue (Record Kicks)

LP | 2015 | US | Reissue (Real Gone Music)

Release: 2015 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Dr.Dre and Jay-Z sampled, legendary cinematic funk combo Calibro 35 announces the reissue of their fifth album "S.P.A.C.E." on ltd edition Crystal Orange vinyl and digital deluxe edition with bonus tracks.

Record Kicks presents the reissue of Calibro 35's fifth acclaimed long-time sold out album "S.P.A.C.E." on limited edition Crystal Orange vinyl and digital "deluxe" version with bonus tracks.The publication is part of "The Record Kicks Trilogy" that follows the reissue of the first three albums of the band, released in 2020. This time, Milan label Record Kicks will repress on wax of three different colours and on digital deluxe edition, the fourth, fifth and sixth legendary studio albums of the Italian cinematic-funk cult band. The digital deluxe edition of "S.P.A.C.E." includes 3 bonus tracks: "clbr 35", originally released as a b-side of "Bandits of Mars" 45 vinyl, and the unreleased songs "Omicron Paradox"and "The Haploids".

Recorded to tape on an 8-track tape recorder at the 'analog mecca' Toe Rag Studios in London, the worldwide famous studio where The White Stripes penned "Elephant", "S.P.A.C.E." is the fifth studio album by Calibro 35. Forget about the gripping noir atmospheres of their previous full lengths, with this album the Milan combo escapes from planet earth and lands on their own satellite to write the perfect funk soundtrack of an imaginary sci-fi movie directed by Sergio Leone. They've thrown away the balaclavas and embraced a bunch of synthesizers in their new instalment where Calibro 35 explores fresh new territories.

From the storming imaginary main title notes of the title track "S.P.A.C.E." to the percussive effects and creepy organ of "Serenade for a satellite", with incursions into cosmic afrobeat ("Ungwana Bay Launch Complex"), lunar funk ("Bandits On Mars") and trippy atmospheres ("Something Happened on Planet Earth"), in "S.P.A.C.E." Calibro 35 sound as cinematic and groovy as ever. Captured live and direct to tape with no overdubbing or editing facilities by Tommaso Colliva (Muse/Franz Ferdinand), the sound is tough, warm and super tight and confirms the unique musicianship of the band able in few years to gain followers worldwide.

Active since 2008, Calibro 35 enjoy a worldwide reputation as one of the coolest independent bands around. During their fourteen-year career, they were sampled by Dr. Dre on his Compton album, Jay-Z, The Child of lov & Damon Albarn; they shared stages worldwide with the likes of Roy Ayers, Muse, Sun Ra Arkestra, Sharon Jones, Thundercat and Headhunters and as unique musicians they collaborated with, amongst others, PJ Harvey, Mike Patton, John Parish and Stewart Copeland and Nic Cester (The Jet). Described by Rolling Stone magazine as "the most fascinating, retro-maniac and genuine thing that happened to Italy in the last years", Calibro 35 now count on a number of aficionados worldwide including VIP fans such as Dj Food (Ninja Tune), Mr Scruff and Huey Morgan (Fun Lovin' Criminals) among others.

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George Scott

Find Someone To Love

31,99 €*

Release: 2015 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Still Here Red Vinyl Edition

The Notations

LP | 2015 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

LP | 2015 | US | Reissue (Peoples Potential Unlimited)

Release: 2015 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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From the dawn of doo-wop to the death of disco, the Notations saw_and sang_it all. Persisting through changing trends and technologies, on major labels and minor ones, produced by both Syl Johnson and Curtis Mayfield, nothing could stop the Notations from representing Chicago's Southside for decades. The first overview of their indie label golden age, Still Here 1967-1973 finds the Notations at a musical crossroads, turning from simmering R&B ballads to socially-conscious soul. Offering up a platter of golden-dipped harmonies, inventive arrangements, and super-powered soul, the Notations survived as unheralded legends in their own time.

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George Smallwood

Loser 2022 Repress

Stopp, Seisku Aeg! 2024 Repress

Release: 2015 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Back IN Print 2022 Edition - Limited Edition of 300 copies Recorded Live in Hyattsville, MD 1975-2015. George really had no interest in releasing this record. "Seeing Is believing, they don’t need records, trust me I did that, today they getting it live". So this record is that, live tapes from the house, recorded on a government issued cassette recorder from National Library Service for the Blind. George calls these his practice tapes for songwriting, and performance warm-up, and never beyond his ears were they intended to travel. "You just got to see me live if you want to really see me.. so when we get there just plug me in, and point me at that crowd". Last time I saw George they had him wired to the club system. He unplugs his Yamaha keyboard, licks the tip of the power cord and taps a beat on it, finally plugging in, synth lights up, tones all at zero, beats at zero. Then he builds from there, counting blind through a preset one hunderd factory tones and rhythm patterns. "I gotta start off at zero, and go from there." After the Marshmellow Band disperesed, he got this Yamaha keyboard, same one he’s been playing since 1990, endless scrolling over the same presets, trying to make them fit, tempo down, tapping while telling the story and asking if that feels right to you. "This always gonna be different live."Some selections on this album are original material from home sessions prior to George’s 1980 self- released LP. The rest, just a sampling from the Smallwood mind’s library of classic song writers. - Andrew Morgan (Peoples Potential Unlimited)

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Velly Joonas

7" | 2015 | EU | Reissue (Frotee)

LP | 2015 | EU | Original (Al Dente)

Release: 2015 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Finally back! This weird piece of estonian music reached silly prices on discogs already - better make sure not to miss it again!

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The Moonfires

Black Sugar

Why I Came To California / Rockin' You Eternally

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Band Leader Alex Puddu is behind the project the Moonfires. The Album is released on 300 copies limited edition on Alex Puddu's own label Al Dente. The Album Black sugar is written, Arranged and Produced By Alex Puddu Recorded during the summer 2014 in Copenhagen Recorded at Redrum Studio Mixed and Masterd in N.Y.C Astoria Queens Soundworks recording by Kamilo Kratc Album photo by Maiken Kildegaard Artwork by Leo Scherfig

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Leon Ware

7" | 2015 | UK | Reissue (Expansion)

Release: 2015 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Blowing My Mind To Pieces / Girl You're My Kind Of Wonderfrul

Bob Relf

7" | 2015 | UK | Reissue (Outta Sight)

Release: 2015 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Moonlight Music And You / If You Loved Me

Laura Green

7" | 2015 | UK | Reissue (Outta Sight)

Release: 2015 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Such A Bad Girl / You Got Me Funk

The Moonfires

7" | 2015 | EU | Original (Al Dente)

16,99 €*

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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You Don't Love Me Anymore

Johnny Caswell

7" | 2015 | UK | Reissue (Outta Sight Northern)

Release: 2015 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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I Need You / A Lot Of Love

Shane Martin / Taj Mahal

7" | 2015 | UK | Reissue (Outta Sight Northern)

Release: 2015 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" | 2015 | US | Original (F-Spot)

Improject

Ground Coffee / Steppin

8,24 €* 10,99 € -25%

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2015 | Reissue (Gm & Publishing)

Clarence Gatemouth Brown

Alright Again!

Release: 2015 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2015 | Reissue (Gm & Publishing)

Jackie Wilson

So Much

Release: 2015 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This Is The Blues Volume 4 Collection Of Authentic

Woodrow Adams

LP | 2015 | UK | Original (Be! Jazz)

16,99 €*

Release: 2015 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ultra High Frequencies: The Chicago Party Colored Vinyl Edition

LP | 2015 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

35,99 €*

Tap Water Amber Vinyl Edition

Release: 2015 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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For 23 straight Saturday nights of 1982, "The Chicago Party" dance show assaulted Chicagoland UHF eyeballs with Spandex, Southside fly guys, tender tenderonies, magicians, contortionists, prismatic video gimmickry, and lip-synched singles by a rising regime of local post-disco casualties. Unfettered nightlife and outlandish humor poured out of oddball outpost The CopHerBox II and onto TV screens, presented here as a 100-minute video mixtape on DVD. Its companion compilation features five previously unreleased tracks, joined by music culled from a trove of self-released 45s and small-time 12"s. Die-cut cathode-ray jacket and six in-package stills put the Party at your fingertips.Available on CD or 2LP, each edition of Ultra-High Frequencies: The Chicago Party will arrive in one of six cover configurations, all of which are interchangeable via printed inner sleeves and enclosed booklet. Both editions include our entertaining DVD mixtape, isolating the most absurd and outrageous moments from the original broadcasts. Play functions enable viewers to enjoy 23 unique musical performances, as well as a mini-documentary about the creation and realization of "The Chicago Party." For fans of electronic soul with a public-access aesthetic, Ultra-High Frequencies: The Chicago Party is the place to be.

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XL Middleton

LP | 2015 | UK | Reissue (Mofunk)

22,99 €*

Confrontation / You And Me Babe

Release: 2015 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Considered an underground classic by many, XL Middleton's “Tap Water” was released at the height of the fervor over 'modern funk' music, brought to life by Dam Funk & carried on by a small but dedicated cadre of artists including Middleton. Always in demand, “Tap Water” has become scarce in the aftermarket and demands collector-level prices when it does sell; thus a reissue was inevitable.

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Homegrown Syndrome

7" | 2015 | UK | Reissue (Athens Of The North)

13,99 €*

LP | 2015 | EU | Original (Nomada 57)

Release: 2015 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Homgrown Syndrome is a strong 2 sided major label banger that has been heavily in demand (therefor expensive) for the last 8 or so years. A banging disco funk A side flipped with a deep quality 70s soul stepper, it's a no brainer. Tip for O.G heads: go for the Canadian press as they are vinyl and have the DOPE flip.

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Th' Booty Hunters

Brothers In Farms

25,99 €*

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Monica Lassen & The Sounds

La Jouissance

LP | 2015 | JP | Reissue (Nippon Columbia)

39,89 €* 41,99 € -5%

7" | 2015 | UK | Reissue (Acid Jazz)

Release: 2015 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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With love from Northern Europe... Erotic Mondo's hidden treasure! Long-awaited analog reissue of two Monica Lassen album titles

A Wamono erotic work produced in Japan with the setting of ``A work created for the enjoyment of men and women by a Swedish female musician named Monika Lassen, who is also active as a sexual psychologist.'' Mondo's hidden treasure. This is a rare and unusual record, with sounds that overlap with the dazzling sounds of jazz, rock, lounge, psych, etc.

The sequel was released one year after the previous work ``woman'' was well received. It's an erotic Japanese groove that knows no bounds, with more moaning voices than the previous work, heavy fuzz guitar, piercing organ, and sexy scat! A total concept album consisting of the same song at the beginning and end of both sides.

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New Street Adventure

The Big Ac

14,99 €*

LP | 2015 | JP | Original (Sweet Soul)

Release: 2015 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Big AC’ - a cornerstone of the New Street sound from their debut album ‘No Hard Feelings’ - will be reissued, with the first-time vinyl release of the original version, produced by the brilliant late Noel McKoy, on the reverse side. It will be housed in a beautiful version of the new Acid Jazz house bag, in colours echoing the ‘No Hard Feelings’ sleeve, and will be limited to 500 copies.

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Nao Yoshioka

The Light

28,99 €*

LP | 2015 | US | Reissue (Get On Down)

Release: 2015 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Runner-Up at Apollo Theater Amateur Night! Highly Anticipated Debut Album from a Major New Talent Set to Take the World by Storm Nao Yoshioka's first album, "The Light," was recorded by three teams in the U.S., the Netherlands, and Japan. The notable vintage soul artist Brian Owens from the U.S. handled the instrumental recording and vocal direction for three tracks. In New York, Dani Elliott and Orly collaborated on songwriting and provided tracks. In the Netherlands, Shirma Rouse, hailed as the No. 1 Soul Queen, also took charge of the instrumental recording and vocal direction for three tracks. The Japanese team featured top musicians from the scene, including Takuya Kuroda, a trumpeter renowned for his work with the José James Band. Soul music, connected through Nao Yoshioka, casts its spell from Tokyo to the world.

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Lyn Collins

Think (About It)

Release: 2015 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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James Brown had several incredibly talented funky divas in his late 60s and early 70s stable, including Vicki Anderson and Marva Whitney. But as great as those two powerhouse singers were, Lyn Collins was the strongest hitmaker of that funky JB era. Her strong voice and commanding stage presence - which earned her the nicknames The Female Preacher and Mama Feelgood - quickly proved to be a potent addition to the People Records universe. In the spring of 1972 her second single, the driving and ridiculously funky “Think (About It)” hit the R&B music world like a ton of bricks. As fans young and old know, thanks to its timeless, relentless groove and powerful vocals, “Think” gained a powerful second life in the 1980s thanks to the hip-hop generation, fueling the platinum smash “It Takes Two,” by Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock in 1988 and additionally sampled by dozens of hip-hop and dance music artists up to the present day. But Collins was far from a one hit wonder: she was as vocally adept on ballads as she was with full-blown funk. She proves this throughout her debut album, which was released in 1972 on James Browns new People Records - the imprint's second full-length release. To wit, aside from the title smash: a powerful and emotional cover of Bill Withers "Ain’t No Sunshine"; the socially progressive "Women’s Lib"; the Gamble & Huff-penned "Never Gonna Give You Up" (originally done by Jerry Butler); and even a daring, muscular take on the song “Fly Me To The Moon,” made famous by, among others, Frank Sinatra. Throughout Think (About It), Collins shows that she was a vocal force to be reckoned with. Backed by a James Brown assembled musical crew that included Pee Wee Ellis, Fred Wesley and, of course, James Brown himself, the platter was bound to impress and succeed. And that it did.

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Alfreda Brockington

Spilt Milk

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Top Originally Unissued Killer Sixties Northern Soul Mover Outta Philadelphia For Upfront Deejays Which Is Taking No Prisoners!

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The Chosen Few Band

What It Takes To Love

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2016 | UK | Original (Not Now)

Nina Simone

The Amazing Nina Simone

Release: 2016 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Major Harris / Walter Jackson

Call Me Tomorrow / Where Have All The Flowers Gone

7" | 2016 | EU | Original (Outta Sight)

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Anti)

Mavis Staples

Livin On A High Note

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Northern Soul All Nighter

2LP | 2016 | UK | Original (Not Now)

33,99 €*

Release: 2016 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Beyond The Sun Black Vinyl Edition

Orgone

2LP | 2016 | US | Original (Colemine)

33,99 €*

2LP | 2016 | EU | Original (BBE Music)

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Orgone is one of the most exciting bands in the new generation
of funk bands; led by the powerhouse vocals of Adryon de Leon,
Orgone recalls such legendary groups as Rufus and Sly & The
Family Stone at their best! The band has backed Alicia Keys on her
As I Am album and Cee Lo Green on his Grammy-winning track Fool
for You.
Beyond The Sun is the most complete fulfillment of Orgone s full
spectrum of sound, ranging from the in the pocket funk of Don’t Push
Your Luck to the evocative balladry of No Pain to the clubby-jam
of the title track and the scorching instrumental workouts on Meat
Machine and Sabi. A highlight is a hot version of Rufus I m A Woman
(I m A Backbone).

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Volcov

From The Archive

Say You Love Me Girl / Time

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Producing under the moniker Isoul8, as well as teaming up with Domu under the Rima alias for the incredible jazz/fusion album 'This World', Volcov is a truly important player in the underground music scene.
Remixing artists such as Frankie Valentine, Azymuth & Taylor McFerrin, running his two labels Archive and Neroli, as well as DJing all over the World has given Volcov a rare knowledge of soul, funk, disco and deep house music; knowledge which is very apparent throughout this album.
'From The Archive' comprises a lovingly chosen collection of obscure Funk, Disco & Boogie tracks, alongside three very special edits produced by the man himself. From Chez Damier's sun-drenched remix of The Urban Crew's 'Go' to Bembe Segue's emotional 'Sun On My Back' via Shuya Okino's disco epic 'Still In Love', this record takes the listener on a joyful journey deep into Volcov's musical mind.

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Breakwater

7" | 2016 | UK | Original (Expansion)

13,99 €*

Something On Your Mind / Closer

Release: 2016 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Two Established Modern Soul Room Movers From 1980 Finally On Limited Reissue 45!

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Melba Moore

7" | 2016 | UK | Original (Expansion)

Release: 2016 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" | 2016 | US | Original (Plane Jane)

Shateish

I'm Leavin

9,99 €*

4th Chamber / Snakes Feat. Lee Fields

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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I’m Leavin is a tribute to Etta James, produced by the one and only Nottz (Busta Rhymes, G Unit, Pusha T, Dilla).
Shateish flipping the Etta classic into a updated tale of catching a cheater and the pain that comes along with it.
B side in the instrumental to the tune, giving us a chance to hear how Nottz smashed the beat closely.

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El Michels Affair

7" | 2016 | US | Original (Big Crown)

Next To You / I Still Love Them All

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Big Crown Records is proud to present the first single from El Michels Affair's forthcoming full length "Return To The 37th Chamber".

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Gene Washington

7" | 2016 | US | Original (Colemine)

7" | 2016 | US | Original (Yep Roc)

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Killer Al Green-like soul from SF!!

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Eli 'Paperboy' Reed

Cut Ya Down

13,99 €*

Harold Mabern / Funk Inc.

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Limited edition for Record Store Day 2016!

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I want You Back / Sister Janie

7" | 2016 | UK | Original (BGP)

7" | 2016 | UK | Original (BGP)

Release: 2016 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Two of the classic floor fillers from the Acid Jazz age released on 7” single for the very first time. Pianist Mabern’s take on the Jackson 5’s US #1 is propelled on a non-stop rhythm courtesy of Idris Muhammad and fiery trumpet from Lee Morgan.

‘Sister Janie’, clearly influenced by James Brown’s ‘Sex Machine’, is as funky as jazz ever got. This Indianapolis group show why they are so highly rated by DJs everywhere. A 33 1/3 rpm release.

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Camille "Lil" Bob

Stop! / Brother Brown

Tell Me What's Wrong Withe The Men

Release: 2016 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Louisiana-based singer Camille “Lil” Bob was one of the most successful R&B stars of southern Louisiana. His recordings for Goldband, La Louisianne and ANLA are the highest quality soul and funk.
These sides have caused a storm on discerning dancefloors. ‘Stop’ is an incendiary cover of the Howard Tate number, whilst our flip is a 100 miles-per-hour slice of hardcore funk.

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Lynn Varnado

7" | 2016 | UK | Original (BGP)

Last Bongo In Paris (Cléon & Jazzy Pidjay)

Release: 2016 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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West Coast singer Lynn Varnado is known for her northern soul masterpiece ‘Wash And Wear Love’. The record is so expensive that its flip, ‘Tell Me What Is Wrong With The Men’, rarely gets the exposure it truly deserves.
To make this release irresistible we have added the sister funk masterpiece ‘Staying At Home Like A Woman’, which makes its 7” debut here.

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Bahia Swing

12" | 2016 | EU | Original (EDR)

Blue Wave White Vinyl Edition

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Parisian DJ & producer’s duo, Cléon & Jazzy Pidjay, are back as Last Bongo In Paris, with a hot new 12inch filled with Latin & Brazilian soul-funk vibes... With raw drums, heavy breaks and jazzy flavor, these 5 tracks EP should quickly become a hit for all groovers and dancefloors!!
Cléon & Jazzy Pidjay have been united through their love of music and hip-hop culture for a while. DJ Cleon is one of the finest producer in France for breakdance battle music, also respected as a fine wax digger, mixing all kinds of music together, such as disco, funk, soul, jazz, breakbeat, hip-hop and more old and new records.
Alongside his mate Jazzy Pidjay and his great production and mixing’ skills, they give a new dancefloor life to hidden and forgotten musical treasures, through funky uptempo tracks.

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Operators

LP | 2016 | US | Original (Last Gang)

35,99 €*

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Musique Original De Films

Ahmed Malek

LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Habibi Funk)

7" | 2016 | UK | Original (Expansion)

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ahmed Malek - Algeria's Ennio Morricone

Ahmed Malek was one of the most important musicians of the Algerian scene of the 1970s. His sountrack works that were composed for various Algerian movies of the time fuse Arabic influences with jazz, psych and funk influences. Dark cineastic soundscapes meet african Jazz at times reminicent of Mulatu. Original copies of his vinyl releases have been sold for enormous amounts. For this release we combined the strongest tracks from his releases with a selection of unreleased material straight from the families archive. The vinyl edition comes with a 8 page 12” size booklet, the cd version with a 16 page booklet with lot of unseen photos, an interview with the artist from 1978 and an introduction to Algerian cinema.

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Erasmus Hall

Just Me And You

Release: 2016 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Love Flight / Turn It Around

Hiram & Direct

7" | 2016 | EU | Original (Sol Discos)

7" | 2016 | US | Original (Allegro Sound)

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Favorite Recordings presents this single reissue released by SOL Discos, a new sub-label launched as a partnership between Pascal Rioux and DJ Waxist. Following their recent collaboration on projects like Lamar Thomas’ single and Caribbean Disco Boogie Sounds’ compilation reissues, Favorite Recordings offered the French DJ to become the coordinator and A&R of a new imprint aiming to reissue rare and forgotten music with a Tropical and Disco flavor: “Sunshine Music”…

Today, SOL Discos is delighted to introduce its very first release, with this official 7" reissue of Hiram & Direct. Initially recorded and released in Detroit (Michigan), it has been a hard to find record since then, with only a little number of known copies floating around and changing hands within the Soul collectors / DJ scene.

Musically speaking, the reissue has been switching tracks sides from the original release, putting the focus on “Love Flight” as the A side. Indeed, “Love Flight” has some strong dancefloor potential for any DJ into underground Disco & Modern Soul. Just listen to those synths! On the B side, you will find a different vibe with “Turn It Around”, an excellent ballad with beautiful vocals & harmonies. In the end, both tracks have nothing to envy to some of the best Soul classics.

It’s with great pleasure and honors that SOL Discos and Waxist make this little known gem more accessible to today's music’ enthusiasts, through this legit reissue!

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Cindy Field

To The Ends Of The Earth

18,99 €*

2LP+CD | 2016 | EU | Original (!K7)

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Oscure Version Of The Tony Middleton Classic Taken From A One-Off Acetate Of Unknown Origin, Only Very Limited Copies Available…

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Dam-Funk

DJ-Kicks

12" | 2016 | EU | Original (Funkotronic)

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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DaM-FunK is the kind of guy who seems like he’d make great company: laid-back, affable, personable. But to truly get the guy, to really understand him, is to know a deep love of music like no other. Dam’s contribution to the DJ-Kicks series gives you an opportunity to do just that. It’s a snapshot view into the mind of the pioneer of Modern-Funk music… DJ-Kicks invites you to get to know the man behind the shades.

Dam makes a lifetime of digging and absorbing music that feels as laid-back as the Santa Ana breeze. Years ago, he coined the term ‘Modern Funk’ to give context to his music. The elements of the synth-heavy and multi-layered style are gloriously displayed on DJ-Kicks. “Modern-Funk is a combination of all the sounds on the mix,” he explains. “Funk, Boogie, Electro, House, Modern-Soul, Ambient tones… a push and pull of nostalgia and progressiveness…”

At a satisfying 19 songs, DâM-FunK’s DJ-Kicks lets grooves breathe. This is a mix to happily get lost within; a document in vibe. Unexpected contemporary joints mingle with lost gems from unlikely places. The exclusive DâM-FunK production “Believer” makes its debut on DJ-Kicks, an extensive instrumental composition that on it’s own could only be classified as signature Modern-Funk. The mix also includes Dam’s excellent collaboration with Nite Jewel, as ‘Nite-Funk,’ on “Can U Read Me?”

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Katze Cookie

Wüstenbrand EP

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Hung Up In Mid-Air / Hung Up In Mid-Air (Paolo Scotti & Giacomo Silvestri Disco Mix)

David Rhodes

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Singing For The Good Times

Martha High

LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Blind Faith)

18,99 €*

Elektro Hafiz Dub Version

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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James Brown. Who doesn’t know about the godfather of soul? Who doesn’t know about the milestone anthem “Cold Sweat”? Maybe there is nobody, but we are sure that many of you don’t know that hidden on that particular song, and in all of James Brown’s productions, is one of the best kept secrets in soul music: Mrs. Martha High.

She is the one who sings that crazy soprano note at the very beginning of the song and she is the one who sang behind James Brown for about 35 years. She was with Brown and the Jb’s in Boston on the infamous night after the Martin Luther King assassination, she flew with him in the dangerous Vietnam skies to entertain the US soldiers, and was also in Zaire celebrating the “Rumble in the Jungle” between Ali and Foreman. Martha was truly a friend, confidant and supporter of the godfather of soul. Maybe she was just too young and shy to jump over the other soul divas to ask for a solo record. Today is different.

Mrs. Martha High is the hardest working woman in show business. She is still touring worldwide as a lead singer of Maceo Parker’s band but now she is on fire because finally, she has recorded the album she never made but always wanted to make. 11 killer original tunes produced and arranged by Luca Sapio, the Italian soul ambassador, in true analog super sound. The tunes evoke the best productions of the golden era of Southern soul as well as the sonic landscapes of the Italian soundtracks of the 60’s. Here is the middle ground where these two unheralded musical traditions meet and Martha is the undisputed Queen. Don’t miss the chance to take a listen.

This record is made of truth, soul, love, and pain - a full spectrum of emotions that only a Queen can deliver to your ears. She spent much time in the studio with Luca and his guys to make it happen. This is not a revival, this is not retro, this is NOW. She took it as a challenge and we are sure that she won.

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Elektro Hafiz

LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Pharaway Sounds)

21,84 €* 22,99 € -5%

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Favorite)

Magic Source

Earthrising

20,99 €*

2LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Heavenly Sweetness)

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Magic Source is a project led by producer Björn Wagner (The Mighty Mocambos, Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band, Mocambo Records), who is renowned for creating an authentic and hard-hitting raw funk sound. Following a few acclaimed single releases on Favorite Recordings over the past few years, the French label deeply wanted to collaborate further with the German combo, for a special and exclusive project bringing their music on new paths. This new project is a step towards a new style: Analog-Electronica, or so called Cosmic-Disco sound. Recorded on a 16-track reel-to-reel tape, EARTHRISING combines raw unedited live band recording, with the refined production aesthetics of the Disco era, including the use of vintage synthesizers, group chants and processed acoustic percussions, for an organic club feeling. While maintaining an un-edited, but highly hypnotic four-on-the-floor groove, Magic Source leaves the old beaten track of cheesy Disco-Pop and overheard Dance classics.

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Anthony Joseph

Carribean Roots

Ringing Bell (Sweet Music) Part1 / Part 2

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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‘Caribbean Roots’ represents a return to his roots for Anthony Joseph, who has always remained true to a powerful, deep-seated sense of his Caribbean identity.

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The Young Senators

7" | 2016 | US | Original (Numero Group)

9,99 €*

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Polydor)

Michael Kiwanuka

Love & Hate

38,99 €*

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jeanette Baby Washington

Let Love Go By

12,34 €* 12,99 € -5%

Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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In Demand Floorpackin' Early Soul/R'n'B/Popcorn/Mod Tune Self-Written By The Artist b/w Fantastic Texas Uptempo R'n'B Mover Which Is A Driving Version Of The Bobby Bland Classic!

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Scorpio / 8th Wonder

7" | 2016 | US | Original (Big Crown)

Have You Been Good To Yourself

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Big Crown Records is proud to present Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band’s new 45, “Scorpio” b/w “8th Wonder”. Coming after the smashing success of their debut full length “55” they drop 2 B-Boy classics back to back on this tough two sider that comes in a beautifully illustrated picture sleeve.
The A side “Scorpio” is a killer cover of the Dennis Coffey breakbeat staple. BRSB turn up the tempo a touch on the original doing the tune justice with crushing drums they have become known for. This is sure to be in every breakbeat enthusiasts box. The B side features the non album cut, BRSB’s cover of The Sugarhill Gang’s 8th Wonder, a tune that lends itself to pans like it was written for them. Another dance floor winner sure to be in DJs sets the world over shortly.

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Johnnie Frierson

LP | 2016 | US | Original (Light In The Attic)

Alice Clark / The Devonnes

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Followers of soul music might have a pang of recognition on reading the name Frierson. That was the surname of Wendy Rene, whose work was collected into the 2012 LITA anthology "After Laughter Comes Tears", and indeed, Johnnie Frierson is Wendy's brother – a fellow member of her mid-'60s Stax four-piece The Drapels. "But Have You Been Good To Yourself" will come as a surprise to anyone expecting more of the beat-driven R 'n' B Johnnie and his sibling produced – including that compilation's much-sampled title track. A mix of spoken word and gospel songs laid down direct to cassette, these ultra-rare home recordings draw from Johnnie's religious upbringing and his history in the music business, which was interrupted in 1970 when he was sent to fight in Vietnam. Crate digger Jameson Sweiger found Have You Been Good To Yourself and a companion album, Real Education, released under the name Khafele Ojore Ajanaku in a Memphis thrift store, but it was noticeably Frierson's work. They hadn't made it far – they would originally have been sold at corner stores and music festivals in the Memphis area, where Frierson continued to perform and host a gospel radio show, all the while working as a mechanic, laborer and teacher.

The seven songs on Have You Been Good To Yourself are overtly religious; some, such as “Out Here On Your Word,” are strident and faithful; others, like the self-questioning “Have You Been Good To Yourself,” are more meditative. They reflect the difficult situation that Frierson was in when recording, shell-shocked from his time in the military and grieving the untimely death of his son. "He was really trying to find his way," remembers Frierson's daughter Keesha in Andria Lisle's liner notes. "And writing and making music were a way out for him."

The album is now remastered and released professionally for the first time, the message spread by Frierson – who passed away in 2010 – remains undimmed.

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You Hit Me (Right Where It Hurt Me) / I Couldn't Build A World (With You On The Out Side)

7" | 2016 | UK | Original (Kent)

11,39 €* 11,99 € -5%

Release: 2016 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" | 2016 | US | Original (Colemine)

The Gripsweats

Ziggy's Walk / Alpha Dog

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" | 2016 | US | Original (Big Crown)

Lady Wray

Smiling / Make Me Over

LP | 2016 | US | Original (Atlantic)

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Big Crown Records presents the second single “Smiling” from Lady Wray’s “Queen Alone” album. The single is an instant feel good anthem, “Smiling” finds Lady Wray reminding us to keep our heads up and keep a smile on our faces through whatever life deals us. With production from Leon Michels and Thomas Brenneck that rides the line between bubblegum pop and lo fi tough grit, Nicole lays out with a voice as encouraging as the lyrics she is singing. Listeners will be hard pressed not to find themselves singing along after the first listen. A proper good vibe tune guaranteed to move dance floors the world over. The B-side “Make Me Over” is a lushly scored tale of letting your guard down and letting the one who loves you take care of you when you are down and out. A relatable tale of having expensive taste and empty pockets, Nicole finds herself asking for a little help so she can get a break from being strapped for cash promising to take care of her man as soon as her check comes in.

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Aretha Franklin

Greatest Hits

31,99 €*

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Penniman)

The Excitements

Breaking The Rule

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2016 | US | Original (Big Crown)

Lady Wray

Queen Alone

The Lost Queen Of New Orleans Soul

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Virginia-born singer/songwriter Nicole Wray has everything you’d want in a singer: an infectious Jackson-5-family-member flare, a range like Aretha’s, and a church upbringing that’s brought a pure, healing texture to her voice. But the struggle she’s been through has made her more than a singer. Nicole Wray is an artist. To know her soul, you have to go back to the beginning. Growing up in Portsmouth was tough at times for Nicole. However, at the age of fifteen, life opened up quickly when Missy Elliot paid a visit to Nicole’s family home to audition her on the spot. Missy was there on the rumored strength and quality of her voice. Instantly blowing her away, she signed and left with Missy that night. Two years later, at age 17, she had a hit gold single off a solid debut album (“Make It Hot”). Suddenly she was part of a team that included late ‘90s R&B and rap royalty: Missy, Aaliyah, Ginuwine, Playa, Timbaland and Magoo. She made it, and fast. However, as rapidly as she achieved success, Nicole then found herself needing to re-make it. By late 2001, her time with Missy and company had run its course. They amicably parted ways and Nicole, once on top of the R&B world, was unsure of what was next. It was a very low, but important, point in her life. While neck-deep in this struggle, Damon Dash and Roc-A-Fella Records called. They signed an album deal and by 2004, in what was starting to be a pattern, just as things were looking up Roc-A-Fella suddenly (famously) split. Once again, industry factors beyond her control took charge. Like a recurring dream, Nicole found herself in a familiar situation. Having just been in the spotlight, and then again back living the “real life.” In 2013, Nicole paired up with London vocalist Terri Walker and released the album “Lady”. Terri parted ways with the group to pursue her own projects shortly after the album’s release–despite rave reviews and upcoming travel dates. Fast forward to now–the transformation from singer-for-hire to pure artist is evident in this new full-length solo release, “Queen Alone”. The record was written and recorded in 10 days at the legendary Diamond Mine Studios, in Queens NY with Leon Michels and Tom Brenneck handling production. Today, after stutter-stepping in and out of the industry, there is a new soul and substance to her songs–all of it from her life. “They Don't Hang Around", tells the story of her post Roc-a-Fella days, “Guilty", is about her brother’s incarceration, “Make Me Over" tells the relatable story of being broke with expensive taste, and ‘Let It Go”, a perfect way to end the record, is about the simple act of letting go and moving on. Almost echoing her new record, Nicole says, “You have to go through something for it to be real.” She has been living with one foot in fame and the other in real life. The result is clear: she’s feeling something real in her music again. And it’s hard for us as listeners not to follow suit.

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Betty Harris

2LP | 2016 | UK | Original (Soul Jazz)

28,99 €*

The Electronique Void: Black Noise

Release: 2016 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Betty Harris’ The Lost Queen of New Orleans Soul collects together the steady stream of amazing soul and funk singles issued by Betty Harris from 1964 to 1969, under the musical guidance of legendary composer, musician and producer extraordinaire Allen Toussaint, a collection which truly captures the heart and soul of the city of New Orleans during this era.
Betty Harris’s powerful, fiery soulful vocals found a perfect accompaniment with the New Orleans’ players that Toussaint put together to back her, which by the time of her funk classic ‘There’s A Break In The Road’ were the legendary super-tight, super-funk New Orleans group The Meters.
With the extraordinary song-writing skills of Allen Toussaint alongside the powerful, soaring, confident and emotive singer and the groove of The Meters, you have an unbeatable combination. That Harris never in fact lived in New Orleans (she flew in from Florida for all her sessions with Toussaint’s local in-house players) seems almost an irrelevance, a geographical aside to the defining New Orleans sound captured on the recordings featured here.
All of these singles featured here were released on Allen Toussaint and his business partner Marshal Sehorn’s local New Orleans label Sansu, widely distributed in the southern city but in only limited quantities elsewhere. As a consequence, Betty Harris’ music failed to achieve the commercial success of other New Orleans artists such as Lee Dorsey (who she recorded with) and The Meters (who backed her). And so at the end of the decade she stopped recording, retired from the music business to raise her family in Florida.

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Adrian Younge

LP | 2016 | US | Original (Linear Labs)

Clarence Reid / Vicki Anderson

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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It was made the way they made electronic music in the good old days, all analog everything, right after synthesizers shrunk to a manageable size and you didn’t have to trek down to a university to use one anymore. Electronic music as practiced and developed by pioneers like Dick Hyman and Raymond Scott and Wendy Carlos is precise and intentional. In making his first electronic album, Younge took his cues from them, reminding a contemporary audience what a synthesizer, deep in its heart, really could be. “Black Noise” is men talking to men about women; “Lemonade” is a woman talking to women about men, and they both orbit around a failure we take for granted like the sun: loving you is complicated. It’s a skill; we forgot. Adrian Younge calls “The Electronique Void” an academic album, by which he means it is both instructional and informational. There’s a problem at the heart of it, a woman who’s been told that she’s loved, but she doesn’t recognize that, can’t feel it, may have heard it all before, may be worrying about the wrong things. Jack Waterson, long a guitarist in Younge’s band, plays the role of narrator, sounding professorial and rather superior as he lays out for the woman where she’s erred. That vocoder you hear is Adrian, talking to her on a subterranean level, the way an artist must. The discourse on the album is the kind of thing that happens when you go blonde and then you can’t keep ‘em off you. These truths are cold and hard, and our hero begrudges the well-meaning advice being rained down upon her as any independent woman would. The science of love, its formulas and if-then constraints, causal relationships and observable properties, is best taught experientially, but learning it hurts so, so bad. Music, especially electronic music, reliant as it is on abstraction and unrepentant as it is about hijacking your physiological responses to tempo and rhythm and dynamics, is a way to get there without going through it.

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Doggone It / Sound Funky Instrumental

15,99 €*

Clarence Reid / Vicki Anderson

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Driving Uptempo 1969 Funk Mover For The Dancefloor Available For The First Time On A Well-Mastered 7", Previously Only Avalable On LP b/w Classic Brownstone Label Instrumental Version! *LIMITED 'WHITELABEL' 7" DEEJAY PRESS, ONLY 50 COPIES MADE!*

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Doggone It / Sound Funky Instrumental