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cd 2013/1980 new Laid back free funk with some experimental tape effects, kalimba, processed bass clarinet, sax, chimes, & more. Not quite a kill whitey record, more in the vein of a... |
EM |
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cd 2009/1962-65 new Nicknamed 'the sultans of sweat' Sam & Dave could kick around their black socks & skinny leg suits with so much alacrity that they put gospel sounds on the white pop charts almost... |
Collector's Choice |
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lp 2010/1966 new Their first album after being sent to Stax by Atlantic, where Isaac Hayes & David Porter wrote them the ginormous hit 'Hold On I'm Coming'. It's said that the idea for the title came... |
Stax |
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lp 2010/1976 new Black power poetry over funk by an English teacher at Oakland's Merritt College (where a couple of her students started the Black Panthers). Sarah Webster Fabio was 48 & a mother of... |
Folkways |
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cd 2012/1981 new Heavily political funk/jazz from NYC. No rock elements whatsoever, but people sometimes thought there might be because half the band was white. Lyrics are a little statistics-heavy... |
Sol Re Sol |
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lp 2011/1976 new Detroit Funkadelic/disco knockoff with fuzz, a few Sly Stone moves. Breaks galore & cheap production at its finest. Undeniable cover art that shows Moses commanding robe-clad guys to... |
Buddah |
$11.00
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cd 2006/1973 new A major beat digging rarity, with a couple of killer black power soul pounders that are perennials here at Weirdo. The lyrics to "I'm Your Pimp" really say everything that's needed... |
Get on Down |
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lp 2008/1973 new A major beat digging rarity, with a couple of killer black power soul pounders that are perennials here at Weirdo. The lyrics to "I'm Your Pimp" really say everything that's needed... |
GSF |
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lp 2008/1967 new Tight goodfoot grooves & raw stax honk meet up with San Fran rock fans, & Larry Graham invents the bass pop. Sly's first & grimiest. Tracklisting: Underdog, If This Room Could Talk,... |
Sundazed |
$18.50
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3cd 2013/1968-78 new Vibraphone-led jazzfunk band from Berklee with John Abercrombie on some bitchin' wah guitar. Quite loose & groovy stoned soul picnics, and they incorporate elements as square &... |
Now Again |
$31.00
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6lp + 7 inch 2013/1968-78 new Vibraphone-led jazzfunk band from Berklee with John Abercrombie on some bitchin' wah guitar. Quite loose & groovy stoned soul picnics, and they incorporate elements as... |
Now Again |
$65.00
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cd 2011/1972 new Sizzling psychedelic funk from the genuine R&B hotbed of Dayton Ohio. Many of the bands around town were glitzy (Dayton later coughed up Zapp, Faze O, and Heatwave), so Stone Coal... |
Cali-Tex |
$13.50
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lp 2011/1972 new Sizzling psychedelic funk from the genuine R&B hotbed of Dayton Ohio. Many of the bands around town were glitzy (Dayton later coughed up Zapp, Faze O, and Heatwave), so Stone Coal... |
Cali-Tex |
$18.00
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cd 2013/1973 new Southern soul cheaters, uptempo Wilson Pickett rip-ups, incredible songwriting and completely wild album titles & photos are what make Swamp's world work, and it's all here. The... |
Alive |
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lp 2013/1973 new Southern soul cheaters, uptempo Wilson Pickett rip-ups, incredible songwriting and completely wild album titles & photos are what make Swamp's world work, and it's all here. The... |
Alive |
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cd 2013/1971 new Jerry Williams Jr, aka Little Jerry, before he became a sometime country producer, with his indubitably iconic album of southern-fried slapdash smilin' soul. Originally cut in Miami... |
Alive |
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cd 2013/1970 new Jerry Williams' pants-free soul has more connections to Dale Hawkins' rock, New Orleans r&b or outlaw country than Motown, so he has good reason to call himself Swamp Dogg. Before... |
Alive |
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6lp + 4cd 2010/1959-1977 new Nothing quite like the sassy, buoyant, bright spot in Johnson's voice. He can grouse, belt, hit a funk break hard, slither around a word a thousand ways, and likely only... |
Numero |
$77.50
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lp 2013/1969 new Johnson hails from Holly Springs, Mississippi, where he grew up with Magic Sam as his next door neighbor. He started out in the Chicago electric blues scene & was even a session... |
Numero |
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lp 2013/1969 new Johnson's 2nd album is a black power concept record, & one of those green-glowing jewels of sweet deep funk that should have slaughtered the charts right alongside Marvin Gaye or Al... |
Numero |
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lp 2011/1970 new Norman Whitfield/Barrett Strong's cocksure & savvy album which drug the Temps into the late 60s kicking & screaming. After the departure of David Ruffin, the band was busy with... |
Gordy |
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lp 2010/1971 new Lean & nasty one hit funk wonder from the Bahamas. Take the fastest James Brown vamp you know & throw in conga drums, demented solos on an electric jazz guitar, killer & full horn... |
Alston |
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cd 2010 new Hear that ghoulish, low & throbbing organ? That's Leon Michaels, the head of the Truth & Soul label (and previously a part of Soul Fire records). Michaels makes up new band names... |
Truth & Soul |
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cd 2006/1949-55 new Tito moved drummers to the front of the stage so the spanish harlem dancers could see the propulsion of timbales, congas & vibes that were making their ankles twist so madly.... |
El |
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lp 2013/1957-59 new Price did his level best to break New Orleans 50s piano-pounding R&B onto the pop charts without whitewashing it. He sort of succeeded and sort of didn't. Imitating him is a huge... |
Rumble |
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cd 2013/1971-78 new For all the greatness of the Tropicalia scene, their ambition of bringing the sounds of the US & Europe into Brazilian music didn't convert the typical public. That job was left... |
Luaka Bop |
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2lp 2009/1975-87 new Utterly ludicrous bass popping and slick synths writhe around one another while vibes eke through a series of chord progressions that could only be there to give you a math... |
Vampisoul |
$25.00
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cd 2009/1975-87 new Utterly ludicrous bass popping and slick synths writhe around one another while vibes eke through a series of chord progressions that could only be intended to give you a math... |
Vampisoul |
$11.00
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7 inch 2012/1971 new The songwriter who wrote 'The Sly The Slick and the Wicked' (for the Lost Generation) couldn't seem to make it on the artist end, even though his buttery baritone was a perfect... |
Jazzman |
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lp 2010/1973 new 3rd album, and though the songs are all well known hits of the day, the psychedelic soul arrangements are stunning. Nasty funk, ethereal & crisp waterfalls of vocals, a version of... |
Motown |
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lp 2011/1971 new Prime psychedelic soul. Norman Whitfield came up through Motown as a middle manager type, and by the mid-60s was one of the powerhouse's top producers. He often had two or even three... |
Gordy |
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cd 2012/1972-75 new So many yummy major 7th chords, soaring falsettos, pizzicatto strings, & cooing over vibraphones. Sweet soul is is my favorite thing Numero does, and though the quick funk... |
Numero |
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cd 2009/1966-67 new Big-reverb northern soul in the shadow of Motown, and with just a bit of extra horns or arranging verve to let you know that you're in Philly. Some uptempo pounders & some... |
Soul |
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2lp 2010/1979-83 new Nigerian disco probably has some afrobeat influences somewhere, but the slick & glistening sounds of Donna Summer or late Bee Gees are a whole lot more prominent here. There's... |
Comb & Razor |
$20.00
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cd 2010/1968-77 new California may be the home of Hollywood, but it's also the home of Huey P. Newton, Watts riots, and yeah, some heavy fonkin funk records. Lots of black power lyrics and some... |
Jazzman |
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2lp 2009/1968-75 new Fine introduction to the world of Blaxploitation soundtracks. One of the few genres in US film history where vital, popular & truly contemporary music was given equal billing to... |
Soul Jazz |
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cd 2011/2004/196x new Introductory but nicely done overview of the Chess label. The Chess brothers began by running a club on the South Side of Chicago, and the muddy bottom end, brash horns &... |
Soul Jazz |
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lp 1997/1955-65 new Charlie Chan never had it so good. Say 'ah-so', pull your eyes into a slant and enjoy this set of late fifties/early sixties fortune cookie novelties. Honkin' R&B instros, dumb... |
Hot & Sour |
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2lp 2007/1960-76 new Hard & funky Salsa, Cumbia, & Descarga from Bogota's great Fuentes label. Reverse the Mercator projection and give the fandango it's due with afrosound musicians that can outplay... |
Soundway |
$23.00
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cd 2007/1960-76 new Hard & funky Salsa, Cumbia, & Descarga from Bogota's great Fuentes label. Reverse the Mercator projection and give the fandango it's due with afrosound musicians that can outplay... |
Soundway |
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2cd 2010/1966-76 new In 1965, cumbia was such a popular style (among the wild proliferation of rhythms that had been imported from Cuba in the wake of the mambo) that it began to be claimed &... |
Vampisoul |
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2lp 2010/1966-76 new In 1965, cumbia was such a popular style (among the wild proliferation of rhythms that had been imported from Cuba in the wake of the mambo) that it began to be claimed &... |
Vampisoul |
$25.00
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cd 2008/1959-74 new From foxy Latin vibraphone jazz that evokes tight skirts & high heels to nastyass congo funk that brings lowered cars with speakers in the trunk to mind instead, the Fania label... |
Jazzman |
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cd 2007/1964-68 new Volume 1 of Numero's great overview of the Miami label that gave the world Betty Wright, Willie Clarke, & Clarence Reid (Blowfly). Dirty & humid southern soul that grew out of... |
Numero |
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2cd 2012/1975-85 new Everybody knows that Colombian music has a hefty dose of African influence in it, but that thesis is so sweeping that you can't pin it down to specific songs. Or can you? Samy... |
Analog Africa |
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cd 2010/2003/197x new Wonderfully cheesy late 70s disco & funk from the Carribbean. Horn riffs galore, plenty of overly busy bass popping, and a few fireworks shots from synthesizers. You'll soon... |
Trans Air |
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lp 2010/2003/197x new Wonderfully cheesy late 70s disco & funk from the Carribbean. Horn riffs galore, plenty of overly busy bass popping, and a few fireworks shots from synthesizers. You'll soon... |
Trans Air |
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cd 2006/1962-71 new Hometown of Dyke & the Blazers, Phoenix had a tiny but happy soul scene, & one of it's biggest movers & shakers was producer Mike Lenaburg. Here's a set of all the singles he... |
Numero |
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cd 2009/1965-75 new The Smarts were a family band that branched out in to nearly every aspect of the music business in their little pond of Wichita KS. Dad owned a club that the band played in every... |
Numero |
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cd 2008/1963-78 new Dirty funk that scraped by in the shadow of the Motown pop machine. Self-taught producer, A&R guy, & label owner Ed McCoy did it all by his own self. Tracklisting: L. Hollis & hte... |
Numero |
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