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A little bit funky, and a lotta bit groovy -- a really wonderful little record that's an odd melange of soul, funk, and bossa elements! The pair at the front -- Daniela and Ann -- sing together in a harmonic style that's a bit like the female voices in Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66 -- but the ...

An obscure album by this enigmatic European singer, and one with a few nice moments! Asha's got one of the oddest voices in soul music -- with a sound that's both produced in a weird compressed way, and also a bit flat and campy -- but at the right moments, this vocal style works well with funky ...

Cut on the heels of Melba's run in the musical Hair, this early set features versions of the tunes "The Flesh Failures", "Easy To Be Hard", and "I Love Making Love To You", all from the Rado/Ragni/MacDermot team. Arrangements are by Charlie Calello and Jimmy Wisner,and ...

With a name like the Jubilators, it's gotta be gospel -- but with a title like Togetherness, it's also gotta be that hip kind of late 60s gospel that was borrowing a lot back from soul music -- or a least the core elements that soul had been taking from gospel during the course of the 60s. The ...

An excellent collection of some of Louis Jordan's best work -- his seminal 40s sides for Decca, recorded with his hard-swinging Timpany Five combo! The tracks are short and swinging, a key precursor to R&B and later soul -- delivered with an undeniable groove and plenty of good nature from ...

A monster! Foxy Brown is Willie Hutch's magnificent soundtrack for Foxy Brown -- a Pam Grier blacksploitation film from the early 70s -- and it's pure genius all the way through, a record filled with some of the best funky soundtrack cuts of the era! Willie's got a real Curtis Mayfield sound here ...

One of the greatest albums of all time -- a masterpiece of moody soul, spacey vocals, and jazzy vibes -- all produced by the legendary Roy Ayers! Ramp take their name from the anagram Roy Ayers Musical Productions -- and in a way, the group's the summation of all the genius that Roy had been ...

Long-overdue reissue to Willie Hutch's classic score about pimpin' & mackin'! The album (and film) is virtually a handbook for junior grade hoods, and we can remember back around '90 when the first wave of candy-ass hardcore hip hoppers were coming up, and this was sort of a holy grail. Still ...

Fantastic stuff -- incredibly hard and incredibly funky, and a masterpiece all the way through! Long before there was any talk of gangster rap, Jalal of the Last Poets recorded this album of gamblin', pimpin', and hard double dealin'. It's a fantastic album-long ride through the dark side of the ...

One of the coolest covers we've ever heard of "Jungle Fever" -- supported by a bunch of Latin tracks that are also pretty darn great too! The set's something of a knockoff album, designed to cash in on Chakachas' big title hit -- but like most of the best albums of this nature, there's ...

Amazing stuff! This is one of the best ever soul albums to come out of Chicago -- and it may well be one of the best soul albums to ever come out of the 60s! Syl Johnson mixes west side bluesy soul with some great Chicago soul arrangements by Jimmy Jones & The Pieces Of Peace -- and the ...

Here's where it all happens! George Clinton lands the mothership, forges the space-funk image, and blows the P-Funk empire into an arena-filling mega-star act! The record's got some extremely tight numbers that mix the best of the group's new slick playing with the edginess and naughtiness of the ...

An amazing record that stunned the world almost as much as Marvin's previous effort, What's Going On. Like that one, this album's an amazingly unified batch of tracks -- with a visionary message about sex and love that is as honest and bracing as the politics and social commentary of his previous ...

One of Roy Ayers' greatest albums of the 70s -- a set that tightens up the groove from previous Polydor productions, yet still keeps all the soul intact! The record picks up the style begun with the Mystic Voyage album, and pushes it to some slightly tighter territory -- a more focused Roy Ayers ...

Great lost funky soul material from one of the few non-rap acts on Sugarhill. The group maintain a very strong jazzy club sound -- with a bit of a Wayne Henderson/At Home groove, and a nice polished finish. Some tracks even have a strong positive vibe, and the kind of righteous mellow soul that ...

A fantastic bit of tripped out funk! Cane & Able were one of the many groups that came out of the collective surrounding the Lafayette Afro-Rock Band in the early 70s -- and like that group, Cane & Able draw on a wide range of influences to create a heavy funky sound. The album mixes the ...

One of the least-remembered P-Funk links of the late 70s -- a great little side project from the team of Glenn Goins and Jerome Brailey, and one with heavy, bassy, partyful groove! The style here is almost even tighter than that of Parliament or Funkadelic at the time -- in a similar George ...

An excellent bit of spacey funk -- and one of the most obscure Gamble/Huff records ever recorded! Yellow Sunshine are a hip funky jazz group, very tight in the riffing department, with a sound that would be more at home on Fantasy Records than Philly International. Dexter Wansel's in the group ...

A funky holy grail -- one of the rarest of the rare, and the only album ever cut by funky guitarist Carl "Sherlock" Holmes! Carl's work on the guitar is incredible -- fast riffing and jazzy, with a style that's dirtier and messier than some of his 70s jazz funk contemporaries, but which ...

Dr. John's second record, cut back in the days when there was a lot more freakiness to his bag -- as you'll notice by his eyeballs in the photo on the back cover! The tracks are wild, funky, and messed-up New Orleans R&B filtered through a heavy dose of psychedelics -- a unique little mix that ...

Incredible funky guitar -- an all-instrumental gem from the legendary Little Beaver -- quite different than his other vocal albums of the 70s, and a fair bit funkier too! The sound here is amazing -- lots of snakey compressed guitar parts, nice wah wah moments, and a dope laidback groove that's ...

Fantastic live stuff from the classic early period of Kool & the Gang! The set swings mightily with a sound that's hardly matched on some of their studio albums, and the band proves that their tightness isn't just a batch of studio tricks as they blow away the crowd at the Sex Machine night ...

A wicked little soundtrack that's about as badass as you can get for the 70s -- the obscure score for the black answer to Warren Beatty's famous Shampoo! The music on the set is really great -- sparer than usual for a blacksploitation soundtrack, with lots of nice instrumental tracks that riff on ...

A great album from Kool & The Gang! The set's designed to focus on the jazzier side of the group -- and it sifts through the first few albums to come up with some of the more sophisticated (yet still totally funky!) numbers by the band, giving a good picture of the many sides of their talents, ...

Very righteous work from Fontella Bass -- an album done after her time at Chess Records, and after her work in Paris with the Art Ensemble Of Chicago -- in a heartfelt, southern soul mode that's totally great! Fontella's back working with producer Oliver Sain, who first brought her fame back in ...

Tripped out fusiony funk -- with lots of great solo work! These guys have kind of a jazz rock approach (hence the "both worlds" name!) -- one that makes for some tight bass and drum work, lots of choppy guitar, and spacey keyboards interlaced with some funkier horn solos. The production ...

Reissue of his hard-to-find LP of beautiful mellow funky soul, produced by Bill Withers for Columbia, and issued at a time when Columbia didn't seem to know what to do with LPs like this -- but when they still were able to do a great job with them. This one has lain nearly forgotten for years, and ...

A rare gem from Maceo Parker -- the second album cut with his King's Men group in the short time he was away from James Brown in the early 70s! The set was done for the Excello southern soul label, and it's got a bit of a different groove than his work for House Of Fox with the same group -- a ...

An incredible record -- quite possibly our favorite ever by Marvin Gaye! The album is quite unique -- written by Leon Ware, and recorded in collaboration with him -- done as a "suite" of tracks based on themes of passion, joy, and new love -- all of which were very much on the mind of ...

Mandrill's first album of funky Latin jazz and soul -- a landmark in crossover styles that still sounds remarkably fresh today! Unlike later records, which feature a tighter funk sound, this one has the band jamming out in a Latin-inflected mode that sounds like some of the best Chicano bands from ...

A great record -- by a group we know almost nothing about! Haze were an excellent little combo that had a clean and funky feel -- lots of guitar in the groove, giving their work a sweet little funky rock feel, made even more so by the group's nice use of heavy drums. Surprisingly, though, our ...

Excellent stuff from Blow Fly -- and a great bit of funk that's a hilarious parody of disco! Blow's band funks it up with riffs that you'd hear from The JBs, BT Express, or other groups of the time -- while Blow himself sings these very off-color, and very funny lyrics that rip off the overt ...

A massively wonderful album from Dayton -- an album that has the group really getting their groove together -- still sticking a bit in the older funk mode from the past, but also bringing in some warmer, deeper touches to their music too! There's a solidness here that's undeniable -- a balance of ...

One of THE psychedelic funk masterpieces of the early 70s -- a guitar-heavy set with a very fuzzed up feel -- one that's halfway between the work of Fugi and some of the best early sides on Westbound Records! But more than just guitar-heavy funk, Midnight Movers also have a fair bit of a groove -- ...

One of the nicest early albums by this great 70s soul collective -- featuring a strong mix of funk and mellow soul tracks, with backing by the Nite Liters on some tracks, and production by the great Harvey Fuqua throughout! Titles include "Wild Flower", "It's Been A Long Time", ...

Further genius from James Brown at the start of the 70s -- a record that's starting to show some of the more open-ended grooves he'd explore with the JBs on their own albums -- longer, stretched-out tracks that are way more than simple funk and soul! There's a sense of freewheeling energy here ...

A definite mother from James Brown -- the kind of all-funky album that few of his contemporaries could ever hope to match! If you've ever doubted the sheer raw power of James at the end of the 60s, the first few notes of this one will definitely make you a convert -- and the stretched-out grooves ...

One of the few cases in the history of pop music where the record is worth all the hype! Marvin blew everyone's mind when he unleashed this amazing suite of political soul tunes -- not only just because he'd moved past the simple love songs of earlier years, but also because he was working with an ...

A heck of a great little guitar funk album -- one of two rare sides cut by the amazing Eddie Senay! The record's all-instrumental -- and Eddie's fuzzed-out guitar takes center stage over tripped-out arrangements that recall the best psychedelic funk of the early 70s -- bubbling along with just ...

A bit sweet soul, a bit funky -- and a real indie soul classic from the early 70s! The album's the second from The Dynamics -- a group from Detroit, but one who work here with a style that's much more in the east coast mode of the All Platinum/Stang generation! The production is nice and mellow ...

Reissue of an amazingly hard to find funk album on RCA! The Soulciety group was the brainchild of Boobie Knight, and they were one of the many funky groups that fell under the supervision of Harvey Fuqua while he was working for RCA. Boobie's group has a totally different sound than the others on ...

An excellent early album from this massive soul collective! The album captures the group near the beginning of their career -- when they were sort of a funky soul army, featuring the instrumental talents of The Nite-Liters, the vocal strength of a number of excellent members, and the raw ...

A lost classic in the funky poetry mode of the 70s -- and right up there with the best work from the time by the Last Poets, Jim Ingram, or Gil Scott Heron! Bama's got a rough-edged voice that works very well with the funkier backings of the set -- handled by a team that includes Bernard Purdie on ...

A landmark set from a group who only ever gave the world two albums -- but who've gone on to have a huge influence over the years! This initial offering from Breakwater is a masterful blend of jazzy fusion and mellower soul -- a sound sifted together so perfectly, it really tops the rest of the ...

Here's a rare one! Arranger/producer Dave Matthews was to James Brown what David Axelrod was to Cannonball Adderley. Although Matthews didn't work on all of James' records from the early 70s, he did have quite a hand in some of The Godfather's classic funky material -- especially the stuff with a ...

Mad funky soul from King Hannibal -- a down and dirty singer from the Atlanta scene of the 70s! The notes on the back say "He's black, he's proud, he's arrogant -- the combination is powerful" -- and we've gotta say that we agree with that assessment, because King really grabs his groove ...

Funky madness -- and one of the greatest funky instrumental albums ever! This one's so rare that only a few funk collectors have it in their collection -- but it's a totally massive bit of funk that's way more than just plain "rare" (which can sometimes also mean snoozy for collectors!) ...

An excellent Quincy Jones score that stands head and shoulders above the soundtrack to the first film in this series, In The Heat Of The Night. Q is in fine fine form with this material -- adding in a lot more funk than before, to fit the uptown theme of the film. There's lots of nice jazzy ...

One of the most righteous albums ever issued on the Philadelphia International label -- a heavy batch of ensemble funk work, done with the same sort of righteous edge as early albums by Earth Wind & Fire, coupled with the guitar driven energy of the Bar-Kays, and some of the Latinized grooves ...

A great reissue! This album is probably the best ever by this legendary Baltimore soul group -- and it's darn impossible to find on the original vinyl! Includes the massive breakbeat track "World", which starts with great hard drums, then leaps into a nice tight funky soul groove. ...