Style: Folk Funk in the Psych Tank

Format: LP
Label: Warner Brothers (Ger)

Year: 1970

Condition: NM/VG+

This would a really goode and wonderfully diverse Psyche-Rock album. But it also has Freewheel, one of the sickest Folk Funk numbers in this universe and that one elevates the great album into holy grail heights. Immaculate vinyl (pressed in Germany) in a really nice cover.

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Style: Sweet Souls

Format: LP
Label: Motown

Year: 1977

Condition: NM/VG+  

So so beautiful tunes by Stevie's ex. Gently produced by Leon Ware.

It's very hard to pick a fave from this magnificent album.

Check the clip and you know why...

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Style: Crime Funk

Format: LP
Label: A&M

Year: 1971

Condition: VG+/VG ringwear on back

The inventor of orchestral crime funk strikes again. Theme From Ironside, Hicky Burr and a wonderful jazzy version of Marvin Gaye's What's Going on (with heavenly flute by Hubert Laws) are the outstanding tunes here. This copy plays with light background crackle here and there. Nothing for NM freaks but great to enjoy and play out. (Cleaned CD-r included)

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Style: Mango spiced Funk

Format: LP
Label: Polydor

Year: 1974

Condition: NM/VG+ small cut

I'd guess this one is the most succesful Mandrill album. So succesful that every Hip Hop producer's parents had a copy. Having goosebumps just by think ing of Two Sisters Of Mystery.  Rain falls over my head...

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Style: Yacht Funk / TOTD

Format: LP
Label: Private Stock

Year: 1977

Condition: NM/VG+  

One of my favourite albums ever.

Sleazy Yacht Funk for the dancefloors -

not lacking a little humour!

Check TOTD : ) and check these ...

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Style: Annette and the perfect break

Format: LP
Label: Metronome (Ger)

Year: 1979

Condition: NM/VG+ tiny tears

Can a lady be any cooler than Annette Peacock? Listen to the 15 minute spoken word jam Survival and you know the answer! Yes, first class breaks (J-Live's Braggin Writes), but the lyrics are even better...

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Style: Sweet Soul and a high C

Format: LP
Label: Epic (NL)

Year: 1977

Condition: NM/VG

Cozy grooves, soulful disco and Minnie's heartbreaking "Huuuh".

Can you feel what I'm saying?

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Style: Mowest Funk

Format: LP
Label: Tamla Motown (Ger)

Year: 1972

Condition: VG+/VG

Knowing that my praises will never match the unbelivable beauty of these songs i kindly ask you to listen to all the clips in full length and join me in thanking the spirits for bringing Syreeta and Stevie together. You can hear the love in every note!! My friends mighht be bored about this already but i can't help it: Goosebumps all over!

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Style: Mellow Funk

Format: LP
Label: Perception

Year: 1974

Condition: M/NM still sealed, no cut,

The Fatback Band not only had the first proper rap on record, their drummer Bill Curtis is also one of the guys who brought the Disco Beat to the world. On this album its Feeling Mellow that promises the days of mellow disco whilst most of the other tracks are still heavenly down to earth funk gems. Check the almost 9 minute long masterpiece Feel My Soul!

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Style: Funk

Format: LP
Label: Polydor

Year: 1972

Condition: M/VG+ SEALED cut

You caught the godfather on the Good Foot? No? Let's not talk about excuses since here's the sealed copy you've been waiting for all your life. (hey, the marketing tutorial I took at the car sales really pays off now)

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Style: Latin Funk

Format: LP
Label: RCA

Year: 1972

Condition: M/VG+ cut

Still sealed copy of this latin Funk monster.

Never In This World is the outstanding jam here!

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Style: Oscillated Cheese

Format: LP
Label: Atoll

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/NM

Music that you only find on library records. Quirky synth jams that make you wanna rob the fridge for delicious fromage. TASTY!

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Style: Library Funk

Format: LP
Label: Intersong

Year: 197?

Condition: NM/VG+

The cover doesn't look very promising but it holds one of the sickest funky libraries recorded in Germany. Seriously! Infectious grooves, crime scene funk, cheese disco, etc it's all there! Most diggers are after the Munich Big Band on the same label, but this one here is even better imho. Listen and you'll hear!!

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Style: Soulful Breaks

Format: LP
Label: Stax

Year: 1973

Condition: VG/VG wobc

Sorry for the obviously stupid line but it's true:

What a joy this track is! Of course I am talking about Joy.

I have never listened to any other tracks of the album.

Okay I did, but I only skipped - to return to Joy again asap.

I'm wit dat!

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Style: Hot Buttered Soul

Format: LP
Label: RCA

Year: 1980

Condition: VG+/VG+

Sensual Soul as one would guess from the title. Some might want to call this Modern Soul because of it's superb late 70s / early 80s sound.

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Style: Instrumental Funk

Format: LP
Label: Stax (Ger)

Year: 1971

Condition: NM/VG+

By far my favourite Booker T album. I hold Hip Hug Her, Doin Our Thing and Universal Language very high but man I'm so damn hooked on the Melting Pot groove (a Larry Levan classic btw). And then there's L.A. Jazz Song. WTF - dominated by Duck Dunn and Al Jackson - the forefathers of Sly and Robbie. Goosebumps galore! An old Hip Hop head like me is taken straight back to 1990 when Edutainment was my daily bread

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Style: Southern Soul

Format: LP
Label: Enterprise (US)

Year: 1974

Condition: NM/VG+

Laid back yet sweet soul and mellow funk from the Mississippi (and the Tennessee). I did not expect too much from judging the cover... wrong once again. Ghostface vibes galore!

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Style: Hare Krishna Modern Soul

Format: LP
Label: Govinda (US)

Year: 1978

Condition: NM/VG tears

You won't stop dancing and romancing once you opened these doors...

So many Modern Soul beauties for your next Loft party!

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Style: Turkish Folk (Funk)

Format: LP
Label: Ariola

Year: 1981

Condition: VG/VG+ taped seam on top

Including the amazing folf funk jam ESKI TÜFEK! Still in shrink!  A tiny scratch in A2 creates some clicks. Notably in the first 20 seconds of the track. Eski Tüfek and the other tracks plays amazing!

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Style: Turkish Folk

Format: LP
Label: Ariola

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/NM

Sought after Turk-folk album including that psychedelic orchestral Funk jam Mehmetçik Mehmet

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Style: Turkish Folk (Funk)

Format: LP
Label: Ariola

Year: 1981

Condition: VG/NM still in shrink

Including the amazing folf funk jam ESKI TÜFEK! Still in shrink! This copy runs with a small warp that does not affect the play. A scratch in A2 creates some clicks. Most notably in the last 20 seconds of the track. Eski Tüfek and the other tracks play amazing!

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Style: Latin Funk

Format: LP
Label: Contour

Year: 1974

Condition: NM/VG+  

It looks just like another horrible Mambo record but holds some incredibly funky tunes! Like that funkiest version of Tequila ever?? Recorded in Italy featuring Pino Presti on bass, Tullio De Piscopo on drums, Sergio Farina on guitar, Mario Rusca on keyboards and Giancarlo Barigozzi on saxophone ... that might explain!

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Style: Synthesized Cheese Funk

Format: LP
Label: Happy Records

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG+

Mladen Franko is back with part 2 of his lovely waves. If you dig your funk with a little cheese - here's a feast for you. My fave is the funky On The Truck with a guitar lick borrowed from Lamont Dozier's Going Back To My Roots but those Satin Eyes are also damn beautiful...

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Style: Funky Roots

Format: LP
Label: Curtom (Ger)

Year: 1972

Condition: VG+/VG+

Curtis' second album with deep and psychedelic funky soul hits like Get Down and Underground! And then there's this incredibly Beautiful Brother Of Mine... Seldom seen german pressing on thick vinyl. Gentle background crackle in intro.

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Style: Bayou Funk

Format: LP
Label: ATCO

Year: 1974

Condition: VG+/VG+ wear

More goodies by the New Orleans Funk connection.

Listen Rite Away if you too Can't Get Enuff of that gritty stuff.

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Style: Timeless Gems

Format: LP
Label: Alston

Year: 1971

Condition: VG+/VG+ cutout, wear

An all killer album and my personal #1 when it comes to 70s Funk. The Munnings brothers and crew went over to Miami from the Bahamas to record this masterpiece of soulful Funk. The title track is really just the tip of the iceberg...

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Style: Soulful Funk

Format: LP
Label: Curtom

Year: 1973

Condition: M/NM  still sealed

Seven and a half minutes of Right On For The Darkness alone makes it worth buying this wonderful soul album. Future Shock, Keep On Trippin and Back To The World make it a total winner! Sealed OG copy...

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Style: Modern Soul

Format: LP
Label: DMC

Year: 1974 / 2

Condition: NM/NM still in shrink

Incredibly sweet jams meet northern steppers. From the time when Modern Soul was born. THis is an early 2000s reissue - I have never seen a OG copy in my life...

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Style: Afro Funk

Format: LP
Label: Atlantic

Year: 1974

Condition: VG+/VG woc tear

MAKOSSA! Manu is the man and he delivers an album full of wicked jams for the next voodoo dance session. Ask the Jungle Brothers!

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Style: Sweet Funk

Format: LP
Label: Phonogram

Year: 1978

Condition: VG+/VG+

One look into those Angel Eyes and you're lost ...

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Style:  Mellow Grooving

Format: LP
Label: Motown!

Year: 1974

Condition: NM/VG+  

Blue eyed mellow grooves on Motown. State of Mind and Haiku both have that lightweight west coast Jazz-Funk feel á la Odyseey (Our lives...)

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Style: Deep Funk / Sister Soul

Format: LP
Label: MCA

Year: 1978

Condition: VG+/VG+

Whitfields immediate answer to Parlet. Highly underrated Funk in the vein of  the Undisputed Truth and Rose Royce. Especially that mysterious number Three Girls is an all time fave here...

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Style: Moog Funk

Format: LP
Label: Golden Ring

Year: 197?

Condition: NM/VG- water damage at the bottom

Thomas is playing Dick Hymen to the wall with these sick and fuzzy synth funk jams. Space age library madness. Too bad the cover is that wavy at the back bottom...

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Style:  Royal Funk / Modern Soul

Format: LP
Label: WB (Ger)

Year: 1979

Condition: NM/VG+  including printed inner sleeve

Prince's second LP. He's not into Raspberry Berets yet. Simply dropping some sweet and sticky Funk. Produced, arranged, composed & performed by Prince only for YOU!

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Style: Soul Jazz / Jazz Funk

Format: LP
Label: Buddah

Year: 1978

Condition: VG+/VG+ Cutout

Romantic Jazz Funk by a tender drummer.

All culminating in Thembi (sax by Pharoah Sanders himself)

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Style: Synth Funk / Space Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Crea

Year: 198?

Condition: NM/NM

Another massive album by master Patzer. Slow blowing Synth Funk all over the place. Mental Disco adventures with "Beat It" licks called Saturday Explosion closing the funhouse!

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Style: Funky Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Power Exchnage

Year: 1977

Condition: NM/VG+  white label TP

Mike Moran should be famous among library aficionados for his works on Themes International and Bruton. Dude was a busy studio musician (keys & synths) in the UK. Here's his only solo LP holding some incredibly mellow funk pearls... dancefloor-friendly of course!

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Style: Mutant Library Prog meets Disco

Format: LP
Label: Sterne

Year: 197?

Condition: NM/VG+  

Here's an odd french library album by the rather unknown composer Serge Franklin. Maybe you have heard of his alias - Adjenar Sidhar Khan :) This LP includes the obscure hit Rainbow Riders - perfect Massiera-like psych-disco with phasing drums etc.... and check out South Is South too. To my ears this is sounding like it could be a track from Rob's first LP

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Style: Modern Soul

Format: 7"
Label: Metronome

Year: 1978

Condition: VG+/VG- 

It's all about When Can I See You - a wonderful modern soul grover that you wouldn't expect from the Munich Disco Tier. Plays with two or three crackles at the beginning!

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Style: Soul

Format: LP
Label: Capitol

Year: 1979

Condition: NM/VG

It's her last album and she looks like she knows it. Wonderful Jazz Funk with a splah of disco topped with silky soul sireens. Richard Rudolph adding some sick string arrangements. And then her duet with Jose Feliciano...

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Style: P-Funk

Format: LP
Label: WB (Ger)

Year: 1976

Condition: NM/VG+  Gatefold

Seminal Funkadelic! Just listen to Comin' Round The Mountain or the live version of Cosmic Slop and you know what's poppin!!

Highest recommendation. Even if you don't intend to buy this please listen to it for your soul's sake :)

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Style: Angels Struck by Lightning

Format: LP
Label: EMI

Year: 1974

Condition: NM/VG

Julie, her synthesizer and a bottle of booze! And of course that electric angel watching over her. Fatback drums, fuzz guitars, weird synths and an almost exorbitant folk singer - what a GEM. DONT MISS!!!!

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Style: Easy Funk

Format: LP
Label: Europhon

Year: 197?

Condition: NM/VG+ corner bumps

Orchestral Funk Instrumentals and the typical "Schulmädchen Report" Easy Beat by master Wilden. Taormina taking it to a schmalzy tropical level.

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Style: S.O.U.L.

Format: LP
Label: 20th Century

Year: 1973

Condition: VG+/VG+

Soothing soul for cold days! Sweet but strong voices backed by a hell of a band. Crusaders Joe and Wilton in the house, Roland Bautista on guitar & Paul Humphries on drums. Jazz Funk masters getting down on the soul note...

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Style: Soul Sisters

Format: LP
Label: RCA

Year: 1970

Condition: NM/VG+ cutout

Aretha's sister got it going on. Check her versions of Everybody's Talking and Put A Little Love In Your Heart and try to stop your soul from melting like chocolate in the sun.

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Style: Folky Soul

Format: LP
Label: Ariola

Year: 1972

Condition: NM/VG+

Sweet folky soul for snowless winter days.

Would someone call this happy hippie blues?

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Style: Dutch Funk

Format: LP
Label: CNR

Year: 1981

Condition: VG+/VG+

Here's more of the good stuff from funky Renee and her boys.

If you dug her Change The Style you'll love this...

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Style: Deep Soul

Format: LP
Label: Reprise

Year: 1973

Condition: NM/VG+  diving dress gimmix cover

Maybe Linda's best aged album. These sweet tunes sound pretty

timeless to my ears. A lovely record to listen to all the way through. Wether if you're chilling with your lady or gazing at the sky -

Linda's great company!!

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Style: French Funk

Format: LP
Label: Riviera

Year: 197?

Condition: NM/VG+  

Seeing this cover you wouldn't expect to hear an incredibly tight cover version of Tighten Up on this release, huh? Oh mama (or Mary - if you prefer), then listen to Qu'est-ce que j'ai danse quick!!

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Style: Heavenly Sweetness

Format: LP
Label: Epic (NL)

Year: 1974

Condition: NM/VG+  

Most obviously Loving You,

but there's more Reasons ...

Essential for your soul!!

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Style: Funeral Funk

Format: LP
Label: UNI

Year: 1971

Condition: VG+/VG+

"I'm not your average MC with the Joe Schmoe flow
If you don't know me by now, you'll never know"

This pops up in my head every time I put Badfoot Brown on. Soon you'll know why. Listen to these two sidefilling slices of relaxed jazz funk explorations and get DOWN!

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Style: Italo Funk!

Format: LP
Label: Melodiya

Year: 197?

Condition: NM/NM

I cannot read kyrillic but I understand hím singing.

pay, pay, pay is what signore Celentano say...

now PAY attention to his Funk

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Style: African Soul

Format: LP
Label: Reprise (Ger)

Year: 1970

Condition: NM/NM

Like new copy of this african soul pearl. We'll surely keep her in mind for gems like Measure In The Valleys, Lumumba and I Shall Sing.

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Style: Orchestral Magic

Format: LP
Label: CBS

Year: 1973

Condition: VG+/VG ringwear

Percy Faith, yes Percy Faith. The only Percy Faith album in my collection though ;) I first heard First Light on a mid nineties bootleg comp called Melting Pot and fell in love immediately. I still play this lots - with occasional goose bump attacks. Emotional ochestra funk at it's best. PS. the rest of the album isn't bad either ;)

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Style: Polish Funk

Format: LP
Label: Muza

Year: 1978

Condition: VG/VG+

One of the tightest Funk albums to emerge from Poland.  You gotta hear this to believe it. This copy has surface marks and plays with occasional pop. Great to play out and to dance to at home too!!  Soundclip comes from this record. I'll also include a clean CDr.

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Style: Smooth Jazz and then some

Format: LP
Label: Compose

Year: 1989

Condition: NM/VG+ still in shrink

Oh dude, I am so Programmed for that mesmerizing synth bass. The fact that it's bulding the base for a swett and humorous JAM of a JAM makes it one of my favourite slow jams ever (as featured on the slow jams tape vol.4 from 1996). If that isn't enough for you cehck Nital!

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Style:  Xian Funk

Format: LP
Label: Newpax

Year: 1977

Condition: NM/VG+  

Astonishing, Outrageous, Amazing, Incredible, Unbelievable..... Now that's hwat he thinks of himself. I wonder if this is considered upright and christian. I think he's right at least when we speak about Niniveh Noose. Massive synthesized Funk. You wouldn't have guessed!!

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Style: Wonderfulness

Format: 12"
Label: Island

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/VG

A wonderful song to play out!! Balloons everywhere :)

Including the mighty Folk Mix and the Paradise Ballroom version...

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Style: R&B Babes

Format: LP
Label: Columbia

Year: 1999

Condition: M/M sealed

I came across this one just lately. Never had I heard anything from or about about these girls. And boy, the surprise was HUGE. How can it be that an album filled with wonderful R&B jams like that didn't chart and went down completely unnoticed? Seriously! This sounds so well baked and still fresh. Check the clips. R&B revival here I come - will be playing it this saturday for sure...

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Style: Aquarius in Argentina

Format: LP
Label: Philips

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG+

Don't pass this mad rare argentinian Pop album including that superfunky version of Aquarius unheard.

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Style:  Funk

Format: LP
Label: Polydor

Year: 1977

Condition: NM/VG+  

Tightest Ohio-Funk produced by a german for the german market. Sounds odd doesn't it? Well I guess it's because the german market wasn't already flooded with excellent Funk productions like this. Hot Ice is basically the same group as funksters Switch aka White Heat (Big Barry White's backing band) and of course they're PROS in the game.

Deep and FUNKY SHIT!!

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Style:  Sweetest Music / MODERN SOUL

Format: LP
Label: Arista (Ger)

Year: 1991

Condition: NM/VG+  

It seems like the Womacks got better with every album they made. A soulful sensation!!

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Style: Jazz Breaks

Format: LP
Label: JA Records

Year: 1976

Condition: NM/VG+

Rufus Reid killing it on Le Miroir Noir.

Sounds like something Madlib would party hard!

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Style: Funk Español

Format: 7"
Label: Pan

Year: 1974

Condition: VG+/VG 

Great funky two sider from Spain. Hi-Jack is the disco joint and Lady Love the balearic mixtape winner

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Style: Deep Soul

Format: LP
Label: RCA (Ger) NL89548

Year: 197?

Condition: NM/VG+ sticker

Okay the artwork is shit but didn't your parents tell you that it's the inside that counts? Let me tell you too! It's a compilation of her early 70s work and it's a deep as it gets. They didn't call her the high priestes of soul for nothing. I'm selling a lot of lovely music, but this is relevant!

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Style: Chaka!

Format: LP
Label: ABC

Year: 1974

Condition: NM/VG+  

So many beautiful songs on this album. Starting with Once You Get Started ending with Stop On By. Right in between the sentimental jam Packed My Bags that still gives me shivers. If you have kids you will understand... ALl in all their best!!

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Style: Modern Soul

Format: LP
Label: Wind Song

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+

Heavenly sweetness all over this lovely platter.

Cozy grooves approved by the soul underground ;)

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Style: Break your bones

Format: 12"
Label: Stateside

Year: 1975 / 1985

Condition: NM/VG+

Raw Street Funk at it's best!

Check out Part II for the majestic breaks...

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Style: Cannibal Funk

Format: 7"
Label: Yum Yum

Year: 197?

Condition: NM/VG+  

Slow and creepy funk by that one hit wonder.

Grab your legs and dance ...

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Style: Psych Funk

Format: 7"
Label: EMI (Ger)

Year: 1976

Condition: NM/VG+  

The funky fuzzy freak show of a certain Mrs Felix!

I'd love to hop into her Maserati and cruise and booze...

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Style: Rare Funk

Format: LP
Label: Fine Music

Year: 1975 / 1997

Condition: NM/VG+

I remember seeing this record on the "walls" at record fairs in the mid 90s. Absolutely unreachable... and then came this Fine reissue, that I shared with many dancers. This is not my beat up copy ;) If you dig Mighty Ryeeders style funk jams by magnificent musicians ...

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Style: Space Funk

Format: LP
Label: Fantasy (US)

Year: 1976

Condition: VG+/VG+ upper seamwear

As a die hard Blackbyrds maniac I can only recommend you these guys. Enter In is one of my favorite Space Funk jams...

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Style: EasyLee / Silky Disco

Format: LP
Label: DRG

Year: 1979

Condition: NM/NM

I'm unsure if it's Easy Lee or Sleazy Lee.

But it's Peggy for sure and Easy Does It - so damn deep!!

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Style: Lo Fi FUNK

Format: LP
Label: Mo Wax

Year: 1995

Condition: VG+/VG woc on back

When Money Mark was not reparing keyboards or thinking back to playing all the keys on Ill Communication he made these insane lo fi funk pearls for Mo Wax. This one had a huge impact on me in 95!

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Style: Umbrella Funk

Format: 7"
Label: London (Ger)

Year: 1974

Condition: NM/VG+  

Tina made this a huge hit in the 80s,

but nothing compares to the OG!!

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Style: P-Funk / Ohio Funk

Format: LP
Label: Westbound

Year: 1975

Condition: NM/VG+

Open Minded and grown up Funk by the Ohio Player's mastermind. Seldom seen without  cutout or heavy ringwear!!

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Style: Soft & Warm

Format: LP
Label: Motown

Year: 1975

Condition: NM/VG-

Soft and warm, a quiet storm, quiet as when flowers talk at breakadawn.

A power source of tender force, generatin', radiatin', turnin' me on, turnin' me on.

Not to forget about that amazing Baby That's Backatcha feeling very cozy in disco sets and giving them the right bit of soul...

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Style: Cosmic Funk

Format: LP
Label: WB (Ger)

Year: 1977

Condition: NM/VG+

Booker T. and his MGs playing some superb Booker T style space funk on this late 70s release. A couple of superb JAMS here. Check Sticky Stuff, Grab's Back and Tie Stick for a start!

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Style: Soul With A Captial S

Format: LP
Label: Island

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/NM

Including MPB (Missin Person's Buro)

Including Slave (Just For Love)

Including Life Is Just A Ballgame

Including I Am Love

Including Friends (So Called)

Including Teardrops

Including Celebrate The World

THIS is an amazing record!

 
Style: Afro-Soul Breaks

Format: LP
Label: EMI

Year: 1973

Condition: VG+/VG+

Ants and elephants, errm i mean percussion and strong horns. Wildest breaks by Britains hottest studio musicians (Nick Ingman, Roger Webb, Mike Vickers, etc) And something smells like Brian Bennett here too.

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Style: Fame's dirty Funk

Format: LP
Label: Reprise

Year: 1973

Condition: NM/VG+

What a wonderful synthesized oddity from the one and only George Fame.  Georgie on synths and Brian Bennett on drums!

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Style: Psycheeserock

Format: LP
Label: Barclay

Year: 1969

Condition: VG+/VG+

Franco Canadian Psycherock including that great groover Engagement. Funky seven minutes for the DJ to visit the toilet!

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Style: Organ Donor

Format: LP
Label: Roulette

Year: 1971

Condition: NM/VG+

Superfunky organ grooves on this german only easy beast. Samples galore and some wonderful versions of classics like Wichita Lineman, By The Time I Get To Phoenix, Misty and more...

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Style: Breaks

Format: 7"
Label: Bellaphon

Year: 1975

Condition: NM/VG+   woc

Platinum Breaks delivered directly from Roland Kluger's Funk factory (El Chicles, Chakachas, Chicken Curry, Two Man Sound, ...)

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Style: Synthesized Krautfunk

Format: LP
Label: Erlkönig

Year: 1977

Condition: NM/VG+

Synthesized Krautfusion in a funky late Release Music Orchestra meets AOR Disco style. Manne Rürup on synths...

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Style: Kiddie Breaks

Format: LP
Label: Pride

Year: 1973

Condition: NM/VG Punchhole

Foster Sylvers of the Sylvers backed by the Incredible Bongo Rock Band, King Errison and Harvey Mason. Breaks for days ...

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Style: AOR Disco

Format: LP
Label: Ariola Benelux

Year: 1979

Condition: NM/VG+  

Funky dutch Rock album including the AOR Disco jam Baby Show Me That You Care. Please play this outdoors this summer!

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Style: Slovenian Funk

Format: LP
Label: RTV Ljubljana

Year: 1981

Condition: VG+/VG+

Loveliest female Funk from Slovenia.

Ex Yu Grooves are the BEST!

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Style: Sickest Breaks

Format: 7"
Label: Polydor

Year: 1973

Condition: NM/VG+  

Not only that this JB jam sung by Lyn Collins is the basis for a couple of Hip Hop classics - it's also a stone cold floorfiller for over 40 years now!

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Style:  Soundtrack Funk

Format: LP
Label: Stax

Year: 1974

Condition: NM/VG+  

Blaxploitation Classic! I just rediscovered the wonderful summer groove "Hung Up On My baby". If you don't know this song but it sounds familiar - it's not Your Mind Playing Tricks On You.  More funky joints on this excellent soundtrack....

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Style: Polish FUNK!

Format: LP
Label: Muza

Year: 1975

Condition: VG/VG

Henryk Debich and his orchestra probably never imagined that they recorded one of the holy grails in polish funk. Get down get down!

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Style: Jazz Funk behind the curtain

Format: LP
Label: Supraphon

Year: 1978

Condition: NM/NM

Highly recommemded czech Jazz Funk by Maria Rottrova and the Flamingo Group. Including the mighty Time Is A Rogue and Quasimodo's Dream. Make sure to check the psyched out second part of the latter.

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Style: Kool Funk

Format: LP
Label: De-Lite

Year: 1972

Condition: NM/VG+ (cutout)

Classic Kool & The Gang Funk including that almighty mellow jam North East South West and of course a whole lot of funky stuff!

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Style: Disco Funk

Format: 7"
Label: Arista

Year: 1977

Condition: NM/NM 

Mandrill! They didn't record a bad album... Here's the bad-ass disco banger from their We Are One LP

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Style: Northern Soul

Format: 7"
Label: EMI

Year: 1976

Condition: NM/VG+  

Not going nowhere tonight? Here's a hand clapping Northern Soul anthem by the lady who brought us Tainted Love

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Style: All the ladies in the house say AAAAAAA

Format: LP
Label: Columbia

Year: 1978

Condition: VG+/VG

Of course including the mighty classic Got To Be Real but check out also that funky slow jam Come In From The Rain and the uplifting anthem You Saved My Day!

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Style: JB's Funk

Format: LP
Label: Black Note

Year: 199?

Condition: NM/NM

Rarest JB related gems compiled back in teh golden days of Rare Groove. Sureshots only by Bobby Byrd, Dee Felice Trio, Grodeck Whipperjenny, JBs Wedge, Hank Ballrd and Johnny Scotton.

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Style: Scorpio Breaks

Format: LP
Label: Cetra

Year: 1978

Condition: NM/VG+

Soffici on guitar and vocals. In the band: Oscar Rocchi on Piano and Rhodes, Baffo Banfi on Moog, Sergio Farina on guitar, Tullio de Piscopo on drums... superfunky!!

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Style: Folk Funk / Psychedelic Blues

Format: LP
Label: CBS NL

Year: 1971

Condition: VG+/VG seamwear on the back 

Come and get some of this funky psychedelic stuff.

The intense late night hymn I'm Funky is just too good.

And don't forget about your Grandmother!!

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Style: Space Age Funk

Format: LP
Label: Activ

Year: 1977

Condition: NM/VG+  

Epic breaks and sleazy Jazz Funk on this infamous release by swiss guitar king Pierre Cavalli.

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Style:  Fusion / Funk

Format: LP
Label: Eye

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG tear

So lovely record by the former leader of Massada. Including the funky beauty New Morning as featured in my Myrrh Gold & Incense mix from a few years back.

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Style: Soulful Disco

Format: LP
Label: Wand

Year: 1975

Condition: NM/VG+  

Mid 70s Soul with a tendency to disco. Partly recorded in Philly.

That's where that LOFTY sound comes from...

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Style: Instrumental Funk

Format: LP
Label: RCA (Ger)

Year: 1972

Condition: NM/VG+

From Shaft to the Wichita Lineman the Afro Strut - the Nite Liters got the funk. Deep, down and dirty!

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Style: FUNK

Format: LP
Label: Pickwick

Year: 1978

Condition: NM/VG+

Foostomping funk from Memphis Tenessee! Gnarling rhodes, a powerful horn section and heavy drums make this (Disco) Funk  a winner on the floor!

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Style: Funky Soul

Format: LP
Label: Curtom

Year: 1976

Condition: M/VG+  Sealed, CO

Sweetest Soul and Funk by master Hutson. Standout tracks for me are the slow jams like Let's Be Lonely Together and Lover's Holiday, but there are tracks for the dancefloor as well...

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Style: Medieval Funk

Format: LP
Label: Jay Boy

Year: 1969

Condition: VG/VG

When I first discovered this one many years ago it totaly blew my mind! The combination of medieval instruments and psychedelic funk still rules in my book ;) Make sure to listen!!

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Style: Sexual Revolutions

Format: LP
Label: Libra

Year: 1974

Condition: NM/VG+  

This soundtrack to a sexual education play is pretty funny. I have been searching for that tune in the clip for ages after hearing it in a mix back in the 90s. Sit back and enjoy :)

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Style: Prime Soul

Format: LP
Label: Blue Thumb

Year: 1977

Condition: NM/NM 

The Pointer Sisters are having a party and Don't it drive you crazy that Premier sampled them for Execution of a chump? Well it's a monster of a track so why shouldn't he?

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Style: Kraut Funk

Format: 7"
Label: Yum Yum

Year: 1976

Condition: NM/VG+  (stamp on cover)

Great Kraut Funk two-sider recorded a year after their First Message album. The Governor is a strong Funk number with hard hitting horns and Just Another Song To Sing is a  mellow Northern Soul tune with some lovely vocals by Antonia Maass. This one reminds me of the beautiful Skylight album from Australia ...

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Style: Funk

Format: LP
Label: Dee Lite

Year: 1972

Condition: NM/VG seamwear

Original copy! Filled with hits like Love The Life You Live, Electric Frog, Soul Vibrations, etc etc. Essential album!!

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Style: Funky French Pop

Format: 2LP

Label: CBS

Year: 1974

Condition: NM/VG++

Double LP with so many amazing Chedid tracks.

Of course "Hold Up" is among them.

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