Fame/Kent (UK), 1972. (reissue)
A hard one to find by Candi – and a classic batch of tracks produced by Muscle Shoals legend Rick Hall – probably the best producer ever to work with Candi's voice! The style's a bit smoother than on some of Candi's first few recordings – but still very much in a deep soul mode, ...
Columbia/Omnivore, 1975.
A huge breakout moment for disco in the 70s – the first album from Silver Convention, a very early example of the European power on the club scene! The group's the brainchild of arranger Sylvester Levay and producer Michael Kunze – who come up with some great German disco rhythms for ...
Grenade/P-Vine (Japan), 1975. (reissue)
Some of the funkiest work we've ever heard from Vernon Garrett – recorded in California, but with a nicely gritty southern soul sound! The tunes have some of the bluesy inflections of Vernon's more famous work – but they also come across with a groove that's tighter, especially on the ...
Now Again/Stones Throw, Late 1960s/Early 1970s. 2LP (reissue)
A now-legendary compilation – an early effort to reissue funk on the Stones Throw label – and a set that virtually gave birth to all the fantastic projects they've done under the Now Again banner over the years! Compiler Egon has gone through a range of rare singles, masters, and demos ...
Musidisc/Strut (UK), Mid 1970s. (reissue)
An amazing Afro-Funk classic – and one of the strongest albums ever by this famous ensemble of Paris-based, African-influenced funky players! You may have heard their work on the Africa Funk compilation, so you probably know that they've got slammin drums, fuzzy funky guitars, and lots of ...
Makossa/Strut, 1976. (reissue)
A fantastic bit of Afro funky soul – reissued here with the original cover and everything! The album's probably the best-ever by the Lafayette Afro-Rock band – recorded in Paris, with a cool mix of 70s funk grooving and strange African influences. Includes the classic break track ...
Bear Family (Germany),
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Scepter/Friday Music, 1974. (reissue)
The monumental debut of BT Express – and an excellent funk album that often gets overlooked by fans of the music because of the band's bigger fame as a disco group! This first record has the combo grooving hard and instrumentally – in the mode of a tight blacksploitation soundtrack, ...
Crown/P-Vine (Japan), 1963. (reissue)
Titles include "Hey Miss Tina", "Stringin Along", "I Miss You So", "Nobody Wants Me", "All The Blues All The Time", and "The Wild One".
Ripete/P-Vine (Japan), 1983. (reissue)
Wonderfully groovy soul from The Entertainers – a group who's recording here strongly for the beach music scene in the Carolinas, but who have an appeal that's much more universal! The tunes are mostly in an upbeat, midtempo mode – with a gentle bounce and a nice sort of step in the ...
Dark Horse/Warner, 1976. (reissue)
A great later moment from the Five Stairsteps – served up by a mature version of the group, who are now all adults at the time of recording – and come together in a great new groove! The album's a modern soul treasure through and through – upbeat and a bit funky at times, but ...
Motown/Soulmusic.com (UK),
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Edsel/Demon (UK), 2LP
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Edsel/Demon (UK), 2LP
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Midsong,
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Nacional,
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Vault/Soulgramma (Italy), 1969. (reissue)
A righteous treasure from the end of the 60s – an album of vocal tracks recorded by the Minister Of Information for the Black Panther Party, set to backings from the legendary Horace Tapscott! Elaine Brown's less of a soul singer than a powerful speaker who delivers the lyrics with an almost ...
Harlem Shuffle (UK),
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ORG, 2LP
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Westbound/ORG,
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Soul Makossa/Diggers Factory, 1976. (reissue)
Mid 70s Afro Funk from the great Manu Dibango – adding in a bit more of a full production sound than on his earlier albums, but still sounding pretty darn nice! There's definitely more of an uptempo club groove going on – and the band has a lot more players than ever before – but ...
Driven By The Music,
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Invictus/Demon (UK), 1971. 2LP (reissue)
An insane bit of fuzzed-out funk! This is Parliament's rare first album – a trippy batch of tunes that come off of Clinton's experimentation in the Detroit soul scene, infused by the rock-heavy energy of the city at the time, and probably a heck of a lot of cannabis, too! The record is ...
Source/Demon (UK), 1979. (reissue)
Very cool electric funk album with a nice, spacey, jazzy vibe. Travis Biggs plays electric harp (and we don't mean harmonica!), and the sound is very breezy and cool. The whole thing's got an amazing sound in the right place, and is especially great on the track "Tibetan Serenity". ...
Omnivore, 2LP
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Invictus/Demon, 1975. 2LP (reissue)
A massive album by Lamont Dozier – probably his best ever! Every cut's a winner, and the LP shines with a sharpness and tightness that's missing from some of Lamont's other LPs from the 70s. The songwriting is impeccable – and as the album progresses, you get that eerie "deja ...
Demon,
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Omnivore, (reissue)
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Music On Vinyl (Netherlands), 1978. (pic cover, reissue)
"Dance To The Drummer's Beat" was real stormer in the South Bronx back in the day, and a great bit of uptempo funk with congas – the break and chorus are both great, and the single's like finding a page in the history of hip hop book! (Note: This item is not for sale online until ...
Alligator, 2004.
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P-Vine (Japan), 1977/1979.
A huge musical treasure – a full unreleased album by Weldon Irvine, plus a bonus video as well! The music is from the stage play Young Gifted & Broke – a short-lived production by Weldon, and one that's done with some of the same hip modes he was bringing to his own music of the ...
Strata East/Culture Factory, 1974. (reissue)
A beautiful jazzy classic, and perhaps Gil Scott-Heron's most perfectly realized album ever! The record has a completely sophisticated jazzy approach – one that's miles ahead from even Gil's previous work on Flying Dutchman, and which shows him to be one of the most distinctive and emotive ...
Strata East/Culture Factory, 1974.
A beautiful jazzy classic, and perhaps Gil Scott-Heron's most perfectly realized album ever! The record has a completely sophisticated jazzy approach – one that's miles ahead from even Gil's previous work on Flying Dutchman, and which shows him to be one of the most distinctive and emotive ...
Paula/P-Vine (Japan), 1972. (reissue)
Harmony soul heaven – and the only full album from The Montclairs! The group were a sublime vocal group from the 70s – one with a sound to rival The Whatnauts or The Moments, but which also had a bit more of the super-dope touches you'd expect from their look on the cover of the record ...
Fantasy/Cleopatra, 1975. (reissue)
An overlooked album of funky guitar! Arthur Adams was one of the many excellent west coast session players of the early 70s – and if you check the notes on some of your favorite California soul albums, you'll find that you've probably heard his guitar an awful lot over the years! As with ...
Bear Family (Germany),
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NM/P-Vine (Japan), 1999. 2LP (reissue)
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Vistone/P-Vine (Japan), 1994. (reissue)
The last album ever recorded by funky drummer Roy Porter – and a really unique set that seeks to combine his older grooves from the 70s with contemporary elements from the 90s hip hop scene! The approach is a lot better than you might expect, and has lots of the best true school elements ...
GEC/P-Vine (Japan), 1976. (reissue)
The classic first LP by this stellar Chicago harmony group – and a monster! Heaven & Earth had a wonderful falsetto harmony sound that reminds us a lot of east coast winners like Blue Magic or The Stylistics – and like some of the best east coast groups, this group's vocals work ...
Great Eastern/P-Vine (Japan), 1977. (reissue)
Rare Canadian funk from the 70s – played by a hip little group who've also got a jazzy flavor too! The Sidewinders are a bit like American ensemble funk acts of the time – in that they can have an upbeat, tight approach to the groove when they want – but they also have a great ...
P-Vine (Japan), (reissue)
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Charly (UK), 1978. 2LP
An instant classic the day it was released – and a perfect blending of the group's older freaked-out style with a slick late 70s funk sound that started showing up in the work of many other groups. "One Nation Under A Groove" is a monster cut with a hook that won't quit, and the LP ...
Charly (UK), 1978.
An instant classic the day it was released – and a perfect blending of the group's older freaked-out style with a slick late 70s funk sound that started showing up in the work of many other groups. "One Nation Under A Groove" is a monster cut with a hook that won't quit, and the LP ...
P-Vine (Japan), 1977/1979.
A huge musical treasure – a full unreleased album by Weldon Irvine, plus a bonus video as well! The music is from the stage play Young Gifted & Broke – a short-lived production by Weldon, and one that's done with some of the same hip modes he was bringing to his own music of the ...
Private Stock/Octave (Japan), 1978.
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About February 28, 2024 (delayed)
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Inner City/ARC (UK), Early 70s.
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About February 15, 2024 (delayed)
Rare west coast funk, soul, and funky soul – all from the vaults of George Semper – an artist that most folks know from a classic organ jazz record in the 60s, but also a backroom figure behind a range of great soul records on the Cali scene of the 70s! This set is a rare collection of ...
Crown/P-Vine (Japan), Late 40s/1950s. (reissue)
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ABC/Wax Trader (Canada), Late 60s. (reissue)
A rare harmony soul treasure – an obscure pre-Curtom album cut by the Natural Four – done years before their Chicago classics, and recorded in Berkeley with a very different groove! The harmonies here are still as sublime as the group's 70s work – but the approach is a bit more ...
Soul Junction (UK),
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About December 10, 2023 (delayed)
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Soulciety/Ultra Vybe (Japan), 1993.
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About December 6, 2023 (delayed)
An overlooked gem from the years when most of the rest of the world had forgotten about the JBs – but Fred Wesley and the group were still going strong! The set's a great meeting of two funky generations – the classic James Brown funk of the late 60s and early 70s, and some of the ...
Malaco/Ultra Vybe (Japan), 1982.
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About December 6, 2023 (delayed)
An overlooked gem from the early 80s Malaco catalog – a set that's got more of a mid 70s funky soul feel overall, with just the right mix of upbeat cuts and ballads! These guys can actually harmonize wonderfully on the mellow numbers – with a compelling approach that's right up there ...
Aware/Ultra Vybe (Japan), 1973.
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About December 6, 2023 (delayed)
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 ...
Atlantic/Ultra Vybe (Japan), 1977.
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About December 6, 2023 (delayed)
Ben E King joins the Average White Band for this sweet 70s set – a killer record that not only stands as one of King's best efforts of the decade, but one that also gives the group a great new frontman! Ben's not the only singer on the record, but his presence here can definitely be felt ...
Arista/Ultra Vybe (Japan), 1980.
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About December 6, 2023 (delayed)
Great later grooves from Average White Band – a real gem from the point when the group was settling nicely into a mellow soul vein! By this point, the combo wisely realized that they couldn't keep things going forever as a funky group – so they laid back and fell into their second ...
RSO/Elemental (Spain), 1974. (reissue)
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About December 1, 2023 (delayed)
Electric 70s work from Freddie – not exactly funky, but with a nice chunky bottom that makes the record stand out a bit from the pack of blues work at the time. Titles include "Sugar Sweet", "She's A Burglar", "Pulp Wood", "My Credit Didn't Go Through" ...