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Grant Phabao and The Jays Stepping Up In Time

Grant Phabao & The Jays - Stepping Up In Time (Digital Album, Paris DJs)

After three full-lengths with respectively The Lone Ranger, Carlton Livingston and The Silvertones, The Jays' album...

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Pepe Deluxe Go Supersonic Grant Phabao Remix

Pepe Deluxé - Go Supersonic (Grant Phabao Remix) (Digital Single, Paris DJs)

Pepe Deluxé is an inter-continental collective orchestra from Finland directed by James Spectrum (baron of Sealand) and...

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Grant Phabao Afrodyete Itchin For Your Love

Grant Phabao & AFRODYETE - Itchin' For Your Love (Digital Single, Paris DJs)

While singing & touring with The Breakestra, AFRODYETE stopped twice a Paris DJs' studios to record some new...

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Playlist

Paris DJs Playlist Janurary 2013

Paris DJs Playlist - January 2013

31 January 2013

With big outlet FNAC usual wrongdoings, which we warned about 7 years ago now, and Virgin Megastores closing, with some crookery from the distributors hiding their losses and rushing headlong into the wall, record labels are dying in France. Well not many have ever existed over here, but now they're disappearing at an accelerated speed. Warp Records was among the first ones. Numero Group, Daptone,...

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Web Design

George Clinton New Website

George Clinton Parliament Funkadelic website by Paris DJs & Ben Hito

30 January 2013

Ride on!! The new George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic website is now open at georgeclinton.com. It was cooked up by the Paris DJs team of Djouls & Ben Hito, and there's a lot of content to check about Dr Funkenstein's career and news. You may already browse a complete Discography, sorted by decades, albums, productions, featurings, family, and compilations. Photos are also sorted by...

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Digital Releases

Shawn Lee The Word Jam

Shawn Lee - The Word Jam (Digital Single, Paris DJs)

29 January 2013

From monkey boy to tiger man… Paris DJs contacted Shawn Lee last summer offering the man a spot on the Afrofunk/Tropical album project they were working on. He sent two breakbeat soundtrack funk tracks, 'The Word Jam' and 'Bushy Haired Man', which didn't really fit the proposed theme, but which they thought would make a great 2-tracker! Illustrator Ben Hito couldn't pass on designing a cool and...

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Virtual Releases

Les Freres Smith Opposite People Live At Roskilde 2012

©© Les Frères Smith - Opposite People (Live At Roskilde Festival 2012)

29 January 2013

2013 should be a busy year for the Smith family. Before releasing some long-awaited new material later this year, Les Frères Smith and Paris DJs offer you a cover of Fela Kuti's 'Opposite People' captured last summer at the amazing Roskilde Festival in Denmark. Download MP3...

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Digital Releases

Grant Phabao and The Silvertones Keep On Rolling

Grant Phabao & The Silvertones - Keep On Rolling (Digital Album, Paris DJs)

25 January 2013

'Keep On Rolling', released early 2013 on the Paris DJs label, is only The Silvertones' third album, and a celebration of a nearly 50 years-long career, with re-recordings of classic Silvertones hits such as 'Smile', 'Old Man River', or Sufferer's Child. There's also a Delroy Wilson cover, 'Better Must Come', a few new songs including 'Only Me' recorded on the 'Message To You Rudie' riddim… and...

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Virtual Releases

Paris DJs Soundsystem presents The Silvertones

Paris DJs Soundsystem presents The Silvertones 1965-1979

24 January 2013

Paris DJs is celebrating the imminent release of The Silvertones' new album 'Keep On Rolling', with a 27mn mix of their hits and past recordings, from the Ska years in the 60s (with Duke Reid at Treasure Isle), to the Roots Reggae tunes from the 70s (with Lee Perry at Black Art, or Coxsone Dodd at Studio One). After albums for rubadub deejay The Lone Ranger, or sweet & soulful reggae singer...

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Music News

Jimmy Preacher Ellis The Story Of

The Story Of Jimmy 'Preacher' Ellis 1963-1972 - out on Tramp Records

20 January 2013

Jimmy "Preacher" Ellis (not to be mistaken with the Jimmy Ellis, singer for The Trammps, who left us last year) was born in Arkansas, grew up in Seattle and is now living in Texas. In the 60s he released two handfuls of soul 45s, from blues, R&B and proto-funk to psychedelic funk and seventies soul, for labels such as Jewel, Space, Kris and Romark. Most of the tracks from this...

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Digital Releases

Grant Phabao and The Jays Stepping Up In Time EP

Grant Phabao & The Jays - Stepping Up In Time EP (Digital Single, Paris DJs)

16 January 2013

Being in the business for almost 40 years, The Jays are now back, as fresh as ever, ready to hit the charts with their new single, Stepping Up In Time, available in two versions, a roots one drop reggae tearing up the dancehalls, or a funk/rock rework for the less dready - both produced & engineered by Grant Phabao. The full-length album Stepping Up In Time is now ready to be released,...

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Best Of

Paris DJs Best Of 2012 Albums

Paris DJs presents The 10 Best Albums of 2012

03 January 2013

This entry concludes our 'best of 2012' series with a selection of our 10 favorite albums of the year. Hands down, The Souljazz Orchestra ruled with their totally ridiculous album - and yep, 'ridiculous' means it's really great!. Not far behind, the Paris DJs Soundsystem compilation follows, and from Australia Papa Chango complete the podium. Those 3 albums have all in common their modern...

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Best Of

Paris DJs Best Of 2012 Contenders

Paris DJs presents The 20 Contenders Albums of 2012

03 January 2013

10 best albums for 2012 was really hard to pin down. We had to leave a lot of very good record on the side. That's totally unacceptable with all the amazing goodies we received every month during the past year. Which is why we decided to select 20 more superb albums from 2012. The contenders!...

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