Funk | Soul 774 Items

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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12" | 2024 | Original (Acid Jazz Uk)

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Dee C Lee

Extended Versions

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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In December Opaque Gold Vinyl Edition

Robert Glasper

LP | 2024 (Concord)

Stanway's Revenge/Plain Song

Release: 2024

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Robert Glasper’s holiday album In December was released last year as an Apple Music exclusive. We’re now able offer it widely available to physical retail and all DSPs!

Is there anything to be done with carols like “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” and “Joy to the World” that hasn’t been done in the past 300 years? If there is, Grammy-winning pianist, composer, and producer Robert Glasper is the kind of artist to do it. “I like covering songs that people know well,” Glasper tells Apple Music. “That’s what I’ve done throughout my whole career.” It’s true: As a jazz pianist, he’s obviously learned his way around making classics his own, whether they were written by Mongo Santamaría or Kurt Cobain. But, he says, “The biggest challenge in making a holiday album was trying to do it in a way that feels festive but at the same time feels real and not corny.”

He succeeds on both fronts on In December, his holiday album that mixes classic carols with a set of originals, and which was recorded in Spatial Audio. Part of what keeps it credible is the fact that Glasper’s hiphop/R&B/jazz fusion is done on a compositional level instead of just a cosmetic one (no collages of sampled sax solos and drum loops here). The covers reveal a lot about his musical worldview: Sung by Tony winner Cynthia Erivo (The Color Purple), “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” is turned into dark, airy neo-soul, while “Joy to the World”—sung by Alex Isley—feels like a Stevie Wonder ballad. But the originals reveal even more. “The intention for this album was less about Christmas songs and more about songs that feel good during the holidays,” Glasper says. “I stayed away from thinking too much about Christmas and its traditional lingo, and concentrated on real things people go through during the holiday season.”

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Sidewinder

7" | 2024 | UK | Original (Mukatsuku)

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Bastard Jazz)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Mukatsuku is hurtling towards its 100th release but ahead of that comes another vital and hand-numbered 7'' featuring a brace of tunes taken from the Resolution album from back in 2003 by Sidewinder aka Reading-born Glasgow resident Alan Bryden.
'Stanway's Revenge' you might recognise from Groove Armada's Back To Mine compilation and here, with an exclusive edit . Llush as seductive as ever with the smoochy horns and gentle grooves. On the flip, 'Plain Song' has late-night chords making a sombre vibe while muted trumpet, organic percussion and classy strings all embellish the mood.

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Kool Customer

At Your Service

23,99 €*

Only You Know What I Like

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Kool Customer is a collaborative project from B. Bravo and Bay area singer Rojai that brings together the sounds of future funk, 80s boogie, and a little bit of strip club sleaze.

B.Bravo is a 2010 graduate of Red Bull Music Academy with releases on Brownswood, Frite Nite and Ernest Endeavors.

Support from the likes of Benji B (bbc Radio 1), Gilles Peterson, DaM Funk, Sweater Funk Collective .

B. Bravo's shared the stage with artists like Chromeo, Dam-Funk, Flying Lotus and serenaded crowds across the world with his bass heavy outer space boogie and dirty grinding synth grooves at festivals like Sxsw, Detroit Electronic Music Festival, and Sonar in Barcelona.

Rojai (pronounced "row-juh") is a San Francisco born singer emerging as a leading voice in the modern funk scene with a vocal range from a raspy, percussive island vibe, to silky r&b.

As a frontman for Kool Customer and Latin-funk outfit Bayonics, Rojai has proven himself adept at crooning on any groove in his soulful timbre.

Being legally blind hasn't slowed down Rojai's ability to write, record and perform. He has channeled his life experience into songwriting and singing, creating music with a spirit and soul that inspires.

Extensive sync history include Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens, Netflix's Fatherhood, as well as 3 unique songs featured on Tyler Perry's Sistas and more

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Eddie Capone's Treatment

12" | 2024 | UK | Original (Freestyle)

18,99 €*

Johnny Otis / Sidney Maiden

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Freestyle Records drop another UK boogie 12" rarity from Eddie Capone's Treatment, this time the previously white label-only "Only You Know What I Like" from 1985. Limited to 300 copies worldwide.
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A mainstay of the UK's reggae, soul, funk & rock circuits since the early 1970s, Eddie Capone has played with a diverse and revered collection of acts; Chairmen of the Board, The Foundations, Black Velvet, The Elgins, Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come, Arthur Lee's Love, Billy Preston and Edwin Starr to name but a few. Eddie was also part of short-lived group Casablanca, with David Costa & Barry Clarke of early 70's folk-rockers Trees, signed to Elton John's Rocket Record Company.
Eddie founded the Treatment band in the early 1980s bringing in a revolving cast of singers and players, and created the Treatment Records imprint out of his own Black Rock studio in South East London in 1982. Releasing a string of singles - with efforts from Eddie Capone's Treatment, a side-project with singer Beryl Marsden as Salt & Pepper, and a single from Norwegian group Wave - Treatment Records then followed this up in 1985 with the 12" release of "I Won't Give You Up" with Diane Jones brought in on vocal duties. This received solid support amongst DJs and radio at the time, and was quickly followed with this solid slice of white label-only UK boogie-funk that has since become a favoured deep cut on the selectors circuit.
Treatment Records continued through the 1980s through to early 1990s releasing Eddie's music, both as a solo artist and as part of collaborative side-projects, and Eddie has continued to write, perform and produce music from his home studio right through to the present day. As a committed community figure & activist in South East London, Eddie has since 2014 re-started Treatment Records under the name of 3G Treatment - bringing together three generations of people from the local area to ensure young artists & musicians have access to the expertise and experience of their elders for support and encourage successful careers in the industry.

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Turtle Dove / Hand Me Down Baby

7" | 2024 | Original (Dig / Repro)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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She Sets My Soul On Fire/ Disgusted Blues

Sonny Parker

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Pat Patterson With Albert Stevens & His Orchestra

Boppin' At Mid-Nite / Rock An' Roll Story

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Leo Price

Hey Now Baby

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Someone To Love Me / Judgement Day

Snooky Pryor

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Orboretum: The Orb Collection Deluxe Edition

The Orb

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Cooking Vinyl)

97,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Wagram)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A career-spanning Compilation, including new and rare mixes, compiled by Dr. Alex Paterson. "Orboretum: The Orb Collection" goes way back, but also focusses on recent highlights from albums such as "Abolition Of The Royal Familia" (2020) and "Prism" (2023) - which were cited by the media as some of their greatest work - up there with the bonafide gold of yesteryear. "I don"t want The Orb to end up milking it like Roxy Music, who were always cranking out another best-of, although we did release the "History Of The Future" best-of in 2013, and its part 2 in 2015 to be fair. We have such a gigantic catalogue though, that sometimes even I need a reminder of what I"ve done, especially these days. This is a sort of director"s cut, reframing our output, making new neuro pathways, and new juxtapositions. Some of these tracks are 30 years apart, but there are clear through lines, a continuum." Alex Paterson

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Frank Sinatra

Sings Christmas

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Christmas

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Lunedi Cinema / Chaser Transparent Vinyl Edition

Calibro 35

7" | 2024 | EU | Original (Record Kicks)

12" | 2024 | Original (Lumberjacks In Hell)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Transparent Limited Edition.Cinematic funk heroes Calibro 35 take you on a journey in the world of jazz and rare groove. Dr. Dre and Jay-Z sampled Italian cinematic funk legends Calibro 35 are always in search of new territories to venture into, their new single payintg tribute to jazz-funk, rare groove and pshychedelic cinematic-jazz. None of the members of Calibro 35 are (or consider themselves) jazz musicians, but over the years jazz has...

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Goshawk

Loyalty EP

Alliance White Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Lumberjacks in Hell proudly presents its next 12" from the English producer Goshawk, marking his much-anticipated debut on the label. Goshawk brings a solid repertoire of productions characterised by a soulful disco vibe, already showcased in his collaborations with Erik Rico on Atjazz Record Company and Situatism, not to mention his stellar remix for Groovement Inc. - Love and Affection.

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Glok/Timothy Clerkin

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Bytes)

26,99 €*

LP | 2024 | Original (Jamestown Revival -)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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RIDE"s Andy Bell, recording under his electronic alter ego GLOK, and the producer and Insult to Injury label boss Timothy Clerkin have joined forces for Alliance, a brand new seven-track album released by Bytes.

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Jamestown Revival

Songs That Sleigh

25,99 €*

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Wonderwax)

Reggie B & Inkswel

God's Way

There's A Riot Goin' On Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves

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Inkswel and Reggie B Unite for Full-Length EP "God's Way" on DJ Spinna's Wonder Wax Label.
Funk-infused Soul Meets Boom Bap Grooves in a Collaboration Decades in the Making.

Two forces in the music world, internationally renowned producer Inkswel and legendary singer, songwriter, and producer Reggie B, are set to make waves once again with their upcoming release, God’s Way. Released under the revered Wonder Wax label, helmed by iconic DJ Spinna, God’s Way is an eclectic fusion of hip-hop soul, P-funk, and a homage to the unmistakable Minneapolis sound, crafted as a love letter to timeless grooves and cutting-edge production.

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Sly And The Family Stone

LP | 1971 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Tough Guys Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1971 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Why you'll love it...
With the ’60s coming to an end, the revolutionary spirit of the times was so ubiquitous that it simply demanded more from its artists. We started to see this shift in rock ’n’ roll (The Beatles, The Rolling Stones) and in jazz (Lee Morgan, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock); it was time that pop and soul music followed suit. Marvin Gaye would release the seminal What’s Going On in May 1971, and while What’s Going On was pivotal in allowing Black artists to deliver popular music with a message that spoke to the times, There’s a Riot Goin’ On followed Gaye’s lead, but pushed the boundaries further. Sly Stone challenged what was possible for a Black artist in popular music, both lyrically and sonically.

Sly & The Family Stone’s There’s a Riot Goin’ On was synonymous with the anxiety felt by all alive at that time — how to navigate this new decade, after all the turmoil experienced in the last one. It’s a bit of a “purple haze,” really. Artistically, Sly managed to harness the confusion that not only he felt, but that most people were feeling then.

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Isaac Hayes

LP | 1974 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Never Loved A Man Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1974 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Tough Guys is a daring, widescreen, progressive funk album from one of the genre’s finest craftsmen. Because Hayes was Black, and rooted in R&B radio, he didn’t get lumped in with the prog-rock groups then making waves on the rock charts, but he should have been. He was making music as expansive and expressive as Emerson, Lake and Palmer, and Yes; he was just doing it in a different context. The soundtrack for Hayes’ first major film role, Tough Guys would echo throughout history as much for the way it matched the grimy, over-the-top story of the film it accompanies, but also in the way its songs were chopped up and re-imagined, appearing in everything from Geto Boys songs to Quentin Tarantino movies.

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Aretha Franklin

LP | 1967 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Musical Massage Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1967 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Why you'll love it...
"‘I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You’ runs the stylistic gambit without feeling Franklin is doing things just for show. The album isn’t trying to function as a resumé of her skills. Genre shifts feel organic and natural. “Don’t Let Me Lose This Dream” is built on a bossa nova groove, while “Do Right Woman Do Right Man” has a little country ballad flavor. “Dr Feelgood (Love Is A Serious Business)”—one of four songs penned by Franklin herself—is a bluesy belter. She might have been Queen of the genre, but pigeonholing Franklin in soul is like calling Sugar Ray Leonard just a welterweight. She could shuffle through styles as smooth as velvet. Everything is stamped with her own distinct character."

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Leon Ware

LP | 2016 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Black Moses Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2016 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Musical Massage is of the body, and beyond the body. Far past merely the physical or the sexual, or even the romantic—the engine of Musical Massage is a spirit, a cohesion, a rhythm, a way of life, and a shared understanding.

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Isaac Hayes

2LP | 1971 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

43,99 €*

Release: 1971 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Still Here Black Vinyl Edition

The Notations

LP | 2015 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Ella Wishes You A Swinging Christmas Deluxe Edition

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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Ella Fitzgerald

2LP | 2024 | US | Original (Verve)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Christmas

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Mr Bongo Record Club Volume 4

12,99 €*

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Bounds Tarn Sike Blue Vinyl Edition

Craven Faults

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Leaf)

33,99 €*

Where Are We Going / Woman Of The World

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Bounds follows Craven Faults"second full-length album Standers. Following loosely in the footsteps of 2020"s Enclosures release, here"s another 37-minute journey through Northern England via a lifetime obsessing at the fringes of popular culture.

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Marvin Gaye

7" | 1973 | UK | Reissue (Expansion)

14,99 €*

Hung Up On You White Vinyl Edition

Release: 1973 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Recorded in 1973, these two gems were originally album tracks on Marvin’s “You’re The Man” LP. Now these two and only gems curated by the Mizell Brothers are back to back for the first time on a 7” single.

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The James Taylor Quartet

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Jti)

...Plays The Music Of Peter Green Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Gregor Hilden

2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Acoustic Music)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2024 | Original (Tde Music Llc)

SiR

Heavy

34,99 €*

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Hot Buttered Soul Singles 1969-1972

Isaac Hayes

2LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Stax)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sixteen years may have gone by since Isaac Hayes’ untimely passing at the age of just 65, but he remains one of the most popular and Iconic singer-songwriter-arrangers in the history of Soul music.

The albums Hayes’ made for Stax’ Enterprise label remain the benchmark in ‘symphonic soul’, and sound as breathtakingly brilliant as they did when they were new releases.

As well as being one of a small group of artists who expanded the growth of the soul albums market, Ike was a consistently successful singles artist, who placed 16 consecutive 45s on the R&B chart between 1969 and 1976 – most of which also crossed over to pop.

The biggest hits have been anthologised on previous occasions – but “Hot Buttered Singles” is the first series to present the A and B sides of all of Hayes’ ‘Yellow Stax’-era 45s in chronological order, and in their original singles versions – several of which have not appeared on CD before. Many of these tracks are among his best loved recordings. Here you will hear them as you would have heard them on soul and pop radio over half a century ago.

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LP | 2024 | UK | Original (BGP)

This Is The Breaks

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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“This Is The Breaks” is a 12-track look at the history of the break − and they’re all great jazz, funk and soul records. We have not only included tracks that were sampled back in the first golden age of sampling, but also tracks that have been utilised by some of today’s biggest names.

The curtains open with Millie Jackson’s version of ‘If Loving You Is Wrong I Don’t Want To Be Right’ originally a hit for Luther Ingram in 1972. This version recorded in Muscle Shoals and produced by Brad Shapiro was the opening track of Jackson’s “Caught Up” LP released in 1974. The use of a beat with sweeping strings as a sample, usually at a slow to medium tempo, as pioneered by the Wu-Tang Clan, seems to be especially in vogue at the moment. ‘If Loving You Is Wrong I Don’t Want To Be Right’ has been used over 50 times over the last few decades and was sampled in 2023 by NLE Choppa on ‘Pistol Paccin’’. A similar sound is culled from Debbie Taylor’s 1969 track ‘Let’s Prove Them Wrong’ which was sampled in 2021 by JID on his cut ‘2007’. It was also used in 2023 on ‘Release Me’ by Nasty C.

f this suggests that sampling can be fashion-led, another example is Little Ann’s ‘Deep Shadows’. Ann was a Detroit singer who released only one single − 1968’s Going Down A One-Way Street (The Wrong Way) produced by Dave Hamilton for Ric-Tic Records − but left a handful of soul masterpieces in the vault. While two of those − ‘What Should I Do?’ and ‘Who You Trying To Fool?’ − are up-tempo northern soul dancers, the downtempo ‘Deep Shadows’ is atmospheric, with a plodding beat, memorable vibes and piano parts. Finally released in 1998, it has since been sampled dozens of times by artists like Grand Puba on ‘Think Of U’ (2016), Loyle Carner on ‘You Don’t Know’ (2019), and more recently in 2024 by Your Old Droog’s on ‘dbz’, featuring Madlib, Denzel Curry and Wu-Tang Clan’s Method Man.

One of hip-hop’s greatest producers is DJ Premier of Gang Starr, whose beat picking is exemplary and the way he uses those beats raises him above almost all his peers. Take his deployment of Joe Simon’s ‘Drowning In The Sea Of Love’, which he edited and manipulated to form the hook of Gang Starr’s 1997 single ‘You Know My Steez’. He was also the first producer to sample Billy Garner’s Detroit street funk cut ‘I Got Some’ which went on to be sampled time and time again. From the same Motor City studio − Dave Hamilton’s − came Chico & Buddy’s ‘Can You Dig It?’ which was one of several samples on House of Pain’s 1992 hit ‘Jump Around’.

Classic golden age samples are present in Lowell Fulsom’s ‘Tramp’, which has been sampled over 50 times including by the Wu-Tang Clan and Epmd, and the Fatback Band’s ‘Gotta Learn How To Dance’ which was used by Kool G Rap and DJ Polo on the tough rap of ‘Streets Of New York’ in 1990. For dance music fans it was also the sound of Groove Armada’s ‘My Friend’ in 2001. Another UK dance hit sample is Bernard ‘Pretty’ Purdie’s ‘Heavy Soul Slinger’ which was used by the Prodigy on their 1995 hit ‘Poison’ and by Massive Attack on their 1998 track ‘Mezzanine’. Lonnie Liston Smith’s beautiful ‘Summer Nights’ has been sampled mainly in dance music by artists such as Moody Man and the Swedish House Mafia. New Orleans singer Tami Lynn’s version of the Doors ‘Light My Fire’ was sampled by musician, producer and DJ Howie B on ‘Sore Brown Eyes’ (1997) and also by the Dilated Peoples on ‘Triple Optics’ (1998). Gil Scott-Heron’s harrowing tale of drug addiction, ‘Home Is Where The Hatred Is’, from his 1971 LP “Pieces Of A Man” was sampled on the Kanye West and Common collaboration ‘My Way Home’ from West’s “Late Registration” album released in 2005.

Whilst the music on “This Is The Breaks” has been sampled to construct brilliant new songs the originals have stood the test of time. In fact, someone, somewhere in the world is probably slipping some of this music into a new song right now.

So, drop the needle and challenge your friends to play a guessing game of who used what sample and when.

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This Is Retro Soul 1969-1979

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (BGP)

Richard Temple / Kimmy Conwell

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Retro soul is a sound that you know when you hear it, recorded at a point where soul music reached its zenith. It’s where the pioneers of the 60s had matured to a point that they could use the experiences of the past decade to create an incredible fusion that mixed R&B, gospel, funk and jazz and adorned it with expansive, sophisticated arrangements that allowed listeners to wallow in its depth and dance to its beat. Today this music soundtracks films and adverts, is mined for beats by clever producers and still sounds amazing when played in bars and clubs. This is music that urges you to get up on your feet.

The 12 tracks on “This Is Retro Soul” are an entry point into this mythical world conjuring up images of flared trousers, Halston dresses, Cadillacs with a “diamond in the back” and hair the size of space helmets. But the music conforms to no simple clichés, whether it was created by international superstars such as Isaac Hayes and Millie Jackson, cult heroes George Jackson and Darrow Fletcher or obscure one-off groups such as the Brilliant Korners.

This music is high class and always original.

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That Beatin' Rhythm / Cigarette Ashes

7" | 2024 | UK | Original (Mirwood)

Miss Louistine / Sam Dees

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Little needs to be said about these two Mirwood Monsters, but to have both tracks on the same 45 is a righteous luxury. ‘That Beatin’ Rhythm’ is the epitome of the Northern Soul dance scene and has been a call to the floor for fifty years now.

The instrumental flip (credited to the actual singer of the A side) was equally massive at the time, but has been somewhat neglected in recent years - the vocal version gaining most DJ spins.

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Con Me

7" | 2024 | UK | Original (Deep Soul)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Miss Louistine’s version of ‘Con Me’ was one of the best Deep Soul finds of recent years. The Paragons smooth Chicago reading of Dees’ composition that came out in 1975 has long been admired, but this southern soul treatment of the now-classic is jaw-dropping.

To really focus on the masterpiece of a song, we have added Dees own take as the flip. That also remained unissued until Kent accessed the tapes in 1998 and is finally a single.

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A Good Thing Goin'! - Girl Group Sounds Usa 1962-1967

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Ace)

Kenneth Wright / Miss Louistine

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ace Records has been the go-to source of 1960s US girl group compilations since the release of our “Where The Girls Are”, “Girls About Town” and “Stop, Look & Listen” vinyl albums back in the 1980s. The 10-volume “Where The Girls Are” CD series followed over the next few decades, along with a batch of standalone CD collections. These days, however, the vinyl long-player is back in favour as the format of choice for discerning collectors.

“A Good Thing Goin’!”, the latest in our current series of gorgeously packaged 12-inchers, drops this month. The album opens in fine style with ‘What About You’ by the great sounding Mousie & the Traps. Darlene Love kicks off the second side with ‘Let Him Walk Away’, a song written by Jackie DeShannon with noted arranger Jack Nitzsche, no less. Darlene Love, one of the most beloved vocalists of the classic girl group era, also sings lead on the Blossoms’ terrific previously unissued ‘You Had A Good Thing Goin’’, while Jack Nitzsche produced the Satisfactions’ lush ‘Baby I’m So Glad It’s Raining’ and Karen Verros’ castanets-driven version of the Crystals’ ‘Little Boy’.

Other highlights include Brenda Holloway’s silky pre-Motown gem ‘Constant Love’, the Puffs’ hip dancer ‘I Only Cry Once A Day Now’, the Fran-cettes’ latin-flavoured ‘Late In The Evening’ and Linda & the Vistas’ Shrine Records rarity ‘Bad Apple’. As usual in the series, the swanky inner sleeve features a picture-packed 3,000-word track commentary by long-serving compiler Mick Patrick.

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The Souls Of Black Folks / Extra-Extra

7" | 2024 | UK | Original (Kent)

Don't Try To Tell Me / Laughing On The Outside

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Soul connoisseurs are adventurous folk and the emergence of a previously unknown singer/songwriter is big news among the cognoscenti. The only trace of Atlanta’s Kenneth Wright is a handful of unrecorded song titles on BMI represented by Aware’s publishing company Act One. At least a dozen of his recordings have recently been found in the Aware tape vaults and ‘The Souls Of Black Folks’ is the pick of them. It features Kenneth’s vocals and an equally impressive unknown female lead who adds more mystery to the project.

From the same Atlanta label source comes Miss Louistine’s take on the Sam Dees’ song ‘Extra, Extra’. Originally recorded by Ben E King as an album track, Louistine’s punchier take featured on a recent 100 Club Anniversary 45 and is well in-demand.

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Berna-Dean

7" | 2024 | UK | Original (Kent)

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Buenritmo)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Bernadine or Berna-Dean Washington recorded seven singles for producer Dave Bartholomew in New Orleans in the early 60s. A protégée of Earl King, her final single was released on Los Angeles’ GNP Crescendo label in 1964 and is stylistically similar to her previous Imperial and Post 45s. ‘Don’t Try To Tell Me’ and ‘Laughing On The Outside’ were cut for GNP but the company never followed up on her ‘This Is The City’ single.

Both tracks are in a more soulful style than her released sides and are attracting much attention on the current retro R&B scene and with the rare soul crowd also. This is their first public hearing.

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Koko-Jean & The Tonics

Love Child

21,99 €*

Night Time Feat. Private Joy

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Koko-Jean & The Tonics' second album modernizes their classic approach by delving into the pure soul sound and the social and musical atmosphere of the 70s. There are essentially danceable songs, like 'The Spin', others that are more romantic and slow-burning, like 'Never Ever', and pieces that transport us to Brooklyn in the 60s and 70s, like the protesting 'Frank's Zone' or the nostalgic 'Love Child'.

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D.D. Mirage

7" | 2024 | EU | Original (Isle Of Jura)

12,99 €*

Bounds Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Reggae & Dancehall

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Lovers rock style soul runnings from Sydney, Australia on this debut 7” from D.D. Mirage featuring Private Joy. The Original has a true 80’s lovers vibe with sweet harmonies from Private Joy and the flipside features a dubbed version. Labels and sticker designed by Bradley Pinkerton.

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Craven Faults

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Leaf)

33,99 €*

7" | 2024 | UK | Original (Athens Of The North)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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You're My Only Desire

Catch Me When I'm Falling

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Killer wonky modern soul / disco out NYC written by Producer Alan Jones. Rathen than put the instrumental on the flip same as the og, we opted to put a mix with a lower vocal on the B-side, mostly because we wanted a mix to play out ourselves, killer modern 45, do it!

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Derwin Daniels

7" | 2024 | UK | Original (Athens Of The North)

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (B-Crack)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Derwin Daniels, Soprano Sax player and composer, made this little R&B 45 in 1989. Recorded with vocals by the unfortunately passed away La Donna Wells who brings a Mary J Level performance 3 years before "What's The 411" hit the streets. Slick, deep R&B that's soulful enough for modern soul and disco sets, what's not to love. Flipped with some Jazz Bizznes from Derwin, utter gold!

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Soul Survivors

The Road Ahead

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (The New Originals)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Soul Survivors is a new young Amsterdam band with a free spirit and a wild heart. The band has immersed themselves in soul, rhythm & blues by mastering all the old soul songs they love. With a setlist full of soul gems, they quickly built up a reputation in the Amsterdam live circuit. The band then used this musical suitcase to write powerful songs of their own. With this bagage, Soul Survivors gave dazzling performances in many Dutch clubs and festivals last season, including Jazz in Duketown, Zoetermeer Blues and Breda Jazz. The band has also gained a foothold in Germany in a short time with a growing fan base.

After the release of a 7” 45 rpm vinyl in 2023, on 13 September 2024 the debut album The Road Ahead will be released with ten soul hits. The compositions are rooted in the classical soul from the 60s and 70s by Motown and Stax, but also have the modern soul vibe. If you have little time, listen at least to focus track 3 "You're the One", a smooth song that can instantly be played on the radio. The band has the Rock Supplies in Amsterdam as its headquarters. This is where guitarist Max de Kok and bassist Dimitri Gelens have a studio where the songs are recorded. Singer Remko Spaaij has that dark soul voice that excites and thrills every room. Soul Survivors, gonna take you higher, higher, higher!

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The New Originals

Love Themes Part 2

I've Hot Love For You / I've Got A Girl

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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TNO Love Themes PT. 2, the second LP by Amsterdam-based clothing brand THE NEW Originals.

Following a sold out release of 2022, we present another 12” compilation LP of carefully curated gems—ranging from soul, R&B and a dash of experimental funk from the 70s-80s: musical meditations on love whether that be love of self, love of each other or a bittersweet heartbreak.

Athens OF THE North

This time picking from the catalog of outstanding Edinburgh-based label Athens OF THE North: one of the best reissue labels around—resurfacing ridiculously rare, painfully funky soul, disco and incredible jams since it’s establisment in 2014 by label boss Euan Fryer.

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The Valentinos

7" | 2024 | EU | Original (Soul 4 Real)

19,99 €*

I Can't Stop Being Your Fool / You Bet Your Sweet Sweet Love

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Despite their early success, The Valentinos’ story was, like many other groups, a ‘what might have been’ story. But there could not have been a more hardworking group. Every night, Friendly Womack Sr. taught his boys all the gospel songs he knew before he kicked them out of the house because they wanted to switch to secular singing. “Bobby, you’re singing too church!” shouted Sam Cooke across the recording desk at the United Recording Studios in L.A. to Bobby and his brothers… Still torn here between gospel and secular singing, Friendly “June” Womack told me about both these two lost tracks from the group: “Between you and I, we were looking hard to get another ‘Looking For A Love’. We were desperate for that, as that was such a big seller for us”. Ultimately these sides failed to be released, yet they were both great tracks. Wouldn’t it be great though if, this time around, Soul4Real Records were able to hang out the ‘sold out’ banner that all the Womack brothers really deserved?.

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Candi Station

7" | 2024 | EU | Original (Soul 4 Real)

19,99 €*

LP | 2022 | EU | Original

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Born in Hanceville (Alabama), Canzetta Maria “Candi” Staton possesses one of the most recognizable voices of southern soul due to its characteristic and unmistakable tone. Her musical journey began in the 50s as a teenager singing gospel with the Four Golden Echoes and the Jewell Gospel Trio. In 1967 she made the transition to secular music and two years later started an artistically and commercially successful recording career with Fame Records, under the umbrella of Rick Hall, recording a dozen singles and three outstanding albums. Candi was introduced to Hall by Fame’s main artist Clarence Carter, who eventually married her in 1970. A new chapter began in 1974 at Warner Bros, from which the two songs paired on this record originated. They are now available on 7” for the first time. “Can’t Stop Being Your Fool” is a powerful composition by Phillip Mitchell perfectly suited for her; on the flip side we find “You Bet Your Sweet, Sweet Love”, a country soul masterpiece produced by Dave Crawford. Another essential release on Soul4Real.

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Independent Orchestra

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1971 | US | Reissue (Motown)

Temptations

Sky's The Limit

LP | 2024 | Original (Universal)

Release: 1971 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Following three "psychedelic soul" albums produced by Norman Whitfield, The Temptations' 14th studio album, Sky's the Limit, marked a return to a more soulful, Motown sound. Released in 1971, tenor Eddie Kendricks would depart the group just before the album's release but only after he contributed lead vocals on "Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)," which would become the group's third #1 single and is frequently included in many "all-time best of Motown" lists. Vinyl LP pressing.

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Donna Summer

Christmas Spirit

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Christmas

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Bit Of Liverpool Mono Edition

Supremes

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Motown)

LP | 1970 | US | Reissue (Motown)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Vinyl LP pressing. Mono edition.

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Jackson 5

Third Album

Release: 1970 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jackson 5 - "Third Album" / Released on the Motown label in 1970, The Jackson 5's appropriately named Third Album featured their fourth consecutive #1 single on the pop charts with, "I'll Be There," and the #2 single, "Mama's Pearl." The album peaked at #4 on the Billboard Top LPs chart and topped the R&B Albums chart. "I'll Be There," also showcased the Jacksons' potential beyond bubblegum pop, with Michael Jackson delivering the ballad with a complexity far beyond his years. Available on red color vinyl. Version Title: [Red LP]

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Golden Rules)

The Originals 4

23,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | Original (Concord)

Johnnie Taylor

One Step From The Blues

28,99 €*

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Lost Christmas Eve2024 Remaster

Trans-Siberian Orchestra

2LP | 2024 | Original (Rhino)

47,99 €*

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Christmas

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2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Warner Music International)

Vinicio Capossela

Sciusten Feste N.1965

37,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Mr Bongo Record Club Volume 2

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Mr Bongo)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Mr Bongo Record Club Volume 5

2LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Mr Bongo)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Mr Bongo Record Club Volume 3

14,99 €*

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Mr Bongo Record Club Volume 2

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Mr Bongo Record Club Volume 1

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" | 2024 | UK | Original (Backatcha)

Christine Mcnabb

Love You / Combination

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Joe Brown & The Soul Eldorados

Vibration Part One & Two

7" | 2024 | UK | Original (Backatcha)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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12" | 2024 | EU | Original (Lyskestrekk)

Flammer Dance Band

Gynger

25,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Freestyle)

Take Three

Music & Time, 1983-1985

27,99 €*

Eugene Williams & The Wb's

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Basierend auf der Südlondoner Lovers-Rock-Vocal-Harmony-Act Alpha (mit den Schwestern Jackie & Jean Heron und Marlene Richardson) war Take Three die Idee des Autoren/Produzenten-Trios S.H.E. (Steve Sinclair, Peter Hinds, Kevin Ellis). Der erfahrene Peter Hinds war Mitglied der Brit-Funk-Bands Light Of The World und Beggar & Co und spielte bei Incognito, Imagination und Loose Ends. Die Zusammenstellung präsentiert erstmals den kompletten Output (samt bisher unveröffentlichtem Material) von Take Three, dem ersten von mehreren Projekten dieser kreativen Partnerschaft in der britischen Soul/Funk/Dance-Szene, die bis heute andauert.

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I'm Glad I Met You Girl

7" | 1977 | UK | Reissue (Epsilon)

18,99 €*

Release: 1977 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Sweeter The Juice / Angel In Disguise

Xxception To The Rule

7" | 2024 | UK | Original (Izipho Soul)

Beggin' / Bert's Apple Crumble

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Xxception TO THE Rule - THE Sweeter THE Juice b/w Angel IN Disguise

Daxwood Records out of North Carolina owned by music maestro Doyle Wood have recorded some real gems over the years.

From the Daxwood Studios, Izipho Soul are proud to present Xxception TO THE Rule, a female duo consisting of Vanessia Mathis and Daniela Curry.

On a 7” for the first time are two songs originally recorded in 1982.

THE Sweeter THE Juice (Re-Titled for 2024) is an arousing dancer with a potent ‘squelchy’ bass sound and soaring vocals.

On the flip is Angel IN Disguise, a supreme ballad of it’s era, with Vanessia’s voice shining through; the piano solo by the late Eldridge McMillan is simple yet has so much feeling - Pure Soul!!

These tracks are featured on a 2011 CD album - Xxception To The Rule ‘Then And Now’.

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Timebox

7" (Deram)

Genre: Organic Grooves

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I'll Always Love You / What More Could A Boy Ask For

The Spinners

7" | US (Tamla)

Release: US

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Friendship Or Friends / Let Me Be Your Baby Sitter / Give Me Some Sugar, Baby

Duke Turner

7" | 2024 | UK | Reissue (Soul Junction)

19,99 €*

Release: 2024 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Right Track / Boston Monkey

Billy Butler

7" (Okeh)

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Wagram / Balagan Music / Yell)

Bob Sinclar

Disco Crash

30,99 €*

Steve Leach With The Crystal Grass Orchestra

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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"Disco Crash" is being reissued for the very fist time on vinyl! It will be on a double LP to maximize sound dynamic!This album from 2012 features contributions from Snoop Dogg, Pitbull, Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Sean Paul. (Re)Discover the worldwide hits "Far l"Amore", "Rock The Boat" and "Tik Tok" ...

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Ocean Potion

LP | 1976 | Reissue (Be With)

29,99 €*

Gloria Jones R. Dean Taylor

Release: 1976 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Format Notes:

2024 first time vinyl reissue, Seasick Steve in a previous "funky AOR" life(!), 140g vinyl

Track List:

A1 The Light Of The Mind
A2 Hey! Hey! What You Doin To Me
A3 Take Strength
A4 The Lady Of The Sea
A5 All My Life

B1 You're The Only One Girl
B2 At Least We Got Love
B3 All Love's Children
B4 Get Out In The Sun
B5 Golden Hues
B6 I Meditate Each Day

Release Notes:

Steve Leach's Balearic beach-funk beast Ocean Potion, recorded with the Crystal Grass Orchestra is an absolutely ace, Ned Doheny-adjacent funky AOR / blue-eyed soul BBQ classic from 1976.

Who is Steve Leach, you ask? None other than Seasick Steve in a previous life! A French-only release on Philips, it's a hugely immediate, pop-funk firecracker. It features a wonderfully lush, full orchestral sound throughout, underpinning Steve's gorgeous voice and an army of brilliant backing vocalists.

The supporting cast is phenomenal and is arguably the salient reason this is such a fantastic record. We're talking legendary players from the French scene (think Arpadys, Voyage, Kongas, CCPP, Giant, Swing Family) such as Don Ray with his arranger-conductor hat on as well as synths, Marc Chantereau on percussion, Slim Pezin on guitar, André Ceccarelli on drums, Christian Padovan on bass and Pierre Halation on flute.

With these snakes behind the scenes, it remains a mystery how Ocean Potion is so relatively unknown. Hopefully, this long overdue reissue rectifies this and puts a stop to people dropping $200 on it.

Triumphant, horn-forward opener "The Light Of The Mind" has that uniquely Ned Doheny fidgety funk feel with a fantastically irresistible chorus and great harmonies. Just magic. The insouciant, swaggering "Hey! Hey! What You Doin To Me" is straight up white-hot feel-good funk with by turns sweeping and stabbing strings and a neck-snapping break. Crucial. Coming off like something off The Beach Boy's Surf's Up or Holland (including a sneaky "reason to live" reference that surely nods to "The Trader") is the brilliantly ominous, driving wall of sound of "Take Strength". Cavernous drums, urgent strings and a staggeringly good vocal performance make this a real highlight amongst an album of highlights. The blissful folk-funk of "The Lady Of The Sea" is a real naked heartbreaker, melancholic vibes and a beautiful flute line complementing each other perfectly. Side A closes out with "All My Life", a groovy island-funk white-reggae-tinged lilter which just about lands the right side of acceptable.

Side B opens with the gorgeous "You're The Only One Girl" before the propulsive Philly soul of "At Least We Got Love" elegantly glides into focus. Pulsing beats and piano working with that irresistible orchestra of grass. Glacial ballad "All Love's Children" has a deep New Orleans soul feel that truly soars whilst the breezy "Get Out In The Sun" owes a debt to "Crocodile Rock". It's pure pop for now people and wouldn't have been out of place on a late 70s Nick Lowe effort. Deep late-period Beach Boys gem "Golden Hues" is another heavy melancholic down lifter that really beguiles before the real reason you're all here. Pastoral closer "I Meditate Each Day" is just beautiful, and likely the reason this reissue is giving you that special feeling. Another gorgeous flute-led, folk-funk groover, it featured in a memorable mix from the Creme2laCreme crew (Raphael Top-Secret, Jerome Qpchan and Antoine Kogut) live on Red Light Radio over a decade ago and has been top of many heads' wants list never since. Just mellow out.

As ever, the audio for Ocean Potion has been carefully remastered by Be With regular Simon Francis, ensuring it sounds better than ever. Cicely Balston's expert skills have made sure nothing is lost in the cut whilst the records have been pressed to the highest possible standard at Record Industry in Holland. The original, iconic sleeve featuring a topless Steve reclining next to his piano on a flatbed truck on the beach (of course?!) has been restored here at Be With HQ as the finishing touch to this long overdue re-issue.

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Tainted Love / There's A Ghost In My House

7" | 2024 | UK | Original (Outta Sight)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Freddie Terrell Charles Williams

You Had It Made / Standing In The Way

7" | 2024 | UK | Original (Outta Sight)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" | 2024 | EU | Original (Tramp)

Onyx

Break It Loose

7" | 1968 | UK | Reissue (Tramp)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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** A true deep funk classic - now officially re-issued with the blessing of the band! **
"Break It Loose" has been a Rare Groove classic for decades. No wonder, as it is a stunning composition with fantastic arrangements.
As comped on "Movements Vol.12" (trcd/lp-9122)
Limited press run, so you'd better be quick.

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Offbeats

The Hump

7" | 2024 | UK | Original (Tramp)

Release: 1968 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Monstrous blue-eyed soul / garage double-sider and a must for any rare groove DJ.
250 copies pressed.

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The Rippers

Honesty

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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German beat music at its best! For the first time on 45!
A-side is Funk
B-side is Garage-Psych-Rock
Limited to 300 copies.

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Lonesome & Blue Colored Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Vinyl Passion)

25,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ricardo Marrero & The Group

A Taste 2024 Repress

LP | 2024 | JP | Original (P-Vine)

34,99 €*

LP | 1970 | JP | Reissue (P-Vine)

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Composer and keyboardist Ricardo Marrero was a prominent figure in the New York Latin music scene during the 1960s and 70s. His debut album was released by TSG Records, and due to the label's characteristics, only a limited number of copies were manufactured. The rarity of the original pressing, coupled with the exceptional quality of its music, has sometimes led it to be dubbed as "the ultimate destination for rare groove collectors." Revered not only by rare groove enthusiasts but also by fans of Latin, bossa nova, funk, and soul, its splendid sound continues to shine as an enduring masterpiece that shows no signs of fading.

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Kashmere Stage Band

Bumper To Bumper Soul

36,99 €*

LP | 1969 | JP | Reissue (P-Vine)

Release: 1970 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Kashmere Stage Band (ksb), founded by music teacher Conrad O. Johnson was an elite performing unit of the student band at Kashmere High School, Houston, Texas, from the late 1960s until 1978. All original Kashmere LPs had 1000 copies or less originally pressed, which were sold both locally and around the world as the band toured. And now, P-vine is proud to present the historically renowned albums from the band on limited reissue vinyl! some of them will be reissued on vinyl for the first time.

[Items line-up] Kashmere Stage Band / Our Thing ('69) Kashmere Stage Band / Bumper To Bumper Soul ('70) ※First time reissued on vinyl Kashmere Stage Band / Thunder Soul ('71) ※First time reissued on vinyl Kashmere Stage Band / Zero Point ('72) Kashmere Stage Band / Kashmere "73" Live in Concert ('73) ※First time reissued on vinyl Kashmere Stage Band / Out Of Gas But Still Burning ('74) Kashmere Stage Band / Plays Originals ('74) Kashmere Stage Band / Expo '75 Concert Tour Japan/Okinawa ('75) ※First time reissued on vinyl

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Kashmere Stage Band

Our Thing

36,99 €*

7" | 1978 | EU | Reissue (LAVA ON WAX)

Release: 1969 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Outfit

Dr. Spougenstien

Gloria Jones / R. Dean Taylor

Release: 1978 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Re-issue of this hyper rare single from 1978 on Whirl (West Indies Records Limited). George Clinton's Parliament getting funked up in the Caribbean. TIP!

The Outfit was one of the funkiest bands ever coming from The Caribbean. They showed (together with other top bands from Barbados like The BRC or The Organization) the potential of Spouge music and the many creative possibilities that this genre can lead to.

This single is one of the finest examples of Spouge and Funk blended perfectly together in an explosive, ultra funky cover of the Parliament's "Dr. Funkenstein", titled for the occasion "Dr. Spougenstien". Despite being an extremely rare single, this song used to be quite popular in Barbados, to the point where most people on the Island used to think this was an original song. B side "Theme From Peter Gunn" serves up a punchy and groovy Cosmic disco tune on the very popular Theme from the Peter Gunn tv show.

This single is proposed to you as a first issue on the newly born Lava On Wax Records, started by Dj and Collector Matteo Fava, who have been to Barbados multiple times and works together with former Wirl label since 2020. The release has been possible thanks to help of GUTS from France, who worked since the start of this project to the end in close collaboration with Matteo. Here is what he has to say about this release: " Lava on Wax , It's putting love into old things to make them new with conscience and respect "

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Tainted Love / There's A Ghost In My House -

7" | 2024 | UK | Reissue (Outta Sight)

The (Kiddus I/Bazbaz/Tchiky) Salmon

Release: 2024 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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New on Outta Sight, an official reissue of the Gloria Jones classic “Tainted Love”. The song originates from 1964, then made a household favourite from 1981 when made a hit by Soft Cell. Gloria’s 1965 release in the USA was originally a B-side to a non-hit, and it took ten years for it to be discovered in the UK where it was played on the Northern Soul scene. It’s the Motown-like rhythms and arrangements that made it relevant. Gloria re-recorded it herself in 1976, and while still not a hit, the song in NME’s Top 500 greatest of all time and Gloria dubbed ‘The Queen of Northern Soul’. She was in a relationship with Marc Bolan at the time of his fatal accident. This single is coupled with another northern soul favourite, the Holland/Dozier/Holland song “There’s A Ghost in My House” by Motown artist R. Dean Taylor. It was originally recorded in 1966 and reached No.3 in the UK Charts (1974)

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The Salmon

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (X-Ray Production)

30,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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I Used To Know Her Colored Vinyl Edition

H.E.R.

2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Sony Music Catalog)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" | 2024 | US | Original (Big Crown)

Les Imprimes

With You / Only Love

12,99 €*

Losalamitoslatinfunklovesong / Summer (The First Time)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Les Imprimés is back in the studio working on their sophomorealbum and treats us to a smashing two-sider with thefirst two songs from these sessions.The A side "With You" is an instant hit for the DJs and dancefloors. An uptempo, uplifting tune about a eeting encounterthat leaves you craving more. Frontman Morten Martensdoesn't waste a word over the shuffling drums and dancingpiano lines. He sings about the pleasantly surprising impact ofa chance encounter with a woman, whom he winds up piningfor. Martens longs for her, but joyfully, as if just rememberingsuch a connection is possible is what he really needed.The B side "Only Love" is built over a gritty, punchy drumbreak with a chorus that is simple yet profound, and thearrangement leans into the message. Martens sings of lettinggo of inhibition and fear and allowing love to have a chance tothrive. "Only love can set us free_"

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Gene Harris

7" | 1974 | UK | Reissue (Selector Series)

7" | 1983 | UK | Reissue (April)

Release: 1974 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This one’s for the steppers!

Gene Harris, the American jazz pianist, appearing on over 50 albums in his career, including on labels Blue Note & Concord Jazz, known for his warm sound and known for his warm sound and blues and gospel infused style that is known as soul jazz.

Originally released in 1974 on the classic soul jazz album Astral Signal, Losalamitoslatinfunklovesong gained a second wave of popularity when it was played as part of the London centric, Rare Groove scene in the late 80’s.

Remastered and lovingly reissued on the increasingly ‘buy or cry’ Selector Series label, this seminal laid back stepper is available for the first time In over 45 years!

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Matt Covington

I'm So In Love With You

Knock Me Off My Feet / Let Me Hear You Say

Release: 1983 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Prepare to experience a true soul gem reimagined for the modern age with this special 7-inch reissue of Matt Covington’s classic, I'm So In Love With You. Originally released in 1983, this rare groove masterpiece captures the essence of early '80s R&B with its smooth, heartfelt vocals and lush instrumentation. Covington’s romantic delivery and the track's elegant arrangement have made it a coveted piece for collectors and soul aficionados alike, with the original pressing becoming increasingly hard to find over the years. For the first time ever, I’m So In Love With You is being reissued, allowing a new generation of listeners to discover its timeless charm. On the flip side, we’ve included Muhammad Ali, a standout cut from Covington’s self-titled album that resonates with soul, funk, and infectious energy. A favorite of acclaimed DJ Floating Points, Muhammad Ali pays tribute to the legendary boxer with a groove that’s as fierce as its namesake. Whether this has been sat in your wantlist for years or new to Matt Covington’s music, this 7-inch offers an essential addition to your collection. With its impeccable blend of silky soul and rhythmic punch, this reissue promises to become as cherished as the original release.

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The Allergies

7" | 2024 | UK | Original (Jalapeno)

Communication White Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Allergies return to their 100% sample-heavy roots, with a reworked slice of dancefloor friendly Southern soul on 'Knock Me Off My Feet'. Flipping a much sought-after 45 from the late-sixties, they take an already pumping Motown-influenced arrangement and bolt on fat drums, beefy bass, percussion and horns, taking it further than the OG band could ever imagine.

'Let Me Hear You Say' on the b-side takes us way back to New York club scene of the early 80s. Re-working old school MC chants over strutting disco loops, this finger-snapping slice of retro realness is packed with sleek and slinky grooves, and a beat that won't quit.

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Junko Yagami

LP | 1985 | JP | Reissue (Warner Music Japan)

36,99 €*

Release: 1985 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Earmusic)

P.P. Arnold

Live In Liverpool

34,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Byrne & Barnes / Robert Byrne

Love You Out Of My Mind / Do You Wanna Make Some Love

7" | 2024 | EU | Original (Favorite)

12" | 2024 | EU | Original (Major Keys)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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8 years after the official reissue of the LP “An Eye For An Eye” by Byrne & Barnes, Favorite Recordings proudly presents this new single release. The 7inch first includes the classic “Love You Out Of Your Mind”, extracted from the WestCoast classic LP, which was a one-stop collaboration between Robert Byrne and Brendan Barnes, however both display incredible music career and went on to produce for famous artists such as Pointer Sisters, Patti Austin, Earth Wind & Fire, or Phil Collins to name just a few. The song parades all the elements of the AOR style: a jazzy sometimes fusion approach, with modern soul and groove flavors. The other side features an exclusive and unreleased track by Robert Byrne, dug by the original executive producer up in his archives for our great pleasure. “Do You Wanna Make Some Love” is also nurtured with Westcoast and AOR vibes, while leering to Boogie and Disco influences. We have no doubt it will delight all the Byrne & Barnes music lovers and many more.

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Gary Bartz

Music Is My Sanctuary

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Magic Touch: Singles Collection 1955-62

Platters

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Acrobat)

32,99 €*

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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It's Christmas Red Vinyl Edition

Tower Of Power

LP | 2024 | Original (Tower Of Power)

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Deepgrooves)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Christmas

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For more than 50 years, Tower of Power has captivated music lovers with their unique blend of R&B, Funk, Soul, and Jazz spearheaded by the iconic Tower Horns. For the very first time, that distinctive Tower of Power sound puts some soul into the holiday spirit with the album "It's Christmas"-a collection of holiday classics and two original Christmas songs. For vinyl collectors and aficionados, the album comes as both an eye-popping stand-alone red vinyl LP and a Limited-Edition red vinyl version that includes a 7" vinyl inside featuring the Chanukah song "Maoz Tzur" on side A and a Christmas medley on the B side.

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Howard Lemon Singers

Seasons 1977

43,99 €*

It's Christmas Limited Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Experience the funky gospel sounds of the Howard Lemon Singers with the reissue of their 1977 album, Seasons, originally released by TK Records' Gospel sub-label Gospel Roots. Now reissued on vinyl for the first time through Regrooved Records, this album masterfully blends traditional gospel with modern soul elements.

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Tower Of Power

LP+7" | 2024 | Original (Tower Of Power)

44,99 €*

LP | 2012 | US | Reissue (Rvng Intl.)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Christmas

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For more than 50 years, Tower of Power has captivated music lovers with their unique blend of R&B, Funk, Soul, and Jazz spearheaded by the iconic Tower Horns. For the very first time, that distinctive Tower of Power sound puts some soul into the holiday spirit with the album "It's Christmas"-a collection of holiday classics and two original Christmas songs. For vinyl collectors and aficionados, the album comes as both an eye-popping stand-alone red vinyl LP and a Limited-Edition red vinyl version that includes a 7" vinyl inside featuring the Channukah song "Maoz Tzur" on side A and a Christmas medley on the B side.

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Pink Skull

Psychic Welfare

14,99 €*