Funk & Soul



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Various Street and Gangland Rhythms lp

Various Street and Gangland Rhythms lp

lp 2010/1959 new Unnamed 11 and 12 year old kids who have been sent to a New York City "residential training school" because they played hooky from school or got picked up by the cops for getting in...
Folkways $16.50

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Various Surinam 2lp

Various Surinam 2lp

2lp 2012/1976-83 new Surinam is a little Dutch colony that's basically next to Venezuela. It became independent in 1975, apparently causing a burst of bands who got really into Funkadelic records....
Kindred Spirits $22.00

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Various The Afro Sound of Colombia Vol. 1 2cd

Various The Afro Sound of Colombia Vol. 1 2cd

2cd 2010/197x new Well shit on a shingle, is that a cover of Fatback Brother Bill Curtis' 'Dance Girl' from Colombia?! Huge slab of blood-shedding Discos Fuentes tracks, with flint-hard salsa, sickly...
Vampisoul $21.00

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Various The Nickel & Penny Labels Eccentric Soul 2lp

Various The Nickel & Penny Labels Eccentric Soul 2lp

2lp 2011/1967-73 new For the Numero label, this one's gotta be something of a full circle project, as it comes right from their backyard. Longtime Chicago radio DJ Richard Pegue was on the air for...
Numero $21.00

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Various The Nickel & Penny Labels Eccentric Soul cd

Various The Nickel & Penny Labels Eccentric Soul cd

cd 2011/1967-73 new For the Numero label, this one's gotta be something of a full circle project, as it comes right from their backyard. Longtime Chicago radio DJ Richard Pegue was on the air for...
Numero $17.00

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Various The Philly Sound You Never Heard Vol. 1 cd

Various The Philly Sound You Never Heard Vol. 1 cd

cd 2009/1965-72 new Morris Bailey had been a big band saxophonist before WWII, but a collapsed lung put him at a writing desk. He penned hits for the Angels, Patti LaBelle & the Blue Belles, and as...
Funkadelphia $11.00

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Various The Renfro Soul Story cd

Various The Renfro Soul Story cd

cd 2004/1966-75 new Tony Renfro used to sneak into Gold Star in the middle of the night with a couple of singers he found on nearby street corners & paid ten bucks, but the sessions sure don't sound...
Kent $17.00

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Various The Soul of Disco Vol. 3 2cd

Various The Soul of Disco Vol. 3 2cd

2cd 2011/1976-1982 new So many things get called disco that are really just techno or even highlife or something farther afield. Me, I want my disco to have a lot of white powder, roller skating,...
Z $16.00

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Various True Soul Vol. 1 2cd

Various True Soul Vol. 1 2cd

2cd 2011/197x new Overview of the obscure but insanely solid, shithot funky Little Rock label True Soul. Lee Anthony ran a record store called Soul Brothers & instead of buying a car or new furniture...
Now Again $21.00

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Various True Soul Vol. 2 2cd

Various True Soul Vol. 2 2cd

2cd 2011/197x new Operating in the shadow of nearby southern independent labels like Hi, Sun, Stax, etc, Lee Anthony tried to put Little Rock, AK on the funk map with his one-man studio/record...
Now Again $21.00

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Various Twin Cities Funk & Soul 2lp

Various Twin Cities Funk & Soul 2lp

2lp 2012/1964-79 new The last stop between Chicago & nowhere, Minnesapolis/St Paul has long supported the arts enough to allow local communities to develop their own sound. The funk scene that would...
Secret Stash $21.50

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Various Twin Cities Funk & Soul cd

Various Twin Cities Funk & Soul cd

cd 2012/1964-79 new The last stop between Chicago & nowhere, Minnesapolis/St Paul has long supported the arts enough to allow local communities to develop their own sound. The funk scene that would...
Secret Stash $14.50

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Various Twistin Rumble Vol. 6 lp

Various Twistin Rumble Vol. 6 lp

lp 2008/196x new Hubbah! Let the drinks spill and the tassels twirl with these R&B sleaze rippers. Taken from obscuro 45s, and chosen soley for their ability to reignite the cultural importance of...
Twistin Rumble $17.50

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Various Under the Influence Vol 2 2lp

Various Under the Influence Vol 2 2lp

2lp 2013/1978-82 new Boogie and post-disco R&B 12 inches. Fake handclaps, bass-walks in double time, shiny background vocals that trade around parts (think Temptations by way of Parliament). They...
Z $30.00

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Various West Indies Funk cd

Various West Indies Funk cd

cd 2011/197x new With the exception of George Coleman, steel drums are usually a little monochromatic to my ear. But the Caribbean pop-funk played here is spritely, shimmery, and yes, close enough to...
Trans Air $17.50

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Various West Indies Funk Vol. 2 2lp

Various West Indies Funk Vol. 2 2lp

2lp 2011/197x new That's the 3rd ringer that's come out on this little label out of Puerto Rico. More yummy soul covers that are legitimately funky, plus a few originals from around the Caribbean....
Trans Air $19.00

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Various West Indies Funk Vol. 3 cd

Various West Indies Funk Vol. 3 cd

cd 2011/197x new It always pays to pay attention. Volume 2 is barely out and here comes another, but impressively, it's the most sinister, leanest in the series yet. Steel pan music from Trinidad...
Trans Air $17.50

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Various West Indies Soul cd

Various West Indies Soul cd

cd 2012/197x new This label just keeps upping the ante- succulent organ funk and tight little heartstabbing ballads from across the Caribbean. There's a vintage rocksteady cut or two, but the 60s...
Trans Air $17.50

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Various WTNG lp

Various WTNG lp

lp 2012/197x new Numero celebrated last year's Record Store Day by temporarily creating their own 1970s radio station. This year they bring you a sampler from the station's archives. Sleek neo-soul,...
Numero $14.50

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Wah Wah Watson Elementary cd

Wah Wah Watson Elementary cd

cd 2012/1976 new Over the top skeezy guitar funk with tons of bass popping, and definitely has more wah on it than could possibly be prudent. Nearly every solo has buckets of effects besides wah as...
Get on Down $14.50

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Wee You Can Fly On My Aeroplane 2lp

Wee You Can Fly On My Aeroplane 2lp

2lp 2008/1977 new Norman Whiteside was the main recording force behind my favorite Numero release, the overview of Ohio's Capsoul label, and I think the label may've outdone themselves with this one....
Asterisk $21.00

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Wee You Can Fly On My Aeroplane cd

Wee You Can Fly On My Aeroplane cd

cd 2008/1977 new Norman Whiteside was the main recording force behind my favorite Numero release, the overview of Ohio's Capsoul label, and I think the label may've outdone themselves with this one....
Asterisk $13.00

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Wendy Rene After Laughter Comes Tears cd

Wendy Rene After Laughter Comes Tears cd

cd 2012/1964-65 new Across town from the Stax studios in Memphis, high school student Mary Frierson & her brother Johnny decided to try out for the label by just taking the bus over & walking in the...
Light in the Attic $15.00

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Whatnauts On the Rocks lp

Whatnauts On the Rocks lp

lp 2010/1974 new 3rd album of aching-sweet soul with impossibly high, soaring vocals & cozy string arrangements. Produced not in Philly, but Baltimore, by George Kerr (apparently they were his pet...
Stang $10.50

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Whatnauts Reaching for the Stars lp

Whatnauts Reaching for the Stars lp

lp 2010/1972 new 3rd lp by Baltimore band that effortlessly nails a Philly harmony soul sound. Aching sweet falsetto from Billy Herdon, and plenty of stabbing strings & funk bass. Has a great O'Jays...
Stang $10.50

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Wicked Witch Chaos lp

Wicked Witch Chaos lp

lp 2013/1978-86 new Train wreck of backasswards instrumental funkadelic ripoffs with phased whispers, thick brapps of Hendrixified solos. Such mud-covered production that it could easily be mistaken...
EM $19.50

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Willie Colon The Hustler lp

Willie Colon The Hustler lp

lp 2011/1968 new 2nd album to pair Willie's trombone with the pipes of Hector Lavoe. Both were young (Colon 18 & Lavoe 22), but they found a mid point between the new boogaloo and an older style; as...
Fania $11.00

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World Opus 1 lp

World Opus 1 lp

lp 2012/1972 new Sons of Champlin-style soul with lots of psychedelic touches, hammond, & some pretty blackhearted fuzz thrown in the mix too. Band was from Gallup, New Mexico, meaning they played...
Lysergic Sound Distributors $21.00

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