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Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sequence are from san Diego, California a reel to reel tape of ten songs were placed up for auction by Carolina Soul, included on the tape were 5 previously unreleased songs and 5 songs that were included on ‘Mix Faze,’ with 3 of the songs being slightly different versions. We decided that we would enter into the bidding because we liked the songs and thought that they deserved a wider platform. We also believed that we could locate Ron and hopefully do a deal if successful. Amazingly we won the auction and the tape was heading to the UK. A friend called Anders Beraha, who was originally from San Diego before moving to his current home in Copenhagen, had recently spent some time with Ron. An introduction was made to Ron and we chatted about releasing the songs in partnership. Ron was thankfully in agreement to this plan and a contract was signed. Two of the recordings had featured on the High Jazz release so we had to wait until that contract had finished before we could release this album. In agreement with Ron we decided upon ‘Visions Of My Love’ as name of the album, which we felt was the strongest of the unreleased songs. The album was recorded in October 1976 at Studio West in San Diego and is thought to pre-date the later recordings on ‘Mix Faze.’ Cordial Recordings hope that you enjoy this album as much as we do.

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Dap Dippin' Remastered Edition

LP | 2022 | US | Reissue (Daptone)

Release: 2022 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Don't Wanna Lose You / Don't Give A Friend A...

7" | 2024 | US | Original (Daptone)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings

Give The People What They Want

LP | 2014 | US | Original (Daptone)

21,99 €*

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings

Release: 2014 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: Near Mint

Close to NM.

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Give The People What They Want

CD | 2014 | EU | Original (Daptone)

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Release: 2014 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings

Just Dropped In

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Daptone)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2016 | US | Original (Daptone)

OST Miss Sharon Jones!

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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

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CD | 2017 | US | Original (Daptone)

Soul Of A Woman

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Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings' final studio album, Soul of a Woman is a lush, orchestral masterpiece. A true testament to the life and career of Daptone's fearless leader and one of the world's greatest performers.

Though we’ll never again see her electric form shimmy across the stage, Sharon Jones continues to give us her soul and her music. She died nearly a year ago, but only now can we hear her final creation. Soul of a Woman captures a singer and a band at the peak of their power. Cutting one last time to eight-track tape at Daptone’s House of Soul studio in Bushwick, Brooklyn, the band endeavored to create a record that stretches the limits of their soulful sound in all directions, giving us both their rawest and most sophisticated recordings to date. A final statement by one of the most influential rhythm and blues voices of the 21st century.

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Soul Of A Woman Black Vinyl Edition

LP | 2017 | US | Original (Daptone)

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2011 | US | Reissue (Daptone)

Soul Time!

Release: 2011 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Reaching For Our Star / Run Between The Raindrops Blck Vinyl Edtion

Sharon Revoal

Reaching For Our Star / Run Between The Raindrops Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Reaching For Our Star b/w Run Between The Raindrops (While My Teardrops Fall).A trio of Kansas City soul sweepers, fromthe sprawling mid west burg's storied Cavern,Damon, and Forte concerns. Bumpand the Soul Stompers' 1970 sweet souldouble sider "I C an Remember" was atail pipe-dragging, low rider classic in themaking, had it ever been released. A fewyears later Jerald "Bump" Scott took hisnew group to Cavern's subterrane an confinesto cut the group harmony masterpiece"Living In The Past," but remainedunissued prior to Numero's discovery ofthe Cavern tapes. As disco was cresting atthe top of the next decade, Sharon Revoaltracked her James Brown meets JamesBond stepper "Reaching For Our Star"_the last 45 released on Marva Whitney'speerless Fortelabel.

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Sharon Revoal

LP | 1989 | EU | Reissue (Invisible City Editions)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Reaching For Our Star b/w Run Between The Raindrops (While My Teardrops Fall). Semi Opaque Natural VINYL.A trio of Kansas City soul sweepers, fromthe sprawling mid west burg's storied Cavern,Damon, and Forte concerns. Bumpand the Soul Stompers' 1970 sweet souldouble sider "I C an Remember" was atail pipe-dragging, low rider classic in themaking, had it ever been released. A fewyears later Jerald "Bump" Scott took hisnew group to Cavern's subterrane an confinesto cut the group harmony masterpiece"Living In The Past," but remainedunissued prior to Numero's discovery ofthe Cavern tapes. As disco was cresting atthe top of the next decade, Sharon Revoaltracked her James Brown meets JamesBond stepper "Reaching For Our Star"_the last 45 released on Marva Whitney'speerless Fortelabel.

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Shawn Pittman

Dreams

19,99 €*

LP | 1989 | EU | Reissue (Invisible City Editions)

Release: 1989 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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mited Pressing.

Invisible City Editions returns with an official repress of a fantastic double-sided private press rarity from 1989 Detroit. Featuring two legendary Inner City alumni Producer/keyboardist Engineer Art Forest and Inner City background vocalist dancer/singer Shawn Pittman. On the A side a lush slow modern soul slow burner “Dreams'' features a deep,spatial throbbing bass line with glistening synths floating underneath cool angelic hypnotic vocals by Ms Pittman.” 'Dreams are only Dreams till you make it real' chants Shawn Pittman and we’re lead down a dazzling maze of mirrors. With “I'm Losing Control (Extended Bass-ment Club Mix)” on the flipside a wild late night warehouse dub remix features sci-fi vocal effects,fostex tape loops and ultra-heavy bass and driving drum machines. Minimal lush soul perfect for early mornings and the post-club world and a wild sci-fi house winner for late night club sessions. An IC fave! Remastered by Brandenberg/The Carvery (Note: we’ve also removed the drum machine going out of sync that was on the original press) Official Repress via Art Forest and his label Wildboy.Essential stuff!

Art Forest is an Electronic Engineer and production wizard from Detroit Michigan. He originally recorded 2 of Inner CItys’ Biggest Hits “Good Life” and “Big Fun” and continues to record to this day. Art Forest still finds and repairs equipment to add to his studio today. He also recorded for Paula Abdul “Straight Up” and Madonnas’ “Justify My Love” Shawn Pittman was a singer and dancer from Detroit who was a good friend of Inner City vocalist Paris Grey. Shawn Pittman sang backing vocals and harmonies on “Good Life” and “Big Fun”.

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Shawn Pittman

Dreams

7" | 1979 | EU | Reissue (Rain&Shine)

Release: 1989 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

Limited Pressing.

Invisible City Editions returns with an official repress of a fantastic double-sided private press rarity from 1989 Detroit. Featuring two legendary Inner City alumni Producer/keyboardist Engineer Art Forest and Inner City background vocalist dancer/singer Shawn Pittman. On the A side a lush slow modern soul slow burner “Dreams'' features a deep,spatial throbbing bass line with glistening synths floating underneath cool angelic hypnotic vocals by Ms Pittman.” 'Dreams are only Dreams till you make it real' chants Shawn Pittman and we’re lead down a dazzling maze of mirrors. With “I'm Losing Control (Extended Bass-ment Club Mix)” on the flipside a wild late night warehouse dub remix features sci-fi vocal effects,fostex tape loops and ultra-heavy bass and driving drum machines. Minimal lush soul perfect for early mornings and the post-club world and a wild sci-fi house winner for late night club sessions. An IC fave! Remastered by Brandenberg/The Carvery (Note: we’ve also removed the drum machine going out of sync that was on the original press) Official Repress via Art Forest and his label Wildboy.Essential stuff!

Art Forest is an Electronic Engineer and production wizard from Detroit Michigan. He originally recorded 2 of Inner CItys’ Biggest Hits “Good Life” and “Big Fun” and continues to record to this day. Art Forest still finds and repairs equipment to add to his studio today. He also recorded for Paula Abdul “Straight Up” and Madonnas’ “Justify My Love” Shawn Pittman was a singer and dancer from Detroit who was a good friend of Inner City vocalist Paris Grey. Shawn Pittman sang backing vocals and harmonies on “Good Life” and “Big Fun”.

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Shirley Finney

Pray Again

Pray Again Record Store Day 2019 Edition

Release: 1979 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Rain&Shine present in 45 format ‘Pray Again’ and ‘Give Your Best To The Master’ two certified dancefloor cuts from Shirley Finney’s 1979 LP. Officially licensed and re-mastered from Savoy reel-to-reel tapes. Shirley Finney is personally involved in this project, and is overjoyed to see her music hot in demand almost 40 years after the original recording. Limited.

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Shirley Finney

LP | 1979 | EU | Reissue (Rain&Shine)

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LP | 2017 | US | Reissue (Lewis)

Release: 1979 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Limited Edition for Record Store Day 2019! Rain&Shine present Shirley Finney’s first LP outing from 1979. Officially licensed and re-mastered from Savoy reel-to-reel tapes. Undeniably one of the best 12” LPs for gospel/soul/disco instrumentation, vocal arrangement and pure vibes, whether for the bedroom or the dancefloor. Shirley Finney is personally involved in this project, and is overjoyed to see her LP hot in demand almost 40 years after the original recording.

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Skinshape

Life & Love

Skip Mahoaney & The Casuals

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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Your Funny Moods Purdie Green Smoke Vinyl Edition

LP | 1974 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

7" | 2024 | UK | Original (Mr Bongo)

Release: 1974 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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As the empowerment of the '60s gave way to the societal bankruptcy of the '70s, a turned-on black music emerged to soundtrack the agony of america at a crossroads. Tracked at DB Sound in silver spring, maryland by producer R. Jose Williams, your funny moods is built around the rhythms and keys of drumming wiz James Purdie. Remastered here from the original analog tapes, this 50th anniversary edition is peak group harmony soul from the chocolate city.

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Soyuz

If You Ask / Tenorio

15,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Rhythm Section International)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Proudly presenting, ‘Калі ты запытаеш (If You Ask)’, a brand new, blissed-out pop production with a ‘70s AOR touch, by the ever-on-point Soyuz (союз). Coming at a period between albums, the single features guest appearances from the sensational musicians, Biel Basile (O Terno, Sessa) and Anthony Ferraro (Toro Y Moi, Astronauts, Etc.). Friends of the band, they add their signature touch on the drums and synth respectively. To complete the package, Soyuz back the title track with a short but sweet, Wurlitzer-laden, MPB-tinged number, ‘Tenório’.

‘Калі ты запытаеш (If You Ask)’ tells the story of lost dreams. A track that can be interpreted either as a bittersweet longing for childhood times, or for a native place you can’t return to. For the writer Alex Chumak he suggests, "In my case, as in the case of many Belarusians, it’s both".

For this song, Alex chose to sing in his native Belarusian tongue. As he explains this language "to me feels underrepresented in pop music, also it’s a beautiful legacy and sonority that I wanted to share with the listeners of our project around the world". One of the key inspirations was a Belarusian band “Песняры” (“Pesniary”), who produced a host of great progressive folk, jazz fusion and AOR, from the ‘70s to the ‘90s, predominantly sung in Belarusian.

Another key influence was the music coming out of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais in the ‘70s, drawing inspiration from the sentimental and harmonious music of Beto Guedes, Lô Borges, Fernando Oly and Wagner Tiso.

Having parted ways with their drummer Anton, Soyuz needed to find a new way to produce songs. The answer was to go remotely. Alex contacted the brilliant Biel Basile, who had recorded Sessa's contemporary classic ‘Estrela Acesa’, in which Alex also participated. Utilising Biel and Sessa’s newly built studio in São Paulo, Soyuz had Biel record the drums directly to tape to get the rich sound they were after. Adding the final magic into the mix, California’s Anthony Ferraro provided a beautiful Solina String Ensemble synth arrangement, with drummer/recording engineer Albert Karch expertly assisting with the production.

To capture the essence of the single visually, Alex and the Brazilian one-man-industry visual artist Gabriel Rolim, spent a blazing sunny May day in Berlin shooting film and stills – one of which became the perfect cover image. We hope you enjoy this little nugget of Soyuz mastery, a sweet taster to savour while the new album is recorded.

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Special Feelings

7" | 2019 | EU | Original (AOE)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Perth-born, Naarm-based duo Special Feelings,aka Naomi Robinson and Poli-Pearl, are steppingup on Bradley ZeroâÇÖs Rhythm Section label withtheir first long player: Across its 9-tracks, Special Feelingscombines the electrically improvisational feel oflive performances, with snappy broken beat-esquepercussions and house-inspired looping synthhooks. Tapping into the infectious collaborativespirit of NaarmâÇÖs jazz community, Special Feelingsare joined by a crew of the cityâÇÖs rising artists.

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Spider Harrison

Beautiful Day

LP | 1978 | EU | Reissue (La Matta)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Spider Harrison was Indianapolis's first call soul DJ in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He broke local tunes like The Highlighters' "Poppin' Popcorn" on soul-friendly WTLC's clean FM frequency, MC'ed functions with the backing of local funk hopefuls, wrote liner notes for everyone from Billy Wooten to Little Royal and offered business advice to musicians such as The Highlighters/Rhythm Machine bassist James Boone.
Around the turn of 1970, Harrison returned to an old pastime – singing. The Highlighters' manager - and owner of newly formed Lulu records – Jerry Herman approached the jock to record a single. Harrison hastily accepted. Backed by loyal friend Boone and the in-transition Highlighters' rhythm section, Harrison donned a yellow raincoat, got tipsy on Thunderbird and went for broke. The result catches Charles Wright's "Express Yourself" at its funkiest moment, and has earned the jock deserved placement in the deep funk canon.
Not only do we have the original version of Spider Harrison's Beautiful Day but on the flip we have cut a drum track of the record found on one of his tapes. 500 copies only, no repress.

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Stani Labonia

Amarsi

LP | 1982 | EU | Reissue (Rain&Shine)

Release: 1978 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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La Matta Records proudly presents the First Official Reissue of the unique LP made by Stani Labonia, an Italian Soul-Funk masterpiece originally released in 1978 on Vincenzo Micocci's It/RCA label. This rare album recorded in Naples, finally comes out after more than 40 years, carefully restored from the original tape. Among the talented musicians who worked in the recording of this album we can find names as Jenny Sorrenti of “Saint Just”, Gaio Chiocchio founding member of “Pierrot Lunaire”, Enzo Avitabile and Gianni Guarracino, former “Città Frontale” but most importantly this LP boasts the courtesy arrangement of Pino Daniele in: La Prossima Donna. Labonia, whose real name is Stanislao Smiraglia, is from Bolzano but lived most of his life in Naples, collaborating with the main musicians of that city. He cou ld be compared with the best of the Italian scene, with strong funk and Latin influences. So this is a rare italian gem to anyone interested in Latin Jazz-Funk & Soul. Fully remastered and available as LP and in all digital stores.

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Steve Elliott

Completion Of A Miracle

19,99 €*

Movin' In The Right Direction

Release: 1982 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Rain&Shine continue the love for Steve Elliott’s self-produced music by giving his second LP ‘Completion Of A Miracle’ (1982) another lease of life.
Remastered from the original reel-to-reel tapes. Includes dancefloor cut ‘Wake Up’. Another essential release from Rain&Shine, set to become a future collector’s item.

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Steve Parks

LP | 1981 | EU | Reissue (Luv N' Haight)

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LP | 2024 | Original (Legere)

Release: 1981 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Originally released by Solid Smoke Records in 1981, and becoming a rare groove staple and classic in the '90s and early 2000's. This is the first proper reissue of the highly sought after album on 180gm vinyl and housed in a heavyweight tip-on jacket. Featuring the title track "Movin' In the Right Direction" along with "Sadness In My Samba".

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Super Db

Downtown Limited Edition

23,99 €*

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Freaky With You / Welcome To My World

Superior Elevation

12" | 2020 | EU | Original (Family Groove)

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T.P. Orchestre - Poly Rythmo De Cotonou

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Previously Unreleased material recorded in 1979 at Allen Toussaint's legendary Sea-Saint Recording Studio in New Orleans, LA.

Freaky With You is a Six-and-a-half minute Psychedelic Disco Funk excursion taking you on a wild mojo trip with a four on the floor backbeat and extended conga breakdown peppered with some New Orleans Voodoo that reaches for the Bondye Celestial Heavens.

On the B-Side, Welcome To My World is a Modern Soul Steppers masterpiece. A version was also recorded by Joe Chopper for the Lanor Records label.

James Dumaine remembers the studio session well. After having oral surgery that morning, a grotesque, theatre of the absurd incident followed causing him to bleed onto the microphone as he was singing. That combined with the miscommunication with the audio engineer to watch the volume levels on his new synthesizer: The Engineer decided not to take heed to the warning… Half way into the recording all the band could see from the other side of the glass were heads frantically rushing to the mixing board. The synthesizer levels had caused the monitors in the control room to blow up. Superior Elevation wasn't invited back to record at Sea-Saint. 40 years later, with all that chaos, hoodoo and gris-gris enveloped into the magnetic tape, it magically survived the catastrophic 2005 floods during Hurricane Katrina and ended up in the hands of Mike Nishita along with many other Reel to Reel Tapes of Allen Toussaints' masters of The Meters albums he produced and recorded. It's available now, preserved with Family Groove Records.

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Segla

LP | 2020 | UK | Original (Acid Jazz)

28,99 €*

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo

Echos Hypnotiques

2LP | 2009 | DE | Original (Analog Africa)

59,99 €*

12" | 2022 | EU | Original (Melodies International)

Release: 2009 / DE – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

Still in shrink, but opened, with hype sticker

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Tata Vega & Al Johnson

I've Got My Second Wind

20,99 €*

Tape | 2024 | JP | Original (Rallye / Space Shower Music)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Melodies International are glad to be back, starting off 2022 with their new reissue 12" comprising two big big club soul/disco classic versions of "I've Got My Second Wind". Out late March/early April, vinyl only!

Lead singer Al Johnson and Tom Fauntleroy, two US soul & R&B greats who founded their first band at University in Washington D.C. originally wrote and released the song on Johnson's first solo independent album "Peaceful" in 1978. They'd later go on to rerecord the track for Johnson's follow up album on major label CBS "Back For More" which introduced the song to a wider audience and is the version featured here on this 12"

Tata Vega, American singer from New York would go on to cover the track that same year. Starting her career in the 60s featuring in musicals and performing with various groups, she got signed to Motown by Berry Gordy on the spot who was in the audience at a concert one of Vega's groups was performing at. Tata Vega's version of "I've Got My Second Wind", in duet with soul singer George Curtis Cameron was originally released on her fourth solo album on Motown, "Givin' All My Love". Reissued and now available on loud 12" for the first time!

Remastered from the tapes by the great Matt Colton, pressed in Italy at Mother Tongue, comes in printed inner and outer sleeves, out late March / early April, play loud!

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Tendre

In Sight

18,99 €*

LP | 2024 | JP | Original (Rallye / Space Shower Music)

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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TENDRE’s 2019 release “IN Sight” and 2020 release “life Less Lonely” will be released on cassette tape on October 26th. The 2019 EP IN Sight, featuring six tracks including “SIGN.”

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Tendre

Life Less Lonely

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The Bad Things / Just A Mistake

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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TENDRE’s 2019 release “IN Sight” and 2020 release “life Less Lonely” will be released on cassette tape on October 26th. The 2020 full-length second album Life Less Lonely includes 10 tracks such as “life,” “HOPE,” and “JOKE.”

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The Barrino Brothers

7" | 2022 | UK | Original (TCB)

LP | 1975 | EU | Reissue (Matsuli Music)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Detroit’s four Barrino Brothers first recorded for Dave Hamilton on his TCB label in 1969. The single went largely unnoticed until all things Dave Hamilton-related became of interest in the 90s and onwards. The record only sold locally but the belated interest from funk fans in ‘Just A Mistake’ has pushed the price to around the $1,000 mark for a mint copy. We’ve reproduced the label, with a subtle colour switch, and put the tape find of ‘The Bad Things (You Said To Me)’ on the A-side. That is a standout dance track that has been issued before as a now-deleted Kent 45 that looks great on the label Dave Hamilton had originally planned to release it on.

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The Beaters

Harari

28,99 €*

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Selected Works)

Release: 1975 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Excellent reissue of this amazing LP by the South African super group. Check the tunes ''Harari'' and 'Thiba Kamoo'', super groovy arrangements and tight cohesion between Alec Khaoli on bass guitar and Sipho Mabuse on drums, laced with the soaring vocals and guitar play by Selby Ntuli. Tip! The Beaters – Harari was released in 1975. After changing their name, Harari went into the studio late in 1976 to record their follow-up, Rufaro / Happiness. In 1976 they were voted South Africa’s top instrumental group and were in high demand at concert venues across the country. Comprising former schoolmates guitarist and singer Selby Ntuli, bassist Alec Khaoli, lead guitarist Monty Ndimande and drummer Sipho Mabuse, the group had come a long way from playing American-styled instrumental soul in the late sixties to delivering two Afro-rock masterpieces. Before these two albums the Beaters had been disciples of ‘Soweto Soul’ – an explosion of township bands drawing on American soul and inspired by the assertive image of Stax and Motown’s Black artists. The Beaters supported Percy Sledge on his 1970 South African tour (and later Timmy Thomas, Brook Benton and Wilson Pickett). But their watershed moment was their three month tour of Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) where they were inspired by the strengthening independence struggle and musicians such as Thomas Mapfumo who were turning to African influences. On their return, the neat Nehru jackets that had been the band’s earliest stage wear were replaced by dashikis and Afros. “In Harari we rediscovered our African-ness, the infectious rhythms and music of the continent. We came back home inspired! We were overhauling ourselves into dashiki-clad musicians who were Black Power saluting and so on.” Sipho Hotstix Mabuse, talking of the band’s time spent on tour in the (then) Rhodesian township from where they took their name. As well as expressing confident African politics, Alec Khaoli recalled, they pioneered by demonstrating that such messages could also be carried by “...happy music. During apartheid times we made people laugh and dance when things weren’t looking good.” The two albums capture the band on the cusp of this transition. One the first album Harari, Inhlupeko Iphelile, Push It On and Thiba Kamoo immediately signal the new Afro-centric fusion of rock, funk and indigenous influences. Amercian soul pop is not forgotten with Love, Love, Love and, helped along by Kippie Moeketsi and Pat Matshikiza a bump-jive workout What’s Happening concludes the album. The second album Rufaro pushes the African identity and fusion further, with key tracks Oya Kai (Where are you going?), Musikana and Uzulu whilst the more pop-styled Rufaro and Afro-Gas point to where Harari were headed to in years to come. The popularity and sales generated by these two classic albums saw them signed by Gallo and release just two more albums with the original line-up before the untimely death of Selby Ntuli in 1978. Whilst they went on to greater success, even landing a song in the US Billboard Disco Hot 100 in 1982, it was never the same again. “Harari’s music still speaks directly to one of my goals as a younger artist: to express myself as an African without pretending that I don’t have all these other musical elements – classical, jazz, house – inside me.” (Thandi Ntuli, niece of Selby Ntuli).

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The Beaters

Lost Memories

29,99 €*

2LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Strut)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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For their fourth release, Selected Works are reissuing the classic South African record from the legendary Beaters, Lost Memories. Fusing R&B, Funk and Soul this collection of tight instrumentals was initially released on CBS in the late 60s. This band would later morph into the legendary South African outfit Harari. Psychedelic soul masterpiece on the CBS LAB imprint. First ever reissue only from Selected Works. Deluxe vinyl repress based on the original CBS pressing with all original artwork in Tip On Covers. Fully licensed and remastered.

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The Beginning Of The End

Overdrive – Rock/Jazz - Party

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Strut presents the definitive reissues of two all-time classic Caribbean soul and funk albums, The Beginning Of The End’s ‘Funky Nassau’ (1971) and ‘Beginning Of The End’ (1976).
Emerging from Nassau in the Bahamas in 1971, the band was formed around the Munnings brothers (Ray, Leroy and Frank) and the first song they recorded, ‘Funky Nassau’, became a No. 1 Billboard R’n’B hit, selling over a million copies. “We wanted to create something new,” remembers Ray Munnings, “something that was truly Bahamian. We loved funk but wanted to include elements of junkanoo, the indigenous music of The Bahamas.” An album was written within a week and recorded at Criteria Studios in Miami. “We brought in more Bahamian themes, like ‘Monkey Tamarind’, a wild fruit that grows there.”
By the time of their second album in 1976, the band was managed by Don Taylor, also Bob Marley’s manager. “Don took us to Byron Lee’s studio in Jamaica and used Teddy Randazzo (Little Anthony & The Imperials) to direct the sessions,” recalls Munnings. “He gave us more of an uptempo jazz funk sound with Chicago-style horns.” The album led to a run of incredible bad luck. Booked to support Marvin Gaye’s ’What’s Goin’ On’ tour, the US Musicians Union stepped in and ordered a US group to fill the slot. They were then added onto a major Bob Marley tour in 1976 before he injured his foot, cancelling all dates.
These definitive official reissues of ‘Funky Nassau’ and ‘Beginning Of The End’ are remastered by The Carvery from original tapes and feature full length tracks from the studio sessions. Both albums feature a history of the albums and the band by vocalist Ray Munnings, alongside rare photos. ‘Beginning Of The End’ appears on loud-press 2LP for the first time.

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The Bridge

LP | 1972 | EU | Reissue (Sommor)

21,99 €*

The Charmels / L.V. Johnson

Release: 1972 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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First ever vinyl reissue of this fabulous kraut, jazz-funk / fusion / rare grove / library album from 1972, originally released on the budget Tempo label from Germany. Lots of fuzzy distorted organ & Fender Rhodes courtesy of Kristian Schultze (pre-Passport) plus the mighty Pawel Jazerbski on bass and Joe Nay (Tete Montoliu, Roland Kirk, Blue Note Club…) on drums.
Master tape sound, original artwork and insert with liner notes.

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I've Done It Again / Seeing Is Believing

7" | 2018 | UK | Original (Deep Soul)

Sure Don't Miss You / Instrumental

Release: 2018 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ace’s access to the Stax vaults in the 90s lead to some historic tracks being heard by soul fans for the first time. The ones by the major acts like Otis, Carla and William Bell hit the headlines but the lesser artists demonstrated what talent they had on previously unheard musical gems.

Both the Charmels’ ‘I’ve Done It Again’ and L.V. Johnson’s ‘Seeing Is Believing’ are simply breathtakingly beautiful soul records that anyone with an interest in the music will appreciate as truly great records.

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The Dip

7" | 2017 | US | Original (Colemine)

10" | 2021 | US | Original (The Dip)

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Super sweet soul from Seattle. This is our first release with The Dip that features lead vocals and we couldn't be prouder. Super soulful, great production, and super catchy!

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The Dip

The Dip Plays It Cool

19,99 €*

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" | 2016 | US | Original (Colemine)

The Dip

Won’t Be Coming Back

LP | 1980 | JP | Original (Warner)

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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The Doobie Brothers

One Step Closer

6,99 €*

LP | 1976 | JP | Reissue (Warner)

Release: 1980 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie, Pop

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG+

No obi.

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The Doobie Brothers

Toulouse Street

The Du-Rites (J-Zone & Pablo Martin)

Release: 1976 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie, Pop

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Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

1976 reissue. close to NM. OBI is missing

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Go Funk Me / Bucket

7" | 2020 | US | Original (Old Maid Entertainment / Ilegalia)

13,99 €*

The Exclusive / The D C Blossoms

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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We’ve all heard of crowd-funding, but what about crowd-FUNKing? A play on a popular donation portal inspires the title of NYC funk band The Du-Rites’ eighth 7” single, “Go Funk Me”. Drummer Jay Mumford’s syncopated, off-kilter groove counters a ‘60s drum machine pattern, taking a page from Sly Stone’s 1973 Fresh LP. Pablo Martin’s bass and rhythm guitar lock it all together, while guest flautist Seth Hachen and haunting synths float on top melodically. Then the funk kicks up a notch with breaks, stops, turns and funky counterpoint between the whole band, before breaking into heavy dance floor funk. “Go Funk Me” channels it all from ‘70s Jeremy Steig; to film score orchestration; to expensive private press jazz-funk from the same era. Intermittent “funk banter” from Du-Rites mainstay Broughamin’ Fred brings it all home to cement the band’s trademark sound, with a funky flute twist.

The B-Side belongs to “Bucket,” a tip jar anthem any band can relate to, but Mumford’s “put it in the bucket, and pass it around” hook can apply to whatever the listener chooses. The drum groove walks the line between Afro-Beat and New Orleans funk, setting the deep groove early. Then bridge takes it to a whole ‘nother universe, before settling back in while the guitar, bass, clavinet, and even a kalimba get a piece of the action with brief solos. Another double-sided deep funk entry for The Du-Rites, who individually have worked as session and live musicians for artists from Danger Mouse; to Tom Tom Club, to Dan Auerbach; to Kelly Finnegan, Adrian Quesada, Just Blaze and countless others.

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I Still Love You / This Is Your Last Chance

7" | 2024 | UK | Original (Kent)

Best Piece Of Shit Volume 4 Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Eddie Singleton had a musical career in Los Angeles after his Shrine Records venture had bloomed then died. He cut this heart-felt soul ballad on an undocumented group called the Exclusive around 1969, but it was left on tape only until now.

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The Hated

2LP | 2022 | US | Original (Numero Group)

The Unreleased Album 2024 Repress

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Draped in a flag of patriotic shame, the Hated stormed onto the scene just as D.C.'s Revolution Summer was swerving out of control. Channeling Bad Brains' Black thrash and Hüsker Dü's zen approach to hardcore, Dan Littleton, Erik Fisher, Colin Meeder, and Mike Bonner synthesized their own version of what became emo in 1985. Remastered from the original analog tapes, Best Piece Of Shit Vol. 4 compiles their D.I.Y. debut cassette, the No More We Cry EP, and 14 period bonus tracks from the Hated vault, spread across two LPs and annotated by fellow Annapolis hooligan Andrew Gebhardt. Decorated with extensive photo documentation and cut'n'paste ephemera, this Hated-approved set captures a band, a scene, and a country on the verge of either exploding or imploding. Never said it'd be lik e this, right?

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The Horne Section

LP | 2016 | EU | Reissue (Boogie Times)

31,99 €*

Make Me Say It Again, Girl Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2016 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Following a big indemand of my productions 2010 on CD & 2016 on VINYL,
this lovely LP was repressed again with another cover. This unreleased album is a project by Henry Horne from archive tapes recorded during 1982+1984

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The Isley Brothers

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Ri Top Ten Records)

38,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Make Me Say It Again, Girl Green Vinyl Edition

The Isley Brothers

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Ri Top Ten Records)

42,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Whatever It Takes Black Vinyl Edition

The James Hunter Six

LP | 2018 | US | Original (Daptone)

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A permanent fixture in the world of Rhythm and Soul, James Hunter follows up five critically acclaimed albums with his latest recording, Whatever It Takes, for New York City’s renowned label, Daptone Records. At the height of his famed recording career, Hunter and Daptone co-founder and producer Bosco Mann recorded an elegantly crafted collection of 10 originals that are evermore poignant and compelling than the singer’s previous works. The James Hunter Six and Mann recorded Whatever It Takes straight to tape at Daptone's Penrose Studios in Riverside, California.

The first Brit to sign to Daptone Records, Hunter is revered by critics both in his native UK and stateside, with MOJO touting Hunter as “The UK’s greatest soul singer” and the Los Angeles Times praising his “extraordinary soul voice.” Of his prior recordings, Rolling Stone called his U.S. debut People Gonna Talk, “a treat not to miss” and his second album “unbelievably awesome,” while The New York Times noted of The Hard Way, Hunter’s “tight, slithery groove” and “sweet growl.” Hunter’s accolades include milestones of reaching #1 on the Billboard Blues Chart, a GRAMMY® Award nomination for “Best Traditional Blues Album”, years as a singer touring and recording with Van Morrison, and many TV appearances on Conan, Later…with Jools Holland, and other late night TV shows.

Subsequent to his acclaim as one of today’s renowned soul singers, Hunter’s restless genius penning emotive and captivating works results in his best written compositions to date on Whatever It Takes.

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The Jazz Clan

Dediction

LP | 1973 | UK | Reissue

24,99 €*

So I Can Make This Change / Hard To Know

Release: 1973 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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One of the rarest and most sought after South African recordings of the early 1970s, available again for the first time since its original South African release – the swinging township groove of The Jazz Clan’s 1973 debut LP, Dedication

Die-hard fans of South African jazz speak about The Jazz Clan in hushed tones. One of the dozens of South African groups who styled themselves as ‘jazz dignitaries’ – like the Jazz Giants, the Jazz Ambassadors, or the Jazz Ministers, for instance – their two widely separated studio albums for Gallo (Dedications and Makwenkwe, released in 1973 and 1976 respectively) are extremely hard to find, and were never repressed after their initial runs. Until now their work has graced neither re-release nor compilation. But they were no also-rans. They may have left a small recorded footprint, but it was an impressive one, epitomised by their hard-swinging 1973 debut, Dedication – a tough, swinging soul-jazz set with distinct African touches which is counted by those in the know as among the best South African jazz recordings of the era.

Once you dig down into the history of the group, this is no surprise: the players that comprised the Jazz Clan were veterans. And they thought big – their first incarnation during the 1960s had been as a 16-piece, and they had held down a residency at one of Nelson Mandela’s regular haunts, the Planet Hotel in Fordsburg. The original leader, drummer Gordon ‘Micky’ Mfandu, had been a regular on the Johannesburg jazz scene since the early 1960s and had recorded with figures including Gideon Nxumalo, and the famous Blue Notes; along with bassist Mongezi Velelo he had also been a member of the revered Soul Giants unit. Baritone player Cornelius Khumalo had also played with Chris McGregor and the Blue Notes in the pit band of the musical play Mr Paljas, and had also recorded with township legend Zakes Nkosi. Also in the line-up, and handling most writing duties on this disc, was the great trumpeter Peter Segona – a quicksilver hornsman, Segona later sought exile in Europe, where he played with musical luminaries across the continent including Chris McGregor’s Brotherhood of Breath, Cymande, and Manu Dibango.

By the 1970s Mfandu was dead, murdered in Soweto, and the group had consolidated as a septet – the late drummer is memorialised here on closer ‘Micky’. South African jazz was moving toward electrified funk and bump, and the new township style of Dollar Brand was just around the corner. But Dedication captures the acoustic jazz sound of the early 1970s in its pomp – a handful of tightly wound songs jostling for space, blending uptempo soul-jazz sensibilities with Latin influences and pronounced township jazz accents, the latter especially audible in Dimpie Tshabalala’s piano vamps, Jeff Mpete’s pattering hi-hat emphases, and the unmistakably South African swagger and dip of the horns on cuts like ‘Rabothata’. It is music on the brink of a transition, looking ahead but still dedicated to the sound of the golden years, and it could have been made nowhere else on earth but in Soweto.'

Transferred from the master tapes by Gallo in South Africa. Mastered for release by D&M. Pressed at Pallas. Fully licensed from Gallo South Africa.

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The Krash Band / Oneness

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

12,74 €* 16,99 € -25%

The Return Of The Marvelettes

Release: 2023 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Two tracks from Numero’s Eccentric Soul compilation which documented Bob Abrahamian’s passion and devotion to celebrating unknown Chicagoland group harmony music. His untimely passing in 2014 left a huge hole for many music devotees. SO, I CAN Make This Change was THE Krash BAND’s only record, it came out in 1976 and is a revered 45 amongst serious collectors. With it’s crisp bass, phased harmonies and the crowning accomplishment, the seraphic falsetto by Evelyn Holder!ONENESS previously known as The Audition’s recorded Hard TO Know in 1977 for Cincinnati’s AMG label, alas this sweet harmony jewel never got released and was only heard by those who tuned into Bob’s Sitting in the Park radio shows until the compilation put that to rights.

Please note this song was rescued / restored and there is tape damage in parts.

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The Marvelettes

LP | 1970 | US | Original (Tamla)

Oh My Goodness / We Fell In Love

Release: 1970 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Original US Rockaway pressing. Piece of tape on top spine.

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The Masqueraders

7" | 2018 | EU | Original (Soul 4 Real)

13,59 €* 15,99 € -15%

Look-Ka Py Py Green Vinyl Edtion

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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At times The Masqueraders must have felt like they were Soul music’s best kept secret; a career overflowing with some of our music’s finest recordings, yet never gaining the recognition and worldwide fame they truly deserve. “Man, everyone tells us ‘how good we are’… but that don’t pay the bills. After 50 years of trying we still don’t have anything to show for it”, Harold wryly laughed.

Somehow, by chance, we found ourselves sat in Harold’s Memphis home as he played “just an old tape” he had found buried in his garage, “Oh my goodness”. Suddenly, we were goose-bumped back to December 67’ inside American Sound Studio, as The Masqueraders´ exquisite vocals poured out over the legendary “Memphis Boys” rhythm section led by the illustrious Tommy Cogbill.

Originally scheduled for release in the spring of ’68, the record sadly got caught amidst the tragic and turbulent troubles of Martin Luther King’s assassination in Memphis and was never released. Until now…enjoy!

(Tats Taylor and Mike Charlton)

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The Meters

LP | 1970 | US | Reissue (Jackpot)

Struttin' Blue Vinyl Edtion

Release: 1970 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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1970 Seminal 2nd Album by The Meters. Featuring the hit track: "Look-Ka Py Py" Pitchfork: "10/10" Sourced From the Original 1970 Analog Master Tapes. Cut by Kevin Gray of Cohearent Audio. Limited Spring Green Vinyl LP.

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The Meters

LP | 1970 | US | Reissue (Jackpot)

The Meters Red Vinyl Edtion

Release: 1970 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Third Album released in 1970. Features the hits "Chicken Strut" ,"Hand Clapping Song" and more. A classic and heavily sampled record. Sourced From the Original 1970 Analog Master Tapes. Cut by Kevin Gray of Cohearent Audio. Limited Blue Jay Vinyl Lp.

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The Meters

LP | 1969 | US | Reissue (Jackpot)

International Cypher / Queen 16 Theme

Release: 1969 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Debut 1969 Album by New Orleans Funk Legends: The Meters. Sourced From the Original 1969 Analog Master Tapes. Cut by Kevin Gray of Cohearent Audio. Features the hit song "Cissy Strut". Limited Red Apple Vinyl LP.

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The Mighty Mocambos

7" | 2023 | UK | Original (Rocafort)

12" | 2018 | EU | Original (Best Record Italy)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Back in 2013 we took ourselves on a discographic adventure without really knowing what we were doing! Who would have thought that 10 years later, we'd be releasing our 50th 45 RPM record?
As luck would have it, we are happy to announce our new release, in collab with one of the flagship bands from today's funk scene, Germany's own "Mighty Mocambos", who have been delivering their instrumental groove and Caribbean vibes via their alter ego, "Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band" across Europe for more than fifteen years.
So, what better way to immortalize the raw and intense live sound that they're famous for than releasing a record on our favourite format?
Two sides recorded live on tape during the "Queen 16 B-Girl battle" in Berlin in 2022. Somewhat reminiscent of Can's "Vitamin C", the A side "International Cypher" has an oriental funk feel thanks to the use of the sharp sound of an electric Phin (Thai guitar), while thestraight up percussive funk instrumental "Queen 16 theme" pays tribute to the B-Girls onlyfestival, of which the soundtrackwas designed for the occasion.

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The One "O" Ones

Radio Cosmo Disco

Can't Give It Up / End My Suffering

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Official limited edition reissue of one of the rarest italian cosmic disco release from 1977. Previously available only as a 7" with short vocal and instrumental cuts for radio play. Now reissued as 12" including for the first time the extended disco version remastered from the original master tapes directly from the archives of the italian radio 101 that produced this song during mid seventies.

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The Opals

7" | 2021 | UK | Original (Kent)

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Tramp)

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Chicago soul girl group the Opals released three exquisite singles on the Okeh label between January 1964 and February 1965, all of them produced by Carl Davis, in addition to which they also recorded background vocals for other artists. When Tony Rounce compiled Kent’s CD of Billy Butler’s Okeh recordings in 2007, unexpectedly found on the master tape transfer of Billy’s ‘Right Track’ were two unidentified female tracks we eventually ascertained were by the Opals.

The uptempo ‘Can’t Give It Up’ is taken at a perfect dance beat for Northern Soul discos. It was written by Billy Butler and Gerald Sims, and likely recorded around the time of the ‘Right Track’ session in 1966. On the flip is the beautiful, mid-tempo ‘End My Suffering’, which bears a resemblance to Marvin Smith’s ‘Time Stopped’, also from 1966 and produced by Carl Davis. This is the first release for both tracks and will appeal to fans of many genres of vintage soul music. track listing

A. Can’t Give IT UP – The Opals B. END MY Suffering – The Opals

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The Oscillators

22,09 €* 25,99 € -15%

The Ponderosa Twins Plus One

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Representing Seattle Funk. The Oscillators' debut album is deep, raw and energetic. Led by drummer oLLi kLoMp, the line up features members of the polyrhythmics, Rippin' Chicken, the Pulsations, Lucky Brown, the Trueloves, 45th Street Brass, The S.G.'s, and more...
Real, Deep Funk With A Psychedelic Nudge.

As of yet, as these words were written, the Oscillators is not a band. the Oscillators is an experimental recording collaboration that turned out swimmingly.

Our gauge was this: "Do we like it?" No agenda or goal. The main mode being simply; create what we like out of thin air. Yet the air was heavy therefore create what we like out of thick air. Magical, gravy-thick air. Molecules, olli'cules. Alchemically thick. Apparently, we needed to sample something out-of-the-ordinary… the process is called, "stackin- phat". Minimal gear, maximum vibe. In fact, this process and this gear would make most educated sound engineers cringe but the players know.

Pushing the tape…yes, tape! 4 track to be exact, pushing the tape to it's edge. First, stack two drum tracks. bounce them to one primal track. Sometimes one drummer, sometimes two; "a great drumbeat already contains melody." This is your first layer of phat. Generally, unless the muse says otherwise, you wanna bring in your bass player next, gently caress guidance and encouragement (maybe a beer or a hit a grass), then he or she can stack the next layer of phat. The next few layers are where things really take off. Maybe it's guitar then horns, maybe keys. Maybe just horns. Whatever the tune calls for. Whatever the muse "calls" for. Everyone stacking is simultaneously inspired, while hindered, by the previous layer; "constricted genius" works of magic from thin/thick air.

Most of the time the players weren't in the same room at the same time, and in some cases, haven't seen each other in years, but it sounds like a family and feels like a band. Create what we like.

The natural unfolding of this creation was affirming, in that the process of creation proved most relevant. An expression of faith and appreciation of the experiMENTAL process with no preparation for something else. Beyond fortunate for the allowance of time. "never underestimate the power of positive thought"

-Ned Blanski

KEY Selling Points:
- limited to 505 hand-numbered copies!
- deluxe vinyl LP with authentic 1960s tip-on cover!
- includes full album download code!

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2+2+1=

LP | 1971 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

The Ponderosa Twins Plus One

Release: 1971 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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An American soul vocal group that would goon to shape the sound of pop music muchfarther beyond their imaginations, ThePonderosa Twins Plus One featured twosets of identical teenage twins, Alfred andAlvin Pelham, and Keith and Kirk Gardner,along with Ricky Spicer. The group releaseda couple of singles and a lone album forCleveland's Saru label in 1971, breakingup and disbanding as adolescence waned. Arecent sample darling of both Kanye West andTyler The Creator, "Bound" has revealed thePonderosa Twins Plus One as the real Midwestkid soul deal. Numero is proud to presentthe first official American repressing of theoriginal 1971 release, with fresh remastersfrom the original analog tapes, two previouslyunissued bonus tracks, and a replica tip onsleeve, making this an album you're bound tofall in love with.

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2+2+1= Colored Vinyl Edition

LP | 1971 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Changing Man / I'm Just Your Clown

Release: 1971 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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An American soul vocal group that would go on to shape the sound of pop music much farther beyond their imaginations, The Ponderosa Twins Plus One featured two sets of identical teenage twins, Alfred and Alvin Pelham, and Keith and Kirk Gardner, along with Ricky Spicer. The group released a couple of singles and a lone album for Cleveland's Saru label in 1971, breaking up and disbanding as adolescence waned. A recent sample darling of both Kanye West and Tyler The Creator, "Bound" has revealed the Ponderosa Twins Plus One as the real Midwest kid soul deal. Numero is proud to present the first official American repressing of the original 1971 release, with fresh remasters from the original analog tapes, two previously unissued bonus tracks, and a replica tip on sleeve, making this an album you're bound to fall in love with.

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The Power Of Attorney

7" | 1973 | US | Reissue (Nicetown / Brewerytown Beats)

I Flip My Life Every Time I Fly

Release: 1973 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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In the early 1970s, the funk / soul band Power Of Attorney was formed at the Pennsylvania State Correctional Institution at Graterford (30 miles northwest of Philadelphia). The story of their formation is just as powerful as the music that they left behind. In late 1972, the prison’s Activities Director Theodore “Ted” Wing broke ground on a new recording studio. As part of the rehabilitative arts and music initiative, the space was built to offer a creative outlet for incarcerated individuals to express their musical talents. In November of ‘72, an audition was held throughout the prison to form a band. It has been reported that over 1,600 men auditioned for a spot in the band. Wing ultimately settled on a lineup that consisted of William Smith (lead guitar), Charles McDowell (bass), Merion Wilson (tenor saxophone), Edward J.X. Smith (guitar), and Otis Graham (drums). With a lineup of gifted musicians and a fresh new recording studio to practice and lay down tracks in, the band Power Of Attorney was officially born. In January of 1973, Power of Attorney got the chance to record at Sigma Sound Studios, the legendary space that helped birth the Philadelphia International sound as well as classic albums like David Bowie's Young Americans. Taking the routines that they had rehearsed for a reported five hours each day, the band laid down the tracks — including the reflective “Changing Man,” an original composition by McDowell. “It tells the story of a man who made a mistake, and after a while in jail, he gets his head together, and realizes it’s time to straighten it out,” the 21-year-old serving life for murder told The Philadelphia Daily News upon the single’s release. The 7-inch single was released on the Nicetown label in 1973. Sold directly from the prison activities office, 500 copies were originally made. After more practicing and recording, one year later James Brown & Polydor Records offered The Power Of Attorney’s lone full-length, 1974’s From The Inside… Between 1973 and 1975 the band played 400+ concerts outside of the prison walls. Even opening for Stevie Wonder at Lincoln University and also making a live appearance on the Mike Douglas show. Forward to 2020 – While digging through the Sigma tape archives at Drexel University, Brewerytown Beats owner Max Ochester – known for deep-dive Philly reissues by The Thompsons and Sounds Of Liberation – noticed two tapes, with only “P.O.A.” scribbled on the spines. Upon further inspection, it was discovered that these 2-inch multi-reels contained six songs, four of them previously unreleased, all from 1973. The full original studio tapes for Power Of Attorney’s “Changing Man” sessions had been found, 47 years later. Expertly mixed and remastered from the original reels, Power Of Attorney’s Changing Man (out now on Brewerytown Records) is a document of the joy and pain of a handful of men trying to make the best of an impossible situation. The bittersweet love ballad “I’m Just your Clown” is featured on the flip. The reissued single is available now on Brewerytown Records on vinyl and streaming platforms. The label will follow this up with the vinyl and streaming release of all 6 songs found on that long-lost Sigma tape, on vinyl & CD in late 2020.

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The Pro-Teens

CD | 2021 | EU | Original (Mr Bongo)

14,99 €*

I Flip My Life Every Time I Fly Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Within Melbourne's burgeoning cinematic-soul scene, which includes breakout acts Surprise Chef and Karate Boogaloo, mysteriously sit The Pro-Teens. Helmed by prolific drummer and percussionist Hudson Whitlock, who also plays in both aforementioned bands, this breakaway studio project involves an interchangeable collective of incognito, Melbourne-based, esteemed instrumentalists playing under outlandish pseudonyms such as "'Dead Honest’ Dean Amazing" and "Libby Clique-Baite". Symbolically led by keyboardist "Snooch Dodd", new album ‘I Flip My Life Every Time I Fly’ is the latest musical concoction from Whitlock's eccentric brain, marrying the soul/funk roots of sample culture with the principles of boom-bap hip hop.

Incorporating the colourful comic book stylings of MF Doom and Kool Keith, or the dark and exotic flavours of Gravediggaz and The Wu-Tang Clan, The Pro-Teens also take cues from their composing heroes Galt MacDermot, Richard Evans and Marc Moulin. The Pro-Teens bop, zip, whip and fling on this phantasmagorical journey - an unorthodox patchwork of cinematic soul, hip hop-guided funk breaks, vivid instrumental textures and film score-esque moods.

The Pro-Teens work on the same analogue recording model adopted by the tight-knit College Of Knowledge label, self-recorded and produced with the rag-tag crew of musicians putting tracks down live to tape in crammed attic studios and sharehouse recording spaces. The first limited pressing of 'I Flip My Life Every Time I Fly' was released on the 'College Of Knowledge' imprint in late 2020. It was one of the highlights of the year at Mr Bongo HQ who loved the concept and felt this tripped out masterpiece from Melbourne needed to be heard well beyond those lucky enough to have bagged those limited first copies.

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The Pro-Teens

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Mr Bongo)

I Flip My Life Every Time I Fly Orange Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Pro-Teens

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Mr Bongo)

24,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Even When You Sleep (Extended Remix)

12" | 1986 | EU | Original (Tabu)

3,99 €*

Release: 1986 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Medium: VG+, Cover: VG

LP | 1991 | Original (Tabu)

One Of Many Nights

9,99 €*

Release: 1991 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Medium: VG+, Cover: VG

S.O.S.

LP | EU | Reissue (Tabu)

8,99 €*

Release: EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

12" | 1986 | Original (Tabu)

The Finest

4,99 €*

Release: 1986 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Medium: VG, Cover: VG

LP | 1981 | US | Original (Tabu)

The S.O.S. Band Too

9,99 €*

Release: 1981 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Beck & Call / Daydreaming Black Vinyl Edition

The Sextones

7" | 2023 | US | Original (Colemine)

7" | 2022 | UK | Original (Athens Of The North)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sophisticated, suave, and masterfully composed, this 45 is a sonic love letter to late 60s and early 70s soul, nodding to the giants of the genre and bowing to its unsung heroes. With inspiration from artists like The Moments, Baby Huey, The Delfonics, and especially the late Curtis Mayfield, this 7" is drenched in the era-defining tone that can only come from its origins on analog tape. From the first notes of the first track "Beck & Call", the songs shimmer and glow from one moment to the next like a summer's drive with the windows down, with a steady cruise anthem like "Daydreaming" floating by like a cool breeze. Friends since childhood, The Sextones are Mark Sexton (guitar, vocals), Alexander Korostinsky (bass), Daniel Weiss (drums), and Christopher Sexton (piano). Having known each other for so long, their musical chemistry is effortless and forms the foundation of the band's longevity and creative workflow. Despite their bond, each member has been able to channel their creativity into other acclaimed groups_Alexander and Mark with their cinematic-soul project Whatitdo Archive Group, whose acclaimed debut LP The Black Stone Affair was released on Record Kicks in 2021, and Daniel with the soul/jazz group Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio (Colemine Records). Flexing their creative muscle individually has only strengthened The Sextones' collective songwriting ability and heralds their formidable return to the spotlight. With their recent signing to Record Kicks, the self-made heroes of soul begin a new chapter in their sonic journey, ready to scale new heights and plumb deep emotional depths in service of the genre they love.

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The Sounds Of Soul

So Much Love

The Twenty-Fifth Day Of December Black Friday Record Store Day 2021 Edition

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The insanely rare first 45 from the band that became Brief Encounter, so rare in fact most people are not aware of existence. Two covers, The Van McCoy and Cobb penned 'So Much Love' flipped with (My Favourite) Barbara Mason track 'Yes I'm Ready', a true deep soul classic. The sticking point in doing this 45 was waiting years to find a clean copy as the tapes were long gone, the band finally turned up a minter after a long time looking so big love to Gary and Montie Bailey.

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The Staple Singers

LP | 1962 | EU | Reissue (Concord)

26,09 €* 28,99 € -10%

New Soul Greatest Hits 14 Vol. 1

Release: 1962 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Originally released in 1962, The Twenty-Fifth Day Of December is The Staples Singers’ holiday classic, featuring traditional songs such as “Joy To The World, “Silent Night,” “Go Tell It On The Mountain” and more. This reissue features the original album artwork and is cut from the analog master, pressed on 180-gram vinyl at Memphis Record Pressing and housed in a tip-on jacket.

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The Stylistics

LP | 1976 | JP | Original (Avco)

5,99 €*

LP | 2022 | FR | Original (La Tebwa)

Release: 1976 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Medium: G, Cover: G

Vinyl with many scuffs and marks. Cover with tape on spine, heavy creasing and bent corners. Without OBI.

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The Supermen Lovers

Body Double

23,99 €*

LP | 2022 | FR | Original (La Tebwa)

Release: 2022 / FR – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Medium: Near Mint, Cover: VG+

Cover close to NM

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The Supermen Lovers

Body Double

Release: 2022 / FR – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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The Unsung Wonders / The Rice N Peas

Lee Jeffries Presents The Unsung Wonders & The Rice N Peas

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Sonic Wax Records Limited)

LP | 2012 | US | Reissue (Sub Pop)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Lee Jeffries Brings Northern Soul Holy Grail 7” to life in live form with the Unsung Wonders playing live and recorded onto 2 inch tape with no editing to give you stunning versions of these northern soul treasures.

The Album was recorded back in 2016 in Leicester with Lee's dad Steve Jeffries, one of the world's leading Northern Soul’s rare record dealers.

Lee's good friend & now pressing manager at Sonic Wax Pressing Manager Adam Bucanan also was involved in the producing and mentoring the young band to deliver these stunning records.

With 50 years of Northern Soul Wigan Casino in 2023 it's great to see new Northern Soul music is being made.

The Rice N Peas is the alternative ego to The Unsung Wonders and give a stunning Lovers Rock / Reggae take on these holy grail tracks.

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THEESatisfaction

Awe Naturale

23,99 €*

I Can't Stand It / Only Yesterday

Release: 2012 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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THEESatisfaction are Stasia Irons and Catherine Harris-White. The pair live/laugh/love/dance and create in Seattle, WA. They write, produce and perform their own material: funk-psychedelic feminista sci-fi epics with the warmth and depth of Black Jazz and Sunday morning soul, frosted with icy raps that evoke equal parts Elaine Brown, Ursula Rucker and Q-Tip. Immediately embraced for their singular sound, unflinching commentary, and immortal groove, Stas and Cat made friends, fans and family from coast to coast via their own immaculate grind; a combo of sharp digital hustle and self-booked, self-financed tours that connected them to like minds everywhere. E...

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Thelma Jones

7" | 2018 | US | Original (Numero Group)

LP | 1979 | Reissue (Be With)

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The missing link between her Barry and Columbia singles, “I Can’t Stand It” b/w “Only Yesterday” is Thelma Jones with her back against the wall of an empty and indifferent Holiday Inn lounge and nothing to lose. Washed out of the recording business by the age of 30, Jones and her then-husband/manager James Hazley relocated to Tampa to work the hotel circuit and figure out what—if anything—was next. Following a chance encounter with Blair Mooney, Jones was invited to workshop a few stray originals at his Studio 70 compound in 1972. “He seemed to believe in me more than I did at the time,”Jones remembered of the Tampa studio impresario. Jones signed with Columbia a few years later and hightailed it out of The Big Guava, leaving two sides of country-politan soul on the shelf to be forgotten about. This Eccentric Soul 45 is a first time issue, carrying the banner of Mooney’s Gimp label and mastered directly from the original analog tapes.

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Thomas Almqvist

Nyanser

7" | 2012 | UK | Original (Hayley)

Release: 1979 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Originally released in 1979 on Mistlur Records in Sweden, Nyanser is widely considered Thomas Almvqvist’s masterpiece.

It's almost unspeakably beautiful.

With his adventurous, virtuoso guitar technique to the fore, the album explores a unique path through world music, folk, jazz and acoustic experimentation, whilst retaining a very personal vision.

It’s aged very, very well indeed and is now rare and immensely sought-after, coveted for many years by collectors of all musical genres. This Be With re-issue, remastered from the original analogue tapes, shows off just why this deserves to be back in press.

The majority of the album is a solo exercise with Thomas playing Rhodes, flute, synthesizer and percussion as well as his idiosyncratic guitar on all tracks. Alongside Thomas in the studio were an array of young, experimental Swedish musicians in the nascent stages of their careers including the much lauded Swedish composer Ann-Sofi Söderqvist, vocalist Turid Lundqvist and perhaps the key contributor to the album, Hans Peter Andersson, whose alto, tenor and baritone saxophone contributions shift the album from into the realms of jazz, most notably on “Horisont” and “E.M.”

The whole ensemble comes together on the centrepiece of the album, the joyous aquatic harmony of “Coral Reef”, one we've been playing out for the past 5 years to dropped jaws. The album presents a very visual aesthetic, each track evoking images of landscapes and far-flung corners of the earth. Almvqvist himself considered the visual aspect of his sound very important, describing his approach as “picture music.”

Nyanser is considered one of the earliest examples of a fusion of world music, jazz and folk traditions, certainly from a Scandinavian artist. Despite its impact on release being minimal outside of those aficionados tuned into such sounds, over the years the album has become something of a "lost" cult classic and a fine example of the experimentalism going on in Scandinavian music at the time. The English translation of nyanser - ‘shades’ - is a particularly apt description of the sounds contained within.

Thomas very sadly passed away in 2008 at the age of 55. We hope this reissue will go some way to bringing his unique output to a wider audience and secure the legacy he deserves as one of Sweden’s great guitarists and musical visionaries. It sounds sensational, if we do say so ourselves. Working with audio from the original analogue tapes, the vinyl mastering chops of Simon Francis are on full show here in what he considers to be some of his best ever work for Be With. Pete Norman’s cutting skills have made sure nothing is lost whilst the beautiful artwork has been restored here at Be With HQ as the finishing touch to helping this revered work find a rightful place in every record collection.

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Thunderbird Sound

In Heaven And On Earth

21,74 €* 28,99 € -25%

Timmy Carr & The Cooperettes

Release: 2012 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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John Manship described this record as the best instrumental he’d heard since “Exus Trek” and who are we to disagree! Released with the artist and title credits it carried on the tape box when first discovered. It actually turns out to be the backing track for Jimmy Ruffin’s previously unreleased barnstormer “Shake hands with a dreamer”. “Our finest hour” is pretty good too.

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Got No Time / I Want My Loving From You

7" | 2023 | UK | Original (Soul Direction)

13,49 €* 17,99 € -25%

Timo Lassy & Teppo Mäkynen

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Taken directly from the Impact Sound Studio master tapes and mastered for Vinyl for the first time. A superb double-sided Philadelphia 60s Soul monster.

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Live Recordings 2019-2020

2LP | 2021 | FI | Original (We Jazz)

Challenge My Love / Sweep It Out In The Shed

Release: 2021 / FI – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Sealed, Cover: Sealed

Still sealed with hype sticker.

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Tobi Lark

7" | 2024 | UK | Original (Topper)

7" | 1968 | UK | Reissue (Outta Sight)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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In the 70s ‘Happiness Is Here’ was the standard, Motown-influenced, Northern Soul play by legendary Detroit artist Tobi Lark. By the 80s and 90s soul fans tastes had matured and the slower and deeper ‘Challenge My Love’ took over to such an extent that it was the go-to Lark recording. The final twist was the discovery that its flip, the moody and bluesy ‘Sweep It Out In The Shed’ was a new floor-filler to spin to the R&B-loving dancers. What was considered a moderately-priced collector’s item is now fetching four figure sums. Our Repro recreates that longed-for pressing, but with a colourful twist.

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Tobi Legend

Time Will Pass You By

14,99 €*

The Lost Tapes Volume 1 Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 1968 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Iconic 1968 Northern Soul Anthem, One Of The Famed “3 Before 8” As Played Every Sunday Morning At Wigan Casino During It’s 8 Year Reign Coupled With The Original Demo, Recorded By The Writers At The Impact Studio, Detroit, 1965

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Tony Cook

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Happy Milf)

15,99 €*

Mirage (The Osam Remixes)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Happy Milf Records are proud to present Tony Cook’s The Lost Tapes Vol. 1, a 4 track EP, consisting of all original Modern Funk/Proto-House previously unreleased songs. The legendary Tony Cook, one of the most influential artists of Funk music, and James Brown’s drummer, has produced many great records since the early 80’s, from Boogie, Electro Funk, and House Music. This EP showcases the versatility of Tony Cook’s creative repertoire and is a testament to his very unique style of production.

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Tosca

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (!K7)

30,99 €*

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Albina Music Trust)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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For Richard Dorfmeister and Rupert Huber, the idea of rebirth is a creative driving force - an artistic device which not only informs their work, but anchors it.As the avant-garde electronic group Tosca, the two artists have lived many musical lives, from their early electronic experiments with tape decks to the blissed-out dub compositions with which they have made their name.Their most recent album, OSAM, takes this idea of renewal even further. Now they have reworked the source material from their ninth record and selected some of their friends to help make MIRAGE: The OSAM Remixes.

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Transport

25,19 €* 27,99 € -10%

Closer / Love Is Gonna Let You Down

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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In the summer of 1979, a Chicago DJ started a riot that killed disco overnight. Inciting fans to blow up disco records during a nationally televised major league baseball game, the cultural impact of Disco Demolition Night was felt globally. It even made waves in Portland, Oregon.

In the months to follow, clubs in the City of Roses were out to hire anything but disco. For Transport, hot nights as a stage-ready show band would fade to memory. First went the horns, then the vocalists, until all that remained was the rhythm section. The band's days were numbered or so it seemed.

But keyboardists Jimmy and Johnny Sanders were fiercely experimental. Freed from the disco formula, the brothers' exchange over synthesizers and other keyed instruments was electric. With drummer Towner Galaher, the group bore songs in homage to the fusion music ever present in Portland. Inspired by the national success of local groups like the Jeff Lorber Fusion, Tom Grant, and Dan Siegel, the band was reborn.

Months before signing a multi record deal with Geffen, Quarterflash's Marv and Rindy Ross offered Transport a shot at recording in their home studio. The group recorded over two sessions and soon shelved the tapes. Band members were summarily recruited by other acts shortly thereafter. The tapes have continued to sit.

Now over four decades later we hear this music. With tape restoration and mastering by Gus Elg, a calculated spitshine envelops the recording and positions listeners in the shag carpet-lined haze of a 1970s fusion session. With design by Eric W Mast, viewers can check out the aforementioned period upholstery through archival photography in the album's insert, depicting wall-to-wall shag gracing the booths at Mel Brown's Drum Shop.

Out of the gate, "Latin Summer" burns through with an urgency akin to The Gangsters - an album recorded by members of this band a decade prior. On the Funkadelic-fused "Chrome Dome," Jimmy Sanders continues to make use of the synthesizer, through squiggling tones and fried bursts, as well as on “Gospel Bridge,” a track that evokes Heavy Weather in its Pollock-like splashes of melody. Jeff Bruce's fretless bass brings a psych-propelled elasticity to the groove, adding a sinful undercurrent to “Time of My Life” - a languorous tune that could be a Head Hunters outtake - while giving “Song For Valerie” a playful Peaches & Herb-like wiggle.

Transport's output is staggering for a group entirely unreleased and but a drop in the bucket for Portland's cottage industry recording business of yesteryear. This installment in the group's catalog probes a layer deeper.

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Tre D'ambrocia

7" | 2023 | EU | Original (Palmetto St.)

7" | 2021 | EU | Original (Saigon Supersound)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Tre D'ambrocia - vibraphonist and first tenor with Ben Pirani & The Means Of Production - steps to the lead microphone to deliver this charming, funky, ultra smooth two stepper. Closer & Love Is Gonna Let You Down were recorded by Pirani's former iteration Benjamin but Here they are reimagined and rearranged at a late night cool down tempo. Backed by The Means Of Production Tre draws on his deep knowledge and musical experience, tapping into Jazz, Disco and even Musical Theater. on Closer D'ambrosia captures an innocent yet sophisticated mood, beckoning a love interest, gently, to come closer. Love Is Gonna Let You Down, a song of consolation pulses with a mighty heavy rhythm track while Tre's falsetto soars above. altogether a double sider for a night in or a night out.

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Trùc Mai

Sài Gòn

You're In Love (Kon Remix & Dub)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Not many cities in the world are gifted with a timeless anthem of their own. We all know “New York, New York”, a song widely known across its city borders. For many Vietnamese, the beautiful Cha Cha Cha tune “Sài Gòn” has a similar reputation. The tune was written by Hanoi-born composer Y-Van. Like many of his generation, he moved to the South in 1954 after The Geneva Accords partitioned Vietnam temporarily into two states. There he became one of the most famous and prolifc songwriters in South Vietnamese pop music. His revered songs are still sung and covered to this day. “Sài Gòn”, which he wrote in 1965, was recorded for the frst time by Saigonese-born singer Trúc Mai for the Sóng Nhạc label. It is one of his most iconic compositions and has been recorded countless times since. Trúc Mai rose to prominence during the late 1950s as a popular headliner in the cabaret circuit of Saigon, earning her the title, "Nữ Hoàng Mambo" (the Queen of the Mambo). Her reputation helped make the 1965 recording of “Sai Gon” an instant hit. It was so successful that it was one of only a few songs to appear on multiple 7” vinyl releases. However, that same year, Trúc Mai took a seven-year hiatus from the music industry to take care of her family. But she returned in 1972 to record “Sai Gon” again, this time with another producer, Duy Khánh – also a successful singer and musician. They released this track on his “reel 2 reel” tape series, “Cỏ May”. After the war ended in 1975, Trúc Mai and her family left Vietnam to begin their new lives in the United States, where she continued her successful music career with the overseas community.The Sài Gòn sung about in the song refers geographically to today's Districts 1 & 3 in Ho Chi Minh City, the name given in 1975, after reunifcation. But colloquially, the city is still afectionately called Sài Gòn by many of its residents, and even the airport retains the ‘sgn’ designation as its abbreviation. Despite being recorded over 55 years ago, the unbroken popularity of this life-afrming ode to the city is proven when, whether in Sài Gòn or Hanoi; the south or north; whether young or old, when the song plays, everyone immediately joins in to sing along to the chorus…Saigon đẹp lắm Saigon ơi! Saigon ơi! (Saigon is so beautiful! Saigon oi! Saigon oi!) The two extensively restored mixes are supplemented with a 2021 edit by Saigon Supersound producer and DJ Jan Hagenkötter, who tries to preserve the vibes of the original and at the same time to wrap it in a contemporary garment.

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Twilight And Kon

7" | 2014 | US | Reissue (Ubiquity)

14,99 €*

7" | 2023 | US | Original (Peoples Potential Unlimited)

Release: 2014 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Originally released in 2014 as Vol.7 in the Luv N'Haight Edit Series which was the first on a 7-inch and featured heavyweight digger, edit-master, and producer Kon with his take on Twilight’s Modern Soul and Boogie classic “You’re In Love”. He stays true to the original but packs a bit more punch into the groove while keeping the focus on the catchy vocals and chorus on the A-side, and doing it Dub-style with minimal vocals and plenty of echo on the flip. The year prior to its release, 2013 was definitely the year of Kon with a remix released in March via On The Prowl's Party Mix Vol.7, his “All About You” EP dropping in May on Soul Clap’s newly formed record label, and his first solo all-original album “On My Way” released on BBE. In between studio work, touring in promotion of his new releases, and djing parties as one of the world’s most highly sought-after DJs, Kon couldn’t pass up the opportunity to add his name to our growing list of venerated producers that have blessed the Luv N’Haight Edit Series with their work. Supplied with the original stems culled from master tapes provided by Twilight’s own Lawrence Ross, Kon takes full advantage and crafts a classic remix and dub version of the song guaranteed to get any dancefloor jumping. Fast forward nearly 9 years later and Kon remains at the top of his game, both in demand as a DJ, Producer, and Remixer with subsequent releases on BBE (Kon and The Gang) and his celebrated work with his group The Vision (along with Ben Westbeech & Andreya Triana).

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Uku Kuut

Whats Happening Today

7" | 2021 | EU | Reissue (Athens Of The North)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Uku Kuut & We Are, recorded with his high school band during his time in Sweden. Includes the recordings "Funky" and "What's Happening Today". Special thanks to the late Maryn Coote for unearthing all these gems from Uku's cassette tape archive! This is an alternate pressing than the single-sided PPU release of "Funky". There was an issue originally with the B Side which was scraped, but all has been fixed and "What's Happening Today" is available as the B Side in all it's glory!

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United Spiritual Singers

Not A Minute Too Late

Strange Happenings / Living In The Past Black Vinyl Editoin

Release: 2021 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ok we don't want to come over all hip but here we have some mad rare Gospel disco for you, direct from the master tape as well as that's how we roll (sometimes). Wonky but insanely catchy 45, 'not a minute too late', is the big banger on this 45, but please don't sleep on the dope previously unreleased flip 'Sweet Surrender' which I rate as well.

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Unnatural Funk Band

Strange Happenings / Living In The Past Green Vinyl Edtion

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Black Vinyl. A trio of Kansas City soul sweepers, fromthe sprawling midwest burg's storied Cavern, Damon, and Forte concerns. Bumpand the Soul Stompers' 1970 sweet souldouble sider "I Can Remember" was atail pipe-dragging, low rider classic in themaking, had it ever been released. A fewyears later Jerald "Bump" Scott took hisnew group to Cavern's subterranean confines to cut the group harmony masterpiece "Living In The Past," but remainedunissued prior to Numero's discovery ofthe Cavern tapes. As disco was cresting atthe top of the next decade, Sharon Revoaltracked her James Brown meets JamesBond stepper "Reaching For Our Star"_the last 45 released on Marva Whitney'speerless Forte label.

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Unnatural Funk Band