Anthony Joseph & The Spasm Band - Rubber Orchestras (Heavenly Sweetness) info | mix 1 | mix 2
Bio Ritmo - La Verdad (Electric Cowbell) info | mix
Charles Bradley - No Time For Dreaming (Dunham/Daptone) info | video
Garage à Trois - Always Smile but Stay Evil (The Royal Potato Family) info | interview
Lucas Santtana - Sem Nostalgia (Mais Um Discos) info
Mr. Chop - Switched On (Now-Again) info & discography
Ocote Soul Sounds - Taurus (ESL) info | remix
Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra - World Of Funk (Ubiquity) info | interview
The Greg Foat Group - Dark is The Sun (Jazzman) info | interview | mix
The Natural Yogurt Band - Tuck In With... (Now-Again) info | mix | interview

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - Soul Time!
(CD/LP/Digital) Daptone Records DAP024, 2011-10-31

Sharon Jones, former Lee Fields backing vocalist, will be releasing her 5th funk/soul album on Daptone Records on october 31st, with The Dap-Kings, the label's house band, backing her once again. The new record is a collection of rare tracks and b-sides. Genuine pt.1&2 is taken from a 2004 seven inch, and the all-so-true-ringing What If We All Stopped Paying Taxes? from a 2002 one. There's also the exclusive track Longer And Stronger, previously available on the For Colored Girls soundtrack from 2010. He Said I Can was an iTunes bonus track for the previous album I Learned The Hard Way and should be released in october on a Daptone 7 inch (with the exclusive It Hurts To Be Alone on the b-side). I'm Not Gonna Cry was featured on the Daptone Gold compilation from 2009. When I Come Home was on a 45 from 2010 given for free with pre-orders of I Learned The Hard Way and also available as a bonus MP3 download with purchase of the same album in digital form on DaptoneRecords.com. If buying on Amazon, you got Without A Trace as a bonus track. Settling In was the b-side of the 100 Days, 100 Nights 7 inch from 2008. Ain't No Chimneys was Daptone's 2009 christmas 45. The closing Inspiration Information, a Shuggie Otis cover, was to be found on the Dark Was The Night compilation from the Red Hot organization, released in 2009. So the only new track seems to be the Motwon-esque New Shoes, which also sounds like a lost soul classic, like the rest of the album. Is this compilation an essential addition to your funk/soul collection? Definitively. Don't hesitate. And stay connected, we'll soon publish an interview of your favorite soul sister in those pages...

El Rego - El Rego
(CD/LP+7"/Digital) Daptone Records DAP023, 2011-10-03

El Rego is a true legend of African Soul Music, he was one of the main Afro-Funk performers in Benin, West Africa, alongside the Orchestre Poly-Rythmo. His top of the range, tough Afro Funk doesn't really get any better. Here for the first time on album are 12 of his greatest recordings from the late '60s and early '70s hand-picked by Daptone Records. CD version includes a nice booklet with El Rego's own story of his life and music, along with pictures from his personal collection and artwork from his original 45's. The music has been remastered with great care, and the vinyl contains an exclusive bonus 45'of Se Na Min, one of his most sought after afro-funk tracks.

Charles Bradley - No Time For Dreaming: The Instrumentals
Played by Menahan Street Band
(LP) Daptone Records/Dunham Records DAP025/DUM 1002, 2011-08-02

After the instrumental version of Lee Fields's My World masterpiece, here's the sequel you were all waiting for, the instrumental version of Charles Bradley's No Time For Dreaming. Guaranteed 100% pure sunshine instrumental soul from Brooklyn, USA - and available on vinyl!! Press release says: "12 DYNAMITE tracks of unstoppable instrumentality. These hypnotic hymns - played oh so skillfully by Brooklyn's premier SUPER group, Menahan Street Band, promises to be the consummate summer soundtrack for all you hip cats and kittens".

Big Pimp Jones - 21st Century Blaxploitation Vol.3 (MP3 Podcast on ParisDJs.com) 2011-05-05 Philadelphia's Big Pimp Jones have become quite big on the 21st Blaxploitation tip, with their two funky soundtracks to Blaxploitation movies that dont exist. They loved our previous mixes on the same theme (vol.1 and vol.2) - "Those first two volumes are super-dope, we are fans of your stuff as well, that's really nice work on the Black Cat mixtape. I'd be honored to throw a volume 3 together!" said Keith Foster from Big Pimp Jones. His mix is fun & funky, keeping the 21st century...

DJ Chicken George - Peddlin' 45s for Paris Mix (MP3 Podcast on www.ParisDJs.com) 2011-04-04 DJ Chicken George lives in Austin, Texas, and was introduced to us by his friend Martin Perna (aka Ocote Soul Sounds, founder of Antibalas and co-founder of the Dap-Kings). He plays Jazztronica, a unique style incorporating and fusing diverse genres of music. He's released 2 EPs, DJ Chicken George Presents: The Swed.u.s.h Connection 1 & 2, on the world renowned, Stockholm-based label, Swedish Brandy, and felt quite honored to have his Brownout Mix featured on Paris DJs, since he had been a fan of...

Paris DJs Soundsystem - In The Footsteps of the Ethio-Jazz Innovator (MP3 Podcast on www.ParisDJs.com) T.I.M.E.C., 2011-02-27 Next thursday evening in Paris will be a BIG date at La Bellevilloise, thanks to our friends from the Soul Train parties, who produce an Ethio Jazz Night with Strut... featuring Mulatu Astake and The Heliocentrics playing live!! You DON'T want to miss this show and as an appetizer here's a small tribute to the father of Ethio-Jazz, on the 21st century side of the genre and beyond. [comment faire?/how to?] Tracklisting : 01. The Gaslamp Killer - When I'm In Awe (feat....

Charles Bradley - No Time For Dreaming
(CD/LP/Download) Daptone Records DAP-022, 2011-01-24

It's taken just two short years for Dunham Records - an imprint of Daptone Records - to establish itself as one of the most captivating creative forces in soul music. The brainchild of guitarist/producer Thomas "Tommy TNT" Brenneck, Dunham's indelibly atmospheric sound is epitomized by its flagship artist, Menahan Street Band. After releasing a handful of crucial 45s, Dunham Records prepares to enter the next phase of its evolution with the debut album of its inaugural vocalist, Charles Bradley.

Charles Bradley's voice has evolved from a lifetime of paying dues, having nomadically labored for decades at various day jobs from Maine to Alaska - singing and performing in his spare time - before re-settling in his hometown Brooklyn and eventually finding a musical home at Dunham. In his distinctively rough-hewn timbre one hears the unmistakable voice of experience - each note and gruff inflection a reflection of his extended, sometimes rocky, personal path. It's only fitting that No Time For Dreaming's producer Brenneck (also a member of The Dap-Kings and The Budos Band) would recognize in Bradley a kindred musical spirit - a singer whose performances exude both raw power and poignant beauty. Recorded at Dunham Studios, and mixed at Daptone Records' internationally revered "House of Soul" Studios, No Time For Dreaming is the inspired sound of an awakening.

Charles Bradley - The World (Is Going Up In Flames)
Official video taken from the album No Time For Dreaming to be released january 25th on Daptone

The Budos Band - III
(CD/LP) Daptone Records, 2010-08-10

It's official, people. On August 10, 2010, Daptone Records will release The Budos Band III, the long-awaited follow-up to 2007's The Budos Band II, one of the most played bands in our Paris DJs mixes. Conceived during weekly, beer-fueled writing sessions in their dank Staten Island rehearsal space, sharpened to a fine point on the road – more than 150 live gigs over the last two years – and recorded during an intensely productive 48 hour period in January 2010, The Budos Band III is chock full of the type of tough sonic nuggets that have long earned The Budos Band the title, "the quintessence of Staten Island soul". The first single is the afro-rock burner, Unbroken, Unshaven. Download the free Mp3 here.