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This debut album from Opensouls has been five years in the making, with main-man Ota (aka Jeremy Toy) starting the process back in 2001 on his trusty MPC2000. He then enlisted the help of the extended Opensouls family to create this sumptuous and soulful album. And what an extended family it is,...
Doug Hream Blunt learnt to play music at the age of 35, by taking an evening class in the Golden Gate neighborhood of San Francisco in the late 1980s. The class was organized by a local high school music teacher and his wife, and held in a small home-built studio of their garage. In the years to...
Following Last Transmission, their collaboration with Melvin Van Peebles, the Heliocentrics finish off their trawl through the vaults of tracks recorded at their old digs - Quatermass Studios - with psychedelic tinged funk and jazz instrumentals first heard on Gaslamp Killer's HELIO X GLK EP,...
Producing under the moniker Isoul8, as well as teaming up with Domu under the Rima alias for the incredible jazz/fusion album ‘This World', Volcov is a truly important player in the underground music scene. Remixing artists such as Frankie Valentine, Azymuth & Taylor McFerrin, running his two...
At 79 years old, Andre Mr Rhythm Williams has been a singer, writer, producer, star-maker, showman, cult hero and hustler for six decades. He has been high, and he has been low. He has toured the world in snazzy suits and lived on the streets asking for change. For I Wanna Go Back To Detroit City,...
DJ Format's Psych Out is a compilation of records from around the world that Format WISHES he could play at clubs every weekend. Some of the tracks are hard to categorise…kind of psychedelic, kind of funky, kind of crazy…but most have unmistakable blend of distorted electric guitars, driving...
Last year, Daptone and Shock Records announced the August release of Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings' Give the People What They Want when Sharon Jones was diagnosed with cancer. The scheduled release and supporting tours were put on hold and all efforts were shifted to her treatment and recovery....
Various Artists - Jay Strongman Presents Popcorn Heartbreak 1958 - 1964 For teenagers listening to their radios, making out on the back seats of their fathers' cars or slow dancing at High School hops and block parties, the late 1950s through to the early 1960s was a golden age of angstdriven songs...
Soul Jazz Records' new Nigeria Soul Fever is their first release to explore the vast wealth of Nigerian music recorded in the 1970s. The new album comes with introductory sleeve-notes by Bill Brewster (author of Last Night A DJ Saved My Life). Packed-full with Afro-Funk, Disco and Boogie all from...
Soul Jazz Records' are releasing Tee Mac's ‘Night Illusion', a lost classic Nigerian Afro soul meets disco boogie funk album originally released in Nigeria in 1980 as a private-press release of 1000 copies on the enigmatic artists' own label. Impossibly hard to find, the record remains practically...
After repeatedly being visited by a strange messenger in his dreams while on tour in the islands of Greece, Toby Pazner became consumed with a vision to tell the stories of The Olympians through music. Chosen by the gods as a messenger for not only his musical gifts, but for his unique position at...
Dimitri From Pars - Cocktail Disco Compiled by Dimitri from Paris - arguably the worlds foremost Disco DJ today. Dimitri has sold over 1 million records - a combination of compilations, albums and remixes. Dimitri is a modern day dandy and passionate music lover. There aren't many in the music...
Soul Jazz Records' new journey into the mighty vaults of Clement Dodd's Studio One steps once more into the fertile musical environment of Jamaican music in the late 1960s and early 1970s, from the sweet harmony vocals of seminal 1960s Rocksteady right up to the nascent birth of Reggae and Roots...
Deluxe, Will Sessions' debut LP of original material, contains tracks previously available as limited press 7" records, freshly remastered for a full length album. The album contains guest appearances from Detroit legends Allan Barnes (Blackbyrds) and Amp Fiddler (Parliament/Funkadelic), as well...
Three albums from 1974, 1975 and 1976 • ‘Small Talk' was a US Top 20 album with the single ‘Time For Livin'' making the US Top 40 • In recent years, Sly Stone's appearances and recordings have been spasmodic • Digitally remastered and slipcased. - Small Talk / High On You / Heard Ya Missed Me, Well...
Sampled on TV ads, lauded by critics and swooned over on the dancefloor, ESG's post-punk took out the grunge and polished the basics. ‘Keep On Moving' was released just over ten years ago to much praise (Q said it was "even better" than 2002's much loved ‘Step Off'). ESG had been sparring partners...
Walker was hot enough over the course of a two-day stand at Slim's in San Francisco to warrant the issue of two full albums from the dates. The first is a sizzling combination of past triumphs, new items, and covers of Clifton Chenier's "Hot Tamale Baby," Junior Wells' "Little By Little" (with Huey...
