 Name: VA - Lagos Disco InfernoGenre: Funk, Afroboogie, Disco Release Date: 2010 Label: Academy LPs, Voodoo Funk Featuring: Doris Ebong, Geraldo Pino, Grotto, Pogo Ltd, Asiko Rock Group, Paradise Stars, Emma Dorgu, MFB, Christy Essien, Tirogo, BLO, Nana Love Format: mp3 | FLAC Quality: 320 kbps | Lossless Size: 163 mb | 452 mb Duration: 01:10:19 Description: 12 smokin’ rarities from Nigeria, dating from 1976 to 1982, compiled by Frank Gossner (aka DJ Franc O, Soulpusher) of Voodoo Funk fame. Surprisingly familiar, yet intriguingly unknown, these tracks sound just as fresh today as they did 30 or more years ago. 12 tracks rife with horns, moog and bells and whistles to keep you up all night. 
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Jazz, Soul & Funk / Lossless → VA - Lagos Disco Inferno
16 August 2020
Jazz, Soul & Funk / Lossless → Francis the Great - Ravissante Baby
16 August 2020
 Name: Francis the Great - Ravissante BabyGenre: Funk, Afrobeat Release Date: 1977 Label: C-C Records Producers: Jean Filibert Mbarga Format: mp3 | FLAC Quality: 320 kbps | Lossless Size: 62 mb | 174 mb Duration: 00:24:57 Description: Rare funk and avant-garde soul from a seven-year-old kid singer featuring the best musicians of France and the Cameroonian diaspora, recorded in Paris in 1977. The album contains two nicely dramatic tracks: "Ravissante Baby (Negro Phasing)" is a long, hypnotic, funky soukous track with a tremendous lead guitar and a long spoken-word and soulful kid vocal about the beauty of nature; "Look Up in the Sky (Negro Nature)" is a stretched funk groove with psych synth by Michel Morose, bubbling bassline by the great Victor Edimo, the famous Toto Guillaume on guitar, and a brilliant poetic lyric by Francis the Great, who at that time studied in Menilmontant, Paris. Originally produced by his father, a great impresario of African artists in Paris during the '70s, and coordinated by his mother, this album is unique, fresh, and almost unclassifiable. It's universal funk!
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Jazz, Soul & Funk / Lossless → VA - Brand New Wayo - Funk Fast Times Nigerian Boogie Badness 1979-1983
2 August 2020
 Name: VA - Brand New Wayo - Funk Fast Times Nigerian Boogie Badness 1979-1983Genre: Funk, Afroboogie, Disco Release Date: May 17, 2011 Label: Comb & Razor Sound Producers: Odion Iruoje, Larry Ifedioranma, Tony Okoroji, Tony Essien, Lemmy Jackson, Jake Sollo, George Achini, Akie Deen, Kojo Maison, Amel Addmore, Zack Roberts, Chris Ify Hanem, Sega Gafatchi, Renny Pearl, Mosco Egbe Featuring: Mixed Grill, Kris Okotie, Murphy Williams, Joe Moks, Amas, Oby Onyioha, Dizzy K Falola, Chris Mba, Bayo Damazio, Martha Ulaeto, Segun Robert, Amel Addmore, Honey Machine, The Stormmers, Emma Baloka Format: mp3 | FLAC Quality: 320 kbps | Lossless Size: 186 mb | 527 mb Duration: 01:17:12 Description: Compilation celebrating the Nigerian scene of the late 70's and early 80's.
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Jazz, Soul & Funk / Lossless → The Stormmers - Lovers Song
29 July 2020
 Name: The Stormmers - Lovers SongGenre: Funk, Afroboogie, Disco Release Date: 1981 Label: Taretone Producers: Jake Sollo Format: mp3 | FLAC Quality: 320 kbps | Lossless Size: 88 mb | 218 mb Duration: 00:36:45 Description: The Stormmers were led by Renny Pearl, former bandleader and bass player with AKTION, an Afro Funk band from Warri that burned brightly and briefly in the mid 70s. With the help of Jake Sollo, an ex-Funkee and recently reconstituted disco dandy, they created Lovers Song, an album of frantically musical bass lines, skittery high hats and an irresistible urge to get onto the dancefloor. The album was recorded in Nigeria and the UK and released in 1981.
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Jazz, Soul & Funk / Lossless → Ideku Dynasty – Ideku Dynasty
29 July 2020
 Name: Ideku Dynasty – Ideku DynastyGenre: Funk, Afrobeat Release Date: 1981 Label: Safran Producers: Tse Tse Productions Format: mp3 | FLAC Quality: 320 kbps | Lossless Size: 105 mb | 212 mb Duration: 00:26:06 Description: Album from the french group found in Le Havre.
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Jazz, Soul & Funk / Lossless → Michael Viner's Incredible Bongo Band – Bongo Rock
1 June 2020
 Name: Michael Viner's Incredible Bongo Band – Bongo RockGenre: Funk Release Date: 1973 (2006 Reissue) Label: Mr Bongo Records, Pride Producers: Michael Viner, Perry Botkin Jr. Format: mp3 | FLAC Quality: 320 kbps | Lossless Size: 180 mb | 502 mb + Scans 41 mb Duration: 01:17:21 Description: Michael Viner's Incredible Bongo Band, was a project started in 1972 by Michael Viner, a record artist manager and executive at MGM Records. The band's output consisted of upbeat, funky, instrumental music. Many tracks were covers of popular songs of the day characterized by the prominence of bongo drums, conga drums, rock drums and brass. Bongo Rock was featured in Robert Dimery's book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.The group's version of "Apache" was not a hit upon release, and languished in relative obscurity until the late 1970s, when it was adopted by early hip-hop artists, including pioneering deejay Kool Herc, for the uncommonly long percussion break in the middle of the song. Subsequently, many of the Incredible Bongo Band's other releases were sampled by hip-hop producers, and the "Apache" break also remains a staple of many producers in drum and bass.
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Jazz, Soul & Funk / Lossless → Ronnie Laws - Pressure Sensitive
1 June 2020
 Name: Ronnie Laws - Pressure SensitiveGenre: Jazz Release Date: 1975 Label: Blue Note Producers: George Butler, Wayne Henderson Format: mp3 | FLAC Quality: 320 kbps | Lossless Size: 82 mb | 195 mb + Scans 4 mb Duration: 00:35:01 Description: Pressure Sensitive is the debut album by American saxophonist Ronnie Laws released in 1975 by Blue Note.
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Jazz, Soul & Funk / Lossless → VA - Shaolin Soul (Episode 2)
31 January 2020
 Name: VA - Shaolin Soul (Episode 1)Genre: Soul Release Date: 2001 Label: Delabel, Hostile Records Featuring: Jackson 5, Teddy Pendergrass, Syl Johnson, Ann Peebles, Baby Huey, The Emotions, Black Ivory, The New Birth, Al Green, Eddie Holman, Montana, Detroit Emeralds, Labi Siffre, Southside Movement, The Sweet Inspirations, Mad Lads, George Jackson Format: mp3 | FLAC Quality: 320 kbps | Lossless Size: 179 mb | 475 mb Duration: 01:14:07 Description: Compilation inspired by the Wu Tang.
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Jazz, Soul & Funk / Lossless → VA - Doing It in Lagos (Boogie, Pop & Disco in 1980s Nigeria)
25 January 2020
 Name: VA - Doing It in Lagos (Boogie, Pop & Disco in 1980s Nigeria)Genre: Funk, Afrobeat, Afroboogie, Disco, Soul, Folk Release Date: December 9, 2016 Label: Soundway Records Featuring: Hotline, Peter Abdul, Steve Monite, Oby Onyioha, Kio Amachree, Livy Ekemezie, Willy Roy, Danny Offia & The Friks, Rick Asikpo & Afro Fusion, Terry Mackson, Ofege, Odion Iruoje, Mike Umoh, Burnis Moleme, Sony Enang, Veno, Godfrey Odili, Toby Foyeh, Gboyega Adelaja, Lexy Mella, Nkono Teles Format: mp3 | FLAC Quality: 320 kbps | Lossless Size: 274 mb | 702 mb Duration: 01:56:08 Description: Doing It In Lagos: Boogie, Pop & Disco in 1980s Lagos is a compilation album released in 2016 by Soundway Records. It collects Nigerian pop and club culture tracks released in the late 1970s through the 1980s. Though afrobeat, led by artists like Fela Kuti, dominated Nigerian music during the 1970s, Doing It In Lagos chronicles Nigerian music's move away from the afrocentric style of afrobeat and toward more American forms of pop music in the 1980s. Many of the tracks are rare and, prior to this album's release, were sold for high prices in online auctions.
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Jazz, Soul & Funk / Lossless → VA - Shaolin Soul (Episode 1)
25 January 2020
 Name: VA - Shaolin Soul (Episode 1)Genre: Soul Release Date: 2001 Label: Delabel, Hostile Records Featuring: Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell, Gladys Knight And The Pips, Ann Peebles, O.V. Wright, The Charmels, David Porter, Willie Mitchell, Al Green, The Emotions, Bob James, Syl Johnson, Donny Hathaway, Wendy Rene, Lyn Collins, The Dramatics, Booker T & The MG's, Barry White Format: mp3 | FLAC Quality: 320 kbps | Lossless Size: 180 mb | 448 mb Duration: 01:14:07 Description: Compilation inspired by the Wu Tang. Cover photo is Chia Hui Liu in the martial arts movie "The 36th Chamber Of Shaolin" (1978). Tracks 11 & 16 are bonus tracks and do not appear on Shaolin Soul. Track 3 is listed as "I'll Never Grow Old" on the sleeves but is in fact The Charmels' "As Long As I've Got You" as released in 1967 on Stax.
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