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If you dig psych-funk, you’ll think all your Christmases have come at once with this single that lifts the two funkiest cuts off Giuliano Sorgini’s OST album for 1974 Italian TV flick Zoo Folle. It’s the first time ever these two tracks have been on 45 and they have been remastered from the original tapes. First up is Mad Town, a sinuous flute-led instrumental that gradually builds in
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Monthly Archives: January 2022
GIULIANO SORGINI: Mad Town/ Ultima Caccia (Vinyl 7″)
PECOE: For The Funk EP
Eight releases into his career as a BBP artist and Oz producer Pecoe is still giving it up For The Funk on his new EP. Things kick off with the title track, a synth-bass powered beast featuring a female shout-out motif, followed by Make A Miracle which cannibalises both The Jackson Sisters and MC Duke over a pounding breakbeat and Eye Of The Tiger-style guitar. Hand In The Air completes an
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SAM REDMORE (feat. LUMI HD): Party
Flavour of the month over at Jalapeno Records right now is Sam Redmore and here he is with new single Party featuring Redmore’s longtime friend Lumi HD. The track opens with just its 90bpm drum break followed by claps, then bass, trumpet, Rhodes, vibraphone and assorted other layers joining in. Once things achieve soul jazz lift-off, in comes Lumi admonishing someone for
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CURTIS BAKER & THE BRAVEHEARTS: Wang Dang Doodle (Vinyl 7″)
Another big drop from Original Gravity Records, and not for the first time this weekend (if you were paying attention yesterday) for here is a Curtis Baker & The Bravehearts’ four-track 45 Wang Dang Doodle to go alongside the Latin Fever Vol. 2 EP 45. Nothing Latin here though, this is strickly 60s R&B type territory with organ-led groover Harem Girl kicking things off and liable
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ORIGINAL GRAVITY RECORDS: Latin Fever Vol. 2 EP (Vinyl 7″)
Rating: Got Latin fever? You will do after this as the Original Gravity label’s next 45 EP explores the world of Latin rhythms with all the Cuban fury they can muster. That’ll be Latin Fever Vol. 2 then which features a pair of Luchito tracks on side A and a pair of Nestor Alvarez ones on side B. Both names will be familiar to those who’ve followed OG releases thus far and indicator of quality
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DERO & KLUMZY feat. TY & DAVID SLADEK: The Record
A bittersweet release here as Dero & Klumzy finally put out The Record – one of the last recorded tracks to feature a performance by UK rap vet TY who sadly passed away two years ago. Over a soulful head-nod beat from Dero (a.k.a. Austrian producer, Mr Dero), Klumzy (a.k.a. Klumzy Tung) trades bars with Ty as the pair pay tribute to hip-hop culture and David Sladek comes
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WOXOW feat. AZEEM: Enough Is Enough
The first single to drop from Woxow’s forthcoming EP, How Many Ancestors Do We Have, is this one – Enough Is Enough – featuring rapper Azeem. And it turns out Azeem’s not very happy. Can’t imagine what systemic racism, global financial corruption or insidious monitoring of the people by government and piss-poorly regulated social media companies has done to annoy him, but
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LANCE FERGUSON: Summer Madness
The final single to be relased from the forthcoming Rare Groove Spectrum Vol. 2 LP from The Bamboos’ Lance Ferguson is his crack at covering Kool & The Gang’s super chilled-out and therefore (presumably) ironically named Summer Madness instro from 1974. You may recognise this from its having been heavily sampled alongside multiple appearances on film and video-game soundtracks
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DIASONICS: Deviants
Shortly before their debut album Origin Of Forms hits the shelves (and the interweb) next week, there’s time for Moscow band to squeeze out the second single to be lifted from said LP – Deviants. As with previous single – October release Gurami this is another example of what the band term ‘Hussar Funk’. For that read an ear-pleasing blend of cinematic soul, crunchy organic drum breaks
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LA RETRETA MAYOR: Zambo (Vinyl 7″)
Next from the Matasuna Records label comes this vinyl 45, featuring a re-issue of 1976 cut Zambo by Venezuelan outfit La Retreta Mayor. It is lifted from the band’s eponymous debut LP and comes with a remix of said track to boot. The A-side features the original – a potent melange of Latin-influenced dancefloor jazz and funk – while the B-side consists of the remix by San Francisco producer King Most. This latter effort adds a new
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