Numero Group Organic Grooves 143 Items

Birdlegs & Pauline Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 1963 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Southside sweethearts, the Dreamliners, first came into the scene as the Royaltones in 1961 when they were students at South San High School in San Antonio, TX. In 1963, label head Abie Epstein signed them to his Cobra & Jox labels producing 4 singles. On the way to a studio session, Ana (Ana) Wilburn coined "The Best Things in Life" on the dashboard of her car. Out popped a playful Farfisa and harmony-driven tune reminiscent of the Crystals or Ronettes. Ana also wrote and sang lead on the haunting ballad "Just Me & You." A song about longing and adolescent heartache that's perfect for any post-breakup kleenex session.

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Birdlegs & Pauline

2LP | 1964 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Birdlegs & Pauline Baby Pink Vinyl Edition

Release: 1964 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Among the rarest albums from Jim Kirchstein's Wisconsin-based Cuca label, 1964's Birdlegs & Pauline runs a playful gamut of girl group soul, sultry R&B, bluesy torch songs, and junk shop doo-wop. The Rockford, Illinois-based husband and wife duo struck gold with their Top 20 R&B hit "Spring" the year prior and frequently returned to Sauk City to see if there was any additional magic up Cuca's sleeve. Gathered here are the best of Birdlegs & Pauline's family album of songs, featuring several previously unissued songs found deep in the Cuca vault.

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Birdlegs & Pauline

2LP | 1964 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

The Nervous Kats Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 1964 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Bailey's Nervous Kats

LP | 1965 | CA | Reissue (Numero Group)

The Nervous Kats Colored Splatter Vinyl Edition

Release: 1965 / CA – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Isolated at the rural fringe of Northern California, Bailey's Nervous Kats took Shasta County by storm in the early '60s. Combining surf, rock n' roll, exotica, and R&B, the Kats were a teenage dream draped in Magnatone amplifiers and crisp white polo tees. Their self-titled_and only_LP came at the dead end of the band's run, issued on Orville Simmons' one-shot Emma imprint in 1965. The mid-century modern LP of your dreams.

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Bailey's Nervous Kats

LP | 1965 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

LP | 1969 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Release: 1965 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Syl Johnson

Is It Because I'm Black

Is It Because I'm Black Grey & Black Swirl Vinyl Edition

Release: 1969 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Coming hot on the heels of his first full length, the self-proclaimed “most sampled artist of all time,” released the groundbreaking black concept LP Is It Because I’m Black (a full 13 months before Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On). Throwing away the notion of a sophomore jinx, Syl delivered this politically charged document. Issued on 150gram vinyl and housed in a tip-on jacket.

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Syl Johnson

LP | 1970 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

29,99 €*

Pastor T.L. Barrett And The Youth For Christ Choir

Release: 1970 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ten years into his role as poster boy for pop soul and peak-hour R&B, Syl Johnson did an unlikely about-face and cut the most inspiring and powerful song he'd ever touch. Issued on 45 in September of 1969, "Is It Because I'm Black" struck an immediate chord within the black community, forcing the song up the charts by sheer volume of call-in requests. It would be Syl's biggest hit for Twinight, climbing as high as #11 on the Billboard R&B chart during its 14-week stay, marking the defining moment of what had become more than just an occupation. Syl had his hands on a career and worked tirelessly rehearsing his next opus, an album of songs reflective of the changing times. With "Is It Because I'm Black" still bolding the pages of Billboard, the coming LP's title appeared to Syl plain as day _ or, in this case, black as night. Issued in April 1970 _ a full 13 months before Marvin Gaye's What's Going On _ Is It Because I'm Black can rightly be called the first black concept album, a distinction few give it credit for. But that factoid, whatever its meaning then or now, failed to inspire music buyers: Johnson's record never got a whiff of the two million copies Gaye's did in its first year of availability. Syl lays the blame squarely on the record's lack of marketability to a white audience. The album's cover didn't exactly move units either. Photographer Jerry Griffith dragged Syl to a burned-out building on 43rd Street to shoot the back cover image, and he finger-painted the iconic title over a stock photo of an eroding brick wall. The title track, coupled with the politically charged "I'm Talking About Freedom" and ghetto conscious "Concrete Reservation" sealed the album's cool reception as the work of an "angry black man." Which is unfortunate, as "Together Forever," "Come Together," and "Black Balloons" are positively uplifting, forming their own pot of gold at the end of a grayscale rainbow. The album's closer burns the brightest. "Right On" devolves into a full-on party track, ending with Syl riffing on the line "I'm gonna keep on doing my thing," as if to answer his critics before their needles reached the run-out groove.

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Like A Ship ... (Without A Sail)

22,99 €*

Pastor T.L. Barrett & The Youth For Christ Choir

Release: 1971 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Recorded in 1971 by a 27-year-old pastor and an after school program choir, Like A Ship is a stirring and powerful meditation on the wayward aftermath of the Civil Rights Movement. Tracked with the help of Chess/Cadet maestros Gene Barge, Phil
Upchurch, and Richard Evans, the album is a mix of euphoric gospel and Mayfield- esque political soul, with sleigh bells, hand claps, and jazzy piano stabs. Sampled by T.I., Kanye, and Khaled, Barrett created a rapturous, crossover gospel classic that’s still wildly relevant.

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Like A Ship Without A Sail Ice Wind Vinyl Edition

Release: 1971 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Bound / Remember You Black Vinyl Edition

Ponderosa Twins Plus One

7" | 1971 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Bound / Remember You Opaque Yellow Vinyl Edition

Release: 1971 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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An American soul vocal group that would go on to shape the sound of pop music much farther beyond their imaginations, Numero is proud to present the first official American 45' repressing of the Ponderosa Twins + 1 original 1971 release of Bound b/w I Remember You.

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Ponderosa Twins Plus One

7" | 1971 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Pastor T.L. And The Youth For Christ Choir Barrett

Release: 1971 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Like A Ship (Without A Sail) Splatter Vinyl Edition

The Ponderosa Twins Plus One

Release: 1971 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Recorded in 1971 by a 27-year-old pastorand an after school program choir, Like AShip is a stirring and powerful meditationon the wayward aftermath of the CivilRights Movement. Tracked with the helpof Chess/Cadet maestros Gene Barge, PhilUpchurch, and Richard Evans, the albumis a mix of euphoric gospel and Mayfieldesquepolitical soul, with sleigh bells, handclaps, and jazzy piano stabs. Sampled byT.I., Kanye, and Khaled, Barrett createda rapturous, crossover gospel classic that'sstill wildly r elevant.

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The Ponderosa Twins Plus One

Release: 1971 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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An American soul vocal group that would goon to shape the sound of pop music muchfarther beyond their imaginations, ThePonderosa Twins Plus One featured twosets of identical teenage twins, Alfred andAlvin Pelham, and Keith and Kirk Gardner,along with Ricky Spicer. The group releaseda couple of singles and a lone album forCleveland's Saru label in 1971, breakingup and disbanding as adolescence waned. Arecent sample darling of both Kanye West andTyler The Creator, "Bound" has revealed thePonderosa Twins Plus One as the real Midwestkid soul deal. Numero is proud to presentthe first official American repressing of theoriginal 1971 release, with fresh remastersfrom the original analog tapes, two previouslyunissued bonus tracks, and a replica tip onsleeve, making this an album you're bound tofall in love with.

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2+2+1= Colored Vinyl Edition

12" | 1972 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Release: 1971 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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An American soul vocal group that would go on to shape the sound of pop music much farther beyond their imaginations, The Ponderosa Twins Plus One featured two sets of identical teenage twins, Alfred and Alvin Pelham, and Keith and Kirk Gardner, along with Ricky Spicer. The group released a couple of singles and a lone album for Cleveland's Saru label in 1971, breaking up and disbanding as adolescence waned. A recent sample darling of both Kanye West and Tyler The Creator, "Bound" has revealed the Ponderosa Twins Plus One as the real Midwest kid soul deal. Numero is proud to present the first official American repressing of the original 1971 release, with fresh remasters from the original analog tapes, two previously unissued bonus tracks, and a replica tip on sleeve, making this an album you're bound to fall in love with.

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Jay Mitchell

Mustang sally

LP | 1973 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Release: 1972 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A massively Caribbean funk take on soul staple "Mustang Sally" by Jay Mitchell -- in all it's gritty vocal, heavy drum, sweaty, nearly 13 minute glory ...

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The Family Circle

Familiy Circle

23,99 €*

Skip Mahoaney & The Casuals

Release: 1973 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Family Circle’s 1973 LP draws a tight ring around the most beguiling soul tropes of its era, with its full house of ambitious players and hook-laden originals. Newark, New Jersey’s Simmons siblings—George, James, Mary, Don, and David—rallied around journeyman arranger George Andrews and business maven/producer Randy Irwin, whose industry ties brought studio luminaries into the Simmons orbit: session guitar giant Cornell Dupree, guitarist/songwriter Billy Vera, and the inimitable Bernard “Pretty” Purdie on drums. Charles Simmons’ “Well Runs Dry” dipped several toes into Jackson 5-saturated waters, while “I Hope You Really Love Me” stayed together with the Al Green ethos. Where the bowling, basketball, and karate-obsessed Simmons fivesome was hitching to—thumbs unfurled and dressed to impress in Central Park on Family Circle’s back cover—is anyone’s guess, but their sparkling, layered sound, gospel-honed vocal chops, and instantly relatable melodies should’ve dropped them off on everybody’s turntable. Give Family Circle a lift, drive ‘em around awhile.

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Your Funny Moods Black Vinyl Edition

LP | 1974 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Skip Mahoaney & The Casuals

Release: 1974 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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As the empowerment of the '60s gave way to the societal bankruptcy of the '70s, a turned-on black music emerged to soundtrack the agony of america at a crossroads. Tracked at DB Sound in silver spring, maryland by producer R. Jose Williams, your funny moods is built around the rhythms and keys of drumming wiz James Purdie. Remastered here from the original analog tapes, this 50th anniversary edition is peak group harmony soul from the chocolate city.

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Your Funny Moods Purdie Green Smoke Vinyl Edition

LP | 1974 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

The Line Of Time And The Plane Of Now Splatter Vinyl Edition

Release: 1974 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Shira Small

LP | 1974 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

You Can Fly On My Aeroplane Deep Sky Vinyl Edition

Release: 1974 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Real people music recorded at aQuaker Boarding school in the mid-'70s. Mixing soft psych, vocal jazz, andsunshine soul, Shira Small and her highschool music teacher Lars Clutterhamcreated a peerless artifact of outsidermagic. Imagination, wonder, theexistential dread of Vietnam and mathclass and getting caught smoking weedin Nixon's America_ it's all here. Isyour life alright?

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Wee

LP | 1977 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Everything - God Is Love 78

Release: 1977 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Scoring the lives of small-time players, pimps, junkies, and prostitutes lurking around his simultaneously blessed and cursed existence, Wee mastermind Norman Whiteside lived in an entirely different Columbus than Capsoul's Bill Moss or Prix's Clem Price. Alternating between Stevie Wonder's dreamy soul and Sly Stone's druggy groove, You Can Fly On My Aeroplane bypasses Whiteside's everyday gritty street life reality, focusing instead on the airy sounds of fantasy and masquerade. Smooth, sexy, and synthy, You Can Fly On My Aeroplane is a peerless and sprawling psychedelic soul concept album and a sure'fire panty soaker to boot.

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Otis G. Johnson

LP | 1978 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Is The Conveyor Clear Vinyl Edition

Release: 1978 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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For outsider gospel visionary and Detroit native Otis G. Johnson, the Holy Ghost was in the machine - in this case a rhythm-equipped Hammond organ. "Everything - God Is Love 78", a singular 1978 mid-fi document, features
android percussion against chords of Otis’s own invention, possessed by minor tonality and frequent bum notes. Lifting it further are extemporaneous vocal homilies to the rapture, love, and everything, plus occasional “other”
voicings that scratch at the periphery of the mix. Homespun gospel rarely entered this dirgelike, intuitive space, nor did it commonly achieve such a spectral and captivating hymn to
its darkest conventions.

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Lou Ragland

LP | 1978 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Michael A. Dixon & J.O.Y.

Release: 1978 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The last and most monumental chapter of Lou Ragland's Cleveland career. Understand Each Other serves as a spiritual magnum opus of generations of soul luminaries from the Forest City. The album opens with the socially conscious title track backed by the full force of the Cleveland Orchestra, gutting out a second place finish to Marvin Gaye's What's Going On in both its mission and its mix. This 45th anniversary pressing houses fresh remasters from the original reels in a replica jacket, while Remus Peterson's handsketched depiction of Lou Ragland as peacemaker implores a sabre-toothed tiger and a dove to "Understand Each Other."

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You're Everything / You're All I Need Purple Vinyl Edition

7" | 1978 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Why Do I Love You Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 1978 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Former Mind & Matter bandmates James "Jimmy Jam" Harris and Michael Dixon teamed up for 1978's gospel-boogie banger "You're All I Need" b/w "You're Everything" on the private Mad label.

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Andy Crown & Magic Touch

7" | 1978 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

8,39 €* 11,99 € -30%

Why Do I Love You Coke Bottle Clear Vinyl Edition

Release: 1978 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Chicago's Magic Touch label gets the Numero treatment. Legendary rare groove selector & DJ Red Greg's edit of Disco Holy-Grail "Why Do I Love You" is now available on 7" for the first time and housed in official Magic Touch Double Disco Smash 7" Company Sleeve. This tune has been making waves in the DJ community for years only after Red Greg introduced his crucial edit eliminating the studio fluff and dialing in the raw disco meat. Certified Floor Filler with a groove guaranteed to answer all questions on love.

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Andy Crown & Magic Touch

7" | 1978 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Black And White Raven Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 1978 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Archie James Cavanaugh

LP | 1980 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Black And White Raven White Vinyl Editin

Release: 1980 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A masterpiece of the schooner rock variety, Black and White Raven is an album that emerged from Archie James Cavanaugh's youthful dream of recording his own music while stuck in the Alaskan wilderness. With a freewheeling cast culled from Archie's travels around the Pacific Northwest, including Redbone's Tony Bellamy and Pete DePoe, Black and White Raven was set down as the '70s crested. Traces of disco, AM gold, gospel, and yacht mixed freely with his Tlingit heritage, creating a breezy and optimistic portrait of life in the 49th state.

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Archie James Cavanaugh

LP | 1980 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Merry Christmas To You Gold Vinyl Edition

Release: 1980 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Joseph Washington Jr.

LP | 1981 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

The Space Between White Vinyl Vinyl Edition

Release: 1981 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Joseph Washington Jr.’s 1983 holiday LP puts a soulful, funky, suave ribbon on nine frosty Christmas cuts. In that season of music’s traditional descent into threadbare schmaltz, Merry Christmas to You restores joy and wonder to a blizzard of bland. Under this tree, find undiscovered classics for our cynical age: the buoyant “Jesus’ Birthday,” the hot and bothered soul of “Merry Christmas,” the ridiculously catchy wallet-opener “Shopping.” The world of records produces just a precious few yuletide keepers: Spector’s A Christmas Gift for You; Fahey’s The New Possibility; Guaraldi’s indelible Charlie Brown Christmas. Down another nog and file Joseph Washington Jr. comfortably next to those.

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Joanna Brouk

LP | 1981 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Disco Jazz Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 1981 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Previously issued on three rare cassette-only editions, Joanna Brouk's 1980 sophomore album The Space Between has finally been given spacious LP quarters. The side-long title track, performed by Brouk's Mills College instructor and sometime-lover Bill Maraldo is among the deepest and most distinctive pieces in the new age canon, while side B's three cuts expand the theme in hypnotic new directions.

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Rupa

LP | 1982 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

All About Money Remastered

Release: 1982 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Barely disco and hardly jazz, Rupa Biswas’ 1982 LP is the halfway point between Bollywood and Balearic. Tracked in Calgary’s Living Room Studios with a crack team of Indian and Canadian studio rats alike, Disco Jazz is a perfect fusion of East and West. Sarod and synthesizer intricately weaving around one another for 37 transcendent minutes, culminating in the viral hit “Aaj Shanibar.” Remastered from original analogue source material and withe permission and blessing of the producers and performers.

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Spontaneous Overthrow

LP | 1984 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Keep Your Faith In God / Just Give It All To Christ Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 1984 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Synth chutes, synth ladders, popcorn 808 beats, dirge-y chants and busted sub-woofer hums from inner-galactic soul pioneers Nathaniel Woolridge and Anthony Freeman intertwine to create this hypnotic, mythical 1984 LP from Newark, New Jersey. The most damaged party record ever set to black, or the most partied cry of the heart ever howled into personal space. Probably both.

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Lucky Rosenbloom

7" | 1985 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Keep Your Faith In God / Just Give It All To Christ Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 1985 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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In a club scene saturated with the Minneapolis sound, Luck Rosenbloom was searching for something different. Using Korgand Moog synths, Steinway Concert Piano and a Boss Dr-110 Dr. Rhythm, he created his own funky fusion sound to spread the word of God to the mainstream. Recorded at Minneapolis's Custom Record Studios he cut 200 copies of this elusive 45 of which only a few known copies exist. The record was promoted on his cable access TV show "Lucky Mania TV" where he encouraged kids to say no to drugs and take their vitamins.

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Lucky Rosenbloom

7" | 1985 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Release: 1985 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Eccentric soul - the prix label

2LP | 2007 | US | Original (Numero Group)

32,99 €*

Release: 2007 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A glorious batch of unearthed soul and funk from the early 70s central Ohio scene ... the storming singles of Prix label ... culled from ultra rare 45s plus previous unreleased gems!

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Home schooled - The ABCs of Kid Soul

2LP | 2007 | US | Original (Numero Group)

32,99 €*

Release: 2007 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Home Schooled, the 16th record in Numero’s library of the lost, looks at the unknown side of the early 70s kid soul revolution. Beyond the Osmonds, the Five Stairsteps, and the Brighter Side of Darkness lay hundreds of aspiring children (or parents) bent on becoming the next Michael. Numero has selected seventeen of our favorites. A detailed and photo stuffed booklet breaks down the history of the phenomena, while the disc straddles the line between historical artifact and wild mix tape.

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Soul Messages From Dimona

2LP | 2008 | US | Original (Numero Group)

32,99 €*

Gone: The Promises Of Yesterday

Release: 2008 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Following a path blazed in Belize and the Bahamas, The Numero Group finds yet another stop on the soul diaspora tour: Dimona, Israel. Between 1975-1981, a group of American ex-pats took their native sounds of Detroit and Chicago and intermingled them with the messages of the Black Hebrew culture. The results are a heavenly mix of spiritual soul and jazz with an undercurrent of gospel psychedelia. Featuring the Soul Messengers, the Spirit Of Israel, Sons Of The Kingdom, and the Tonistics, Soul Messages From Dimona is the only living document of a thriving community at both the center and fringe of the world.

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24-Carat Black

CD | 2009 | US | Original (Numero Group)

21,99 €*

Release: 2009 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Previously unissued recordings!!

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Wayfaring Strangers - Lonesome Heroes

2LP | 2009 | US | Original (Numero Group)

Gone: The Promises Of Yesterday

Release: 2009 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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17 Rare tracks by folk unknowns Jim Schoenfeld, Jim Ransom, Richard Smyrnios, Tucker Zimmermann, Kierian White, Les Moore, Rob Carr, Jack Hardy, George Cromarty, Jay Bolotin, Tony Trosley, Roger Lewis, Tim Ward, David Kaufmann, John Villemonte, Bob Brown and Robb Kunkel.

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24-Carat Black

LP | 2009 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Love Apple Red Vinyl Edition

Release: 2009 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Gone: The Promises Of Yesterday is by no means a sequel to Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth - missing are the poignant and bleak sermons on the pain of inner-city existence, replaced by dusky, sensuous re-workings of tainted love songs Warren had written as far back as 1965, during his time as a songwriter at Shrine and Motown. Still, his unfinished self-reinvention, even heard through the prism of these skeletal remnants, delivers on a remarkable purity of vision: one man's corner of black culture, 24 carats pure and mishandled perhaps until now, finally a bit less misunderstood.

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Love Apple

LP | 2012 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

24,99 €*

Brown Bombers & Soul Partners

Release: 2012 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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In the late '70s, three do-right women from Cleveland forged a brief partnership with Ohio's everything man, Lou Ragland. Unlike the prefabricated singing combos of the day, Lily Pearson, Annette Warren, and Avetta Henry swapped lead duties as situation demanded. When a Ragland-centric publicity stunt preempted a concert appearance, Love Apple disintegrated, abandoning this rehearsal tape within the lo-fi confines of Thomas Boddie's cherished Eastside studio. Devoid of bass, the sparse instrumentation (only Lou on guitar and piano and Hot Chocolate's Tony Roberson on drums) accentuates each vocalist's aptitude, showcasing some of Ragland's finest songwriting in the process. During any given take, Ragland can be heard calling audibles, directing his singers to repeat a passage, or lending his own sweet tenor to the vocal mix. Never intended for release, Love Apple's six-song sketch is the perfect companion to I Travel Alone, bringing Ragland's unique musical vision into sharper focus.

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Wait For Me

7" | 2013 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Release: 2013 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Eccentric Soul - The Bandit Label

3LP | 2013 | US | Original (Numero Group)

47,99 €*

7" | 2013 | US | Original (Numero Group)

Release: 2013 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Eccentric Soul: The Bandit Label takes a look at the underside of Chicago soul through twenty tracks of blistering R&B, sweet soul, and discofied funk. Hundreds of hours were spent researching, interviewing, re-mastering, and compiling the history of Bandit and the life of Arrow Brown. Unearthed in the process were two cassette tapes worth of acappella rehearsals that we've done our best to preserve in their lo-fi, in-the-red state. Numero 003 might be the deepest we'll ever dig. No map, no shovel, just a stack of 45's and a city of three million people.

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Notations

That Girl / I'm For Real

Release: 2013 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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1514 Oliver Avenue Black Vinyl Basement Edition

Mind & Matter

LP | 2013 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

25,99 €*

Release: 2013 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jimmy Jam Harris was just 16 when he began writing and arranging for Minneapolis 11-piece Mind & Matter. Boasting a perfectly calibrated vocal quartet, an aggressive rhythm section, and stacks of Rhodes, Rolands, and Hammonds, the danceable act failed to win favor with frigid Midwest audiences. Tracked in 1977, this bundle of never-before-released basement demos throw Harris' beloved Philadelphia Sound into an unfinished root cellar, pelting it with Clavinet attacks, disco skats, and infectious hooks. Named for the street address of its underground uptown genesis, 1514 Oliver Avenue (Basement) is James "Jimmy Jam" Harris' first foray into songcraft and an organic Minneapolis-vintage alternative to a late '70s Prince songbook gone increasingly synthetic.

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Eccentric Soul: The Forte Label Black Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2013 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

33,99 €*

Release: 2013 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2014 | US | Original (Numero Group)

Fern Jones

The Glory Road

Release: 2014 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Her voice was all Saturday night, delivered on a Sunday morning. Patsy on Jesus. Elvis without the pelvis. Fern Jones' only album, released by Dot Records in 1959, captured 36-year-old Sister Fern as she anointed church music with the same untamed energy that younger white Southerners were bringing to their rock 'n' roll. Produced by Mac Wiseman and showcasing crack Nashville session players Hank "Sugarfoot" Garland, Floyd Cramer, Joe Zinkan, and Buddy Harman fresh off their June 1958 session with The Pelvis, Singing A Happy Song should've taken Jones from dusty canvas big tops to the Opry's storied stage. But with no 45 to flog, Jones instead sold nary a record and never did hear herself on the radio. Her fiery rockabilly gospel was a few shades too radical for the conservative, traditional, near puritanical public she played to anyway. Fern Jones: The Glory Road collects her Singing A Happy Song LP and cuts including "Didn't It Rain," from her The Joneses Sing album, into one rousing package, rich with the details and imagery of a brief career spent tethered to the hard ground and gazing skyward. The Glory Road's sound gnaws at the bit and stands in reverence, a runaway rockabilly tent show without a single drop of rain on the horizon.

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LP | 2014 | US | Original (Numero Group)

South Side Story

Release: 2014 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" | 2015 | US | Original (Numero Group)

Trevor Dandy

Is There Any Love

Universal Togetherness Band

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A branch pruned from West Indian-born Trevor Dandy’s 1970 LP Don’t Cry Little Tree, “Is There Any Love” is the stand out track from our 10th release, Good God: A Gospel Funk Hymnal. Produced by composer Paul Zaza in his basement studio in Toronto’s Etobicoke municipality, the socially turned-on Don’t Cry was intended to be sold to Dandy’s congregation. When Dandy failed to hit his promised sales goal of 2000, most of the pressing was relocated to the dump. “Is There Any Love” has since gone on to be sampled by a plethora of artists, including Kid Cudi, Ghostface Killah, Monsters of Folk, and Common. In 2009 we pressed up 200 copies of a one sided version of Dandy’s signature tune in conjunction with United Record Pressing and gave most of them away. It has since become one of the most in demand 45s Numero has ever issued. This unlimited repressing ups the ante slightly, as we’ve added an identical second “bonus” side for discerning DJs and home hifi enthusiasts alike to add their own cue burns, scuffs, and scratches to.

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My Sentiments / Missing You

7" | 2015 | US | Original (Numero Group)

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ork: The Complete Singles Box Set

Box Set | 2015 | US | Original (Numero Group)

123,99 €*

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Still Here Red Vinyl Edition

The Notations

LP | 2015 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Release: 2015 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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From the dawn of doo-wop to the death of disco, the Notations saw_and sang_it all. Persisting through changing trends and technologies, on major labels and minor ones, produced by both Syl Johnson and Curtis Mayfield, nothing could stop the Notations from representing Chicago's Southside for decades. The first overview of their indie label golden age, Still Here 1967-1973 finds the Notations at a musical crossroads, turning from simmering R&B ballads to socially-conscious soul. Offering up a platter of golden-dipped harmonies, inventive arrangements, and super-powered soul, the Notations survived as unheralded legends in their own time.

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Ultra High Frequencies: The Chicago Party Colored Vinyl Edition

LP | 2015 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

35,99 €*

Ringing Bell (Sweet Music) Part1 / Part 2

Release: 2015 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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For 23 straight Saturday nights of 1982, "The Chicago Party" dance show assaulted Chicagoland UHF eyeballs with Spandex, Southside fly guys, tender tenderonies, magicians, contortionists, prismatic video gimmickry, and lip-synched singles by a rising regime of local post-disco casualties. Unfettered nightlife and outlandish humor poured out of oddball outpost The CopHerBox II and onto TV screens, presented here as a 100-minute video mixtape on DVD. Its companion compilation features five previously unreleased tracks, joined by music culled from a trove of self-released 45s and small-time 12"s. Die-cut cathode-ray jacket and six in-package stills put the Party at your fingertips.Available on CD or 2LP, each edition of Ultra-High Frequencies: The Chicago Party will arrive in one of six cover configurations, all of which are interchangeable via printed inner sleeves and enclosed booklet. Both editions include our entertaining DVD mixtape, isolating the most absurd and outrageous moments from the original broadcasts. Play functions enable viewers to enjoy 23 unique musical performances, as well as a mini-documentary about the creation and realization of "The Chicago Party." For fans of electronic soul with a public-access aesthetic, Ultra-High Frequencies: The Chicago Party is the place to be.

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The Young Senators

7" | 2016 | US | Original (Numero Group)

9,99 €*

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2017 | US | Original (Numero Group)

Southwest Side Story

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Seafaring Strangers Seafoam Green Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2017 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

35,99 €*

Release: 2017 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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At the glassy apex of rock's softer side, away from all of the commotion, exists a place for both relaxation and reflection, where listeners can enjoy the present, a cool breeze_a taste of the good life.

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Eccentric Soul: The Saru Label

2LP | 2018 | US | Original (Numero Group)

30,99 €*

I Can't Stand It / Only Yesterday

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The 20th volume of our flagship Eccentric Soul series has all the boxes checked: Guntoting, skip-tracing record producers, child stars, rip-offs, the “World’s Greatest Bail Bondsman,” swindles, soaring falsettos, and a dwindling rust-belt cityscape offering mere glimpses of hope before the record industry escaped for the coasts. Helmed by the O’Jays Bobby Massey, Saru was a creative vortex that pulled Cuyahoga County’s greatest talent in, making a strong case for Cleveland to contend with Detroit, Philly, and Memphis as America’s soul music’s capital. Includes obscure and unknown sides from the Out of Sights, the Elements, Pandella Kelly, David Peoples, Sir Stanley, the Ponderosa Twins + 1, Ba-Roz, Bobby Dukes, and of course, the O’Jays.

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Thelma Jones

7" | 2018 | US | Original (Numero Group)

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The missing link between her Barry and Columbia singles, “I Can’t Stand It” b/w “Only Yesterday” is Thelma Jones with her back against the wall of an empty and indifferent Holiday Inn lounge and nothing to lose. Washed out of the recording business by the age of 30, Jones and her then-husband/manager James Hazley relocated to Tampa to work the hotel circuit and figure out what—if anything—was next. Following a chance encounter with Blair Mooney, Jones was invited to workshop a few stray originals at his Studio 70 compound in 1972. “He seemed to believe in me more than I did at the time,”Jones remembered of the Tampa studio impresario. Jones signed with Columbia a few years later and hightailed it out of The Big Guava, leaving two sides of country-politan soul on the shelf to be forgotten about. This Eccentric Soul 45 is a first time issue, carrying the banner of Mooney’s Gimp label and mastered directly from the original analog tapes.

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Eccentric Soul: The Saru Label

CD | 2018 | US | Original (Numero Group)

16,99 €*

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2019 | Original (Numero Group)

New World Music

Intellectual Thinking

24,99 €*

Universal Togetherness Band

Release: 2019 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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One copy per customer.

Pre-dotcom electro-funk from the long-running S.F. collective New World Music, gathering the best of their opium-hazed Macola-issued singles on one tidy 12”. Winding keys loosely hug an over-worked 808, as a slapping, watery bass gallops alongside, the looming bummer of the mid-’80s drug war hanging heavy over the whole affair. Intellectual Thinking finds New World Music jamming towards a techno future that never arrived.

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Dreamality / Lucky Stars

7" | 2019 | US | Original (Numero Group)

Pastor T.L. Barrett And The Youth For Christ Choir

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Two brilliant, previously unissued modern soul discoveries from the archive of U.T.B. mastermind Andre Gibson. “My Lucky Stars” rides the 120 BPM crest, with sharp horns, handclaps, triangle, and a wild guitar solo filling out the four and a half minute ride. “Dreamality” cops a Steve Miller vibe and goes on a spaced-out future funk adventure.

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Do Not Pass Me By Volume II Black Vinyl Edition

LP | 2019 | US | Original (Numero Group)

The Cookhouse 5 Gold Vinyl Edition

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The sequel to Pastor Barrett’s landmark 1971 masterpiece Like A Ship…, Do Not Pass Me By finds the young Chicago preacher and his Youth for Christ Choir continuing their genre-bending spiritual journey. Heavy drums, soaring falsettos, euphoric tambourines, sharp horns, and Barrett’s unwavering devotion dance around a 40-piece choir, working together to form sanctified slab of gospel funk. Pressed in a minuscule quantity in 1973, Do Not Pass Me By was sold primarily from the pulpit of Barrett’s Mt. Zion Baptist Church, disappearing into Chicago’s south side for 45 years before Numero’s excavation. The ten-song album has been remastered, it’s generic album cover updated to match Barrett’s vision. On the back of the jacket, he insisted on the following words: “After listening to this album you will be glad that you did not pass it by!”

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94 East

LP | 2019 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

2LP | 2020 | US | Original (Numero Group)

Release: 2019 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP in tip-on jacket with purple velvet and gold foil stamping. In 1975, Brooklyn transplant Pepe Willie booked time at Cookhouse Recording Studios in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to demo five original compositions. Without roots in the Twin Cities' insular scene, Willie had no fixed backing group to help realize the arrangements he and vocalists Marcy Ingvoldstad and Kristie Lazenberry had been rehearsing. Willie organized a young cast of backing musicians for the session, among them his wife's cousin: a 16-year-old guitar prodigy named Prince Rogers Nelson. Known colloquially as "The Cookhouse 5" these recordings showcase Prince's instantly recognizable guitar playing, seasoning to perfection 94 East's short-but-sweet songbook. A crucial document concerning the origins of the Minneapolis Sound, the B-side boasts instrumental versions of each infectious tune, providing an even greater vantage point from which to admire the Purple One's expressive playing style, already evident in his teenage years.

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Tommy McGee

I'm A Stranger

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Book+LP | 2020 | US | Original (Numero Group)

Louis Wayne Moody High

33,99 €*

4 X A Dream Beachball Splatter Vinyl Edition

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Ten incredible albums culled from the deepest, weirdest coop of record enthusiasts ever gathered under one banner. We’ve spared no expense packaging these, pairing the idea of the Art of Compilation with living and breathing art, creating little fortune cookies baked in a factory of forgotten dreams. Video games, pyramids, trading cards, matchbooks, mazes, lottery tickets, film canisters, yearbooks, and various other exercises in design absurdity.

The lost yearbook from Louis Wayne Moody High’s graduating class of 1967, chronicling the peaks and valleys of teenage angst, lost loves, and life after summer vacation. Fourteen moody melodies of surf kings, guitar Bettys, talent show psychers, and pre-S.D.S. soft- poppers. Walls of jangly guitars, maudlin organs, and melancholy harmonies deliver the bummer to ring in the summer.

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Masumi Hara

Release: 2020 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A Seamless Mix Of The Organic And Inorganic, The Recent Past And Distant Future, And The Possible And Impossible, Japanese Multi-Media Artist Masumi Hara's Sophomore Album Arrived Like A Fish On The Moon In 1984. An Album Filled With Contradiction And Purpose, 4 X A Dream Is Both Balearic Acid Folk And Damaged Steel Drum Dub, Hi-Tech New Wave Balladry And Ambient Synth Pop. Classical And Neoimpressionist Vibes Haunt And Entrance. Quite Possibly The Most Unique Lp You'll Ever Add To Your Collection.

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Eccentric Funk Clear With Yellow & Purple Splatter Vinyl Edition

III Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2020 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Twelve unstoppable deep funk burners from across the Numerosphere. A smorgasbord of sounds from R&B's dapper younger cousin. Loose guitars and chunky drums lie in wait for discerning break-makers to finely chop and flip. The only funk record you'll ever need to own.

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24 Carat Black

Release: 2020 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Champagne Wave VinylFrom Shrine to Stax, Isaac Hayes to Gloria Ann Taylor, The Mad Lads to The Staples Singers, Detroit to Atlanta, Kendrick to Pusha-T, Dale Warren's singular voice is the lone constant. Beneath the ethereal beauty of his productions was a genius crippled by his unbridled id. His ever-evolving 24-Carat Black project spanned the '70s, producing a masterpiece and an unfinished follow up. Discovered in a storage space were Warren's 1980s demos cut with grown n' sexy divas Princess Hearn, Vicki Gray, and LaRhonda LeGette right before his untimely death at the age of 50. III is an unfinished symphony that peels away the final layer of Dale Warren's mysterious oeuvre.

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Eccentric Funk Opaque Purple With Pink Splatter Vinyl Edition

Release: 2020 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Eccentric Funk

Pastor T.L. Barrett & The Youth For Christ Choir

Release: 2020 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Do Not Pass Me By Volume 1

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Numero Group)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Final Album In Pastor T.L. Barrett's 1970s Four-Part Suite Of Gospel Funk Lps, Do Not Pass Me By Finds The Fiery Preacher Getting Spaced Out On God's Love. Accompanied By His Youth For Christ Choir, The Eight-Song Record Is Buoyed By The Seven-Minute Opus "Father Stretch My Hands," Later Sampled By Kanye West On 2016's The Life Of Pablo.

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Numero 95 Clear Vinyl Edition

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Numero Group)

30,99 €*

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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As escapism from corporate banality turned the corner in the `90s, a new generation of vibrant, software generated soundscapes emerged. Communal access to the internet propagated the new hive mind of ideas online, giving way to smoother, stress-free textures. The PC revolution opened the gateway to ray-traced playgrounds of color and light, allowing for visions of utopic proportions to manifest themselves on screensavers far and wide. Boot up your machine, load the software on this floppy diskette, and drop out of a reality bounded by the physical laws of the universe. Numero 95 is the soundtrack to the screen saver fever dream we're all trying to climb back into. Eight droplets of proto-vaporwave, synthesized in vinyl (or digital) form, fresh from Numero's archive of forgotten sounds. Are you looking for that half way point between smooth jazz and new age? Mac and PC? Quantum Leap and the X-Files? This software is for you. Housed in a replica floppy diskette, Numero 95 explores an early computer music unbound by scene or region. Eight solo pioneers vibing out at home in their headphones, traveling as far as the sound card would allow. This is music that barely escaped the hard drive and yet percolates at the edges of the algorithm 30 years later. Welcome to Numero 95.

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Rust Side Story Volume 24 Red, White & Green Vinyl Vinyl Edition

LP | 2021 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

You And Me Transparent Orange Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The third installment of Numero's ode to lowrider souldies, Rust Side Story compiles highly sought after sweet soul singles from the Buck Eye State. Prepare for a low and slow ride from Youngstown to Dayton, Cleveland to Columbus, Toledo to Cincinnati, all soundtracked with silky falsettos and dreamy harmonies.

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Penny & The Quarters

Over Fields And Mountains White Blossom Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sometime in 2005, a lone box of master tapes escaped an estate sale and made its way through a network of collectors, record dealers, and "junkers" into the hands of leading Ohio soul expert Dante Carfagna, who linked them to Columbus, Ohio's mysterious Prix label (See: Eccentric Soul: The Prix Label). A bit of research turned up Prix proprietor George Beter, who identified most of the unlabeled material. All it took was an endless series of phone calls and letters and two fields trips in Columbus. But one complete mystery wended its way onto our final Prix compilation. "You and Me," a simple but irrepressible demo credited only to Penny & the Quarters, was found tacked onto a mixed studio reel. Our survey of every willing lifer left on the Columbus soul scene, including retired DJs, producers, and important local artists, produced not so much as a glimmer of recognition at the name Penny & the Quarters. Though we loved the song from the first play, it may've ended up a bit buried on our original compilation, as #18 of 19 tracks. Four years later, Eccentric Soul: The Prix Label hadn't exactly become a huge seller, although listeners had repeatedly told us that the unfiltered studio demos that fill out the record's back half were true diamonds in the rough. But neither Penny nor her Quarters had appeared to claim credit for their efforts. Then, completely out of left field, we heard from respected screen actor and avowed Numero fan Ryan Gosling that Penny's piercing bit of stripped down doo-wop was being considered for inclusion in Derek Cianfrance's indie-weeper film Blue Valentine. What we didn't know was that "You and Me" had won a major role in what became an indie circuit hit, and that Penny & the Quarters would instantly assume the role of world's most famous unknown doo-wop group. Every week is a slow news week in Columbus, Ohio, and early January 2011 found the city recovering from the thrill of elevating Ted Williams_the formerly homeless guy with the awesome voice for radio_into a national news sensation. But both major daily newspapers in town, as well as the city's alternative weekly, also ran stories about how a lost and unknown Columbus soul group had become the musical centerpiece of a film already garnering Oscar buzz. That mainstream spotlight aimed at Blue Valentine and Penny & the Quarters did the trick: we finally made contact with the widow of Jay Robinson, lead Quarters' singer and songwriter. Robinson, it turned out, had also been the leader of Columbus doo-wop pioneers The Supremes (later known as "The Columbus Supremes," for reasons which should be obvious). Jay Robinson never did give up on the dream of writing a hit record; even so, the posthumous realization of his dream is cold comfort for his widow and daughter. With their blessings, we returned to those estate sale masters and pulled down another neglected track ("You Are Giving Me Some Other Love") from the still-unknown Penny and her now-partly-known Quarters. "You and Me" is a song that could not be suppressed: not when Prix failed to release it; not when Penny & the Quarters were forgotten; not when Numero stuck it at the bitter end of a much overlooked compilation. Its evolution from estate sale trash to silver-screen gold has finally returned it to big-hole 45, where it probably should have lived all along.

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Branko Mataja

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Recalling Ennio Morricone spaghetti westerns, the electrified belly dance music of Omar Khorshid, and '90s bedroom psychedelia at once, the music of Branko Mataja is from its own epoch. Snatched from the streets of Belgrade as a teenager,Mataja spent World War 2 in a German work camp, escaping the insanity of postwar Europe to settle in North Hollywoodto live out the American Dream to its fullest. Crafting handmade music on homemade guitars throughout the 1970s,Mataja taught himself to play in order to pay homage to his ancestral home of Yugoslavia, a place he would never returnto except through these guitar meditations.

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Ebirac All-Stars

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Far from the twin epicenters of New York and Miami, Carlos Ruiz and his Ebirac label were both feeling and generating the aftershocks of the mid-'70s salsa boom. Holed up in their own bustling Puerto Rican community center on Chicago's west side, these third coast salseros plied their trade outside the hot lights, cutting their teeth in city parks, VFW halls, and Holiday Inn rec rooms. Nearly 50 records survive in the wake of orquestas La Justicia, La Solucion, and Tipica Leal '79, the most impassioned, singular moments of which are compiled here.

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Eccentric Soul: The Shiptown Label Colored Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2022 | US | Original (Numero Group)

34,99 €*

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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From a humble storefront studio located in a shoeshine parlor on Norfolk, Virginia's Church Street, Noah Biggs built a world. Hustler by day, gambler by night, the always-in-a-suit Biggs took a gaggle of off-brand singers and combined his connections and charisma to forge timeless soul music during a period of deep upheaval. Compiled here are 25 of Shiptown's most compelling sides recorded between 1965-1977, from the likes of Ida Sands, The Soul Duo, The Anglos, Dream Team, The Grooms, Positive Sounds, Barbara Stant, Wilson Williams, Art Ensley, and yes, Flip Flop Stevens.

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Eccentric Soul: The Shiptown Label Black Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2022 | US | Original (Numero Group)

33,99 €*

Let's Ride Black Vinyl Editin

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Junei'

Glued To The Spot Clear Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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"Willie "Junei" Lee spent the first half of the 1970s playing guitar with his older brother Robert Lee in the self-contained band Lost Weekend, recording a handful of singles and a still unreleased LP. The back half of the decade was spent touring with Albert King, Curtis Mayfield, and The Emotions, before returning home to Gary, Indiana, to focus on his own sound. In 1985, Junei's girlfriend brought home a suite of Fostex home studio gear, including a 12 channel board, 8-track tape machine, and a halftrack for mix downs. He added a Yamaha drum machine and a Maestro echoplex and started his solo project. "The only artists I listened to was Hendrix and Santana," Junei said. The emissions coming from his home studio were entirely different, however, as "Let's Ride" channels the Euro sensibilities of Kraftwerk or Italo over virtuosic guitar. "I just didn't want to sound like anyone else," he continued. "Let's Ride" achieved that differentiation, and managed to anticipate Chicago house by a few years. Pressed in minuscule numbers in 1987 on Pharaohs Records, the 45 never connected with the nearby scenes in Chicago and Detroit where it might have found purchase in fertile soils. Decades later "Let's Ride" found new life as the bed for KAYTRANADA's "Scared To Death," and the track has slowly worked its way through the algorithm to a new generation of vapor huffers. "I am all for experimentation, trying new things, etc," Junei said. "Kaytranada is a visionary and a talented producer. He has my respect.""

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Cheryl Glasgow

16,99 €*

Let's Ride Clear Green Vinyl Editin

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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It's always summer somewhere, but especially so wherever Cheryl Glasgow's carefree clubber "Glued To The Spot" plays. An absolute ear-worm from its first nylon strums, Glasgow's Sade-adjacent, jazz vocalese sweeps into a warm-up tempo groove and never quite breaks a sweat. Issued on Ross Anderson's short-lived, London-based Live label, "Glued To The Spot" swept through the club scene briefly in 1987, disembarking for warmer shores when the season changed.

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Junei'

16,99 €*

Penny & The Quarters & Friends Smoke Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Penny & The Quarters

Best Piece Of Shit Volume 4 Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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"You and Me" by Penny & the Quarters simply refused to stay lost. For 40 years, the song sat silent in a box of reels before heartthrob Ryan Gosling selected it to star in 2010's indie weeper Blue Valentine. The power of the track set off an international treasure hunt in pursuit of the mysterious artists behind it. Since then, "You and Me" has soundtracked thousands of weddings, spawned hundreds of YouTube covers, and tugged heartstrings for scores of advertisements and films. Fifteen years after "Eccentric Soul: The Prix Label" became Numero's worst selling compilation, we've reanalyzed the tapes and selected 11 equally-as-fascinating rehearsals caught by engineer Clem Price in Columbus, Ohio, in 1970.

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The Hated

2LP | 2022 | US | Original (Numero Group)

35,99 €*

Penny & The Quarters & Friends Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Draped in a flag of patriotic shame, the Hated stormed onto the scene just as D.C.'s Revolution Summer was swerving out of control. Channeling Bad Brains' Black thrash and Hüsker Dü's zen approach to hardcore, Dan Littleton, Erik Fisher, Colin Meeder, and Mike Bonner synthesized their own version of what became emo in 1985. Remastered from the original analog tapes, Best Piece Of Shit Vol. 4 compiles their D.I.Y. debut cassette, the No More We Cry EP, and 14 period bonus tracks from the Hated vault, spread across two LPs and annotated by fellow Annapolis hooligan Andrew Gebhardt. Decorated with extensive photo documentation and cut'n'paste ephemera, this Hated-approved set captures a band, a scene, and a country on the verge of either exploding or imploding. Never said it'd be lik e this, right?

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Penny & The Quarters

I'm Not Your Toy Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Peter Barclay

I'm Not Your Toy Pink Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The diminutive Peter Barclay was guy in early '90s Oakland, the eccentric with the most style, the most talent, the local magician. This self-taught musical wizard recorded at home and produced two barely-released albums, 1990's dreamlike Acceptance and 1992's synth pop What Kind Of World, winning over the few who heard them. But fame outside his small circle was not to be, and Barclay was lost in the late-'90s crest of the Aids epidemic. Rediscovered for a new generation, this is queer music at its finest... Welcome to the world of Peter Barclay.

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Peter Barclay

Merry Christmas To You Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Joseph Washington Jr.

Merry Christmas To You Green Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Joseph Washington Jr.'s 1983 holiday LP putsa soulful, funky, suave ribbon on nine frostyChristmas cuts. In that season of music'straditional descent into threadbare schmaltz,Merry Christmas to You restores joy andwonder to a blizzard of bland. Under thistree, find undiscovered classics for our cynicalage: the buoyant "Jesus' Birthday," the hotand bothered soul of "Merry Christmas," theridiculously catchy wallet-opener "Shopping."The world of records produces just a preciousfew yuletide keepers: Spector's A ChristmasGift for You; Fahey's The New Possibility;Guaraldi's indelible Charlie Brown Christmas.Down another nog and file Joseph WashingtonJr. comfortably next to those.

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Joseph Washington Jr.

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Green VinylJoseph Washington Jr.'s 1983 holiday LP putsa soulful, funky, suave ribbon on nine frostyChristmas cuts. In that season of music'straditional descent into threadbare schmaltz,Merry Christmas to You restores joy andwonder to a blizzard of bland. Under thistree, find undiscovered classics for our cynicalage: the buoyant "Jesus' Birthday," the hotand bothered soul of "Merry Christmas," theridiculously catchy wallet-opener "Shopping."The world of records produces just a preciousfew yuletide keepers: Spector's A ChristmasGift for You; Fahey's The New Possibility;Guaraldi's indelible Charlie Brown Christmas.Down another nog and file Joseph WashingtonJr. comfortably next to those.

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Mid-Atlantic Story Volume 3 Black Vinyl Edition

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Numero Group)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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For the lowriders, the souleros, and for any armchair drag racer who still has a record player within reach, Mid-Atlantic Story pays tribute to the aftermarket sounds of soul music, inspired by the record industry's metric trunkload of cruising compilations, legitimate and otherwise, that soundtracked an entire subculture. This getaway ride mixtape strips aesthetics from the timeless East Side Story series, and poaches music from the greater Chesapeake Bay region. Roll with a jacked-up masterpiece.

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Mid-Atlantic Story Volume 3 Tri-Colored Vinyl Edition

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Numero Group)

My Mind Holds On To Yesterday Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Barbara Stant

My Mind Holds On To Yesterday Coke Bottle Clear Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Eventually crowned Queen of theNorfolk Sound, Barbara Stant wasjust a teenager when she auditionedfor Shiptown impresario NoahBiggs in 1970. A dozen sides weretracked throughout the decade,producing a body of work thatstretched from deep soul tonorthern soul to sister funk. By1978 disco was in overdrive, NoahBiggs was in the ground, and Stant'scareer on hold.My Mind HoldsOnto Yesterdayis what remains.

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Barbara Stant

Take Me For A Little While / We Go Together Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Royal Jesters

7" | 2023 | US | Original (Numero Group)

I Won't Love You Again / So Funny Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Royal Jesters were a household name in the 60s in San Antonio, TX. the 1960s. Formed by Henry Hernandez and Oscar Lawson, the group performed at school dances and downtown clubs and eventually leased and managed their own venue, the legendary Patio Andaluz. The group also started their own label, Jester Records, and recorded various singles, including a take on Vanilla Fudge's "Take Me For A Little While" with the towering Louie Escalante on lead. The group also recorded "We Go Together," a group harmony classic with 16 yr old Luvine Elias, Jr on a Lowrey organ. A must-have hot tortilla to keep in your bag.

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Dimas III

7" | 2023 | US | Original (Numero Group)