The simply stunning follow up to the highly acclaimed debut album 'Press On', Lack Of Afro combines his live musicianship, top notch studio production skills with rappers and vocalists into a skillful combination of compositions blending funk, hip hop and soul into a steamy stew of a breakbeat bonanza.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSsBxb1Xy3g
From fat funk rippling over ace beats and breaks, Northern soul to stomping 60's sounding jams, this picturesque album plugs in 2009 for another great year of new music. Great songs swinging over a new funk breeze; there's shades of Mark Ronson, soul loving Modfather Paul Weller and early story-telling Bowie circa 'London Boys' mixed up with the last four decades of breaks and beats.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr6IcBISaJI
The man with the crates of breaks for days drops his first full length album, after a string of dope 12"s. Expect some lush hip hop based soul/funk laced and sample heavy treats to rock a dancefloor or serve as ideal headphone listening
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL8UMUInNRo
An unbelievable mix of 70s funk with modern production - an absolute dancefloor stormer all the way through. Great beats, excellent production, very catchy tunes, top quality vocals. Modern funk, soul, and hip hop hits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffGkSn7uzVU
An elaborate quiltwork of interlocked beats and expert mixing. A combination of quicksilver turntablism, funky breakbeats, sly sampling, and real, honest-to-goodness, hook-filled singing sets. An album that helped give shape to the nascent acid jazz movement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q3AdoRSQm8
New Zealand-born, London-based producer/remixer Mark de Clive-Lowe chose to go free of genre restrictions with vintage synth, clavinet, and electric piano sounds provide a unifying element to the varied songs, giving Tide's Arising a musical through-line that keeps it from sounding scattershot with a blend of funk, soul, jazz, breaks and much more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOvDgPRDw9c
Dego's debut solo album is a fresh blend of various genres of music, showcasing quality, complexity and finesse. The carefully chosen collaborators bring a rich element to the entire album, reminiscent of 4hero albums, as well as Dego's other works. Dego of the award-winning duo 4hero and the critically acclaimed 2000Black. Born and raised in London of Jamaican parents is recognized as an Award-Winner, Tastemaker, Songwriter, International DJ and genre defying Music Producer who delves into an eclectic diet of Dub, Roots Reggae, Soul, Electro, Hip-Hop and Fantasy Jazz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlPIDhKbV4Q
Beautiful execution of drums and excellent modulating arrangements, make this album dreamy. Silhouette Brown delivers soulful-head-nod experiences in downtempo with a new dimension in modern “Nu soul” music, warm subtleties of HipHop and London flair.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXWVUbM2Nrg
The first of the two discs includes the more downtempo R&B, almost orchestral side, quite indebted to jazz luminaries like Pharoah Sanders, Lonnie Liston Smith and Roy Ayers. Many of the instruments are live contributions, while vocalists as wide-ranging as poet Ursula Rucker and Digable Planets rapper Butterfly make appearances. The second disc is the dancefloor (read: tighter) half of the album, skirting through dense soundscapes of paranoid breakbeats.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfHtqMOZcZc
Tom brings together musical sounds from all over the globe, bringing a fresh london sound perfect for any mood or occasion. All the tracks on this album are different and unique in their own way, blending vocals and instrumentals beautifully....not forgetting the attitude in the heavy baseline throughout.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHxq6iGBct8
Aroop Roy is an artist and producer of many dimensions. Nomadic Soul includes collaborations with sultry voiced divas, soul artists behind broken beat classics, contagious bruk flows, melancholic dark and jazzy techno rap/soul all skillfully navigating the twisted syncopated hip hop beats ending with jazz vocalist angelic performances bringing the album to its climax. Awesome summertime grooves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8WDS1wzooI
I've been on /mu/ for 2 months and I knew all of these, you better go underground pal.
>>65752424
I don't recall saying they were in any way obscure.
what was the point of this thread
>>65752527
Someone might like to discover music they'd possibly not heard and not posted all the time.
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>>65752536
i like this thread. other people should make posts like this too and this thread should be a regular
Sunshine sounds within the humble setting of a Penzance studio shed. Drawing on influences dug from charity shop vinyl & antique archives. As the title may suggest, expect a roof-down, retro-ride through Latin American, Blues, Jazz, Swing and Motown rhythms, underpinned by dance floor break beats, linked together by valve-age voices.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI1Zg-qanog
El Pantano comes laced with samples and Taylor also contributes his own playing of double bass, electric bass, guitar and keyboards. A combined sense of both hip-hop production and a live band feel. Afro-latin influences loom large on the album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF3R85l92CM
A well-rounded and killer collection of Afro, House, Latin, Soul and Disco tracks with the intention of keeping bodies moving on the dancefloor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADRFexTr8kE
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A cornerstone in their prolific career as a globally active instrumental funk outfit, maintaining their organic approach of recording real musicians live on tape, the group has refined their trademark sound with a dramatic edge, a hard hitting production and ventures into less obvious musical territories.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9-2i8ibxEI
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Breaks From The Border marked a new era in the band’s sonic landscape by topping their unique syncopated grooves with group vocal stylings. The energy of their playing is contagious: the band lets loose and exudes a true dirty, funky vibe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2Ln0dWvnbc
Packed with street smarts, a cheeky sense of humor and forward thinking production this soul-tinged debut is made up of down and upbeat songs. Juxtaposing glitchy digital beats, fat bottom end, and shiny synths with acoustic guitars and lush strings they retain their warmth and organic vibe but have been given a thorough roughing-up around the edges.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVUR778jnmE
The most exhilarating cross-border raid since the Ethiopian composer Mulatu Astatke teamed up with that wayward London collective the Heliocentrics.Hallucinogenic. Tthe multinational collective recorded tracks for fourth album Isle of Magic both in Italy and Germany, using a roster of musicians that includes natives of Europe, the Caribbean, Africa, and the Middle East. The result is a tasty stew of polyrhythmic percussion, chanted vocals, and compulsively booty-shaking tunes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBsIKQEGQ_A
>>65753724
Cool
A “must have” record for all DJ’s and lovers of funky beats and fun loving hip hop grooves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxYfLudNDD8
I love you turny, you have ever the best taste in /mu/ and no one can say otherwise
"The Harvest " features never heard before bass heavy remixes of classic artists such as The Who, Neil Young, and Fleetwood Mac, as well as new collaborations with scene leaders such as JPOD, DJ Wood, Pimpsoul, Timothy Wisdom, and Livingstone & Canosis.
https://soundcloud.com/thefunkhunters/the-funk-hunters-present-the-harvest-mixtape
>>65755185
shucks thanks, I try
Fusing free soul elements such as jazz, hip-hop, house, funk and reggae (or anything with a groove), the influence of Bugz is often underestimated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svM9mqLxTkY
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