Lp cut with a funky message from Chuck Brown and the boys

Soul Searchers - We The People  (UF's DJ Edit)

Dj Spinna - Rock

The Getup are more than your average Hammond Funk outfit and this track proves it. A bubbling bass line kicks the track into a killer up tempo funk groove, having you reaching for the volume knob to crank it up as the first verse bursts out.  The track takes on a whole new dimension as the chorus reveals a four-on-the-floor solid dance groove, with Jamiroqui-esque tasty chord changes, and then the horns stab us back into the next verse.  A percussive, reverberant Hammond solo takes us into a drum break that is DJ and sampler's heaven, before the tunes rounds out with a double chorus and ends on more punchy stabs……. a midtempo vocal workout showcasing the sheer musicality of the band…….funk of the highest order!

The Getup - What If? 2 45

This 12-minute ‘Battle Suite’, composed and arranged by The Souljazz Orchestra, was commissioned by the House of PainT Festival for its 10th anniversary Main EvenT. 

The piece was performed and recorded live during the Bboy Battle Final on September 14th, 2013. Mixed and mastered at Metropolitan Studios.

Full audio and video of the event can be viewed here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-31RvtyxsDo

Track listing:
Let Me Clear My Throat – DJ Kool
Mother Popcorn - James Brown
The Champ – The Mohawks
Apache – Incredible Bongo Band
Don’t Sweat The Technique – Eric B & Rakim
African Battle – Manu Dibango
Organ Donor – DJ Shadow
Underdog – Sly & The Family Stone
Scorpio – Dennis Coffey
Agoya – The Souljazz Orchestra
Yegelle Tezeta – Mulatu Astatke
Police Woman Theme – Henry Mancini
Funky Nassau – Beginning of the End
24 Carat Black – 24 Carat Black
Shaft In Africa – Johnny Pate
Resurrection – The Souljazz Orchestra

www.houseofpaint.ca 

The Souljazz Orchestra Battle Suite

Back in September 2007, Freestyle Records released ´Black Feeling´ an album project brought to life by Australian musical supremo Lance Ferguson (The Bamboos, Cookin´ On 3 Burners, Lanu) 

Each track was presented under a pseudonym to give the impression of an album you would find whilst digging in a Caribbean record shop or American thrift store. As a collection of reworked classics, the album set dance floors alight across the world, indeed, the single ´Hippy Skippy Moon Strut´ by The Mighty Show-Stoppers became a huge selling 12 inch, and also notched up well over 350,000 individual viewings on You Tube to date!

Now in 2011, Freestyle Records is pleased as punch to be releasing this teaser 45 single that features 2 cuts from the forthcoming follow up album ´Black Feeling: Volume Two´ (FSRCD/LP090) and what total corkers they are too!

The A side is Lance & Co´s fantastic reworking of the anthemic ´Burning Spear´ under the moniker of The Poly-Tones, an intense and driving piece of soulful funk, and what could possibly equal that for the flip side? The Mighty Show-Stoppers giving Johnnie Pate´s blaxploitation soundtrack classic ´Shaft In Africa´ such a convincing and wonderful re-working, you will think you are back in time, on the film set whilst Richard Roundtree (that's John Shaft to you sucker!) kicks some serious ass!   
 

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The Mighty Show-Stoppers - Shaft In Africa

SEXY  (ORCHESTRAL-Dance-Funky)

This is one heavy slab of dirty funk.

The a-side is an absolute BRASS monster of a track titled "Harrow."  A cut that gallops from the first hits of the snare drum to the blaring sounds of horns, ultimately making our aural universe a better place.  The b-side, titled "Nautilus (Hijacked)," is an instrumental cover of sorts, containing recreated hooks from "Nautilus" (Bob James) and "Hijack" (Enoch Light), which were famously sampled by Slick Rick (Children's Story) and The Beatnuts (Watch Out Now) among others.  

BAND INFO:  This is the second 45 on the Kept Records label by Breakdown Brass, young veterans of Brooklyn’s soul and funk scene — its members tour and record with Antibalas, Sharon Jones & the Dap‐Kings,Charles Bradley, Lee Fields, Monophonics, Ikebe Shakedown, Slavic Soul Party & many others



Nautilus (Hijacked)

Manzel - Space Funk

The Ogyatanaa Show Band – Disco Africa, edited.
Hope you Enjoy!


The Ogyatanaa Show Band - Disco Africa (popcornreborn edit) 320 Free DL

Another old edit for the BBoys out there, stay tuned for a new one soon!

<a href='https://theartistunion.com/tracks/5b8bfd'>Download for free on The Artist Union</a>

dL edits

Funky Music Is The Thing (dL BBoy edit)

B side of the 'Move No Mountains' 7" released on july 27th '12. 

A Nu-Funk remix of Laura Vane & The Vipertones’ original track 110%. Draaikolk (aka bass player Ton van der Kolk) gives an extra twist of funk, adding Phil Martin’s rolling drums, pumping bass and a touch of Marco Hijl’s magic on tenor sax to keep pleasing dance floor demand.

This 7“ is a total must-have for the summer of 2012 but versatile enough to lift those rainy days that need some brightening up!

Manzel - Space Funk

S-A