Holy Grail deep disco from Des Moines, Iowa! Solid unforgiving driving funky disco, flipped with a crazy Funkadelic style stoner funk rock. Massive collectors piece! Totally ESSENTIAL!
Columbus native Kenneth Jordan was such a force in the late 80s r&b scene that local talent shows had to rewrite their rules. His voice dominated so consistently...
Funk heads, you'll be needing this one in your bag because 'Migraine' by North Carolinian musician Dennis Garner alongside Dennis O. is a rare and intoxicating...
You can always rely on Athens of the North to sure up pure gold each and every time. This is another case in point: Chris Rael's 'November 18, 1983' is...
Dynamic, multi-limbed house outfit Girls of the Internet have collaborated with Athens of the North for a special, limited edition two track tour 12”,...
We have been waiting for this full length to drop ever since we were tased by the lead single a month or so ago. There was already no doubting James Alexander...
Leonard Grandsons'The Sands of Zanziibar' is a classy, extremely rare soulful floater from ’77which has remained extremely elusive despite having a sound...
AOTN proudly present a new solo outing from long time friend & contributor to Athens of the North, Other Lands aka Gavin L.Sutherland.
Channelling his...
Arthur Ponder, a life long Macon, Georgia resident, started his singing career in the 60s replacing Otis Redding in Johnny Jenkins & The Pinetoppersafter...
Athens Of The North reissue Judy Pollak's extremely rare, soul / funk / folk masterpiece 'In Togetherness'. Originals of this beauty exchange for big sums...
A stone-cold CLASSIC tune!Simply one the most soulful New Orleans tunes EVER to come out on record from Eddie Bo vocalist Inell Young.
Rare as...New...
LONG OUT OF PRINT!!!! BACK IN PRINT!!!! 100% ESSENTIAL
SEMINAL cut from Weldon Irvine featuring DON BLACKMAN's truly soulful vocals. Essential, conscious...
Only available EXCLUSIVELY to customers at Soul Jazz Records/Sounds of the Universe.
Stone-cold CLASSIC two-step funky soul bomb!
Soul Jazz Records/Sounds...
BACK IN PRINT!
Two slices of Brilliant Brazilian Disco - 'Relax' is a straight up boogie monster, well known to deep disco & boogie heads flipped with...
Killer New Orleans Funk rarity!
Inell Young's searing vocal performance backed by the unbelievably funky James Black's seriously awesome second-line...
With the original UK 7" of this release now as rare as hen's teeth, and with the group having recently 'reformed' for one last album together, late 2019,...
7"In 2015, Freestyle Records re-issued the groundbreaking 'African Party' album by the somewhat mysterious figure of Ginger (George Folunsho) Johnson....
You could buy the one original copy currently on Discogs for £1,200 - OR buy this!
Seminal New Orleans Eddie Bo production from the near legendary group...
UK jazz trumpeter, Matthew Halsall, drops a set of archive recordings from sessions back in 2008. Deep meditative spiritual-jazz music released via his...
Madcliff recorded one album in 1977 from which these two tracks come from for the first time on a 45. The killer cut is the funk bomb 'You Can Make The...
Two ultra rare 1972 heavyweight nyabinghi roots cuts from Bro Joe & The Rightful Brothers, with "Hail The Children"the first recorded appearance of Yabby...
Analog Africa focus in on fourteen mind-blowing Cumbia masterpieces - many of which have never seen wide release outside the Amazonian region!
If you...
Absolutely gorgeous modern soul rarity re-issued by the newly formed Athens Of The North imprint. Recorded in the states in 1977 but only released in Australia...
Seminal New Orleans party funk classic tune of all time! Featuring the phenomenal vocals of Juanita Brooks, the writing and production skills of Eddie...
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...
"Released at the height of the electric fusion era in 1976, ‘Stop Over’ is an all-acoustic hard bop killer, sounding like the Jazz Messengers on speed!...