Tag: Funk
Edinburgh’s Athens Of The North have put out a brand new double vinyl compilation titled Disco With A Feeling featuring many of the label’s most sought after 7inch reissue releases and highly obscure dancefloor gems.
Founded by Maurice White in 1969, the iconic funk and soul group Earth, Wind & Fire are considered by many as one of the greatest bands of all-time. The legendary group, that originated out of Chicago and then re-located to Southern California, has sold over 90 million records and received numerous prestigious awards, including being named to the Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. On a personal note, EWF was my first favorite groups when I was a young kid and has had a major influence on me ever since.
The Paris-based label WEWANTSOUNDS continues it’s ongoing collaboration with blockbuster producer, writer, director and standup comic Judd Apatow, and his sister Mia on highlighting some of greatest music to come out of Mainstream Records, a sixties and seventies era jazz-focused label run by their grandfather Bob Shab.
In 2014, the Numero Group label helped introduce the world to the Chicago-based funk group The Universal Togetherness Band with three incredible releases, including one full-length album and two 7inch singles. Just when many of us thought we’ve heard everything from this late seventies-early eighties band, the label has just put out a brand new 45rpm single featuring two previously unreleased tracks.
Ubiquity Recordings has recently reissued one of the most obscure and mysterious funk forty-fives to ever be discovered in Scorpio & His People’s 1972 ‘The Unforgiven/Theme From Movietown Sound’.
The Chicago-based label, Past Due, has just released a lost album from one of the greatest funk bands of the seventies, the 9th Creation.
Originally released in the UK only on Uno Melodic Records, the London-based BBE Music label has reissued the much hard-to-find 1983 album Silver Vibrations from soul jazz legend Roy Ayers.
Over the past couple of months, Matasuna Records has put out two incredible 7inch singles featuring highly sought-after Latin funk jams from the early seventies.
The first ‘Funk 45’ selection of 2019, is the extremely rare seventies soulful funk recording “Easy Greasy” by the little known group Gentle.
French multi-instrumentalist, and producer Medline’s new Solstice record features brand new renditions of legendary original soundtrack, library, and jazz funk music.
Licensed from Now-Again Records, Athens Of The North has just released an incredible new forty-five single featuring two heavy-hitting funk jams from the now legendary seventies-era Houston-based high school group, Kashmere Stage Band.
Over the past few years, the Berlin-based Habibi Funk label has released some of the best compilations focused on rare seventies and eighties era Arabic funk and jazz. Most recently, the label has reissued the highly obscure 1979 soulful funk album Jazz, Jazz, Jazz from the Sudanese group The Scorpions.
This week’s ‘Funk 45’ selection is one of my favorite releases from the Edinburgh-based label Athens Of The North, titled Get It On by the short-lived Minnesota-based band Prophets of Peace.
