Rare, Obscure and often overlooked grooves from the late 60s to Early 80's

stylesforfree · February 7

Im into a lot of different music, my current record collection stands at around 1000+ although I will be trimming off most of my rap and hip hop soon enough. I used to go to the record stores around here 3 times a week, usually picking up jazz, funk and soul.

After delving pretty deep into a search for more obscure music I ended up with a fair bit of Soviet/Russian, Japanese, Chinese and Thai stuff, from there I ended up getting into the murky and weird/wonderful world of library music and Italian and French soundtracks from the 70's. It hasn't really stopped but I have been on a hiatus for a year or so and haven't been for a dig in months.

I was wondering if there's any fellow diggers on here that might wan't to put me on to some funky grooving psyched out obscure music that may have come to light over the past year.

I am about to head on over to Mr. Bongo to check what reissues have been released recently but as I am completely out of touch with music if anyone would like to contribute and link some music in a similar vein that would be great.

Here's a few tracks I ripped from my own personal collection and uploaded to youtube:

https://youtu.be/cFOiHWtK2x8?si=8YtIrAFwsaPBQ8Jb

https://youtu.be/DP-2Rr8AHIs?si=A3BDuBWRLopD5DgB

https://youtu.be/Hwdhrt5HAHM?si=R6Zg2nFlH1pNht1r

And a couple of my favourites:

https://youtu.be/w-Yg9L13q5Q?si=kp0InJA84NlJ4hQb

https://youtu.be/REGul7GhIfU?si=LclxmzMc9uXawNzp

https://youtu.be/8x1HVUg8Kto?si=ycYAofQ-jGUqb-rI

So if anyone wants to drop some gems and heavy hitting grooves please do!

Lodious · February 7

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Lodious · February 7

Technically does not qualify but....

Hootsmon · February 7

For me it's Fish out of Water by Chris Squires the best album never made by Yes....if you get my drift

Hootsmon · February 7

Kittyfrisk · February 7

Wow, very synchronous post.
Radio 4 just doing an article on 1970s Soul Funk band Cymande (you will almost certainly have heard their stuff, but not their name).
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_fourfm

blobb · February 7

Belgie - from err, Belgium.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeRL8ZhTmJY

stylesforfree · February 7

Kittyfrisk said:

Wow, very synchronous post.
Radio 4 just doing an article on 1970s Soul Funk band Cymande (you will almost certainly have heard their stuff, but not their name).
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_fourfm

Cymande are one of my favourites, I upgraded my dusty scuffed up copies of second time around and promised heights when I picked up all the reissues!

Lodious said:

This is heeeaavvyyyy!!!! Nice one!

JezWynd · February 7

Trying to work out if that's fuzz guitar in Rt channel or a Stylophone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hwdhrt5HAHM&t=154s

boogieman · February 8

More jazz rock but Ayers Rock, obscure Aussie band that I picked up on years back somehow. They did a blinding version of Weather Report’s Boogie Woogie Waltz. Great use of the Mutron fx pedal.

https://youtu.be/yGXhO5k1jss?si=cURs0VA12a1m_R5C