Polish Funk 7"
[Polskie Nagrania, 2007]  7"   www.polskienagrania.com.pl

BIG BAND KATOWICE - "Mardox" + ERGO BAND - "Zmienność myśli"

45-tka z 2 kawałkami, których nie ma albumach (ani winylowych, ani CD).

Polish Funk Vol. 2
[Polskie Nagrania, 2007]  LP/CD   www.polskienagrania.com.pl

HALINA FRĄCKOWIAK - Idę dalej / ZDZISŁAWA SOŚNICKA - Żyj sobie sam / NIEBIESKO-CZARNI - Atma / WOJCIECH SKOWROŃSKI - Do tych dni, kolorowych dni / KRZYSZTOF SADOWSKI & HIS HAMMOND ORGAN - Skąd my to znamy / GRUPA ORGANOWA KRZYSZTOFA SADOWSKIEGO - Alfa Centaura / MACIEJ KOSSOWSKI - Oczy ci zasłonię / CZESŁAW NIEMEN + ENIGMATIC - Zechcesz mnie zechcesz / SBB - Palamakia / ANDRZEJ ZAUCHA - Księżniczka.

[Na CD dodatkowo: WOJCIECH SKOWROŃSKI - Blues and rock / HALINA FRĄCKOWIAK - Wodo, zimna wodo]

Polish Funk
[Polskie Nagrania, 2007]  LP/CD   www.polskienagrania.com.pl

BIG BAND KATOWICE - Sorcerer / ABC - Za dużo chcesz / HENRYK DEBICH - Temat z filmu "Shaft" / NOVI SINGERS - Introduction / HENRYK DEBICH - Bądź wieczorem w dyskotece / BREAKOUT - Słuchaj rytmu / JERZY MILIAN - Z nutą w herbie / GRAŻYNA ŁOBASZEWSKA & ERGO BAND - Za górą gór / PIOTR FIGIEL - Dyplomowany galernik / BEMIBEK - Panie, co pan / CZERWONE GITARY - Coda.

[Na CD dodatkowo: PIOTR FIGIEL ENSAMBLE - Agent 008 / KOMBI - Jak ja to wytrzymam]

Living In The Streets Vol. 3
[BGP/Ace Records, 2002]  2LP/CD  

CARLOS MALCOLM - Bustin' outta the ghetto / THE GENERATION - I'm a good woman / BILLY HAWKS - (Oh baby) I do believe I'm losing you / THE MIGHTY TOM CATS - Dance girl / FATBACK - You gotta believe / THE MIGHTY TOM CATS - Soul makossa / TANYA WINLEY - Vicious rap / BOBBY RUSH - Mary Jane / KING HANNIBAL - The truth shall make you free / JOHNNY KING & THE FATBACK BAND - Peace, love not war / WINFIELD PARKER - Starvin' / SPANKY WILSON - He called me baby / EAST LA CAR POOL - Seeds of life / JADE - Viva! (viva tirado) / GARY BARTZ - I've known rivers / LOREZ ALEXANDRIA - I'm wishin' / PAT BOWIE w/ Charles McPherson - Feeling good.

Living In The Streets Vol. 2
[BGP/Ace Records, 2001]  2LP/CD  

KATIE LOVE & THE FOUR SHADES OF BLACK - Don't let it go to your head / BRENDA GEORGE - I can't stand it / LETTA MBULU - Afro Texas / JOE HOUSTON - Kicking back (pts. 1 & 2) / JOE BATAAN - Theme from "The Men" / KING ERRISSON - Sleep talk / THE MIGHTY TOM CATS w/ Ann Winley - Love potion cheeba-cheeba / MACHO - Mucho macho / IRENE REID - I must be doing something right / BYRDIE GREEN - Return of the prodigal son / SHARON CASH - Fever / SPANKY WILSON - Kissing my love / ESTHER MARROW - And when I die/ WALTER HAWKINS & SELAH - Where will you run / JAMBO - Harrambee / PRESTON EPPS - Africa.

Living In The Streets
[BGP/Ace Records, 1999]  2LP/CD  

ISAAC HAYES - Use me / TAMMI LYNN - Light my fire / CAESAR FRAZIER - Mighty mouse / SPANKY WILSON - You / PAZANT BROTHERS - Loose and juicy / HOUSTON PERSON - Sweet buns and barbeque / JACQUELINE JONES - One monkey can't stop the show / CAL TJADER - Gimme shelter / RIPPLE - I don't know what it is but it sure is funky / IDRIS MUHAMMAD - Brother you know you're doing wrong / DAVE HAMILTON - Marriage is a state of vibes / THE FATBACK BAND - Mister Mass Man / PRESTON LOVE - Chili Mac / PRESTON EPPS - Afro-mania / SONY CONSTANZO BIG BAND - New beginning.

Brown Sugar presents... Can You Dig It
[Brown Sugar / ZYX, 2007]   2LP/CD  www.zyxmusic.com

najnowsza - #10 w tej znakomitej serii.

PUCHO & THE LATIN SOUL BROTHERS - Swamp people / RAY BARRETTO - New York soul / CLARK TERRY & CHICO O'FARRILL - Spanish rice / JOE CUBA SEXTET - Gimme some love / CANNONBALL ADDERLEY - Up and at it / ERIC KLOSS - Grits and gravy / FREDDIE ROACH feat. Joe Henderson - Brown sugar / BENNY GOLSON - Fried bananas / TAMBA TRIO - Jogo da vida / WILSON SIMONAL - Sem essa / TONI TORNADO - O jornaleiro / TITO PUENTE - Hit the bongo / NINA SIMONE - Funkier than a mosquito's tweeter / RAMSEY LEWIS feat. Maurice White - Uhuru / LETTA MBULU - Afro Texas / LYN COLLINS & THE J.B.'s - Things got to get better / THE PAZANT BROTHERS - We got more soul / BOOGLALOO JOE JONES - Right on / HOUSTON PERSON - The Houston Express / RUFUS THOMAS - Itch and scratch / PHIL UPCHURCH - Muscle soul / WILLIS JACKSON - Florence of Arabia / ANDY BEY & THE BEY SISTERS - Feeling good.

Brown Sugar presents... Can't Hide Love
[Brown Sugar / ZYX, 2006]   2LP/CD  www.zyxmusic.com

#9 w tej znakomitej serii.

THE BLACKBYRDS - Time is movin' / GARY BARTZ feat. Syretta - Funked up / RONNIE FOSTER - Funky motion / RUSTY BRYANT - Ga gang gang goong / ARTHUR ADAMS feat. James Jamerson - Home brew / THE 3 PIECES - Concrete jungle / AZAR LAWRENCE - Can't hide love / PLEASURE - Joyous / BRASS CONSTRUCTION - Movin' / DAYTON - Livin' for today / RAY AYERS - What you won't do for love / JOHNNY HAMMOND - Tell me what you want / BOBBY LYLE - The Genie / CARMEN McRAE - Can't hide love.

Brown Sugar presents... Hit The Rhodes, Jack
[Brown Sugar / ZYX, 2006]  2LP/CD  www.zyxmusic.com

#8 w tej znakomitej serii.

intro - Hit the road, Jack / HAMPTON HOWES - Web / DAVID AXELROD feat. George Duke - Mucho chupar / JOAO DONATO - Nana das augas / CEDAR WALTON - Low rider / RAMSEY LEWIS - Jungle strut / ROY AYERS feat. Harry Whitaker - Aragon / KOOL & THE GANG feat. Ricky West - North, east, south, west / LONNIE LISTON SMITH - Get down everybody / DONNY HATHAWAY - Valdez in the country / LATIMORE - Sweet vibrations / DR. LONNIE SMITH - Sizzle stick / STANLEY COWELL - The stoker / DIZZY GILLESPIE feat. Sonny Burke - The last stroke of midnight / GABOR SZABO feat. Bob James - Ziggidy zag / PETE & SHEILA ESCOVEDO feat. Mark Soskin - Bittersweet / EDDIE HENDERSON feat. Herbie Hancock - Butterfly / PATRICE RUSHEN - The hump.

Brown Sugar presents... Let There Be Funk
[Brown Sugar / ZYX, 2004]  2LP/CD  www.zyxmusic.com

#7 w tej znakomitej serii.

RUFUS THOMAS - Funky robot / THE DRAMATICS - Whatcha see is whatcha get / MELVIN SPARKS - Who's gonna take the weight / BROTHER JACK McDUFF - The live people / JOHNNY PATE / ADAM WADE - Brother on the run / ISAAC HAYES - Blue's crib / ARCHIE SHEPP - Attica blues / MICHAEL LONGO - Like a thief in the night / O'DONEL LEVY - Everything I do gonna be funky / LEROY HUTSON - Butterfat / MERL SAUNDERS - Aunt Monk / AZTECA - Can't take the funk out of me / SONNY ROLLINS - Shout it out / BENNIE MAUPIN - Water torture / THE POINTER SISTERS - How long (betcha got a chick) / PLEASURE - Ghettos of the mind.

Brown Sugar presents... You Can Count On Me!
[Brown Sugar / ZYX, 2003]  2LP/CD  www.zyxmusic.com

#6 w tej znakomitej serii.

SAMMY DAVIS JR. - You can count on me / THE PAZANT BROTHERS & THE BEAUFORT EXPRESS  - Work song / BERNARD PURDIE - Attica / LOU RAWLS - The letter / CHARLES EARLAND - Black talk / LITTLE MILTON - Bet you I'll win / CHARLES KYNARD - Wa-tu-wa-zui / LAURA LEE - It ain't what you do (but how you do it) / SHIRLEY ELLIS - Sugar, let's shing-a-ling / NINA SIMONE - Some say /     JIMMY SMITH - Is you is or is you ain't my baby / IDRIS MUHAMMAD - Express yourself / BILLY LARKIN & THE DELEGATES - Don't stop / EDDIE JEFFERSON - Psychedelic Sally / MONGO SANTAMARIA - Get the money / WILLIE BOBO - Soul cookin' / CHICO HAMILTON - Conquistadores / PONY POINDEXTER - Gumbo filet / BILLY / PETER HERBOLZHEIMER - These boots are made for walking / ART BLAKEY & THE JAZZ MESSENGERS - Moanin' / RUSTY BRYANT - Streak o'lean.

Brown Sugar presents... Paint It Black
[Brown Sugar / ZYX, 2002]  2LP/CD  www.zyxmusic.com

#5 w tej znakomitej serii.

GIL SCOTT-HERON - Paint it black / 24-CARAT BLACK - Ghetto: misfortune's wealth / LIGHTNIN' ROD - Sport / RUSTY BRYANT - Wildfire / CHARLES KYNARD - Slow burn / GENE AMMONS - Jug eyes / FUNK, INC. - Chicken lickin' / WILLIE HUTCH - Chase / JOE THOMAS - Polarizer / LARRY YOUNG - Turn off the lights / CHARLES EARLAND - Warp factor 8 / THE HEADHUNTERS - If you've got it, you'll get it / DONALD BYRD feat. The Blackbyrds - The one-eye two-step / AZAR LAWRENCE - People moving / HERBIE HANCOCK - Heartbeat / JOHNNY HAMMOND - Fantasy.

Brown Sugar presents... Let There Be Funk
[Brown Sugar / ZYX, 2001]  2LP/CD  www.zyxmusic.com

#4 w tej znakomitej serii.

THE METERS - People say / FUNK INC. - Message from The Meters / THE POINTER SISTERS - Yes we can can / IDRIS MUHAMMAD - New Orleans / GRAHAM CENTRAL STATION - Hair / SLY & THE FAMILY STONE - The same thing / THE BAR-KAYS - Holy ghost / MANDRILL - Positive thing / ICE - Funky bunch / KOOL & THE GANG - Rated X / THE JIMMY CASTOR BUNCH - Potential / THE PAZANT BROTHERS - You've got to do your best / PLEASURE - Dust yourself off / SIDE EFFECT - Life is what you make it / PATRICE RUSHEN - Let there be funk / HARVEY MASON - Marching in the streets / JIMMY SMITH - Give up the booty / LARRY WILLIAMS feat. Maceo Parker - Funky force / SPACE CADETS feat. Bernie Worrell - Lez git stoopid.

Brown Sugar presents... Cold Sweat
[Brown Sugar / ZYX, 2001]  2LP/CD   www.zyxmusic.com

#3 w tej znakomitej serii.

ISAAC HAYES - Run Fay run / THE BAR-KAYS - Son of Shaft / MELVIN VAN PEEBLES w/ Earth, Wind & Fire - Sweetback's theme / KOOL & THE GANG - Give it up / THE PAZANT BROTHERS - A gritty nitty / JOHNNY 'HAMMOND' SMITH - Soul talk '70 / CLARENCE WHEELER & THE ENFORCERS - Right on / IVAN 'BOOGALOO JOE' JONES - Brown bag / BERNARD PURDIE - Cold sweat / GARY BARTZ    - Incident / ROY AYERS - The golden rod / JAMES MOODY - You follow me / EDDIE HARRIS - It's all right now / JIMMY SMITH - 8 counts for Rita / PATRICE RUSHEN - Kickin' back / EDDIE HENDERSON - Open eyes.

Brown Sugar presents... Welcome To The Basement
[Brown Sugar / ZYX, 2000]  2LP/CD   www.zyxmusic.com

#2 w tej znakomitej serii.

MERL SAUNDERS - Welcome to the Basement / FREDERICK KNIGHT - Pick 'um up, put 'um down / DAVID AXELROD - You're so vain / CAMILLE YARBROUGH - Take yo' praise / MERL SAUNDERS - Scarborough Street fair / MARK MURPHY - Milestones / DOM UM ROMAO - Escravos de Jo / CAL TJADER - Aguandulce (cool-ade) / PUCHO & THE LATIN SOUL BROTHERS - Aye ma ma / MEL & TIM - Forever and a day / SHIRLEY BROWN - When, where, and what time / CHARLES KYNARD - Boogalooin' / ED BOGAS - The riot / THE VENTURES - Hawaii Five-0 / PAULINHO DA COSTA - Carnival of colors / BOBBY TIMMONS - From the bottom / FUNK, INC. - Good bye, so long.

Brown Sugar presents... I Feel The Earth Move
[Brown Sugar / ZYX, 2000]  2LP/CD   www.zyxmusic.com

#1 w tej fantastycznej niemieckiej serii składanek funkowo-soluwo-jazzowo-rare groove'owych. Dużo kawałków których nie widziałem nigdzie indziej. Naprawdę warto! Winyle trzeba niestety zamawiać z zagranicy, ale bardzo ładnie wydane wersje CD-digipack'owe dostępne są lokalnie (!).

LEON SPENCER - Message from The Meters / JACK McDUFF & GEORGE BENSON - Hot barbecue / BOOOGALOO JOE JONES - I feel the earth move / ISAAC HAYES - Café Regios / GENE AMMONS - Jungle strut / CHARLES EARLAND - Incense of essence / KENNY BURRELL - Nana / CANNONBALL ADDERLEY - Walk tall / RON HOLLOWAY & GIL SCOTT-HERON - Is that jazz? / FUNK, INC. - Memphis underground / GARY BARTZ - Dr. Follow's dance / THE BLACKBYRDS - Spaced out / JOHNNY HAMMOND - Shifting gears / PLEASURE - No matter what.

Strange Games And Things: Solid Rare Grooves & Smoking Seventies Soul
[BBE Records, 1997] 2LP/CD  www.bbemusic.com

LOVE UNLIMITED ORCHESTRA - Strange games & things / JOHNNY BRISTOL - If I can't stop you / FOXY - Mademoiselle / BARKAYS - You can't run away / MINNIE RIPPERTON - Reasons / STARPOINT - Bring your sweet love back / FATHER'S CHILDREN - Hollywood dreaming / LEMURIA - Hunk of heaven / LINDA WILLIAMS - Elevate your mind / GWEN McCRAE - 90% of me is you / RAY GOODMAN & BROWN - Another day / EDDIE KENDRICKS - Girl you need a change of mind.

Stax Of Funk Vol. 2 - More Funky Truth
[Ace Records, 2002 ]  2LP    www.acerecords.co.uk

Kolejny wypasiony składak funkowych breaków z katalogu legendarnej wytwórni Stax Records.

CALVIN SCOTT - Shame on the family name / BERNIE HAYES - Cool strut / REGGIE MILNER - Soul machine / SIR MACK RICE - Bump meat / RUDY ROBINSON & THE HUNGRY FIVE - Get it together (parts 1 & 2) / ISRAEL "POPPER STOPPER" TOLBERT w/ THE C A WARREN PLAYERS - Big leg woman (with a short short mini skirt) / THE SWEET INSPIRATION - Dirty tricks / KATIE LOVE - How can you mistreat the one you love / THE EMOTIONS - From toys to boys / INEZ FOXX - Circuits overloaded / THE STAPLE SINGERS - Brand new day / THE BAR KAYS - Cold blooded / BLACK NASTY - Talking to the people / THE WRECKING CREW - Bump and boogie / SIR MACK RICE - Dark skin woman / JOHN KASANDRA - Ain't no sin (to have fun) / RUFUS THOMAS - Do the side saddle / JIMMY McCRACKLIN - Stay away from that monkey / ALBERT KING - Crosscut saw / LEE SAIN - Them hot pants / STU GARDNER - Devil in a man.

CHARLES WRIGHT - You gotta know whatcha doin' / TONY ALVON & THE BELAIRS - Sexy coffee pot / THE METERS - Soul machine / THE FABULOUS COUNTS - Dirty Red / THE GATURS - Cold beer / CLARENCE REID - Nobody but you babe / ELDRIDGE HOLMES - Pop, popcorn children / WILSON PICKETT - Get me back on time, engine number 9 (pt. 1&2) / HOUSEGUESTS - What so never the dance (pt. 1&2) / EARTH WIND & FIRE - C'mon children / TOWER OF POWER - Back on the streets again / UNITED 8 - Getting uptown (to get down) / BLACK HEAT - Love the life you live / DONNY HATHAWAY - Come little children / THE WATTS 103RD STREET RHYTHM BAND - 65 bars and a taste of soul / MARK PUTNEY - Don't come around here anymore / COLD GRITS - It's your thing / KING CURTIS - Ridin' thumb / THE METERS - Same old thing / COLD BLOOD - Shop talk [version #1].

BOBBY BYRD - Try it again / THE NOBLE KNIGHTS - Sing a simple song / THE MIGHTY HANNIBAL - Somebody in the world for you / THE WATTS 103RD STREET RHYTHM BAND - Everyday people (in the jungle) / THE METERS - Chicken strut / ARETHA FRANKLIN - Rock steady / FABULOUS COUNTS - Lunar funk / THE MOHAWKS - The champ / THE BEGINNING OF THE END - Funky Nassau (pt. 2) / THE T.S.U. TORNADOES - Getting the corners / THE SOUTHSHORE COMMISSION - Right on brother (pt. 1) / KING CURTIS - Memphis soul stew (live) / BABY HUEY & THE BABY SITTERS - Hard times / CURTIS MAYFIELD - If there's a hell below, we're all going to go (takes 1 & 2 edit) / LITTLE SISTER - Stanga / BETTY WRIGHT - Clean up woman / SOCIETY'S BAG - Let it crawl / ALLEN TOUSSAINT - Goin' down / DR. JOHN - Right place, wrong time / THE METERS - Chug chug chug-a-lug (push and shove) (pt. 2) / COLD BLOOD - Kissing my love / TOWER OF POWER - Stroke '75 / T.J. KIRK - Soul power (pt. 1 & 2).

THE COMMODORES - Keep on dancing / BARRY JONES - Do the funky boogaloo (pt. 1) / FREDDIE & THE KINFOLK - Mashed potato, pop corn / THE MIGHTY HANNIBAL - Get in the groove / JOHNNY CAMERON & THE CAMERONS - Funky John / RUFUS THOMAS - The Memphis train / JOYCE JONES - Help me make up my mind / THE METERS - Here cokmes the Meter Man / THE COMMODORES - Rise up / BOBBY BYRD - I'm on the move / BLACK HAZE EXPRESS - Won't nobody listen / EARTH WIND & FIRE - Fan the fire / FABULOUS COUNTS - Get down people / THE STOVALL SISTERS - Hang on in there / THE BEGINNING OF THE END - Monkey tamarind / MARK HOLDER & THE POSITIVES - Whatever's fair / RASPUTIN'S STASH - Your love is certified / CHARLES WRIGHT & THE WATTS 103RD ST. BAND  - What can you bring me / CURTIS MAYFIELD - Get down [single version] / THE METERS - Just kissed my baby / BLACK HEAT - No time to burn / 6IX - I'm just like you / DARROW FLETCHER - Improve / NEW BIRTH - Hurry hurry / FRED WESLEY & THE HORNY HORNS - Four play [promo edit].

VARIOUS ARTISTS - "School Yard Breaks Vol. 2"
[Strictly Break Records, 2006]  2LP

Dwa lata po części pierwszej (patrz gdzieś niżej) ukazała się właśnie kolejna ostra dawka breaków dla b-boyów:
IN SEARCH OF ORCHESTRA - Phenomena theme (instrumental version) / SWEET DADDY FLOYDE - I just can't help myself / ORIGINAL TROPICANA STEEL BAND - Calypso rock / WILLIAM STUCKEY - Disco fly / EDWIN STARR - I just wanna do my thang / ALL DIRECTIONS - On top of it/ GERSON KING COMBO - Mandamentos black / MAKONDE SOSEME - Manzara / NICO GOMEZ - La lupita / FRANKLYNS INSANITY - Bring it on down / MELVIN SPARKS - Get ya some / THE LOVERS - Discomania / PLEASURE - Celebrate the good things.

Flying Funk:
Ultra Heavy Funk & Rare Grooves From Flying Dutchman, Bluebird & RCA
[Bluebird Records, 2003] CD   www.bluebirdjazz.com

xxx

NINA SIMONE - Save me / NITE-LITERS - Afro strut / THE JIMMI CASTOR BUNCH - It's just begun / WELDON IRVINE - We getting' down / LONNIE LISTON SMITH - Expansions / GIL SCOTT-HERON - Home is where the hatred is / ESTHER MARROW - Mama / THE LOADING ZONE - No more tears / NINA SIMONE - Funkier than a mosquito's tweeter / HAROLD ALEXANDER - Tite rope / LONNIE LISTON SMITH - A chance for peace / RICHARD 'GROOVE' HOLMES & BRENDA JONES - This is the me me (not the you you) / THE NEW BIRTH - Got to get a knutt / THE MAIN INGREDIENT - Happiness is just around the bend / BERNARD PURDIE - What's going on? / Ain't no sunshine when she's gone / JOHNNY GRIFFITH - Plane of illusion.

A Movie For Daddy - Scores To Groove The Screens By Blue Note
[Blue Note Records France, 2003]  3LP

Jedna z części bodaj pięcioczęściowej francuskiej serii znakomitych kompilacji break'ów z katalogu Blue Note Records - ta akurat poświęcona muzyce filmowej.

JACK PARNELL & HIS ORCHESTRA - Enter the Dragon / WILLIE BOBO - Kojak / ART ENSAMBLE OF CHICAGO - Theme de Yoyo / WILTON FELDER - Bullitt / LEROY HOLMES - James Bond theme / JOHN KEATING - Jesus Christ Superstar / BOBBY WOMACK - Across 110th Street / GRANT GREEN / DIANNE REEVES - Down here on the ground / JOHN BARRY - Beat girl / EARL KLUGH - Keep your eye on the sparrow / GRANT GREEN - The final comedown / ALAN MOREHOUSE & HIS BOND STREET BRIGADE - Funky fever / JACK COSNATZO & HIS ORCHESTRA - Peter Gunn Mambo / JACK COSTANZO - Harlem Nocturne / CANDIDO - Tony's theme / BILLY MAY - Mission impossible / PADDY KINGSLAND - The earthmen / ALAN TEW - The detectives.

Stax Funk - Get Up & Get Down
[Ace Records, 1989]  LP    www.acerecords.co.uk

Kolejny wypasiony składak funkowych breaków z katalogu legendarnej wytwórni Stax Records.

ISAAC HAYES - Theme from "Shaft" / DYNAMIC SOUL MACHINE - Moving on / FAT LARRY'S BAND - Castle of joy / SHO-NUFF - Funkasize you / SONS OF SLUM - What goes around (must come around) / BAR-KAYS - Holy ghost / DRAMATICS - Whatcha see is whatcha get / BAR-KAYS - Son of Shaft / INEZ FOXX - Circuits overload / ROY LEE JOHNSON & THE VILLAGERS - The dryper part 1 / FAT LARRY'S BAND - FLB / MAR-KEYS - Black / JEAN KNIGHT - Mr Big Stuff / DRAMATICS - Get up and get down.

Can You Feel The Funk - The Undisputed Black Mind Power
[Soul Patrol Records (France), 2000]  LP (vol. 17)

Soul Patrol to francuski label specjalizujący się w wyszukiwaniu super rzadkich funkowych singli ze złotego okresu tej muzyki, a więc przełomu lat 60-tych i 70-tych. Mają na swoim koncie już dwadzieścia kilka takich składanek.

KASHMERE STAGE BAND - Scorpio / ROBBIE HILL'S FAMILY AFFAIR - I just want to be (like myself) / BROWN SUGAR BAND - Party time / LITTLE JIMMY EDWARDS - Slapping some soul upon me / MIXED EMOTIONS - Can you feel the funk / YORK WILBURN & THE PSYCHEDELLIC SIX - Psychedellic hot pants / HOUSE GUESTS - My mind set me free / THE LEADERS - It's a rat race / THE SECOND THOUGHT - Sling shot / MUSICIANS FROM THE SUMMER PROGRAM FOR YOUTHFUL MUSICIANS - Jazz O.D.

The Players
[Soul Patrol Records (France), 2005]  LP (vol. 22)

RUDY LAMBERT - Love / BROTHER WILLIAMS - Sweat / ANTHONY BURNS - Doin' what you need to do / KING C. - Funk / THE ENFORCER'S - Doin' what I wanna / EUGENE BLACKNELL & THE NEW BREED - We know we got to live together / KO-KANE - Shucky darn / THE INTER CIRCLE - The players / WILSON HARRIS & THE EXPERIENCE - Smoking so hard it's right funky / SYMPHONIC FOUR - Who do you think you're fooling.

New Orleans Funk - The Original Sound Of Funk 1960-75
[Soul Jazz Records, 2000]  3LP     www.souljazzrecords.co.uk

Fantastyczna - zarówno pod względem doboru kawałków, jak i staranności wydania - kompilacja nowoorleańskiego funku z jego złotego okresu. Prawdziwa kopalnia breaków.

THE EXPLOSIONS - Hip drop / AARON NEVILLE - Hercules / BO DOLLIS & THE WILD MAGNOLIA MARDI GRAS INDIAN BAND - Handa Wanda / THE METERS - Handclapping song / EDDIE BO - Check your bucket / PROFESSOR LONGHAIR - Big chief / CYRIL NEVILLE - Tell me what's on your mind / LEE DORSEY & BERRY HARRIS - Love lots of lovin / MARY JANE HOOPER - I've got reasons / LEE DORSEY - Who's gonna help brother get further / HUEY 'PIANO' SMITH & HIS CLOWNS - Free, single and disengaged / EDDIE BO - Hook 'n' sling (pt II) / THE GATURS - Gator bait / DANNY WHITE - Natural soul brother / ERNIE K. DOE - Here come the girls / DR JOHN - Mama Roux / ALLEN TOUSSAINT - Get out of my life woman / THE EXPLOSIONS - Garden of four trees / ROBERT PARKER - Hip-huggin / CHUCK CARBO - Can I be your squeeze / GENTLEMAN JUNE GARDNER - It's gonna rain / MARILYN BARBARIN - Reborn / THE METERS - Just kissed my baby / SONNY JONES - Sissy walk (pt II).

Funkaphonics 1 - Raw And Uncut Funk 1968-1975
[Electrostatic Records, 2000]  CD

Fantastyczna 6-płytowa seria, której dwoma wspólnymi mianownikami są: 1. wszystkie kawałki pochodzą ze Złotego Okresu Funku, tj. lat 1968-75; 2. wszystkie kawałki cechuje to bardzo charakterystyczne, łatwo rozpoznawalne brzmienie 45-tek (tj. 7" singli), z których zresztą wszystkie pochodzą (po - nawiasem mówiąc - naprawdę znakomitym re-masteringu). Dodatkowy bonus - nawet najtęższe mózgi przyznają, że nie znają większości kawałków, zebranych na tych 6 krążkach CD (zresztą ponoć rodem z Australii).

BOYS IN THE BAND - Sumpin heavy / SCOTT BROTHERS - Side trackin' / MARCHWIND - All the way down / C SMALLS - The buzzard / DICKIE GOODMAN - Friends / THE BAD BOYS - Black olives / DARROW FLETCHER - Now is the time for love / REUBEN BELL - Leave my kitten alone / THE YOUNG GENTS - Big things come in small packages / MANUEL B. HALCOLM - Kick out in / THE INCLINES - Pressure cooker / GENERAL CROOK - Do it for me / JOE COBB - It's L.B. time / BOWLEGGS MILLER - It's bump time / MEL HUESTON - Time & patience / U.S. WARREN - The 4th movement / CITY NEWS - Bustin up / NCCU - Freak / D. SPIRIT & THE CITY FOLK - Just keep a c'mon / B.W. SOULS - Generated love.

Funkaphonics 3 - Raw And Uncut Funk 1968-1975
[Electrostatic Records, 2001]  CD

JR. & THE CLASSIC - Kill the pain / GOODTIME CHARLES - Rover or me / THE SOUL ROCKERS - The hawk / THE POSITIVE SOUNDS - The creeper / CAUTION - Love Ray / EARNEST JACKSON - Funky Blackman / THE MEMPHIANS - Slidini in and out / MILT GRAYSON & THE MYSTERY GUESTS - Right on, right on / THE FIFTH REVELATION - Make up your mind / FRED JOHNSON - I need love / GREG HELIG - With your love / 9TH STREET EXIT - 9th Street / JOE PAYNE - Sweet thang / SOUL DEVALENTS - This is our thing / BIRD ROLLINS - Real true / DUKE TURNER - Doggie dog world / THE RHYTHM MACHINE - Hot pants / WALTER VANDELL - The charge / TOUSSANT McCALL - I'm gonna make me a woman / WILLIE FISHER - You said call me.

Funkaphonics 4 - Raw And Uncut Funk 1968-1975
[Electrostatic Records, 2001]  CD

SOFT TOUCH - Plenty action 76 / THE TOTAL CAPACITY - Who's who / SONNY CHARLES - It's alright in the city / ANTHONY & THE IMPERIALS - Grow / THE CONSERVATIVES - Who understands / CHARLES WHITEHEAD - Read between the lines / THE VILLAGE CHOIR - The switch / JOHNNY TOLBERT & DE THANGS - Take it off / CASEY JONES - Good thing / JOHN ROBERTS - Sophisticated funk / AFRO SOUL REVIEW - Soft soul / THE FLAMINGOES - Heavy hips / SKIP EARNEST - Pickin & chipin / THE BROTHERS TWO - You got it / TALISMAN - Running from the devil / KENNY FICKENS - You got it / B.B. JONES - Real thing / CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE - Commerce thing / LOU TOBY & HIS HEAVIES - Heavy steppin / HENVICK & HIS GANG - Do the breakdown.

Funkaphonics 5 - Raw And Uncut Funk 1968-1975
[Electrostatic Records, 2001]  CD

CHRIS TOWNS - Funky Sunday / POVERTY TRAIN - Love and funky music / FUNNY BONE - Ride on bones / JOE FRAZIER - Gonna spend my life / THE MOODS - King hustler / URAL THOMAS - Can you dig it? / DAVID WILLIAMS - Fox's den / GWINDON MURPHY - The pearl / THE MIDNIGHT REBELS - Broadway walk / E.T.WHITE - Loosen up / STAFF & MANAGEMENT - Fresh dirt / ED WILEY - Stretching out / TRIPLET TWINS - From the rooter to the tooter / THE HIGHLIGHTERS - Chitlin pot / TARANTULA - Listen to your heartbeat / ROSS CARNEGIE - Open up your mind / CROSSTOWN EXPRESS - Just keep the funk / BAND OCEAN LINERS - Foxy funk / THE JACKSONIANS - Laugh / TONY LAWRENCE - Harlem cultural festival.

Funkaphonics 6 - Raw And Uncut Funk 1968-1975
[Electrostatic Records, 2002]  CD

THE INNER DRIVE - Smell the funk / BACKYARD HEAVIES - Soul junction / UNCLAIMED FREIGHT - Fat Albert / HUGH BOYNTON - Funky grasshopper / PERK BADGER - Do your stuff / LITTLE GEORGE - Funkey camel walk / HERBIE THOMPSON - It's jungle time / THE MAJESTIC KIND - Can you find me love / AL GRANNUM - Soul brother / HAYES WARE - You got me mama / CLARENCE NELSON - Super soul / MAGIC SAM - Sam's funk / TIMMY ROGERS - Super soul brother / THE MIGHTY CROWNS - Soul soul feeling / ABRAHAM & THE CASANOVAS - Kangaroo too / THE RIVERBOAT SOUL BAND - Mess up / MATHEW & HIS 3 BUDDIES - Funky onions / QUAD - Relief / HOTT SNOW - Bump your funky booty / GENE ANDERSON - Your love must be voodoo.

Hip Hop Roots: The Breaks That Started It All
[Tommy Boy Entertainment, 2005]  CD/LP  www.tommyboy.com

Wszystkie kawałki niby znane i dość powszechnie dostępne, ale wersje, które się tu znalazły, to specjalne re-edity wykonane przez jednego z pionierów i najlepszych DJ'ów hip-hopowych, kultowego Jazzy Jay'a, tak by brzmiały jak za starych dawnych lat, tak jak grano je na block parties (wycięto to co zbędne, wydłużono breaki, zapewne wyrównano tempo, itd.) - a więc i tak warto, a nawet wręcz należy ją mieć.

THE JIMMY CASTOR BUNCH - It's just begun / BILLY SQUIER - The big beat / LYN COLLINS feat. The JB's - Think (about it) / BOB JAMES - Take me to the Mardi Gras / DAVID BOWIE - Fame / THE BLACKBYRDS - Happy music / CHARLES WRIGHT & THE WATTS 103RD STREET RHYTHM BAND - Express yourself / CYMANDE - Bra / THE MONKEES - Mary, Mary / DYKE & THE BLAZERS - Let a woman be a woman (let a man be a man) / JAMES BROWN - Give it up or turnit a loose / ESG - UFO.

Breakdown. Funky Beats, Jazzy Breaks & Soulful Samples
[Sanctuary Records, 2002]  CD/LP

TONY HATCH - Sounds of the seventies / FREDA PAYNE - Unhooked generation / COLOSSEUM - The kettle / THE JUST BROTHERS - Sliced tomatoes / THE POLITICIANS - Free your mind / CYMANDE - The message / FLAMING EMBER - Gotta get away / DIZZY GILLESPIE - Matrix / PARLIAMENT - Come in out of the rain / THE KAY-GEES - Who's the man (with the master plan) / THE WHATNAUTS - Why can't people be colors too? / LAURA LEE - Crumbs off the table / THE FATBACK BAND - Baby I'm a want you / 8TH DAY - She's not just another woman / TYRONE WASHINGTON - Submission / THE PAZANT BROTHERS - Chick a boom / BLACK IVORY - I keep asking you questions / WOOD BRASS & STEEL - Hey what's that you say / CYMANDE - Dove / WILLIAM DE VAUGHN - Be thankfu.

Fat Booty Breaks
[Orpheum Musicwerks GmbH, 2004(?)]  LP

Okładka niestety rozczarowuje, nie tego się spodziewałem (patrz niżej - Bigger Booty Breaks), natomiast selekcja kawałków - jak najbardziej powalająca. Teraz czekam na vol. 3!

LEE AUSTIN - Steal away / ROD PIAZZA - Cissy strut / EDDY MITCHELL - Hard to handle / RENE NETTO - Watermelon man / SWINGIN GUITARS - Scorpio / SYD JONES & THE TROUBADOURS - Cardova / FRED RAMIREZ - Hold on I'm coming / THE GENTLE RAIN - Use me / ED WATSON & THE BRASS CIRCLE - Breeze & soul / PEGGY LEE - Sittin' on the dock of the bay / ROCKY GIL & THE BISHOPS - Oily / SAMMY DAVIS JNR. - Up up & away.

Bigger Booty Breaks...
[Orpheum Musicwerks GmbH, 2005]  LP

Nie będę nawet próbował ukryć, że płytę kupiłem dla okładki :), co nie zmienia faktu, że jest na niej kilka naprawdę wypasionych i dziś prawie niemożliwych do zdobycia breaków... To vol. 2, więc oczywiście już poluję na vol. 1.

KENNY BURRELL - Burning spear / BYRON LEE & HIS DRAGONAIRS - Apache / MICHAL AMARA - New bell / THAD JONES & MEL LEWIS - For the love of money / THE GENERATION GAP - Family affair / GABOR SZABO - The biz / BETTY LAVETTE - Soul tambourine / ISLEY BROTHERS - Keep on doin / ST-4 - Funky / RAY J - Right place wrong time.

Soul Treats : Original Songs As Sampled By Various Artists
[Strictly Break Records, 2005]  LP

Oryginalnie płyta dostępna była przez moment jako "Pete's Treats", ale po ostrym proteście (!) Pete Rock'a zniknęła, po czym powróciła już jako "Soul Treats".

THE IMPRESSIONS - On the move / LOU DONALDSON - Turtle walk / EDDIE BO - From this day on / KING CURTIS - Instant groove / O'DONNELL LEVY - We've only just begun / THE 3 DEGREES - You're the fool / LITTLE RICHARD - The rill thing / BAMA - Ghettos of the mind / FREDDIE McCOY - Gimme some / THE OHIO PLAYERS - What's goin' on / SIMTEC WYLIE - Bootleggin' / MONGO SANTAMARIA - Heighty ho / ERNIE HINES - Our generation / KOOL & THE GANG - Chocolate buttermilk / THE 9th CREATION - Bubble gum / GEORGIE FAME - Music talk / EUGENE McDANIELS - Freedom dance / EDDY SENAY - Cameo / TOM SCOTT - Today / ALYN AINSWORTH - Where do I go / THE 5 STAIR STEPS - Don't change your love / BACK YARD HEAVIES - Expo 83 / GENTLEMEN & LADIES - Party time / CANNONBALL ADDERLEY - Capricorn / THE AMBASSADORS - Ain't got the love / MEL & TIM - Groovy situation / BAMA - I got soul / JUDY FOSTER - Soul girl.

Ultimate Block Party Breaks Vol. 1
[Super Break Records, 1988]  LP

Pierwsza z serii dwóch jak dotąd płyt firmowanych przez DJ Paul Nice'a. W przeciwieństwie do innych tego typu składanek, tu Paul Nice zapętlił w kilkuminutowe kawałki wyłącznie same breaki - naprawdę warto jest więc mieć po dwa egzemplarze. Na vol. 1 znalazły się loopy z następujących kawałków:

Mt. Airy Groove / Back In Love Again / You Are The One / Let's Get It Together / Walking Into Sunshine * Reach For It / Nobody Can Be You / Love Thang / Act Like You Know / Help Is On The Way / Ever Ready.

Przekrój muzyki: Soul bez pościeli
[PRZEKRÓJ + Pomaton EMI, 2005]  CD - 29.99 zł

Naprawdę niezła selekcja kawałków (chociaż te ostatnie dwa są tu... trochę od czapy), spoko cena - aż szkoda, że nie wyszło na winylu. I aż trudno uwierzyć, że to polskie.

THE ISLEY BROTHERS - It's your thing / MARLENA SHAW - Woman of the ghetto / DONNY HATHAWAY - The ghetto / ARETHA FRANKLIN - Rock steady / SHUGGIE OTIS - Strawberry letter 23 / THE O'JAYS - Backstabbers / KOOL & THE GANG - Summer madness / MINNIE RIPPERTON - Lovin' you / ROBERTA FLACK - Feel like makin' love / DIANA ROSS - Love hangover / ROY AYERS - Everybody loves the sunshine / MARVIN GAYE - Got to give it up (pt. 1) / CHERYL LYNN - Got to be real / GWEN McCRAE - Funky sensation / CHAKA KHAN w/ RUFUS - Ain't nobody / D'ANGELO - Brown sugar / DWELE - Find a way.

SUPERBAD: The Very Best Of Blaxploitation, 70's Movie Themes + Funk Soul Classics - volume 1
[Warner Dance, 2004]  2LP   www.warnerdance.com

3 podwójne albumy (dostępne również na potrójnym CD) z absolutną śmietanką funku i soulu, w większości pochodzącą ze ścieżek dźwiękowych do filmów z gatunku "blaxploitation" i po wielokroć samplowaną przez producentów hip hopowych. Pozycja obowiązkowa (choć niektóre kawałki powtarzają się w równie genialnej serii Super Breaks).

HERBIE HANCOCK - Bring down the birds / LALO SCHIFRIN - Bullit / QUINCY JONES - They call me Mister Tibbs / ISAAC HAYES - Theme from "Shaft" / CURTIS MAYFIELD - Superfly / ROY AYERS feat. Carl Clay - Coffy is the color / J.J. JOHNSON - Harlem clavinette / JOHNNY PAGE with ADAM WADE - Brother on the run / DONNY HATHAWAY - Little ghetto boy / BILL WITHERS - Who is he? (and what is he to you?) / JOE SIMON feat. The Mainstreeters - Theme from "Cleopatra Jones" / THE DELFONICS - Didn't I blow your mind this time / ARETHA FRANKLIN - Something he can feel / WILLIAN DE VAUGHN - Be thankful for what you've got / EARTH WIND & FIRE - Sweetback's theme.

VARIOUS ARTISTS - "School Yard Breaks"
[Strictly Break Records, 2004]  LP

Najnowsza kompilacja ze Strictly Breaks (wydawców m.in. Tribe Breaks, De La Breaks, Jigga Breaks, Dusty Fingers, Beatnuts Breaks, etc.), którą zamieszczam tu nie tylko ze względu na jej (skądinnąd ciekawą) zawartość, ale też na... okładkę, którą gdzieś już kiedyś widziałem :) Na płycie:

IN SEARCH OF ORCHESTRA - Phenomena theme (instrumental version) / SWEET DADDY FLOYDE - I just can't help myself / ORIGINAL TROPICANA STEEL BAND - Calypso rock / WILLIAM STUCKEY - Disco fly / EDWIN STARR - I just wanna do my thang / ALL DIRECTIONS - On top of it / GERSON KING COMBO - Mandamentos black / MAKONDE SOSEME - Manzara / NICO GOMEZ - La lupita / FRANKLYNS INSANITY - Bring it on down / MELVIN SPARKS - Get ya some / THE LOVERS - Discomania / PLEASURE - Celebrate the good things.

What It Is! Funky Soul & Rare Grooves
From The Vaults of Atlantic, ATCO & Warner Bros. Records 1967 to 1977
[Rhino, 2007]  4CD lub 25 x 7"

THE WATTS 103RD ST. RHYTHM BAND - Spreadin' honey / BAR-KAYS - Soul finger / BROTHER JACK McDUFF - The shadow of your smile / JIMMY NORMAN - Gangster of love (pts. I & II) / RUFUS THOMAS - The Memphis train / GRASSELLA OLIPHANT - Get out of my life woman / EDDIE HARRIS - Live right now / NATURAL BRIDGE BUNCH - Pig snoots (pt. 1) / THE FREEDOM SOUNDS f/ Wayne Henderson - Soul sound system / CLARENCE CARTER - Snatching it back / ARTIE CHRISTOPHER - Stoned soul / THE T.S.U. TORNADOES - Getting the corners / TONY ALVON & THE BELAIRS - Sexy coffee pot / MARK PUTNEY - Don't come around here anymore / THE COMMODORES - Keep on dancing / THE SOUTHSHORE COMMISSION - Right on brother (pt. 1) / ELDRIDGE HOLMES - Pop, popcorn children / COLD GRITS - It's your thing / SOUL ANGELS - It's all in your mind / JOHNNY CAMERON & THE CAMERONS - Funky John / JOYCE JONES - Help me make up my mind / LOU JOHNSON - Rock me baby / THE NOBLE KNIGHTS - Sing a simple song / TITUS TURNER - Do you dig it / PHIL MOORE JR. - Funky canyon / THE FABULOUS COUNTS - Jan Jan / THE RHINE OAKS - Tampin / CYRIL NEVILLE - Gossip / THE MIGHTY HANNIBAL - Somebody in the world for you / LITTLE SISTER - Stanga / ANANDA SHANKAR - Jumpin' Jack Flash / BRUTE FORCE - The deacon / DON COVAY & THE JEFFERSON LEMON BLUES BAND  - Sookie sookie / CLARENCE WHEELER & THE ENFORCERS - Right on / CYRTIS MAYFIELD - (Don't worry) If there's a hell below we're all going to go / JOHNNY HARRIS - Stepping stones / 6IX - I'm just like you / THE UNEMPLOYED - Funky thing (pt. 1) / SHIRLEY SCOTT - Messie Bessie / WILLIE WEST - Fairchild / THE GATURS - Cold bear / MONGO SANTAMARIA - I can't get next to you / LULU - Feelin' alright / MEMPHIS HORNS - Soul bowl / HAMMER - Tuane / JOHNNY TOLBERT & DE THANGS - Take it off (pt. 2) / HARLEM RIVER DRIVE f/ Eddie Palmieri & Jimmy Norman  - Seeds of life / WILSON PICKETT - Engine number 9 / BABY HUEY & THE BABY SITTERS - Hard times / HOUSEGUESTS - What so never the dance (pts. 1 & 2) / EUGENE McDANIELS - Headless heroes / WADE MARCUS - Spinning wheel / EARTH, WIND & FIRE - Bad tune / RASPUTIN'S STASH - Mr. Cool / JUNIOR MANCE - Don't cha hear me callin' to ya / THE STIVALL SISTERS - Hang on in there / THE BEGINNING OF THE END - Funky Nassau (pt. 2) / MARK HOLDER & THE POSITIVES - Whatever's fair / ED ROBINSON - Face it / YOUNG-HOLT UNLIMITED - Wah wah man / ARETHA FRANKLIN - Rock steady (alternate mix) / BLACK HAZE EXPRESS - Won't nobody listen / ALLEN TOUSSAINT - Goin' down / MALO - Suavecito / CHARLES WRIGHT - You gotta know whatcha doin' / TAMI LYNN - Mo jo Hanna / KING CURTIS - Ridin' thumb / MACONDO - Almendra / LITTLE RICHARD - Nuki suki / UNITED 8 - Getting uptown (to get down) / HOWARD TATE - 8 days on the road / LaBELLE - Moon shadow / SOCIETY'S BAG - Let it crawl / BLACK HEAT - Wanaoh / CLARENCE REID - If it was good enough for daddy / CLAUDIA LENNEAR - Everything I do gonna be funky / THE MYSTIC MOODS - Cosmic sea / COLD BLOOD - Kissing my love / SEATRAIN - Flute thing / THE METERS - Chug chug chug-a-lug (push n' shove) pt. 2 / FREDDI HENCHI & THE SOUL SETTLERS - Funky to the bone / BOBBY BYRD - Try it again / CORNELL DUPREE - Teasin' / DR. JOHN - (Everybody wanna get rich) Rite away / OSCAR BROWN, JR. - Chicken heads / FUNK FACTORY - Rien ne va plus / HERBIE MANN - Cajun moon / DARROW FLETCHER - Improve / FAZE-O - Riding high / FRED WESLEY & THE HORNY HORNS - Four play / EDDIE HAZEL - California dreamin'.

Strony, które warto odwiedzić:

***   The-Breaks.com  ***  Diggin' In The Crates   ***