Pop Funk

With Pacific Breeze 2: Japanese City Pop, AOR & Boogie 1972-1986 we dig deeper into those sounds of bubble-era Japan. From the proto-City Pop funk of Bread & Butter and Eiichi Ohtaki to the crate-digger favorites Eri Ohno and Piper, the latest entry in Light In The Attic’s Japan Archival Series brings another set of sought-after tunes, most of which have never before been available outside of Japan."When Light In The Attic released Pacific Breeze: Japanese City Pop, AOR & Boogie 1976-1986 in 2019, it was the first collection of its kind to be released outside Japan. It proved to be just what music fans had been waiting for—a compilation of sought-after tracks that had been nearly impossible to obtain unless you were well-connected with dealers and collectors, or traveled regularly to the countless record stores in Japan. Pacific Breeze included Minako Yoshida, Taeko Ohnuki, Hiroshi Sato and Haruomi Hosono among other key players of ‘70s-’80s Japanese City Pop, the nebulous genre that encompassed an “amalgam of AOR, R&B, jazz fusion, funk, boogie and disco, all a touch dizzy with tropical euphoria,” as we described it the first time around.

Greatest Funkin’ Hits is a 2005 album credited to Professors Of Funk. All songs are cover versions of well known songs made during the 1980's and 1990's from a time when electronic and hip-hop music were uniting for the first time, sometimes in places unknown. This was released by Pandisc.

Calvin Harris, the GRAMMY and BRIT award winning, multi-platinum artist and super producer, revives his Funk Wav alias with the release of the album Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 2. The album includes collaborations with a vast array of guests - 21 Savage, Dua Lipa, Young Thug, Stefflon Don, Chlo¨e, Charlie Puth, Pusha T, Shenseea, Tinashe, Normani, Lil Durk, Halsey, Offset, 6lack, Justin Timberlake, Coi Leray, Busta Rhymes, Donae'o, Latto, Pharrell, Swae Lee, Jorja Smith, and Snoop Dog.

VIP Loops presents D.A.F.T - Digital Analog Funk Theory: A collection of 18 special construction kits featuring the new retro pop funk styles that are lighting up charts. In the style of Pharell, Daft Punk, Robin Thicke, Breakbot, Bruno Mars Chris Brown and more! This product is bursting with live bass, keys, synths and grooving guitar over expertly programmed drum grooves to capture the true feel of the masters of this new smash hit style of music.

Funk You Very Much is a 1992 Prince bootleg CD of a 1992 show in the Netherlands. Since it is a 1992 show, it is a Prince & The New Power Generation performance. This disc was released by the Wall Of Sound label.

Every one of us has a favourite record label. I think for many of us at Ace towers, Stax is pretty much at the top of the pile. The independently owned Memphis label recorded soul for 15 years, both up-tempo and impassionately down. It scored hits in the USA and around the world and gave the world the iconic star quality of both Otis Redding and Isaac Hayes to name but two of its finest. The roll call beyond them is legendary and could take up a whole sleeve note but Booker T and the MGs, Johnnie Taylor, Rufus and Carla Thomas, Sam and Dave, the Bar Kays, William Bell and the Staple Singers all made the label known to fans of good music the world over. But we're record collectors, vinyl extremists and, maybe the odd anorak has an involvement as well, so what really gets us going are the obscurities, the ones that got away. Stax Of Funk 2 could be a tribute to that sort of record.

80 pop-tastic smashes from the sensational seventies. 4CD compilation including the biggest hits from the 70s packaged in an attractive fold out card digipack.