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Boogie Breakdown: South African Synth Disco 1980-1984

Various Artists
Genres: Afro, Afro Disco, Afro Funk, Boogie, Disco, Funk, Jazz Funk, Soul Funk, Tropical, World – Format: 2 x LP

True to form, Boston-based label Cultures of Soul is set to release a compilation of obscure disco from a far-flung corner of the world. After forays into India and...
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- £21.99
Diablos Del Ritmo - The Colombian Melting Pot 1960-1985 Part 2

Various Artists
Genres: Latin, Latin Soul, Salsa, Tropical, World – Format: 2 x LP

This collection showcases the colourful diversity of the music from Colombia, a country where the tropical sounds of Puya, Porro, Gaita, Cumbiambe, Mapelé, C...
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- £17.99
Dancefloor Fight / Detective Pandit Rey / Afro on the Rocks

Paikan
Genres: Beats Dancefloor, Exotica, Instrumental, Jazz, Oddities, Psychedelia, Soul Funk, Weird – Format: 12 inch

A debut release from a new French talent with an ear for Indian soundtracks and funky grooves. But there’s no wishy washy Bollywood nonsense here, this is the...
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- £6.00
Bucket o Blood

Big Boy Groves
Genres: Blues, Contemporary R&B, Jukebox RnB, Jump Blues, Weird – Format: 7 inch

Equal parts slinky and sinister, a unique oddity with Groves vividly detailing a particularly unwelcoming juke joint.
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- £6.99
Riot!

Joe Bataan
Genres: Latin, Latin Jazz, Tropical – Format: LP

A brilliant Latin-soul / boogaloo album from Joe Bataan, and the biggest selling Latin LP of 1968, so it obviously needs checking out. There are some real winners h...
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- £14.99
Recreation of the Gods

Rufus Harley
Genres: Jazz, Jazz Funk, Soul Jazz, Weird – Format: LP

Rufus Harley's great jazz bagpipe was lost to us this year. This big-hearted, wonderful album from 1972 combines funk with Aylerized gospel and free and soul jazz, ...
- £12.99
Delicious!

Jim Backus and Friend
Genres: Exotica, Oddities, Tittyshakers, Weird – Format: 7 inch

If this doesn't put a smile on your face then you're DEAD! I'll have some of what they're drinking! Utterly inane, mad and totally bonkers... yet utterly addictive ...
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- £15.00
Jumping Beans / Samba Electronico

Sign Of Four
Genres: Cut and Paste, Electronica, Future Beats, Instrumental, Oddities, Weird – Format: 7 inch

Here's a labyrinthine jungle of audiophonic spectral transience that occludes the conventional digital sonic floating world through volatile phonosynthetic oscillat...
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- £4.99
Make It Fast Make It Slow

ROB
Genres: Afro, Afro Funk, Afro Rock, Funk, Soul Funk, Tropical, World – Format: LP

Soundway surpass themselves again with this wonderful reissue from the Ghanaian artist Rob, who released two albums back in 1977 for the West African Essiebons labe...
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- £12.99
Kenya Special: Selected East African Recordings from the 1970s & ‘80s

Various Artists
Genres: Afro, Afro Disco, Afro Rock, Funk, Tropical, World – Format: 3 x LP

Kenya Special: Selected East African Recordings from the 1970s & ‘80s is a treasure-trove of rare and unusual recordings from East Africa. Spread out over...
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- £23.99
Rock And Other Four Letter Words

J Marks And Shipen Lebzelter
Genres: Oddities, Psychedelia, Rock, Weird – Format: LP

With Alan Silva, Andrew Cyrille, Roswell Rudd and Burton Greene amongst a legion of contributors vying with processed spoken-word cut-ups (Jimmy Page, Brian Wilson,...
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- £14.99
Wobble Wickie/ Weird

Rhythm Tones / Bob Vidone
Genres: Rockabilly, Tittyshakers, Weird – Format: 7 inch

"Weird" is one word, "totally deranged" are another couple I can think of to describe this oddball double-sider
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- £6.00
Tuck in with The Natural Yogurt Band

Natural Yogurt Band
Genres: Beats Downtempo, Downtempo, Instrumental, Jazz Funk, Psychedelia, Weird – Format: CD

More quirky instrumental irreverence from The Natural Yogurt Band!
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- £5.99
Sipote / Suite

Louis Xavier
Genres: Funk, Jazz, Jazz Funk, Spiritual Jazz, Tropical – Format: 7 inch

Awesome tropical jazz that packs a punch! Incredibly rare 45 reissued for the first time.
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- £4.99
The Spook

Tomkos
Genres: Instrumental, Tittyshakers, Weird – Format: 7 inch

Incredible Halloween monster! One of the best!
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- £60.00
Mad

Social Outcasts
Genres: Exotica, Instrumental, Oddities, Tittyshakers, Weird – Format: 7 inch

An apt title if ever there was one... crazy as hell 45!
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- £25.00
Hammer, Anvil, Stirrup

Sign Of Four
Genres: Beats, Cut and Paste, Electronica, Instrumental, Jazz, Oddities, Re-edits and Reworks, Weird – Format: CD

Oscillating and reverberating chaotically through sonic orbs and polyphonic sound textures, The Sign of Four is a new creative concept from the Natural Yogurt Band'...
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- £5.99
Bad Breath

Bobby Valentin
Genres: Latin, Latin Jazz, Latin Soul, Salsa, Tropical – Format: LP

Great Boogaloo reissue LP
- £15.99
Perico / Carnaval

Orquesta El Macabeo / Bio Ritmo
Genres: Latin, Tropical – Format: 7 inch

Contemporary covers of Puerto Rican classics, Vampi Soul have curated something very special right here. "Perico" (which translates to parakeet) has been a standard...
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- £6.99
Away With Melancholy

Natural Yogurt Band
Genres: Beats, Beats Downtempo, Instrumental, Jazz Funk, Oddities, Psychedelia, Weird – Format: CD

"The best album I've heard this year, like a dream line-up of library session musicians commissioned by old b-boys" - DJ FORMAT
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- £5.99
Yes Love / The Ho-Ho Laughing Monster

Mel Smith / Peter Roberts
Genres: Jukebox RnB, Tittyshakers, Weird – Format: 7 inch

A good bit of holler and stomp R&B, & on the flip-side, archetypal wig-out nonsense from some fella called Peter Roberts
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- £6.99
Hot Dog Boogie

Singing Dogs
Genres: Instrumental, Oddities, Tittyshakers, Weird – Format: 7 inch

Singing dogs?! It's madness I tell you!
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- £15.00
Fumaça Preta

Fumaça Preta
Genres: Electronica, Funk, Funk Rock, Latin, Latin Rock, Oddities, Psychedelia, Weird, World – Format: LP

Fumaça Preta's hard hitting, free-wheeling debut LP brings together elements of tropicalia, psychedelic rock, fuzz funk, musique concrete, acid house, radiophonic ...
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- £16.99
Jukebox Mambo Vol. 2

Various Artists
Genres: Calypso, Jukebox RnB, Jump Blues, Latin, Tropical – Format: CD

Long awaited follow up to the original game-changing Jukebox Mambo set of sweltering rumba accented Rhythm & Blues.
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- £6.99
Jukebox Mambo Vol. 2

Various Artists
Genres: Calypso, Jukebox RnB, Jump Blues, Latin, Tropical – Format: 2 x LP

Long awaited follow up to the original game-changing Jukebox Mambo set of sweltering rumba accented Rhythm & Blues.
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- £14.99
Os Brazoes

Os Brazoes
Genres: Jukebox RnB, Latin, Latin Rock, Oddities, Psychedelia, Weird, World – Format: LP

Rare and highly sought after in its original format, Os Brazoes self-titled album was originally released on RGE Discos in 1969. It is a psychedelic masterpiece tha...
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- £17.99
Ndikho Xaba and the Natives

Ndikho Xaba and the Natives
Genres: Afro, Instrumental, Jazz, Jazz Funk, Modal Jazz, Spiritual Jazz, Tropical, World – Format: LP

Awesome spiritual Afro Jazz rarity presented in 180g vinyl gatefold with printed inner sleeve containing new sleeve notes and recollections together with unse...
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- £24.99
I Jool Omo

Ginger Johnson And His African Messengers
Genres: Afro, Afro Rock, Funk, Jazz, Jazz Funk, Soul Funk, Soul Jazz, Tropical, World – Format: 7 inch

Tough afro jazz rhythms from very rare LP! Great release on 45!
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- £5.99
Estrelando Embaixador

Tribo Massahi
Genres: Afro, Afro Funk, Afro Rock, Funk, Tropical, World – Format: LP

This obscure gem has been posted on a great many blogs over the last several years. Though seemingly much loved, details about the album or its creators still remai...
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- £16.99
Dans Le Tchink Systeme

Stanislas Tohon
Genres: Afro, Afro Funk, Afro Rock, Tropical, World – Format: LP

Incredible Afro-funk gem with wild electronics reminiscent of William Onyebor! So many good tracks! Recommended!
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- £17.99
Francis the Great

Francis the Great
Genres: Afro, Afro Disco, Afro Funk, Funk, Tropical, World – Format: LP

Top drawer Afro funk from France, main tune being the long jam 'Look Up In the Sky' - with vocals by Francis - a 7 year old boy! Love it!
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An Exploration into the Exotic World of Taboo Vol. 1

Various Artists
Genres: Calypso, Exotica, Instrumental, Jukebox RnB, Latin, Oddities, Tittyshakers, Tropical – Format: 10 inch

Stag-O-Lee presents a new series called Journey To The Centre Of The Song, celebrating one song at a ...
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- £13.99
Arabica

Tala A.M.
Genres: Afro, Afro Disco, Afro Funk, Funk, Jazz Funk, Tropical, World – Format: LP

André-Marie Tala is one of the father figures of African music. Born in the western Provence of Bandjoun, Cameroon, his early years were plagued with tragedy...
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- £15.99
African Party

Ginger Johnson And His African Messengers
Genres: Afro, Afro Funk, Afro Rock, Funk, Jazz, Tropical, World – Format: LP

Freestyle Records is incredibly proud to reissue the music of Ginger Johnson & His African Messengers. Its bedrock of A...
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- £18.99
Amara Toure Singles Collection 1973-1976

Amara Toure
Genres: Afro, Afro Funk, Afro Rock, Funk, Soul Funk, Tropical, World – Format: 2 x LP

Analog Africa release a compilation by Amara Toure, the enigmatic Afro-Cuban musician from Guinea-Conakry, showcasing all of the 10 songs he ever

It took on...
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- £24.99
Ritual

Nico Gomez and His Afro Percussion Inc
Genres: Afro, Afro Funk, Afro Rock, Funk, Soul Funk, Soul Jazz, Tropical, World – Format: LP

Thoroughly recommended Afro-Latin-Funk LP from Europe that's worth it for Lupita alone but what makes this album special is that one-track wonder it is not! Chock f...
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- £16.99