Tag: Funk
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‘Suzie Super Groupie’ from 1976 is one of Walter ‘Junie’ Morrison’s masterpieces, an inspiration for DJs and hip hop producers – the much sampled father of funk is reissued by Be With Records
Walter ‘Junie’ Morrison released his third solo LP, Suzie Super Groupie, in 1976 and is yet another essential album reissue from Be With Records this month. The killer Suzie Thundertussy is a favourite of taste makers like DJ Harvey, Theo Parrish and was brilliantly sampled by Madlib for Kanye West’s No More Parties In LA.…
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Billy Brooks’ crucially sampled and sought after classic will be reissued by Wewantsounds – featuring instantly recognisable loop for A Tribe Called Quest
This is a much needed quality reissue of Billy Brooks’ classic LP Windows of the Mind by French label Wewantsounds – OGs change hands for hundreds of dollars and this revive is fully licensed and remastered. Billy Brooks was a reliable session musician playing throughout the 1950s and into the early ’70s, playing with the…
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Sharhabil Ahmed is once again crowned ‘The King of Sudanese Jazz’ – on Habibi Funk compilation released next month – it’s jazz, but not as you may know it!
The 13th release from the tastemakers at Habibi Funk is another example from the golden age of Sudanese music – Sharhabil Ahmed’s musical excursions, on a compilation entitled The King of Sudanese Jazz. Sharhabil won the actual title of ‘The King…’ in a competition in the early 1970s. Put your expectations of jazz to one…
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Mr Bongo to reissue “one of the best” Afrobeat albums of the great Nigerian, Peter King – ‘Oma Lewa’
Mr Bongo pick a supreme album from the catalogue of Peter King – a heavyweight of Afrobeat and the 1970s Nigerian music scene – with an official reissue of Omo Lewa. The label says about the 1976 LP: “[This is] super-funky business from Nigerian-born multi-instrumentalist, Peter King; [and] fuses funk, jazz and highlife vibrations. Omo…
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Habibi Funk drop title track from first ever record by Kamal Keila
There will be plenty more on WTM about the fantastic Kamal Keila in due course, being the next eagerly anticipated installment on Habibi Funk. Today the label drops the title track from this forthcoming gem. Kamal Keila sung about the unity of Sudan, peace between Muslims and Christians, and the fate of war orphans. Listen: Backed…
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