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IIf there's a better compilation of groovy, groovy West German jazz from the early-to-mid 60s than this amazing set from Sonar Kollectiv -- we'd be shocked to hear it! Forum West features an amazing selection of some of the best 60s icons of the German and European scenes -- including Hans Koller, ...

A very weird little compilation -- one made up of the kind of funky, freaky, psychedelic tunes you'd find on the Finders Keepers label -- but mixed up a bit too! There's a very strong Andy Votel vibe going on with the package -- grooves from the kind of cool rare nuggets that Andy's dug up for ...

A mindblowing little set -- and a massive overview of soul music in Spain during the late 60s and early 70s, filled with incredible tunes we've never heard before, all supported by great notes in both English and Spanish! The Spanish soul groove is a bit rougher than that of the US -- kind of a ...

A collection of Larry's classic mixes for Salsoul Records -- a long-grooving club tracks that have the definite Levan touch! The set's filled with classics, and include "I Got My Mind Made Up" by Instant Funk, "Handsome Man" by Sparkle, "First Time Around" by Skyy, ...

A very hip set of grooves -- featuring 15 jazzy numbers from the 60s, picked with a beat-happy swing, and a bit of a Latin tinge, similar to some of the legendary Jazz Juice compilations from the UK! Titles include "Cubano Chant" by Art Blakey, "Mas Que Nada" by Sadao Watanabe, ...

Joints so rare and funky, they don't even need a proper cover -- or correct listings of the tracks, for that matter! We're sure there's some typos and misinformation here, but according to the label, tracks include "Egosphere" by One Band, "Sunburn" by Ostrk, "Port De ...

The title's a hokey one, but the album's surprisingly great -- a hip batch of jazz and funk numbers from the Muse Records catalog, and one that goes way past the dated language on the cover! Most of the tracks here are from the 70s, and they really show the depth of Muse's groove at the time -- an ...

An amazing collection of funky work from Communist Hungary -- music that's really making us change our opinion about the Cold War! Back in the day, we used to think the Iron Curtain was in place to keep out Western forces -- but now we know it was there to keep in groovy music like this -- secret ...

Some of the best minds in the crate-digging business team up for this mindblowing selection of underground grooves -- the B-Music duo of Andy Votel and Dom Thomas, plus a host of guest curators who include David Holmes, Cherrystones, and Jazzman Gerald! The work here is similar to that on the ...

Amazing work from an under-discovered label -- Finland's longstanding Love Records, home to some really great grooves back in the 70s! Working way up north, Love Records hardly ever made it over to these shores back in the day -- so a set like this is almost a completely fresh discovery, and a ...

A cool little compilation of sweet funky jazz from the mid 70s -- mostly slicker than 60s compilations of this sort of thing, but chosen with a lot of care, and put together with a very unified style that owes a lot to labels CTI or Kudu. If that description's a bit confusing -- we just mean that ...

One of the best funky compilations ever! The folks at Stones Throw Records -- home of some of the most funk-inspired hip hop of the past decade -- have dug through the crates to come up with this incredible batch of 19 tunes, all well-researched, nicely remastered, and offered up here on a 100% ...

Heavy funk from two different decades -- some real lost treasures from the 70s, stacked up here with some equally great work from recent years! The package is a massive second helping from the Truth & Soul family of labels -- one that not only shows their continuing dedication to the best in ...

The title's almost redundant -- as the words "Westbound" and "Funk" mean virtually the same thing! From the late 60s through the mid 70s, Westbound was one of the key record labels in the sound of raw heavy funk -- working with hit groups like Funkadelic and the Ohio Players to ...

Funky female soul galore -- a killer set of rare tunes that's one of the best sets of this type we've ever stocked! The SuperFunk crew at BGP have gone through the rich array of labels handled by the company -- pulling out some massive tunes that really push our understanding of female soul -- ...

Searching for soul? You just hit the jackpot in this killer set that's filled with Michigan-recorded gems that go way beyond the shadows of Motown! The sound here is madly tripped out throughout -- a blend of funky 45 rhythms with more interesting influences from the spreading sprawl of the ...

Sweet Brazilian grooves -- both electric and acoustic, and pulled from a nice range of titles in the legendary Warner and Atlantic catalogs! The first volume in the set stayed mostly in a standard bossa jazz groove, but this second installment expands the sound to include a bit of 70s funk -- ...

Funky soul from Witchita, Kansas -- an unlikely locale, but home to some really great music -- courtesy of the Smart brothers, and their ultra-hip club! This wonderful entry in the Eccentric Soul series from Numero really brings that lost scene to life -- telling the tale of the brothers, their ...

Dramatic themes from the martial arts underground -- a set of DeWolfe Sound Library tracks, all of which were used in Kung Fu films by the legendary Shaw Brothers! The work here is different than some other martial arts music you might know from the 70s -- not originally penned and recorded for ...

The best look at Chicago's legendary Twinight label that we've ever seen -- a massive set that goes way past the obvious hits, and really digs into the heart and soul of this unique little record company! Twinight is best known as the home of Syl Johnson during his legendary run of funky soul ...

An excellent compilation of funky 70s cop show themes put together with a very cool cover and a great selection of groovy tunes! There's lots of wah wah guitar, driving rhythms, funky flute, and cool keyboards -- and the overall sound is tops if you dig crime/cop material from the 70s! A few cuts ...

Very cool compilation of psychedelic funk and electronic tracks from Italian trash films, with 16 cool grooves that we'd never heard before, and a wild mix of material from the groups I Gres, Marc 4, Freedom Power, and the composer Alessandro Alessandroni. Most of this stuff was recorded in the ...

The funky sound of 70s France -- and an amazing batch of super-dope grooves! The sound here is much more complex than you might think -- horns and strings and keyboards intertwined over soulful and slinky rhythms, grooving in a warm funky mode that's somewhere between blacksploitation soundtrack ...

A funky funky party all the way through -- a set of great jazz and soul tunes from the 70s, all of which have "funk" in the title, and some plenty heavy grooves to match! The package features work from a range of different labels -- some key cuts from early 70s Blue Note, plus bits from ...

An incredible look at an obscure Detroit soul label -- a tiny little company, but home to some really great funk and soul! The Big Mack label ran somewhat sporadically through the 60s and into the early 70s -- but during that time, it managed to cut some incredible tunes with a really unique feel - ...

Funky Funky New Orleans is back -- in this 2-part part 2 series! (Confusing, ain't it?) Like the now-famous first volume, both of these second volumes feature a stunning array of rare funky tunes from the Crescent City -- obscure funky 45 numbers that go way way past the hits you might find on ...

A treasure trove of soul from the East St Louis scene -- all of it recorded under the Young Disciples program -- an effort to keep kids off the streets, and one with some very funky results! Although set up as a social program, Young Disciples had some amazing cultural results -- a legacy of very ...

Jackson 5, move over -- because the folks at Numero Records have uncovered a whole host of rare kid soul acts from the 70s -- most of them a fair bit funkier than their Motown contemporaries! The tracks here all clearly follow the lead started by Michael and his brothers at the end of the 60s -- ...

Hard-edged grooves from Soul Patrol Records -- their umpteenth comp of this nature, and every bit as funky as the others! As before, most of the cuts here are from the funky 45 underground of the late 60s and early 70s -- the kind of deep funk numbers that the overseas collector set was digging ...

Freaked-out funky school band work -- a wonderful collection put together by some diggers who really know their stuff! As you might guess from the title, the set features a range of rare tracks recorded by college and high school bands of the late 60s and early 70s -- a time when music was ...

The Soul Power funky 45 powerhouse returns -- with a great set of classic tunes selected by DJ Nico, all from rare funky 45 sources, all with that chunky, hunky, funky, deep groove that first put the label on the map as one of the best sources for rare funk material! The title's a bit striking -- ...

Funky stuff inspired by the deepest, funkiest Kool & The Gang work of the 70s -- a set weighed heavily with real obscurities -- with furiously grooving jazzy bits, grainy hard soul versions, steel band numbers and more -- all massively funky in their unique strains of the sound! Much like the ...

Not much of a cover photo, but one of the most amazing collections so far from the Numero Group -- a richly archival project that finally brings to light the lost efforts of the short lived Tap Records label! Tap was the brainchild of Jeremiah Yisrael -- an ambitious producer, and legendary ...

More funky breaks than Evel Knevel after the Snake River Canyon jump! The groove hounds at BGP records were set loose on the Ace catalog -- which includes holdings from Atlantic, Stax, Volt, Westbound, and other funky classic labels -- and they managed to come up with a killer batch of funky cuts, ...

Heavy funk galore -- and easily one of the best titles in the massive Super Funk series! This one seems to go deeper than all the previous volumes -- really digging down for some obscure tracks that push past the obvious funky 45 standards, to include some lost gems from rare sources in the ...

Our favorite kind of funk is Super Funk -- and this fab entry to the long-running series definitely keeps up the groove! As before, there's plenty of rare tracks here -- most pulled from obscure singles of late 60s/early 70s vintage -- and some even from rare studio tapes that were never issued at ...

One of the hippest sets we've ever seen on Spanish Harlem -- a collection that goes way past the Latin Soul hits, to dig deep in the uptown underground at the end of the 60s! The package is compiled with gems from the Fania catalog, but rally moves past the obvious -- going for some of the more ...

One of the coolest collections ever put out by The Numero Group -- and that's saying a lot, given the hipness of the label! Downriver Revival chronicles the story of a unique studio in Michigan -- Double U Sound, a custom recording spot that captured a wonderful range of soul, funk, gospel, and ...

An essential chapter of Miami soul -- even if most of the work is appearing here for the first time ever! The set is a magnificent companion to Numero's Deep City collection of pre-TK Miami soul -- but it's put together in such a way that it's almost a beautiful introduction to the south Florida ...

A treasure trove of funk and soul from one heck of a great little label -- Columbus, Ohio's short-lived Capsoul imprint -- only around for 5 years in the 70s, but home to a great flurry of indie singles! We first caught onto the label's brilliance with their funky classics "Hot Grits" by ...

Not much of a title or cover, but a really great little collection of hard to find soul from the 70s -- a thoughtfully-done set that's still one of our favorites from many years back! The project was one of the last from the excellent Hubbub label, and it's got a great blend of funky tracks and ...

A killer killer compilation -- the sort we've been dying to own for years! It's a well known fact that there's plenty of funky nuggets hidden amidst 70s gospel recordings -- massive grooves and break-heavy tracks that rank right up there with the best indie funk from the same time. Yet tracking ...

Killer funky soul from this legendary UK label! The Pama imprint was home to the legendary funksters The Mohawks during the late 60s, but they also recorded and licensed tracks from other sources that had a mix of funk, hard soul, and a stone rocksteady groove! This set brings together 13 rare ...

Fantastic funky soul! The Pama label was a London-based operation in the late 60s -- and they cut and licensed some very groovy tracks that mixed funk, soul, and rocksteady, and which featured artists from America, Jamaica, and England! This first volume of the label's output features one of ...

No funky variation here -- as the funk is all-hard, all-heavy, and all-deep! As usual, the Soul Patrol posse come up with a blistering batch of rare tracks that help put the heavy in heavy funk -- eschewing any sort of a title that makes sense, in favor of a groove that's hard, and a quality level ...

Plenty of funky stuff here -- a killer assortment of soul and jazz numbers that represent some of the best grooves the 70s had to offer -- all packaged together in a wonderfully solid collection! There's a really "essential" feel to the set -- an approach that takes us back to the sort ...

Easily the best collection so far in the Let's Boogaloo series -- and one that's overflowing with great older work from the 60s and 70s! We've liked the other Let's Boogaloo sets plenty, but this one's even more deep funk oriented than before -- and not only features some great rare funky 45 ...

Let there be funk, and plenty of it -- a massive helping of heavy grooves from the 70s -- including some key tracks by some of the funkiest groups of the time! The collection starts with gems from the Fantasy Records vault, then moves out into a range of other labels too -- and it's got a great ...

Hip soul, funk, and more -- a killer collection that's filled with underground classics from the 70s -- including a number of key tracks that have lived on strongly as hip hop samples! The package features some nicely heady grooves -- and includes a number of tracks with a pronounced fusion ...

Great new collection of rare and unreleased New Orleans funk, from the golden days of the genre, and with work by some of the best producers in the Crescent City. Includes the tracks "Chiller" by Louisian Homegrown, "Soul Power" by Walter Washington and the Soul Powers, "Al ...