Funky Compilations — New Arrivals 
Great compilations from labels like Soul Jazz, Ace, Numero, BBE, Vampi Soul, BGP, Luv N Haight, Harmless, Tramp, Jazzman, and others!
Items added March 16 - 20
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Music For A Bachelor's Den – 15 Seductive Selections ... CD 
DCC, 1950s/1960s. Used ... $7.99
Includes material from George Shearing, Terry Snyder, Linda Lawson, Nelson Riddle, John Buzon, Martin Denny, Arthur Lyman, and Jimmy Dorsey. (Vocalists, Funky Compilations) CD
(Out of print.)
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If Music Presents You Need This – World Jazz Grooves – Compiled By Jean Claude & Victor Kiswell ... CD BBE (UK), Late 60s/1970s. New Copy ... $13.99 14.99
Not a set of world music-inflected jazz – although there is a bit of that – and instead, a wonderful collection of spiritual numbers from around the world – most recorded in the 70s, at a time when barriers were really breaking down in jazz music! All tracks here are nice and ... read more CD
Also available If Music Presents You Need This – World Jazz Grooves – Compiled By Jean Claude & Victor Kiswell (3LP set) ... LP 24.99
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Glucklich IV – A Collection Of Brazilian Flavours From The Past & Present ... CD Compost (Germany), 2000. Used ... $6.99
The latest (and perhaps greatest) entry into this always-wonderful series! As with the earlier volumes, this one's an amazing transformation of Brazilian grooves into a hyper-modern European idiom – featuring core acoustic beats and riffs remade into lush jazzy grooves by some of the ... read more CD
(Out of print.)
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Disco Boogie 2 – 23 Super Hits For Non-Stop Dancing ... LP 
Salsoul, 1978. Very Good 2LP ... $4.99
A pretty great little album – a 2LP set that features 4 sides of Salsoul classics, mixed together! The "non-stop dancing" holds out for the course of each side – as as many as 6 tracks are mixed back to back, in classic 70s disco mode. Titles include "Moon Boots" ... (Soul, Funky Compilations) read more LP, Vinyl record album
(Cover has some wear.)
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Jazz Dispensary – Purple Funk Vol 2 (purple colored vinyl pressing) (2018 Black Friday Release) ... LP Fantasy/Craft, Early 70s. New Copy ... Just Sold Out!
The trippy cover and pot-store title hardly do justice to the strength of the record – which is a treasure trove of rare funky grooves from the early 70s – all of them a lot sharper and more focused than any sort of pothead sounds! Instead, the album brings together tracks from the ... read more LP, Vinyl record album
(Limited edition on purple cotton candy colored vinyl!)
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Rare Tracks From Detroit Vol 7 – Previously Unreleased & Hard To Find Tracks ... CD Bar (Belgium), 1960s. Used ... Just Sold Out!
Music from the Monitors, Shorty Long, Marv Johnson, JJ Barnes, Debbie Dean, Tony Michaels, Andre Williams, the Challengers, Kim Weston, the Reflections, the Miracles & more. (Soul, Funky Compilations) CD
(Out of print.)
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Unusual Sounds ... CD Anthology, Late 60s/1970s. New Copy ... $10.99 11.99
The sounds here aren't that unusual at all – and in fact, they're mostly pretty darn groovy – a superb selection of sound library funk from the glory days of the European scene – collected here together in support of the book of the same name! In case you're new to the scene ... (Sound Library, Funky Compilations) read more CD
Also available Unusual Sounds ... LP 22.99
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Jazz Dispensary – Soul Diesel Vol 2 (180 gram colored vinyl) (2018 Record Store Day Release) ... LP Fantasy/Craft, Late 60s/Early 70s. New Copy ... Just Sold Out!
Funky jazz from the mighty large Fantasy Records catalog – home to all those great Prestige jazz funk classics at the end of the 60s and start of the 70s! The Jazz Dispensary series has been giving us some well-chosen cuts from this generation, all taken straight from the original master ... read more LP, Vinyl record album
(Limited edition – on opaque orange swirl vinyl!)
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Popshopping – Jazzy Music From German Commercials 1960-1975 ... CD Crippled Dick (Germany), 1960s/1970s. Used ... $24.99
One of the wildest collections we've ever stocked! This groovy batch of tunes is lifted from German TV commercials of the economic miracle years – jazzy little ditties designed to promote greater consumption as the way to a more perfect and beautiful life. Many of the tunes were penned and ... read more CD
(Out of print.)
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Jumpin Jazz – Real Jazz For Those Who Feel Jazz ... CD Muse/Pho, 1970s/Early 80s. Used ... $4.99
The title's a hokey one, but the album's surprisingly great – a hip batch of jazz and funk numbers from the Muse Records catalog, and one that goes way past the dated language on the cover! Most of the tracks here are from the 70s, and they really show the depth of Muse's groove at the time ... read more CD
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Rare Tracks From Detroit Vol 5 – Previously Unreleased & Hard To Find Tracks ... CD Bar (Belgium), 1960s. Used ... Just Sold Out!
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Idjut Boys Salsoul Mix ... CD Salsoul/Ultra Vybe (Japan), Late 70s/Early 80s. New Copy ... $28.99
The Idjut Boys take on the catalog of the legendary Salsoul Records – in a continuous mix that shows just how much the sounds of the past have to answer for the grooves of the present! Unlike some of the other titles in this series, the Idjuts seem to leave a bit more of their trace on the ... read more CD
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Funky Soul Brother – Everything We Do Gonna Be Funky ... CD Groove Merchant/Octave (Japan), Mid 70s. New Copy ... $28.99
A really great trip through the Groove Merchant catalog of funky jazz from the 70s – one that's served up by a Japanese DJ duo who clearly have a love for the dopest, trippiest, funkiest electric moments of the label! Every cut here is a gem, and the DJs do an especially great job of picking ... read more CD
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Doing The Natural Thing 2 – Mo Psychedlic, Country, Garage, Soul, & Shaking R&B Obscurities ... LP PTR (UK), Late 60s/Early 70s. New Copy ... $16.99
Funky country, twangy soul, and lots more strangeness – a set that definitely lives up to everything it promises on the cover – and maybe even gives you a bit more too! The collection's from the same folks who gave us the excellent Funky Country series – and there's a very ... read more LP, Vinyl record album
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Can You Feel It – Modern Soul, Disco, & Boogie 1976 to 1986 (with bonus 7 inch single) ... LP Tramp (Germany), Late 70s/Early 80s. New Copy 2LP Gatefold ... $24.99
The cover's a bit creepy, but the set's a great one – way more soulful than the image of a dummy might make you expect! The collection follows strongly in the same territory as the funk titles on the Tramp Records label – and like those, digs deep in the American underground to find a ... read more LP, Vinyl record album
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Look Into The Evasion Disques Vaults – 1970 to 1973 ... LP Evasion/Rocafort (UK), Early 70s. New Copy ... $19.99
Funky sounds from a very cool European label of the early 70s – a tiny imprint located in Switzerland, and one that seemed to have a golden touch right from the start! The label was rooted in rock, but always had a much funkier current overall – one that mixed heavy drums, rumbling ... read more LP, Vinyl record album
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Le Disco Album ... LP Barclay (Colombia), 1970s. Very Good ... $7.99
"This album is a non-stop disco compilation based on audience-reactions to 30 titles tested in 1,400 discotheques in Scandinavia, Italy, West Germany and England. The 11 titles below were chosen as the most-frequently mentioned in the 383 replies received from the discotheques. This is an ... (Soul, Funky Compilations) read more LP, Vinyl record album
(Columbian pressing. Cover has a loose front panel with a small tear in one edge.)
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Sound Of Philadelphia – Gamble & Huff's Greatest Hits ... CD Philadelphia International, 1970s. Used ... $6.99
A sweet little set of classic 70s Philly – one of the best collections of work by the team of Gamble & Huff we've ever seen! There's nothing too obscure or offbeat here – and instead, the collection focuses mostly on the massive crossover tracks produced by the pair back in the day ... read more CD
(Out of print, punch through barcode.)
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Electro 1 ... LP Streetsounds (UK), Mid 80s. Very Good- ... Just Sold Out!
Block rockin' beats and ray gun funk – the debut in the pivotal 80s Electro series! Electro 1 features classics by Newcleus, West Street Mob, C-Bank and more – really genre defining material, a straight up, unfussy presentation on 2 sides of wax. Part encapsulation of the of the ... (Hip Hop, Funky Compilations) read more LP, Vinyl record album
(Cover has some waviness from moisture.)
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Motown Remixed ... CD Motown (UK), 2005. Used ... $5.99
We gotta admit, we kinda like this one! We were a bit suspicious at first – as the genius of Motown hardly needs any messing with – and we had fears that a remix project might just sound silly, goofy, and filled with easy tricks and gimmicks. But the choice of remixers on the set is ... read more CD
(Out of print.)
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Free Spirits Vol 1 ... CD Kindred Spirits (Netherlands), 2006. Used ... $9.99
Spiritual soul jazz both old and new – a collection that really gets past the obvious sides of the genre, and brings together a range of unusual work from the 70s onward! The tracks here are a great antidote to the well-traveled territory of labels like Impulse or Strata East Records – ... read more CD
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Rebop – The Savoy Remixes ... CD Savoy, 1950s/2006. Used ... $6.99
The Savoy jazz catalog gets the remix tradition – following nicely in the mode of similar projects on Verve or Blue Note! The work here is all pulled from classic bop sessions of the late 40s and 1950s – key tracks that defined the sound of Savoy back in the day, but cut down here to ... read more CD
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Running The Voodoo Down Vol 2 – Explorations In Psychrockfunksouljazz 1965 to 1977 ... LP TAD, Late 60s/1970s. New Copy 2LP Gatefold ... $30.99 36.99
Tripped-out funk galore – a really wonderful collection that brings together a host of very experimental jazz, funk, and soul tracks – some of which were influenced by the psychedelic scene of the late 60s, others of which took their strongest inspiration from left-leaning politics and ... read more LP, Vinyl record album
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Napoli Segreta Vol 1 – Hidden Gems From The Bowels Of Vesuvius ... LP NG (Italy), Late 70s/Early 80s. New Copy ... $29.99
A very cool collection of disco sounds from the Naples scene of the late 70s and early 80s – maybe more the music that you'd hear in that city's clubs and nite spots, than the "bowels of Vesuvius" promised in the title! These cuts all do a great job of echoing the warmth of Studio ... read more LP, Vinyl record album
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Esterno Notte Vol 2 – More Jazz-Funk, Late Nite Breaks, Cinematic Prog & Psych From The Italian Untapped Film Music Archives 1968 to 1978 (180 gram pressing – with bonus CD) ... LP Four Flies (Italy), Late 60s/1970s. New Copy ... $32.99
Freaky funk from the Italian scene – exactly the kind of grooves that will open your ears if you think that funky sounds can only come from American soul bands or jazz musicians! The music here is filled with heavy drums, tight basslines, and lots of other groovy instrumental touches – ... (Soundtracks, Funky Compilations) read more LP, Vinyl record album
(Limited to 500 copies – pressed on 180 gram vinyl and with bonus CD!)
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Twelve Inches Of Pleasure Part 2 – BBE Rare & Unreleased Tracks ... CD BBE (UK), Early 2000s. Used ... $5.99
A brace of some of the best recent grooves from London's legendary BBE Records – including some previously unreleased numbers from their Roy Ayers remix project! The collection's going to cost you a heck of a lot less than tracking down all these tracks on vinyl – especially since a ... read more CD
(Promotional copy.)
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Crossroads – Southern Routes – Music Of The American South ... CD Smithsonian Folkways, 1950s/1960s/1970s. Used ... $5.99
Music from Brownie McGhee with Sonny Terry, the Allman Brothers Band, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Vera Hall Ward, the SNCC Freedom Singers, Betty Mae Jumper, the Veville Brothers, Carl Perkins, Bill Monroe, Tammy Wynette, Denise LaSalle & more. CD
(Out of print, punch through barcode.)
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Phat Trax – The Best Of Old School Vol 2 ... CD Rhino, Late 70s/Early 80s. Used ... $9.99
Music from Funkadelic, Fatback, Tom Browne, Sun, Faze-O, One Way, TS Monk, Brick, Lyn Collins & the Meters. CD
(Out of print, small sticker remnant on booklet cover.)
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Popshopping Mixed Up EP ... CD Crippled Dick (Germany), 2001. Used ... $5.99
If only TV was this groovy! The set features 7 tracks lifted from Crippled Dick's Popshopping collection of groovy 60s and 70s commercials – remixed by a hip set of producers who really understand the best part of the original tracks. The whole thing's a great blend of older retro sounds ... read more CD
(Out of print.)
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Hacienda Classics (3CD set) ... CD Virgin (UK), 1980s. Used 3 CDs ... Just Sold Out!
A great set of 80s house and underground club – with a fair bit of key work imported from the US! Back in the 80s, there was hardly any place hipper than Manchester's legendary Hacienda nightclub – the dancefloor offshoot of the Factory Records scene, and home to countless key nights ... read more CD
(Out of print.)
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Backstreet Brit Funk Vol 2 – The UK's Finest Underground Soul, Jazz Funk & Disco Compiled By Joey Negro ... CD Z Records (UK), Late 70s/Early 80s. New Copy 2CD ... Just Sold Out!
Fantastic grooves from the UK scene – most of them created during the better-known punk and post-punk years of the country – which might be why so many of them have remained so obscure over the decades! Yet taken together, these cuts represent a fantastic legacy in soul – upbeat ... read more CD
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Kev Beadle Presents Private Collection – Independent Jazz Sounds From The 70s & 80s ... CD BBE (UK), 1970s. New Copy ... Just Sold Out!
A completely sublime collection of spiritual jazz numbers from the 70s – put together by the legendary Kev Beadle, one of the first cats to spin the music with Gilles Peterson on the UK scene! The package is a great mix of essentials from years back, plus some under-discovered nuggets from ... read more CD
Also available Kev Beadle Presents Private Collection – Independent Jazz Sounds From The 70s & 80s ... LP 24.99(Items 1 – 32 of 32)
