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Hard grooving funky soul from the Australian scene courtesy Randa & The Soul Kingdom -- with powerhouse female vocalist Randa Khamis out from front a killer combo! The group rolls in the hard charging school of the international deep funk underground, but Randa's soulful, passionate vocals ...

A diverse, far reaching approach to funk flavors the second full length from Lack Of Afro -- who may lack the follicles, but aren't lacking the love -- with a more sophisticated and confident feel this time out! The crew follows through on the promise of the debut here, continuing their way of ...

A feast of funky mod instrumentals from the great Bongolian! This grooooooovy London combo takes the best bits of the 60s and 70s, rolls them into a tight retro approach that includes organ, clavinet, flute, guitar, timbales, vibes, and of course, plenty of bongo work -- with a sound that's lean, ...

Mod grooves from British funk scene survivors Big Boss Man -- returning to blow our minds with an excellent dish on Blow Up Records! The Boss has been tearing it up for years now with a blend of organ heavy grooves, funky drums, vamping guitars and even some occasional vocals -- and Full English ...

Greasy grooves from The Grits -- a sackful of funk that more than lives up to its raw image on the cover! The group work in a very classic style here -- tight quartet jamming with a heavy instrumental groove -- clearly steeped in the best sounds of the funky 45 underground of the 60s and 70s, but ...

Hard grooving throwback funk, mod jazz, and 60s r&b flourishes from the mighty Fantastics -- a pretty deft mix of instrumental funk & soul with a mastery of classic styles! The core combo features organ & piano from Greg Boraman, who has roots in fellow UK funk combo the Soul ...

Nothing messy here -- as the Burners are tighter than ever, and bat this one out of the park with a massively funky groove! The core combo features organ, guitar, and drums -- with occasional horns added from time to time -- and most numbers here step off with a really badass instrumental groove ...

The debut full length from England's funkiest combo! The New Mastersounds are a current group -- but they've got a deep funk approach that puts them in the same camp as 60s funky 45 combos, or that of more recent acts in the new funk underground, like those on Desco or Soul Fire records. The ...

Heavy funk from Speedometer -- one of the coolest combos cooking in the contemporary deep funk underground! The album offers a great chance to hear the group live -- playing with a sound that's every bit as sharp as on their studio records, with an edge that's even grittier -- proof that these ...

An amazing collection of furiously funky organ jazz from the JP's -- a Finnish combo schooled in the groovy Fender Rhodes and Hammond B-3 and C-3 jazz of Jimmy McGriff and likeminded figures -- and often played the with the funky intensity of the JBs! This 3 CD collection gives about as great of ...

Nothing robotic here at all -- as the groove is fluid, moving, and plenty darn organic -- a heavy dose of deep funk from the mighty Impellers! The group seem to mix in a good deal of Afro Funk elements with their straight ahead funk -- particularly in the way the horns come together, the rhythms ...

Contemporary funk, but with a groove deep enough to warrant the "rare" promised in the title -- as most of these numbers would stand strongly next to the best funky 45s from the late 60s and early 70s! The production is great throughout -- very hard-edged, and with a back-to-basics feel ...

The Dynamites come to town and burn it down -- once again getting some heavy help on vocals from Tenessee soul legend Charles Walker! The group seem even sharper than before -- tighter rhythms at the bottom, instrumentation that kicks things up a few notches than the last album, and production ...

The funky titans are at it again! "Deuces Up, Double Down" is a killer new track from the group -- an original tune written by drummer Miles Tackett, with a heavy scattershot beat at the bottom, and lots of loud, fast, honking horns over the top. The guitar player's licking away at the ...

A whole new dimension in deep funk -- Brazilian-tinged tunes served up by members of The Heliocentrics and Quantic Soul Orchestra! The sound here lives up to the best Samba Soul modes of 70s Brazil -- grooves that are rooted in American traditions of funk and soul, particularly those of the James ...

Latin funk & jazz from Cesar's Salad -- bringing the Latin Beat and lots of it -- killing it on a percussion heavy set of numbers from the Latin, jazz, and Brazilian canons with their own hard grooving style! The sound is fully steeped in the classic influences, but those influences are quite ...

A strong step forward from Breakestra -- really moving out of the deep funk underground here, but never losing the groove that got them there in the first place! The set's got a depth that goes beyond most of the group's other work -- way more than just a funky cover band sort of feel, and instead ...

Shawn Lee's always been one to revive some of our favorite grooves from the past -- and this time around, he takes on the great 60s genre of the surf film -- a soundtrack mode that has a lot more to offer than just Ventures and Beach Boys tunes! Lee works beautifully here in a blend of some of the ...

Space funk specialist Mr Chop takes on the beatcraft genius of Pete Rock on For Pete's Sake -- blueprint Pete Rock singles and benchmark beats -- refashioned as fuzzed out psychedelic funk instrumentals! It works out masterfully, and very much in the mold of some of our other favorite material by ...

A massive second set of grooves in the Ultimate Breaks & Beats series -- new versions of 70s soul and funk classics originally used to great fame as samples in old school hip hop tracks! The music has a sound that's a lot tighter than our description -- a sock-solid groove that comes from live ...

The amazing full length debut of Hypnotic Brass Ensemble -- a cool combo from the Chicago scene who've been making some big waves around the world over the past few years! The brass-heavy group have a family legacy that links them to the Artistic Heritage Ensemble of Phil Cohran -- and an approach ...

Jazzy funk and an all around pretty diverse batch of tunes from the JTQ -- with some mighty Rhodes funk tunes, some more groovy jazz tunes, some instro soul, and bits of bossa! James opens up the Rhodes and Hammond funk flavors we best know him for when the mood hits, but we really love the ...

A fantastically funky full length set from Gizelle Smith -- a hell of a great singer who's really been winning our ears with her funky 45s -- now stepping out with an even more badass sound in the space of this album! Gizelle's groove is right up there with the hippest female singers in the deep ...

Textural mood funk from the team of Shawn Lee and Clutchy Hopkins -- the second collaborative batch from this dynamic and well matched duo! We loved Clutch Of The Tiger, but they take a profound step forward on Fascinating Fingers -- if they were feeling each others styles out on that set, and ...

Damn! Quantic really blows the roof off with this one -- taking us even farther on a musical journey than ever before, and making us bow to his mighty talents in ways we never expected! The album's a really unique session recorded in Colombia, with help from an international batch of musicians ...

The free spirit sounds of the Burnt Sugar collective Chopped & Screwed -- featuring remixes, outakes, and conduction from group, and bits of the Greg Tate's score for the film Black Body Radiation -- featuring Lewis Barnes, Matana Roberts, Nikiki Nicks, Butch Morris and more! Endearingly ...

Killer work from leading lights of the neo classic funk scene -- the mighty Breakestra -- their debut for Strut Records and some of the best work they've ever done! Music Man Miles & the crew knock us out each time, and the 4 years between the stellar Hit The Floor LP and this one was worth ...

One of the hippest non-reissue records we've heard so far from the Jazzman Records empire -- a massive set of grooves with a really odd sort of feel! Natural Yogurt Band work in spare, funky territory -- serving up some very heavy drums (played by Wayne Fullwood, formerly of Little Barrie) -- ...

A sweet funky project from Bruno "Patchworks" Hovart -- a set that's filled with lots of 70s funk elements, but which keeps up the groove we've come to love in all of his previous Patchworks projects! There's a great blend here between live funk instrumentation and dancefloor direction -- ...

Akimbo may not be a household name, but the group's members have played with Brand New Heavies, Soul II Soul, and Jamiroquai -- and they've got a sound that more than lives up to that heritage! In a way, the groove here really takes us back to the best styles of the early days of Acid Jazz -- as ...

A whole new sound for Quantic, and a great one too -- a mixture of his older funk with newer influences from Latin music -- all in a blend that's totally fresh, and very unique! This "Latin chapter" of the Quantic sound has been showing up a bit on remixes and singles over the past few ...

The final chapter in Burnt Sugar's 2001 trilogy -- and quite possibly the most subtle, as the group's sound builds slowly over time, showing their complex approach to the music -- an indescribable blend of soul jazz, jamming funk, black rock, and larger, more complicated influences. The group's ...

Arranger/producer Greg Tate and his titanic Burnt Sugar collective continues to ascend into its own intergalactic space station of heavy cosmic jamming, instrumental funky jazz, and wildly spacious trippiness with this double disc -- by far the most unique and individualistic indie funk album we've ...

These guys keep getting better and better -- and this album may well be their best set to date! The album's a massive double-length set -- broken down into 2 different discs, one titled London, the other titled Oakland -- both of them each with their own theme. The London set has a more laidback ...

The most ambitious album yet from one of the most ambitious collectives in the funk underground! This time the Burnt Sugar group has come up with the sprawling, classically-aware The Rites -- a set of tracks that is officially inspired by Stravinsky's Le Sacre Du Printemps, but cooks up just ...

A baker's dozen painstakingly recreated instrumental versions of sample classics from the legendary Ultimate Breaks & Beats series -- full on instrumentals of these bedrock funk & soul tracks -- faithfully laid down by a capable crew of east coast funk players including El Michels and ...

Way more than just an introduction to the work of guitarist Eddie Roberts -- as the set's a wonderfully rich tapestry of the full spectrum of his talents -- way more than you might expect from Eddie's work in The New Mastersounds! On his own, Roberts is a much jazzier player -- one with echoes of ...

Sweet Hammond funk and spacier sounds from Soul Sugar -- the brainchild of Parisian keyboard maestro Guillaume Metenier -- pretty much killing it on a blend of tripped out 70s style funk and some more eclectic grooves! The keys drive the sound masterfully, with a mix of Hammond organ, Fender ...

Even more soulful stuff than before from The Baker Brothers -- a record that really has them getting past the gritty funk of earlier records, and hitting a fuller groove that's totally great! The sound here is expanded past the guitar-heavy sounds that we first came to love from the Bakers -- and ...

The debut full length from Heliocentrics -- the cosmic funk project from Malcolm Catto and a tasteful group of players -- touching on funky drummer hip hop beatcraft, hazy psychedelia, leftfield jazz and global accented grooves! The Heliocentrics have backed DJ Shadow on occasion, and Catto has ...

One of the best blends of global funky elements we've ever heard -- a hip little project that draws on dub, funk, Latin, Ethio-jazz, and more -- all handled beautifully by a west coast collective of players from Orgone, Breakestra, Sound Directions, and Connie Price & The Keystones! Imagine a ...

Massively messed-up grooves -- and a rare one-off collaboration between Money Mark, Shawn Lee, and Tommy Guerrero -- all artists we've come to love for their own funky music over the years! The sound here is as wild as you'd expect from the cover -- a really trippy approach to funk -- spun out ...

Deep funk from the James Taylor Quartet -- back to basics after all these years, kicking it large with a small combo Hammond sound! James is still one of the best organists we can think of -- steeped in classic styles with a no-nonsense approach that goes beyond all the pretenders out there ...

The most deeply soulful record we've ever heard from Shawn Lee -- a massive tribute to the soul sounds of the 60s and 70s, served up with help from a host of hip singers who include Darondo, Nicole Willis, Karime Kendra, and Fanny Franklin! Lee's grooves are as funky as ever, but the ...

Sax-heavy soul from The Soultwisters -- a group who clearly draw strong inspiration from the sound of King Curtis on Atlantic Records -- and who do a pretty good job with his sound on this sweet little set! Instrumentation is nice and lean -- lots of heavy drums, mixed with guitar, bass, and the ...

One of the hippest albums from the funky empire that includes Poets Of Rhythm and The Whitefield Brothers -- a set of Afro-exotic grooves that really blows our minds -- and which opens the group up into whole new territory! There's echoes of Mulatu, Salah Ragab, and other older exotic funk artists ...

Funk and psychedelia steeped jazzy grooves from Stonephace -- an incredible project from Brit saxophone player and boundary skirting soundscape crafter Larry Stabbins -- adding up to one of the best albums on the always reliable Tru Thoughts label! Stabbins brings a jazz pedigree to the table, but ...

They definitely got the title right on this one -- as the album's a deep funk monster through and through -- easily one of the best examples of contemporary funk we've heard in a long long time! The liner notes are a bit sketchy on the details of the session, but apparently the tracks were ...

The New Mastersounds always sound grittier in a live setting -- and this album is great proof of that fact! The drums seem harder, the guitar a bit more edgey, and the Hammond let loose even more than before -- all flying together on grooves that run a bit longer than some of the combo's studio ...

Stoner jamband Mushroom meet up with the rock-heavy lyrics of Gary Floyd -- and the result is a dark album of very trippy proportions! The record's actually pretty heavy on the funk tip -- bubbling with a sound that's steeped in early 70s influences -- and although Floyd's vocals get kind of heavy ...