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DJ Brother Cleve has prepared here a stellar selection of disco bangers from Bollywood movies soundracks in the late 70s/Early 80s era. The grooves are heavily funky, and the songs really fun, with lots of great energy, making you wish you had the movies the music is extracted from to watch! Hints...
Wednesday 07 January 2015 18:57
US label Cultures Of Soul launched a year ago a new series of disco 12 inches records. The first release gathers two jazz-funk disco pieces from American trumpeter Stanton Davis and his Ghetto Mysticism band in 1977, previously released on the 'Brighter Days' album. The tune featured here were...
Monday 05 January 2015 18:40
Even though it was released nearly 40 years ago in Nigeria, the City Street Funk Band's only album, 'Funky Pack' is heavy heavy heavy on the FUNK. In the mid-70s in Lagos, psychedelic rock was starting to get hijacked by the mainstream, the live scene getting its kicks on juju music, and the...
Monday 05 January 2015 17:42
Born from a French mother and a Ghanean father, UK-based soul singer Myles Sanko released in 2013 a first, critically acclaimed EP, 'Born In Black & White', before delivering his first full-length album, 'Forever Dreaming', during the autumn of 2014. With a voice evoking Michael Jackson, Stevie...
Monday 05 January 2015 13:20
Composer/arranger/producer Etienne de la Sayette is a frenetic globe-trotter and a relentless collector of musical instruments. Founder and headhunter of, among others, the Frix and Baeshi Bang (reviewed here) groups, co-founder/saxophonist for Akalé Wubé, Etienne might mostly be a live musician,...
Wednesday 31 December 2014 14:23
In 2010 our esteemed collaborators Adrian Quesada and Shawn Lee finally met at the SXSW festival in Austin. In 2012 they started trading ideas through the internet. Late 2013 they released the first volume of their soft psych/folk/funk/psychedelic project The Electric Peanut Butter Company which we...
Monday 22 December 2014 15:21
After a few different releases under the Freestyle Records banner in the UK, with Frootful or Angeline Morrison (or that pretentious, insulting guy who thinks he's so big while Paris DJs is so nothing that we should be working for him for free), guitarist/composer/graphic designer Nick Radford is...
Monday 22 December 2014 13:58
After the 'Lucky Brown's Space Dream' CD/LP collection from 2011, American composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Joel Ricci a.k.a. Lucky Brown is back with a new concept: releasing a double vinyl album of deep funk tunes from different recording sessions, various incarnations of the Lucky...
Monday 22 December 2014 11:29
Talking & Singing unites together the forces of 3 unique players: Paris-based Franco-Cameroonian singer & actress Sandra Nkaké; composer, singer & flute player Jî Drû; reggae, ska, soul, and afrofunk producer Grant Phabao. The resulting piece is an amazing piece of afro-funk, blending...
Tuesday 16 December 2014 16:50
The PutBacks is one of the rising funk bands in Australia. They came to our attention in 2011 with their first two 45s, 'Diamond Cutter' and 'Busted', and we were lucky to be able to license the b-side of their latest single 'Spanish Harlem on friendly label HopeStreet Recordings, for Paris DJs...
Sunday 14 December 2014 11:54
Brazilian afrobeat band Bixiga 70 have just self-released a new single, available on 45 or digital, mixed by Victor Rice in São Paulo and mastered by Grant Phabao at Paris DJs' studio. The group liked the mastering Phabao had done for their track in the 'We Are The Fire Inside Your Mind'...
Saturday 06 December 2014 15:18
Renegades Of Jazz a.k.a. David Hanke has been into trip hop & downbeat in the late 90s, then began to fall for soul & funk. In the 2000s he told us he was an avid follower of our various music websites from the era (Ninja Obsession, Tru-Thoughts.net, Djouls.com, etc.) and in 2009 he started...
Friday 05 December 2014 13:55
Janko Nilović is a Montenegrin pianist, poet and composer, a French resident since 1960 and citizen since 1973. He's released more than 30 albums, mostly on library music labels, in all kinds of styles, from classical, jazz and funk to pop, psyche and easy listening. French label Underdog Records...
Tuesday 02 December 2014 16:19
We've been listening to HUNDREDS of albums and singles from the 60s and the 70s recently, while cooking our series of cover mixes, and we can safely say that Tramp Records are today among the kings of soulful diggin' of that era's Rhythm'N'Blues, Soul, Blues & Funk. After pinpointing the German...
Monday 24 November 2014 19:30
Paris DJs followers will already know the Grant Phabao reggae rework of The Grits' 'Make A Sound (Like James Brown)'. Well the most loyal ones will also have checked the various 45s and digital singles released by The Grits recently. Such as, for example, the 'Skin & Bone' psych-funk tune...
Monday 17 November 2014 18:45
The versatility of Shane "DJ Sureshot" Hunt is something to be believed: three albums with the Starshooters, three reggae compilation in the 'Soundbwoy Super Status Reggae Breaks And Beats' series, more recently a hip hop album as The Sureshot Symphony Solution, compiled in Paris DJs'...
Monday 17 November 2014 17:40
Between the late 70s and the mid-80s, a Los-Angeles based label named Sheridan House was releasing slabs of modern soul, boogie & funk on (now rare) wax. DJ Shane "Sureshot" Hunt has compiled his favourite 27 tunes from that catalog for a 2-CD or 6x12" boxset anthology on...
Monday 17 November 2014 16:23
The follow-up to the Band X album from the previous year (see here). Self-pressed jazz funk from the Boston area with breaks and vocal work for fans of Steely Dan & Matthew Larkin Cassell. Check the mega drum break on the tune 'Snow'. A rarity for fans of cosmic jazz-funk, with disco, rock and...
Saturday 08 November 2014 12:01
Real soul/rare groove connoisseurs have all fallen for the funk group from Chicago Rasputin's Stash and their two amazing albums from 1971 and 1974. After a few singles at the end of the 70s, the band evolved into the Crystal Winds incarnation, releasing this privately pressed LP of mellow modern...
Saturday 08 November 2014 11:36
Laying some deep vocals over a dusty break loop, some delicate guitar and soulful horns, Harleighblu continues to amaze with the 4th single extracted from her album 'Forget Me Not' released nearly a year ago already. A fantastic cover bringing a new life to the Eurythmics hit!! The digital single...
Thursday 06 November 2014 13:58
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