Blog Archive for Posts Tagged Funk
MONDAY, MARCH 8TH, 2010
Money is King
The super talented T&S crew feature on this BunchTV production, the show is recorded from Cologne in Germany last month and we are working our best to make this show happen in Ireland this year, Lee Fields has a voice like no other, buy their album 'My World' which came out last... [...]
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1ST, 2010
Candi Staton & Live Band
Sometimes records attain legendary status because they've been long unavailable and to hear them you have to part with a week's wages for a dusty slab of vinyl. Their status is derived from their scarcity as much as their quality. Some records though are as precious as they are rare. Candi... [...]
FRIDAY, JANUARY 29TH, 2010
Music for Night People
Two of our good friends join forces and drop a new mix titled 'Music for Night People'. Daniel Drumz and Mr. Krime are true school deejays from Krakow, Poland who are as soulful as they are funky. So it comes as no surprise that they have been at the forefront of the Polish DJ scene for the... [...]
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29TH, 2009
Ghetto Brothers
Truth & Soul do it again, this time unearthing a gem from Ghetto Brothers. One of the most enigmatic, purely New York records of all time is finally available to the masses. The Ghetto Brothers 45 "Ghetto Brothers Power" b/w "I Saw a tear", which is a single taken off their... [...]
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14TH, 2009
Green Eyed Love Vid & Interview
A little over two weeks to go to this highly anticipated show that seems to be grabbing the attention in all corners of Dublin and beyond..new single/vid and interview to whet the appetite. Oh, and go snap up the deluxe green 12inch if you... [...]
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29TH, 2009
Dam Funk Live in Japan Tour
Dam Funk plays Burn Rubber and Killdat live from Seoul, Korea - a leg of his Japanese Tour. Playing Revolution @ The Twisted Pepper on Friday October... [...]
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1ST, 2009
The Breakestra
After a four-year break from the studio, L.A.’s finest practitioners of gritty soul/jazz, party funk & breaks, BREAKESTRA, return to the fray with a brand new studio album on Strut this September, ‘DUSK ‘TILL DAWN’. The brainchild of producer, engineer, songwriter and... [...]
THURSDAY, AUGUST 27TH, 2009
Scopolamine
Our favourite funk label have a new download to give away, bless the good people at T&S scopolamine Truth & Soul is proud to present the first single from Michael Leonhart & The Avramina 7. Long time trumpet player for many of the T&S releases, Michael Leonhart has... [...]
MONDAY, AUGUST 24TH, 2009
Mayer Hawthorne & The County
UPDATE: 4 star review from Mojo here (PDF, .5MB) for the new album album 'A Strange Arrangement' Mayer Hawthorne grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, just outside of Detroit, and vividly remembers, as a child, driving with his father and tuning the car radio in to the rich soul and jazz history... [...]
MONDAY, AUGUST 10TH, 2009
New Breakestra LP
New Breakestra LP about to drop in September for the funk fans BREAKESTRA ‘DUSK TILL DAWN’ 1. NEED A LITTLE LOVE 2. DARK CLOUDS RAIN SOUL 3. COME ON OVER feat. Afrodyete 4. BACK AT THE BOATHOUSE 5. GET IT RIGHT 6. SHOW YOU THE WAY 7. ME & MICHELLE 8. I DON’T WANNA... [...]
MONDAY, AUGUST 10TH, 2009
Your easy lovin’
mayerhawthorne-youreasylovin Download courtesy of Stones Throw, we will be announcing Mayer Hawthorne's Irish Dates next week, in the meantime, download this and wait for the album 'A Strange Arrangement' to drop in... [...]
MONDAY, JULY 6TH, 2009
Listen to my Song
Darondo sounds like a mix between Curtis Mayfield and Al Green, his Ubiquity release from two years back with the peerless 'Didn't I' included certainly caught the interest of the music buying public who slept on him the first time he came out. A colourful character from California's Bay Area,... [...]
MONDAY, JUNE 22ND, 2009
She Bangs the Drums
Did not you know, as well as being one of the best singers out there, Chaka could bang the... [...]
FRIDAY, JUNE 19TH, 2009
Lee Fields & The Expressions
The amazing Lee Fields with The Expressions playing their album launch in Brooklyn a couple of weeks ago. Here is an excellent interview with Lee undertaken by Nerdtorious Blog, interviewees are David Ma & Nate Le Blanc. Word has it, that Lee & Co. will be touring Europe after... [...]
TUESDAY, JUNE 9TH, 2009
The King
There is only one King...Mark The 45 King, and Slick Rick the Ruler of course. Check the 45 King above cut up 45s like it aint no thang, the original loopdigga..this is Hip Hop royalty right here. Remixer, Producer extraordinaire, Mark has worked with everyone from Eminem and Jay Z to... [...]
THURSDAY, MAY 28TH, 2009
Lee Fields snippets
My World snippets narrated by Lee himself Press Release from T&S: PRESS RELEASE: Lee Fields is a bona-fide, 100%, unadulterated, pure, gut-bucket soul singer. While the crate-digging funk and soul community bestowed "legendary" status upon him due to his undeniably solid series of... [...]
MONDAY, MAY 18TH, 2009
Wheedle’s Groove
Thanks to JB for this...Local crate digger DJ Mr. Supreme uncovers some deadly funky skeletons in Seattle's Closet. Light in the Attic Records gives the old songs new life with a soulful compilation, Wheedle's Groove, and promises that Seattle will be funky forevermore with a new... [...]
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1ST, 2009
45 night this Thursday…
THA WHOLE FUNK, AN' NUTHIN' BUT THA FUNK! 9 hours of pure, uncut funk to be exact… THIS THURSDAY 2ND APRIL FUNK 45s @ SOUTHWILLIAM BAR & BASEMENT 5:45pm-2:45am / zero euro 20 DJS on 2 FLOORS featuring: Afronova - DJ Scope - All City Records - Beat Finder Records - Elbow Room -... [...]
MONDAY, MARCH 30TH, 2009
Interview with Jan
A nice little interview on Solesides with Jan from The Poets of Rhythm aka Karl Hector & The Malcouns/Pan-Atlantics/Bus People the list goes on...They are coming back in May to play Whelan's, Dublin and Cuba in Galway...don't sleep on proper music Soul... [...]
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- Magic and Bird... A courtship of rivals more... This looks dope!!
- Peanut Butter Wolf - Soul with a hole, free on itunes!! more...
- Another Dam Funk Mix, certainly not a bad thang! more...
- Hot: "There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another." -Frank Zappa
- DJ Mek let's Beyonke, sorry Beyonce know what time it is. In Kerry. more...
- Steaming for 1 week only Second Hand Sureshots featuring J-rocc & Daedalus .... more...
- Loving the weather in Dublin City today..this could be the mother of all summers..
- Beyond Jazz Podcast more... fantastic stuff!
- Banksy's film opening this Friday at the Lighthouse cinema in Smithfield for those in Dublin....
- Floor Violence Documentary brought to you by IG Culture...Disco, Jazz & Boogie dancesteps more... Dope!!
- Soul Jazz records release Message From The Tribe - An Anthology of Tribe Records more... Fresh!!
- Dam Funk Mix for Red Bull Music Academy more... Fresh!!
- Listen 2 Gonjasufi's Lp, prod from fly lo & Gaslamp Killer etc more...
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