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lp 2009/1974 new Beautifully orchestrated soul, drenched in echo. An Ohio band who sported the arranger of Isaac Hayes' 'Hot Buttered Soul' (Dale Warren) in their ranks & put their 1st out during the... |
Numero |
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lp 2005/1972-74 new New Orleans funk combo with no songs- just endless vamps in the mold of 'Tighten Up'- and they cruise like the goddamn Love Boat. Except for a couple of 'right on brother' and... |
Soul Power |
$10.00
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cd 2012/1972 new Alfredo Linares grew up playing piano in Lima & issued tons of jazz-tinged latin music on the Mag label. His piano lines turn as sharply as ladies' heels underneath burning boogaloo... |
Repsychled/Lion |
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lp 2011/1958 new Writer of 'Get Out of My Life Woman', 'Fortune Teller', & producer of a mountain of New Orleans R&B singles by everybody from Irma Thomas to Lee Dorsey. Except at this early date,... |
RCA |
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cd 2010/1968 new Baraka reads enraged kill-whitey poems over a 5 person choir who vamp doo wop. Sometimes they sing parts from Miracles' records (like the 65' hit 'Ooo Baby Baby'), sometimes they... |
Sonboy |
$14.00
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cd 2010/196x new The drum sounds like paper because the drummer liked to put a sheet of x-ray film on top of his head, & the singing sometimes sounds like dog yelps because everybody's having a... |
Analog Africa |
$17.50
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lp 2010/196x new The drum sounds like paper because the drummer liked to put a sheet of x-ray film on top of his head, & the singing sometimes sounds like dog yelps because everybody's having a... |
Analog Africa |
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cd 2012/1972 new You know how whenever there's a group of friends who all do the same stuff, everybody ends up sleeping with everybody until eventually they all hate each other? Well, when Carla Bley... |
Light in the Attic |
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cd 2013/1970-75 new Impossibly funky drummer Ed Apple Nelson lived in LA but grew up in New Orleans. He was a total hustler, swapping women & drugs around while trying to tall tale his way into a... |
Now Again |
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cd 2008/1967-68 new Right after recording the infectious hotfoot TX soul single 'Tighten Up', Archie Bell got drafted into Vietnam and was languishing in a hospital with a bullet in his leg while his... |
DBK |
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cd 2006/1976-77 new Raised in Spain, where his elementary school guitar teacher was Andres Segovia, Eddie Benitez formed his 1st band in Brooklyn at age 12, and he was signed to Fania while still a... |
Vampisoul |
$11.00
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lp 2006/1976-77 new Raised in Spain, where his elementary school guitar teacher was Andres Segovia, Eddie Benitez formed his 1st band in Brooklyn at age 12, and he was signed to Fania while still a... |
Vampisoul |
$16.00
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cd 2007/1973-4 new The fantastic first album of slick & nasty funk from Miles Davis' wife. Betty ate men for breakfast, hijacked half of Sly Stone's band for her backing musicians, and she'll slip... |
Light in the Attic |
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lp 2008/1973-4 new The fantastic first album of slick & nasty funk from Miles Davis' wife. Betty ate men for breakfast, hijacked half of Sly Stone's band for her backing musicians, and she'll slip... |
Light in the Attic |
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cd 2007/1973-4 new The skankiest, nastiest hotshit fonkay music ever made comes outta the sweet lips of Miles Davis' one time wife Betty. You'll get the sick afro sweats after just one listen. Legend... |
Light in the Attic |
$14.00
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lp 2012/1970-71 new Winners of United States Army sponsored soul band battles that took place in Mannheim, Germany near the end of the Vietnam war. Military bands played for soldiers stationed... |
Now Again |
$21.00
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lp 2011/1970 new The Watts Prophets before they got their name, and they bring you scathing kill whitey poetry over bongos & great free sax (by Greg Edwards). They grew out of a writer's workshop... |
Ala |
$11.00
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lp 2011/1966 new Puerto Rican trumpeter/bass player who came up through Tito Rodriguez' band & wrote arragements for Charlie Palmieri & Ray Barretto. This was his 2nd album as a leader, and it's a... |
Fania |
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cd 2010/1974 new Gardiner became a bass player for Studio One in the late 60s, recording for the Heptones, Marcia Griffiths, Larry Marshall, Junior Marvin, etc. He was playing fat hotels & had... |
Jazzman |
$16.00
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cd 2007/1973 new Top shelf kill-whitey funk from Chicago with some cosmic jazz brass (sax, trumpet, & trombone with guitar) & scathing lyrics. Tracklisting: Introduction, Writin on the Wall, He Keeps... |
Asterisk |
$13.00
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lp 2008/1973 new Top shelf kill-whitey funk from Chicago with some cosmic jazz brass (sax, trumpet, & trombone with guitar) & scathing lyrics. Tracklisting: Introduction, Writin on the Wall, He Keeps... |
Asterisk |
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lp 2012/1975 new Sidiku Buari was a silver medal Olympic runner in the mid-1960s. He moved from Accra to Chicago at the end of his athletic career & ended up in music school there. This record was... |
RCA |
$20.00
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cd 2012/1957-61 new There are suppsoedly 40 bass players in Cachao's family, and he started playing an upright that must've been twice his size along with silent movies at the age of 9. He played... |
Vampisoul |
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cd 2010/2001 new 1st album of hot-buttered retro instro funk on the Soul Fire label, run by Phillipe Lehman (who also ran Desco). Rather unbelievably recorded both in this century, and in Helsinki.... |
Soul Fire |
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lp 2011/1965-67 new Tenor sax player who was the son of Estelle Axton (the 'ax' of Stax) and nephew of Jim Stewart (who provided the 'st'). His band the Mar-Keys was the label house band before the... |
Light in the Attic |
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lp 2011/1958 new Aka the Sheik of the Shake. Right after Willis moved to Atlantic, he immediately started hitting the charts with songs like 'CC Rider'- a song he totally owned until Mitch Ryder came... |
Rumble |
$21.00
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cd 2007/1971 new Cuban descargas played to perfection by Coco & his band, who just happened to be from Peru instead. Hard uptempo latin that'll raise the temperature at a party no matter what the... |
Get Back/Munster |
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lp 2013/1984 new Kids from the Lincoln & Riverton projects in Harlem who threw block parties & eventually signed to Sugar Hill. Their song 'Breaking Bells' was an early one to sample former ESP... |
Sugarhill |
$10.00
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lp 2010/1970 new The intro to 'If There's a Hell Below' is usually glossed in polite company these days. And no wonder. Positively lacerating fuzz bass starts crackling your speakers, and the man... |
Curtom |
$21.00
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2lp 2012/1971 new Mayfield had just left the Impressions, & was performing at a folk club, for very polite white people. He even includes a cover of the Paul Williams' penned Carpenters hit 'We've... |
Curtom |
$28.00
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lp 2012/1972 new You don't really need me to tell you how fantastic 'Superfly' is, do you? Orchestral funk knows no more ardent disciple than Mayfield, and he & his amazing falsetto whip up a heady... |
Curtom |
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lp 2011/1972 new Philly black power funk from Del, aka Nana Kwesi Abakah Kuntu II (or as he liked to sign his tracts, 'The War Correspondent'). He worked out of his brother's bookstore in Philly... |
Hikeka |
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lp 2003/1970 new Who could pass up a black acid rock/dj groove band called Demon Fuzz? Not me, brother. 70s British underground act that only existed for about a year, & are now heavily sampled. Yow,... |
Janus |
$11.00
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lp 2006/1969 new Best lp by this master of fuzz funk. Grodiest & nastiest thing he ever did, with tons of wacked guitar, wailing organ, & skittering breakbeats. Phallic art & dracula letters continue... |
Maverick |
$11.00
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lp 2010/1966 new Covay started out as Little Richard's chauffeur, and sometimes also his opening act. He's best known as a songwriter, snagging hits for Solomon Burke, Gladys Knight & the Pips,... |
Atlantic |
$11.00
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cd 2012/1979 new Outsider AM radio funk made by a couple of teen farmhands in rural Washington state. Their dad built them a $100k log cabin studio and a 300-seat concert venue on the back 40 of his... |
Light in the Attic |
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lp 2012/1979 new Outsider AM radio funk made by a couple of teen farmhands in rural Washington state. Their dad built them a $100k log cabin studio and a 300-seat concert venue on the back 40 of his... |
Light in the Attic |
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lp 2007/1969 new Dorothy grew up in Detroit & discovered the harp in highschool, using it to play be-bop (!) around town. As the fad for trippy sounds hit the mainstream in the late 60s, Ashby... |
Cadet |
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cd 2012/1976 new New Jersey soul that wanted to sound like Philly harmony stuff, but was a few years too late. Some disco influence because of the late date too, but they don't quite know what to do... |
Reel Recordings |
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lp 2012/1972 new 2nd most famous member of the Temptations (after David Ruffin). Their falsetto vocalist, vocal arranger, and the man who made them wear fluffy purple suits, who also supposedly slept... |
Tamla |
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lp 2011/1969 new Araujo is a Jovem Guarda singer who switched styles frequently enough that he had time to run down a side road into a whole album of uptempo shakin R&B. Gritty Otis Redding-style... |
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lp 2011/1974 new High school funk band from North Carolina which never put out a record while they were teens, but reunited 12 years after the fact to do so. And once you hear how good they are... |
Brunswick |
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cd 2010/1972 new High school funk band that won a soda pop contest to submit a new jingle, and was rewarded with financing to record an album. The kids got their coach to help them out with all the... |
Now Again |
$15.50
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cd 2008/1969 new Stinging organ funk instros from Detroit, with burpy sax leads & fat soul breaks. Plenty of cheesy covers that make dance party favorites too. Their next record from after they moved... |
DBK |
$17.00
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cd 2011/1973 new Unreleased sweet soul that's honey soft. The band was centered around a Washington DC community center, and after a van crash nearly killed them they all converted to Islam together.... |
Numero |
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cd 2007/1973 new Shimmering harmony soul with achingly gorgeous falsettos from Columbus Ohio. Any fan of early 70s Philly sounds will be thrilled with the choral waterfalls on this one. Three tracks... |
Asterisk |
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7 inch 2011/196x new Freddie Mitchell was a totally greasy jump blues sax player in NY. He's in the Alan Freed exploito-film 'Rock Rock Rock', fronting the house band on tenor. After his recording... |
Popcorn |
$8.00
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lp 2008/1970 new 1st album, & already showing signs of George Clinton's fondness for vaguely stoned mixed metaphors ('Soul is a hamhock in your cornflakes' is a memorable line on this one). Clinton... |
Four Men With Beards |
$18.00
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cd 2005/1968 new Jazz session drummer who went to college for English lit, accidentally landed the drum chair under Quincy Jones, helped carve out the funky edge of Jimmy Smith, kept & played in the... |
El |
$14.00
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lp 2011/1966 new Bouncy uptempo boogaloo record with an obscure vocalist (David Coleman) who sends bright northern soul vocals spiraling & soaring over the top. Pianist Rivera had long been a sideman... |
Barry |
$11.00
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