Funk

Included in this package are five CDs, which comprise the four solo albums originally released on A&M of which only two; Looking At You (released in Germany) and Chaz Jankel (released in the UK in 2005) ever came out on CD. There is a bonus CD

BILLY BROOKS CULT JAZZ-FUNK ALBUM OFFICIALLY REISSUED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN DECADES. FEATURING THE ICONIC 'FOURTY DAYS' SAMPLED BY A TRIBE CALLED QUEST FOR THEIR CLASSIC 'LUCK OF LUCIEN' Wewantsounds is delighted to announce the reissue of Billy Bro

Rhino выпускает серию лимитированных переизданий на цветном виниле альбомов знаменитых темнокожих исполнителей, под общим названием Black History Month. Классические альбомы от Рэя Чарльза, Ареты Франклин, Донни Хатауэя, Lil’ Kim, Кёртиса Мейфилда и других будут выпускаться ограниченным тиражом на цветном виниле каждую пятницу месяца, начиная с 5 февраля 2021 года. Чака Хан ‎– Epiphany: The Best of Chaka Khan, Vol 1. (бордовый винил)

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Новый студийный альбом популярного британского инди-соул музыканта Тома Греннана Издание на CD

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Track List: CD ONE 01. Queen - Killer Queen 02. The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star 03. Blondie - Heart Of Glass 04. Earth, Wind & Fire with The Emotions - Boogie Wonderland 05. The Four Seasons - December, 1963 (Oh What a Night!) 06. Gladys Knight & The Pips - Midnight Train to Georgia 07. Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine 08. Ike & Tina Turner - Proud Mary 09. Curtis Mayfield - Move on Up 10. Sister Sledge - We Are Family 11. The O'Jays - Love Train 12. The Specials feat. Rico - A Message to You Rudy 13. Electric Light Orchestra - Livin' Thing 14. Billy Joel - Piano Man 15. John Denver - Annie's Song 16. Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Make Me Smile (Come up and See Me) 17. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On 18. Barry White - You're The First, The Last, My Everything 19. Freda Payne - Band of Gold 20. 10cc - I'm Not In Love CD TWO 01. John Lennon, The Plastic Ono Band & Yoko Ono - Instant Karma! (We All Shine On) 02. Bryan Ferry - Let's Stick Together 03. The Sugarhill Gang - Rapper’s Delight 04. LaBelle - Lady Marmalade 05. McFadden & Whitehead - Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now 06. Tina Charles - I Love to Love 07. Billy Paul - Me and Mrs. Jones 08. Commodores - Three Times A Lady 09. The Three Degrees - Woman in Love 10. Sly & The Family Stone - Family Affair 11. Harry J Allstars - Liquidator 12. R. Dean Taylor - There's A Ghost In My House 13. Chairmen of the Board - Give Me Just a Little More Time 14. KC & The Sunshine Band - That's The Way (I Like It) 15. Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - The Tears Of A Clown 16. Chic - Good Times 17. Van McCoy & The Soul City Symphony - The Hustle 18. Heatwave - Boogie Nights 19. Diana Ross - Ain't No Mountain High Enough 20. Minnie Riperton - Lovin' You CD THREE 01. ABBA - Fernando 02. Fleetwood Mac - Don’t Stop 03. Paul McCartney - Another Day 04. Chicago - If You Leave Me Now 05. Harry Nilsson - Without You 06. Barry Manilow - Mandy 07. Patti Smith Group - Because the Night 08. Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights 09. Meat Loaf - You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night) 10. Foreigner - Cold As Ice 11. Edwin Starr - War 12. The Jam - Down In The Tube Station At Midnight 13. The Boomtown Rats - Rat Trap 14. Rod Stewart – Handbags & Gladrags 15. Terry Jacks - Seasons in the Sun 16. Ralph McTell - Streets Of London 17. Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind 18. Nazareth - Love Hurts 19. Gary Moore & Phil Lynott - Parisienne Walkways 20. Eric Carmen - All by Myself CD FOUR 01. The Cars - My Best Friend's Girl 02. Joe Jackson - Is She Really Going Out With Him? 03. Roxy Music - Dance Away 04. M - Pop Muzik 05. The Tourists - I Only Want to Be with You 06. Mott The Hoople - Roll Away the Stone 07. Status Quo - Down Down 08. Sweet - Blockbuster 09. The Allman Brothers Band – Jessica 10. Thin Lizzy - Whiskey In The Jar 11. Justin Hayward - Forever Autumn (From Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of "The War of the Worlds") 12. Python Lee Jackson feat. Rod Stewart - In A Broken Dream 13. The Walker Brothers - No Regrets 14. Elkie Brooks - Pearl's A Singer 15. Santana - She's Not There 16. Sparks - This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us 17. Madness - The Prince 18. Sham 69 – Hurry Up Harry 19. Graham Parker & The Rumour - Hold Back The Night 20. Chris Rea - Fool (If You Think It's Over) CD FIVE 01. Carl Douglas - Kung Fu Fighting 02. Bay City Rollers - Bye Bye Baby 03. Showaddywaddy - Under The Moon Of Love 04. The Rubettes - Sugar Baby Love 05. Suzi Quatro - Devil Gate Drive 06. Kiki Dee - Amoureuse 07. David Soul - Don’t Give Up On Us 08. Matthews' Southern Comfort - Woodstock 09. The New Seekers - I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing (In Perfect Harmony) 10. Dawn feat. Tony Orlando - Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree 11. The Drifters - Kissin' in the Back Row of the Movies 12. Third World - Now That We've Found Love 13. Dave Edmunds - I Hear You Knocking 14. Sailor - A Glass of Champagne 15. Racey - Some Girls 16. Alvin Stardust - My Coo Ca Choo 17. Pilot - January 18. David Essex - Hold Me Close 19. The Isley Brothers - Harvest for the World 20. Racing Cars - They Shoot Horses Don't They?

First Ever CD Issue For This Recording From James Brown’s Backing Band: The Bootsy Collins-lead JB’s. This album is the Rosetta Stone of funk’s dominant idioms, yet its existence has barely been a rumor. In 1970 James Brown perfectly captured a definitive moment in modern music when he ordered Bootsy Collins into the studio to record the tracks that would be test pressed on King Records as These Are The J.B.’s. This album is the epitome of funk music, Brown’s innovation that influenced everything that came after it, from Afro-beat to disco to hip-hop. And if there is any funk ensemble as influential as Brown’s, in the post-“Cold Sweat” musical landscape, it’s the Parliament/Funkadelic contingent. Those two streams, as Grammy Winning James Brown historian Alan Leeds details in this album’s liner notes, converged for the first time here. This link between Brown’s funk and all that followed features Bootsy and his young band running through twelve-minute instrumental take of Marva Whitney’s “It’s My Thing,” replete with blues chord changes, alongside interpretations of the Meters, Kool and the Gang and none other than Jimi Hendrix. This is a young band’s James Brown-turned-on-his-head style of funk that they nail in a one-minute vamp that pre-dates their obscure but important work as the Houseguests ensemble and embodies the essence of the psychedelic-flavored music that would propel them into the orbit of George Clinton and his mothership, where they poked cosmic holes in funk’s polyrhythmic ozone layer in the mid-1970s. There are only two extant copies of the original King Records test press LP of These Are The J.B.’s. The first commercial issue of this album, was overseen by Now-Again’s Egon alongside Leeds and Universal Music Group’s James Brown expert Harry Weinger. It was mastered specifically for vinyl by Elysian Master’s Dave Cooley from the original two-track stereo master that James Brown and his engineer Ron Lenhoff delivered to production forty-four years ago.

CD debut for “Hit After Hit” LP • 10 tracks new to CD • Includes some of Jamaica’s biggest hits from 1970 to 1975 Soon after forming in the late Sixties, the Chosen Few became widely regarded as one the most accomplished harmony groups on the Jamaican music scene, as demonstrated by a series of hits for local producers, Derrick Harriott and ‘Prince’ Tony. A subsequent collaboration with Florida-based ex-pat, Noel Williams aka King Sporty spawned the reggae-funk masterpiece, ‘In Miami’ featuring backing from leading soul outfit K.C. & the Sunshine Band. The enduring popularity of the quartet, comprising Franklyn Spence and the three Browns – Busty, Noel and Errol – was demonstrated by the release of three acclaimed long players between 1973 and 1975, all of which were issued in the UK by the country’s premier Jamaican music record company, Trojan Records. This trio of albums form the basis of this superb collection of classic soulful reggae sounds, which is further enhanced by 11 bonus tracks from the period.

Rivage was one of the records during my early days into Modern Soul I was desperate to get hold of, 'Strung Out On You're Love' is up there in my top ten and I managed to pick a copy of the 45 when in the USA in the Early 2000s for a decent price. I only found out there was a rarer LP with a longer version of the track around the same time, with the bonus of a pile of solid Funk, modern and sweet soul tracks. Fast-forward to 2019 and friend Angelo Angione hooked me up with the band who were excited to work with me on a reissue. Now those who know the LP will know it's rather odd cover, this was a marketing idea by someone at the Label, despite the band not wanting to use it that's the way it ended up. We decided to put things right and have reinstated the original cover shot of the band. This LP is simply one of the finest 70s LPs, it's mad that it has not been reissued before now…enjoy.

Funk, soul, dance & electronic: the many sides of Fabien (Claudio Magnani) with music & co-production by Alberto Benati! With a solid background in performing/singing (Fabien) and music production (Alberto Benati) for the dance market – especially the Japanese “eurobeat” scene, but also in other areas (Alberto has been part of soul/funk band Ridillo for a long time) the people behind “Understatement”, originally released in 2011 by Greater London Records, surely know how to put together an album, showcasing different styles: a mix of funk and soul – some of the tracks are newly arranged versions of compositions made for a previous project called SeptemberGroove – with dance and electronic elements. Kutmusic – after striking a deal with the Benati & Magnani team in 2017 – proudly re-introduces this album to a new audience!

ATA Records is pleased to announce the release of Early Works: Funk, Soul & Afro Rarities From The Archive, a compilation of tracks that were recorded at the very outset of the label and haven't been available since the initial limited run (Released as Funk, Soul & Afro Rarities: An Introduction To ATA Records on Here and Now Recordings) sold out 5 years ago. Since 2013 label founders and musicians Neil Innes & Pete Williams have been tirelessly fulfilling their shared dream of making the records they weren't hearing. Having spent years working in various bands both players felt the desire to break free of the constraints of working within another band and started on the slow path to creative autonomy by starting to work on the 12 tracks presented on this compilation. While deliberating their next steps they were approached by Here & Now records who licensed the 12 tracks and released them under the title Funk, Soul & Afro Rarities: An Introduction To ATA Recordsin 2014 as a limited run of 300 copies that sold out within weeks of release. Now in 2020, celebrating their 5th year of running successfully as a label in their own right, ATA are re-releasing these 12 tracks on a new vinyl pressing under the title Early Works: Funk, Soul & Afro Rarities From The Archivewith new artwork and liner notes that detail the labels birth. The compilation features 12 tracks that include the very first 3 tracks from The Sorcerers that led to their self-titled debut LP & the first proper release on ATA, as well as the first recordings by The Mandatory Eight and The Yorkshire Film and Television Orchestra

When the Funk meets World Music in a selection of Groovy tracks! A journey to the heart of the Afrobeat of Nigerian Orlando Julius, to the lethiojazz of Alemayèhu Eshèté and the High-life of Ghanaian Ebo Taylor... Tracklisting: 1 Ebo Taylor - Amponsah 2 Moussa Doumbia - Keleya 3 Amadou Balaké - Super Bar Konon Mousso 4 Mangue Kondé & Les 5 Manu Dibango - The Panther 6 Peter King - Ajo 7 Itadi - Ayala 8 Marumo - Khomo Tsaka Deile Kae 9 Apples - Mind Twister 10 The Wings - Gone With The Sun 1 Kelenkye Band - Jungle Music 2 Super Elcados - Get Up And Do It Good 3 The Apagya Showband - Kwaku Ananse 4 Orlando Julius Feat. Ashiko - Get The Funk 5 Alemayèhu Eshèté Feat. Hirut Bèqèlè - Temeles 6 Livy Ekemezie - Friday Night 7 Willy Nfor - Boogie Down In Africa 8 Shina Williams & His African Percussionists - Agboju Lo 9 Soul Brothers - Bayeza 10 Teaspoon & The Waves - Oh Yeh Soweto