Isaac Hayes The Isaac Hayes Movement (1970)

Backed by The Bar-Kays and featuring epic versions of "Walk On By" and "By The Time I Get To Phoenix". Awesome!

Wicked boogie funk soul disco

Groovy Stax business from Isaac Hayes' group. UK Stax mint unplayed original copy, drill hole.

Nice funky Stax tune.

Unplayed original UK pressing Stax, drill-hole, Stax house bag

Wicked r'n'b/funk instrumental album on Stax circa 1971

Funky Stax tune. MINT UNPLAYED ORIGINAL UK PRESSING 45

Nice moody tune

Nice Funky Soul tune

Mint unplayed USA 45

Funky cut!

Funky instrumental

Original unplayed USA 45

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Funky Memphis soul

Two-sider funky soul!

UNPLAYED ORIGINAL USA 45

Great funk tune on Stax. UNPLAYED ORIGINAL UK STAX 45

Vinyl NM-
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Funky Pops

Stax records, 1973.

The 70s cricket theme!

Funky rocky gospel groover Orig USA 45 F/G- only

Essential, definitive, Blaxpoitation movie soundtrack with loads of wah wah guitars!

Highly recommended!

Top funky soul on Stax!

Killer rare funk instrumental! Recorded at Muscle Shoals, Alabama, 1972.

Mint unplayed USA original 45.

Funky soul. mint copy

Deep, deep soul

Funky Soul tune. Unplayed mint original Stax 45

Killer funky-gospel-soul includes the club track "Pity Yourself". Rare! 

'Melting Pot' is the last album to feature the group's classic lineup of Jones, Cropper, Dunn, and Jackson, and features longer jam-oriented songs for the first time on an MG's album.

Recommended!

Classic Southern Soul with the seminal 'telephone' introduction to the title track plus the beautiful "As Long As You Love Me"

Brilliant, brilliant album - every track's a winner! Highly recommended!

Stone cold jump up classic with pressure drop on the b-side

Featuring the mellow soul masterpiece of "Never Can Say Goodbye" and the Portishead sampling "Ike's Rap II". Highly recommended!

This compilation is made up of his super rare early releases as Eugene Blacknell and the Savonics, the highly sought after raw instrumental funk as Eugene Blacknell and the New Breed, his big band party-style vocal tracks, and a host of unreleased material including the radio advertisements, live recordings, and both vocal and instrumental studio cuts. Fans of Bay Area Funk will recognize the different musical periods that Blacknell goes through with comparisons ranging from acts like Johnny Talbot and Tower of Power to Sly Stone and Graham Central Station.

Deep and twisted selection from arranger Schiffrin.

SUPERB lovers rock/disco compilation via Athens Of The North! Sought-after cover versions from the 80s of classics by the likes of Leon Ware, Mtume, Archie Bell, The Gap Band, Lowrell, Prince, Starvue, Bobby Caldwell and The Isley Brothers - all killer, no filler!

Loads of classic tracks such as "Love Is The Drug", "Pull Up To The Bumper", "My Jamaican Guy" and Slave To The Rhythm!

Now-Again Records follows up The Heliocentrics’ percussive excursions into the astral realms of psychedelia with an album of Afro-tinged funk music originating from the Southern Sahara and recorded in Germany. Karl Hector has, to date, only appeared on one 7-inch, from 1996, as the leader of the Funk Pilots. For this album, he has teamed up with Jay Whitefield (producer and guitarist for the Poets of Rhythm and the Whitefield Brothers, and founder of the now defunct Hotpie & Candy Records) and Thomas Myland and Zdenko Curlija, founders of The Malcouns. Alongside Bo Baral, other members of the Poets of Rhythm and crack Munich- based session musicians, Whitefield, Myland and Curlija have crafted nearly twenty tracks that follow the musical roads that Hector has travelled. The underlying groove that ties these ideas together, of course, is as rooted in James Brown as it is Fela Kuti. As informed by Mulatu Astatke of Ethiopia as it is by Jean-Claude Vannier and Can. This is an album of the world. Not “world music” – but that will appeal to any culture ever transfixed by rhythm on “the one.”

Returning to their huge old school sound this new recording celebrates 35 years of Azymuth as "arguably the most successful band to come out of Brazil". The signature swing samba is heavier than ever with a string of unforgettable tunes: from dancefloor fillers and lush jazz to hard, grooving samba funk and warped psychedelia. The keyboards, played by Jose Roberto Bertrami, and Alex Malherios' electric bass interact like two lead instruments - the contagious hooks and seriously funky basslines combine beautifully with Ivan 'Mamao' Conti's dazzling druming. Highly recommended!

1973 collection

Played By Theo Parrish

2 Deep Disco Classics on 45 for the first time! Two gems ‘Lies’ and ‘Is It Cool?’ - notably added to Theo Parrish's ‘Ugly Edits’ canon over a decade ago!

100% Stone-cold rare groove classic. "Walk that Walk" is a heavyweight monster tune. ESSENTIAL!

By 1974, 31 year-old Weldon Irvine was ready for the next phase of his career. Having spent years working variously as a pianist, band leader, composer, arranger and road manager with the likes of Joe Henderson and Nina Simone, his breakout moment as a solo artist finally came in 1974, when he signed with RCA Records. Finally backed with a budget that could match his ambitions, Irvine's first release was Cosmic Vortex, a sprawling, monumental work that embodied a musician at the height of his powers. The result is an album that molds his jazz instincts for free-form improvisation to fit a deep funk aesthetic, but also matched with strong, spiritual lyrics.

Trombonist Wayne Henderson formed The Freedom Sounds ('a big-little band') whilst still a member of The Jazz Crusaders and delivered some scorching soul-jazz for Atlantic in the late 60s

The elusive ninth installment from Madlib's Medicine Show series!

No. 9 is a punch-you-in-the-face return to hip hop form – a collaborative album with Detroit rapper Frank Nitti. Madlib and Nitti first collaborated on Jaylib’s ‘McNasty Filth’, from the seminal ‘Champion Sound’ album.

Back then, Frank was one half of the rap duo Frank ‘n’ Dank, and he and his partner were the late J-Dilla’s go-to MCs. Madlib liked what he heard, and promised Frank that one day he would work with the budding rapper on an album. Seven years, hundreds of beats, a bunch of blunt smoke and far too many cross-country trips later, and this is the result: a hazy, funk-filled rap album, done as only the Beat Konducta can do.

This is a continuation of the styles laid down in Medicine Show #1 – ‘Before The Verdict’ with Guilty Simpson - and it sets the stage for the joint set that Madlib will release with his brother Oh No on Medicine Show #11.

Classic rare soul jazz funk produced by Arif Mardin featuring "Shorty Rides Again", "Universal Prisoner", "Carry On Brother" and "Set Us Free"!

Originally recorded in 1974, "Confusion" is a 26-minute, one-track album that is entirely instrumental on the first side. Lyrically, the song is a polemical comment on the confused state of Nigeria's chaotic, post-colonial, urban existence. A fine example of the great man's genius.

Heavy, Heavy, Heavy psychedelic funk rock! One of the finest albums recorded on Cadet - Marshall Chess's off-shoot label for Chess Records. Featuring the crack Chicago in-house group; Phil Upchurch, Maurice Jennings, Charles Stepney on organ, Louis Satterfield (later of Earth, Wind and Fire) and Pete Cosey (who went on to work with Miles Davis). Also produced and arranged by the mighty Charles Stepney. Includes "I Just Want To Make Love To You". Essential !

Super heavy and rare original. Groovy and heavy percussion with the tough and melodic harmonies of Jazz Crusaders trombone man Wayne Henderson. Very Recommended!

Great conditional original Mono pressing in original shrink, original Atlantic inners, blue/green Atlantic label

Original = Original USA Vinyl VG+ /Sleeve VG+
High-end Audio Desk Systeme Pro Machine Utrasonic cleaned+
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Classic Curtis Mayfield, from the conscious lyrics of "Beautiful Brother Of Mine" to the heavy deepness of "Underground".