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Monday Jan 30, 2017

Sauce81

Dance Tonight

Japan's Sauce81 follows up on his modern boogie/funk gem 'Natural Thing', with the equally infectious 'Dance Tonight'. It may sound like it's been hid... more...

7inch Eglo: Eglo054

Ekambi Brillant

African Funk Experimentals (1975-1982)

This Africa Seven compilation focuses on the funkier end of Ekambi's music drawn mainly from the 1975 to 1978 period. Things open up with our theme tu... more...

LP Africa Seven: ASVN038
Also available @ D\G\T\L

Fruit

What You Gonna Do

The Fruit Band's fleeting existence was only recently revealed by the discovery of a few unsold copies of their sole 1978 single, Say It, which quickl... more...

7inch Athens Of The North: AOTN42

BAB

Party and Get On Down

One of the best mid-tempo disco raritys (and we mean rare) to come out the Deepfunk scene. When Keb Darge first played 'Party & Get On Down' in the ea... more...

12inch Athens Of The North: ATH12003

Riccardo Schiro

Aqua

An exploration through the submarine worlds, catching sounds from the seabed, experiencing life like an aquatic creature. All tracks written, produced... more...

LP Periodica: PRD03

Wednesday Jan 25, 2017

Stelvio Cipriani

Mark Il Poliziotto

“Mark il poliziotto” (Blood, Sweat and Fear) is a 1975 movie directed by Stelvio Massi, the first of a successful trilogy featuring Franco Gasparri as... more...

LP AMS: AMSLP104

Tuesday Jan 24, 2017

LP Africa Seven: ASVN030

Wednesday Jan 18, 2017

Claudja Barry

Love For The Sake Of Love b/w Sweet Dynamite

Claudja Barry's cult ''Love for the sake of love'' gets Mike Maurro's magic remix treatment for the 7th release on Brookside Records. This is no ordin... more...

12inch Various UK re-releases: BR07

Tuesday Jan 17, 2017

Baby Huey

The Baby Huey Story - The Living Legend

Legendary Soul singer Baby Huey was graced with a stunning, fierce voice on par with Otis Redding and Howard Tate, wailing and howling one moment and... more...

LP Music On Vinyl: MOVLP1639

Thursday Jan 12, 2017

Louis Band

Taste Me

'Taste me' is a 1981 obscure instrumental library music album and a weird example of Italo Funk Disco played by professional musicians (most of them u... more...

LP Mondo Groove: MGLP100

I Gres

I Gres II

First ever commercial release for this ultra-rare Holy Grail 1975Library/Production Music LP more...

LP Cometa Edizioni Musicali: CMTGGST10032

Friday Dec 30, 2016

King Ayisoba

Wicked Leaders

His first recordings with a full band — a new, high-energy, powerful sound, with only traditional acoustic instruments. The guluku drums, the sinyaka... more...

12inch Makkum Records: MR11

Obadikah

Obadikah

This is lovely. Brand-new, rambunctious, rootsy, spiritual brass-band music from Lagos, with singing, drums and home-made percussion. Obadikah is a... more...

LP Honest Jons: HJRLP113

Friday Dec 23, 2016

Grupo Almendra

Almendra

Claudio Casalini's Best Record label does a fine job of reissuing funk, disco and other curios from the mists of time, and so it goes with this wonder... more...

LP Best Record: BST-XLP003

Thursday Dec 22, 2016

Silver Linings

So Good To You

Dope new boogie straight out of Melbourne, Australia. Fronted by long-time collaborators Françoise d'Argent and Benny Badge, 'So Good To You' showcase... more...

LP Gulf Point: Gulf108
Also available @ D\G\T\L

Monday Dec 19, 2016

Various Artists

Restore 3

Four brand new reworked edits by some of the leaders in the scene such as Opolopo, Ezlv, Jean Claude Gavri himself & Sleazy McQueen & Vinyladdicted..

12inch Various UK Re-edits: Restore003

Various Artists

Restore 4

Restore label owner Jean Claude Gavri join forces with 2020 Soundsystem Julian Sanza and Dave Gerarrd (ChopShop, Get Down Edits), resulting a fancy es... more...

12inch Various UK Re-edits: Restore004

Friday Dec 9, 2016

Peter Brown / Jimmy McGriff

Danny Krivit Special Disco Edits Vol. 3

NYC Disco legend Danny Krivit returns to the editing block on behalf of seminal Miami Disco powerhouse TK Disco. With 45 years in the DJ game under hi... more...

12inch TK Disco: TKD13066

Tuesday Dec 6, 2016

Brass Construction

Changin / Movin

Uber classic that inspired many house tunes...

12inch United Artists: SP131
12inch Stax: STA0082
12inch Motown: Motown4529MG