Mandrill Composite Truth

RSD 2021 DROP 1. Available online from 6pm Sat June 12

£42

LP (Yellow Vinyl)

Same tracklisting as original vinyl (16 tracks / 1 LP), Deluxe packaging - trifold vinyl jacket, 28 page LP sized book and 40 page fanzine, highlighter yellow coloured vinyl

RSD 2021 DROP 1. Available online from 6pm Sat June 12

£16

7"

Haim release a coloured vinyl 7" featuring a new version of the track Gasoline with Taylor S plus the original version.

Seminal deep fusion jazz from Weldon Irvine. Featuring killer dancefloor tracks such as 'Jungle Juice" and 'We Getting Down'.

Rare Groove Holy Grail!

Produced by Roy Ayers with cult version of "Everybody Loves The Sunshine" plus rare-groove fave "Daylight"!!

Very highly recommended!

Super funky Herbie Hancock spin-off project featuring the musicians from his classic 'Headhunters' album. Includes the ultimate funk track "God Made Me Funky"!

You need this album! 

Unmissable classic afro-beat! Alagbon Close represents one of the first times anyone had directly taken on the Nigerian authorities in such a brash manner! 

This has to be the greatest rare groove album ever: it's brimming with classic tracks such as the 2 step perfection of Heart's Desire, Holding You Loving You, and Never Miss a Thing, and the uplifting disco boogie of Let Your Concience Be Your Guide! What can I tell you? It's a corker! Very highly recommended! You need this album!

Hypnotic afrobeat bullet from 1972 - recorded in Lagos. Sprited percussion, tight horns, and pure funk! As with most of the great man's albums, this is not to be missed. 

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Soul gospel from the Atlanta family group.

Super rare stuff from LA's answer to The Last Poets. Heavyweight early proto-rap. Wicked.

Melancholic, psych folk-Brazilian classic!!! Lush beautiful arrangements, sample-laden gem!

In 1972 a repressive Brazilian military dictatorship frowned on artistic impression that might influence the youth of the country. However, producer, arranger and guitar player Arthur Verocai released a self-titled album on Brazilian based Continental Records that challenged the musical conventions of the day. His subtle protest experimented with new musical directions, and used figurative language to sneak under the censorship radar.

Extremely rare album that has been known to fetch over $5000 online. Don't miss the opportunity to add this classic to your collection!

Tight instrumental funk from '72, previously very rare! Includes "Do The Granny"!

New edition of this classic set of funk and soul from Chicago's legendary Chess Records. CD comes in new deluxe hardback card case edition and perfect bound booklet, 2xLP comes on heavyweight loud vinyl with with full accompanying sleevenotes.

Soul Jazz Records latest release features classic and rare electric blues, funk and psychedelic soul music recorded in Chicago in the 1960s.

Chess Records, the infamous soul, blues and jazz powerhouse record company in Chicago was, in the 1960s, one of the main rivals to Motown in neighbouring Detroit and Atlantic Records in New York in its relentless charting of black music in the US charts. Owned by Leonard and Phil Chess, two Polish immigrants, the label brought Chicago’s urban black music to the masses on a huge scale.

Later Leonard’s son Marshall took the label in new directions, first by courting rock artists such as the Rolling Stones to record at the studios and then in the late 60s releasing genre defying radical psychedelic and experimental rock and funk releases by blues legends Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf and the progressive Rotary Connection, featuring a young vocalist Minnie Riperton, originally a secretary at the company.

After the closing of Chess in the 1970s, Marshall went on to launch Rolling Stones Records with the legendary group.

The label was recently the subject of two Hollywood films, ‘Who Do You Love’ and 'Cadillac Records', as well as both a BBC4 television documentary and a four-part BBC6 radio documentary celebrating the story of this amazing independent label that took on the mighty giants of soul music in the 1960s.

This hardback CD edition showcases a stunning selection of the radical funk, psychedelic soul, rock and jazz tracks recorded for Chess mostly under the production of the genius composer arranger Charles Stepney or Richard Evans and the direction of Marshall Chess. Stepney would later become partners with Maurice White producing seminal Earth, Wind and Fire albums in the 1970s. White was both founder of E,W and F and pert of the regular in-house players at Chess in the 1960s (as a drummer).

Other regulars included the crack team of Pete Cosey (who later played with Miles Davis), Louis Saterrsfield (another future E,W and F member) and Phil Upchurch. Chess's position on the south side of Chicago led to many musical connections with the jazz scene of the AACM, a link that continued even though the music released on the label was solidly dance-led throughout.

THe album comes with a 40 page booklet featuring extensive social, cultural and historical text and info and exclusive photographs showing how Chess Records launched urban blues in south-side Chicago, then brought it to the American masses and then in the 1960s recorded and released a stunning array of black styles, music that was both progressive and yet rich in the cities black urban musical legacy, as they created hits on an almost daily basis.

Totally essential super-funky heavyweight funky fusion from Larry Young!

It's incredible to think that Larry Young developed from his years at Blue Note in the 1960s to make this hard-rocking jazz fusion funky masterpiece - it's almost hard to believe it's the same artist, such is the transformation!

The track Turn off the Light is a truly amazing rare groove classic that will make you want to dance whenever you play it!

Combining the slackest deep jazz electronic wig-out keyboard playing with a low slung yet super-tight groove and saucy female vocals - this is a recipe for one electrifyingly good record!

Very VERY highly recommended!

A record that needs no introduction. Contains the all-time B-Boy hip-hop crate diggers break anthem Apache.

The Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band take their funky, steel drum sound deeper with their own rendition of the J Dilla's classic, 'Rico Suave'.  "Round & Round", is a killer steel pan rework of Hitek and Jonelle Monae's Rawkus classic.

Unbelieveably jam-packed with classic, killer tunes.

C-L-A-S-S-I-C!

Tropicalia: A Brazilian Revolution in Sound. Tropicalia is one of the most significant cultural movements in Brazil encompassing music, film, visual art and theatre.

‘Tropicalia' is the first album to bring together all the key artists involved in the movement – Os Mutantes, Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Tom Zé, Gal Costa and many more.

The Tropicália movement was born in 1968, a momentous year around the world. It was the year of the Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy assassinations, the Prague Spring, the Chicago Convention, the Tet Offensive in Vietnam and the anti-war movement, the student rebellion in France, civil rights, the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union and the birth of the women’s movement. In Brazil, army violence that killed three protesters in the opening months of 1968 failed to keep students from protesting the four-year-old repressive Brazilian military dictatorship. It was against this extraordinary backdrop that Tropicália arrived. As a coherent movement allied to worldwide political and cultural unrest, Tropicália lasted little more than a year, yet it had – and continues to have – a profound effect on Brazilian society.

Mixing psychedelic rock, avant-garde musique concrete (tape loops, sound experiments), samba, funk and soul, Tropicália was so radical – and its social implications so politically profound - that its leading protagonists, Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, were arrested, imprisoned and finally exiled in 1969. Tropicália’s unique ideology mixed high art with mass culture. Tropicália created musical and cultural anarchy, a revolution in Brazilian sound with a legacy later to be internationally championed by such diverse artists as David Byrne, Beck, Kurt Cobain, Stereolab, The Bees and Tortoise. Tropicália artists loved the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix. They loved such forgotten Brazilian musical radio heroes as Dorival Caymmi, Luis Gonzaga and Orlando Silva as much as they were interested in the avant-garde of John Cage and Stockhausen. The Tropicália artists loved Joao Gilberto even though the rise of Tropicália in many ways resulted in the demise of Bossa Nova, the elegant Brazilian music that had swept to international prominence at the start of the Sixties.

REVIEWS

 "Essential! The vibrant sound of late 60's Brazil" Q MAGAZINE

"A near perfect primer to Brazilian psychedelica" TIME OUT

"An exhilarating blend of Bossa Nova, acid rock and avant-garde samba, funk and soul" MOJO

"Subversive, psychedelic and rocking. A superlative compilation" THE GUARDIAN (CD of the Week)

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