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Joey Negro kicks it large with a great selection of older tunes and newer numbers that maintain a classic, soulful feel – no surprise, considering that Joey's recent work has a heck of a lot of an older disco feel overall! Titles include "Still Around (joey negro re-edit)" by Don ...

12 killer club tracks, selected by Bobbie & Steve for Mastercuts – and featuring a steller blend of cuts that are all firmly in the garage/deep house tradition. Most of these tracks have a deep soulful sound, with some excellent vocal work, and lots of nice warm instrumentation over ...

A very hip collection of older funky cuts – ones that have been sampled in recent years by hip hoppers, but which stand up plenty darn great on their own! Most tracks here should be quite familiar from recent uses of their key elements, but they sparkle even more brightly here in their ...

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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 by a variety of artists from America, Jamaica, and England! This massive look at the label features both volumes 1 and ...

A massive collection of work from funky funky Poland – a special limited-edition package that includes both volumes 1 & 2 of the Polish Funk series, plus a bonus mix CD done just for the set! The whole thing's a wonderful way to dip into these amazing grooves from Eastern Europe – ...

A wonderful follow-up to the first Dirty Laundry collection – and like that one, a killer collection of country soul from the 60s and 70s! The package does a get job of pulling together tunes from disparate sources – material recorded both in the south, and in other parts of the US ...

A much-needed look at one of the hippest Italian labels ever – the legendary Horo Records, home to some of the most groundbreaking jazz in Europe during the 70s! Horo's never reissued their work – at least not yet – so this collection makes the first time that most of these cuts ...

A fuzzed out treasure trove of rare Brazilian psychedelia – wild stuff that's in many ways akin to the freewheeling sounds of the Tropicalia movement, but not necessarily taking on the cultural and political weight of that movement – and more about the boundless spirit of psychedelia ...

The Jazzman label hits a whole new level of brilliance – as they turn their funk-trained crate digging skills to the world of spiritual jazz! The collection's an amazing batch of ultra-rare tunes – tracks that take inspiration from the John Coltrane/Archie Shepp work on Impulse Records ...

Modal jazz galore – a collection of rare Italian tunes that move with a loping, soaring sense of energy – often very classic in their sound and style, but mostly pulled from a range of more obscure recent sources! Most of the tracks here were never issued outside of Italy – and ...

Volume one of the legendary compilation of James Brown produced stuff that taught us to love his other work back in the 80's when it was released. We're not going to pretend that we had all the original stuff when we were kids, but we did have this great comp – which includes monster stuff ...

A look at the blueprints of rap from the 50s, 60s & 70s – from jivey R&B from the proto rock era to the soul & funk storytellers of the 60s & 70s, to spoken word stylists, hazy boogie woogie and beyond! Germany's Trikont label has been making pretty strong compilations 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 ...

An excellent collection of one of our favorite sides of southern soul – the sub-stream of music that's clearly influenced by country music – and which reflects the double-sided world of the southern recording scene! The tracks on the set provide a wonderful introduction to the genre ...

Remixes and re-workings of tracks from the funk-centric Now Again imprint of the Stones Throw family – a top shelf assortment of re-imaginings of funky 45s, and funk-steeped modern tunes – courtesy of Percee P, Cut Chemist, Todd Terry, J Rocc and others! Now Again Re:Sounds really ...

Nearly at the end, but the classics never stop – breaks so hard and heavy, they'll blow your crates apart trying to contain them! Nearly every one here is a classic – with key samples from the early Cold Chillin years that helped refine the sound of modern hip hop. Otis Redding's ...

A killer batch of funk from the RCA family of labels – long-neglected in the world of reissues, and finally stepping out with this ultra heavy set! The package does a really great job of pulling together disparate elements of funk from the RCA catalog – a bit of jazz vocals, electric ...

Amazing grooves from a completely unlike source – Wales! With a strange language and a windswept location, one would hardly imagine the Welsh groove of the 70s to be anything of note – but it turns out that the records coming out on the Sain label were even more mindblowing than some ...

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A dozen funky tracks from one of the most important turning points in African American music! The selection is great – and brings together a number of strong cuts, some familiar, some obscure, which deal with the changing politics in black America at the end of the 60s. There's more a few ...

James Brown left a mighty legacy in soul music over the years – not just his own recordings, but a host of other great work inspired by his own genius – recorded by artists who all do a pretty darn good job of copping his groove! This excellent set looks at the prime years of that ...

A really wonderful compilation tunes that influenced Sao Paolo's DJ Marky – who maybe known more for drum & bass and broken beats, but here assembles an eclectic 2CD set of classic Brazilian tunes, 70s soul, disco, funk, and floor shaking club grooves – a straight up collection of ...

One of the most old school volumes of this always-great series – a set that features mostly obscure soul singles from the late 60s and early 70s – many of which we've never had on reissues before! The groove here is more in the style that Chicago Steppers used back in the day – ...

Here's a disco we'd love to go to – one that's filled with tripped-out, fuzzed-up rarities from the European scene at the end of the 60s! Most of the artists here are very much in keeping with the "psychedelique" in the title – showing a definite influence from the headier ...

Not just jazz travels, but Brazilian, funk, and soul as well – all pulled together by Oli Stewart (Casbah 73) into one of the hippest compilations we've heard in years! Before making his own music, Oli spent more than a decade travelling the globe on record-buying trips – not just the ...

Wonderfully wild music from the under-tapped Welsh scene of the 70s – a hotbed of some of the most amazing music we've ever heard, even though much of it was only ever issued on very tiny labels! This second volume of Welsh Rare Beat almost outdoes the brilliance of the first – and it ...

Heavy funk from the Curtom Records empire – a massive dose of hard-hitting cuts from the Windy City soul powerhouse! Although Curtom's best known for its classics by Curtis Mayfield, the label's got plenty more to offer than just that great work – a heaping helping of killer grooves ...

Great stuff – and one of the most interesting compilations we've heard in ages! The record blends together tracks from the rich jazz and gospel catalogs of Atlantic Records – shifting effortlessly between vocal and instrumental numbers in a spiritual package of tracks – slow and ...

Maybe the deepest set so far in the excellent Funk Experience collection – and one that's got a surprising amount of great grooves we've never heard before! We've dug the 60s and 70s Scandia scene for years – as there's some massive gems from Sweden, Norway, and Denmark that often get ...

Lost funky gems from the rare Houston label Ovide – home to TSU Tornadoes and a heck of a lot of great older funk from the Lone Star state! The Houston sound here is really incredible – tightly snapping party funk that's very much in the style first laid out by Archie Bell & The ...

A sensual batch of disco grooves and lost underground tracks – brought together with all the great care for choice we've come to expect from the Disco Discharge series! The package is filled with loads of upbeat cuts – and almost seems to move at a faster pace than other volumes – ...

The sound of the European club scene in the early 80s – a wealth of wonderful electronic numbers from the post-disco years – some famous, and lots more obscure – a great illustration of the grooves that kept on coming from the UK down to Italy! As with others in the excellent ...

Ah for the day of the hometown radio station – those halcyon 70s years when local rock powerhouses really reigned the airwaves, and could shape the listening tastes of an entire region of listeners! And back in the day, some of the stations were so strong, they acted as key forces in the ...

The American take on the sound of bossa nova – a mode that started almost as soon as the first sounds headed north from Rio, and which grew to become a very important contribution to the music in the 60s! We love the originals by Antonio Carlos Jobim, Luis Bonfa, Joao Gilberto, and others ...

If there's one thing we've learned over the years, it's that soul music can come from anywhere – as you'll hear in this amazing collection of grooves from the Spanish scene of the late 60s and early 70s! The artists here take plenty of inspiration from American artists of the 60s – not ...

Gospel gems, but with a pretty swinging groove too – often a touch of postwar R&B in the rhythms, which helps these tunes cook strongly far from the pulpit! A few of the singers here are ones who contributed plenty to the birth of soul music – including a very young Aretha Franklin ...

Ah for the day of the hometown radio station – those halcyon 70s years when local rock powerhouses really reigned the airwaves, and could shape the listening tastes of an entire region of listeners! And back in the day, some of the stations were so strong, they acted as key forces in the ...

A great document of the transformation of soul music in the 70s – a unique stretch when folks started experimenting with some of the new electronic elements that were surfacing on the market – using them to really change things up with a new groove! Key examples of this trend can be ...

The first compilation in what we hope will be a long series of salsa releases on BGP – this one highlighting Colombian salsa released on the Fuentes label – with tracks by The Latin Brothers, Chico Cervantes, Lisandro Messa, La Sonora Dinamita, Combo Los Yogas, Koy Arroyo, Grupo ...

Mighty recordings from the funk years of King Records – amazing grooves that follow the initial inspiration that James Brown gave to the label – but take things into wild new territory too! The late 60s & early 70s were kind of a strange and tumultuous time at the longtime ...

Plenty of disco funk going on here – those funky sort of club tunes that offer up a great contrast to the overplayed mainstream of the time! And dispite the disco in the title, lots of the tracks here are from the early 80s – years when disco was waning a fair bit, but other ...

A jam packed collection of classic funk that formed the bedrock of the hip hop revolution – iconic breakbeat material and straight up funky treasures – a 2CD set compied by Dean Rudland! This new set celebrates the great earlier Breaks series on Harmless with a nice mix of numbers that ...

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 ...

A heady second helping of funky grooves from Poland – an unlikely source, to be sure, but one that's filled with a huge amount of great tracks just waiting to be discovered by a global audience! This volume may well be even better than the first – as it features a wealth of tunes that ...

Jazzy vibes – and jazzy sax, trumpet, and keyboards too – all heard in a host of rare cuts from the 70s – pulled together in one massively great batch of music! The set does a great job of digging around the edges of the 70s – moving past too-familiar jazz funk classics, ...

Latin grooves from a very unusual source – a wonderfully mad mix of rhythms from the Polish scene of the Cold War years, and some of the grooviest music you could ever hope to find on the eastern side of the Iron Curtain! Much of this work follows in a similar mode to some of the best MPS ...

Tropical funk, hazy rhythms, and simmering Afro funk & soul from the Caribbean – a killer collection put together by Hugo Mendez– fantastic stuff from Barbados, St Lucia, Jamaica, Trinidad, St Vincent and beyond! Tropical Funk Experience does a great job of pulling together the a ...

If there's one thing we've learned over the years, it's that soul music can come from anywhere – as you'll hear in this amazing collection of grooves from the Spanish scene of the late 60s and early 70s! The artists here take plenty of inspiration from American artists of the 60s – not ...

A masterpiece of obscure jazzy groovers – the excellent 2nd entry in the Tempo Jazz series, and every bit as wonderful and eye-opening as the first! The vibe is incredible – soulful, spiritual, and free-thinking – with just the right touches of modernism to keep things sharp, but ...