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Average White Band - The Essential Selection (2025) (Hi-Res) Vinyl & HR

Posted by Rtax at July 3, 2025

Average White Band - The Essential Selection (2025) (Hi-Res)
FLAC (tracks) 24bit-44.1kHz - 1.7 GB
2:36:18 | Pop Rock, Soul, Disco, Funk | Label: Edsel

Two CDs. Widely and rightly regarded as one of the best ever soul and funk bands, the now legendary Average White Band tore-up the rule book and conquered the US, UK & International charts with a series of soul and disco hits between 1974 and 1980. • Although probably best known for their global hit, the US #1 signature single 'Pick Up The Pieces', which reached #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 Chart, this superb collection features 34 classic recordings from 'Show Your Hand'/'Put It Where You Want It' (1973) to 'Cupid's In Fashion' (1982). • "The Essential Selection" also includes their other UK and US hits, 'Cut The Cake', 'Queen Of My Soul', 'Walk On By', 'For You, For Love', the much sampled 'School Boy Crush', 'When Will You Be Mine', 'If I Ever Lose This Heaven'

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Average White Band - The Essential Selection (2025) Music

Posted by Rtax at July 3, 2025

Average White Band - The Essential Selection (2025)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 1.02 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 363 MB
2:36:18 | Pop Rock, Soul, Disco, Funk | Label: Edsel

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Native Instruments Scarbee Funk Guitarist KONTAKT DVDR (repost) Software

Posted by orientazure at April 14, 2012

Native Instruments Scarbee Funk Guitarist KONTAKT DVDR (repost) | 7.48 Gb

Imagine the perfect funk guitarist: groove, precision and no solos please welcome SCARBEE FUNK GUITARIST. This innovative instrument gives you instant playability and total control, with the genuine flavor of the funk. Lovingly sampled in uncompromising SCARBEE quality, SCARBEE FUNK GUITARIST is expressive, articulate and instantly useable create driving rhythm guitar lines in minutes. Essential for anything from funk and soul to hip hop and R'n'B, but also perfect for adding an organic element to house or pop, this instrument is highly addictive and a true funk phenomenon.

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Texas Funk 1968-1975: Black Gold From The Lone Star State Music

Posted by rocknrollsteve at March 23, 2009

It appears as though every area had its own leading funk act(s), and Texas was chock-full of them, as evidenced by the exceptional compilation Texas Funk: Black Gold from the Lone Star State 1968-1975.

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VA - Bosporus Bridges Vol 1 & 3: A Wide Selection of Turkish Funk and Jazz 1968-1978 (2005/2019) Music

Posted by Rtax at May 11, 2024

VA - Bosporus Bridges Vol 1 & 3: A Wide Selection of Turkish Funk and Jazz 1968-1978 (2005/2019)
Vinyl FLAC (tracks) - 707 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 271 MB
1:55:43 | Fusion, Jazz-Funk, Funk, Psychedelic Rock, Psychedelic | Label: Twimo Records / Black Pearl Records

Pioneering, magisterial compilation, which turned many of us here onto Mustafa Ozkent, Fikret Kizilok, Erkin Koray, Temiz and co, a decade ago. Still dazzling, fresh, essential. Outstanding and limited compilation of Turkish Jazz-Funk rarities. Grey-area edition, result of 6 years of travelling and record collecting in the meeting points between different music cultures; North Africa, the Bosporus and the far eastern parts of Europe. These two first two releases explores what happened when Western music styles such as modal jazz, bossa nova, fusion and funk met Arabic folk music, tone scales, instrumentation and rhythm structures in the late sixties and seventies in Turkey and Egypt. "Bosporus Bridges" is a compilation of Turkish jazz, bossa, psych, fusion and funk compiled by Lasarus and Roskow. Four hundred years ago Turkey was the centre that connected Islamic, Byzantine and Persian music and even at this time Haydn and Mozart fused Persian tone scales and colour of rhythm into their compositions.

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James Brown - Essential Original Albums (2018) Music

Posted by delpotro at Nov. 11, 2019

With some 800 songs in his repertoire, James Brown influenced countless contemporary artists from virtually every popular music genre –rock, funk, soul, jazz, R&B, hip hop and rap. His polyrhythmic funk vamps reshaped dance music, and Brown was by far the most sampled artist during the early days of hip hop. Though he would be dogged by legal troubles and controversy in later life, he was a principled artist, adamantly refusing to conform to anyone’s vision. This 3-D set presents five of his best albums, along with 8 bonus tracks from the same period.

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The Blackbyrds - Walking In Rhythm: The Essential Selection 1973-1980 (2013) Music

Posted by Rtax at Oct. 9, 2023

Donald Byrd was one of the greatest and most successful practitioners of the fusion of soul and jazz. A group of Byrd's Havard University students, took their name from 1973 Blue Note LP forming The Blackbyrds in 1974. Their albums, produced by Donald Byrd and Larry Mizell's Sky High Productions, made a major impact on dance floors with classics "Rock Creek Park", "Happy Music" and "Do It Fluid" to name a few. A complete retrospective here well-known hits as well as key album cuts, rarities and extended dance floor mixes.

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Level 42 - The Essential Collection (2007) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Jan. 7, 2025

Level 42 - The Essential Collection (2007)
FLAC (tracks + .cue,log) | 2:15:56 | 944 Mb
Genre: Rock, Pop, Jazz-Funk

Level 42 At the beginning of their career, Level 42 was squarely a jazz-funk fusion band, contemporaries of fellow Brit funk groups like Atmosfear, Light of the World, Incognito, and Beggar & Co. By the end of the ’80s, however, the band — whose music was instantly recognizable from Mark King’s thumb-slap bass technique and associate member Wally Badarou’s synthesizer flourishes — had crossed over to the point where they were often classified as sophisti-pop and dance-rock, equally likely to be placed in the context of Sade and the Style Council as any group that made polished, upbeat, danceable pop/rock.

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U-Nam - The Essential Collection (2017) Music

Posted by popsakov at March 2, 2019

U-Nam - The Essential Collection (2017)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 608 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 205 Mb
Scans Included | RAR 5% Recovery
Smooth Jazz, Jazz Funk, R&B, Neo-Soul | Skytown Records #STR010

Paris born guitar virtuoso Emmanuel “U-Nam” Abiteboul is showing his generous side again. With fifteen tracks on his new album Future Love he provides us with plenty of good music. Future Love is U-Nam's positive view of things. A large number of top-notch musicians have participated in this gigantic project. U-Nam performs guitars, bass, keyboards, synth bass, Vocoder and also made programming and editing. Further musicians are Alex Al, Dwayne "Smitty" Smith (bass), Denis Benarrosh (percussion), Fran Merante, Michael White (drums), Christian Martinez (trumpet & flugelhorn), Andrey Chmut (sax), Valeriy Stepanov, Mathias Roos, Bill Steinway (Rhodes), Frank Sitborn (Rhodes and Clavinet), Maria Grig (viola and violin), Kim Hansen (B3 organ), Tim "Tio" Owens, Kim Chandler (vocals), and Shannon Abiteboul (sax and flute).

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Isley Brothers - The Essential Isley Brothers (2004) [Original Recording Remastered] Music

Posted by InnerTemple at June 10, 2010

The Isley Brothers - The Essential Isley Brothers (2004) [Original Recording Remastered]
R&B/Funk/Soul | 2CD | Flac+CUE+LOG+HQ Scans (600 dpi) | 1.08 Gb
Label: Sony Legacy

The Isley Brothers are one of the most important groups in R&B history. They modernized the concept of the black singing group, and broke new ground with hits that were either influenced by or borrowed from a variety of musical styles. In addition to performing many of their own songs, the Isleys perform soulful renditions of Seals & Crofts's "Summer Breeze" and Stephen Stills's "Love the One You're With" on this ESSENTIAL collection.

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