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Artist: Jimmy Brown Label: Dadd's Production Inc.

Artist: Cerrone Label: Select Canada

Over the past 12 years, Jon Chambers and Bob Bhamra have created 50 miniature electronic space loops as DATA 70. Previously only available as a much loved series of limited edition 7" vinyl's, totalling three volumes. The Complete Sessions brings this collection together for the first time. Age six, they first collaborated in Mrs Harbut's music lessons by miming the recorder and ignoring any technical musical tuition whatsoever. Later musical activity took the form of DIY cassettes using homemade instruments and a lyrical fixation on girl groups and dinner ladies. Other shared activity included the BIFF! BANG! POW! and Last Orders fanzines. Jon later went on to release numerous singles, EPs and three albums with the band SUNRAY and also founded the Strawberry Recording Co. label. Bob, meanwhile, developed a fever for knocking out House and Drum and Bass twelve's and recently established West Norwood Cassette Library and WNCL Recordings imprint. Record Label: Enraptured Style: Electro - Funk

Record Label: Now Again Style: Funk

Record Label: Now Again Style: Funk

Steve Gunn's first album with a band, featuring John Truscinski and Justin Tripp - His most affecting, accessible, and articulate work of pure songcraft to date, with a new emphasis on vocals - Available on virgin vinyl, in a deluxe, limited edition, as well as on CD and digital formats - Vinyl edition features matte, tip-on jacket, full-color inner sleeve, and digital download coupon - CD housed in heavy matte gatefold wallet - Package features artwork by Anthony Campuzano, Constance Mensh, and Justin Tripp In the city we're all angling for Quittin' Time, laboring along and among the hours, searching and scheming for the sweet sound of those two easy words: Time Off. It's something you take-or sometimes steal, like a thief or a baserunner-but seems you can never get enough of it. It's regulated, rationed, and billed by volume, like water or electricity or ice cream. Sometimes you have to beg the boss for more, or even for a trifling taste. So let's make time! Let's roll the dice and get these old bones out on the road again. Steve Gunn's new album imagines the fugitive moments afforded us during time off, out, and away as occasions for dilatory investigations into our immediate environments and interiors. Time Off (PoB-08) showcases the virtuosic guitarist and songwriter's oblique character sketches and story-songs, some of which, like "Lurker" and "Street Keeper," portray specific denizens of his Brooklyn neighborhood. "Old Strange" celebrates Jack Rose, a dear and departed friend and muse. Those contemplative studies frame Gunn's most affecting, accessible and articulate work of pure songcraft to date. His definitive statement as a songwriter, Time Off represents the culmination of nearly fifteen years of stylistic experimentation as a solo artist, a member of GHQ and the Gunn-Truscinski Duo, and more recently, as a guitarist in fellow Philadelphia-bred troubadour Kurt Vile's touring band the Violators. Gunn's first eponymous album with a full band, Time Off harnesses a core trio format to launch his compositions into new, luminous strata; the songs have evolved through disciplined trio interplay with longtime collaborator John Truscinski on drums and Justin Tripp (formerly of Aspera and Favourite Sons) on bass and guitar. Helena Espvall (Espers) also guests on cello. Steve's keen baritone voice features more prominently than ever before on these tunes, each of which feels both more rigorous and expansive than previous efforts. Here, Gunn the guitarist masterfully deploys the discursive, deconstructed blues style, at once transcendent and methodical, that has become his signature. Close listening reveals the influence of Delta and Piedmont country blues, ecstatic free jazz, and psych, as well as Gnawa and Carnatic music, on the continually unfolding compositions. The fresh emphasis on narrative, characters in counterpoint, and those heavy-duty vocals likewise recall the finest work of Steve's friend and sometime touring partner, Michael Chapman. Building on his established penchant for charting musical travelogues that ramble through city and wilderness alike, these dispatches about home are not merely descriptive but corporeal. Gunn's evocative writing and ductile instrumental phrasing, buttressed by the band's intuitive playing, carries the listener along bodily for the "Trailways Ramble." It's a real collection of foot-tappers and head-nodders, perfect for summer sessions. The album opens with the sublime, meditative "Water Wheel"-a paean to "the water wheel's constant turn/open views and days to burn"-and indeed Time Off sounds as if Steve has swum full circle to reach the headwaters of his musical practice. This is Gunn at the top of his game, utterly unique but steeped in traditions both vernacular and avant-garde. Jump in. Record Label: Paradise Of Bac Style: Soul/Funk

Great tunes that made the Disco 70's history. 13 tunes, re-mastered extended versions, containing The Monks, Brooklyn Express, George Keanz, Johnny Dynell, ... and many more !!! Record Label: Milestone Style: Funk

Record Label: Funkytowngrooves Style: Soul/Funk

With its new album Aargh!, Amsterdam-based group The Jig establishes its reputation asan original, heart-warming and uncut funk collective.The Jig is one of few genuine funk bands in Europe. It is an instrumental groove machine with a rock & roll-atti Record Label: B-Crack Recordings Style: Funk

Record Label: Funkytowngrooves Style: Soul/Funk

Record Label: Funkytowngrooves Style: Soul/Funk

Record Label: Funkytowngrooves Style: Soul/Funk

Record Label: Funkytowngrooves Style: Soul/Funk

Record Label: Funkytowngrooves Style: Soul/Funk

Artist: Krystol Label: Funkytowngrooves

Artist: Cherrelle Label: Tabu Demon

Artist: Froggy Mix Label: Touch Records

Artist: Barry White Label: Island Def Jam

A lost classic that captures deep soul at its most poignant and resonant, couching Thomas' deeply affecting vocals in earthy arrangements that emphasize the singer's gospel roots. - AMG. Produced by legendary soul singer / songwriter / producer Jerry Williams Jr., aka Swamp Dogg, and featuring Duane Allman on two songs, In Between Tears is finally back on vinyl with its original cover for the first time since 1973. The CD digipack version also includes her single for Canyon records, as well as newly penned liner notes. Style: Soul/Funk