Boddie Recording Company : Cleveland, Ohio (Numero Group) info
Brand New Wayo - Funk, Fast Times & Nigerian Boogie Badness 1979-1983 (Comb & Razor Sound) info
Dee Dee, Barry & The Movements - Soul Hour (Sonorama) info
Ebo Taylor - Life Stories - Highlife & Afrobeat Classics 1973-1980 (Strut) info
Father's Children - Who's Gonna Save The World (Numero Group) info
Phish - Hampton/Winston Salem '97 (Phish Dry Goods) info
Rail Band - Buffet Hotel de la Gare (Superfly) info
The Lijadu Sisters - Danger (Knitting Factory) info
The Original Sound of Cumbia - The History of Colombian Cumbia & Porro As Told By The Phonograph 1948-79 (Soundway) info
True Soul 4LP Boxset (Now-Again) info

Hot on the heels of releasing a 45 re-edit of the now lengendary Brand New Wayo track from Nigerian band Mixed Grill, and a fifth volume of the limited promo 12 inch series Afro Disco Boogie Edits from the GUYNAMUKAT production team, Nik Weston will be playing this thursday at the Jazz Attitudes party in Paris. "A venture into afro bizness featuring some rare tracks from the holy grail Mixed Grill album plus a lovely track from the recent Ebo Taylor album and a smattering of unreleased GUYNAMUKAT afro edits" was the pitch of this mix posted on mixcloud earlier this year. Here's the...

Various - Our Latin Thing (Nuestra Cosa) - 40th Anniversary Limited Edition
(2CD+DVD/2LP+DVD/Digital) Strut Records STRUT088CD /STRUT088LP, 2011-10-24

Strut Records, in association with Fania, are proud to announce the 40th Anniversary Edition of the landmark feature film that captured New York's legendary early '70s Latin music scene at its zenith, Our Latin Thing (Nuestra Cosa). Filmed around a live all-star concert by the Fania All-Stars at one of promoter Ralph Mercado's fantastically popular Thursday night jams at the Cheetah, the film transports the viewer right back to a heady night on August 26, 1971. At the time, there had been little documentation of the burgeoning salsa scene in New York, despite its massive popularity. Video was still crude and film was expensive to shoot. However, Fania founder Jerry Masucci had a vision of taking New York Latin music from the barrio to the world, and put the money up to make the movie. The result is pure dynamite. The salsa of the early '70s had it all - Africa, the Caribbean, the Spanish language, the technical skills of jazz, the kinetic push and pull of great dance music, brilliant improvisations by both singers and drummers, and, most importantly, a community right behind it - mostly, but not entirely, Puerto Rican. Our Latin Thing (Nuestra Cosa) will be released as a 3-disc set: the film DVD, packaged together with Live at the Cheetah, Vol.1 & Vol.2 featuring the music from the film across two CDs, including previously unreleased bonus tracks.

Grant Phabao and Djouls - Cosmic Tropical Disco 2 Echoes Edits & Covers of Disco, Soul & Afro Boogie (MP3 Podcast on www.ParisDJs.com) T.I.M.E.C., 2011-08-01 The Disco/Nu-Disco Re-Edit scene is just exploding, with blogs and soundcloud pages popping up everyday with tasty extended grooves... We've already paid a global tribute to this with the highly successful first volume of Cosmic Tropical Disco, here's the follow-up, months in the making. With respect due to Betino's, Le Silence de la Rue & Superfly Records, for keeping on providing quality vinyls in Paris, and to Comb &...

Norman Jay MBE presents Good Times 30th Anniversary Edition
(CD/Vinyl/Download) Strut Records STRUT080, 2011-07-19

Norman Jay started with his brother Joey the Good Times Sound System 30 years ago... I vividly remember the 1997 compilation, Gilles Peterson & Norman Jay - Desert Island Mix, one of the first eclectic ones I bought. After the amazement of 1995's Journeys By DJ: Coldcut - 70 Minutes Of Madness I thought I was in for another trippy voyage. Deeply into music, I must admit that the whole rare groove / club classics DJ thing felt like one of the most boring experience I could find, as compared to Phish concerts that were happening in small venues in Europe at the time, for example. Daft Punk also started to "happen" at that time, and, in comparison, it really was the shittiest stuff you could find: re-named re-mixes of old disco clubby tracks. One kind was music, the other was soooo cheap... Well, the same way you can't compare McDonald's with real food, you can't compare dance music with jazz... Years later I'm finally starting to listen to some selected pieces of dance music such as disco (especially the ones coming from the re-edit scene), modern soul or souful deep house, but I still can't understand what the fuck!? with Daft Punk and many others in the same vein... Norman Jay, like most of the european DJs, must have missed the whole American scene from the last 20 years, but that didn't stop him from releasing more than a dozen superb and eclectic compilations, including 9 volumes of the Good Times series which present the music he's been playing at London's famous Notting Hill Carnival (vol.1 to vol.7 + Good Times London and Good Times Australia). This new compilation celebrates Norman Jay's 30 years of residency at this summer festival, and... well it's pure killer stuff. It's not psychedelic, mind-expanding music. It's not delicate bossa or hyped-now African funk. It's not revolutionnary at all. It's disco, soul, deep house, reggae, jazz and hip hop. Timeless club and festival grooves and vibes, from one of the British experts of the genre. And definitively one for the summer - that's been playing on repeat on my stereo!!

Various - Horse Meat Disco III
(2xCD/2xLP/Digital) Strut Records STRUT01CD/LP, 2011-07-04

Acclaimed London DJ collective HORSE MEAT DISCO return in June with the third instalment in their essential compilation series bringing together rare disco, '80s boogie, electro, fresh edits and all-new dancefloor discoveries. Mixed by resident DJs James Hillard, Jim Stanton, Severino and Filthy Luka, this new edition packs in 28 incendiary tracks for guaranteed dancefloor heaven. If you've been diggin' recent Paris DJs mixes Cosmic Tropical Disco or Onur Engin Guest Mix then you should dig this new mix project from these other extended disco maniacs... Both CDs are expertfully mixed, the first one, with a selection of contemporary nu-disco productions and disco re-edits, is nothing short of amazing, while the second aims for the more classic modern soul, mid-tempo disco kind of stuff, maybe a bit too cheesy/80s for my own taste... [P.S. THE ANTI-PIRACY MESSAGES MIXED IN THE MUSIC SAYING THIS IS A PROMO COPY ARE 100% IRRITATING!!]

SOUL TRAIN présente
DENNIS COFFEY Live / DJ Lord Funk
A Tribute to Detroit & Motown Sounds

JEUDI 22 JUIN 2011 à partir de 21H à La Bellevilloise

DENNIS COFFEY à La Bellevilloise! Le guitariste légendaire de la MOTOWN et des TEMPTATIONS vient à Paris pour un hommage appuyé à la scène de DETROIT, Le temple de la SOUL & de la MOTOWN. Il vient de sortir un nouvel album sur STRUT, le label défricheur le plus audacieux en rares grooves et afro soul.

Le DENNIS COFFEY AFTER SHOW se prolongera par un TRIBUTE TO DETROIT & MOTOWN Sounds from Soul to Hip Hop... par LORD FUNK, le DJ Soul Funk fournisseur des Djs producteurs Hip Hop des plus emblématiques Kenny Dope, Muggs, Pete Rock, Q Tip ou encore Questlove.

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Nigeria 70 - Sweet Times - Afro-Funk, Highlife & Juju From 1970s Lagos
(CD/2xLP/Digital) Strut Records, 2011-05-10

Strut announce the return of their pioneering Nigeria 70 compilation series with an exclusive new third volume: Sweet Times: Afro Funk, Highlife & Juju from 1970s Lagos compiled again by series curator Duncan Brooker. Excavating another choice batch of rare grooves from Nigeria's label archives, the new edition places the spotlight on some of the deeper fusions happening across the country during the 1970s as traditional guitar highlife blended with jazz and funk, hypnotic juju grooves became more progressive and young Nigerian bands came through with their own heavy West African take on U.S. soul, funk, disco and rock.

Dennis Coffey - Dennis Coffey
(CD/2xLP/Digital) Strut Records STRUT075CD/LP, 2011-04-25

Strut are proud to announce a priority release for 2011, the new studio album by Detroit guitar legend, Dennis Coffey. Guitarist of choice for major artists as diverse as Del Shannon, Funkadelic and The Temptations, Coffey was a member of the original Motown 'Funk Brothers' backing band and was key in bringing heavy wah wah guitar to soul and R&B during the late '60s. The canon of classics featuring Coffey's work is immense - from Temptations' 'Ball Of Confusion' and 'Cloud Nine' to Edwin Starr's 'War' and Freda Payne's 'Band Of Gold', the list is a roll-call of classic soul and R&B landmarks. As a solo artist, Coffey is perhaps best known for a series of rare groove classics during the early '70s including the million-selling breakbeat staple 'Scorpio' and soundtrack to cult action flick 'Black Belt Jones'. Alongside producer Mike Theodore, his '70s 'Theo-Coff' productions and his prolific guitar work ranged from raw funk to classic disco, including CJ & Co's 'Devil's Gun' and The Sylvers' 'Boogie Fever'. For 2011, Dennis Coffey's new self-titled album is a revelation, a dense, fuzz-heavy haze of incendiary psychedelic soul. Much of the set recalls the sentiments of earlier solo work such as his seminal, trippy 'Hair 'N' Thangs' album...

We've been spreading the gospel about Ghanean singer/guitarist Ebo Taylor for years now. Some lucky ones were there at the 2009 show we produced for Ebo at La Bellevilloise. The others should definitively check all the upcoming live dates in June... Ebo Taylor released at the end of 2010 a new album, Love And Death, and his label Strut Records followed this release with a double anthology of Highlife & Afrobeat Classics, covering the years from 1973 to 1980, Life Stories, which you absolutely NEED to get/buy/download/hear/etc!! Here's a track extracted from this compilation to download...