Organic Grooves 2565 Items

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | Original (Jamestown Revival -)

Jamestown Revival

Songs That Sleigh

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Isaiah Collier & The Chosen Few

The World Is On Fire

2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Division81)

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Wonderwax)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The World is On Fire is Collier’s observation journal reflecting on the tumultuous period from before the pandemic to the present day. The title itself wields his lens on vile acts committed by those in power addressing themes of economic upheaval, systemic racism, and the relentless fight for justice. The album is the final body of work with his quartet, The Chosen Few, marking the closing chapter of the group’s 8-year journey. The World is On Fire is Collier’s observation journal reflecting on the tumultuous period from before the pandemic to the present day. The title itself wields his lens on vile acts committed by those in power addressing themes of economic upheaval, systemic racism, and the relentless fight for justice. The potency of Collier’s compositions is reinforced by utilizing harrowing real-life news clips throughout the album that radiate the urgency, somberness, and turmoil during this time in history as the album as a whole serves as a requiem for countless lives lost and injustices that remain unacknowledged. The World Is On Fire showcases Collier’s fiery approach as a bandleader with tightly focused solos on both Alto and Tenor Saxophone, that are interwoven with the other musicians. As The Chosen Few prepare for their curtain call, The World is On Fire is a final offering that is more than a collection of songs—it’s a passionate plea for awareness, understanding, and change. Through the journey of sound and reflection, Collier urges us all to play a role in crafting a more just and equitable world.

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Reggie B & Inkswel

God's Way

The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow Limited

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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Charles Lloyd

2LP | 2024 | Original (Blue Note)

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Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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4LP | 2023 | US | Original (Capitol)

Frank Sinatra

Platinum Limited Edition

187,99 €*

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Speak To Me Limited Edition

Julian Lage

2LP | 2024 | Original (Blue Note)

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Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Christmas Songs Limited Edition

LP | 2005 | US | Reissue (Verve)

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Release: 2005 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Christmas

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Christmas Wish Limited Picture Disc Edition

Gregory Porter

LP | 2023 | Original (Blue Note)

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Christmas

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A Joyful Holiday Limited Edition

Samara Joy

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Verve)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Christmas

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Glad Rag Doll Limited Edition

2LP | 2012 | US | Reissue (Verve)

Release: 2012 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Wallflower Limited Edition

2LP | 2014 | US | Reissue (Verve)

Release: 2014 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Look Of Love Limited Edition

2LP | 2001 | US | Reissue (Verve)

Release: 2001 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Four Women:The Complete Recordings 1964-1967

Nina Simone

Box | 2023 | US | Original (Verve)

217,99 €*

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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DJesse Vol. 3 Limited Edition

Jacob Collier

LP | 2020 | Reissue (Decca)

Release: 2020 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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DJesse Vol. 2 Limited Edition

Jacob Collier

2LP | 2020 | Reissue (Decca)

40,99 €*

Release: 2020 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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DJesse Vol. 1 Limited Edition

Jacob Collier

LP | 2021 | Reissue (Decca)

Release: 2021 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Leopard)

Thomas Stieger

Choices

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

Sly And The Family Stone

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

Acid 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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Ray Barretto

LP | 1969 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

The Three Faces Of Yusef Lateef Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1969 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ray Barretto’s songs are cinematic. Artfully composed, richly orchestrated, each one feels like something deserving of big-screen wonderment. And, indeed, from Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets (''Ritmo Sabroso'') and Oliver Stone’s JFK (''El Watusi'') to Lee Daniels’ Precious (''Teacher of Love'') to Tom McCarthy’s Spotlight (''Cocinando Suave''), his music as a bandleader made it into movies of major importance across the decades. Of course, you don’t need to be a card-carrying cinephile to appreciate the moods and magnitudes expressed by his work, especially his seminal 1968 album Acid for Fania Records.

It takes more than a minute into ‘’Acid'' before Barretto begins showing off on the congas, leading into a nearly three-minute solo marked by fabulous flourishes that culminates with the full band, including pianist Cruz, showing their united might. Elsewhere on Acid, the group would have dutifully jumped headfirst into this mode, but here it is just a spectacular finish to a rhythmic story — Barretto’s story — told like the best film you’ve never seen.

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Yusef Lateef

Oliver Nelson With Eric Dolphy

Release: 2024 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Three Faces of Yusef Lateef, the multifaceted 1960 album from multi-instrumentalist and composer Yusef Lateef, is the VMP Classics Record of the Month for December 2022. It's here on 180g black audiophile vinyl pressed at RTI, with AAA lacquers...

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Straight Ahead Vinyl Me, Please Edition

LP | 1961 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Tough Guys Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1961 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Straight Ahead, featuring saxophonists Oliver Nelson and Eric Dolphy, is the VMP Classics Record of the Month for April 2024. It's pressed on 180g black vinyl, with lacquers cut from master tapes (AAA) by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound.

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Isaac Hayes

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

Transfiguration 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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Alice Coltrane

2LP | 1978 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

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Eternity Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1978 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Recorded live at a UCLA concert hall in April 1978, Coltrane plays piano and organ accompanied by Roy Haynes on drums and Reggie Workman on bass. The trio conjures both a universe and a universal consciousness; Coltrane has no qualms with the commingling of exhilaration and asceticism it demands of listeners. In fact, she demands that you come closer, to its tone and to your natural self.

What this feels like in one aspect is Black music’s Bonnie and Clyde fantasy realized. What if we escape from mundane language and commune fully in these codes of light and frequency? It doesn’t have to be strange or timid. What if we pragmatically exceed ourselves and gather in silhouette as light bodies, here, on stage in plain sight?

Alice and John were both fugitives from received values and ideas that felt too limiting, and their shared refuge was this sound that can only culminate in the spirit displacing and becoming the body through a series of collective gestures made both into song and a live ritual as is this album. There are very few pieces in the so-called American Songbook with stakes this high and encompassing in their insistence on transformation. One is John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme, another, Transfiguration.

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Alice Coltrane

LP | 1976 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Don Blackman Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1976 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Eternity arrived at a transitional point in Coltrane’s artistic and spiritual journey after she had founded her Vedantic Center in 1975, but before she abandoned secular performance for a quarter-century; after she had somewhat shaken the relentless comparisons to her husband’s work (and those who would use “John Coltrane’s widow” in lieu of her name), but still long before she was universally recognized as a musical luminary. Also importantly, after she released a slew of unexpected pop collaborations and as she signed to a major label pouring money into building a new jazz catalog. Secular, agnostically spiritual, and Vedic songs mingle together, as do a range of different musical textures. In this kind of middle place, Eternity showcases Coltrane’s ambition and range, offering a glimpse at sounds and styles she would rarely revisit.

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Don Blackman

LP | 1982 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1982 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Blackman came from the jazz world, but spent time in the fusion-funk hybrid that hovered around the edges of the chart in that transitional period of the early ’80s. Although it slipped between the cracks at the time, Don Blackman is a minor funk masterpiece that deserves shelf space next to Fuzzy Haskins’s A Whole Nother Thang, Bernie Worrell’s Blacktronic Science, Trey Lewd’s Drop the Line and others. Though those albums turn up on most P-Funk expanded discographies, Blackman’s record often doesn’t because there’s no playing or production from Clinton, Collins or Worrell. It might make more sense to think of it at the center of a Venn diagram whose circles include P-Funk, the jazz-funk practiced by artists like George Duke and Roy Ayers and the soul-funk of Fonzi Thornton and Garfield Fleming. Right in the middle, shining brightly, Don Blackman.

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Shabaka

2LP | 2024 | US | Original (Vinyl Me, Please)

43,99 €*

Never Loved A Man Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Shabaka says he's done playing saxophone--including in his beloved groups Sons of Kemet, the Comet is Coming and Shabaka and the Ancestors--and his new solo album bears that out: it's filled with spiritual ruminations delivered on clarinet and flutes, a deeply felt work that is much different in tone than his firebrand sax work. I saw him play Pharoah Sanders' parts of Promises at the Hollywood Bowl in September, and wept for most of the performance; this album feels like a spiritual successor to Shabaka inhabiting the role of spiritual jazz's most revered monk. Featuring contributions from Moses Sumney--who sings his ass off--Brandee Younger, Carlos Nino, Ndudzo Makathini and a show-stopping flute performance by Andre 3000, this is my favorite album of the year so far in a walk. Can't wait for everyone to hear it.
-- Andrew Winistorfer, VMP Senior Director of Music and Editorial

Limited to 1000 copies, the VMP exclusive version is pressed on 180g Black vinyl at Furnace Record Pressing. The 2LPs will arrive in double gatefold, tip-on, foil-stamped and numbered jacket. It was mastered for vinyl by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound.

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Aretha Franklin

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

Teo Macero With The Prestige Jazz Quartet

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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Teo Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Brown Sugar Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Why you'll love it...
Jazz is an art form that routinely asks performers to be the guy behind the guy. Louie, Basie, Dizzy all played for others before they became names themselves. Another famous guy behind the guy, Teo Macero, has a little less complicated, but he had more to do with shaping and re-shaping modern music than just his work with Charles Mingus. Part of the reason “Take Five” is considered one of the most famous songs of the 20th century is how Dave Brubeck and his Quartet played it, but it’s also because Macero was behind the glass, slowly turning knobs moving things up at some points, and down at others. It would be enough to produce Time Out, but he also helped mold Thelonious Monk’s sound during his time on Columbia in the 1960s into one of the master’s most fruitful periods. The man also produced Bitches Brew — yes, Bitches Brew, too! Macero isn’t one of the marquee names in the Bible of American Music, but he was an apostle for several of its greatest prophets. Then, in 1957, came Teo. Macero’s warm tenor sax playing is a big part of that, but so is Mal Waldron’s piano, Teddy Charles on the vibraphone, Jerry Segal on drums, and, trusted Mose Allison sideman. Everybody on this album knew exactly what they were meant to do, and they came together to create something lovely that deserves more appreciation than it has been given since its release in ’57.

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Freddie Roach

LP | 1964 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Stevie Ray Vaughn And Double Trouble

Release: 1964 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Freddie Roach’s first three albums introduced him to the world, but Brown Sugar showed it who he was. It was the album that Roach made to capture the energy of soul jazz. To somehow take the sounds in the city, in the clubs, and bring them to a record. In his original liner notes, Roach writes that the album is an ode to late nights and loud clubs, to backs damp with sweat, arms wrapped around waists. ‘’Not caring for the moment about troubles or problems,'' he wrote of people dancing, ‘’their bodies quivering under smiles that seemed to promise ‘after the dance.’'' After talking to Alfred Lion, president of Blue Note, they decided that the album needed to be made up of standards — not the standards of the stage or screen, but the standards of the people. ‘’To get the ‘soul,’'' Roach wrote, ‘’I decided to do show soul tunes.''

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Couldn't Stand The Weather Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Nuff Said! Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Nina Simone

LP | 1968 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Release: 1968 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Trident Vinyl Me, Please Edition

McCoy Tyner

A Little Touch Of Schmilsson In The Night Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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With 1975’s Trident, McCoy Tynerfinally achieved his true vision for the piano trio. In an era that finally — and firmly — established Tyner in the upper echelon of jazz masters, adored by critics, set at the top of festival bills and heartily supported by the record-buying public, Trident stands at the pinnacle of his brilliant album run from that decade.

Trident might not seem as ambitious as Tyner’s other ’70s outings, but don’t let its near-monochromatic gray and silver cover of McCoy by the ocean fool you; just beneath its surface is the heaviest, most vivid and deep music of his career. Trident finds him coming full circle, realizing his — and just about any fantasy jazz fan’s — dream piano trio. Call it Money Jungle for the new decade, only one featuring cogent and telepathic alignment rather than clashing intergenerational conflict. Three titans, three defining masters of their instrument, with thousands of recording dates between them.

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Harry Nilsson

For Those In Love Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The phrase “standards album” was unheard of in 1973, yet within 20 years it had become common parlance in the careers of artists going back to the basics to underscore their vocal prowess. With A Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night, Nilsson created the template of the solo contemporary singer accompanied by a live orchestra, which set the bar for what followed from Rod Stewart, Linda Ronstadt, Bryan Ferry, and countless others. The decision to make an album like this one would have been unusual for any contemporary artist around at that time, but it was especially strange for Nilsson. His two most recent rock albums had been incredibly successful, and RCA was surely clawing for another guaranteed hit, but, for Nilsson, this was just another twist and turn in his career.

It is mind-boggling how far ahead Harry Nilsson was in recording A Little Touch. But where other musicians have turned to a standards album as a way to extend or even resurrect their career, Nilsson made one at his absolute artistic peak. No one has had the guts to do it like he did, before or since — and Nilsson knew it.

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Dinah Washington

LP | 1955 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Musical Massage Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1955 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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“Dubbed the Queen of the Blues and the Queen of the Jukeboxes — titles Dinah Washington used herself — she nevertheless resisted genre orthodoxy, and was clearly resentful whenever she was asked to explain or categorize her vast catalog.
And yet, her omnivorousness has made consolidating her legacy a knottier task than most are willing to take on. Compared to Billie and Ella — inarguably her peers — Washington’s reach was broader, more challenging to sort into canons and best-of lists. Pop and blues and big band singles were recorded and released without an easily traced chronology or progressive narrative. The Queen could do it all, so why wouldn’t she?”

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Leon Ware

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

Baltimore 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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Nina Simone

LP | 2012 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

Bobby Bradford And His Cuzns

Release: 2012 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Baltimore, an album originally made for the jazz label CTI, is a deep cut in Nina Simone's catalog. It's truly a lost sound found and we're proud to feature it here in celebration of her 90th birthday.

Limited to 2000 copies, the VMP exclusive version of Nina Simone's Baltimore is pressed on (AAA) 180g Red Marble vinyl at GZ Vinyl. The 1LP will arrive in a gatefold, tip-on, foil-stamped and numbered jacket. The (AAA) lacquers were cut from tapes by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound.

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Freddie Ain't Ready

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Intervention)

42,99 €*

Black Moses Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Intervention Records is thrilled to announce its first jazz release, Bobby Bradford and his CuZns' Freddie Ain't Ready.

Freddie Ain't Ready is about identity. It is about discovering, developing, and embracing who you are. That is an act that makes us examine if we are indeed who we thought ourselves to be, and where does this leave us? Does a glimpse of the truth set us free?

Freddie was recorded live-to-two-track analog at Hollywood's legendary EastWest (formerly Western) Studios by Steve Genewick and Joe Harley. Custom Flux Magnetics head stacks were used, with no editing, limiting, or compression. Just the highest resolution delivery possible of live sound to your home. Mastering and lacquers are cut by Kevin Gray at CoHEARent Audio, and boutique press RTI delivers dead quiet 180g vinyl. No expense was spared, and laborious attention to detail ensured that the listener is transported into the studio and the creative experience.

His discography is extensive and includes classics such as Ornette Coleman's ''Science Fiction'' and ''Broken Shadows.'' Additionally, he holds a B.M. from Huston-Tillotson University (Austin, Texas), and was a jazz educator of note at Pomona College (Claremont, California) for 44 years. Bobby is currently 90 years of age and is still performing and smokin' on his cornet.

This recording project was initiated when drummer-percussionist Garth Powell (Zen Widow, AudioQuest) proposed a performance with CuZns (Bobby Bradford and William Roper) on the long-time New Music Sunday's series hosted by Open Gate Theatre in Los Angeles. This was extremely well-received, and a grand time was had by all.

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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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Ellington Black Vinyl Edition

Al&Ndr Bigband Jarreau

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

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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CD | 2024 | EU | Original (Act Music)

Al Jarreau & NDR Bigband

Ellington Digipak

21,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | Original (Gray Cat)

Boz Scaggs

But Beautiful

Release: Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Rekondite)

Raul Midon & Friends

Eclectic Adventurist

37,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2017 | US | Original (Rounder)

Steeldrivers

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Lost Tapes 180 Gram Vinyl

Buddy Rich

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Caroline)

30,99 €*

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2017 | US | Original (Rounder)

Chris Hillman

Bidin' My Time

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Chick Corea's "Three Quartets" Revisited

Christophe Dal Sasso

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Jazz & People)

Still Here Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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All compositions by Chick Corea Arragements written by Christophe Dal Sasso, based on a proposal by Vincent Bessières

Personnel: Christophe Dal Sasso (flute, alto flute, musical direction), David El Malek, Rick Margitza (tenor sax), Stéphane Guillaume (tenor & soprano sax, flute), Thomas Savy (clarinet & bass clarinet), Nicolas Folmer (trumpet & flugelhorn), Christian Martinez (trumpet), Denis Leloup, Jerry Edwards (trombone), Pierre de Bethmann (piano), Manuel Marchès (bass), Karl Jannuska (drums). Recorded at Studio Midi Live, Villetaneuse, France, September 25-27, 2023

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The Notations

LP | 2015 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Warner Music International)

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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Jacob Karlzon

Winter Stories

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Dialogue Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

Bobby Hutcherson

LP | 1965 | Reissue (Blue Note)

Release: 1965 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Cliff Jordan Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

Clifford Jordan

LP | 2024 | Original (Blue Note)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Baker's Holiday Acoustic Sounds

Chet Baker

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Verve)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ella Wishes You A Swinging Christmas Deluxe Edition

Ella Fitzgerald

2LP | 2024 | US | Original (Verve)

39,99 €*

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Christmas

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Mr Bongo Record Club Volume 4

CD | 2024 | UK | Original (Mr Bongo)

12,99 €*

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Live In Bremen 1975 HHV Exclusive Blue Vinyl Edition

Gary Bartz NTU Troop

2LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Free Flow Archive)

39,99 €*

Made In Nigeria HHV Exclusive Coloured Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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HHV Exclusive Coloured Vinyl Edition limited to 100 copies.

Gary Bartz (alto & soprano sax, vocals) - Charles Mims (piano, syntheziser) - Curtis Robertson (electric bass, back vocals) - Howard King (drums)
A fantastic live recorded in Bremen on 8th November 1975 set from reedman Gary Bartz – captured here with his ultra-hip NTU group – who you might know from their classic albums on Milestone in the 70s!
1 hour and 46 minutes of free and spiritual jazz.
Double LP 180gm vinyl
Gatefold cover
Strictly Limited Edition

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Kio Amachree

12" | 1980 | EU | Reissue (Mondo Groove)

There It Goes Tangerine Orange Vinyl Edition

Release: 1980 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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HHV Exclusive Coloured Vinyl Edition limited to 100 copies.

The second album by Kio Amachree in Afro Boogie Funk style recorded in Lagos Nigerian in early 80s. Limited Edition.

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King Pari

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Stones Throw)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Space Between Two Notes

Eyolf Dale

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Edition)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Edition)

Fergus Mccreadie

Forest Floor

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Edition)

Daniel Herskedal

Roc

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Bounds Tarn Sike Blue Vinyl Edition

Craven Faults

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Leaf)

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Fun In The Church)

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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Quartabe

Repescagem

26,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A Bossa Nova De Roberto Menescal Limited Edition

Roberto Menescal

LP | 2024 | Original (Jazz Samba)

22,99 €*

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The World That I Created Now Is Mine

Kabinett

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Internasjonal)

24,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Complete Live At Umbria Jazz

Sphere

2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Red)

78,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Cosmic Tones Research Trio

All Is Sound

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Mississippi)

LP | 2024 | Original (Is It Jazz?)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Portland finest practitioners of Great Black Music offering to the planet! All Is Sound could not be a more apt title for this. Through saxophone, cello, piano and flutes The Cosmic Tones Research Trio created a truly beautiful record. All Is Sound breaks new ground. At its heart it's healing / meditation music, but the Gospel and Blues roots are in there too...as well as hints of forward-looking Spiritual jazz. As sincere a record as you could ever hope for. Music is indeed the healing force of the universe.

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The Verge

37,99 €*

Finding My Way Home Black Virgin Vinyl

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Norwegian jazz-rock quartet The Verge met at the legendary Norwegian jazz school NTNU, and did their first concerts in 2019. The band consists of four still up-and-coming musicians who are all active members of the Norwegian and European jazz, improv and rock scene. Emil, Aksel, Alf and Ingvald have, as The Verge, only done some humble touring in Norway until this point, but recorded a truly vital and original album in Duper Studio in 2021. This was done with the aspiring young producer Vegard Lemme, and the album is now being released on the also Bergen-based label Is It Jazz? Records.The album consists of seven original tracks composed by the different members of the band, which all sound very different from each other. Sonic landscapes that vary from fiery melodic jazz music to hysterical prog rock, atmospheric free-improvisation and heavy riffs are what define The Verge’s debut record. The hypnotic album encompasses a lot of different styles, but the ability of the four instrumentalists to weave it all together in a seamless manner makes it all take on a coherent form. The quartet’s way of improvising, spontaneous interplay, and a joyful attitude towards making music together make The Verge’s self-titled debut album worth a listen. 1.Nessesse2.Hyperreality3.Snake4.Gratitude5.Emils Låt / Postludium6.The Blast Supper7.Patterns for Meditation

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Yazz Ahmed

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Night Time Stories)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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La Saboteuse Black Virgin Vinyl Vinyl Edition

Yazz Ahmed

2LP | 2017 | UK | Reissue (Night Time Stories)

Release: 2017 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Polyhymnia Black Virgin Vinyl Vinyl Edition

Yazz Ahmed

2LP | 2019 | UK | Reissue (Night Time Stories)

Release: 2019 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Where Are We Going / Woman Of The World

Marvin Gaye

7" | 1973 | UK | Reissue (Expansion)

14,99 €*

LP | 2024 | DE | Original (Maura)

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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Maura

Mother Of Chaos

19,99 €*

Release: 2024 / DE – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Free Flow Archive)

Gary Bartz NTU Troop

Live In Bremen 1975

Hung Up On You White Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Gary Bartz (alto & soprano sax, vocals) - Charles Mims (piano, syntheziser) - Curtis Robertson (electric bass, back vocals) - Howard King (drums)
A fantastic live recorded in Bremen on 8th November 1975 set from reedman Gary Bartz – captured here with his ultra-hip NTU group – who you might know from their classic albums on Milestone in the 70s!
1 hour and 46 minutes of free and spiritual jazz.
Double LP 180gm vinyl
Gatefold cover
Strictly Limited Edition

Side A: Nation Time 11:54 / Ju Ju Man 18:50
Side B: Medley: Rise / Celestial Blues / The Sounding Song / Incident / Uhura Sasa 9:44 / Peace And Love 7:56 / Sifa Zote 10.02
Side C: I've Known Rivers 24:36
Side D: Sweet Tooth 24:26

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The James Taylor Quartet

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Jti)

Legend Of E'boi The Hypervigilant Eye

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Darius Jones

LP | 2024 | US | Original (AUM Fidelity)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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...Plays The Music Of Peter Green Vinyl Edition

Gregor Hilden

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

24,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Clap Your Hands)

Wolfgang Muthspiel

Etudes Quietudes

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Late Night Jazz Feat. Philip Catherine

Chet Baker

2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Elemental)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Way Black Vinyl Edition

Joachim French Trio Kühn

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Bill Laurance / Michael League

Keeping Company Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Highlife Black Vinyl Edition

Peter Somuah

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Musik Produktion Schwarzwald)

Oscar Trio Peterson

Walking The Line

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Musik Produktion Schwarzwald)

Joe Pass

Intercontinental

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1966 | EU | Reissue (Musik Produktion Schwarzwald)

Baden Powell

Tristeza On Guitar

Release: 1966 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Magic Moments 17-In The Spirit Of Jazz Black

21,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Kan Ya Makan-Once Upon A Time Black Vinyl Edition

Nesrine

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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LP | 2024 | Original (Easy Star)

Kumar The 18th Parallel

Tales Of Reality

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1985 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Miles Davis

You're Under Arrest

30,99 €*

Release: 1985 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (W.E.R.F.)

Trance Plantations

Behind Your Face

Henryk Szeryng In Recital

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Trance Plantations is the latest brainchild of Nathan Daems and Falk Schrauwen (both members of Black Flower and Echoes of Zoo). They describe what they make as 'fictional Tribe music (from space)'. That previously resulted in a self-titled debut album on which they collaborated with The Comet Is Coming members Danalogue and Betamax. "Behind your face" is their dazzling follow-up album continuing their musical space adventures.

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Henryk Szeryng

LP | US | Reissue (Analogue Productions)

53,99 €*

Hot Buttered Soul Singles 1969-1972

Release: US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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180g pressing

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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)