Another round of sure shot disco reworks from the Smokecloud crew! For Bedroom Disco 2, label boss Osmose drops some heat on Solid Game, a slow motion burner that will fire up the floor for all the lovers in the place. Next up, he recruits the homie King Most for a playful take Lionel Ritchie s All Night…
Limited edition red vinyl pressing to commemorate the 1 year anniversary of Solange s breakthrough album! This release will be limited to one initial pressing, on 150 gram red vinyl, with each package individually numbered and available for a limited time only. The song titles speak volumes for A Seat At The Table: Don t Touch…
I know you got soul! Big Crown with the massive repress action for the funk and soul heads. Chances are you haven t heard of the Soul Explosives, but that s quite alright since their sole 45 is one of those mega rare holy grails that only trades hands for excessive coin in dim lit back rooms of record…
5x vinyl 7 edition of 700 rare Studio One reggae + rocksteady classics presented on five 7 singles housed in hard outer box RECORD 1: Jackie Mittoo – Free Soul Slim Smith & Delroy Wilson – Look Who’s Back Again RECORD 2: Judah Eskender Tafari – Danger In Your Eyes Version RECORD 3: Freddie McGregor –…
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Warning: Adding this comp to your collection isn’t gonna cross any rare hyped Brazilian shit off your wantlist. Rather than lazily compiling the most in-demand records, the exhaustive crew at Soundway have enlisted Brazilian-born Millos Kaiser to select some of his favorite overlooked joints from the dustiest record store chasms across Brazil: “They aren’t rare because everyone…
Studio Mule hand the reigns over to mailorder hero and enviable selector of Japanese balearic sounds Dubby for their second archival collection. Mule describe Midnight In Tokyo Vol. 2 as a jazz-fusion-focused set, but a few listens reveal it’s more a collection of glossy pop tunes with a jazzy exterior; not too dissimilar from MFM’s…
Memphis boogie grail reissued! Big up to Past Due Records (run by Jerome Derradji of Stilove4music fame) for hooking up all the funk fiends in a major way with these legit represses of Lee Moore’s meanest boogie funk productions. Easily the rarest of the bunch, this Subway mini-LP is known to fetch in the thousands when it ever…
Highly sought-after Sun Ra rarity reissued by the good folks at Kindred Spirits. Originally released in 1974 on the El Saturn label, Antique Blacks features Sun Ra and The Arkestra at their most out and free, and surprisingly, their most accessible as well. It s a wonderful balance of styles recorded live in Philadelphia on…
Record Store Day Exclusive. Sunny & The Sunliners rare late 60 s full length reissued for the first time, just for RSD BLK FRI 2017. The Missing Link catches bandleader Sunny Ozuna and the rest of the band in peak form, laying down all-instrumental funk with a Texas Latino touch. From Big Crown – Ranging from hip…
Most accomplished soul singers might scoff at the auto-tuned homogeneity of modern radio, but southern soul provocateur Swamp Dogg (née Jerry WIlliams Jr.) found himself incredibly inspired by it. Love, Loss And Auto-Tune finds Williams’ tried-and-true southern soul sound colliding with producer Ryan Olson’s (Poliça, Gayngs, Bon Iver) lush, Spector-indebted arrangements, clanging 808 rhythms and…
One of the true heavyweight soul-funk titles. Most of the originals of this are likely in the hands of collectors trading places for over $200, and we re on the hunt. The title track is the monster with the smooth sampled groove and Syl Johnson s deep soul vocals. Clocking in at over 7 minutes,…
Complete 45 singles compiled on one album! The Chicago crooner started out as a bluesman in the 60s and was the first signee to the legendary Twinight label. Amassing an astonishing amount of recordings for the label, Johnson quickly made a name for himself in the Soul circuit and is still a respected in the…
Zouk! “Tabala Mouv” is a standout from the impossibly rare Tabala Vol. 1 compilation (1986), which will probably only be familiar to the deepest Zouk freaks (do you even exist?). The devastating dancefloor potential of this tune is evident from bar one, but once those disco strings and synth toms roll out, its a wrap….
Tall Black Guy with another bangin 45. This time around the Detroit-native sets his sights on the Godfather of Soul for a pair of heavyweight beat re-works that guarantee a steady head nod. Get on down to the sound of JB Suite 1 that flips that soul-clappin bassline from The JB s More Peas with even…
Francisco Tenório Cerqueira Junior was a Brazilian jazz pianist and member of the band Os Cobras. Tenório Jr. only released one album as a bandleader, but was widely known as a virtuoso pianist and has amassed credits for playing in landmark sessions with Gal Costa, Bud Shank and a who s who of Brazilian samba players. Embalo has…