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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 ...

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 ...

Don't like getting your fingers dusty? No problem, the folks at Strictly Breaks work hard so you don't have to! The next installment in their now famous "as sampled by . . ." series, this compilation of 31 tracks and 3 drum breaks covers a gang of material used by Nas (well, his ...

A stylistically rich set of remixes of the deep grooves mined over the years by Berlin's Sonorama label -- killer jazz, funk, soul and Afrobeat material -- remixed and spliced with club grooves, hip hop beats, electro free range funk by Eva Be, Rob Smith, Ben Human, Dr Rubberfunk, Smooth Pilots and ...

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, ...

One of the best collections of sound library funk we've ever heard -- an amazing batch of rare numbers pulled from the legendary Music De Wolfe catalog of the 70s -- all put together with a great ear for a really quirky groove! All the tracks here are certainly funky -- but they hit the groove in ...

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 -- ...

Looking for funky Brazilian work? Here's a great place to start -- as the folks at Mr Bongo have generously combined their classic first 2 albums in the Brazilian Beats series into one nicely-priced package! Both records are overflowing with killer work that's continued to groove us for years ...

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, ...

Amazing Latin grooves from the New York scene of the 60s -- and a set that goes way past the obvious to collect tracks from a range of different labels! Unlike other collections of Latin Soul and boogaloo, which are always heavy on entries from the Fania catalog, this set features much more ...

Genius work from one of the best producers living today! Ron Trent's New York productions of the past few years have been some of the most soulful singles to grace our New Grooves page -- and this set gives Ron a chance to share his musical influences from the past, inspirations in the present, ...

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 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 fusion, ...

Some of the funkiest grooves we've ever heard from the European scene -- all tracks from the late 60s and early 70s, recorded as part of the legendary Club 7 in Oslo! Although of Norwegian origin, most of these numbers lean heavily towards American funky styles of soul and jazz at the end of the ...

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 ...

Call it psycho-funk, call it Brit easy, call it downtempo abstract -- whatever the case, it's all great! This second volume in one of our favorite all-time series is a stunner -- and it comes up with a sparkling blend of very fresh grooves that we've only ever heard matched by a few other ...

The mighty Soul Patrol Records is firmly back in business -- and this time around they're serving up a collection of newer work pulled from the catalogs of modern funk labels Soul Fire and Timmion! The work on the set grooves with the raw deep funk power of obscure 70s funky 45s -- and although we' ...

Porno grooves aplenty -- and a great batch of weird and funky tunes that's one of the best in the Mood Mosaic series! The set mixes a few sex-oriented tracks by more famous artists, with others that clearly come from obscure European sources -- and which really make great use of the sexual ...

A German disco extravaganza -- and a much-needed look at one of the strongest 70s club outlets next to the US! At first glance, the mix of Germany and disco might seem like an unlikely fit -- but the German scene gave the world some key disco hits back in the 70s, as well as a huge variety of ...

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 seems to ...

Easily the darkest volume so far in this all-dark series -- and a set that's filled with a fair bit of analogue electronics from the New York underground! The style here is a bit colder, sparer, and less dancefloor oriented as the previous two volumes -- and the music often shows the same kind of ...

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 ...

Poland sounds funkier than ever here -- thanks to a really deep-digging selection of grooves from the 70s! As with previous volumes, this one's put together by the Soul Service DJ Team -- and this time around, they seem to really be opening up their bag -- increasing the styles of music offered ...

A killer entry in this Brown Sugar series -- one that's overflowing with essential funk tracks from the late 60s and early 70s -- including some key cuts that first got us started loving music like this many years ago! The package features mostly numbers that have been reissued before, but it does ...

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 ...

You'll definitely feel something move when you hear this hip collection of jazzy grooves -- and if it's not the earth, it'll probably be something low on your anatomy! Like others in the Brown Sugar series, this one's overflowing with cuts from the Fantasy Records family of labels -- key 70s cuts ...

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 ...

Don't let the Euro-looking guys on the cover put you off, because this is one massively soulful set -- filled with jazzy grooves that are mostly from the good ol' US of A! Most of the work here is from the super-deep Fantasy Records catalog -- and much of it is from the 70s too -- pulled from that ...

A great blend of jazz, soul, and funk -- mostly short numbers that pack plenty of punch in a tiny space -- grooving together in a range of 60s mod and 70s funk influences! The package is plenty darn soulful -- and reminds us of the great Soulsugar collections from a few years back -- filled with ...

Plenty of fusion here -- a heady brew of jazz, funk, and soul -- all put together with a nice sense of tightness that really makes the grooves sparkle! The package is heavy on gems from the Fantasy Records catalog of the 70s -- cuts that really define the newly sophisticated sound the label was ...

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 ...

Brazilian breaks galore -- a motherlode of incredible funk record from the Brazilian scene of the 70s -- most of them rarer and even more compelling than American work of the time! There's a really crazy approach to the groove on most of these titles -- a style that's not just a simple rehash of ...

A glorious batch of unearthed soul and funk from the early 70s central Ohio scene -- the storming singles of Prix label -- culled from ultra rare 45s plus previous unreleased gems! Prix was the imprint started to release work captured at Columbus's Harmonic Sounds studios commercially -- ...

Detroit finally gets its funky due -- stepping out from the shadows cast by endless Motown and Northern Soul compilations, and fixing its funky wagon to a great batch of rare indie groovers! The package brings together some real gems from labels that have barely, if ever, been reissued in the past ...

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 ...

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 Drells, but ...

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 groundbreaking compilation -- and one of the first sets to ever explore the rare treasure trove of grooves from the sound library scene! This one's filled with 16 sparkling grooves from the vaults of the KPM record library -- a rare source for radio and TV production tunes that's been mined by ...

A groovy little collection of funk rock tracks from Mexico -- one that features a number of surprising grooves we'd never heard before! There's not much to go on from the cover, but most of these numbers appear to be from the late 60s or early 70s -- and the overall vibe is heavy rock, but with a ...

The first compilation in a legendary series that broke open the crates, and let the rest of the world have easy access to classic breaks and beats! 6 tracks in all, each with the break edited and extended: The Monkees' "Mary Mary", Bad Bascomb's "Black Grass", The Winstons' ...

Although Eddie Bo is long known to Dusty Groove customers as a funky peformer in his own right, during his years on the New Orleans soul scene, he also spent a good deal of time producing records for other artists. This long-overdue compilation brings together a funky funky batch of recordings ...

Killer tracks from one of New Orleans funkiest producers! Wardell Quezerque may well have been the number two man in the Crescent City next to Allen Toussaint -- and as you'll hear on this long-overdue tribute to his work, he was cutting a heck of a lot of great funk at the end of the 60s! The ...

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 ...

New Orleans just keeps on getting funkier and funkier -- and why not? The city's music has always been some of the hardest and heaviest around -- and even back in the days before we started to call funk "funk", there was a component of the New Orleans groove that was always pretty darn ...

The hippest side of the late 60s Latin Soul years -- work from a number of tiny little New York labels -- all of which are a good deal rarer than some of the bigger indies of the time! The collection here is totally great, and totally fresh -- filled with numbers that were not even hits back in ...

The funkiest visit to New Orleans yet -- and the best collection of Tuff City's series of lost grooves from the Crescent City scene! This volume moves way past the obvious New Orleans classics, and really digs deeply into a realm of lesser-known artists and singles -- coming up with a groove that's ...