Soul/Funk/Disco

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Marvin Gaye - What's Going On (50th Anniversary...

Released 5th August 2022. Motown’s “Prince Of Soul,” Marvin Gaye, was already a hit artist for ne...

Released 5th August 2022. Motown’s “Prince Of Soul,” Marvin Gaye, was already a hit artist for nearly a decade when, in 1971, he reached new heights with his album What's Going On. An immediate landmark recording, it was the first of Gaye's albums to break the top ten of Billboard’s Top LPs, and quickly became Motown's best-selling record. To this day, What's Going On is hailed as one of the greatest albums of all time, earning the number one spot on Rolling Stone magazine’s 2020 list of “The...

£45.00

Donna Summer - I'm A Rainbow (National Album Da...

This is a National Album Day 2021 release, available in-store on Saturday 16th October. It’s Sept...

This is a National Album Day 2021 release, available in-store on Saturday 16th October. It’s September 1981 and it’s matter of weeks away from the release of ‘I’M A RAINBOW’, the second album Donna Summer had recorded for Geffen Records, which had also been produced by Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte.  At the time that the album was being recorded, the musical landscape had changed and production techniques were developing further. Geffen also wanted a more R&B-influenced album, despite...

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Curtis Harding - If Words Were Flowers

Released 5th November 2021. Simply calling Curtis Harding a soul man feels reductive. Harding's v...

Released 5th November 2021. Simply calling Curtis Harding a soul man feels reductive. Harding's voice conveys pain, pleasure, longing, tenderness, sadness and strength—a full gamut of emotions. Today his voice takes on an optimistic lilt with his new album, If Words Were Flowers. If Words Were Flowers is Harding's first new music since 2018, a follow up to his critically acclaimed 'Face Your Fears" album. It features songs like " Hopeful", where Harding croons with devotion over a classic sou...

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Stone Foundation - Outside Looking In

Released 25th March 2022. Notching up their tenth studio album release with ‘Outside Looking In’,...

Released 25th March 2022. Notching up their tenth studio album release with ‘Outside Looking In’, which lands on 25th March 2022 through 100 Percent Records, the 8-piece Midlands-based Soul band Stone Foundation continue their rich vein of form.  Their last three albums all charted within the Top 40 and ‘Outside Looking In’ seems certain to repeat the trick. The album features the previously-released single ‘Echoes of Joy’ and will be supported by a full UK tour kicking off on 14 October 2021...

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Common Saints - Starchild

Expected Release 29th October 2021. Having produced for the likes of BTS, Jorja Smith and Maveric...

Expected Release 29th October 2021. Having produced for the likes of BTS, Jorja Smith and Maverick Sabre in his South London studio; Common Saints is Charlie J Perry's personal project, inspired by warm '70s production, crafted arrangements and natural grooves. 'Starchild' further explores these areas through fusions of psychedelic soul & funk and Balearic tendencies, all tended by memorable songwriting and production nous. It follows last year's underground hit EP 'Idol Eyes'. "Starchild...

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Various Artists - Modern Love

Released 13th August 2021. BBE Music is thrilled to announce the release of Modern Love, a divers...

Released 13th August 2021. BBE Music is thrilled to announce the release of Modern Love, a diverse compendium of specially commissioned cover versions of rarities and classics in tribute to David Bowie. Featuring an array of artists such as Jeff Parker, We Are KING, Meshell Ndegeocello, Helado Negro, Khruangbin, Matthew Tavares, Nia and more, Modern Love seeks to champion Bowie’s lesser-known connection to soul, R&B, jazz, funk, and gospel. The prominent jazz influences throughout Bowie’s...

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Joel Culpepper - Sgt Culpepper

Released 30th July 2021. His sonic palette blends an array of genres and influences, that looks b...

Released 30th July 2021. His sonic palette blends an array of genres and influences, that looks back to the greats whilst simultaneously absorbing London’s contemporary musical landscape. His charismatic Colors Studios performance of ‘Woman', the standout cut from Joel’s 2017 EP ‘Tortoise’, has amassed over 13 million views on YouTube (and counting). Joel's debut album, 'Sgt Culpepper’, is an incredible modern soul album and the product of a two-year undertaking which saw him attract an array...

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Various Artists - Brazil 45 Vol. 1 (RSD 2020)

This is a Record Store Day 2020 release. Rare and sought-after tracks from the 'Golden Era' of Br...

This is a Record Store Day 2020 release. Rare and sought-after tracks from the 'Golden Era' of Brazilian music. Curated by acclaimed global beat-digger DJ Format.

£35.00

Surprise Chef - All News Is Good News (2021 Rei...

Released 30th July 2021. There is something simultaneously both brand-new and retro about ‘AllNew...

Released 30th July 2021. There is something simultaneously both brand-new and retro about ‘AllNews Is Good News’ - the debut album from Melbourne’s instrumentalsoul group Surprise Chef. Now reissued on light blue vinyl with poster insert. It sounds like something dreamt up by lo-fi cousins of David Axelrod and JankoNilovic, with dramatic Library-music-eqsue cinematic arrangements echoingboth light and dark, delving into moments of dissonance and positivity. Thereis a meticulous education of 1...

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Khruangbin - Mordechai Remixes

Released 29th October 2021. The art of the remix has been around for several decades, from the fe...

Released 29th October 2021. The art of the remix has been around for several decades, from the fervid imaginations of JA pioneers like Coxsone Dodd, Duke Reid or King Tubby to the disco enthusiasts of New York, such as Tom Moulton, who bequeathed us the modern iteration of the remix and provided a template from which most remixers still work. Moulton’s first commercial remix, a reworking of BT Express’ appropriately-named ‘Do It ’Till You’re Satisfied’, which stretched it from three minutes t...

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Lou Hayter - Private Sunshine

Released 24th September 2021. SK says: "An irresistible love letter to 80s and 90s electropop fro...

Released 24th September 2021. SK says: "An irresistible love letter to 80s and 90s electropop from the former New Young Pony Club vocalist/keyboardist, featuring two extraordinary covers: a cool, synth-led reading of Steely Dan's classic "Time Out of Mind" and a radical recasting of actor Brian Protheroe's '70s cult hit "Pinball"." Effortlessly hopscotching between vintage acid and 80s R'n’B, insouciant Francophone pop and twinkling electro house, Lou Hayter has delivered something at once ut...

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Diana Ross - Thank You

Released 5th November 2021. Diana Ross sings “Thank You” to the world.  “This collection of songs...

Released 5th November 2021. Diana Ross sings “Thank You” to the world.  “This collection of songs is my gift to you with appreciation and love. I am eternally grateful that I had the opportunity to record this glorious music at this time,” said Ms. Ross. Her new album, “Thank You” is scheduled for release this fall through Decca Records / Universal Music Group. The title track and first single,” Thank You,” will be available for streaming and download on June 17. Recorded in her home studio, ...

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