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The Bamboos - Rawville (2007) Music

Posted by JET 1 at Sept. 18, 2016

The musicianship here really is top draw and this band of white boys could easily have backed James Brown and gotten away with it. 'Rawville' is essentially an album of gritty, organic funk numbers. A throwback to the days of 'Funky Drummer', the album has even been produced to sound 'retro' and on that score everything works fine together. The big problem with the album though is a distinct lack of variety. Sure, there are a few vocal tracks and Ohmega Watts even pops up to rap on a couple of sides but the emphasis pretty much all the way is on the funk.

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The Bamboos - The Best of the Tru Thoughts Years (2015) Music

Posted by SERTiL at Nov. 26, 2015

Celebrating 15 years of making music in 2015, Australia's The Bamboos have long established themselves as one of the leading Soul bands on the global scene. Tru Thoughts mark this milestone on 27th November with this compilation of some of the band’s greatest moments on the label, handpicked by the band, as well as three exclusive live tracks.

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Kylie Auldist - Family Tree (2016) Music

Posted by funkerman at Aug. 2, 2016

Australian vocalist extraordinaire Kylie Auldist will be no stranger to soul & funk fans, her searing soul singing having featured on her own albums 'Made Of Stone' ,'Still Life' (Tru Thoughts) also in The Bamboos, as well as Freestyle Records own Cookin' On 3 Burners. Her unmistakable voice is currently topping the pop charts across Europe, as the Kungs remix of Cookin' On 3 Burners 'This Girl' has proven a sure fire hit with club audiences as well as pop fans. It has been playlisted on BBC Radio 1 and Capital FM, and has been Number 2 in the Official UK Chart for weeks!

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The Bamboos - Fever in the Road (2013) Music

Posted by SERTiL at Dec. 27, 2013

Fever In The Road feels like a rebirth and a creative reawakening for a band secure in its history and confident of its brave new direction.

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VA - Freestyle - Funk! (2019) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Sept. 6, 2019

VA - Freestyle - Funk! (2019)
MP3 320 kbps | 2:34:31 | 322 Mb
Genre: Funk, Soul, R&B / Label: Freestyle Records

According to Wikipedia 'Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960's when African-American musicians created a rhythmic, dance-able new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues'. That's a somewhat dry and academic description of one of the most influential of music genres of all time. Funk, whilst utilising jazz chords, and often incorporating latin rhythms is a fundamentally emotional and uncomplicated music - technical prowess taking a back seat to feel, guts and soulful expression.

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The Bamboos - This Is How You Do It (2023) Music

Posted by delpotro at Jan. 27, 2024

The Bamboos - This Is How You Do It (2023)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 330 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 119 Mb | 00:50:58
R'n'B, Funk, Soul | Label: BMG Rights Management

This Is How You Do It is The Bamboos 11th studio album and shows that the nine piece Melbourne Funk and Soul trailblazers continue to evolve even after 23 years together as a band.

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VA - The Craig Charles Funk & Soul Club Vol.6 (2018) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Nov. 30, 2018

VA - The Craig Charles Funk & Soul Club Vol.6 (2018)
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 1:13:36 | 160 Mb
Genre: Funk / Label: Freestyle Records

If I say so myself, this 6th volume of The Craig Charles Funk & Soul Club may just be the best yet, featuring seventeen cool contemporary cuts, and two absolute solid gold, classic rare groove monsters that have proven to be evergreen dance floor destroyers for 4 decades! The first classic rare groove will be familiar as it's been sampled many times since it's release in 1978 - The Mighty Ryeders 'Evil Vibrations, as well as being a dance floor perennial in it's own right, also formed the basis of De La Soul's 'A Roller Skating Jam Named 'Saturday's - and it an honour to have it in this collection….what a tune!

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Menagerie - The Shores of Infinity (2023) [Official Digital Download] Vinyl & HR

Posted by pyatak at Aug. 31, 2023

Menagerie - The Shores of Infinity (2023) [Official Digital Download]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 43:11 minutes | 542 MB
Jazz | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

Australian 9-piece Spiritual Jazz group Menagerie announce their highly anticipated fourth album 'The Shores Of Infinity' - representing the 3rd LP to be released by Freestyle Records from the Melbourne-based Jazz ensemble, founded by producer, songwriter, guitarist, DJ and recording artist Lance Ferguson (The Bamboos, Lanu, Rare Groove Spectrum, Machines Always Win).

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VA - Freestyle: Afro & Latin (2019) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at June 21, 2019

VA - Freestyle: Afro & Latin (2019)
MP3 320 kbps | 3:44:14 | 520 Mb
Genre: Jazz, Funk, World, Latin / Label: Freestyle Records

Freestyle by name, freestyle by nature - and this 45 track selection focuses on the latin, bossa, afrobeat and afro-funk side of the labels catalogue, that has been part of the labels musical diaspora and influences from the very beginning.
Going right back to Afrodizz, Quasimode and Chip Wickham's Malena, and taking in the jazz infused afrobeat of The Shaolin Afronauts, Ray Lugo's New York City boogaloo, the Floridian latino funk of Ray Camacho & The Teardrops - and not forgetting one of the originators of afro-cuban based jazz & high life; Ginger Johnson and His African Messengers.

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Menagerie - Many Worlds (2021) [Official Digital Download] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at Feb. 23, 2021

Menagerie - Many Worlds (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 48:52 minutes | 556 MB
Spiritual Jazz | Label: Freestyle Records, Official Digital Download

Australian 9-piece Spiritual Jazz group Menagerie announce their highly anticipated third album ‘Many Worlds’, released 15th January 2021 on esteemed U.K label Freestyle Records.

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