Label: Athens Of The North - In Stock

Monday May 11, 2020

Chuck Brimley

St. Elmos Fire

Milwaukee's artist Chuck Brimley's cover of Michael Frank's classic ''St. Elmore Fire. An extremely hard to find record that even Andy Noble who runs... more...

7inch Athens Of The North: ATH081
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Tuesday Feb 18, 2020

LaRombé

From Philly

''LaRombé is one of the most talented songwriters I have come across in my years of working for Jazzman and Athens of the North. Having gone through m... more...

LP Athens Of The North: AOTNLP029
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Thursday Nov 14, 2019

MYTH

Play with Me

Athens of the North is back on the boogie tip with top Miami rarity MYTH. Recorded and mixed in Fort Lauderdale in 85 both the original 12s are pretty... more...

7inch Athens Of The North: ATH080

Wednesday Oct 2, 2019

LaRombé

You're the Best

Companion 45 to the forthcoming unreleased LP of L.A soul singer, composer and producer LaRombé. We transferred all of larombes tapes in Hollywood and... more...

7inch Athens Of The North: ATH078
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Monday Apr 1, 2019

Spider Harrison

Beautiful Day

Spider Harrison was Indianapolis's first call soul DJ in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He broke local tunes like The Highlighters' ''Poppin' Popcorn... more...

7inch Athens Of The North: AOE036

Monday Feb 25, 2019

Judy Pollak

In Togetherness (featuring 33 1/3)

Judy Pollak's late 70s LP is extremely rare and charming peace of music. Not just a Soul and Funk LP, sprinklings of folkiness in Judy's vocal make th... more...

LP Athens Of The North: AOTNLP027
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Tuesday Dec 18, 2018

Luther Davis

Keep on Dancin

Many know Luther Davis from his more familiar and previously reissued disco floater 'You Can Be A Star', not so many people outside the collector's wo... more...

7inch Athens Of The North: ATH073

Monday Jul 30, 2018

Bobby Boyd

Love Goddess

This month we have what is the start of a string of previously unreleased bangers from the soul, funk and disco legend Bobby Boyd, we have been workin... more...

7inch Athens Of The North: ATH066
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Wednesday Jun 27, 2018

Hampshire and Foat

Nightshade

''This Hampshire & Foat project should not come as too much of a surprise to those familiar withGreg& Warren's music, influenced heavily by not just J... more...

LP Athens Of The North: AOTNLP018
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Infinity

Put Everything in Place

Part 2 of out Licenced Infinity 45 releases, another Disco funk crossover dancer thats pretty under the radar, the track for me is the floaty disco b... more...

7inch Athens Of The North: ATH064

Thursday Mar 29, 2018

Hampshire & Foat

The Honeybear

Warren and Greg retreated back to the Isle of Wight to start work on long discussed concept album based on a fictional children's book The Honey Bear.... more...

LP Athens Of The North: AOTNLP013

Tuesday Mar 6, 2018

Creators

Just You & Me

Another tape extracted from the Sony vault for the first time since the records was released in 1980. A Floaty disco masterpiece that has been on the... more...

7inch Athens Of The North: ATH058

Ice

Reality

First ever official reissue of Ice's rare and in demand North Carolina born soul funk jam 'Reality' via Athens of the North Records and Magnetic Recor... more...

7inch Athens Of The North: ATH062
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Wednesday Dec 6, 2017

Wilma Dias

La Massagiste

A rather fruity Brazilian, French spoken erotic version f Painel De Controle single we put out a couple of years ago that sits somewhere between euro... more...

7inch Athens Of The North: ATH054

Thursday Nov 9, 2017

Pure Essence

Third Rock / Wake Up

We have always loved Pure Essence so delighted to be able to revisit the LP track and 45 as a 7'' with Third Rock (Less rare but imho better track) on... more...

7inch Athens Of The North: ATH049

Thursday Sep 7, 2017

Raw Soul Express

Let Go

LTD 500 - My two favourite tracks from the Unreleased Raw Soul Express LP (released last month) on our format of choice, blink and they will have disa... more...

7inch Athens Of The North: ATH053

Broomfield Corporate Jam

Stop

Vocalist and mult- instrumentalist family the Broomfield's might be new to you but Deepfunk heads know the deal. The six Broomfield siblings (vocalist... more...

7inch Athens Of The North: ATH052

Tuesday Jul 4, 2017

Nubia

The Time Is Right

'Chicano Soul Floaters' have to be one of the smaller sub genres of my Disco collecting but Nubia is probably the best example out there. We managed t... more...

7inch Athens Of The North: ATH045
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Douglas and Lonero

This Time

Double sided crossover magic (I have been slacking on crossover records). Douglas and Lonero had a few releases, An LP a couple of 45s on Columbia but... more...

7inch Athens Of The North: AOE026

Monday May 29, 2017

Zebra

Simple Song

I released Zebra over 10 years ago on 12'' year ago when at Jazzman Records but deicded to do it on the original format with a brand new master as its... more...

7inch Athens Of The North: ATH047

Wednesday May 3, 2017

Friction Band

Watchin You

Super rare (pretty much unknown) mid tempo vocal modern soul / Disco Floater with a great sweet soul flip. I have been looking for this one for a long... more...

7inch Athens Of The North: ATH044
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JOB Band

Live at The Point After

JOB's musical journey started as students at the famed Booker T Washington High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma. United by a shared love of soul music and s... more...

LP Athens Of The North: AOTNLP011

Wednesday Mar 8, 2017

Hard Drivers

Since I Was a Little Girl / Straight Talk

This Disco Funk Banger was discovered reasonably late in the game on the Deepfunk scene,. Vivian Lee's big powerful vocal over the pushy backing is wh... more...

7inch Athens Of The North: ATH040
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Thursday Jul 28, 2016

Nobody

I Saw You

During the 1960s the American popular music scene was overtaken and dominated throughout most of the decade by a creative surge emanating fromDetroit.... more...

7inch Athens Of The North: ATH033
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Tuesday May 24, 2016

TSpoon

If You Dance Tonight

Our second and final release from Billy Bruner T'Spoon out of his obscure Oil Capital Record Label. 'If You Dance Tonight' is almost unknown boogie sp... more...

7inch Athens Of The North: ATH031