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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Alligator)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Repress! Rare underground cult classic Running The Mardi Gras by Boco. Those lucky enough to find an original copy are paying upwards of $1000.00 for this truly unique psych rock / funk gem on 45.From the title to the sound to the cryptic lyrics "Running the Mardi Gras" seems to confirm all the mystique that surrounds the southern Louisiana Bayous and Cajun culture. This record is a family affair. It started one morning when one Mr. Latour, the father of the group, was shaving in the mirror and a song struck him. It was to be about Mardi Gras, not the beaded revelry of New Orleans familiar to most, but the traditions of rural Louisiana, where one would "run the Mardi Gras," going house to house getting home cooking from the neighbors. He would sing the song every day in the car and the children of the family soaked up the spirit of the song.Playing and performing was just part of life for the family. Mr. Latour had bought studio equipment for his children to record on, which he kept in their house. Growing up in the shadow of New Orleans, the Latour children listened to the sounds of Funk and R&B that came in on the radio, which was the biggest influence on the family projects' sound. Together the four Latour children, with the eponymous Boco Latour on lead vocals, and a couple of local musicians recorded "Running the Mardi Gras" in the Latour home. Feeling that they really had something, the makeshift band decided to record a b-side. The guitarist had a song he had been working on and they recorded what would become "Smile" as well. The two songs were pressed under the Laughing Eye label, nothing more than the heading under which the Latour family released their music, and mostly sold the 45 at gigs around southern Louisiana. The recorded output under Laughing Eye was understandably limited, but locals still remember well Boco's powerful voice from her shows in clubs around the bayous. Boco and George Latour still live around Baton Rouge and continue to make music and play in the area.

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Lonnie Mack

Strike Like Lightning

31,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Dollar Bill Y'all - First Decade Of Hip Hop Vinyl Edition

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2LP | 2023 | UK | Original (BGP)

24,99 €*

Tape | 2023 | UK | Original (100 Percent)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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In 1979, Spring Records released the first hip-hop style rap record ‘King Tim III (Personality Jock)’ by The Fatback Band. The label, initially relegated it to the B-Side, allowed the Sugarhill Gang the breakthrough rap hit with ‘Rapper’s Delight’. Over the next decade, Spring kept dipping their toes in the water, but without any great conviction or mainstream success but were always there to chart hip-hop’s development.

“Dollar Bill Y’All” focuses on all the key moments and includes personality jocks like Mr. Magic, street tough rapping, live funk bands and the birth of sampling. This compilation is a detailed compilation looking at Spring Records’ – and sub-label Posse - long and sometimes troubled relationship with hip-hop’s first decade. “Dollar Bill Y’All” shows that, despite their reservations, Spring recorded landmark records by not just King Tim III, but Jimmy Spicer, DJ Hollywood and Ice T (as part of Afrika & The Zulu Kings).

Extended sleeve notes, penned by Dean Rudland, tells the story of how the label could have been a force in the next generation of rap, possibly even signing Gang Starr, if only they had been committed: the Bally Boys single, which now sells for hundreds of pounds, was produced by Donald Dee Bowden who produced Gang Starr’s debut single ‘The Lesson’.

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Dexys

The Feminine Divine

18,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Feminine Divine Purple Vinyl Edition

Dexys

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (100 Percent)

41,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Feminine Divine Black Vinyl Ediion

Dexys

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (100 Percent)

40,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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My Mind Holds On To Yesterday Coke Bottle Clear Vinyl Edition

Barbara Stant

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Numero Group)

My Mind Holds On To Yesterday Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Eventually crowned Queen of theNorfolk Sound, Barbara Stant wasjust a teenager when she auditionedfor Shiptown impresario NoahBiggs in 1970. A dozen sides weretracked throughout the decade,producing a body of work thatstretched from deep soul tonorthern soul to sister funk. By1978 disco was in overdrive, NoahBiggs was in the ground, and Stant'scareer on hold.My Mind HoldsOnto Yesterdayis what remains.

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Barbara Stant

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Numero Group)

26,99 €*

Bobby Harden & The Soulful Saints

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Bridge Of Love Hazy Black Vinyl Edition

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Dala / Colemine)

Bobby Harden & The Soulful Saints

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Bobby Harden & The Soulful Saints are proud to announce their debut album, "Bridge of Love." The album's ten original compositions are presented in sparklingly-clear stereo sound and run the soul gamut, from grits-n-bricks R&B ('Played a Fool by You') to throw-back psychedelia ('One Tribe'), svelte seventies pop ('One Night of the Week') and some seriously sophisticated ballads ('Wounded Hearts', 'Bridge of Love'). Together they document Bobby's life journey in song. Through youthful self-doubt in the opening track 'It's My Time', to confirmation on the exuberant finale 'Raise Your Mind', Bobby proves that faith and hard work can pay dividends. "Life is a joy when you free your soul."Throughout the album, Harden's voice is tailored to perfection by the almost impossibly dexterous Soulful Saints, and further dressed to the nines by an accoutrement of Latin percussion, full-on horns, high-flying backing singers and even a string quartet. This comes as no surprise as The Soulful Saints have performed live and recorded together with acts such as Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires, Lee Fields & The Expressions, The Budos Band, Mark Ronson, Antibalas, The Impressions, & The Wu-Tang Clan.The album is produced by Dala Records founder Billy Aukstik, and recorded at Hive Mind Recording in Brooklyn, New York. Kurtis Powers of BQE Records Co-Executive Produced the album along with Aukstik.

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Bridge Of Love Black Vinyl Edition

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Dala / Colemine)

Standers Dark Feel Green Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Craven Faults

2LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Leaf)

34,99 €*

Standers Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Standers is the second full-length album by Craven Faults. It follows a trilogy of long sold out EPs, 2020"s Erratics & Unconformities LP, the Enclosures mini-album and a series of studio performances entitled Live Works.Meticulously curated, each release moves the Craven Faults story forward. Each one a self-contained analogue electronic journey across northern Britain, viewed through the lens of a century in popular music. Studios, venues and movements. Technology and ingenuity. Vibrations. Lines drawn to connect those moments of inspiration.On Standers, there"s a sonic shift. A new palette to paint from and further refinement of the craft. We"re no longer exclusively travelling overland. Familiar landscapes are viewed from a different perspective. There"s a growing obsession in how this island came to look the way it does, and how its ancient and modern history affects its current population. Landscapes shaped by the elements, and then by countless conquerors and settlers. Livestock and machinery. Money, religion and politics.

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Craven Faults

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Leaf)

LP | 2023 | CA | Original (Constellation)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Joni Void

Everyday Is The Song

26,99 €*

Best Of Big Mama Thornton 1951-58

Release: 2023 / CA – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Everyday Is The Song is Joni Void's third album for Constellation and a deeper plunge into emotive audio montage; the Montréal-based French-British producer calls it "Tape Vortex / Musique Verité / Memory Collage". The album's raw material relies centrally on a Walkman bought at local record shop Death Of Vinyl in spring 2020 and lost at a Backxwash show two years later, but not before hours of audio snippets were captured and archived. Everyday Is The Song is an evocative sample-based sonic diary brimming with warmth, transience and hyper-specificity where Void explores a more abstract and interstitial terrain of drifting miniatures. It remains very much a collection of songs, butrelative to the more assertive and intensive tracks channeling explorations of traumatic interiority on their previous pair of acclaimed LPs, Void's new album flows with intentional lightness and a more incidental atmosphere. Songs are constructed from audio recordings made all over and often while literally on the move: walking, cycling and skateboarding around the city; in bus and train stations; from car windows. The album's overt musical material was recorded, often spontaneously and informally, in all sorts of jam spaces, living rooms and at local live shows. Perambulation is a central theme and constituent fabric of Everyday Is The Song, carrying with it a colloquial spirit of gentle, intrinsic sentimentality. The self-proclaimed "love, soul, agency, and whimsy" virtues of Ruby Yacht (R.A.P. Ferreira, Pink Navel, et al) have also been a lodestar for Void in this respect. The album's sonic travelogue through local audio geography and community conveys a sort of urban pastoralism and charming softness. Less kinetic and beat-driven than previous work, a field recording and audio art sensibility prevails, with a tempered intimacy that sends this new song cycle sailing along mostly dulcet but detailed waves of materiality. The result is an electro-acoustic tape collage album of beautifully drifting melody, occasional voice, wide-ra...

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Big Mama Thornton

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Acrobat)

23,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Boy, You Got More Blues Here! Volume 2

Howlin' Wolf

10" | 2023 | EU | Original (Bear Family)

23,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Wattstax: The Living Word

V.A.

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Craft)

38,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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It's The Funk Feat. Venomous2000 Purple Marbled Vinyl Edition

Djar One

7" | 2023 | EU | Original (Burning Sole)

14,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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It's The Funk Feat. Venomous2000 Black Vinyl Edition

Djar One

7" | 2023 | EU | Original (Burning Sole)

14,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Warner Music International)

Gregory Hutchinson

Da Bang

38,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Acid Jazz)

Men Of The North Country

28,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" | 2023 | US | Original (Peoples Potential Unlimited)

Michael Soward

He's Alive

10,99 €*

Junie' Live At Dooley's 1975

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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In 1985 Michael Soward and Shelby Hurns set out to create the new gospel sound with their self-released album entitled "Real Love". The LP was a progressive mix of synthesized gospel soul and spiritual funk. This heavenly blend proved to be visionary for their time and sounds so right today. Ppu-022 features an edited version of "Standing On The Top" and all the original versions from Soward & Hurn's landmark debut "Real Life!", guaranteed to bless speakers worldwide.

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Junie Morrison

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (P-Vine)

35,99 €*

Save The Young Ones / Freeway

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Excavated from the halls of funk! A newly discovered live album from the late great Junie Morrison! 1975 was a transitional year for \former Ohio Players and future P-Funk keyboardist Junie Morrison. He had just left the former band after working on a trio of releases that would catapult the funk band to fame, and his burgeoning solo career was just beginning to take off. Recorded at Dooley’s in Lansing, Michigan, this live album was likely recorded just after his fantastic second solo album Freeze. This performance focuses on songs from Freeze, such as the incredibly groovy opening track “Junie II”. The rhythm section are perfectly at home in the pocket, with Junie’s keyboards and charismatic vocals floating effortlessly over horn rhythms. This is followed up by a medley of the Ohio Players’ best songs, “Pain; Cookies Will Get You; Please; Ecstasy” played at a breakneck tempo. Junie’s synthesizer lines are something of a forerunner to the cosmic funk he would play with Parliament, but hearing the Players’ iconic songs as a medley is enough to justify getting this record! Of course, don’t miss the covers of Aretha Franklin’s “Oh Me Oh My (I’m A Fool For You Baby)”, Diana Ross’s “Surrender”, and The Temptations’ “Shakey Ground”! This album, put on vinyl for the first time ever is a must-have for all fans of funk!

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Eric Dunbar

7" | 2023 | EU | Original (P-Vine)

19,99 €*

God And You / Girl I've Been Trying To Tell You

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Perhaps the most danceable of all of the TSG records, Eric Dunbar’s Freeway contained everything from funk freakouts to mellow crossover soul. This limited edition single highlights this, with two tracks perfect for the dancefloor. “Save The Young Ones” is modern crossover soul at its finest, with a gentle beat and the kind of groove you can’t help but bob your head to. But it’s “Freeway”, the title track of the album, in all its mid-tempo funk glory, that’ll have you busting the kinds of moves you didn’t think you had in you. Make sure not to miss this limited edition 7-inch!

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The Ultimates

7" | 2023 | EU | Original (P-Vine)

13,99 €* 19,99 € -30%

Indicut Feat. Georgia Anne Muldrow

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Completing the trilogy! The sole album from The Ultimates, You’re My Lady is considered a part of the “Three Beauties”, a reference to the three TSG albums adorned with beautiful women on the cover (the other two are Ricardo Marrero & The Group’s A Taste and The Topics’ Giving Up). With original copies going for over $3,000 on the second hand market you knew it was only a matter of time before we reissued it! This latest reissue sees us combine two of the most killer cuts from a killer album, and combine them on a limited edition 7-inch single! A-side “God And You” is getting its first ever single cut, and contains the kind of sweet singing and groove that’ll get you up and dancing in no time. B-side “Girl I’ve Been Trying To Tell You” is a mid-tempo soul number, and listening to these two combined will truly show you why they were called The Ultimates! This 7-inch single is the first time that soul number “God and You” is being released as a single!

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Apócrifo

7" | 2023 | US | Original (SomeOthaShip Connect)

9,99 €*