Collaborative Album from Orlando Julius & The Heliocentrics.

Afro-Soul & Jazz Psyche by Strut Records. Big Up!

On continue dans la série Cult Cargo :

Belize City Boil Up + Grand Bahama Goombay

Fusion Latin Soul, Disco Funk & Reggae Calypso... West Indies Style!

Cult Cargo: Belize City Boil Up
The national dish of Belize is a diverse mixture of ingredients: pig’s tail, potatoes, plantains, bananas, boiled eggs, yams, and whole fish, thrown in a pot and stewed to perfection. They call it a boil-up. Cult Cargo: Belize City Boil Up combines equal parts R&B, calypso, disco, funk, reggae, bruckdown, soul, folk, and other sounds scraped off the musical pantry’s bottom shelf, though it’s anything but leftovers. See the Harmonettes’ speedy, robustly recorded take on “Shame, Shame, Shame” or tropical pulse and electro stabs on Lord Rhaburn’s “Disco Connection.” Before our very own Rob Sevier showed up on Belize’s sand-swept shores, little was known of the tiny Central American nation’s vibrant musical history. Since then, we’ve scoured the catalog of Belize’s lone record label, Compton Fairweather’s C.E.S., for choice delicacies derived from American genres gone mutant under intense Belizean sunlight, gathering a hurricane of battered photos, album sleeves, and ephemera, amassing a sound souvenir that’s more like a recorded jaunt through a dance-infected Belize long gone. Our sturdy gatefold double-LP edition includes two bonus tracks...dashes of extra flavoring you won’t find plated by any other Numero product.

Cult Cargo: Grand Bahama Goombay
The second in our series exploring the pan-American funk experience, Cult Cargo: Grand Bahama Goombay is a deep overview of Funky Nassau’s redheaded sister city, Freeport, on Grand Bahama Island. A "cargo cult" is what happens when one culture begins worshipping the byproducts of another; Cult Cargo is what happens when that devotion is returned. From 1969 to 1976, Frank Penn’s GBI studio and label cranked out a dozen LPs and twice as many singles, each infected by the Detroit-by-way-of-Miami sounds drifting east across 100 miles of Florida strait. GBI's catalog is a fruity blend of poolside soul, second-deck cruise ship karaoke, sand-in-your-bathing-suit funk, jump rope rhymes, hurricane-ravaged R&B, the regional delicacies of rake n’ scrape and goombay....plus a 13-minute “Mustang Sally” that stresses the classic to breaking point, and goes ahead and breaks it. Fire up the blender, crank the stereo, and slather on the SPF 35. Have your mail held. Frank Penn's funked-up Freeport, Bahamas, is a mouse click, a play button, or a needle drop away.

A Finest Selection of 70's Classic Funk Lps

Tower Of Power - Tower Of Power (Warner Bros, 1973)
The Nite-Liters - A-Nal-Y-Sis (RCA Victor, 1973)
Mandrill - Mandriland (Polydor, 1974)
The Fatback Band - Keep On Steppin' (Event Records, 1974)

70's Best of Latin Original Albums

Ray Barretto - The Message (Fania Records, 1971/72)
Cortijo & His Time Machine - Y Su Maquina Del Tiempo (Coco Records, 1973)
Cal Tjader - Primo (Fantasy, 1973)
Eddie Palmieri - The Sun Of Latin Music (Coco Records, 1974)
Charlie Palmieri - ElectroDuro (Coco Records, 1974)

A Finest Selection of 70's Classic Funk Lps

The Jimmy Castor Bunch - It's Just Begun (RCA Victor, 1972)

Roy Ayers - Coffy (Polydor, 1973)

Bobby Williams - Funk Super Fly (R&R Records, 1974)

Stu Gardner - And The Sanctified Sound (Volt, 1974)

Psychadelic Afro-Rock & Fuzz Funk In 1970s Nigeria.

Ginger Baker first visited Nigeria in 1970 at a time when local rock music was just finding its feet. By then the sound of Jimi Hendrix & bands like Santana had started to seep in to the mainly soul-based sets of a handful of young bands playing western influenced pop. Recognising the talent of bands like Cluster International and The Afro-Collection, Baker toured Europe & America with some of their musicians with his new band Airforce & Salt. Back in Nigeria in 1972 and exposed to the world of progressive and psychedelic rock at its peak, Joni Haastrup started his Mono-Mono band & Berkley Jones, Laolo Akins & Mike Odumosu set up BLO. The craze that followed hit the youth and student population of Nigeria hard – mixing fuzz guitar & heavy, African rhythms with elements of Led Zeppelin, Traffic & the Chambers Brothers. 15 of the best LP and 45 cuts of the scene are available here for the first time in 30 years.

Underground 70's Disco Funk from Lagos Nigeria. Big Up Soundway!

The Funk & Disco Capital of West Africa from 1974-79. More nightclubs, bars, spots and dance-floors than any place along the coast from Dakar all the way to Kinshasa. The only 24 track recording studio in the same stretch with more DJs & imported American LPs and 45s than any of it’s neighbours.
Soundway presents 9 slabs of rhythm from a time when Saturday and Sunday nights in Lagos City were for looking good and going out. All of them vital musical feathers in the Lagos DJ bow alongside the latest Brass Construction, BT Express & James Brown imports that were hot off the plane.

Les DJ réunionnais de La Basse Tropicale (déjà auteurs, pour Strut, des compilations Soul Sok Séga ou encore Oté Maloya) ont compilé les plus précieux sons soul, soukous et salegy (un style de danse locale au tempo rapide) du pays africain anciennement rattaché à l’État français, indépendant depuis 1960.

Sur Alefa Madagascar. Salegy, Soukous & Soul from the Red Island 1974-1984, on passe du folk politique de Mahaleo (« Izahay Mpamita » raconte les protestations sociales des agriculteurs et des étudiants de 1972) aux ambiances martiales de Los Matadores, en passant par Roger Georges ou Jean Kely & Basth qui se font les portes-paroles du très brute son salegy, popularisé dans le monde entier par le musicien Eusèbe Jaojoby. Sur cette compilation, on trouve aussi « Ody Ody », un morceau du dénommé Saka Dit The King, rock vitaminé et rythmé que l'on vous propose de découvrir, avant la sortie de la compilation le 6 septembre, en grande exclusivité. Par Bastien Stisi - Nova

Et voici le Volume 2 de la série Ivory Coast Soul.

Afro-beat to Afro funk, Soul, Soukous & Latin rhythms, all mostly recorded in Abidjan from 1976 to 1981.

Afro Funk & Soul Fusion scene recorded in Abidjan between 1972 to 1982.

Compiled by Djamel Hammadi for Hot Casa Records. Rare & Afro Funky Masterpiece.

EMI Records Funk, Samba Soul & Bossa Groove entre 1965 & 1977

A Selection of Songs to represent Arabic Musical History of the 1970s and 1980s.

Merci à Habibi Funk pour ces pépites so FunkyGrooves!

Habibi Funk is dedicated to re-releasing a style of music that historically never existed as a musical genre. We use the term to describe a certain sound that we like from the countries of the Arab world. The songs we chose were created in places quite far from another and under very different circumstances. Some were written and recorded during war times, others in exile. Despite the differences we think there is a musical connection between them. Essentially, we are interested in the musical endeavors, in which artists from the Arab world mixed local and regional influences with musical interests that came from outside of the region. Even though the name suggests it’s all about funk music, our focus is more than just that. Often these influences might be inspired from Western popular music such as soul, pop and rock but it’s not limited to that either. Some of our favorite records are best described as Arabic zouk (a genre originating from the Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe) like Mallek Mohamed’s music, Algerian coladera (a popular musical style from the Cape Verdean islands) or Lebanese AOR, which means the process of musical influences displayed on this compilation was much more versatile than just taking Western music as a blueprint and translating it with a local accent. The compilation features 15 different artists. Some you might already know thru Habibi Funk’s releases like Fadoul, Ahmed Malek, Dalton or Al Massrieen, while others are meant as an introduction to artists like Kamal Keila, Sharhabeel Ahmed, Attarazat Addahabia & Mallek Mohamed who will all release full length albums on Habibi Funk in 2018.

Here we are on the Volume 3! The unique Mix of Tropical Music from Panama. Great Pleasure.

Para Gozar.

Et voici le Volume 2. A déguster avec un vieux Ron Abuelo. La Murga de Panama y Tropical Pusation!

Es Para Ti

Premier Volume d'une série consacrée au Panama. Selected by Miles Cleret from Soundway Records.

Tropical Groove en Fusion.

Psychedelic Afro-Beat, Latin, Hip-Hop, Soundtrack Music, Funky Beat...

Killah Soundz!

Ocote Soul Sounds is Martin Pena (Antibalas) & Adrian Quesada (Grupo Fantasma, Brownout) and their extended musical family spanning from Austin to New York to Washington DC to Sao Paulo.

Check It Out Now!

Ocote Soul Sounds & Adrian Quesada :

El Niño Y El Sol (Aire Sol Records/ Eighteenth Street Loung Music, 2004)

The Alchemist Manifesto (Eighteenth Street Loung Music, 2008)

Coconut Rock (Eighteenth Street Loung Music, 2009)

Ocote Soul Sounds :

Taurus (Eighteenth Street Loung Music, 2011)

Funky Afro-Cuban Grooves from Areito/Egrem Records compiled by Tom Wieland. Big Up to Freestyle Records.

Press Release :
Right in time for the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution legendary Bavarian DJ & producer Tom Wieland (7 samurai, panOptikum & Les Gammas - Compost Records) is coming on strong with his version of the story. 12 lost rare grooves from the vaults of the Egrem/Areito studios in Havanna get after 5 years of work a proper reissue at last!
Cuba was a late 20th Century anomaly: a communist government that fostered a vibrant, influential, and essential musical output. Cuban sounds resonate and persist in music throughout Latin America, Africa, Europe, and the United States. In the 1960s and 70s, Cuban music played just as big a role in the development of popular music styles in Central and West Africa as anything coming out of the U.S. or Europe.
Tom Wieland, Bavarian music producer & DJ has taken note of the overwhelming response to the funky Cuban tracks he plays in his sets and decided it was time to make some of this elusive music available to everyone, complete with well researched liners and a wealth of background information.
If you're into Cuban music beyond Buena Vista, Arturo Sandoval and Celia Cruz, you'll likely recognize some of these names, Juan Formell y Los Van Van, Orquesta Riverside, Juan Pablo Torres, Irakere but you'll likely scratch your head at some others.
Tom Wielands new compilation "Revolucion!" digs deep to provide a nice mix of straight-ahead funk and psychedelic experimentation, with frequent hints of more traditional sound.
Feliz cumpleanos, Cuba!