Organic Grooves 4829 Items

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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First ever commercial releases of New Orleans’ legend Alvin Batiste’s Spiritual Jazz albums created with the college band he instructed and led in Baton Rouge - Goes To Africa With Love and Live at The 1971 American College Jazz Festival Originally given away as souvenirs at Southern University, these albums contains deep Batiste originals and, on Live, are paired with excellent John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard covers. They are some of the most sought after albums of Americas 70s jazz underground. Each album contains extensive booklet detailing Batiste’s life and his time spent honing and recording this remarkable band of young students. That one of the great Spiritual Jazz albums of the era could be found in duplicate New Orleans thrift store in the 1980s goes a long way in illustrating the lack of acclaim this special and overlooked album maintained, even in a city where the Batiste name is musical royalty. The Southern University albums Alvin Batiste offered the world were novelies, not worthy of serious consideration, a moment captured, but not necessarily worthy of being collected or preserved by anyone not immediately involved in its creation. That changes now. With the release of the two Southern University albums, Now-Again continues a conversation begun with the late Kashmere Stage Band director Conrad O. Johnson and the issue of his high school students’ music as Texas Thunder Soul, and the continued belief that beautiful music created by youth - even under the most adverse circumstances - can always inspire us.

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LP | 2023 | US | Original (Numero Group)

Eccentric Deep Soul

2LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Gondwana)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Black Vinyl Edition.
Includes original inner sleeve.

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Matthew Halsall

An Ever Changing View

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LP | 2023 | DE | Original (Empire)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Classical Music

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG+

Transparent Vinyl Edition.
Includes original inner sleeves.

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Dinner Party

Enigmatic Society

LP | 2023 | DE | Reissue (Mr Bongo)

Release: 2023 / DE – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG+

Clear/Blue Marble with Red Splatter Vinyl Edition.
Still shrink wrapped but opened.
Includes original inner sleeve.

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Mankunku Quartet

Yakhal' Inkomo

We Get Requests Hybrid Stereo Sacd

Release: 2023 / DE – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG+

Limited Orange Vinyl Edition.
Still shrink wrapped but opened.

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Oscar Peterson Trio

CD | 2011 | US | Reissue (Analogue Productions)

38,99 €*

Release: 2011 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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All Through The Night Black

Bill Charlap

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Elemental)

28,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | CA | Original (Marlow)

Cinephonic

Visions

Chameleon / Watermelon Man

Release: 2023 / CA – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Cinephonic's sophomore release "Visions" is a baroque funk tour-de-force - an intriguing concept album made up of ancient medieval and baroque themes, refracted through a modern prism of soul, jazz and psychedelia, all performed by a massive fourteen-piece chamber orchestra.

Cinephonic was founded in 2018 by composer / multi-instrumentalist Pierre Chrétien, as an outlet for the new cinematic tunes he had been quietly writing when he wasn't busy leading groups such as The Souljazz Orchestra, Atlantis Jazz Ensemble and Slim Moore & the Mar-Kays.

Drawing inspiration from classic film and library music, Cinephonic expands on the sound with elements of cinematic soul, psychedelic rock, and spiritual jazz, creating a rich, evocative, and complex soundscape that juxtaposes intricate compositions with dark funk backbeats - a kind of epic soundtrack for a film that never existed.

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Herbie Hancock

12" | 2018 | UK | Original (Columbia)

LP | 2018 | US | Original (Get On Down)

Release: 2018 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Major Keys is a brand-new audiophile label focusing on fully licensed reissues of jazz classics, pressed on 12” for a fuller, louder version compared to the original album cut. What better way to kick of the series than housing Herbie Hancock’s imitable ‘Chameleon’ and ‘Watermelon Man’, loud and proud on either side of a 12” - remastered and cut by the engineer of the original Head Hunters LP from 1973.

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Sisters Love

With Love

After Midnight Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Motown's First Ladies of Funk finally release their vinyl
debut, some 45 years after it was originally scheduled!
As the '70s dawned and Motown relocated to the West Coast, the
era of their honey-toned '60s girl groups came to a resounding
halt. The Sisters Love were the antithesis of the traditional
Motown group and came to the label from A&M, armed with a lot
of funk, sass and attitude.
Paired with some of Motown's finest writers and producers - Hal
Davis, Gloria Jones, Pamela Sawyer, Paul Riser and Willie Hutch
- they got off to a rousing start with the gritty "Mr. Fix-It Man"
and went into high gear for the UK only release "I'm Learning To
Trust My Man".
Motown had them playing arenas with The Jackson Five (probably
not their smartest move!), issued the odd single and scheduled
more but Sisters Love's anticipated breakthrough didn't happen.
In 1980 New York DJ Danny Krivit pressed up an extended
eight-minute re-edit of "Give Me Your Love", an old B-side from a
1973 single! That song was somewhat of an underground classic
but the Krivit mix brought in a whole new legion of fans amongst
the rare groove crowd, both in the US and the UK.
Sisters Love had long been rumored to have recorded a complete
album for the Motown subsidiary MoWest. Get On Down Records
combed the vaults with Motown's help and the result is the
original 10 cut album, plus a bonus cut, "Give Me Your Love."
Although Gwen Berry passed away some years ago, the other
three members of the group - Jeanie Long, Lillie Fort and
Vermettya Royster have all been actively involved in this release.

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Nat King Cole

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Waxtime)

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LP | 2018 | US | Original (Fantasy)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Includes two bonus tracks.

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The Marcus King Band

Carolina Confessions

36,99 €*

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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10" | 2018 | US | Original (GroundUP Music)

Snarky Puppy

Sharktank

17,99 €*

You Know How to Love Me (Long Version) / Living Inside Your Love

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Limited edition for Record Store Day 2018!

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Phyllis Hyman

12" | 2018 | EU | Original (Arista)

Digging Beyond The Crates - Exclusives

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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American soulstress Phyllis Hyman gets two of her much loved anthems officially reissued on 180g vinyl.
"You Know How To Love Me" is a 7 and a half minute lesson in love. It's got that full bodied production of this golden era - layering strings seamlessly with a busty brass section and a flute line that even the most hardened can't help but smile at. Couple this with Phyllis' sultry yet powerful vocals bolstered by a backing group containing, amongst others, the mighty Gwen Guthrie.
On the flip, "Living Inside Your Love" hits you with a soul jam, heavy on the funk - complete with hands in the air chorus. Just as perfect to close out a set, as it is to warm up the floor.
Two essential tracks for any soul & disco aficionado!

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Mad Mats

12" | 2017 | EU | Original (BBE Music)

2LP | 2012 | EU | Original (Verve)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Following hot on the heels of ‘Digging Beyond The Crates’, the genre-agnostic double LP from Swedish DJ and Local Talk label boss Mad Mats, BBE are delighted to present this strictly limited 12” EP featuring three exclusive cuts, previously only available on digital and CD versions of the album. Ezel’s lively jam ‘Get Down’ summons up classic Jamiroquai with slick and funky acid jazz stylings. Italian producer Turbojazz re-imagines the club classic 'Strings Of Life' as a tempo-shifting electronic jazz odyssey. London producer Ossie’s ‘I Hurt You’ lays down a simple house groove and in a strange co-incidence chooses to sample the same 70’s acapella that our friend J Dilla famously used on the Slum Village classic ‘Players’.
Finally, Snarky Puppy pianist Bill Laurance shows of pure jazz chops with ‘The Pines’, a timeless and efortless work of art.

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Diana Krall

Glad Rag Doll

Release: 2012 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Slim Moore & The Mar-Kays

LP | 2011 | FR | Original (Marlow)

Release: 2011 / FR – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Louis Armstrong And His All-Stars

Satchmo At Symphony Hall

2LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Vinyl Passion)

14,99 €*

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Medium: VG, Cover: VG

2LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Gondwana)

Matthew Halsall

An Ever Changing View

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (GLM Music)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG+

Limited Transparent Vinyl with Signed Art Print.
Includes original inner sleeves.

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Mulo Francel

The Melody Sax

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Trost)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG

Still shrink wrapped but opened.
Cover with a beginning seam split at the upper edge.
Record with just a few paper scuffs is close to VG+.

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The End

Why Do You Mourn

21,99 €*

Swing's The Thing Hybrid Mono Sacd

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG

Still shrink wrapped but opened.
Cover with a beginning seam split at the upper edge.
Small light scuff on side B.

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Illinois Jacquet

CD | 2012 | US | Reissue (Analogue Productions)

38,99 €*

Release: 2012 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Rough Guide To Capoeira

Diverse

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (World Music Network)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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United We Swing: Best Of The Jazz At Lincoln Cente

Wynton Septet Marsalis

2LP | 2018 | US | Original (Blue Engine)

32,99 €*

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Release: 2018 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Big Daddy Wilson & The Gossebumps Bros.

Plan B

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Continental Blue Heaven)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Witchy Activities And The Maple Death

Monika Roscher Big Band

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Zenna)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Wajazz Legends: Jiro Inagaki - Selected By Yusuke Ogawa (Universounds)

Jiro Inagaki

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (180g)

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LP | 2017 | US | Reissue (Lewis)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Universounds, HMV Record Shop and 180g team up for an exceptional release in their highly acclaimed WaJazz series, to be out on Jiro Inagaki’s 90th birthday, October 3rd, 2023, celebrating the life and music of one of the most iconic Japanese jazz musicians of the last 60+ years. This is the ultimate collection of music from legendary saxophone player Jiro Inagaki and his Soul Media band, covering their 1968-1980 golden age, releasing as a spectacular gold vinyl double LP with extensive and detailed liner notes by Universounds’ Yusuke Ogawa, comments by Jiro Inagaki, and exclusive pics. 16 tracks of pure gold music spanning jazz, jazz-funk and jazz-rock, including an unreleased version of the track “Express” — first time on vinyl!

Yusuke Ogawa has been running the Universounds store in Tokyo since 2001, specializing in jazz and second-hand, rare, and collector records. He is also a reissue supervisor, label manager, DJ, and music writer. Known for his vast musical knowledge, eye for detail, and archival skills, Ogawa has worked on more than 250 reissues and compilations – including the highly praised Deep Jazz Reality and Project Re:Vinyl series. He is the co-author of the Wa-Jazz Disc Guide and the Independent Black Jazz of America books.

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Skinshape

Life & Love

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Ndeya)

Release: 2017 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Re-issued and remastered. Genre - Funk/Jazz/Soul/Psyche. 'Life & Love' is the third album from Skinshape (with 'Filoxiny' being his fourth). Written, Recorded and Produced by Will Dorey at the Arch Studio, London, and in his bedroom. Great melting pot of styles and tunes, D.I.Y. Funk Soul Jazz. Recommended if you're into Khruangbin. Skinshape is the project of British musician William Dorey. The sound has roots in many genres but in particular 1960s-0s Funk, Soul, Reggae, Psychedelic Rock, Afrobeat and Folk. Skinshape grew out of a love for old music and the way it sounded. Initially Dorey experimented with samples (especially drum breaks) to create instrumental Hip-Hop/Trip-Hop tracks but then later started to play around with tape machines as a means to create his own 'samples'. This process gave birth to Skinshape with all elements being recorded by Dorey since the first self-titled album released in 2014. Aside from the Skinshape project Dorey was bassist for the band Palace from 2014-2017 and runs a reggae label called Horus Records based in North London.

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Jon Hassell

The Living City

36,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Johnny Griffin / Eddie Davis Quintet

At Onkel Pö's Carnegie Hall Hamburg '75

2LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Jazzline)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2011 | EU | Reissue (Rer Vinyls)

The Necks

Mindset

2LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Jazzline)

Release: 2011 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Long awaited re-issue of The Necks 2011 masterpiece. Always different, here the Necks resolutely layer polyrhythmic material to form seething blocks of sound - in two long pieces, one more stripped back to the live trio, the other featuring multiple strata of swirling Hammonds, noise-guitar and electronics. Their 16th release still resonates on its own.

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Dave Liebman

Fire

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Tumult)

Meute

Tumult

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Lewis)

Skinshape

Craterellus Tubaeformis

LP | 2023 | Original (Be With)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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For fans of Khruangbin, El Michels Affair, Madlib and Bonobo. Features the singles ‘It’s Real, ‘Amnesia’, and ‘The Ocean’. Will Dorey aka Skinshape has proven himself time and again a connoisseur for the cosmopolitan, across a prolific career expertly exploring understated sounds and theatrical textures. Taking his place alongside the likes of Khruangbin, Tame Impala, Bonobo and Madlib, Skinshape’s global kaleidoscopes are loaded with warmth and wisdom created on vintage analogue equipment applying a perfectionist’s touch. As a former member of indie band Palace, he has played everywhere from Glastonbury and BBC Maida Vale to headlining Shepherd’s Bush Empire. Speaking on his latest record Craterellus Tubaeformis, Dorey remarks, "As I continue to make albums, I always try to capture some elements of the original Skinshape style. Here I ran through albums 1-3. This record is really an echo of the "Life & Love" era of Skinshape, playful psychedelia, with punchy beats, fun surprises, and an attempt at meaningful lyrics." Named after a very specific genus of edible mushroom, Craterellus Tubaeformis shares all the attributes of its nutritious counterpart due to how difficult both are to cultivate. Skinshape’s music is the product of a highly devoted and meticulous composer who uses some of the rarest analogue equipment out there. The product is such a definitive sound heard nowhere else but so easily identified as Skinshape.

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Vecchio

Afro-Rock

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Undercover Live At The Village Vanguard

Kurt Rosenwinkel

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Heartcore)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Futura Resistenza)

Salenta + Topu

Moon Set, Moon Rise

Prism Natural With Black Swirl Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Two old souls creating music not of this plane, taking you to a dream world...

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Say She She

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Karma Chief)

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Western Vinyl)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The highly anticipated debut LP from Say She She, the all-female discodelic soul band that will transport you with their dreamy harmonies, catchy hooks and up tempo grooves!The band's sound is a hat tip to late 70's girl groups with the three strong female lead voices of Piya Malik (featured in El Michels Affair, and backing singer for Chicano Batman), Nya Gazelle Brown, and Sabrina Cunningham - whose vocals soar through a set doused heavily with funky bass lines, rhythmic wah guitar, melodic synths and lilting bansuri flute lines, bursting into a seamless blend of dreamy harmonies and catchy hooks. A multicultural, multi-instrumental, collaborative melting pot, pulling sounds and styles from all corners of their record collections.The largely self-produced debut album `Prism' features contributions from Dap Kings Joey Crispiano & Victor Axelrod, Max Shrager (The Shacks) Bardo Martinez (Chicano Batman) Nikhil Yearwadekar (former Antibalas) Andy Bauer (Twin Shadow) and Matty McDermot (nypmh).

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Joseph Shabason

Anne Black Vinyl Edition

The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Anne, the second album By Toronto saxophonist and composer Joseph Shabason, is
a tonal essay on degenerative illness. Delicately and compassionately woven with
interviews of Shabason's mother from whom the album takes its name, Anne finds
its creator navigating a labyrinth of subtle and tragic emotions arising from his
mother's struggle with Parkinson's disease. Across the nine vivid postcards of jazzladen
ambience that comprise the album, Shabason unwraps these difficult themes
with great care and focus revealing the unseen aspects of degenerative diseases that
force us to re-examine common notions of self, identity, and mortality. Shabason's
uncanny ability to manoeuvre through such microscopic feelings is mirrored by his
capacity to execute a similar tightrope-walk through musical genres. His music
occupies a specific space that is as palpable as it is difficult to pin labels to. R.I.Y.L.
Brian Eno, Jon Hassell, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Laraaji, Robert Rich, Harold Budd

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Aragon / El Nino

7" | 2018 | US | Original (Colemine)

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band

The Serpent's Mouth Black Vinyl Edition

LP | 2018 | US | Original (Big Crown)

Flying Machine / City Country City

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Following up on the massive worldwide success of their debut album 55, Bacao Rhythm & Steel band is back with another heavy duty offering. Picking
up where they left off and incorporating a ton of new recording techniques they take a huge step forward with The Serpent’s Mouth. Named after the
eight-mile strait between the island of Trinidad and the coast of Venezuela, The Serpent’s Mouth is a journey through both originals and covers,
combining classic elements that wide-eared music fans already know, and mashing them up in new and unique ways.
Take “1 Thing” – on it, the group attacks the galloping, chopped Amerie smash hit, with singing pans that follow the R & B vocal. The sound is crisp
and up-front, arguably more muscular than the 2005 original. On “Great To Be Here,” they take on the Jackson 5 B-Boy favorite (which stretches back
to the Zulu Nation / Bronx block party days) – uncoincidentally, the original version featured a guitar lick that emulated a steel pan run. Here, it gets
an even more pulsating groove, adding open-drums breaks throughout, to get DJs salivating. The group veers through more inventively-constructed
covers as the album’s sequence continues, including Gang Starr’s “All For The Cash”, Mary J. Blige’s “I Love You”, and the recently unleashed first
single, “XXplosive” and “Burn,” paying tribute to both Dr. Dre and Mobb Deep for a bi-coastal funk party. And, as band leader Bjorn Wagner states,
“My favorite cover on the album is probably ‘Crockett Theme,’ which is the theme to ‘Miami Vice.’ I always loved the melody, and the cosmic vibe of
the song, and I was honestly surprised that it worked without synthesizers.”
This time around the group’s originals are even stronger, as evidenced by cuts like the flute-fueled break-fest of “Hoola Hoop”, the slow and spacey
“Touchdown”, and the album’s title track, the future-epic-adventure-movie-soundtrack cut “The Serpent’s Mouth.” Wagner explains, “I wrote the song
with Bernhard Hummer as an instrumental fantasy story – think of pirates, smugglers and a dangerously beautiful sea passage towards the island. It
became an allegory for our mind travels into the world of the steel pan.”
The Serpent’s Mouth is sure to please past fans and newly-minted ones alike. It seems like a new era for Steel Drum music is upon us, and Bacao is
firmly leading the way into the hearts of music fans around the world.

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War

12" | 2017 | US (United Artists)

Release: 2017 / US

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Should I Take You Home / My Dream

Sunny & The Sunliners

7" | 2017 | US | Original (Big Crown)

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Check out this essential garage Zamrock/Soul/Funk single as the first official reissue of the celebrated band’s one and only album!

The musical style that became known as Zamrock came to embody the economic despair that followed the 1973-1974 oil crisis, which flung Zambia into recession and exacerbated a wide range of social tensions. Much of Zamrock also captured the controversy of wider politics in Africa and the world. Perhaps the finest example of this is Black Power by The Peace. - The Guardian The Boyfriends, from Kitwe’s Chamboli Mine Township, supplied the founding members for Zamrock’s most famous band, Witch, and kick started one of Zamrock’s best bands, Peace. Their sole Zamrock entry, “Black Power”, recorded at Malachite Film Studio circa 1973/4 and issued circa 1975, sounds like nothing else in the Zamrock canon: a lost message drifiting from the flower power era, imbued with a fiery Zambian voice.

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Bob James

Nautilus / Mardi Gras

12" | 2012 | US (CTI)

Robbie M (Midnight Express)

Release: 2012 / US

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Reissue of these sampled to death classics! Should be in every decent collection…

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I Wanna Be With You Tonight

7" | 2011 | US | Original (Peoples Potential Unlimited)

Release: 2011 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Robbie M of Midnight Express (Danger Zone) is back with his latest single! This is the first track from Robbie's Upcoming LP.

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Wagram)

Jazz Men

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Discover our new Men Collection : a fine selection of the greatest male artists in Soul & in Jazz on two nice vinyls !

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12" | 2023 | UK | Original (Backatcha)

Congress Productions

20,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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No Secret Affair - Remixes

Style X

12" | 2023 | UK | Original (Backatcha)

20,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Croatia)

Dino Dvornik

30,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Point Of No Return / So Good

Dwayne Scivally

7" | 2023 | UK | Reissue (Izipho Soul)

16,99 €*

7" | 2023 | EU | Original (Sonor Music Editions)

Release: 2023 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Zipho Soul are delighted to announce our second 7” release with Nashville smooth soul man Dwayne Scivally.

Prior to his highly respected LPs with French music maestro Thomas G, Dwayne recorded an album in 2016 entitled ‘Stay Until The Morning’. The CD has virtual invisible status, with no sales documented on Discogs. Our top pick is ‘Point of no Return’, this track was played upon it’s original release by a handful of elite DJs - Props therefore go out to Mick O’Donnell, Mark Merry, Colin Curtis, Steve Scotney and Brian Goucher (who ranked this as one of his top tunes of 2016 in U.K. Vibe magazine)

The flip ‘So Good’ - a sensuous mid tempo composition, beautifully complimenting the top side.

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Mark Saddlemire

Sound In The Round

Push The Rock Feat. Amber Woodhouse Clear Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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We're presenting under our New Tape label Mark's debut release "Sound-In-The-Round", that draws a deep inspiraton by the golden era of Italian Library and Soundtrack Music. Something akin to the legendary Prog-Rock ensemble Goblin and the avant-garde composer Giuliano Sorgini, but with a rich plenty of grooveness. Mark Saddlemire is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer from Philadelphia, passionate about creating instrumental compositions from a blend of acoustical and electronic sounds using analog techniques. An electrical engineer by trade, he's customized and repaired much of the vintage gear used for his recordings - his studio is a collection of unique and rare analog instruments from the 1960s to the 1980s.

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Magic In Threes

7" | 2023 | US | Original (G.E.D. Soul)

7" | 2023 | US | Original (Big Crown)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Magic In Threes are back with a pulsing dance joint aided by the sultry, hushed vocals of Amber Woodhouse. “Push The Rock” grooves steadily in a late 70s vibe, drawing inspiration from both the boogie school of funk as well as flourishes from the more danceable strains of post punk. Relentlessly steady rhythms coalesce with spacey synth lines to form an undeniably funky venture pushing you to keep doing what you’re doing…as long as you’re dancing.

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Thee Marloes

Logika / True Love

Work Of Art Tri-Color Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Thee Marloes give us with another killer of a two-sider while they finish recording their debut album.The A side "Logika" is a laid back tune about where the head and the heart meet and how they often don't see things the same way. Natassya Sianturi's honeyed vocals float over a beautifully arranged track driven by guitar riffs, organ, and reverb drenched stick hits. They manage to put the perfect amount of paint on the canvas with the band sounding tight as ever hitting all the changes that bring in the earworm chorus that stays in your head even if you don't speak Indonesian. The B side "True Love" finds Thee Marloes dipping back into the soulful side of jazz but this time with a beat ballad that could soundtrack a Tarantino movie and hold court with the best of the genre. This one leans you back in your chair setting the mood for a smokey lounge affair and a strong drink. Two more pages from Thee Marloes book on a must have 45 giving a taste of what is to come on the 2024 full length.

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Asake

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Empire)

Money Talks (Yellow Label)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Pop

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Work of Art is the second album from Nigerian-born singer-songwriter and global superstar, Asake. Building on the sounds from his explosive debut, Mr. Money With The Vibe (which became Billboard’s highest-charting debut album from a Nigerian artist), the 14-track Work Of Art showcases Asake’s winning formula of fusing traditional and contemporary African music into something equally unique and celebratory. The release also marked Asake’s second straight debut on the Billboard 200, and clocked in Spotify chart debuts at number 2 on the Global Albums chart and number 5 on the US Top Albums chart. With standout singles such as “Amapiano,” “2:30,” “Basquiat,” & “Sunshine,” the album highlights Asake’s innate ability to cut through to global audiences, making him one of 2023’s most intriguing artists to watch. Pressed on Green/White/Green Tri-Color Stripe Vinyl.

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En-To-End

12" | 2023 | UK | Reissue (Backatcha)

Release: 2023 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Two official limited reissue 12"s of En-To-End's late 80's street soul collectors anthem 'Money Talks', featuring the '89 version and a Sean P. 'Special Mix'. Plus, the original 'Are You Gonna Be' Vocal version coupled with a full length instrumental and the previously unreleased 'I Still Love You' featuring Intrigue. All cuts are exclusive to this singles sourced from the tape archives of London singer-producer Tony Shand.

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2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Use Vinyl)

Soul Fingers 2

31,99 €*

All Alone By The Telephone / Body Language

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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A?er the success of the first volume, the second Soul Fingers’s tribute compila&on is released on double vinyl too. Soul Fingers is a wandering black music dancefloor that in 2023 reaches to celebrate 10 years lifelong. Soul Fingers mixes soul, disco and funk, with rap and La&n rhythms. In this brand new compila&on there are some pieces that have really marked great par&es since 2013. This &me featuring soAme carefully selected dancefloor music bombs directly from the hands of Claudio Cavallaro, the leader of the Soul Fingers console.

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The Checkmates Ltd

7" | 2023 | UK (Soul Brother)

17,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Our Lives Are Shaped By What We Love / Battened Ships

Odyssey

7" | 2023 | UK (Soul Brother)

17,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Curtis Mayfield

Move On Up

12" | 2023 | US (Curtom)

16,99 €*

Release: 2023 / US

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Reeling / Don't You Dare Stop Black Vinyl Edition

Say She She

7" | 2023 | US | Original (Karma Chief)

Heavn Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Reeling is Say She She's latest emboldened declaration to fight dystopia. Written as an incantation from Mother Earth to the masses to join the rising against the calamitous forces of unfettered capitalism that has left our seas and skies grappling. With soaring harmonics and perfectly in sync voices, the She She's lead the charge to "Kick the Door Down, Smash the ceiling_ Leave `em Reeling." The B-side, 'Don't You Dare Stop,' is a passionate sonnet written about a former flame who once whispered the words_Don't You Dare Stop. Brimming with a yearning so amorous it burns everything to the ground with scorching hot vocals and breathy high tones.

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Jamila Woods

LP | 2017 | US | Original (Jagjaguwar)

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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How Do I Talk To My Brother? Black Vinyl Edition

Ben Pirani

LP | 2018 | US | Original (Colemine)

DeRobert & The Half-Truths

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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"It'd be easy to mistake this release for yet another soul revival album made by a dude who wasn't there the first time around - but it'd be the listener's mistake to make. What kind of record is a man with a punk past going to make when he's been a mod, a rocker and a rare soul collector in between? One that draws on a familial history of activism, sacrifice and earnest hustling - the very same things we're all being called upon to conjure as a society in this present moment. This is a body of work that lets neither performer nor listener off the hook, yet still understands the need for care and cause in the spaces between. Consider it: A band of fighters meant for the clear-eyed lovers of the world. Ben Pirani is not fooling around, and neither are the working musicians who agreed to make this record with him." - Jocelyn Brown Colemine Records is proud to present the debut LP from Ben Pirani. A record that feels so very easy and familiar, but at the same time fresh and relevant. Like the hype sticker says, "Soul music that's so positive it might just spark a revolution!"

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Judgement Pt. 1 / Judgement Pt. 2 Black Vinyl Version

7" | 2018 | US | Original (Colemine)

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Agile Experiments Volume 1

LP | 2018 | UK | Original (Agile Experiments)

18,99 €*

LP | 2018 | US | Original (Awesome Tapes From Africa)

Release: 2018 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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At the beginning of 2015 I approached Victor Greetham at The Agile Rabbit Pizzeria about programming a series of concerts at his spot in Brixton Village, an open air marketplace in the heart of Brixton (London, UK).

The premise being that I would bring a selection of great, strictly one hour long concerts every Thursday night, some of which would be completely improvised free form music. These performances came to be named “Agile Experiments”, paying homage to Victor & his venue for allowing us to expose the market's passing trade audiences to something they may well have never had an opportunity to hear before or ever again for that matter.

We implemented two simple rules for the performances:
1. We wouldn't discuss or plan anything around what we were going to play.
2. We would play for an hour straight with no breaks.

After a year of concerts in the market place, I organised 8 one hour long recording sessions in a studio with 8 different combinations of musicians I had had the honor of performing with over this period and we applied the same rules as we did for the live performances in order to document these happenings.

Two further years down the line, after sitting on these recordings trying to find a way for them to be heard, I am extremely pleased to announce a sequential release of two limited edition vinyls featuring 12 extracts from these raw & unpredictable performances.

I hope that you will truly enjoy these minutes of off-the-cuff cooperative creativity.

In good faith and love for people and music,

Dave De Rose

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Hailu Mergia

Lala Belu

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Paul Ramos / Ulysses Crockett

Fence Walk / Funky Resurgence

7" | 2018 | US | Original (Big Crown)

2LP | 2017 | Original (LateNightTales)

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Big Crown Records is proud to present this tough as nails split 7”

The A side is Paul Ramos version of the Mandrill classic “Fence Walk”. Originally released on the Harlem label, and later licensed to Falcon only to oddly appear on their Kris Bravo LP. Ramos stays close to the original, but adds enough to the tune to make it a must have for funk collectors.

The B side “Funky Resurgence” comes by way of vibes player/bandleader Ulysses Crockett who was a stalwart on the Bay Area scene of the 1960's first with his Latin Jazz group Afro Blue Persuasion and later Ulysses Crockett Magic. He also played in The Skins w/ the legendary Bill Graham. "Funky Resurgence" was one of several compositions he wrote for the 1971 play "Resurgence." During this period, Ulysses was also going through law school and he remains a legal voice, writer and activist in the Bay Area.

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BBNG (BadBadNotGood)

LateNightTales

25,99 €*

Release: 2017 / Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance, Pop

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Underneath My Feet / Guilty (Cold Version)

Lady Wray

7" | 2017 | US | Original (Big Crown)

Durand Jones & The Indications

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Following up on the success of Lady Wray’s solo debut album Queen Alone, we are
proud to give you another 45 offering, this time showing another side of Nicole.
Known worldwide for her early career as a Hip Hop / R&B singer, then more recently
for her more matured Soul inspired writing, the A side of this one “Underneath My
Feet” shows just how hard it is to put Lady Wray in a box. If you haven’t seen her live
show, you may have no idea that she has a healthy bad ass Rock and Roll side to her,
commanding crowds with a raucousness that likens Betty Davis. Underneath My Feet
is a tough blend of glam rock drums and guitar stabs that Nicole takes to like a fish to
water. A self proclaimed voodoo woman, putting a spell on the listener, warning all of
her unbridled power.
The B side is the heart wrenching Guilty, a song Wray wrote to cope with the
incarceration of her brother. One listen and it is impossible to doubt the sincerity,
again showing Cole’s songwriting prowess with imagery of no one to cheers with, and
not wanting to experience the comforts of home knowing her brother was locked up in
a cell. A solid 2 sider showing a different side of Lady Wray than she is typically known
for all wrapped up in a beautiful picture sleeve cover.

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Make A Change / Is It Any Wonder?

7" | 2017 | US | Original (Colemine)

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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After a strong debut in 2016, Durand Jones & The Indications are
hitting the road this spring with a new 45 from their debut LP. The
lead album cut, “Make A Change” is powerful message soul at its
fnest! Never more powerful and never more relevant! Meanwhile,
the B-side is a cookin’ lowrider soul jam featuring the sweet falsetto
of drummer Aaron Frazer. A two-sided burner.

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12" | 2017 | DE | Original (Equation)

Equation #3

35,99 €*

LP | 2017 | US | Original (Telegraph Harp)

Release: 2017 / DE – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

White vinyl. Slightly bump bottom left corner. Record and sleeve close to NM.

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Kelly Moran

Bloodroot

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Classical Music

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Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

Musiques Légères (1976-1982)

Bruno Spoerri

LP | 2023 | CH | Original (We Release Jazz)

29,99 €*

2LP | 2023 | DE | Reissue (Musik Produktion Schwarzwald)

Release: 2023 / CH – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

Still in shrink, but opened, with hype sticker

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Volker Kriegel

Inside: Missing Link

20,99 €*

The Best Of The MPS Years

Release: 2023 / DE – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Copy closer to NM

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Monty Alexander

2LP | 2023 | DE | Original (Musik Produktion Schwarzwald)

Release: 2023 / DE – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

Songs For Distingué Lovers

Billie Holiday

LP | 2023 | Reissue (Verve)

31,99 €*

Release: 2023 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

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

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Pink Skull

Psychic Welfare

14,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (BMG)

Release: 2012 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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"Psychic Welfare" was produced by Pink Skull and Jeff Zeigler (Kurt Vile, War On Drugs) between the band's Philadelphia studio and Brooklyn, NY. Contending with the seismic swells in both the macro and micro worlds around him, Grefe refracted the polluted waves in a fantastical fit to write the 13 songs of "Psychic Welfare". The album is a map of time and space portals in which the listener can navigate from the corroded corners of machinated life to boundless, amorphous space in mere seconds. Across the album's pull-out poster artwork for "Psychic Welfare" is a hand-scrawled poem by the late NYC sage Ira Cohen entitled "Blind Assemblage". In the poem, Cohen describes the decay of society and struggles to find civility within tragedy, a sentiment mirrored in Grefe's lyrical content of Psychic Welfare, if not masked by a new found pop propensity. The lead track on the album, "Hot Bubblegum," a Television-inspired piece of pop perfectly pushes this dichotomy of psychotic playfulness. "Mu" is a sprawling instrumental spread of blissed-out 80s funk, complete with a tin rooftop sax solo by Billy Dufala (Man Man). "Janine Aubergine" fictionalizes Grefe's girlfriend's bluegrass fiddle-playing aunt as a psychedelic maven over a tango groover, while "Bee Nose (Put Yr Face On)" is a woozy, hazy late-night phone call from the warped Scottish countryside circa 1998. "Summer Reading" feels like a Transformer-era Lou Reed bullying Mark E. Smith around a disco bouncey castle. Tracks from Psychic Welfare were remixed by Brassica, Higamos Hagamos, Ray Mang, and Worst Friends. Each of these remixes will be released as single support and included alongside additional original tracks as bonus downloads. The artwork of Psychic Welfare is taken from a a series of visual synth feedback experiments conducted by the band and video artist Adam Carrigan. The LP edition features a 48" x 96" heavy-stock pull out poster.

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Adriana Calcanhotto

Errante

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Medium: Mint, Cover: Sealed

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Musik Produktion Schwarzwald)

George Duke

Faces In Reflection

21,99 €*

410"+Box Set | 2017 | Original (Brainfeeder)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Medium: VG+, Cover: Near Mint

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Thundercat

Drunk

38,99 €*

Release: 2017 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Red Vinyl.
Includes original inner sleeves.
Records are close to NM. Box with edge wear.

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2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Condensed)

Erotheque - Turn Me On!

31,99 €*

Ti Amo Come Un Pazzo Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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IF There WAS A Place Where Fino ALL THE Best Erotic Music, What Else Could IlBE IF NOT AN "eroteque" ? Well Dear Friends, Here WE Have A Fantastic Double Vinyl That Contains Exactly That Mood, With A Selection OF 15 Songs That WAS Certainly NOT Made BY Chance, BUT With A Refined Selection OF Collectable Songs.

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Mina

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Pdu Music & Production Sa)

30,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Reggae & Dancehall

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T-Funk Collective / Atomphunk

Since I Fell For You / Come Boogie

7" | 2023 | UK | Original (Regulate)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Joey Gilmore Black Vinyl Edition

Joey Gilmore

LP | 2023 | Original (Regrooved)

Donald Byrd / Bobby Jaspar

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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In the early seventies, Joey Gilmore embarked on his musical journey, captivating audiences with a series of unforgettable singles that showcased his raw talent and unique style. It wasn't until 1977 that the culmination of his musical endeavors arrived—the release of his highly anticipated debut record.

This debut album marked a pivotal moment in Joey Gilmore's career, solidifying his reputation as a self-taught guitar virtuoso and soulful singer. The record resonated with listeners, capturing the essence of his artistry and leaving an indelible impact.

Now, after a 45-year wait, the time has finally come for a vinyl reissue of Joey Gilmore's debut album. This reissue is a celebration of his timeless music, meticulously crafted to preserve the authenticity and integrity of the original recording. Every note, every lyric and the original design of the sleeve has been lovingly restored to transport you back to the magic of that era.

Get ready to immerse yourself in the unadulterated funk and soul of Joey Gilmore's music, as this remarkable reissue brings his debut album back to life. Allow the melodies and rhythms to envelop you, taking you on a captivating musical adventure that transcends time. Revisit the magic, rediscover the artistry, and let the music of Joey Gilmore captivate your soul once again.

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Paris 58

LP | 2023 | FR | Original (Sam)

34,99 €*

Release: 2023 / FR – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | FR | Reissue (Souffle Continu)

Kristen Nogues

Marc 'H Gouez

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Nyege Nyege Tapes)

Release: 2023 / FR – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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“Why would I sing in French? I have Breton culture, I speak Breton, I live in Brittany, and the Breton language is the language of this country...” So explained Kristen Noguès, of whom this is the first of the (rare) albums that she recorded Marc’h Gouez, is a fabulous voyage in space on each listening.

Noguès learned the Breton language as a child, at the same time as the Celtic harp, – taking lessons with Denise Mégevand, who would go on to teach others, notably Alan Stivell. At the beginning of the 1970s, she discovered the Breton song tradition (soniou and gwerziou) through Yann Poëns and became involved in Névénoé, a cooperative of traditional expression founded by Gérard Delahaye and Patrick Ewen. It was under this label that her first album Marc’h Gouez, was released in 1976.

With a dozen friends playing guitar, piano, violins, flutes..., Noguès composed not Breton music, but music from Brittany: a type of shared folklore in which imagination is married to the reality of the moment, that of social demands and companionship. At the very beginning of the record, we can hear her drawing up a chair, before the plucked notes of the harp become a cascade: “Enez Rouz”, is an invitation to listen up close.

We are reminded here of the Meredith Monk of “Greensleeves”, there of the early albums of Brigitte Fontaine / Areski, elsewhere of Emmanuelle Parrenin, Pascal Comelade... Noguès rhyming pattern is ever changing: airy (“Hunvre”), cosmopolitain (“Pinvidik Eo Va C'hemener”), enigmatic (“Ar Bugel Koar”), profound (“Ar Gemenerez”) or enchanting (“Hirness An Devezhiou”). And then there is the track from which the album takes its’ name: Marc’h Gouez which, between nursery rhyme and chamber music, weaves a fabulous web in which the auditor is obliged to be caught. “Brittany equals poetry”: so said André... Breton; and Kristen Noguès proves it to be true.'

Carefully remastered from the master tapes by Gilles Laujol. Graphic design by Stefan Thanneur. 8 page booklet. Heavyweight 180 gr. LP. 425 gsm brownboard outer sleeve. Licensed from Katell Branellec.

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Nakibembe Embaire Group

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Cien Fuegos)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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In Nakibembe, a small village in Uganda's Busoga kingdom (one of the country's four remaining constitutional monarchies), locals have long reserved a communal area for musical performances and social events. In the middle of this space lies a deep pit that serves a single purpose: to amplify the embaire, an immense xylophone made up of between 15 and 25 wooden keys that stretches across the trench. Log xylophones are common throughout East Africa, but the way the music is played by the Basoga - an Eastern Bantu ethnic group - is specific and unique, with its own tuning, dances and supplemental instrumentation. Up to eight players can surround the embaire and play simultaneously, overlaying hypnotic polyrhythms while additional members of the ensemble add vocals or play shakers and drums.Nakibembe Embraire Group are one of the last remaining groups that perform with the embaire, and as anyone who's caught their live performances will know, they create a complex and layered wall of sound that's completely transfixing wherever it's presented. The band are a regular fixture at Nyege Nyege festival, and in 2020 appeared in Berlin at the legendary Berghain nightclub alongside Jakarta-based vanguards Gabber Modus Operandi and Harsya Wahono. On the group's debut album, they present five tracks as an ensemble and three tracks in collaboration with Indonesian trio. Heard together the music demonstrates not only the remarkable sound of Nakibembe's own kinetic interaction, but sonic ripples that correlate with more distant forms, from Indonesia's metallophone-led gamelan music to the heady digital processes of the sound art sphere.Undulating eight-minute epic 'Omukazi Iwe Ongeyengula Nguli Zna Ntyo Bwenkola' draws us into the album, offering the perfect introduction to Basoga musical traditions. Triplet-led melodic percussive phrases provide an ever-fluxing backbone, leaving space for call-and-response vocals in Lusoga and shakers for rhythmic clarity. 'Omulangira Mpango' develops the scope even further, pushing u...

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Schlippenbach Quartet

Anticlockwise

34,99 €*

Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Schlippenbach Quartet: Evan Parker - soprano & tenor saxophone, Alexander von Schlippenbach - piano, Alan Silva - double bass, Paul Lovens - drums, percussionThis album was originally released on FMP in 1983. Remastered in 2022 by Martin Siewert.CREDITS:Recording:live on September 11th, 1982 at the Quartier Latin in Berlin by Jost GebersProduction:Jost GebersRe-Mastering:2022 by Martin SiewertArtwork:G. Fritze MargullPublisher:FMPPhotos:Dagmar Gebers

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Hotline Bling / Murkit Gem

7" | 2023 | EU | Original (Big Crown)

Baiana (Brasingles Volume 2)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band return with another set covers bound to get you out of your seat and on your feet. The mysterious German steel pan outt is working on their fourth studio album now and treat us to another must have two-sider to hold us over while they nish it. This one is sure to become another favorite among DJs worldwide. On the A side BRSB take on a huge hit with an eerie cover of Drake's "Hotline Bling". The intro melodica hints at the melody and when the beat drops and the top line plays on the pans all bets are off. The B side is something of a Big Crown family affair as Bacao covers "Murkit Gem" from El Michels Affair's Yeti Season album. The tune lends itself to the pans with its infectious melodies and the way BRSB plays it, it takes on a James Bond spy chase energy that works perfectly.

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Barbatuques

12" | 2018 | EU | Original (Optimo Music Selva Discos)

16,99 €*

7" | 2017 | US | Reissue (Big Crown)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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One per customer only!

The fourth release of Selva Discos is one that has been bursting audiences into flames for a good while. Barbatuques, a well-known Brazilian group of body percussionists, adapted "Baianá" back in 2005 (first released on the "O Seguinte É Esse" album) and since then it became a staple of their concerts, getting crazy reactions from the children to the elder, being featured on soundtracks and sampled by trap duo Tropkillaz.

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El Michels Affair

Tearz

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Anti)

Release: 2017 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Side A's cover of "Tearz" is as much an homage to the Wendy Rene sample as it is to the Wu-Tang Clan track. The song starts as a glazed over cover of "after laughter, comes tears" with Shannon Wise of The Shacks singing Wendy Rene's timeless mantra. Halfway through, the mood dramatically shifts and the drums and organ that drive the original RZA sample take over. A dubbed out Lee Fields taps in like only he can, and the song spirals into outer space.Side B finds EMA dipping into the deeper side of the Wu catalog with Raekwon's "Verbal Intercourse." Mixing the grimy, gritty production aesthetic of the original with elements of dubbed out reggae, El Michels Affair once again pushes the definition of a "cover" and truly makes it a tune of their own.

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Alfa Mist

Variables

Magnolia Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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I"ve been focused on who I am in my music, but now I"m exploring where I am," Alfa Mist says. "I"m asking: how did I get here?" This is the journeying question that underpins Alfa"s fifth album, Variables. Traversing luscious, big band swing, head-nodding boom-bap rhythms and yearning vocal melodies, the record is expansive, soulful and moving, in both body and spirit. On Variables, his second release for Anti-, Alfa achieves his most fully-realised, expressive musical work to date, coupling his keen ear for looping, memorably emotive piano melodies with intuitive grooves and a free-flowing jazz improvisation. Since the release of his first full-length project Nocturne in 2015, Alfa has established himself as one of the UK"s most focused, indemand and distinct musical voices. He has worked with the likes of Jordan Rakei and Tom Misch. Artists look to him for his unique blend of intimate bedroom production and expansive jazz group orchestration, since Alfa is yet to be boxed into a specific genre. His music spans everything from hip-hop beat-making to producing for artists such as rapper Loyle Carner, composing neo-classical works for the London Contemporary Orchestra, and reworking tracks from composer Olafur Arnalds and pioneering jazz label Blue Note. The return to live shows has been a welcome one for Alfa and his fans, resulting in an extensive tour throughout UK and Europe. Including a sold-out headline show at the Barbican in London. Alfa Mist will be touring Europe, UK and North America in 2023 again. It is a balance between feeling and perfectionism that ultimately gives Alfa"s music its depth and capacity for repeated listening. It is also an ethos that has enabled his remarkable work-ethic to date. "I"ve never been a "one album every four years" artist - I want to put out new projects every year," he says. "Music is an extension of my life; it is the practice of creating."

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Okonski

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Colemine)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The studio at 122 West Loveland Avenue was not an unfamiliar space for Steve Okonski, the leader of his eponymous trio Okonski. Ever since the Colemine label set up shop in Loveland, Ohio it has been a host to a number of groups passing through town, including Durand Jones and the Indications who all of this trio's members have connections to. After setting aside some time in winter of 2020, Okonski, trained initially as a classical pianist, invited Michael Isvara "Ish" Montgomery and Aaron Frazer to work on an album that was initially planned to be beat driven and fully composed trio instrumentals.After finishing this first session with some improvisations, a second week was booked in the summer of 2021 to try and capture some more of that spontaneous energy. During this session, the tracks were all improvised and recorded live to a Tascam 388 during several late nights at the Colemine HQ. They were structured to allow the group's collective intuition to fully shape the melodies and arcs of the music.The album opens with Runner Up, where a triumphant yet melancholic melody in the piano leads to a more reserved B-section driven by the drums and bass of Frazer and Montgomery. As you journey through the remainder of the album you are met with a plethora of evoked and explored emotions. The calmness one has walking down a moonlit street after midnight, the connection one has for a person who comes into their world for just a moment or a lifetime, and the nerves and catharsis one feels when starting upon a new, unknown journey.Magnolia closes with Sunday, a track that was recorded late into the night at the close of their first recording session. Without the spontaneity of Sunday, the remainder of Magnolia would likely have never come to fruition.Magnolia was composed from the heart and from the spirit of those in the studio those late nights in Loveland. It is the culmination of an emotional and artistic release that was not afforded or recognized before the band sat at their instruments, and beca...

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French Connection - Rare Funk, Soul, Jazz From 60's & 70's

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Wagram)

7" | 2023 | UK | Original (Jazz Room)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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With French Connection, discover rare tracks of Funk, Soul and Jazz made in France. 23 avant-garde nuggets from the 60"s and 70"s gathered in a nice double vinyl! With: Cortex, Janko Nilovic, Godchild, Francis Lai, Bernard Estardy, Philippe Sarde, Edition Spéciale, Bruno Leys, Jean-Claude Petit, Serge Gainsbourg...

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Blue Mode & El Chavo

Smells Like Teen Spirit

14,99 €*