funk
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A new track from electronic music producer Matthew Dear, “Headcage.” The first time I heard of this guy was when he dropped Black City last year. From the sound of this new track, it looks like we’re in for more funky, dark new wave tracks with lots of great
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Anybody Can Be Cool…But Awesome Takes Practice by Pig Pen New beat tape from Detroit producer Pig Pen. I’m currently three tracks into this thing, and I’ve got to say this dude is pretty diverse. The swirling, electronic keyboards are a fun and surprising switch from the
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From the people over at Scion, grab a free download–well, you give out your e-mail address–of the new King Khan EP, the King Khan Experience. It’s an aggressive meld of garage rock, funk, and soul. Play these tracks and get ready to break stuff and make love.
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This compilation features 15 cuts from a time span of several years in Nigeria’s musical history. It was a time when Phonodisk, a record label looking to engineer hits, started promoting Nigerian bands playing with some sounds that were big in the West at the time: disco and funk.
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The trailer above is no joke. What you’re seeing is real. It’s a 15-track compilation of Nigerian funk, disco, and boogie music recorded in the late 70s and early 80s. Some of these tracks sound like they could have been huge hits in the U.S. if they
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On the video for “Unbroken, Unshaven,” the Budos Band sets its music to visuals I could only dream of ’til today. As soon as two bandito-looking dudes get into a dueling stance, the video is nothing but bullets, cards, facial hair, and pretty ladies. And I’ve seen enough James
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Flamingoh (Pink Bird Dawn) by Debo Band The Debo Band is Boston collective with an undying love for the vintage sounds of Ethiopian funk. The group’s latest EP is a series of live cuts recording during a tour through East Africa with another band. The four recordings on this
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<a href=”http://mentalgroove.bandcamp.com/album/imperial-tiger-orchestra-mercato” _mce_href=”http://mentalgroove.bandcamp.com/album/imperial-tiger-orchestra-mercato”>IMPERIAL TIGER ORCHESTRA – Mercato by Mental Groove</a> Switzerland’s Imperial Tiger Orchestra has just dropped its debut full-length, Mercato, and the world couldn’t be in more need of
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LAYS THE BOOGIE DOWN by WHITE RAINBOW It’s a new trio of songs from drone, psych, experimental, pop, electronic, almost-every-genre-ever artist White Rainbow. These tracks were built with loop upon loop with no overdubs. The album is titled Lays the Boogie Down, so it should be no surprise that
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On their latest LP bring a lotta tunes with little cohesion. There’s a kinda shaky love song theme linking some of these tracks together, but it doesn’t stop tracks like “No Future Shock” from jumping in out of nowhere. I enjoy quite a few of the tracks here,
