Y Brawd's Disco Gold - Various

Going out to Edo at the mighty Know Your Conjuror...taken down this day.


One
01 Boogie Nights - Heatwave (aint no doubt we are here to party)
02 Le Freak - Chic (young and old are doing it I'm told)
03 I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor  (as long as I know how to love, I know I'll be alive)
04 I'm Coming Out - Diana Ross (got to let it show)
05 Kung Fu Fighting - Carl Douglas (fighting...lightning...frightening...it's an ancient Chinese art)
06 Knock On Wood - Amii Stewart (the way you love me is frightening)
07 You Make Me Feel Mighty Real - Sylvester (love me like you should)
08 Born To Be Alive - Patrick Hernandez (it's good to be alive)
09 D.I.S.C.O. - Ottawan (desirable...irresistible...super sexy...(such a) cutie...oooooh)


Two
01 Hot Stuff - Donna Summer (sittin' here eating my heart out baby)
02 Funky Town - Lipps Inc (keep me groovin' with some energy)
03 Fantasy - Earth, Wind And Fire (all your dreams will come true miles away)
04 I Feel Love - Donna Summer (I feel love)
05 That's The Way I Like It - KC and the Sunshine Band (uh-huh uh-huh)
06 You Sexy Thing - Hot Chocolate (I believe in miracles)
07 Get Down On It - Kool and the Gang (get your back up off the wall)
08 Car Wash - Rose Royce (it's better than diggin' a ditch)


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Get Carter OST - Roy Budd [1971]

We ends the month as we begins, with vintage unglamorous UK crime, and exchanging The Sweeney's scummy London for turn of 70s Newcastle. Blighted, reeking neglect, industrial detritus, rotting slums, slag heaps, hard men and brutalised women. The Swingin' 60s are not so much buried as erased from history. Cometh the hour, cometh Michael Caine at the top of his game as randy, revengeful anti-hero Jack Carter.


In game topping form too is Roy Budd. The music clinically frames both degraded environment and Caine's muted cool and sporadic extreme violence. Seedy drinking den r'n'b intermixed with main theme variations: spine-tingling harpsichord shards drenched in gloomy reverb and echo. Opening bass-driven funk riff over tablas percussion is bleakly sublime.


Essential.

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piss holes in the snow

Roforofo Fight - Fela Kuti [1972]

Afro-Funk-Jazz tour de force. Needs y brawd say more.


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oforofor

Shut It! The Music of the Sweeney - Various [2001]

Thames TV go a cockney blaxploitation bundle.....the slags.

I sometimes hate this bastard place. 'Sa bloody holiday camp for thieves n weirdos. All the rubbish. You age prematurely trying 't sort somma them out. Try n protect the public n all they do is call you fascist. You nail a villain and some ponced up pin-striped 'Ampstead barrister screws it up like n old fag packet on a point of procedure. Then pops up for a game of squash n a glass of Madeira. He's taking 'ome thirty grand a year and we can just about afford ten days in Eastbourne n a second hand car. Aargh...it's all bloody wrong my son!

- Gospel according to DI Jack Regan

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fancy a drink?

Bummed - Happy Mondays [1988]

 

A right pisshole, long hair, beatniks, druggers, freeloaders, Happy Mondays, tsk...Happy Mondays. Petty thief louts about to go very large indeed. Call Mad Cyril.

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we likes that, turn it up

Mwandishi - Herbie Hancock [1974]

Electro gadgeteer Herbie manipulates reverb unit, stereo tremelo and echoplex, taking us in directions spacey. Our man's 5 year tenure as keyboard factotum and accomplice in Miles Davis' post-bop electric experimentation very much to the fore. A worthy extension of "Silent Way" philosophy and pinnacle in early 70s afro-rock-electro-jazz-funk fusion.


Heavy on groove and  low on wankery withal. Nice.

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play fewer notes

Hooked Up Classics - Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra [2010]

Improbable, nay preposterous, one man quirky electro-funk take on 80s disco cheese Hooked On Classics series. Safe to say, an acquired taste sparingly indulged.

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pong ping

The World Ends: Afro Rock and Psychedelia in 1970s Nigeria: Various

Thanks to Edo over at Know Your Conjuror for these mighty platters of on the one uber-grooves.  Will get you n yer pals shimmying n swaying - guaranteed. 

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unity and faith

peace and progress

Soul Makossa - The Lafayette Afro Rock Band [1973]

Mercilessly plundered fuh break beats, this classic sets the standard in silky smooth rock solid grooves.

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darkest light

The World's Rarest Funk 45s - Various

01. Larry Ellis – Funky Thing
02. Soul Lifters – Hot Funky & Sweaty
03. Shades of Black – Mystery of Black
04. Prepositions – Something Different
05. Vern Blair – Ooh Ahh Eee
06. Latin Breed – I Turn You On
07. Herman Hitson – Ain’t No Other Way
08. Brothers – Evil Ways
09. Soul Excitement – Together
10. Gene Anderson – The Loneliest One
11. Tony Bowens – Boiling Water
12. PC’s Ltd – Fast Man
13. Sandi & Matues – The World
14. The M&S Band – Egg Roll
15. James Polk – Just Plain Funk
16. Great Deltas – Tra La La

01. Reginald Milton & The Soul Jets – Clap Your Hands
02. Innersouls – Just Take Your Time
03. Jimmy Land & The Incredible 5 – Deal With It
04. Lil Buck & The Top Cats – Monkey In A Sack
05. The Devestation – Congestion
06. Abrham & The Metronomes – Party
07. Rev. Jamal & Bob Johnson – Walking On The Moon
08. Road Runners – No Names Will Be Called
09. The 2nd Amendment Band – Backtalk
10. The Afros Band – Right On Right Off
11. The Black On White Affair – Funky Manuel
12. Nathan Bartell – Top Going Down, Bottom Going Up
13. The Third Guitar – Baby Don’t Cry
14. The Universals – New Generation
15. The Fun Company – Zambezi
16. Weston Prim & Blacklash – Simmerin’


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vol. 1
vol. 2

Out There - The Heliocentrics [2007]

Arkestra space jazz stylings anchored in infectious funk break beats all lined up for supping at the cosmic teat. Malcolm Catto leads nine-piece band through incense-burning funk suite workouts. Sun Ra takes inner break dancing trip.

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decorate decorate

A Tribute to Jack Johnson - Miles Davis [1970]

If not quite fulfilling his boast about delivering "the greatest rock band you ever heard," Miles certainly got to exorcise his Hendrix hard on with driving, hard-edged panache. Same modus operandi as established on ground breaking In A Silent Way i.e. assemble top notch muso-acolytes - Messrs McLaughlin, Hancock, Corea, Cobham, Henderson and Grossman - conduct / freak them into extemporised mathematical riffing, jam all over it like a brassy-eyed jammy daemon, and then cut, paste n reassemble as studio composition with uber-mucker Teo Macero.  


Two mega cuts.First track the ice-cool killer. McLaughlin shaking some serious funk rock booty n showing exactly what he's capable of outside prissy pyrotechnic Mahavishnu confines. Hancock's brutal organ from around 16:00mins: world shifts on its axis...   


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our friend electric

Can You Dig It? The Music and Politics of Black Action Films 1969-75

Not sure where the politics come in...maybe inside 100 page booklet supplied by impeccable compilers down Soul Jazz way. Do expect pimps, prostitutes, petty hoods, pushermen n social conscience do gooders exhorting brothas n sistas to unite...oh n lest we forget, African American vampires. Post-civil rights n pre-mainstream soon to come with the..ahem...watered down likes of Car Wash n high octane doing it for da black n white folks Richard Pryor (man on fire, boom boom). Betimes, this really isn absolutely stunning collection. 


Read n weep, right on:


01. Roy Ayers - Coffy Is The Color
02. Gene Page - Blacula
03. Johnny Pate - Shaft In Africa
04. Willie Hutch - Brother's Gonna Work It Out
05. Don Costa - Charley - Main Theme
06. Marvin Gaye - 'T' Plays It Cool
07. Bobby Womack - Across 110th Street
08. J.J. Johnson - Willie Chase
09. James Brown - Down And Out In New York City
10. Quincy Jones - They Call Me MISTER Tibbs
11. Martha Reeves and J.J. Johnson - Keep On Movin' On
12. Dennis Coffey - Theme From Black Belt Jones
13. Curtis Mayfield - Freddie's Dead
14. The Blackbyrds - Wilford's Gone
15. Willie Hutch - Theme Of Foxy Brown
16. Isaac Hayes - Run Fay Run
17. Isaac Hayes - Shaft
18. Curtis Mayfield - Pusherman
19. Joe Simon - Theme From Cleopatra Jones
20. Johnny Pate - You Can't Even Walk In The Park
21. Brer Soul and Earth, Wind and Fire - Sweetback's Theme
22. James Brown - Make It Good To Yourself
23. Isaac Hayes - Pursuit Of The Pimpmobile
24. Grant Green - Travelling To Get To Doc
25. Booker T and the MG's - Time Is Tight
26. Roy Ayers - Aragon
27. Edwin Starr - Easin' In
28. Gordon Staples and The String Thing - Strung Out
29. Nat Dove and The Devils - Zombie March
30. The Impressions - Make A Resolution
31. Solomon Burke and Gene Page - The Bus
32. Jack Ashford - Las Vegas Strut
33. Don Julian - Lay It On Your Head
34. Galt MacDermot - Ed and Digger


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warm young bodies will feed his hunger and hot, fresh blood his awful thirst!
she's 6 feet 2" of dynamite...and the hottest super agent ever!

Head Hunters - Herbie Hancock [1973]

In which Herbie tracks down and slays his funk, soul, R&B mojo. Deeply funky grooves, gritty rhythms in abject abeyance to Mr H.'s Fender Rhodes piano, clavinet, synthesizer soloing.

Continuing y brawd's presentation of jazz for people who dinnae like jazz.

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trophy

Rejuvenation - The Meters [1974]

On the one, earthy down-home New Orleans syncopated breaks intertwined with gritty guitar and bass grooves. Funked up avec un soupçon de soul.  Quite simply one of the best funk albums you are likely to hear. What'cha say?

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just kissed my babay

New Orleans Funk Volumes 1 & 2 - Various

Grooving soul, funk, r'n'b gumbo. Pumping horns, swing skanking guitar and above all some incredible breaks and beats: check James Black's patented falling down the stairs but keeping shit together breaks on Hook and Sling.  Mind-blowingly good music. Do yourself a favour.

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new

orleans

Black Byrd - Donald Byrd [1972]

Prepare to enter funk and soul jazz heaven. Stratospheric mellow grooves. And without over-pimping the mothership, all necessary blaxploitation tropes deployed: thwak-a-waka guitar, flutes, hand-held percussion, big meaty bass and driving rhythm. Over and above all the inspired trumpet of Mr. Byrd.

If the collocation of the words "jazz" and "fusion" sends a cold chill down your spine, then start here. It may well be the beginning of a beautiful journey.

 

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sky high

Live, Meadowbrook, Michigan, 12th September 1971 - Funkadelic

"Yeah, take care of your body.

The funk will funkatelicise everyone within the range of this music.

Don't hold yourself rigid, unless the occasion calls for it.

Let your minds be lather-like.

George Clinton chief coke-head is going to sprinkle funk from one end of this pavillion to the other...." and  - wham! -  straight into Alice in my fantasies.

Heavy funk jam wig outs. The mighty Maggot Brain (second track! WTF?).

Has to be contender for place in top 5 live albums of 70s.

Free your mind and your ass will follow, yes indeed.

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all your goodies

The Chambers Brothers' Greatest Hits - The Chambers Brothers

Psychedelicised soul. The mighty Time Has Come Today, and, to these ears at least, their gospel roots making for the definitive version of People Get Ready.  The Bros pioneering blend of incendiary funk, gospel, soul, and psych-rock was inevitably overshadowed by Sly & the Family Stone. Get ready, the time has come.

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are you ready?

The Payback - James Brown

Eno:

There were three great beats in the '70s: Fela Kuti's Afrobeat, James Brown's funk and Klaus Dinger's NEU!-beat.

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them cakes