The second of two 45s to launch F-Spot Records’ psych-world-folk subsidiary label Pangea International Recording Co. is this one from Os Zabelês. Cover tracks? Yup – this time of two Funkadelic numbers – A-side If You Don’t Like the Effects, Don’t Produce the Cause from America Eats Its Young and B-side Back In Our Minds from Maggot Brain both done in a funky samba stylee
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OS ZABELÊS: If You Don’t Like the Effects, Don’t Produce the Cause / Back In Our Minds (Vinyl 7″)
THE IRONSIDES: The Web
Like cinematic soul? ‘Course you do and so you’ll love the new Ironsides single, ‘The Web’ with its beautifully arranged nod to the grandiose and sweeping film scores of the sixties. The bedrock of this one is a funky rhythm (and yes there is an actual short drum break solo) but what will really catch and hold you about The Web is its rich orchestration – all epic strings and, later in the
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BACAO RHYTHM & STEEL BAND: Hotline Bling b/w Murkit Gem (Vinyl 7″)
Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band vastly improve Drake’s much-parodied 2016 mega-hit Hotline Bling on their new 45 by replacing a) Drake’s original topline with melodic 55 gallon drums and b) the original’s programmed drums with something a whole lot more organic. Yep, that’s right Drake, not just your girl but your whole song getting nasty for someone else. And although long
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RAYE COLE: I’m A Lady (Vinyl 7″)
Raye Cole returns to Original Gravity for stripped back funk strut I’m A Lady, on which sparse rhythm guitar and drums provide the backdrop for her to deliver something that with a more contemporary production style might have turned up on an early Kelis album. Alternatively, it’s quite easy to imagine a more blues-fuzz version of this as a Black Keys song – although admittedly with
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CANTRIPS: For Private Use Only (Vinyl 7″)
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Some heavy new psych-funk coming out of Oz on For Private Use Only by Cantrips – a crew composed of band leader Patrick Ryan and like-minded members of both Karate Boogaloo and Surprise Chef. Unusually the name of the single isn’t the name of either of the tracks contained thereon for these are A-side The Prayer and B-side The Big Break. Both cuts were apparently
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THE NICEGUYS feat. BOBBY SAINT: Power
Rating: Man, seems like it’s been raining forever but maybe The Niceguys will call up the sun with joyously energetic new upbeat cut Power featuring Bobby Saint. The beat has every bit the pneumatic drum bedrock you’d expect and this is laced with squelchy wah-wah guitar that occasional jangles loose into a solo while Saint commits Prince-like vocals to the mic. As if that
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LACK OF AFRO feat. WAX & HERBAL TEA: Let It All Out
La, lala, la, lala, la, lala, Barbara Streis- oh wait – I mean, Lala, let it all out! Anyway, it’s ‘Oohs’ not ‘Las’ on the Duck Sauce track (and indeed the Boney M one it sampled) so there is only a passing resemblance between their hooks and the one on the new disco-breakin’ Lack Of Afro single Let It All Out featuring both Wax and his twin Herbal T on the mic. Also there’s the fact that
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BEAT BRONCO ORGAN TRIO: Dr Kiffi
Rating: Right, pay attention because Beat Bronco Organ Trio have gone all dark for Dr Kiffi, the first single off their forthcoming second album, Another Shape Of Essential Sounds. Not ‘Norwegian black metal dark’ obviously, that would be ridiculous, but they have added a brooding psychedelic edge to their brand of funky organ grooving which very much becomes them. Said
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SABABA 5: Funk #1 / Funk #2 (Vinyl 7″)
No resting with their feet up for Tel Aviv’s Sababa 5 following the release of their excellent self-titled LP back in the autumn for here they are again with more of their brand of atmospheric psych-funk on a new vinyl 7″ featuring the tracks Funk #1 and Funk #2. The first of these delivers swirling keyboard psychedelia over a neck-snapping drums which eventually gives way to a bit of jazzy
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ABRAM & NESTOR: Four Minutes Of Funk/ NESTOR ALVAREZ: EL Trombonista (Vinyl 7″)
Yes, nearly five minutes has gone by without a new 45 from the Original Gravity label dropping but you won’t catch them asleep. And so, before that metaphorical five minutes has fully elapsed, here they are again with two slices of Latin funk heat. Appropriately enough, the first of these is Abram & Nestor’s Four Minutes Of Funk which to nobody’s surprise turns out to be an
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