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Hip Hop 5 Organic Grooves 13 Funk | Soul 9 Jazz | Fusion 3 Blues 1 Latin | Brazil 2 Original Breaks & Samples 2 Rock & Indie 10 Electronic & Dance 9 Reggae & Dancehall 27 Pop 3
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Soul Jazz Records presents
Soul Jazz Records presents - Miami Sound 2: More Funk & Soul 1967-74
Soul Jazz Records presents
Miami Sound 2: More Funk & Soul 1967-74
CD | 2024 | UK | Original (Soul Jazz)
15,99 €*
Release: 2024 / UK – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Soul Jazz Records" new Miami Sound 2 is a superlative collection of 70s soul, funk, disco and boogie featuring tracks from legendary artists such as Betty Wright, Timmy Thomas, Gwen McRae, Milton Wright, T-Connection and many more, all released on the mighty TK Records musical empire based in Miami, Florida.
Soul Jazz Records presents - Miami Sound 2: More Funk & Soul 1967-74
Soul Jazz Records presents
Miami Sound 2: More Funk & Soul 1967-74
2LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Soul Jazz)
31,99 €*
Release: 2024 / UK – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Soul Jazz Records" new Miami Sound 2 is a superlative collection of 70s soul, funk, disco and boogie featuring tracks from legendary artists such as Betty Wright, Timmy Thomas, Gwen McRae, Milton Wright, T-Connection and many more, all released on the mighty TK Records musical empire based in Miami, Florida.
Soul Jazz Records presents - Breaker's Revenge! Breakdance Classics 1970-84
Soul Jazz Records presents
Breaker's Revenge! Breakdance Classics 1970-84
2CD | 2024 | UK | Original (Soul Jazz)
18,99 €*
Release: 2024 / UK – Original
Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves
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Compiled by legendary producer Arthur Baker, "Breakers Revenge" is a near-definitive collection of original Funk, Soul, Latin, Disco and Electro classic tracks from 1970-1984. These tracks, a combination of classics and obscurities, have all since become legendary to Breakdancers everywhere. First played at South Bronx block parties, community halls and park jams in the 1970s and 80s, spun endlessly by the first three major hip-hop DJs - Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash and Afrika Bambaataa - and found in the record crates of any DJ of note ever since. Seminal funk and soul tracks such as Dennis Coffey"s "Scorpio", The Jimmy Castor Bunch"s "It"s Just Begun", James Brown"s "Get on the Good Foot", The Mohawks" "Champ" sit side-by-side here with the ground-breaking, classic electro of Afrika Bambaataa"s "Planet Rock", and Arthur Baker"s own definitive "Breaker"s Revenge".
Soul Jazz Records presents - Breaker's Revenge! Breakdance Classics 1970-84
Soul Jazz Records presents
Breaker's Revenge! Breakdance Classics 1970-84
2LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Soul Jazz)
31,99 €*
Release: 2024 / UK – Original
Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves
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Compiled by legendary producer Arthur Baker, "Breakers Revenge" is a near-definitive collection of original Funk, Soul, Latin, Disco and Electro classic tracks from 1970-1984.These tracks, a combination of classics and obscurities, have all since become legendary to Breakdancers everywhere. First played at South Bronx block parties, community halls and park jams in the 1970s and 80s, spun endlessly by the first three major hip-hop DJs - Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash and Afrika Bambaataa - and found in the record crates of any DJ of note ever since.Seminal funk and soul tracks such as Dennis Coffey"s "Scorpio", The Jimmy Castor Bunch"s "It"s Just Begun", James Brown"s "Get on the Good Foot", The Mohawks" "Champ" sit side-by-side here with the ground-breaking, classic electro of Afrika Bambaataa"s "Planet Rock", and Arthur Baker"s own definitive "Breaker"s Revenge".
Soul Jazz Records presents - Miami Sound: Rare Funk & Soul 1967-74 Colored Vinyl Edition
Soul Jazz Records presents
Miami Sound: Rare Funk & Soul 1967-74 Colored Vinyl Edition
2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Soul Jazz)
34,99 €*
Release: 2023 / EU – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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New 20th anniversary edition of Soul Jazz Records" long out-of-print Miami Sound: Rare Funk and Soul from Miami, Florida, 1967-74.This album had been unavailable for more than 15 years and is newly remastered. Soul Jazz Records Miami Sound features rare and classic Funk and Deep Soul from Miami, Florida between 1968 and 1974. The album brings together million-selling artists such as Gwen McRae, George McRae and Timmy Thomas alongside artists little known outside of the sunshine state such as James Knight and The Butlers, Frank Williams and The Rocketeers and All the People.
Soul Jazz Records presents - Space Funk 2 (1976-184)
Soul Jazz Records presents
Space Funk 2 (1976-184)
CD | 2023 | UK | Original (Soul Jazz)
18,99 €*
Release: 2023 / UK – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance
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You are about to embark on a new intergalactic journey into black space, fuelled by funk, powered by computers. Soul Jazz Records" new second collection of twisted hyperspace electro/funk "Space Funk 2: Afro Futurist Electro Funk in Space 1976-84", continues its intergalactic journey. Featuring rare and off-the-wall space funk and electro rarities and obscurities, all released on small independent USA record labels in the late 1970s and 1980s. Artists on this release include Alien Starr, Bobby Demo, Maggatron, Mid-City Crew, Tribe, Junie, Rich Cason and the Galactic Orchestra and many more intergalactic space warriors! This is space age bionic funk, programmed to make you dance!!!
Soul Jazz Records presents - Space Funk 2 (1976-184)
Soul Jazz Records presents
Space Funk 2 (1976-184)
2LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Soul Jazz)
31,99 €*
Release: 2023 / UK – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance
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You are about to embark on a new intergalactic journey into black space, fuelled by funk, powered by computers. Soul Jazz Records" new second collection of twisted hyperspace electro/funk "Space Funk 2: Afro Futurist Electro Funk in Space 1976-84", continues its intergalactic journey. Featuring rare and off-the-wall space funk and electro rarities and obscurities, all released on small independent USA record labels in the late 1970s and 1980s. Artists on this release include Alien Starr, Bobby Demo, Maggatron, Mid-City Crew, Tribe, Junie, Rich Cason and the Galactic Orchestra and many more intergalactic space warriors! This is space age bionic funk, programmed to make you dance!!!
Soul Jazz Records presents - Holy Church: Gospel, Funk & Soul 1971-83 Black Vinyl Edition
Soul Jazz Records presents
Holy Church: Gospel, Funk & Soul 1971-83 Black Vinyl Edition
LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Soul Jazz)
30,99 €*
Release: 2023 / UK – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Soul Jazz Records" Holy Church of the Ecstatic Soul: Gospel, Funk and Soul at the Crossroads 1971-83 draws upon the extensive links between black American gospel music and soul music, showing how the sensibilities of gospel artists such as Shirley Caeser, Dorothy Norwood, Andrae Crouch and others crossed over into secular soul music during this period.Many of the most successful soul artists - from Aretha Franklin to Al Green, The Staple Singers to Sam Cooke - all drew upon their upbringing in the church for their musical inspiration. This album discusses how important the links between the black church and soul music were in creating soul music and spotlights some of the many important (and also little-known) gospel artists who walked this line between sacred music and soul, funk and disco in the 1970s and early 1980s.
Soul Jazz Records presents - Holy Church: Gospel, Funk & Soul 1971-83 Record Store Day 2023 Red Vinyl Edition
Soul Jazz Records presents
Holy Church: Gospel, Funk & Soul 1971-83 Record Store Day 2023 Red Vinyl Edition
2LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Soul Jazz)
31,99 €*
Release: 2023 / UK – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Record Store Day 2023 limited release with regional focus limited to 1000 copies. Soul Jazz Records’ new Holy Church of the Ecstatic Soul: Gospel, Funk and Soul at the Crossroads 1971-83 is a one-off limited-edition heavyweight red vinyl pressing + download code exclusively for Record Store Day 2023.

The album draws upon the extensive links between Black American Gospel music and Soul music, showing how the sensibilities of gospel artists such as Shirley Caesar, Dorothy Norwood, Andraé Crouch and others crossed over into secular soul music during this period.
Many of the most successful soul artists – from Aretha Franklin to Al Green, The Staples Singers to Sam Cooke – all drew upon their upbringing in the church for their musical inspiration. This album discusses how important the links between the Black church and Soul music were in creating Soul, and spotlights some of the many important (and also little-known) Gospel artists who walked this line between sacred music and soul, funk and disco in the 1970s and early 1980s.

Holy Church of the Ecstatic Soul shows how sacred Gospel music was at home with Stevie Wonder and Blaxploitation-style funk and produced music celebrated both in New York’s underground discos (The Paradise Garage, Studio 54, etc) and later sampled by the likes of Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg and Mary J Blige.
Soul Jazz Records presents - Gipsy Rhumba Record Store Day 2023 Yellow Vinyl Edition
Soul Jazz Records presents
Gipsy Rhumba Record Store Day 2023 Yellow Vinyl Edition
2LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Soul Jazz)
31,99 €*
Release: 2023 / UK – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Record Store Day 2023 limited run / regional release limited to 1000 copies.
New one-off limited-edition heavyweight special-edition yellow vinyl pressing exclusively for Record Store Day 2023 of Soul Jazz Records’ Gipsy Rhumba: The Original Rhythm of Gipsy Rhumba in Spain 1965 – 1974, with a 28-page booklet and download code. The extensive booklet in this release contains definitive sleevenotes by the musicologist Jose Manuel Gómez, record designs and stunning photography from the celebrated photographer Jacques Leonard.

Soul Jazz Records’ Gipsy Rhumba is the first album outside of Spain to focus on one of the most exciting musical culture clashes ever. In the early 1960s, Gypsies from the Catalan region of Spain, primarily known as the creators of Flamenco, came up with a fascinating hybrid style – Gipsy Rhumba – which blended the Latin and Rhumba music of Cuba and the Caribbean together with their own Flamenco, as well as the emerging Rock ‘N’ Roll from America.

“A capsule of supercharged clapping and joyous vocals” -- The Guardian

“Must-have”. “You all know Gipsy Kings’ blend of flamenco and Latin rhythms … but where did this convergence of Latin music styles occur? This compilation demonstrates how mid-1960’s Barcelona hot-housed gypsy musicians who employed the rumba rhythm… Gipsy Rhumba unearths a forgotten corner of Europop.”-- The Sunday Times

“Musicologists aren’t the only ones who will enjoy pulling at the threads that bind this particular sound clash … Messing with the traditional form is daring at any time, but the result was something quite fantastic, potent and intriguing, full of marvelous grooves and compelling rhythms.”-- Irish Times

“A victory for gipsy party music… A collection worthy of conquering the world”--Dagens Nyheter, Sweden

“Punchy, rhythmic and popular …specialist Rhumba research starts here with this compilation released by the London Soul Jazz label. Another genre of pop history.” -- Junge Welt, Germany
Soul Jazz Records presents - Cuba: Music And Revolution 2 1975-85
Soul Jazz Records presents
Cuba: Music And Revolution 2 1975-85
LP | 2021 | UK | Original (Soul Jazz)
36,99 €*
Release: 2021 / UK – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Soul Jazz Records presents - Cold Wave #2
Soul Jazz Records presents
Cold Wave #2
2LP | 2021 | UK | Original (Soul Jazz)
28,99 €*
Release: 2021 / UK – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Soul Jazz Records presents - Cuba: Music And Revolution 1975-85 (Compiled By Gilles Peterson & Stuart Baker)
Soul Jazz Records presents
Cuba: Music And Revolution 1975-85 (Compiled By Gilles Peterson & Stuart Baker)
3LP | 2021 | UK | Original (Soul Jazz)
36,99 €*
Release: 2021 / UK – Original
Genre: Organic Grooves
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Cuba: Music and Revolution: Culture Clash in Havana: Experiments in Latin Music 1975-85 Vol. 1 is a new album compiled by Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker (Soul Jazz Records) that explores the many new styles that emerged in Cuba in the 1970s as Jazz, Funk, Brazilian Tropicalia and even Disco mixed together with Latin and Salsa on the island as Cuban artists experimented with new musical forms created in the unique socialist state. The music on this album features legendary Cuban groups such as Irakere, Los Van Van and Pablo Milanés as well as a host of lesser known artists such as the radical Grupo De Experimentación, Juan Pablo Torres and Algo Nuevo, Grupo Monumental and Orquesta Ritmo Oriental, groups whose names remain largely unknown outside of Cuba owing to the now 60-year old US trade embargo which remains in place today and which prevents trade with Cuba - and thus most Cuban records were only ever available in Cuba or in ex-Soviet Union states. The music on this album reflects the most cutting-edge of Cuban groups that were recording in Cuba in the 1970s and 1980s - who were all searching for a new Cuban identity and new musical forms that reflected both the Afro-Cuban cultural heritage of a nation that gave birth to Latin music - and its new position as a socialist state. Most of the music featured on this album has never been heard outside of Cuba. Cuba: Music and Revolution is the third book that Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker have collaborated on together and follows on from their two earlier critically acclaimed books, Freedom, Rhythm and Sound (Revolutionary Jazz Music in the 1960s and 1970s) and Bossa Nova and the Rise of Brazilian Music in the 1960s, both of which also had related album releases on Soul Jazz Records.
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