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A far reaching collection of funk rock, experimental pop, jazz, psychedelia and spacey grooves from France's BYG label, compiled by the global underground purveyors at Finders Keepers -- late 60s and early 70s material from Gong, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Alice, Brigitte Fontaine and Areski and many ...

Quite possibly the most beautiful record we've ever seen from the folks at The Numero Group -- and that's saying a lot, given the quality of all their top-shelf releases! This beautiful edition features a hardcover book of vintage black and white photographs taken on Chicago's south side in the ...

A soul series we've been loving for a decade -- and for good reason too! Soul Togetherness sets always have a great way of mixing contemporary soul with some sweet older tracks -- particularly the sort from the modern soul years of the early 80s -- when jazzy riffs and sophisticated arrangements ...

German funk galore -- a huge batch of 70s gems we'd never find in years of digging on this side of the Atlantic! The grooves here are all pretty darn great -- kind of a harder and heavier take on the In Kraut vibe -- with vocals on some tracks, but a decided emphasis on kickass drums, rumbling ...

Funky psychedelia and multicultural cosmic grooves -- late 60s & early 70s discoveries collected and put together by a team of some of the deepest diggers of boundary busting pulpy material out there --the vital B-Music/Finders Keepers team! Here they've delivered one of our favorite B- ...

An excellent companion to the legendary first Disco Spectrum set -- and like the first, this one's a stunning batch of rare club tracks, expertly selected by Joey Negro! This one's even more soulful than the first set -- and is more a great set of rare club and dancefloor tracks, than it is a ...

An amazing document of dancefloor history -- Larry Levan mixing live on the final nights of the legendary Paradise Garage in 1987! Each release in this series features full, uncut sections of Larry's mix from the closing weekend -- presented in a deluxe, limited vinyl edition with silkscreened ...

An amazing document of dancefloor history -- Larry Levan mixing live on the final nights of the legendary Paradise Garage in 1987! Each release in this series features full, uncut sections of Larry's mix from the closing weekend -- presented in a deluxe, limited vinyl edition with silkscreened ...

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 of the best ...

One of the coolest set's we've ever heard from the mighty Mocambo empire -- and an amazing package that really shows the evolution in styles on the deep funk scene in recent years! Most of these cuts definitely live up to the cinematic promise of the title -- and come off strongly like some lost ...

A killer collection of dancefloor tracks -- with a unique focus on the dub mixes that hit the scene heavily in the early 80s! The package first puts together cuts compiled by Dimitri From Paris -- the DJ known for his years of devotion to rare club tracks, and a perfect choice to serve up some of ...

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 ...

A wonderful collection of older electronic music -- pulled mostly from a variety of 60s albums, and featuring some really playful little bits! The tracks are spare and analogue -- often slightly funky, but not necessarily funk oriented -- if that makes sense at all. There's plenty of bleeps, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

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, ...

A speaker-twanging spectacular -- filled with raw rare singles in a variety of genres -- from soul to blues to R&B, with some sharp-edged rockers thrown into the mix for good measure! The package is overflowing with goodness -- lots of romping rhythms that are definitely pulled from the twist ...

One of the deepest-digging entries in the Super Funk series so far -- a blistering batch of underground singles that serve up some of the roughest funk of their generation! We'll be honest in saying that we'd only heard a few of the tracks here before -- and our hats are off to BGP for taking this ...

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 ...

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 -- ...

Number 5 in the legendary series of break compilations put together by Paul Winley back in the day! This one's still going strong -- with the usual mix of bad sound, strangely titled tunes, and more! Overall, though, it's still nice to have these tracks in whatever format they arrive in -- and ...

Volume 11 in the now legendary series, reissued after being unavailable for a brief spell, this one has the orange cover with the familiar logo. With the hard to get Honey Drippers "Impeach The President", The Headhunters "God Make Me Funky", Orange Krush "Action", ...

Contemporary grooves, but all pretty darn funky -- thanks to an excellent track selection by Tobias Kirmayer -- the same guy who brought us the excellents Movements collections! A few of the titles here are of older vintage, but most are pulled from the same deep funk underground that Kirmayer ...

The coolest collection of modern funk we've ever seen -- and one that goes way beyond the familiar names of the genre that sometimes show up too much on other compilations! This one really digs deep -- and the tunes are often as rough and raw as the music of the 60s and 70s that inspired them -- a ...

A motherlode of funky soul covers -- pulled together from obscure sources as part of the great Soul Sides series! The names of the songs here are all familiar, but most of the versions are not -- remakes of soul, rock, and pop tunes by a variety of artists, mostly from the 70s -- many of whom take ...

Stones Throw does it again -- with a massive batch of older funk rarities that tops most of the rest on the market! Cold Heat is a follow-up to the label's smoking Funky 16 Corners set -- and like that one, it's overflowing with great bits that have barely (or never) been heard by the rest of the ...

A brilliant batch of funk soul tracks -- deep deep tunes from the late 60s and early 70s -- all hand-selected by the folks at soul-sides.com! The collection is the sort that trys to go way past the obvious -- and although a few tracks are familiar, it does a great job of bringing together the ...

A damn classic entry in the Super Breaks series from BGP -- one that's filled with crucial sample cuts from the old school -- some really wonderful funky nuggets, brought together here as a great reminder of the tracks that first got us digging back in the day! There's less of the totally obscure ...

The funkiest, grooviest batch of 70s Porno Grooves we've ever heard -- a huge leap up from the stereotypical bomp chicka wow wow exploitation-by-numbers sounds of the era -- really fantastic stuff culled from the 70s adult films library of Fantasy Productions! Not to be confused with the legendary ...

The third volume in this very groovy series takes a distinct Brazilian turn -- and opens up into a sparkling set of bossa jammers and hard jazzy numbers that are extremely well-selected for the set! Not all the tracks are Brazilian in origin, but they are all hard to find -- and the groove's ...

Possibly the best-ever collection of blacksploitation grooves we've ever seen -- a really comprehensive package that not only manages to cover the classics, but which also digs deep enough to come up with lots of fresh bits too! The set really sets a new level for the Soul Jazz label -- and is ...

Possibly the best-ever collection of blacksploitation grooves we've ever seen -- a really comprehensive package that not only manages to cover the classics, but which also digs deep enough to come up with lots of fresh bits too! The set really sets a new level for the Soul Jazz label -- and is ...

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 ...

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% ...

15 jazzy groovers, with a sound and a feel that you haven't really heard in other comps before (except for the now hard-to-find Priceless classic.) Tight hard modal tracks, with lots of strident rolling piano lines, cool flute and sax solos, and free-wheeling rhythm sections. Cuts include "Th ...

Heavy funk from 70s Brazil -- and a collection that digs even deeper that the legendary first Black Rio volume! These tunes are all Brazilian in origin, but draw plenty on American funk and soul of the 70s -- not just rhythms, but also instrumentation, vocals, and production styles too -- a cool ...

Back from the dead! Like us, you're probably thinking to yourself, "I haven't seen that cover image before" when you look at this 26th volume in the classic, classic breaks and beats collection series, and just like the theme of the cartoon image, this "lost" volume resurrects ...

A wonderfully groovy set -- every bit as great as you might guess from the title and the cover -- and the very first installment in the now-legendary Mood Mosaic series! The set's one of the few to bring together tunes from the groovier side of the spectrum at the end of the 60s -- work from ...

A dream come true! Someone at Blue Note is keeping their eyes and ears on the street and in the clubs -- because here's another late model conceptual triumph -- a remix project pairing current innovators in the club and hip hop underground with classic numbers from the label's vaults! The concept ...

A fantastic funky follow-up to the first Mr Thing compilation from BBE -- and a set that's equally filled with rare and soulful grooves! If we didn't know better, we'd swear he went into our crates and pilfered our own record collections -- because the package contains plenty of overlooked cuts ...

Not much of a cover -- but a really great collection of grooves -- of the sort that really takes us back to the first few home grown funky 45 compilations of the 90s! The set really goes for the best of the classic early funk 45 sound -- tracks with hard drums, sharp riffing guitars, and an ...

3rd amazing volume of lost electrono-funky grooves from the folks at Trip Records. 14 tracks in all, with a lot of stuff from rare overseas sources and limited sound library releases. We've only ever seen one of these in the original -- the amazing "Plummer Park" by Pete Jolly -- and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Just when you thought New Orleans couldn't get any funkier -- in rolls volume 3 of this excellent series! The overall sound here is much more in the 70s funk mode than previous volumes -- still nice and chunky on the rhythms, and in a definite New Orleans groove -- but done with a style that's a ...