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A groovy box set of loungey tunes pulled from French films of the 60s and 70s -- great tracks that often lie buried under so-so soundtracks, or others that just plain haven't seen the light of day for years -- all 3 volumes in the Supreme Lounge series to date in a single box set! The French-heavy ...

A beautiful little compilation -- one of those gems that comes along, and really reminds us that there's a real art to putting some tracks together! In a package that's kind of a follow-up to their excellent Songs For Mario's Cafe, St Etienne pay tribute to the sound of Soho pubs in years past -- ...

A treasure trove of late 70s French disco funk -- actually sound library material from the Tele Music archives -- featuring positively killer bass lines, keys and drums, with a warmth and a groove that just slays so much of the better known dancefloor material of the era! Includes great stuff by ...

Rare cosmic dancefloor gems -- Voyeurism Volume 1 from Voyeur Records -- a mysterious, but totally groovy selection of rare disco, cosmic soul and boogie from the 70s! Includes bouncing club soul, leftfield French disco, laser synth and heavy bass grooves, Latin and Eastern styled club jams and ...

No word at all on the tracks included -- but the set's a heady mix that's right up there with some of the grooviest sets we've heard from the Finders Keepers scene! Like some recent mixes from Andy Votel and others, this one's filled with offbeat tracks from a range of global and temporal sources - ...

Lost tracks from the Real Thing studios of the late 70s -- a tiny Brooklyn basement enclave put together by brothers Patrick, Charles, and Marcus Brown -- home to a host of famous parties and live mixing sessions back in the day! According to the notes, most of these tracks only ever circulated as ...

A different groove than usual from Keb Darge -- not the deep funk we're used to seeing associated with his name, but a killer selection of rare R&B and rockabilly work -- co-compiled here with Cut Chemist! Turns out both Keb and Chemist are longtime fans and collectors of the genres, and they ...

Massive funk from 70s Cuba -- a musical hotbed that's finally getting its due on the wider global market! These grooves have way way more to offer than just the familiar Latin styles you might know -- as they mix in lots of hard drums, sweet electrics, and heavy jamming -- all with a style that's ...

A boogie and 80s groove spectacular -- filled with hard to find tracks from the post-disco years -- including a number that we haven't been able to track down in years! The sound here is very much in keeping with the bigger 80s groove artists of the time -- a tightly snapping rhythmic approach, ...

The Nightime Lovers are at it again -- bumping and thumping their way onto the dancefloor in a wave of beats, basslines, and keyboards! As with previous volumes, the selection here is all top-shelf 80s groove -- a fair bit of obscure singles from the time, mixed with hard to find tracks by bigger ...

A killer little set that's as heavy as it sounds from the title -- a wealth of rare material pulled from the studio of Detroit producer Dave Hamilton -- a good deal of it previously unreleased! Hearing this set is like finding a pile of rare 45s stuffed in the back corner of a long-lost record ...

Rough and raw grooves -- way more than you might guess from the "twist" reference in the title! The sound here is more R&B than anything else -- lots of heavy drums, honking sax, burning organ, and riffing guitar -- but there's also some echoes of Latin rhythms, rockabilly raunch, ...

Rough and raw grooves -- way more than you might guess from the "twist" reference in the title! The sound here is more R&B than anything else -- lots of heavy drums, honking sax, burning organ, and riffing guitar -- but there's also some echoes of Latin rhythms, rockabilly raunch, ...

Excellent stuff! This 3CD-only set features 1 full disc of funky classics from BBE's Strange Games & Things series, all mixed together by DJ Spinna, plus 2 more discs that feature the songs in unmixed versions! The whole thing's a beautiful batch of funky and jazzy cuts that have been sampled ...

The tenth entry in this hard-grooving series, and they're still going strong -- coming up with a really choice array of 80s grooves you'd be hard-pressed to find anywhere else! As before, the tracks here are all nicely aimed at the dancefloor -- heavy on beats and keyboards, but never with a cold ...

One of the hippest collections on BBE we've heard in years -- a really underground batch of breaks that features fantastically rare tracks in a variety of different genres! The set beautifully shows just how far the funky scene has come in recent years -- because many of these cuts are from ...

Great collectors, and great grooves too -- a hip batch of early 80s numbers that are all pretty darn rare -- and which really sound great together on this well-chosen set! As with the previous volumes, there's plenty to love here -- lean, clean dancefloor numbers from those great post-disco years ...

One of the greatest series going for fans of 80s groove -- and a set that's filled with incredible tracks we missed back in the day, plus a few rare favorites presented here in different versions! As with other volumes, the focus here is on tightly snapping numbers that represent the best side of ...

A third serving of club grooves, DJ spun soul, funky hip hop, and all around ear pleasing material from the BBE vaults -- Twelve Inches Of Pleasure pulled from hard to find vinyl, and rare or unreleased tracks from Nick Van Gelder & Marcina Arnold, Katalyst, Heavy, Fanatix, Luisito Quintero, ...

Nighttime Lovers are mighty big groovers -- thanks to a fantastic selection of rare club cuts from the 80s! As with previous volumes, the cuts here go way past the obvious -- no over-reissued singles, nor too-poppy soul songs -- just tight-grooving numbers that show that there's plenty still to ...

Early 80s funky grooves galore -- indeed with lot of funky stuff, but loads of bass and synth heavy dancefloor soul, too -- the second volume in the 80s Funk Anthology series from Boogie Times! Includes an underground classic or two, and some funky obscure bits from the US scenes and a UK gem or ...

Things are plenty dirty in the Barnyard -- as the set's a heavy batch of deep funk and soul rarities, packaged with an ear for the "greasy gritty groovy" in the title! The set's got a similar approach to Pow City or Get It (and seems to come from a similar source) -- tunes presented as a ...

A killer! Take the funky genius of Kenny Dope and Keb Darge, set them loose on a pile of rare funky 45s, and you've got one of the best sets of music we've ever carried! Both guys really know their stuff -- and they've done an excellent job with this set, which is easily as great as any of the ...

Forget the cheesy cover, because the grooves here are great -- a warm selection of soulful selections from the 80s -- boogie bits, club cuts, and more -- all very well-chosen, and all numbers that are really a cut above the usual 80 tracks! Most of these numbers were never hits at the time, but ...

One of the greatest soul compilation series ever! Kenny Dope put together this 3rd volume, and we might be tempted to say that it's the best one of the 3! Strange Games has a deceptively simple approach -- but the compilation features the kind of grooves that will keep you coming back and back ...

Another masterpiece in this hip series of 80s club cuts -- great cuts cooked up back in the day, most of which never made it to the charts, but brought plenty of love to the dancefloor! Some of the artists here are well-known, but they're often represented by more obscure tracks -- alongside other ...

Nice one! The second volume of the Keb Darge funk series for BBE, and it's every bit as great as the first one -- with the same commitment to great funky tracks that haven't been on other comps, and the same great standards, set by the king of the genre himself. 20 cuts by obscure funky groups ...

A mad mod collection of hard and heavy soul numbers -- early funk tracks, late R&B numbers, and some killer hard soul tracks -- most of which we almost never see in the original! CD version has 22 groovers in all -- with titles that include "Get Loose When You Get Loose" by Jessie ...

80s club through and through -- easily one of the most dancefloor-oriented volumes of this excellent series! The tracks here are heavy on rhythms that run from midtempo to more upbeat -- often with drum parts and basslines that are somewhat bold, yet never get in the way of the sweeter vocals over ...

Soaring 80s soul, bubbling electro grooves, and synthy funk galore -- Volume 11 in the epic Nighttime Lovers series of rare grooves and post disco funky club soul! Neon lit dancefloor ready sounds to be sure, but with a real soul and emotion, and a genuine tunefulness along with the spiraling ...

Strong proof that the early 80s had plenty to offer in the way of dancefloor greatness -- and another fantastic volume of the Nighttime Lovers series! As before, the tracks here are a great blend of club and commercial -- tracks that are heavy on the hooks, but still groove in a way that's plenty ...

A mindblowing collection of 80s groovers -- 2 CDs worth of music, and overflowing with great bits from the Capitol Rare generation! The set really comes together wonderfully -- and features some lesser-known tunes by bigger artists, plus a few stone classics from the time, offered up in longer ...

A lot more 80s groove than you'd expect from the funk in the title -- although the rhythms and basslines here certainly are funky enough! The package is filled with obscure little gems from the early 80s -- the kind of rare dancefloor tracks we've always depended on the Boogie Times label to ...

One of the best-ever compilations of funky work on BGP -- and even better than their other Super Breaks sets! This one features some totally rare killers -- not only from hard-to-find funky 45s, but also from obscure studio tapes that have never been properly issued! The set's a funky fanatic's ...

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 ...

A very well-titled set -- and the best so far in this cutting-edge series! The "beats and pieces" this time around are mostly underground club tracks from the past few years -- the cream of the crop of the best bits that hit our New Grooves section, often served up in harder-to-find ...

The brilliant return of one of our favorite funky series ever -- filled with top-shelf rarities that represent the best of 70s rare groove and break tracks! It's been a long time since we last saw a volume of Strange Games, but this set shows that it's been more than worth the wait -- as BBE have ...

The fine folks at BBE, building on their success with the Disco Spectrum series, have teamed up with the respected French DJ, Dimitri From Paris, to release this classy triple CD boxset of massive disco tunes. Dimitri has compiled a irresistible mix of disco classics and harder to find rare tracks ...

Brit DJ Keb Darge is (and has been for years) one of the world's foremost experts on the funky 45. This masterful comp put together by the folks at BBE brings together an amazing collection of rare tracks lost to the world -- nearly all of which have never appeared on other comps of this sort of ...

We hardly need tell you about this one -- especially since you've been ringing our phone off the hook for it since it was first announced! The set is a monster compilation of rare funky material, put together by the legendary Keb Darge, and the enigmatic Josh Davis (known to most of the world as ...

A good collection of funky 45s -- but with kind of a stupid gimmick. There's some great tracks on here -- like "Funky City" by Bad Bascomb, "Crabcakes" by Gunga Din, "Superfox" by Hound Dog Clowns, "Kicking Ass" by Kicking Mustangs, "Purple Haze" ...

BBE have done it again! They let Joey Negro go crazy, and put together a monster set of his favorite disco tracks of all time -- so monster that they had to make the compilation bigger than usual (although they're still giving it to you at a nice nice price!) As you know, Joey's no sleeper -- so ...

A treasure trove of twelve inch singles from Solar Records -- the west coast powerhouse for uptempo soul! Most of the numbers here date from the early 80s years when Solar were totally on top of their game -- really dominating mainstream soul of the time in the same way Philly International did a ...

An absolute funky monster! This set lays out an incredible batch of funk era singles from the vaults of Galaxy Records -- and it shakes and burns all the way through, with lost funk bombs Bobby Rush, Rodger Collins, Bill Coday, Bobby Eaton, the Debonairs and others! It's comprised of mostly ...

A killer batch of rare funky tunes -- pulled from a host of tiny labels, and put together with a quality level that would blow away a crate full of of funky 45s! This 3rd volume in the Super Funk series seems to dig even deeper than the first 2 -- and it also includes few incredible little nuggets ...

A masterful set of old school funk & soul put together by DJ Andy Smith -- who also worked some magic a few years back for the BGP label on the Northern Soul tip -- this time out doing his thing with prime funk from the late 60s & early 70s! Smith does a excellent job of mixing sample ...

Very very cool compilation of short groovy little jazz tracks from the Fantasy jazz catalog, most of which were out as 45s, or which could sound like them, blasting out of some jukebox on a south side lounge. 25 cuts, with too many to mention here, but the list includes work by Freddie McCoy, The ...

Rare funk from one of the greatest labels in the business! King Records is known to many for its classic work with singers like James Brown, Hank Ballard, and Wynonie Harris -- but during the later years of the label, they also pressed up a great amount of excellent funky 45s, including many that ...

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 -- ...

Full length 12" mixes of old school jams from the 80s -- synth soul & funk, hip hop and electro thumping jams from Cameo, Zapp, George Clinton, Grandmaster Flash, One Way, Rick James and more -- nearly 90 minutes on music! Includes some of the biggest hits by a few of these artists, plus ...