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A Thing Call The Jones / Can You Dig It

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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It is our distinct pleasure to present: Miss Sharon Jones! OST. The film, directed by two-time Academy Award winner, Barbara Kopple, follows the dynamic front-woman through her 2013 battle with cancer and her triumphant return to the stage around the release of Give The People What They Want.

The soundtrack, featuring the exclusive "I'm Still Here", boasts a nice selection of tracks ranging from her early singles on Daptone, to tracks from the band's 2014 release - Give the People What They Want. Much like the film, the soundtrack gives you an intimate, candid look into the life of a woman who refuses to be defined by the challenges she faces. The perfect accompaniment to a truly extraordinary film. Stay tuned this summer for Miss Sharon Jones! theatrical release - brought to you by Starz digital.

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Chico & Buddy

7" | 2013 | US | Original (Tay-Ster)

An Evening With Ornette Coleman Part 1 Clear Pink Vinyl Edition

Release: 2013 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Truth & Soul & Magnetic recordings is proud to present the re-issue of this long forgotten gem that was released in 1973 by Satara, a tiny label in Portland, Oregon. Only 500 copies were originally released.Now select Rojac (and sister label Tay-Ster) singles are once again available for a limited time. This reissue series comes to a close on a big, funk-filled high note with the release of Chico & Buddy's 7" masterpiece on the Tay-Ster imprint. "A Thing Call The Jones"

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Ornette Coleman

LP | 2016 | US | Original (ORG Music)

33,99 €*

The Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Limited edition for Black Friday RSD 2016!

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God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen / Little Drummer Boy Christmas Tree-Shaped Colored Vinyl Edition

10" | 2016 | US | Original (Blue Engin)

7" | 2016 | US | Original (Colemine)

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Limited edition for Black Friday RSD 2016!

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The Dip

Won’t Be Coming Back

Hard Steppin' EP Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Straight up sweet cinematic soul from Seattle, WA via THE DIP!! Sweet horns, dirty drums, and a tight rhythm section makes for a fantastic debut 45 for Colemine. For fans of Daptone’s much-sampled Menahan Street Band. Hailing from Seattle, The Dip is an electrifying seven-piece ensemble that melds vintage rhythm and blues and modern pop with impeccably crafted, 60's-steeped soul.

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Ikebe Shakedown

LP | 2016 | US | Original (Colemine)

27,99 €*

7" | 2016 | US | Original (Now-Again)

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This is the first ever vinyl release of Ikebe Shakedown’s debut release. The sound of the album is still as heavy as an angry herd of elephants! Recorded at Dunham Studios in Brooklyn with the help of members of The Budos Band, these tracks are rough and tough to be sure and offer a variety of different sounds from the band. Ikebe seamlessly blends the raw emotion and passion of ‘70s African Funk with the danceable horns and rhythms of American soul music! The records is housed in a heavyweight gatefold tip-on jacket and comes with a download.

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Johnny!

I'm Gone

Coasters / Innocent Bystanders

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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We’re introducing: Johnny! Ghanaian Afro-Rock from German producer/composer J.J. Whitefield and an international cast of top shelf musicians. Whitefield, who in the early ‘90s revived the gritty, analogue Funk sounds of the ‘60s and ‘70s with his Poets Of Rhythm, has been working with Now-Again Records for almost a decade, releasing a flock of acclaimed projects with Karl Hector & The Malcouns, Whitefield Brothers, Rodinia and the “Original Raw Soul” anthology. He first started exploring African rhythms with the Whitefield Brothers in the late ‘90s, continuing in the ‘00s with Karl Hector & The Malcouns. He’s been instrumental in launching Ghanaian Afro Beat/Funk legend Ebo Taylor´s international career, decades after the maestro recorded the landmark albums that have inspired thousands. Whitefield recorded two new studio albums with Taylor and toured in his band between 2009 and 2013, where he met Taylor’s son Henry and percussionist/Singer Eric Owusu. The trio now front the Johnny! band and find inspiration not only in Ghana’s hypnotic grooves, but also the full frontal fuzz guitar assault heard on the legion of 70s Zambian Zamrock albums recently reissued by Now-Again. Indeed, Whitefield credits his tours with Zamrock godfathers Rikki Ililonga and WITCH’s Jagari Chanda as instrumental in creating the Johnny’s sonic backdrop. The band is rounded out by Turkish drummer Bernd Oezsevim (Woima Collective, Rodinia) and Indonesian bassist/multi instrumentalist Tomi Simatupang (Whitefield Brothers). This is Dance Rock at the core with the possibilities to stretch out and go into psychedelic realms. The results, spread out over three 7”singles and pressed in a run of 1000 units each, speak for themselves. Every record comes with a download card for WAV files of all six tracks (vocals and instrumentals from each release) and point at a new direction for the music inspired by the Great Continent.

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Crazy Baby / Frantic Escape

7" | 2016 | CA | Original (Soul Tribe)

14,99 €*

You Got The Best Of Me / I Can't Forget About You

Release: 2016 / CA – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Just check out these Northern Soul mega-classics back to back!!

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Ronn Matlock

7" | 2016 | UK | Original (Expansion)

13,99 €*

Release: 2016 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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TThe two best tunes from his 1979 album "Love City" on Cotillion Records, both are in demand modern Soul dancefloor gems with the flipside getting its first time ever 7" release.

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Togo Soul 70: Selected Rare Togolese Recordings From 1971 To 1981

2LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Hot Casa)

29,99 €*

LP | 2016 | US | Original (Omega Supreme)

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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TOGO SOUL 70 project, is the collaboration between Julien Lebrun, label Manager and Liz Gomis, journalist and director. Two friends that are combining their skills to relate the process of pressing a compilation of rare grooves in Africa

From the original quest, searching for vinyls and right holders in adventurous conditions (sometimes) to the contract final signature, we'll travel throughout Togo to witness the post-colonial story of the country by the prism of its soundtrack

More than a digging session, we'll highlight togolese culture through music. Music that you'll be able to listen in May 2016 on the double vinyl compilation TOGO SOUL 70 (Hot Casa Records gatefold)

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Superstructure

Superposition

LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Underdog)

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Produced, Composed, All Instruments Performed By SUPERSTRUCTURE (Todd Osborn)

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The Bongo Hop

Satingarona Part 1

LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Wagram)

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Bongo Hop is the new afro Caribbean project presented by french trumpetist Etienne Sevet. On Satingarona Pt.1, friends from his Colombian years, like vocalist Nidia Gongora (Ondatropica, Quantic) rapper Maikcel (Zalama crew), but also famous producer multinstrumentalist Patchworks (Voilaaa, Dynamics, Taggy Matcher, Uptown Funk Empire,…) among others, join in for his first musical travel diary, inspired by 8 years as a Cali resident. In this first project, you can hear his personal take on tropical tempos, as he launches a storm of infectious grooves – ranging from highlife, to vallenato-meets-dub, dance hall, afrobeat, or kompa, combined with warm horns.

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Ray Charles

Hit The Road Jack

15,99 €*

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" | 2016 | US | Original (Now-Again)

Johnny!

Ago

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Mr Bongo Record Club Volume 1

2LP | 2016 | UK | Original (Mr Bongo)

22,99 €*

Our Love (Will Never Falter) / From This Day On

Release: 2016 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The first instalment in our new ‘Mr Bongo Record Club’ compilation series – a
selection of favourites, recent discoveries and sought after obscurities, which
form the basis of our DJ sets and our radio show of the same name. Including
cuts by Claudia, Cortex, Dave Pike Set, Fruko, Neno Exporta Som, Connie
Laverne, Barbosa and more.
The original concept for ‘Mr Bongo Record Club’ was a radio show that allowed
us to air our treasured record collections, recorded and broadcast once a
month. We wanted to create an outlet free from any genre or BPM restrictions,
not constrained by the need to beat-mix every record, a space where we could
play latest finds alongside favourites. The only self-imposed rule being that
it had to be played from vinyl.
We have always DJ’d across-the-board, but playing in an eclectic way hasn’t
always been easy. Recently DJ’s such as MCDE, Floating Points, Nick The Record,
Leon Vynehall, Four Tet, Jeremy Underground, Antal (Rush Hour), Sassy J and
Young Marco – to name a few – have opened things up with very diverse sets to
younger audiences; Brazilian samba-rock, next to modern soul, highlife, disco,
boogie, jazz, house, techno and beyond.
We’re seeing a rare groove like sensibility. A shift towards the attitude of
legendary club nights hosted by the likes of Mr Scruff and Gilles Peterson,
where you could hear house, hip hop, Turkish funk, boogie, jazz, dub and Latin
back to back. At the same time it isn't a nostalgic or retro movement, people
have a progressive attitude and a thirst for new-old music. It is a vibrant and
exciting time – we are proud to be a part of it.

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Eddie Bo

Why Don't You Write / Gonna Make You Mine

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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In demand New Orleans R'n'B/Soul floorshaker which is very in demand on the mod scene b/w tune heavily sampled by the likes of Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist and others through its heavy drums!

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Lee Bates

LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Blue Note)

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Two quality New Orleans tunes from 1971, topside is an all-time great Northern Soul classic, flipside Is a currently in demand gritty "Heavy Soul" tune!

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Norah Jones

Day Breaks

28,99 €*

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" | 2016 | US | Original (Now-Again)

Johnny!

Only Love

Lee Fields & The Expressions

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Make The World

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

Lee Fields & The Expressions

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Mr Fields is back with a funk burner sure to light up every dance floor it
plays to. There couldn’t be a better time for an optimistic anthem from the
seasoned wisdom of Lee. The Expressions tearing this track apart with
driving horns and guitars over monster drums and the slick arrangements
we have all come to love them for. Leon Michels & Tommy Brenneck’s
production bringing together some of the finest players doing it today with
Lee’s inimitable voice reminding and encouraging us to get together and
make some changes, changes that are ours to make.
Another Big Crown sureshot.

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Special Night

LP | 2016 | US | Original (Big Crown)

Adrian Younge Presents The Electronique Void

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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"There are a few terms that get thrown around loosely, two of which are legend and retro-soul. One of these fits Lee Fields hand and glove, one of these doesn’t
fit at all. Very few people in music have both earned the status of legendary and continue to solidify it. 50 years in the game and only getting better, gaining more
fans, and evolving his sound on each album, Lee is in fact a Living Legend. This brings us to the misuse of the term ""retro-soul"" when talking about Mr. Fields.
You don’t have to look far to find a younger generation emulating the essence and styles of an era the’ve only experienced through music and movies. It seems
unfair to tag Lee with a term that implies imitation when he is part of the generation that actually defined the genre. Plain and simple, this is not that. ""Special
Night"" is a masterclass in soul music past and present.
“I feel that every human being’s purpose is to do what their inner voice says to do,” says Lee Fields. “And my inner voice, my driving force, wants me to put out
music and keeping making better records.”
Produced by Leon Michels and Thomas Brenneck, and brilliantly performed by the Expressions, Special Night was written, recorded, mixed, and mastered
entirely to tape in three weeks at the legendary Diamond Mine Studios in Queens, NY. A sense of urgency, equal parts fun and inspiration, and a decent amount
of beer and Jack Daniels were the driving forces during the sessions that produced Lee Fields & The Expressions latest offering.
Special Night is also the first record in the Expressions catalogue in which every song was written jointly by Lee Fields and The Expressions. “When I record, I
make every song like I actually mean it. I mean every word I say. On Special Night I’m talking to my lady — literally, expressing the way I feel.” says Lee Fields.
“You can tell if a song is real or not, and every moment I’m recording, those moments are real, this is a record about what people do in real life”. For one example,
he cites the song “Work to Do,” which tells the story of “a guy going to counseling, drinking too much, apologizing to the old lady and trying to keep family
together, doing the manly thing.” On “Make This World”, Lee makes a nod back to his early funk roots with a cautionary tale about the health of the planet. The
world was designed to last indefinitely,” says Fields. “We’re the only living species on Earth who can alter that process. I’m hoping that song has a chain reaction,
helps somebody put into action whatever contribution they can to change what the world is going through.” As always, sticking to the formula but pushing the
boundaries “Never Be Another You” from the first note doesn’t sound like something you would hear on a Lee record, that is until he starts singing anyhow. A
low tempo ballad with a head nodding drum track, sparse piano lines, and all the space Lee needs to lay down what is sure to be one of the flyest love songs of
2017.
Whether tackling a tune about love lost, found, or broader topics like the state of humanity, Lee has a very unique and honest perspective that is on display with
each unforgettable performance. Also, The Expressions have never been sharper, they, along with Lee, have created a collection of music on Special Night which
holds court with pretty much any soul music that came before it."

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Black Noise Instrumentals

LP | 2016 | US | Original (Linear Labs)

19,19 €* 23,99 € -20%

Clarence Reid / Vicki Anderson

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Here comes the instrumental album to "The electronique Void".

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Doggone It / Sound Funky Instrumental

I Know You Care / It's Your Love

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Driving up tempo 1969 Funk mover for the dancefloor available for the first time on a well-mastered 7", previously only available on LP b/w classic Brownstone label instrumental version!

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Ethel Beatty

7" | 2016 | UK | Original (Expansion)

7" | 2016 | EU | Original (Expansion)

Release: 2016 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The two glorious 80s Boogie tracks written and produced by Roy Ayers here on 7” for the very first time, originally released back to back on 12” single with copies exchanging hands for over £400, this was also much sampled on the Hip Hop scene.

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Simpson Uniquity

Running Away

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2016 | EU | Original (World Circuit)

Ibrahim Ferrer

Mi Sueno

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP+CD | 2016 | EU | Original (Blankomusik)

Ami

Seasons

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Clarence Reid / Vicki Anderson

Doggone It / Sound Funky Instrumental

15,99 €*

CD | 2016 | EU | Original (Heavenly Sweetness)

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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Mambo & Guts present

Beach Diggin' Volume 4

2LP | 2016 | UK | Original (Brownswood)

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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For the fourth edition, the duo left behind their perennial favorite, Trinidad and Tobago, and headed for Jamaica and Brazil, trekked across South America to Peru, navigated across the Pacific to Japan, down to Australia, and then set sail for South Africa, went overland up to Tunisia, and finally put down their bags in France.
Along their perambulations around the globe, they handpicked a number of rare and often unique pearls that they found, at times in damaged shells, at others barely surviving in abused, large record collections. Guts and Mambo patiently selected these tracks with the intent of creating a vinyl barrier reef, an atoll of sound safe from the rising tide of noise pollution that the music industry spews forth every summer.

The 2016 edition once again treats listeners to an incredible diversity of styles and ambiences, ranging from jazz-funk to samba-rock, disco, soul, and reggae. Because in the end, the geographic origin matters little. Even if the golden triangle of Brazil, Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago remains the largest supplier, “Beach Diggin’” is above all a way of being, a way of living the moment and life in general to the fullest. Permanent coolitude on the BPM, fast or slow, an epicureanism that is equally at ease whether its produced with a sense of Amazonian luxuriousness or the sparse comfort of a deserted beach, a reserve of a few degrees of heat to put on the turntable when it gets cold outside.
So, it’s not surprising that tracks from Eastern Europe, North Africa, or the US have quickly received their stamp of approval. In this fourth compilation, just as in the previous three, the rule remains: “Beach Diggin’” still is a state of mind.

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Shabaka & The Ancestors

Wisdom Of Elders

31,99 €*

Release: 2016 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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I Love My Baby / Shake It Up And Go

Tommy McClennan

7" | 2016 | UK | Original (Blue Bird)

LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Soundway)

Release: 2016 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Two ecellent country-blues rockers from 1942 pressed with 78rpm labels on a solid center for that authentic feel. Nice job!

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iZem

Hafa

17,99 €*

Antonio Adolfo / Erasmo Carlos

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Journeyman, DJ, radio presenter, beat raconteur – it’s been hard to keep up with all of iZem‘s movements lately. The innovative Lisbon-based French producer has been hard at work on his debut LP Hafa, exploring the sounds of Latin America and North Africa in a vivid analogue-digital, genre-defying soundscape that is sure to leave your head spinning. Inspired by cultural greats like Jack Kerouac, Paul Bowles, Tahar Ben Jelloun and Matisse, iZem spent time soaking up the atmosphere at the inspiring Café Hafa, an idyllic cliff-pop joint overlooking the strait of Gibraltar, in Tangier, Morocco, which has formed a golden backdrop to his debut LP. Brimming with soulful exoticism, personal narratives and adventurous collaborators, Hafa has been an experiment in taking on the afro-centric sounds of his journey to-date by incorporating modern, introspective songwriting and hybrid beats.
Often writing music whilst crossing continents, the only place iZem allows dust to settle is in the heart, heat and rhythms of his local-global future sounds. A decade of nomadism between Spain, Brazil, Argentina, Ireland and Portugal made way for a series of critically acclaimed EP’s and remixes for Soundway, GAMM, Far Out, Agogo, ZZK records, Wah Wah 45s, and Mais Um Discos. Arrival on the global, forward-thinking, artistically leftfield scene was predicted by Gilles Peterson, XLR8R, Okay Player and fellow tropical hed Quantic. iZem is an acronym for “In Ze Early Morning” and his debut album “Hafa” evokes new days dawning in far-off lands and stirring horizons of the present. So if you aren’t hearing iZem’s pastiche of future tropical rhythms and organic grooves on stations such as BBC, KCRW or Funkhaus Europa, then make sure you you catch him raising the dance floor temperature on one continent or another.

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Gloria Glorinha / Coqueiro Verde

Release: 2016 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Geniva Cassiano / Dom Salvador

Ela Mandou / Uma Vida

Release: 2016 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Deixa Rodar / To Parado Na Tua

Hanna / Almir Ricardi

Release: 2016 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Hot Casa)

Joni Haastrup

Wake Up Your Mind

LP | 2016 | US | Original (Blue Note)

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Growing up in a royal household in Nigeria, Joni Haastrup began his musical journey performing for his brothers band Sneakers and was quickly snapped up as a vocalist for Orlando Julius Ekemode and his Modern Aces' Super Afro Soul LP, one of Afro-beat's formative LPs. Soon after, Ginger Baker of Cream fame replaced Steve Winwood with Joni on keys for Airforce's UK concerts in '71 and the success of the collaboration led to further shows with Baker as part of the SALT project before he returned to Nigeria to set up MonoMono. Back in London in 1978, Joni recorded his solo gem Wake Up Your Mind for the Afrodesia imprint. Coming in a Deluxe gatefold Replika LP with printed sleeves

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Norah Jones

Day Breaks

35,99 €*

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

This Is Fame 1964-1968

7" | 2016 | UK | Original (Ace)

Release: 2016 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Fame Records was an off shoot of the renowned FAME Studio, and this special vinyl-only compilation looks at the very best of the label’s work during its first four years.

Helmed by owner Rick Hall, aided and abetted by his team who included Dan Penn, Spooner Oldham and the Swampers house band, this LP collects together some of the very finest music from the birth of southern soul.

The LP features hits by Clarence Carter and Jimmy Hughes, Northern soul classics from James Barnett and Art Freeman, recordings by Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham as well as a plethora of cuts appearing on vinyl for the very first time.

Two albums in a single sleeve with two lavishly illustrated inner bags including extensive notes.

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Billy Hawks

O'Baby!

The Electronique Void: Black Noise

Release: 2016 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Billy Hawks’ second album "Heavy Soul" is an organ-heavy mod R&B masterpiece. It included club classic ‘O'Baby (I Believe I'm Losing You)’, as well as three other floor-fillers; ‘You've Been A Bad Girl’, ‘Whip It On Me’' and ‘What More Can I Do?’.

The beautifully packaged EP is designed in the London Records / Decca style and showcases the two known photographs of Billy. These were provided by the organ-playing singer's brother Leroy in 2014. Until this point almost nothing was known about Billy.

A native of Richmond, Virginia, he based himself in Philadelphia and his trio worked up and down the Eastern seaboard. He was discovered playing in one of the endless clubs and lounges that existed at the time and made his first album for Prestige, “The New Genius Of The Blues”, in 1966; “Heavy Soul” followed a year later.

Produced by Cal Lampley at Rudy Van Gelder's studio in Englewood Cliffs, both ‘You've Been A Bad Girl’ and ‘What More Can I Do’ are appearing on 7- inch for the first time.

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Adrian Younge

LP | 2016 | US | Original (Linear Labs)

The Essential Miles Davis

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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Miles Davis

2LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Columbia)

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Township Jive & Kwela Jazz Volume 4

Various

LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Ubuntu Publishing)

LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Musik Produktion Schwarzwald)

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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On this great compilation you’ll find 16 early vocal & jazzy tunes from the Golden Age of Jive & Kwela in South Africa. All released originally on fragile shellac discs only, which is a very delicate material but the music survived thanks to the archives of ILAM. A truly great source of South African music is being preserved here for new generations, to inspire young and hopeful musicians and singers from all over the world. These treasures of musical genius were recorded in the glory years of Jive and Kwela, the years 1940-1965.
On side A it is not very difficult to recognize the similarities to American popular music like R&B and small combo close harmony singing. But most of all notice that typical South African swing, that Jive, that incredible smooth form of African Jazz on side B; Kwela!

The rarest and most treasured finds are collected here, some with the original spoken intros, ‘sketches’ as these were called. Characteristic conversations between the musicians, often in a humoristic slang, always extremely funny. The record is pressed to 180gram vinyl.

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Malia

Malawi Blues

The Lost Queen Of New Orleans Soul

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Moving from the southern African republic of Malawi to London at the age of fourteen, Malia spent her teenage years in the Big Smoke. She has recorded three albums in France with Andre Manoukian: Yellow Daffodils (2002), Echoes of Dreams (2004), and Young Bones (2007) - all originating in Manoukian’s Paris studio.

In 2010 she got to know the Swiss producer Boris Blank, who, since the 80s as part of the avant-garde duo Yello (‘The Race’, ‘Bostich’) with Dieter Meyer, has enjoyed great success. In 2012, Malia published a tribute to Nina Simone, Black Orchid, which won that year’s ECHO Jazz Award. In 2014, Boris Blank produced the eleven electronically shaped songs of her album Convergence.
Malia’s sixth studio album, Malawi Blues/Njira, sees her clear, incisive voice again amplified in a soul-jazz context. ‘A record that I’ve long wanted to make… Right now the time feels right for this… I wanted songs that reflected my awareness and ancestry’, she sums up the vibe of the ten tracks on Malawi Blues/Njira.
The album features thoughtful, mostly slow-paced originals, with sparingly orchestrated piano supported by guitar and percussion, amongst them an almost minimalistic cover version of the classic ‘Moon River’. Right from the outset, Malia with Malawi Blues/Njira looks back to the sound of her childhood.

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Betty Harris

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

28,99 €*

12" | 2016 | US | Original (Peyton)

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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Craig Peyton

Love Demos

8,99 €*

LP | 2016 | US | Original (G.E.D. Soul)

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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These unreleased demos by Craig Peyton & Jolyon Skinner were recorded circa 1983-1985. The duo penned Howard Johnson's "Let This Dream Be Real", Melba Moore's "Love of a Lifetime" & Will Collins' "Where Ya Gonna Be Tonight", before they went their separate ways.

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Magic In Threes

The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Magic In Threes return with their fourth full lenght album! "IV" also marks the groups return to the LP format, their first album on vinyl since their debut in 2011. 2016 started off with an ambitious project to release a new Magic In Threes track every Friday for a year, with plans to release an album quarterly. Album number two turned out so dope they decided it deserved a physical release on wax immediately. Magic In Threes have always dealt in moods, grooves and smokey vibes, "IV" is no exception. G.E.D. Soul's instrumental cinematic soul bandits deliver: From slow rolled synth drenched affairs to hyped up thematic joints, this record is a DJs delight with nothing but the toughest beats and arrangements.

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Out On The Coast Orange Vinyl Version

LP | 2016 | US | Original (Colemine)

34,99 €*

LP | 2016 | US | Original (Big Crown)

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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San Diego's own The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble is back with their sophomore LP “Out On The Coast”. Cinematic soul is the order of the day from this west coast group. Covering a lot of soulful territory here: deep funk, soul jazz, breakbeats, and more! The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble is a heavy, original, instrumental soul band based in San Diego. They draw influence from the masters of the style from the past and modern day, including: The Meters, Isaac Hayes, El Michels Affair, Mulatu Astatke, Budos Band, The Nite Liters, Menahan Street Band, Fela Kuti and The Poets of Rhythm. In June of 2015 they released their debut self titledalbum on Colemine Records. The band has shared the stage with Lee Fields and the Expressions, New Mastersounds, Monophonics, Kamasi Washington, and many other touring bands. They perform live regularly all over California and worldwide.

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Lady Wray

Queen Alone

LP | 2016 | US | Original (Blue Note)

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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Nels Cline

Lovers

47,99 €*

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 | EU | Original (Boogie Butt)

The Real Fake MC

Future Funk Survivors

22,99 €*

12" | 2016 | EU | Original (Favorite)

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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New Jersey born Clyde Kingrap (aka The Real Fake MC) is probably the freakiest MC on earth. His Flow is definitely influenced by old-school Hip-Hop masters, but The Real Fake MC declares that his major influence remain in P-Funk, Gogo and early Punk Rock.

For more than 15 years he’s been grabbing mics and spreading funky vibes on stage & in collabs all around the world. His two 12? out on Favorite Recordings, Live & Survive & Hunt Ya Sunshine, and his 1st LP Rock It Up were produced by French producer Patchworks aka Mr President.

These two musicians have been dropping some tracks together for more than a decade, with always the same target: educate their love for Hip-Hop with jokin lyrics and Funk inspired beats played live with instruments.

They’re back with a brand new LP, Future Funk Survivors out on Boogie Butt Records.

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Beckie Bell

Music Madness

12" | 2016 | EU | Original (Sol Discos)

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Favorite Recordings proudly presents this new official single reissue ofMusic MadnessbyBeckie Bell: A killer disco anthem produced in 1980 by famous French producer,Pierre “Berjot” Jaubert. Pierre Jaubert has been one of the great producers from the Funk and Disco French music scene during the 70s and 80s, mostly known for his work with the group ICE, who he then transformed into Lafayette Afro Rock Band. “Music Madness” is a brilliant disco track from Beckie Bell’s rare album,In Need Of…After highlighting it in an extended version, on the compilationFrench Disco Boogie Sounds(2015),Favorite Recordingsdecided to reissue this killer song on a proper 12inch single. The package including the original album version and two hot remixes byTom NobleandVoilaaa.

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E.T. Webster

My Music

LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Meantime)

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Originally arranged & released by Jamaican producer Ralston "Stamma" Haughton on his SOMB (Sound Of Montego Bay) imprint, "My Music" is sung by Jamaican artist E.T. Webster and features a dub mix to the vocal on the flip. The music is provided by a high quality band of session musician, including Leslie Butler or Paul Hurlock.

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Karin Krog

We Could Be Flying

19,79 €* 21,99 € -10%

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Skip)

Emil Brandqvist Trio

Seascapes

28,99 €*

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Wejene Aola Feat. Kamasi Washington

Dexter Story

7" | 2016 | UK | Original (Soundway)

Louisiana Blues Brown Vinyl Edition

Release: 2016 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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For his next release on Soundway Records, Los Angeles-based Dexter Story hooks up with long time friend and compatriot of music, the saxophonist, jazz composer, producer and band-leader Kamasi Washington. A fierce, rumbling electro Ethio-Funk groove provides the platform for an intense and powerful interplay between Washington on tenor sax and Todd Simon on trumpet. An instrumental cover version of Tilahun Gessesse's 1970s cut of the same name, it's Story's homage to the oppressed Oromo people of Southern Ethiopia. Backed on the flip by the one cut from Story's 'Wondem' long-player that did not make it to vinyl when the LP version was cut, Nia Andrew's sublime and atmospheric collaboration on Eastern Prayer will keep all those happy who grumbled at it's exclusion from wax first time around. This is a record that no lover of Ethio-Jazz, Afro-Beat or Funk should be excused for not owning.

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Robert Pete Williams

LP | 2016 | EU | Original (4 Men With Beards)

35,99 €*

Complete Communion: Live In Stuttgart (Germany) At Liederhalle (Beethovensaal), May 12th 1966

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Over 50 years since his discovery by ethnomusicologists Dr. Harry Oster and Richard Allen in the prison farm of Angola, Louisiana, what is it that makes the blues as sung and picked by Robert Pete Williams such a singular listening experience, unequaled elsewhere in that musical form? As Peter Guralnick, in his Feel Like Going Home book writes: “It’s difficult to approve the banalities of most blues singers after listening to Robert Pete Williams. More than anyone else he shatters the conventions of the form and refuses to rely upon any of the clichés, either of music or of lyric, which bluesman after bluesman will invoke. Instead he sings blues which reflect a unique and personal vision; he makes each song unmistakably his own.” Unfamiliar keys, cliché-free lyricism, spontaneity, an individualistic style in invoking his particular blues, all make Robert Pete Williams an idiosyncratic entry into the canon. It’s impossible to listen to blues artists before him and hear strains of his particular style. None have matched it since. Louisiana Blues contains 10 songs recorded in the month of July 1966 out in Berkeley, California for John Fahey’s Takoma imprint. Comes with a 8 page booklet. Limited edition of 600 on bottleneck brown vinyl.

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Don Cherry

LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Modern Silence)

29,99 €*

LP | 2016 | US | Original (Atlantic)

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The legendary Don Cherry with his great 1966 quintet featuring Gato Barbieri (tenor sax) Karl Berger (piano) Bo Stief (bass) Aldo Romano (drums) which can also be heard on three fine releases on ESP-Disk, and with the New York Total Music Company in 1968. Taken from an excellent radio broadcast for the first time in a glorious vinyl release.

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Aretha Franklin

Greatest Hits

31,99 €*

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

Lady Wray

Smiling / Make Me Over

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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Nigeria Soul Fever! - Afro Funk, Disco and Boogie: West African Disco Mayem!

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

7" | 2016 | US | Original (Colemine)

Release: 2016 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Soul Jazz Records’ new Nigeria Soul Fever is their first release to explore the vast wealth of Nigerian music recorded in the 1970s. The new album comes with introductory sleeve-notes by Bill Brewster (author of Last Night A DJ Saved My Life).
Packed-full with Afro-Funk, Disco and Boogie all from Nigeria, this triple album/double CD set brings together a stunning collection of diverse West African sounds. Whilst a small handful of the artists featured (Joni Haastrup, Tee Mac, Christy Essien) have seen the light of day outside Africa, this is essentially a collection of killer tracks by an array of artists completely unknown outside of Nigeria. Artists such as Don Bruce & The Angels, Akin Richards & The Executives, Angela Starr, Jimmy Sherry & The Music Agents. It’s no surprise that these records are extremely rare and expensive to buy individually so this album will save you going broke trying to find them.
These recordings were made at a time when Nigeria’s trade restrictions banned imported records. Whilst new musical trends (such as American soul, funk, disco etc) entered and influenced the country, the local music scene remained just that – local. Consequently, these recordings remain practically unknown to anyone outside of the country.

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The Gripsweats

Ziggy's Walk / Alpha Dog

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2016 | US | Original (Jackpot)

Etta James

At Last

Alice Clark / The Devonnes

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Blues, soul, jazz, R&B and rock vocalist Etta James needs no introduction. An icon from early rock’n’rolls pantheon of divas, she has inspired 5 decades of listeners and fellow artists with her vocal stylings. From Janis Joplin to Beyonce, her expressive and gutteral style has been imitated, but never quite matched. Jackpot Records is honored to release this momentous record with the original album artwork and 4 bonus tracks (previously only available on CD).

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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)

Release: 2016 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Eddie Parker / The Pace-Setters

Body Chains / Push On Jesse Jackson

7" | 2016 | UK | Original (Kent)

All Right Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2016 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Here are two big Northern tracks on the funkier edge that are already hugely popular with forward-thinking DJs and dancers. Gruff-voiced Eddie Parker’s ‘Body Chains’ is a very different take on the Prodigal release with an added girl chorus and some appropriate and effective metal chains added by Jack Ashford for percussion. The Pace-Setters’ politically motivated ‘Push On Jesse Jackson’ has crossed over to the main Northern Soul dancefloors and this extended version from a five minutes plus master tape will cause a major stir for dancers and DJs alike.

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BWH

12" | 2016 | EU | Original (House Of Music)

11,89 €* 16,99 € -30%

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Pop

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Love Honey, Love Heartache

Man Friday

12" | 2016 | US | Original (Get On Down)

Maybe So Maybe No / My Baby Ain't No Plaything

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Vinylmania: As classic disco came bounding through the late ’70s and into the electronically orientated sounds of the ’80s, New York was one of the undisputed frontiers for the latest developments in dance music culture, nightclubs and the art of DJ-ing. At the center of this seminal time for vinyl culture was a store called Vinylmania, set up by Charlie Grappone in the heart of Greenwich Village, Manhattan, just as the culture of 12-inch singles and promo copies was taking hold. From supplying Levan, Tony Humphries and many more with the latest imports to championing the emergence of house music in the mid-’80s, Grappone and his staff played a significant role in New York’s own dance music story. Through the ’90s and up until closing in 2007, Vinylmania was a store that catered to DJs from across the complex mixture of racial, social and sexual demographics that made up New York and its legendary nightlife. Man Friday: As the NYC Peech Boys came to an end, Man Friday became Larry Levan’s newest production project. Fronted by Kofi Morny and Brodie Williams, their debut single “Love Honey, Love heartache” was released by Vinyl Mania in 1986 with Larry Levan at the helm of the mix. Love Money: In the spirit of most dance music borrowing elements from other sources,
“Love Honey” was heavily inspired by another Paradise Garage & Loft classic from 1980 and its remix in 1981 by UK Outfit Funk Masters / TW Funkmasters. A dubbed out track big in the Jazz-Funk scene in the UK, it became a hit among underground Deejays in Both NYC & Chicago. Love Honey: No matter what list you look at. ‘Love Honey’ is always attached to Larry Levan’s tenure at the Paradise Garage. All the elements of a Garage Track are here; Dub Echoes, Synth Basslines, Percussions that linger, FX -that one can only dream of hearing on a Richard Long System- and an Organ, because after all, they say the Garage was like going to Church.

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New Holidays

7" | 2016 | UK | Original (Ocean Of Tears)

LP | 2016 | EU | Original (ReR Megacorp)

Release: 2016 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Another AOTN outing into Deep Soul Space. You might recognise this track as Mayer Hawthorne's did respectable cover a few year back, as heads (Mayer included) have been on this record for years. The New holidays Massive 'Maybe So Maybe No' is part of a strange club, some records only ever turn up in beat to shit, I would like to think this is because they are good but there seems no good reason collectors can fathom. There are many Notable members of this club, Belita Woods - Magic Corner, Pure Pleasure - By My Side and this record here. Not only is 'Maybe So' a total banger but our minty new pressing from the masters is as good as it will ever sound. Grown up soul.

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Henry Cow

Western Culture

LP | 2016 | UK | Original (Mr Bongo)

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The last Henry Cow record made after the group had officially disbanded. I'm biased of course but I believe this was a milestone recording, and perhaps the closest we came to getting the music to sound the way we wanted on disc. Guest appearances by Irene Schweitzer and Anne-Marie Roeloffs.

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Eloah

Os Orixas

22,99 €*

LP | 2016 | UK | Original (Discrepant)

Release: 2016 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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‘Os Orixas’ is rich in layered percussion, horns and guitars. Singer Eloah’s lead vocals are reminiscent of the likes of Ellen McIlwaine, Elza Soares and Joyce. Samba, funk, folk, jazz and MPB over ijexa and African grooves, that combine beautifully across the moods. Os Orixas refers to one of the manifestations of the ’supreme God’ in the Yoruba faith.

The songs were written by Luis Berimbau, assisted by Ildásio Tavares. Berimbau was a very influential multi instrumentalist, poet, writer and composer from Bahia, Brazil. He produced the wonderful folk/psychedelic rock group Perfume Azul Do Sol’s ‘Nascimento’ LP amongst many others.

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D.W. Robertson

Disco Carousel Volume 1

18,99 €*

Release: 2016 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Minimal Disco Experiments 1982/1984

Modo

12" | 2016 | EU | Original (Disco Modernism)

18,99 €*

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Second 2016 release from Disco Modernism, Milan! This is a collection of unreleased
tracks from the solo project of Stefano Tirone, formerly a member of State Of Art and Der
Blaue Reiter and later known as S-Tone Inc.
In 1982 he started experimenting with electronic dance music using analogue keyboards
and drum machines and here is a selection of these experiments.
Among the tracks, “Yes or no” is the instrumental demo that led to the influential Italo
classic “Yes no family” by Jock Hattle.
“Another place in the sun” features Fred Ventura on lead vocals and “No time of no
emotion” is a vocal track with the distinctive sound of Roland 808 drum machine and TB
303 bassline. Four more instrumental tracks complete the session, a couple of which with
a slightly post new wave attitude.
The release is strictly limited to 300

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Jeanette Baby Washington

Let Love Go By

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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Celestial Blues - Cosmic, Political And Spiritual Jazz 1970 to 1974

2LP | 2016 | UK | Original (BGP)

12" | 2016 | US | Original (Queen Constance)

Release: 2016 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2015 was the year jazz hit the mainstream again. The catalyst for this was saxophonist Kamasi Washington’s 3CD masterpiece “The Epic”, influenced by the symphonic, spiritually aware jazz of the early 70s. “Celestial Blues” is a compilation that shines a spotlight on some of the music that may have influenced “The Epic”.
The ten tracks range from the evidently spiritual – such as Gary Bartz’s classic ‘Celestial Blues’ or Joe Henderson & Alice Coltrane’s astounding collaboration on ‘Fire’, to less obvious but just as relevant recordings by drummers Roy Brooks and Joe Chambers.

Charles Earland’s contribution bears a remarkable resemblance to ‘Henrietta Our Hero’ a stand-out track from “The Epic”, whilst Carlos Garnett and Azar Lawrence’s mix of saxophone, strings and voices could be a template for Washington’s whole sound. The compilation is completed by fine examples of the era’s jazz from Hampton Hawes and Bayeté Umbra Zindiko. Oliver Nelson’s ‘Aftermath’ is an apt closer.

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Chain Reaction

Dance Freak

Chris Corsano & Massimo Pupillo

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A bonafide dancefloor invitation, this classic cut by Chain Reaction was originally released in 1980 on the P&P affiliate label, Sound Of New York. A project between keyboardist Dwight Brewster (of The Imperials) and percussionist Harold Sargent (of Wood, Brass & Steel fame) Dance Freak provides one finest moments in the entire catalog. A funky disco track with all the elements of a party anthem, it’s no surprise it’s been a favorite of veteran Deejays like Kenny Dope and Danny Krivit. There are many reasons why this track is a must-have for Disco DJs. Outstanding percussions; check. Funky Guitar & Bass lines; check. Catchy chorus; check. Brass accents; very welcomed. Using a synth as a percussive instrument; incredible and most likely lifted from the Patrick Adams Handbook “How to make a hit record”.

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Via Combusta

LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Trost)

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Volume 3: Sweet Times - Afro, Funk, Highlife & Juju From 1970s Lagos

Nigeria 70

2LP+CD | 2011 | EU | Reissue (Strut)

Hey, What's That You Say / Always There

Release: 2011 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The third instalment in Strut’s essential trip through the rich archives of Nigerian music brings together ‘70s Afrobeat and highlife from Victor Olaiya, Rex Williams, Zeal Onyia and more.

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Wood, Brass & Steel

7" | 2016 | UK | Original (Soul Brother)

8,99 €*

Release: 2016 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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12" | 2016 | UK | Original (Sol Power)

Sol Power All-Stars

Djidjo Vide

13,99 €*

LP | 2016 | UK | Original (Cacophonic)

Release: 2016 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Just in time for summer, Sol Power Sound is proud to present its 4th release, the Djidjo Vide EP, a 1-2 punch of Afro house by label heads, the Sol Power All-Stars.

Djidjo Vide, the title track on the A-side, features DC (via Togo) Afrobeat band, Elikeh. It's a vibey slice of propulsive Afro house about finding joy in the face of hardship. Massama Dogo's commanding vocals (sung in Mina) combined with the driving bassline, and aggressive horns (performed by DC's Sticky Bear) make Djidjo Vide a summer sure shot for a roof-top jam, beachside dance floor, or nightclub near you.

The B-side, Tell Me Why is darker and deeper, chock full of percussion, a chopped vocal sample, and in-your-face afrobeat horns (performed by Matt Rippetoe and Joe Herrera of DC's the Harry Bells). It's a late-night beatdown that will set things off proper in a dark room!

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Daniela Casa

Arte Moderna

20,99 €*

The Woman At the End Of The World

Release: 2016 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Filed neatly and undisturbed within the micro-genre of 1970s Italian artsploitation, amongst
films soundtracks such as Girl With The Crystal Plumage, A Quiet Place In The Country and
House With The Laughing Windows, this obscure library LP is one of the few fully formed
concept albums from the recently reappraised discography of Rome’s most versatile and
adventurous female production music composer Daniela Casa. Once destined for a shelf life
within the storage rooms of defunct TV studios and educational facilities Daniela’s previously
strictly commercially unavailable music has in recent years been given new focus at the
hands of open-minded disc detectives and sonic salvage hunters earning Casa’s distinctive
feminine take on experimental instrumental mood and movie compositions a place next to
her widely respected masculine counterparts such as Alessandro Alessandroni, AR Luciani,
Pierro Umiliani, Morricone and Nicolai.
Sharing tight studio space and strict syndication schedules with all of the aforementioned
artists (under commission from Romano Di Bari’s fervently independent Flipper music factory)
Daniela Casa embraced a liberating wind change in affordable music technology which opened
doors for uninhabited solo compositions in home studios taking advantage of communal
recording consoles and domestic synthesisers which nurtured a lesser-documented creative
family tree (or rather secret society) and paved the way for individualistic projects from the
likes of Magnetic System’s Fabio Frizzi and Goblin’s Claudio Simonetti. Here, on this repress
of the impossibly rare, one-time subscription-only album, Arte Moderna, we find Daniela at
her versatile best creating a wide thematic suite (based on paintings and sculptures in an
abstract art gallery) for which she would deploy mostly organic and acoustic instruments
to construct a set of unorthodox compositions straddling avant garde, free jazz and Giallo
tension (with some brief moments of brooding electronics and italian pop).
Veering from her stylistic pop interests (which clearly included a fondness for the music of
Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin) Daniela Casa’s Arte Moderna saw her adopt a less era
specific approach combining neo-classical elements and piano improvisations akin to the
likes of France’s Francois Tusques or Burton Greene, or America’s Mal Waldron without
compromising her strong narrative personality for this unique abstracted picture music.
Unintentionally but profoundly political in her prolific existence Daniela Casa’s contribution
to a predominantly male industry earned her a small clutch of inspired idiosyncratic Italian
female bedfellows such as Nora Orlandi, Giullia De Muittis (aka Kema), Fiorella Fratini, Emma
De Angelis and Maria Teresa Luciani, who, with faceless anti-celebrity as its essence, never
benefitted the wider critical focus that much of this music now duly commands on the
collectors circuit.
Finders Keepers Records, in continued collaboration with the Di Barri company, with the
Casa/Ducros family blessing, are now proud to shine new light on this sonic sculptures and
provide a fresh context where educated music listeners are ready to fill the gaps between
Delia Derbyshire, Ennio Morricone, Suzanne Ciani and Harry Partch and patronise a very
welcome considered alternative to the recent rise in popularity of Italian Giallo soundtracks
from a seldom savoured feminine creative vantage point. Daniela’s musical paintings can
now be unveiled to the public for the first time, with Modern Art sounding as contemporary
as it did when it was recorded forty years ago. The gallery is now open for limited sittings,
discerning ears and open minds.

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Elza Soares

LP | 2016 | UK | Original (Mais Um Discos)

LP | 2016 | EU | Original (ECM)

Release: 2016 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Septuagenarian Brazilian music icon Elza Soares teams up with the cream of São Paulo's avant-garde musicians for an album of apocalyptic, experimental samba sujo (‘dirty samba’) that tackles the burning issues of 21st century Brazil: racism, domestic violence, sex and drug addiction.

The Woman at the end of the world is Elza’s 34th studio album and her first to feature previously unrecorded material, exclusively composed for her. Voted ‘Best Album of 2015’ by Rolling Stone Brazil it will now be released worldwide by UK based label Mais Um Discos on June 17

Over a sprawl of distorted guitars, squalling horns, taught strings and electronic shards, samba is savaged by rock ‘n’ roll, free-jazz, noise and other experimental music forms as Elza sings, spits and screams tales of a life in Brazil that is anything but a tropical paradise. A true legend of Brazilian music Elza has an incredible musical oeuvre that stretches back over seven decades mixing samba with jazz, soul, funk, hip hop and electronica, whilst her life-story is a rags-to-riches-to-rags rollercoaster of triumphs and tragedies that has made her a voice for Brazil’s repressed female, black, gay and working class populations.

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Sheppard Bley & Swallow

Andando El Tiempo

2LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Polydor)

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This is a stand-out performance by Carla Bley.

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Michael Kiwanuka

Love & Hate

38,99 €*

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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CD | 2016 | EU | Original (Polydor)

Michael Kiwanuka

Love & Hate

13,99 €*

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Repertoire)

Giorgio Moroder

E=MC2

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Miles Davis & Robert Glasper

OST Miles Ahead

2LP | 2016 | US | Original (Legacy)

35,99 €*

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Soundtracks

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Gatefold sleeve, features Wayne Shorter, Gary Clark, Jr., Herbie Hancock, Pharoahe Monch, Esperanza Spaulding etc.

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LP+7" | 2016 | EU | Original (Cree)

The Cole Slaw Club

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" | 2016 | EU | Original (Hot Casa)

Vaudou Game

La Vie C'Est Bon

Ringing Bell (Sweet Music) Part1 / Part 2

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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From the forthcoming album Kidayu, out September 8th 2016 on Hot Casa Records.

When faced with the decision to take a different direction at the risk of getting lost in a synthetic sound or to further explore the same musical path, Vaudou Game did not need to consult the oracle for very long when putting together their new album.

Since their first acclaimed album, Apiafo and its irresistible single "Pas Contente", these Lyon natives never turned down the heat on over 130 stages across Europe, Africa, America and Asia. Peter Solo has displayed his amulets, charisma and yellow pants around the globe.

When time came for them to harness their Afro-Funk sound for the second time, they turned their attention once again to their analog strengths. Vintage material, instruments produced in the 70's and cassette tapes were the "grigris" (or lucky charms) which proved most effective to ward off digital corruption of their music and return them to a tight-knit group with a solid groove.

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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 (Lizardshakedown)

Peder

Come With Me

From Africa With Fury: Rise 2016 Edition

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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The 4th Solo Album by Reknown Danish Film Music Compose Pederknow for Releases on Mo Wax, Ninjatune, Grand Royal, Ubiquity Records and his Scores , “Breaking Bad” Amongst Others. The New ALbum featues and Instrumental “original” Part and a 2nd Guest Version LP featuring Peders favorite danish singers: Coco from Quadron, Jonas Bjerre from Mew, Oh Land, Mikael Simpson, Jacob Bellens, Sleep Party People and more. The record is a return to more dusty and crunchy sound of his awardwinning debut “And He just Pointed to The Sky” from 2007 released on Ubiquity Records. Peder began his career as a scratch DJ, household remixer for the Beastie Boys and one half of legendary danish Comedy team “Gramsespektrum” (who released grammy awardwinning platinum albums in Denmark). Now he’s a singer that makes dusty David Lynchian 50s music from your sweet nightmare and a filmcomposer with music featured in “Breaking Bad". Plus as a director he was chosen for Saatchi & Saatchi’s New Directors Showcase, Cannes Lions 2014.. This is his 4th solo album and his first on vinyl The record includes an original version and a guest version hidden inside with allmost the excat same layout.

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Seun Kuti & Egypt 80

2LP+CD | 2011 | EU | Reissue (Because)

Antonio Adolfo E A Brazuca / Maria Castro Neves & Samba S.A.

Release: 2011 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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With the mighty new From Africa With Fury: Rise, Seun Anikulapo Kuti picks up the mantle as undisputed champion and true prince of the Afrobeat movement.

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Dois Minutos De Uma Novo Dia / Candomble

Ye Mele / En Büyük Sansin Yasiyor Olman

Release: 2016 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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‘2 Minutos De Um Novo Dia’ – pacey samba-funk-MPB that originally appeared on a 7” from 1969 released on Odeon Brazil. Soaring vocals, strings and horns over alternating full and half-time funk drum breaks. Very big indeed.

‘Candomble’ has been a resident in our DJ sets for a long, long time. A retrained, deeper opening section drops into drum heavy, rich uptempo jazzy-MPB. Super catchy vocal hooks and piano lines sit over the top from start to finish. Taken from their self titled album from 1975 on RCA.

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Elis Regina / Senay

Bahta Gebre-Heywet / Alemayetu Eshete

Release: 2016 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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‘Ye Mele’ double sider, featuring Elis’ version and an incredible Turkish cover by the wonderful ?enay. Luiz Carlos Vinhas ‘Le Mele’ is an all time favourite of ours, and these versions take it in brilliant new directions.

Elis’ starts in a similar vein to LCV, building with huge vocals and soaring synths, before dropping into a latin-esque section. Appeared on 7” in 1968 on Philips Brazil, not easy to find.

?enays psychedelic soul version is a B-side from a rare Turkish 7” released in 1972. Her classic 1980 LP Honki Ponki has just been re-issued too, which is equally as great.

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Tessassategn Eko / Ayalqem Tedenqo

10" | 2016 | UK | Original (Honest Jon's)

Release: 2016 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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‘Tèssassatègn Eko’ is a catchy, soulful Ethiopian jam. Originally released on
Amha AE 690 A in 1973. Arranged by the prolific Girma Beyene.

‘Ayalqem Tèdènqo’ see’s Eshèté’s third appearance in the Africa 45’s series. Released originally on Amha AE 290 A in 1971. A shuffling drum/percussion groove with soulful piano and bass, catchy vocal hook and guitar solo.

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Wareika Hill Sounds

Mass Migration

Release: 2016 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Reggae & Dancehall

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Two no-flim-flam, cross-border, dub-wise stompers paired with masterful versions from the veteran, Kingston-based unit led by the trombonist of Count Ossie’s Mystic Revelation Of Rastafari and The Light Of Saba.

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Arthur Verocai

Sylvia / Na Boca Do Sol