Organic Grooves 29575 Items

2LP | 2014 | UK | Original (Late Night Tales)

Release: 1973 / DE – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG

Vinyl with scuffs and hairlines. Cover close to VG+

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Django Django

Late Night Tales

Brook Benton Sings A Love Story

Release: 2014 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Leo Kottke, Bob James, James Last, Map Of Africa, Massive Attack, Outkast & others are featured. Another tasty selection!

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Brook Benton

LP | 1975 | US | Original (RCA)

8,99 €*

Release: 1975 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Medium: VG+, Cover: VG

LP | 1975 | US | Original (Atlantic)

Spinners

Pick Of The Litter

8,99 €*

LP | 1972 | US | Reissue (Cobblestone)

Release: 1975 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG+

Vinyl is Close to VG+. Original US Presswell pressing.

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Bob Freedman

The Journeys Of Odysseus

Harold Melvin And The Blue Notes

Release: 1972 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: G+

Vinyl with a couple of light scuffs. Cover with long open seam split on bottom and tape, close to VG

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I Miss You

LP | 1972 | US | Original (Philadelphia International)

Release: 1972 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Medium: VG, Cover: VG

LP | 1971 | US | Original (Columbia)

John Williams

Changes

LP | 1978 | US | Original (Casablanca)

Release: 1971 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Vinyl with a couple of light scuffs. Still in shrink, but opened

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Paris Connection

8,95 €*

Release: 1978 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Promo copy

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Johnny Pate

OST Bucktown

LP | US | Reissue (Air)

Release: US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Soundtracks

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LP | 1964 | US | Reissue (Columbia)

Thelonious Monk

It's Monk's Time

30,99 €*

Phil Moore And The Afro Latin Soultet

Release: 1964 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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180 Gram Vinyl

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Afro Brazil Oba!

LP | 1966 | US | Reissue (Tower)

Release: 1966 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1973 | US | Reissue (GSF)

Skull Snaps

LP | US | Reissue (Chi-Sound)

Release: 1973 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Colored Vinyl, one of the tuffest drum breaks ever originates from this LP!

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Sydney Joe Qualls

So Sexy

20,99 €*

Release: US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1979 | US | Reissue (Fantasy)

Pleasure

Future Now

15,99 €*

LP | 1972 | US | Reissue (Nodlew)

Release: 1979 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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- "Thoughts of Old Flames" sampled by Big Daddy Kane for "Give it to Me",
Questionmark Asylum for "Hey Look Away Now",
Rakim for "Remember That" and
Under Ground Kings for "It's Supposed to Bubble"

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Weldon Irvine

Liberated brother

Chuck, Helen, Eric, Maurice

Release: 1972 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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early release on his own label ... real nice!

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The Independents

LP | 1973 | US | Original (Wand)

Release: 1973 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Medium: VG, Cover: VG

LP | 1961 | US | Original (Crown)

Coleman Hawkins

The Hawk Swings

LP | 1979 | US | Original (Mercury)

Release: 1961 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: G+

Cover with long open seam splits

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Nuggets

N.Y.

9,99 €*

Release: 1979 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG

LP | 1978 | US | Original (ABC)

Lenny Williams

Spark Of Love

9,99 €*

Release: 1978 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG

Duke Ellington And His Orchestra

Concert In The Virgin Islands

LP | US | Original (Reprise)

Release: US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Medium: VG, Cover: VG

LP | 1974 | US | Original (Columbia)

Earth, Wind & Fire

Open Our Eyes

Release: 1974 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Medium: VG, Cover: VG

10" | 2013 | DE | Original (Dooinit Music)

Marian Tone

One

Release: 2013 / DE – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: Near Mint

Romeo Must Die (The Album)

V.A.

2LP | 2000 | US | Original (Warner)

49,99 €*

Release: 2000 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves, Soundtracks

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Medium: VG+, Cover: VG

12" | 2020 | DE | Original (Jakarta)

J.Lamotta Suzume

Brand New Choice

Release: 2020 / DE – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: VG+

LP | 2021 | DE | Original (Jakarta)

Ol' Burger & Vuyo

Dialogue.

19,99 €*

Release: 2021 / DE – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

LP | 2018 | DE | Original (Jakarta)

Nanna B

Solen

6,99 €*

Cookin' With The Miles Davis Quintet

Release: 2018 / DE – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

close to NM

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The Miles Davis Quintet

LP | 1956 | US | Reissue (Analogue Productions)

52,99 €*

12" | 2016 | NL | Original (Borneo)

Release: 1956 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: Near Mint

Limited Edition.
Includes original inserts.

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Professor Genius

Cara Ep

7,99 €*

Release: 2016 / NL – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: Generic

LP | 1973 | DE | Original (Columbia)

Franck Pourcel

Forever And Ever

6,99 €*

Release: 1973 / DE – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

LP | 1980 | EU | Reissue (Fulltime)

Kano

LP | US | Original (Twenty Four Track Records)

Release: 1980 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Pop

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG

Cover with seam split.

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Thomas & Taylor

I Will Be Your Friend

5,99 €*

Release: US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | DE | Original (Umland)

Jan Klare

B.C.

Release: 2020 / DE – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

12" | 1983 | EU | Reissue (Full Time)

Kano

Another Life

What A Heat & Philip's Calypso

Release: 1983 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG

Limited White Vinyl Edition.
Cover with seam split.

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Phillip Bodden

12" | 1976 | EU | Reissue (Miss You)

LP | 1960 | EU | Reissue (Jazz Workshop)

Release: 1976 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG

Tiny stain on front cover.
Record is close to VG+.
Includes original inner sleeve.

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Harold Land

West Coast Blues!

12" | 2012 | US | Original (Nuearth Kitchen)

Release: 1960 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: G+, Cover: VG+

Record is slightly warped but still enjoyable.
Small light scuff on side B.
Still shrink wrapped but opened.
Cover as new with faintly worn corners.

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13th District EP

Release: 2012 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Medium: VG+, Cover: Near Mint

LP | 1975 | FR | Original (Musidisc)

Los Jairas

Folklore Bolivien

12" | 2007 | UK | Original (Bear Entertainment)

Release: 1975 / FR – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: VG

Cover has slight ring wear.

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Arturo Capone

Svolvaer

3,99 €*

Release: 2007 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Medium: VG, Cover: Generic

LP | 1981 | US | Original (Phoenix 10)

Billie Holiday

Live

4,99 €*

Release: 1981 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG

LP | 1960 | US | Original (Mercury)

Dinah Washington

Unforgettable

4,99 €*

Release: 1960 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG

The Temptations' Christmas Card

The Temptations

LP | 1970 | US | Original (Gordy)

Compared To What / Alternative Version Test Press

Release: 1970 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: G+

Sleeve has water damage and wear.

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Stefanie & Orf Big Band

7" | 2024 | AT | Original (Record Shack)

46,99 €*

Release: 2024 / AT – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Charities Its Your Turn / Strangers 45 Random Colored Vinyl EDition

Charities

7" | 2024 | UK | Original (Hi-Tide)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Tape | 2024 | US | Original (Big Crown)

Dave Guy

Ruby

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Modernist/Our Man In Tokyo

The In Sound

7" | 2024 | WW | Original (Bdq)

Release: 2024 / WW – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | Original (Cleopatra)

Buddy Guy & Junior Wells

Live In Montreux

41,99 €*

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1972 | CA | Original (Tamla Motown)

Stevie Wonder

Talking Book

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Born Bad)

Release: 1972 / CA – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG

Sleeve has small tears.

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Tonn3rr3 & Bikaye

It's A Bomb

22,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Black Sweat)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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For a long time, the music of Congo-born Bony Bikaye had to be sought in the purgatory of "world music", where diamonds in the rough cohabited with bland nightmares of white dudes who froze rumba like fish sticks. Worse, they did put it on the menu, when so many longed to move on. Take Bikaye, who grew up listening to modern european music, digs Krautrock, struggles with tradition, obviously looking for trouble in the genre. In Brussels, he recorded a few albums with CY1 (Loizillon/Micheli), and brilliant defectors from Aksak Maboul, produced by Hector Zazou.Now it's up to french trio TONN3RR3 to take up the torch and build this project that proudly brags: "It's a bomb".Thought up at home by Guillaume Gilles (compo/keyboards), the album was finished at One Two Pass It studio, with Olivier Viadero and Gae"lle Salomon on percussion, Yoann Dubaud (machines & bass) and Guillaume Loizillon (synth of CY1 fame, and matchmaker of this affair). It's a deeply musical record, crafted by no-attitude reference players with nothing left to prove, and you can hear it. Floats well above the fray."Keba na butu", beware. Indeed : beyond the simple pleasures of soukouss, or the rumba guitar riff that spins like a merry-go-round that skipped technical inspection, lie lush orchestrations. Freestyle, synthetic : something old, something new, something what-the- fuck-is-that-now. There's straight, there's syncopated, there's 808 and knee-jerk inducing bass patterns_with a vision. BIKAY3 plays his voice more than ever. His crazy vibrato has improved like hard liquor over the years. In "Zela" and "Balobi" in particular, he puts it to good use with flamboyant, Screamin' Jay Hawkins-style antics. He can also resort to pure storytelling : "La fore^t et les dieux", is a French-spoken excursion into the wild, moving along in grasslands of synths and percussion with TONN3RR3. A tale of gods and spirits, plain and simple. Nicole Mitchell brings the occasional flute in "Akei" for this trip in the bush of ghosts where lingal...

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Giovanni Di Domenico

Superlike

LP | 1981 | EU | Reissue (Black Sweat)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Giovanni Di Domenico has now achieved a personal and unmistakable style within contemporary minimalism. His music always expresses a state of concentration, of recollection and contemplation toward a focal node. Repetition is experienced as alchemical state, as truth contained in the small nuances of change, in a crescendo that never reaches a climax. The atmosphere is intuition and is made up of a few compositional touches. To compose is to make synthesis, to unearth purity, simplicity and exactness. This new work for solo piano is almost an imaginary novel...the notes seem to tell of deserted streets, lonely walks in the night or runs down stairs. In this sense the musician is the writer of silence and the fleeting moment. And so, amid slow chords like Chopin or Satie, moods oscillate between brio and allegro, evoking the lightness of love, greater sadness and melancholy, as well as more restless and agitated ostinatos, the product of a more cathartic worldview.

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Klaus Wiese

Baraka

LP | 1978 | US | Original (Infinity)

Release: 1981 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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After his participation in a masterpiece such as Popol Vuh's Hosianna Mantra, in the early 1980s Klaus Wiese produced a series of seminal works in the field of ambient-drone and healing music. The first of these, Baraka, was released on tape by Acquamarin in 1981, and already contained all the aspects of his future research into the mysticism of sound. Wiese shares the path with other German explorers such as Hamel, Fricke, Micus or Deuter, but he focuses his attention on the most essential nature of sounds, on their acoustic purity, which is always infinite spiral, vortex of frequencies and cosmic bath. It takes only a few means (zither, tampoura, cybals, singing bowls) to reach the absolute through vibration. Like the archaic mood of a great universal harmony, the sound suggests a complete state of otherworldly meditation, an enveloping cloud of peace in the eternity of the present. The musician is only the one who distributes and directs the thickenings of ethereal matter, microtonal agglomerates, cascades of celestial harmonics and emotional floods, petals and stems of devotion.

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Dobie Gray

Midnight Diamond

9,99 €*

1958 Miles Red Vinyl Edition

Release: 1978 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Cover with cut corner

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Miles Davis

LP (Waxtime In Color)

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Be There In The Morning / I Don't Need Nobody Else

Norman Connors

7" | 2016 | UK | Reissue (Expansion)

17,99 €*

Release: 2016 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1965 | EU | Reissue (Gordy)

The Temptations

The Temptin' Temptations

28,99 €*

Release: 1965 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Stand Up Black Vinyl Edition

Nexus

12" | 1983 | EU | Reissue (Mr. Disc)

12,99 €*

Release: 1983 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Pop

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Alive In America Red Vinyl Edition

Freddie King

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Renaissance)

49,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | EU | Reissue (Second)

Sonny Rollins

Saxophone Colossus

Release: EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Shape Of Jazz To Come

Ornette Coleman

LP (Waxtime In Color)

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Glitterbeat)

El Khat

Mute

Baby Rose & BadBadNotGood

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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El Khat"s 3rd album mute belies its title as it careens out of the speakers with a raucous intensity. Formed in the garages and warehouses of Jaffa and now based in Berlin, the group"s ever-expanding vision makes a defiant stand against complacency, conflict and division. Skittering drums and brass, a jagged organ, hypnotic Yemeni melodies and one-of-a-kind DIYpercussion and string instruments, all meld together in an infectious, heady soundscape.Sometimes wildly raw, sometimes lush and enveloping.Always uncompromised and adventurous.

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Slow Burn Clear Smoke Vinyl Edition

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Secretly Canadian)

30,99 €*

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2024 | US | Original (RCA)

Bryson Tiller

37,99 €*

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (NG)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Bryson Tiller

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Nu Guinea

Nuova Napoli

LP | 1994 | EU | Reissue (Karl)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Almost 2 years after the success of the album THE TONY ALLEN EXPERIMENTS and a few months after the release of the 7inch AMORE, Nu Guinea return to the scene with a new LP published by their newborn label NG RECORDS.
After touring the world looking for sounds suitable for their vibrations, NU GUINEA decided to go back to square one, Napoli, where Massimo Di Lena and Lucio Aquilina were born and raised. They watched their city from a distance reconstructing its energy from their studio in Berlin, calibrating the synths on the meridian of Vesuvius, the volcano that has always protected and threatened Napoli.
NUOVA NAPOLI is the result of a long musical research that has become a historical investigation on the sound that shaped Napoli during the ‘70s and ‘80s, starting from the contamination of genres (disco, jazz-funk, African rhythms) which ended up in Nu Guinea’s DNA.
In this album the synthesizers fill the spaces between the past and the future, tightening in a single body acoustic instruments, electronics and voices in Neapolitan dialect. It is the first time that the duo has worked with such a large group of musicians, some of whom are exponents of the contemporary Neapolitan scene.

WARNING: We recommend listening to Nuova Napoli while walking in the alleys of Napoli’s historic center, around wet clothes hanging and street vendors on tiny three-wheelers.

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Painkiller

Execution Ground

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Broc)

Release: 1994 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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When PAINKILLER started in 1991, their first two albums “Guts Of A Virgin” and “Buried Secrets” (both released on extreme metal label Earache) were heavy attacks blending grindcore and free jazz that brought together the musical backgrounds of the three protagonists: drummer MICK HARRIS had just left grindcore legend NAPALM DEATH, JOHN ZORN explored new extremities with his NAKED CITY project while BILL LASWELL had as a member of roaring free jazz quartet LAST EXIT ( PETER BRÖTZMANN / SONNY SHARROCK / RONALD SHANNON JACKSON) proven that he was not only a visionary producer but also an accomplished bassist. But it is their 1994 double album “Execution Ground” that remains the opus magnum of the brilliant trio: ZORN’s unmistakable shrieking saxophone, HARRIS’ pounding drums and LASWELL’s growling sub-bass lines were given heavy mixing desk treatment, resulting in extended tracks that are no less intense than their early works but display the full range of the musicians’ skills. Soaked with reverb and delay, avant-jazz, grindcore, dub and ambient melt into eerie tracks of haunting atmospheres - even more so in the ambient versions of disc 2.
Mastered and cut by RASHAD BECKER at D&M Berlin, “Execution Ground” is now available on vinyl for the very first time as 2x 180gr LP incl. a download code and insert in a limited edition of 500 items.

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Theodor

29,99 €*

Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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THEODOR is a psychedelic sweet soul band formed by members with diverse musical backgrounds.
Whilst on a road trip to Italy Rob and Lui were listening to tapes of contemporary soul music. The idea was born to record an album channeling a moody and relaxed soundscape. „Right after our trip we called up our good friends Max and Greg, who were immediately on board. We wrote and recorded deep in the pandemic. Those weekend sessions captured this peaceful solitude“ The outcome was their self-titled debut album which will be released in February 2023 on the french label Broc Recordz. The rich sonic texture and unconventional arrangements of their very first single SHEPARD’S LULLABY gives a hint on what is to be expected on their forthcoming LP. THEODOR created a perfect soundtrack for a hot and humid summer day having a magic dash in your twelve o’clock tea. Playful melodic bass lines and the soulful acoustic drums build the playground for the warm and dreamy keys such as farfisa organs, fender rhodes and 80's synths. The lush instrumentals are spiced by the very different yet complementary voices of Max and Lui.

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Promises Indie Exclusive 180g Vinyl Edition

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Luaka Bop)

30,99 €*

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Maledetta Discoteca)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sam: Pharoah...
Pharoah: Huh...?
Sam: Were you asleep? I’m sorry...
Pharoah: No no... I was listening... and dreaming... and listening to music
in my head...
Sam: Oh wow... sorry.
Pharoah: Many times, people think I might be asleep... but in fact, I am just
listening to music in my head. I’m always listening... to the sounds around
me... and playing, in my mind... and sometimes I dream.
Sam: What were you dreaming about?
Pharoah: I’m on a ship. In the ocean. Bears coming around smoking cigars.
The bears are singing, ‘We have the music. We have what you’re looking for.’
* * *
Pharoah: How you like that take, Sam?
Sam: It’s cool. I think the bit in the middle, where it stops again...I think
you can hear...We were both kind of confused. I like it as well because it
sounds like two musicians that are trying to guide each other.
Pharoah: I think that’s it right there. It came out different. It came out good
though.
Sam: You happy?
Pharoah: Yeah, I’m cool with it.
Sam: Okay. Yeah, I think your playing is beautiful.

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Baffone

LP | 1999 | EU | Reissue (We Release Jazz)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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During the weekends, we used to drive a 131 "caffellatte" for a trip out of town towards the South. Family adventures from a distant time, the cassettes carefully chosen long before the departure, all around us the scent of the sea and in the background the Vesuvius.

In a kaleidoscope of memories and Mediterranean influences, Baffone recount in their own special way that Golden Age between the 70s and 80s. An era full of dreams, passions, unresolved issues and dizzying grooves. Mixing Napoli Soul, Funk, Disco and songwriting, Baffone gives us a profound investigation of the human soul, performed with an original and authentic language.

A tribute to primordial forces, the sea, the lava earth and the childhood that slips away.

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Ryo Fukui

Ryo Fukui In New York

In The Wee Small Hours Gatefold Sleeve Edition

Release: 1999 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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180g vinyl, half speed mastered, heavy sleeve & OBI Strip. We Release Jazz is so happy to announce the official reissue of Ryo Fukui’s New York sessions with Lisle Atkinson and Leroy Williams, the aptly titled album Ryo Fukui in New York, sourced from the original masters and available on limited edition 180 gram vinyl mastered at half speed for full audiophile sound

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Frank Sinatra

LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Dol)

15,99 €*

Contact Transparent Yellow Vinyl Edtion

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Gatefold 180g Includes Rare Or Exclusive Artwork Inside

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Fancy

LP | 1986 | EU | Reissue (Metro Records Romania)

Ballake Sissoko & Vincent Segal

Release: 1986 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Pop

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"downt" is a three-piece band formed in Tokyo in 2021 by Yui Togashi (Gt/Vo), Takaaki Kawai (Ba) and Tener Ken Robert (Dr). Influenced by kind of post-hardcore and math rock brought to the world by 80-90s American labels such as Dischord Records and Ebullition Records, their delicate yet developed performances with a sense of urgency brought about by complex guitar phrases, and songs are written with an outstanding sense of melody and emotional words which is making the band can stand beyond categorize of music style. The songs are written with superb melodies and emotional language that sets them apart from other artists. Togashi's gently and sharply impassioned vocals also help to express their stance with genre-defying music and spirituality.

The 10" ep, released ahead of the new album, will include the epic '13th Moon', an over 8-minute track that was created to break new ground as a band. This is a song that gives you a sense of strength that gently pushes you back in the uncertain haze of everyday life that seems to go on forever. The song opens with drums and ends with layers and layers of water seeping through.The B-side of the record is etched with artwork showing the delicate sensibilities of the band. Their early work was compiled and released as an LP by Dog Knights Productions in the UK though it's no longer available, so this ep is only the vinyl format of downt's release you can get now!

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Musique De Nuit

LP | 2015 | EU | Original (No Format)

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Edition)

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Malian kora player and French cellist raised dust with 2011’s Chamber Music, which pulled two seemingly incompatible instruments into a startling, neoclassical fusion. Musique de Nuit maintains the momentum. While there is a formal air to pieces such as Prélude and the title track, improvisation is at the heart of the duo’s interplay – Sissoko’s rooftop in Bamako, not the studio, was the venue for half the recording. The lines between cascading kora and stately cello are wonderfully blurred at times, as the pair take turns to supply rhythm and melody, ranging across Malian mbalax on Super Étoile, Brazilian flavours on Samba Tomora and deep tradition on Diabaro, to which Babani Kone contributes wailing griot vocals. Entrancing stuff. - The Guardian.

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Slowly Rolling Camera

Silver Shadow

23,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Monolog Feat. Bill Summers

Watermelon Man

7" | 2024 | UK | Original (Dippin')

Dance Dance Dance 7" Edit Versions Record Store Day 2022 Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Yuki Kanesaka, the multi-instrumentalist/Producer who's been the Mastermind behind his monolog project recordings is back with the delicious uptempo cover of "Watermelon Man". He indulges us with star-studded features of Bill Summers, the percussionist of the Head Hunters and Curtis "Fitz" Williams, the musical director and keyboardist/saxophonist of Kool & the Gang. The backstory is, Yuki traveled all the way to Bill Summer's home studio on Valence Street, New Orleans to record Bill playing a variety of alluring percussive instruments. That includes playing Hindewhu, the style of singing/whistle-playing of Central Africa mixed with a Peruvian Pan flute Zampoña much like the infectious Head Hunters version. Other notable instrumentations include congas, and shekere and Bill's hand scratching used as a human shaker. Curtis Williams plays the lead soprano sax melody we all know and love, with some added clavinet that adds extra sugar to the watermelon funk. B side features a special drum break version called "Bill's Valence Street Jam", so you can really savor the mouthwatering groove of the Watermelon Man. Both tracks are performed, produced, mixed, and recorded by monolog aka Yuki Kanesaka.

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Marta Acuna

7" | 2022 | UK | Original (P&P)

LP | 2021 | UK | Original (Jazzland)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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One of the plus points of being in the reissue business, is that some records are easier to license then to try and find a copy of! Sky's The Limit's incredible "Don't Be Afraid" is a case in point.

Released on the tiny J.M.J. label in 1976, this was essentially a private pressing by the group and was more likely to have been given away at gigs rather than sold through record shops. It's incredibly rare - an original these days is around the £750-£800 mark and that's if you're lucky enough to see one. All for good reason though. "Don't Be Afraid" is a prime slice of vintage Jazz-Funk. The vocal side shows off Sky's The Limit's vocal prowess with gorgeous harmonies over an insistent groove.

However, the big attraction on this double-sider, is the incredibly hypnotic instrumental workout with a fantastic Patrick Adam's like free-form synth making the instrumental almost another song. One of the dreamiest Jazz-Funk instrumentals you'll ever hear. As per usual, this will be a very in-demand release from the word go. This can be played on progressive dancefloors everywhere and will almost certainly appeal to different crowds and audiences.

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Harpreet Bansal Band

Movements

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Real Gone)

Kellee Patterson

Maiden Voyage

24,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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It Looks Like Love / Super Jock

Goody Goody

12" | 2019 | EU | Original (South Street Disco)

15,99 €*

LP | 1968 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Endlessly sampled across the board, for those dreamy guitar licks, killer Rhodes keys and luscious strings, Goody Goody ‘It Looks Like Love / Super Jock’ is a 1978 masterpiece of disco gold. Original copies of the Atlantic Promo 12” sell for upwards of £65 so it’s about time a remastered, officially reissue landed.
Produced by Vince Montana of MFSB and The Salsoul Orchestra fame, ‘It Looks Like Love’ was a Larry Levan / Paradise Garage classic and still commands dancefloors the world over. Flowing flutes, sultry vocals and xylophone twinkles open up proceedings, as those iconic, funk-flavoured staccato guitars and rising strings step up to the plate. Combined they produce a glistening groove that captures the feel-good factor of NYC’s disco apogee.
Delectable disco, fuelled by an undeniable funk that continues to be harnessed, chopped and sampled by some of house music’s biggest players from Nick Holder and Armando, to Tom Trago and Glenn Underground.
On the B side, soul-searching cosmic fluctuations via ‘Super Jock’, with interplanetary vocal refrains stretching out above a full-bodied bass, tight drumming and spacey Rhodes. Montana’s world class arrangement sees bongo-led percussive interludes and dancing keys solos take listeners to a mesmerising galaxy, far far away.
A double dose of that good stuff!

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Miles Davis

Miles In The Sky

28,99 €*

Release: 1968 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Music On Vinyl)

Buddy Guy

Blues Singer

33,99 €*

3LP | 2015 | US | Original (Stones Throw)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Not known for his acoustic work, Buddy Guy unplugs for a rare album-length excursion into folk blues. The guitarist gets down and dirty with 12 tracks that sound like they were recorded after hours in his living room or on his back porch.

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Dam-Funk

Invite The Light

46,99 €*

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Bdq)

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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As always, D_m flexes his multi-instrumentalist talents by handling all the production but still makes time for guests including rapper Q-Tip, the father-son duo of Leon Sylvers III & IV, and funk giant Junie
Morrison of the Ohio Players, who opens and closes the album with
dire warnings of what could happen in a world without funk. Rest
assured, D_m is here to make sure that never comes to pass. As he
puts it, "funk is the underdog, the black sheep of black music," and if
that's true, D_m-Funk is its shepherd.

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Bunndebrettquintet

Six Weeks In June

31,99 €*

Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Third album from BunnDebrettQuintet has taken 18months to complete, It’s a laidback minimal spiritual jazz album with a few moments of madness, continuing on from the first two albums, were getting a lot of very good feedback from the jazz scene and as always the vinyl release will be limited (400 copies only)

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A Night In Tunisia

LP | 1957 | UK | Reissue (Ermitage)

19,99 €*

Release: 1957 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" | 2024 | EU | Original (Albert's Favourites)

Arjuna Oakes

The Love That I Feel

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Culture Factory)

Lou Donaldson

Gravy Train

24,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Zephyrus)

Hijaz

Hijaz + Strings

22,99 €*

Swivel Your Hips Part 1&2 Record Store Day 2023 Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Hijaz is a multicultural sextet that combines Eastern melodies with improvised jazz. Their music is based on the dialogue between oud and piano. ‘Hijaz’ refers to the Arabic musical scale but also holds a clear reference to jazz. More than ten years already, the band is weaving an intriguing web of Mediterranean warmth, polyrhythmic structures and musical virtuosity. In a tight formation of fore core musicians, Hijaz captures the magic of the moment during their concerts. For this album the band aligned with a cello and two violins and arranged for strings by bass player Ben Faes.

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The Gaturs

7" | 1972 | UK | Reissue (Gatur)

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Muzikawi)

Release: 1972 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This masterful slab of Louisiana loveliness from Willie Tee’s band The Gaturs, gets a much called for reissue. By far the rarest of the Gaturs’ releases, the only copy for sale on Discogs would set you back the princely sum of £2500. A fiery funk workout from the New Orlean’s band, exquisitely tight, unquestionably absorbing – they don’t get much better than this. Green label version original black sleeve.

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Dawit Yifru

26,99 €* 29,99 € -10%

Sheikhs Shikhats & B'net Chaabi

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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"Ethiopia’s music company Muzikawi, will on 30 March reissue the self-titled solo instrumental album of Ethio-jazz composer Dawit Yifru, which offers an exceptional occasion to rediscover one of the most important eras in Ethiopia’s music history. The 11 track album features a compilation of songs that were restored and remastered from cassettes released throughout the 1970s. With Ethiopian Chickchika music, Twist, Congolese Rumba, and Waltz music styles converging, the songs reflect the dynamic musical crossroads that were present at the time in the Horn of Africa country. However, it is the inclusion of the violin instrument, which was uncommon at the time, that presents Dawit Yifru as a visionary composer amongst his mates at the time. “These elements have come together to create Ethio-jazz music at its most bold, spiritual and syncretic,” Muzikawi founder Teshome Wondimu said. “With this compilation, Dawit Yifru offers a bright window into the past of Ethiopia’s music scene which is so rich, deep and sophisticated, with a gentle, beautiful story to tell – and we see ourselves as the messengers who are bringing the world this story and sound.” This compilation is the first release of the Muzikawi’s Archive & Research project, which seeks to re-record and re-issue some of Ethiopia’s most celebrated music that never made it outside the country and in the process bring fame and recognition to musicians whose music was never available on the international market. “ Every country has its stars, its loved singers, but there are of course titans of their era and Dawit Yifru is one of the few, ” Wondimu said. “ The reason many will be experiencing his works for the first time is because in the 1970s, the Ethiopian music ‘industry’ thrived only at the capital Addis Ababa with little recording infrastructure in comparison to its neighbours like Kenya and Uganda, where cult record labels and producers captured the countries’ sound and made the recordings available internationally and for the masses.” “Therefore, our Archive & Research project is a guaranteed way to keep these great works of music alive and circulating. Overall, this compilation is an absolutely brilliant and must own recording from one of the most original sounding Ethiopian composers you’ll ever hear. Hopefully this release will open the door for the world to discover more incredible music and culture from Ethiopia.” Dawit Yifru remains a household name in Ethiopia due to his commitment to collaborating with a diverse range of musicians and sharing his musical skills not just to his peers but also with the new generation of musicians. Dawit Yifru will be available on all digital platforms and for purchase on vinyl. "

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Zephyrus)

23,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" | 2022 | EU | Original (Eraserhood Sound)

Fantasy 15

Galaxy Oasis/ Julieta

Ilusion De Amor / The Sparkle In Your Eyes

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Eraserhood Sound's intergalactic house band Fantasy 15 delivers yet another masterful slice of futuristic synth-funk, this time in the form of the Galaxy Oasis / Julieta 7". Both tracks are from the Planet IX EP, a dazzling collection of songs which touches on soul, funk, boogie, hip hop, and New Wave. "Galaxy Oasis" is the group's first single with a proper lead vocal, provided by a local from the group's native planet Zoltandia. Its infectious groove and soaring melodies will be sure to keep dance floors packed for millennia to come. Listen close to the vocals, and you will hear a contemplative lyric about what it means to be human and experience true ecstasy in an increasingly cold, digital universe. Flipside "Julieta" is perfect for after the club, with its brooding drums, menacing guitar, and cinematic flutes.

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Jensine Benitez

7" | 2022 | US | Original (Penrose)

10,99 €*

Nine Lives Translucent Orange Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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It is our distinct pleasure to announce the debut solo effort from Thee Sacred Souls' own Jensine Benitez. Anyone who has had the privilege to catch Thee Sacred Souls live is already well familiar with Jensine. On a nightly basis, when she gracefully steps into the spotlight for one of her solos, her mellifluous voice and commanding stage presence sends the crowd into a frenzy of adoration and unadulterated joy. With this single she enriches that charm with honeyed melodies set to floaty rhythms that are sure to have you bobbing your head with the windows rolled down. "Ilusión de Amor" is a lilting lament sung en español about a forlorn lover whose deep, brooding sadness has left them yearning well beyond any hope of reconciliation. On the flip is "The Spar kle in Your Eyes," a vibey, mid-t empo mover that will have couples crowding dance-floors for decades to come. A stunning two-sider that epitomizes the kind of soul music we dig. Snatch this one up quick, or tears may fall..

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Kendra Morris

LP | 2022 | US | Reissue (Karma Chief)

Takayanagi Masayuki New Direction For The Art

Release: 2022 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Kendra Morris's Nine Lives, to be released on Karma Chief Records (a division of Colemine Records) in early 2022, marks not only the culmination of the decade since the release of her first LP Banshee, but also a turning point in Kendra's life. Nine Lives heralds the beginning of a new chapter; label, and an evolution to the next level of adulthood. This collection of her original songs encapsulates moments from what could be nine lifetimes. Kendra, while very much a New Yorker and veteran of almost 2 decades on the NYC scene, hails from Florida and aesthetically embodies the broader sense of American culture, bringing to her contemporary sound influences found in music and cinema dating back to the mid 20th century. Her music conjures imagery evocative of road trips to weird and wonderful places. Concurrently a visual artist, filmmaker and animator, Kendra harnesses the feline nine lives metaphor repeatedly. In the context of the chapters of her musical trajectory alone, we see at least 9 lives. From discovering multi-tracking on a karaoke machine as a child, to playing in bands in Florida, moving to NYC and creating music alone on an 8 track, releasing her first 2 LPs on Wax Poetics, releasing her 2016 EP Babble and collaborating with DJ Premier, 9th Wonder, MF Doom, Czarface, Ghostface Killah, Dennis Coffey, and David Sitek, to name a few. The life of this multi-disciplinarian artist contains units of time and story lines through which we can all relate to universal themes of love, loss and overcoming one's fears. Kendra, never ceasing to heed her spiritual calling to continue creating music and art, no matter what, has no plans of slowing down but a belief in only evolving, eager to begin experiencing her next nine lives.

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La Grima

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Aguirre)

LP | 1958 | EU | Reissue (20th Century Masterworks)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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On vinyl for th efirst time. Famed free jazz concert registration of an early New Direction for the Art performance. Recorded in 1971. Old-style Gatefold LP, with rare photographs & extensive liner notes by Alan Cummings.

The performance by Takayanagi Masayuki New Direction for the Art at the Gen’yasai festival on August 14, 1971 was an intense, bruising collision between the radical, anti-establishment politics of the period in Japan and the febrile avant-garde music that had begun to emerge a few years before. The ferocious performance that you can hear here was received with outright hostility by the audience, who responded first with catcalls and later with showers of debris that were hurled at the performers. Takayanagi though described the group’s performance to jazz magazine Swing Journal as a success, “an authentic and realistic depiction of the situation”.

In 1962, Takayanagi, bassist Kanai Hideto and painter Kageyama Isamu went on to form an AACM-style musicians’ collective called the New Century Music Research Institute. Every Friday, members gathered at Gin-Paris, a chanson bar in the fashionable Ginza district of Tokyo, to push the outer limits of jazz creativity.

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Frank Sinatra

Come Fly With Me

Release: 1958 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Batov)

Ayala

Views

21,59 €* 23,99 € -10%

LP | 2022 | CA | Original (Telephone Explosion)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Batov Records presents a full-length foray into the musical world of Italian producer and multi-instrumentalist Ayala, with particular emphasis on his love of African music, from Afrobeat to disco. Whilst earning the support of leading DJs such as Colleen Cosmo Murphy, Dave Lee, Danny Tenaglia, J-Kriv, and DJ Rocco, Ayala has built an increasingly visible profile producing and DJ, with releases across a wide range of prolific labels, such as Compost, Hector Romero's Latin freestyle label, Orianna, and leading Italian label, Rebirth, early supporters of the likes of Tensnake, Motor City DrumEnsemble, Soul Clap, Jimmy Edgar, and Deetron.

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Fresh Pepper

33,99 €*

Release: 2022 / CA – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Beyond whatever mood is likely struggling to be sculpted by the house playlist, restaurants are full of their own natural music. Porcelain and cutlery clatter in bus bins like little medieval battlefields; the chatter of patrons smears into a single stormy texture; the kitchen staff hollers and chides as their own chosen music competes for the ear of anyone walking to the restroom; the churning and hissing of the dish steamer leads the assemblage of sounds that leak out from the back of house to and cling to a diner’s subconscious. The fact that restaurants employ so many hustling musicians, whose entire lives are centered around sonic sensitivity and awareness, is either grand irony or total synergy. Toronto outfit Fresh Pepper, led by longtime friends Andre Ethier and Joseph Shabason, playfully navigates the mental and emotional mark left on many musicians by such places. Their self-titled debut is less concerned with their service-industry traumas, doldrums, and setbacks than it is with creating a relatable space for album’s contributors to fully be themselves within the ease and freedom of having similar histories. Shabason, Ethier, and company recount their culinary past lives across eight jazzy and benevolent tracks that exude their authors’ sheer enjoyment of the creation process. Though the mental image of restaurant inner workings might trigger a mix of urgency, weariness, and yearning for a better livelihood, Fresh Pepper recolors these frazzled scenes with fondness and levity, exorcizing past workplace woes through skillful musicianship and an earnest, slightly bizarre sense of humor.

Fresh Pepper was played and assembled in-person during a gap between Covid waves, and the gleeful rarity of the occasion is palpable. Whatever brooding was stereotypical of artists and musicians pre-pandemic was not invited to this reunion. From the very beginning moments of Fresh Pepper, Shabason and Ethier guide their companions (a sort of super group of Toronto musicians from acts like Bernice, Beverly Glenn Copeland, and even Destroyer’s Dan Bejar himself) with breathy, hushed tones via saxophone and vocals respectively, casually traversing their own annexed corridor between smooth jazz, exploratory avant-indie, and subverted adult-contemporary. Mid-performance apologies are left unmuted in the mix, room-tones are evident in spacious moments, and the spirit of close collaboration is omnipresent. After a mini-parade of loose and glassy keys, the pensive funk highlight “Prep Cook in the Weeds” intros with the kind of furrowed-brow noir-smoothness of some yesteryear crime drama, buoyed by Ethier’s gently insightful musings. “Another fly lands on the clock,” he sings in a hushed tone through a half-smile, pointing wryly toward the relationship between wage-workers and timekeeping devices. “Flies on the hands of time,” he continues, resigning his sense of control, “the flies take the wheel.” Ethier’s slice-of-life lyricism and serene baritone delivery find a fitting counterpart in Dan Bejar who appears on “Seahorse Tranquilizer”. Where featured vocalists-- especially those as iconic as Bejar-- would threaten to out-charisma an album’s resident personalities, Ethier and Bejar heighten the charm of each other’s demeanor in a natural and relaxed way, leading to one of the gentlest moments of an already gentle affair.

Conversely, the track “Dishpit” is noticeably the most abstract chapter of the album, reminiscent of the factory-like, thankless, yet oddly contemplative corner of the kitchen after which it is named. The track begins with a toyish, motorik pulse that imparts the fraught motivation of a full sink during lunch rush with still more dishes on the way. Shabason’s saxophone spins in the mist and steam, disoriented but determined, rallying an equally bewildered percussionist behind it. On much of the album, Shabason’s playing assumes more practical form in contrast to the ambient impressionism of his solo output, but here his atonal fourth-world fingerprints are easily visible. Following all this, “Congee Around Me” again finds warmth in the chaos, imparting the same sense of peace within the jumble that characterizes Fresh Pepper. “Mushrooms in the frying pan,” opens Ethier, summarizing the album’s pathos, “throw another in, I’ll see you when I see you.” Album ender “The Worm” - fatigued and victorious, fluttery and decayed, sounds like a memory-rich bygone era that never really existed. Was that 1990-something? Did it really happen that way? Did the sunlight really look like it does through a camcorder, or has sunlight always been the same as it is now? Does it really matter if I couldn’t see it from the kitchen anyway?

It could be argued that the best art frames its subjects without any commentary, leaving as much room for the viewer to fill with their own experiences, shortcomings, and longings as possible. Fresh Pepper provides this kind of framing around a scenario so taken-for-granted that it becomes mythic under the slightest examination. In this sense, like so many projects that Shabason puts his sonic stamp on, Fresh Pepper conjures an unexpected slice of enlightenment from somewhat unnoticed circumstances. True to form, Fresh Pepper assures us not just that we are going to be okay, but that we are okay right here and now, overtired as we are amid the stainless steel, heat lamps, and spattering oil.

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Spider John Koerner

Nobody Knows The Trouble

LP (Red House)

20,99 €*

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Johnny Griffin

The Man I Love

LP | Reissue (ORG Music)

35,99 €*

Release: Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Voyage: A Journey Into Discoid Funk Record Store Day 2022 Blue & Black Swirl Vinyl Edition

Brian Bennett

LP | 1978 | US | Reissue (Real Gone Music)

31,99 €*

Solis Lacus A Special Radio TV Record - No15

Release: 1978 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Limited to 2800 copies.

Brian Bennett is one of instrumental music's true cult figures. Drummer for Cliff Richard & The Shadows, Bennett also is the composer of some of the most collectible production music albums ever made, and for over 40 years has been a sought-after composer for TV and film. But of all his projects, his 1978 release "Voyage (A Journey into Discoid Funk)" is probably his most beloved, a truly pioneering "space disco" recording inspired by Brian Eno but wielding a groove all its own. Despite its absolutely eye-popping Discogs stats, our release marks its first vinyl reissue outside of Australia, and its first-ever release on colored vinyl (blue with black swirl), complete with original gatefold jacket art.

Side ONE 1. Voyage 2. Solstice 3. Chain Reaction Side TWO 1. Pendulum Force 2. Air Quake 3. Ocean Glide

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Solis Lacus

LP | 1974 | EU | Reissue (Sdban)

23,99 €*

12" | 2022 | EU | Original (Giorgio)

Release: 1974 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Reissue of the Belgian milestone jazz album originally released in 1975.This is groundbreaking, experimental and funky jazz fusion!

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Mya & The Mirror

Hesitation

17,99 €*