One of the greatest series of funky breaks ever! The set features a stunning array of hip jazzy grooves – of the sort you're bound to recognize from samples by Tribe Called Quest or Pete Rock. Titles include "Love Sounds" by Intimate Strangers, "Algebrique" by Shoche, "Solstice" by Brian Bennett, "Dirty Drugs" by H Thieme, "Bass In Action" by Toni Rubioi, "Soft Wind" by Gary Pacific Orchestra, "Attention" by Head West, "Jane B" by Jane Birkin, "Railroad" by Monk Higgins, and "Signals" by Gerhard Trede & His Electronic Instruments. Fantastic – an the cuts are all super darn rare, many from European sources! LP, Vinyl record album

EPMD's incredible full length debut – straight up classic hip hop that gave the genre a whole new twist. Bottom heavy funked up Long Island hip hop with what was considered slow flow rhymes at the time, and Erick and Parrish's take on funky samples that managed to bring together hard to get breaks and commercial cuts in an age when you could have both street appeal and indie cred. With the classic cuts "It's My Thing", "You Gots To Chill", "Strictly Business", "You're A Customer", "Get Off The Bandwagon" and "I'm Housin'", plus "So Let The Funk Flow", "The Steve Martin", "DJ K La Boss" and "Jane". 5 bonus tracks on the 25th Anniversary Edition: "I'm Housin' (UK Mix)", "You Gots To Chill (Dub Version)", "You're A Customer (Dub Version)" and more. CD

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 in the mix – but as usual for the Poets, the whole thing's put together with a sharp edge of its own – a keen ear for catching the best elements of the original music, and distilling them down to a super-powerful essence – then re-presenting and oddly-producing them with some very unique sounds! Karl Hector joins the group on vocals and percussion – and other instrumentation includes ballaphon, metallophon, horns, and keyboards – all used in really enigmatic ways, and with other-worldly sounds that are simply amazing! Titles include "Followed Path", "When The Sun Breaks Through", "Sahara Swing", "Jabore (part 3)", "Debere", "Transition", "Mystical Brotherhood", "Toure Samar", and "Passau Run". LP, Vinyl record album