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Tout au long de leur carrière, Sharon Jones et les Dap-Kings sont restés très demandés tant en public qu’en privé pour recréer et souvent ré-imaginer des chansons d’autres artistes. Le plus souvent, ces reprises ont été enregistrées à la demande : commandées pour être placées dans des films, des programmes télévisés, des albums hommage ou des samples. Cet album compile certaines de leurs interprétations les plus populaires ainsi que des oeuvres inédites. Bien que le groupe ait principalement construit sa carrière sur un catalogue prolifique d’originaux, ces incursions dans les compositions d’autres artistes mettent à nu leur talent pour l’arrangement et les prouesses inégalées en studio qui leur ont valu leur réputation de The Baddest Band in the Land. Vinyle splatter bleu et noir en exclusivité pour les disquaires indépendants.

Ce n’est que justice que les premiers albums live officiels de Khruangbin soient des doubles albums en collaboration avec leurs compagnons de tournée : des artistes dont ils aiment et admirent la musique, des amis qui sont devenus leur famille en cours de route. La série d'albums "Live At" de Khruangbin ne retrace qu'une petite partie de la feuille de route du groupe au fil des ans : c'est un avant-goût de certaines de leurs villes, scènes et soirées favorites. Surtout, la série "Live at" de Khruangbin fait ressortir les deux aspects de la magie du groupe : la sensation chaleureuse et prismatique de leurs albums et l'énergie envoûtante de leurs concerts. Live At RBC Echo Beach, le troisième volet de la série Live, comprend des performances du groupe d’électro pop montréalais Men I Trust.

✈︎✈︎ US import ✈︎✈︎With her first album in 1973, Betty Davis arrived like a stick of TNT sizzling her fuse right down and ready to blow the funk scene wide open. A woman singing, writing, recording and producing her music herself, the world wasn’t ready for her, and on this debut album you can hear how fully-formed and charismatic she was even at her rawest. Backed by her band Funk House, she lays it down any way she pleases, which more often than not is strongly seductive. Light In The Attic’s dedicated reissue series is shining a light back on Davis’ landmark run of records, and this is without a doubt one of the best of the bunch.

✈︎✈︎ US import ✈︎✈︎Betty Davis was a musical maverick with vision. Image, substance, sex, and grit combined with a badass band that could deliver the funk bed backbone to the sultry music between the sheets. After cutting two notorious discs for the Just Sunshine label (Betty Davis and They Say I’m Different), and Nasty Gal for Island Records, Davis went to work on her most personal and expressive record yet. After capturing 10 hard-hitting tracks in 1976 at the remote Studio In The Country (Louisiana), a creative difference with her then label caused the platter to be unexpectedly shelved. Davis would cut one final album and soon retreat from the music business, completely disappearing from the public eye.Is It Love Or Desire is a little-known gem in the Davis catalog. Mastered from the original tapes, and untouched for over 30 years, this release features detailed liner notes, the originally intended artwork housed in a lavishly packaged digipak, rare photos, archival material, and recent interviews with Davis and her skin-tight band Funk House.Never bootlegged, never released, never heard until now, the secret story of this lost album will finally enter the history books and cement this bold soul sisters contributions to music and popular culture. Its time to get down…Long live Betty Davis!

Exquisite lovers rock reggae bomb produced by Los Angeles based reggae master drummer, Patrick Houchen aka Shakaman. Lucid dream inducing lyrics over a cruising beat interlaced with gorgeous melodies will make you fall in love all over again. Dub version on the back, bound to slowdown any sunset. Take a trip, don't come back. Beautifully remastered for vinyl by one of Berlin's top mastering studios, Man Made Mastering.