Grooves

A fierce collection of dynamic, hard-hitting drum loops designed to complement heavy guitar riffs and driving bass lines, laying the groundwork for your next aggressive cue.

Rare Grooves Vol. 2 is a time machine in a sample library. It will take you back to the early 1970s, when soul beats blended with funk and rock guitars and when the analog recording process was an integral part of the sound. Expect grooves to die for, bass lines to keep you moving, and funky guitars full of wah. And all pushed through an analog signal chain to give the sound that genuine tape-saturated character. This is the vibe that filled samplers and found its way into countless hip-hop, breakbeat, RnB and dance tracks from the 1980s and onwards.

With over 300 loops and tempos ranging from 64- 123bpm Philly Soul Grooves is an encyclopaedic journey through salsoul, funk and disco taking influence from the kings 'n' queens of the Philly sound from Gamble and Huff to MFSB to Loleatta Holloway. Beautifully recorded by Julian Kindred at his world class private studio featuring legendary drummer Dan See, this collection of beats will give your tracks that authentic live feel and swing that will truly elevate them to the next level. We truly hope you enjoy this pack as much as we all loved making it.

Turn on your funk motor because here’s the full CD motherlode, the one-stop A to Z of the good groove from Maceo to The Meters and from P-Funk to Deep Funk. Featuring 3CDs of stone cold classics and a third featuring the best of funk’s nu breed.

Civil rights and riots, afros and Watergate. Jazz and funk adapt to the realities of the 1970s.
This is an exciting glimpse into the world of black American funk, jazz and soul from the early 70s. The music has a political agenda, even when it isn’t overtly preaching a message. Recorded after the 60s dream had ended, during the era of Watergate, the oil crisis and a financial crash, there is a schizophrenic edge to the music here. There are tracks about trying to get things right, but also about partying as a way to forget.

2013 collection. The late 60s were a time of incredible change in black American Music. The World Needs Changing reflects the growing confidence of black music in a decade of change. Soul, jazz and funk was a mirror onto the black urban world, and represented a growing confidence and sophistication. Records like Lonnie Liston Smith's 'Expansions' (presented here in it's rare 7 inch version) or Leon Thomas' 'Just in Time to See the Sun' show Jazz musicians reaching for the discos without losing their spiritual self. Gil Scott Heron, Esther Marrow, Darrow Fletcher and our super rare title track show the political struggle continued to bubble away. The majority of the music made at the time was still aimed firmly at the feet, and there are rare collectors items by the Original Soul Patrol, Ceaser 830, club classics by the Willard Posey Reunion and Little Eva Harris whose medley of 'Get Ready/ Uptight' has been massive in London for a couple of years now. BGP.

Not an old-fashioned retro-compilation, this 2CD set presents a cross section of the whole music cosmos of exemplary African grooves. Next to the classics by Baba Maal, Boubacar Traore, Mory Kante, Tiken Jah Fakoly & Rachid Taha, it presents many other singers, some who are only famous in their homeland, like Kumba Sira Koita, Nathalie Makoma, Mariem Hassan or Coumba Gawlo.

1990 was a fantastic year for music, so what better way to honor it than with It's A Beautiful Thing: PolyGram's Summer Grooves. This is a promotional 2CD set released in the summer of 1990 highlighting a mixture of recent material released by the Polygram labels, focusing on R&B, rap, hip-house, house and dance music, plus albums they reissued or remastered. A few of the songs are here in radio edit form, unavailable elsewhere, while others are remixes that could be unfamiliar to some.

By the late 1960s, sales on the King label were so dominated by superstar James Brown that other releases by the company were overshadowed and underpromoted. What's more, Brown's success was so massive that, as the liner notes to this CD aptly state, "King's release schedules were dominated by records by Brown, his band, or records that seemed to sound as if they were made by Brown." Almost a couple dozen such tracks from obscure 1967-1973 singles (with the exception of a previously unissued take of Bill Doggett's "Wet and Satisfied") are on this compilation, stretching even past the point where Brown left King for Polydor. Most of the artists are as little known as the singles, with the exception of the Coasters, Hank Ballard, and Bill Doggett, all '50s rock stars who were long past their prime by the time these cuts emerged. Brown had direct or indirect connections to some (though not all) of these discs, sometimes in the production and songwriting departments.