Name: Spice feat. Bunny Davis - Sweet Norma Jones by DocFunkenstein in dope
Duration: 2 min 21 s
Description: 70's Soul, uplifting and sweet. It is a real disgrace that this single was only available as a promo in the year 1974. The Spice Girls would go green with envy if they heard this one :)

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Erykah Badu - On & On (Booty Fade Remix)

© 2013 Secret Stash Records (uploaded with permission)

While Secret Stash has been in the business for several years releasing a number of gems ranging from the soul of America to reggae takes on Miles Davis and acoustic Peruvian folk music, they are now focusing some effort on new music as well. Longtime Secret Stash fans rest easy, though. They are still going to continue to mine the vaults the world over to find long-forgotten but essential music.

One of their first new music releases is coming out this September courtesy of Black Market Brass. The band and label both hail from Minneapolis. Secret Stash, which has a very DIY approach to their label, often hosts record-release assembly parties where the local community is invited to come to their offices and assemble the records and album sleeves in return for pizza and beer. It was through several of these that Eric Foss, VP of Marketing and Sales for Secret Stash, met Mitch Sigurdson, one of the founding members of the band.

Sigurdson assembled some friends and local talent to play a variety of styles, often Ghanian highlife and funk. Per Foss, “I think it took a little while for them to realize that they play Afrobeat as well or better than most of the bands out there doing it today. I watched as they transitioned from playing spot-on covers of Fela and Tony Allen to writing their own material.”

This past April, the band headed to the studio to record some original material. Coincidentally, the band picked up a new baritone sax player, Cole Pulice, who was already working with Sonny Knight & the Lakers and Dérobé Dance Band, bands whose original material also will be seeing releases from the label. In a single afternoon, they cut the two tracks heard on the upcoming 45.

“Snake Oil Man” is heavy Nigerian madness. You can bet that it’s no beginners luck. Check out the flip side, “Big Muffler," on Secret Stash’s SoundCloud page (https://soundcloud.com/secretstashrecords/black-market-brass-big-muffler). If this is their first swing at the genre, you can expect some exciting material in the future from Black Market Brass who has enough original material already for a full LP.

We reached out to Pierre Chrétien from Souljazz Orchestra, who knows his way around an Afrobeat tune, to hear his thoughts on the band’s sound. Says Chrétien, “It sounds amazing. Definitely no lack of sweat and stink here!” No disagreements here.


Black Market Brass "Snake Oil Man"

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The Mighty Sceptres - Siren Call

70's Soul, uplifting and sweet. It is a real disgrace that this single was only available as a promo in the year 1974. The Spice Girls would go green with envy if they heard this one :)

Spice feat. Bunny Davis - Sweet Norma Jones

We were lucky enough to be given a chance to do our own take on this killer jam by Jungle fire. The cut is a great cover of Comencemos by Phirpo y sus Caribes, which is in itself a re-imagining of Fela's Let's Start. We took it partway back to Fela with and made sure to keep the dancefloor in mind.

Shout to Brandon Collins on drums!

Click the buy link or go here to cop;
http://junglefiremusic.bandcamp.com/track/comencemos-whiskey-barons-rework

Jungle Fire - Comencemos (whiskey barons rework)

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Spotify: http://spoti.fi/1GR54Ps


Luv N’Haight presents Lost Soul; a comprehensive collection of material recorded by Geater Davis for the House Of Orange label. The name of the album is an accurate description of the life and career of the legendary blues and soul singer who passed away at age 38 while on the verge of breaking through.

Geater Davis’ career began in Texas but with the success of a few regional hits he was able to go to Shreveport and all throughout the South. He was always on the move looking for a better chance, keeping his career alive and the “big break” so many artists look for. Just weeks after moving to Dallas he suffered a heart attack and a few weeks later died from heart failure on the day he was supposed to record a session. Although he didn’t find the success he sought while he was alive, his legacy is secure as one of the finest blues-soul singers of the 1970’s.

Geater Davis : My Love Is So Strong For You

The Lions - Roll It 'Round feat. Black Shakespeare [2013]

16 rare tropical groove tracks compiled by Mambo & Guts 
Available on CD , Double LP Gatefold ( included download Postal card with exclusive mix by DJ Damage@Jazz Liberatorz ) 
Collector T Shirt Edition ....
Cover Art by Mambo 
Ref : Heavenly Sweetness HS090 
Contact : puravidamusic@gmail.com

To pre-order now Beach Diggin' and download immediately an exclusive 50' mix of the compilation by DJ DAMAGE of Jazz Liberatorz, please click here : http://bit.ly/1bnvbbn

Beach Diggin' promo Tour ( DJ Set + Live percussion ) :
14/06 : Toulouse@Connexion 
21/06 : Bernières Sur Mer@Au Père Tranquille ( Normandie )
22/06 : Lyon @ La Marquise
26/06 : Paris@New Morning 
29/06 : Vanosc@La Bringue de la Fressange ( Ardèche )
05/07 : Paris@Pan Piper

Guts, a producer exiled in Ibiza, and Mambo, a Los-Angeles-based painter, have been lounging on the shore with the sound of the waves lapping in the background as they sift through the vinyl for their Beach Diggin’ collection. Far, far from the mouldy-smelling, lightless cellars where record hunters usually hang out. Diggin’ disks as others dig beaches, because getting your hands on a good vinyl, its grooves virtually unexplored, is like stumbling on a dazzling expanse of virgin sand.
Guts and Mambo have little time for the idea that Brazilians have to play bossa nova, Cubans must salsa and a Jamaican has to be into reggae. They sniff around the blind spots away from the beaches packed with noisy tourists and come up with Italians who beat out Afro rhythms, West Indians who lay down earth-shaking dub beats, and Trinidadians who unleash funk laced with lots of brass. Not to mention Peruvians, Frenchies and even Spaniards who can recreate the atmosphere of a humid, totally torrid sixties Rio party.
On the seafront, Guts and Mambo have put together a 16-track playlist that is hip without being elitist, guided by the highest standards and unwavering principles of sun, escapism, the good life and nothing below 25°C.
Seventeen tracks are stamped on the pages of the record’s passport - boss nova, soul, jazz, latin, afro-funk and tropical -, souvenirs of travels through North and Latin America, Africa, Europe and the Caribbean islands.
Intoxicating tunes, radiant rhythms, velveteen vocals: Beach Diggin’ is for sipping through a straw, wiggling your hips and shaking your pelvis to, and it’s made to bring bodies into friction.

PRE ORDER NOW!

Beach Diggin' Snippet by GUTS (out on June 23rd)

A new song for my Father from my upcoming album 'Where Does This Door Go', out July 16.  Pre-order 'Where Does This Door Go': http://myplay.me/11hf

Produced by Pharrell Williams

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