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2017. With pop music's volume knob adjusted for deflation in the early '70s, softness begat smoothness. Crewmen arrived from the worlds of jazz, folk, rock and soul, all peddling a product that was sincere, leisurel..
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2008. 30 years since they meekly flopped out their 1st 7" single, Kansas City's TITAN Records finally returns to record bins everywhere in a deluxe 2CD retrospective. From 1978-1981, the Titan label issued only..
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2012. The ultimate fantasy low-rider soul collection. Nineteen tracks cruise through soaring falsettos, luminous harmonies, and sweeping strings, all cultivated from pristine original master tapes. Tracked in Silver..
RAGLAND LOU
2012. O'Jays road manager, Don King prison chauffer, window washer, house painter, Ink Spot, Domino, producer, engineer, label owner and onetime steward of a coveted Jet Magazine delivery route, LOU RAGLAND is Cleve..
CODEINE
2012. From 1990-1994, New York City's Codeine were making somnambulant waves on a musical landscape reeling from Sub Pop's better known exports. 1991's Frigid Stars LP, 1992's Barely Real, and 1994's The White Birch..
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2013. 'Solid Bronze'. In the spirit of the Great Radio Comp, we present WTNG 89.9 FM - Solid Bronze, in tribute to 11 would-be chart-climbers that scaled only their given citys broadcast tower and fell. Here are wor..
HOWE CATHERINE
2008. Produced by legendary jazz pianist Bobby Scott, here's a pastoral blend of English countryside folk & London orchestral pop, not unlike Nick Drake's 'Bryter Layter' or Bridget Saint John's 'Songs For a Gen..
FATHER'S CHILDREN
2011. Hailing from the Adams-Morgan neighborhood in Washington DC, in '73 Nick Smith, Billy Sumler, & Ted "Skeet" Carpenter created a lost document of gritty soul, concerned with its own time and place..
SOUNDTRACK
2008. He was a pusher who became a preacher. A gangster pimp serving soup from the trunk of his Coup Deville. A mutant cross between Robin Hood and Friar Tuck. Everyman, our man on the street, Brotherman. Continuing..
PISCES
2009. 1969's 'A Lovely Sight', Pisces' only attempt at an LP, never made wax; but the fuzz guitar phrases and tambourine shuffle of 'Dear One' instantly illustrate the band's woozy realm. Deeper inside, bass scales ..
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2010. Over the course of 7 years & over 70 releases from the acclaimed archival label The Numero Group a fan began to create a mega-mix of his favorite loops, breaks, & vocal snippets, chopping them all up &..
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2008. The second in this series of exploring the pan-American funk experience is a deep overview of Funky Nassaus redheaded sister city, Freeport, GBI. From 1969-76 Frank Penns GBI studio & label cranked out a d..
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2011. Far from the twin epicenters of New York and Miami, Carlos Ruiz and his Ebirac label were both feeling and generating the aftershocks of the mid-70s salsa boom. Holed up in their own bustling Puerto Rican comm..
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2008. The 5th stop on the Eccentric Soul train finds us digging through the photo albums & tape libraries of Phoenix, AZ's 2nd family of soul. Enter producer/songwriter Mike Lenaburg & his ramshackle "s..
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2009. Smart's Palace was anything but royal, however, between 1963-75 the club held court for the entire Wichita soul scene. At its heart was Dick Smart, bassist, club owner, DJ, record store owner, promoter, & ..
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2008. . . . Deep city'. - 2cd. This serves to color in the spaces left open by its predecessor. In addition to 7 previously unreleased tra..
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2008. This tiny imprint released less than a dozen singles between 1969-73, but one look at their archives says the tape never stopped rolling. Included are 4 previously unreleased masters & a slew of demos. 19 ..
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2008. By 1967, East St. Louis, Illinois, once dubbed an "All American" city by the US Chamber Of Commerce, had become St. Louis, Missouri's evil twin. Unemployment, drug addiction & vicious gang activi..
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2008. It's a genre in the same way that 'deep soul', 'freakbeat' or 'acid folk' is, created by collectors & enthusiasts as a way to define a subsection. This is a mix of primitive choirs, spacious breaks, congas..
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2008. 'The ABC's of Kid Soul'. This 16th record in Numero's 'Library of the Lost', looks at the unknown side of the early 70s kid soul revolution. Beyond the Osmonds, the Five Stairsteps & the Brighter Side Of D..
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2010. 22 tracks. The second in Numero's series of peeks into the world of regional studios hones in on Mickey Rouse's Lowland operation out of Beaumont, Texas. Long after the Boppers plane crashed and the Winter bro..
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2008. Between 1975-81, a group of American ex-pats took the native sounds of their Detroit & Chicago homes, combined them with the message of the Israeli Black Hebrew culture & declared Dimona the center of ..