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Fratelli Malibu is an original idea of Andrea De Fazio with the cooperation of Paolo Petrella, drummer and bassist for Nu Guinea's live band. Their love for synthesizers and drum machines brought them together to create the shiny world of "Ciro Miami".

We could think of Ciro as a Neapolitan expat in the American dream, where he discovers a world of excess, flashy cars, cocktail bars, beautiful women, cocaine, gambling, spaceships and videogames that erodes all of his money forcing him to go back to Napoli completely broke, but with a fistful of wonderful memories.

High grade synth boogie RIYL: Patrick Cowley, Dam Funk, Forbidden Fruit, Mystic Jungle & Italian finesse 

TRACK LISTING

A1.Salame Napoli
A2.Turbogetto Rolls
A3.Ciro Miami
A4.Serione

B1.Gold One
B2.Baffo Tom
B3.Philadelphia Light
B4.Arkanoid

Various Artists

Miami Sound 2 - More Funk & Soul From Miami, Florida 1967-74

    Soul Jazz Records’ new Miami Sound 2 is a superlative collection of 70s soul, funk, disco and boogie featuring tracks from legendary artists such as Betty Wright, Timmy Thomas, Gwen McRae, Milton Wright, T-Connection and many more, all released on the mighty TK Records musical empire based in Miami, Florida.

    Throughout the 1970s founder Henry Stone’s TK Records rose up to be one of the most important forces in black music, successfully pioneering the evolution in musical fashions from the early gritty funk and soul at the start of the decade to the arrival of disco in the mid-70s.

    This album is a rollercoaster journey across soul, funk, disco and boogie, a party-rocking dancefloor-filling collection of monster tracks that includes million-selling hits such as Betty Wright’s classic ‘Clean Up Woman’, Timmy Thomas’s ‘Why Can’t We Live Together’, T-Connection’s ‘Do What You Wanna Do’, anthemic rare groove club hits including Gwen McCrae’s massive ‘All This Love I’m Giving’ and Milton Wright’s ‘Keep It Up’, plus a host of hard-to-find gems and rarities from the likes of Raw Soul Express, Chocolate Clay, Beginning of the End, Robert Moore, Clarence Reid, Little Beaver, Paulette Reeves and many more.

    TK Records functioned more like a close-knit family than a typical record company. Based in the industrial Hialeah district of Miami, music man Henry Stone surrounded himself with a host of creative artists, musicians, songwriters and producers who created an immediately identifiable TK sound as well as making musical stars out of many of its artists.

    Miami Sound 2 comes with extensive sleevenotes as well as an exclusive interview with Steve Alaimo, co-founder with Henry Stone of this musical empire. The album also features the photography of TK in-house photographer Larry Warmoth, whose rarely seen striking and unique images of Gwen McRae, Betty Wright, Clarence Reid and others offer a fascinating window into the pioneering record company. 

    TRACK LISTING

    Side A
    1. Betty Wright - Clean Up Woman (2.45)
    2. Miami - Party Freaks (5.18)
    3. Gwen McCrae - All This Love That I'm Giving (3.55)
    4. Beginning Of The End - Monkey Tamarind (3.35)
    5. Latimore - I Get Lifted (4.43)

    Side B
    1. Raw Soul Express - Burn The Candle (2.36)
    2. Chocolateclay - Free (I'll Always Be) (4.38)
    3. Betty Wright - I Love The Way You Love (3.03)
    4. Little Beaver - Concrete Jungle (4.53)
    5. Jimmy 'Bo' Horne - Clean Up Man (2.34)

    Side C
    1. Timmy Thomas - Africano (4.33)
    2. Charles Allen - Winterman (3.16)
    3. T-Connection - Do What Ya Wanna Do (7.03)
    4. Robert Moore - Jimmie Bo Charlie (2.14)
    5. Milton Wright - Keep It Up (4.11)

    Side D
    1. Clarence Reid - Ten Tons Of Dynamite (2.33)
    2. Timmy Thomas - Why Can't We Live Together (4.37)
    3. Little Beaver - We Three (4.07)
    4. Paulette Reaves - Do It Again (5.33)
    5. Lynn Williams - Kisses, Kisses, Kisses (2.22) 

    Khruangbin & Toro Y Moi

    Live At The Fillmore Miami

      It's only fitting that Khruangbin’s first-ever official live releases would be double albums paired with their tourmates: artists whose music they love and admire, friends who’ve become family along the way. Khruangbin’s ‘Live At’ series of live LPs traces just one small slice of the band’s flight plan through the years: it’s a taste of some of their most beloved cities, stages and nights. Each release comes with a limited-edition unique album cover exclusive for the recording’s home turf, just a little something extra for the fans that bring a little something extra. Most of all, Khruangbin’s ‘Live at’ series ignites both sides of the band’s magic: the warm, prismatic feeling of their albums and the bewitching energy of their performances.

      ‘Live at The Fillmore Miami’ features performances by Toro Y Moi and Khruangbin.

      Various Artists

      Soul Jazz Records Presents 'Miami Sound: Rare Funk & Soul From Florida 1967-1974' - 20th Anniversary Edition

        New 20th anniversary edition of Soul Jazz Records’ long out-of-print ‘Miami Sound: Rare Funk & Soul from Miami, Florida, 1967-74’. The album has been unavailable for more than 15 years and is newly remastered.

        Soul Jazz Records’ ‘Miami Sound’ features rare and classic funk and deep soul from Miami, Florida between 1967 and 1974. The album brings together million-selling artists such as Gwen McCrae, George McCrae and Timmy Thomas alongside artists little known outside of the sunshine state such as James Knight and The Butlers, Frank Williams And The Rocketeers and All The People.

        Miami funk, soul and disco was dominated by TK Records, founded by Henry Stone in the early 1970s. Through myriad associated record labels such as Alston, Blue Candle, Dash, Glades, Cat and more, TK Records made international artists out of Gwen McRae and her brother George McRae, Betty Wright and KC and The Sunshine Band, all in the mid-1970s crossover period between soul and disco.

        The music on this compilation shows the roots of this Miami sound. All the artists and musicians on this album worked together throughout the heyday of TK Records, when it produced hit after hit on an almost daily basis. The house band (the equivalent to Motown’s Funk Brothers) included songwriters such as Clarence Reid (AKA Blowfly, the adult comedian), Casey Finch (KC from KC and The Sunshine Band) along with musicians Little Beaver, Frank Williams and Robert Moore. As well as being the in-house band, most of these artists also ran successful solo careers, making Miami one of the most musically creative hot spots in the USA.

        The artists on this compilation include Helene Smith, Miami’s first lady of Soul, Frank Williams and The Rocketeers (featuring a very young Little Beaver on vocals), George McRae’s rare groove classic ‘I Get Lifted’ (written by Casey Finch), Timmy Thomas’ truly experimental track ‘Funky Me’, Gwen McRae’s classic ‘90% Of Me Is You’, as well as a host of practically unknown Miami artists who never managed to make it outside the city borders.

        TRACK LISTING

        All The People - Cramp Your Style
        Helene Smith - You Got To Be A Man
        George McCrae - I Get Lifted
        James Knight And The Butlers - Funky Cat
        Gwen McCrae - 90% Of Me Is You
        Little Beaver - Funkadelic Sound
        James Knight And The Butlers - Save Me
        Joey Gilmore - Do It To Me One More Time
        Helene Smith - A Woman Will Do Wrong
        James Knight And The Butlers - Fantasy World
        Timmy Thomas - Funky Me
        The New Clarence Reid - Cadillac Annie
        Frank Williams And The Rocketeers - The Spanish Flyer
        Della Humphrey - Don’t Make The Good Girls Go Bad
        Frank Williams And The Rocketeers - You Got To Be A Man
        Joey Gilmore - Somebody Done Took My Baby And Gone
        Little Beaver - I Love The Way You Love

        Various Artists

        Latin Freestyle: New York / Miami 1983-1992

          Latin Freestyle was a dizzying, passionate, ultra-modern music. It was the aural equivalent of a can of thirst-quenching Quatro or a Spanish Harlem dance-off, and it became the electronically constructed bridge between disco and house.

          Freestyle grew out of the electro sound of the early 80s, combined clean staccato rhythms with morse code synth hooks, and topped them off with emotive, usually female, frequently Latina vocals. There was plenty more going on besides: proto-house piano lines, Cuban percussion, high emotion and synth hooks to die for.

          Put together and annotated by Bob Stanley (who also compiled the acclaimed “The Daisy Age” and “Fell From The Sun”), “Latin Freestyle” is the first compilation to cover the whole gamut of Freestyle from its early 80s breakthrough to its early 90s revival. So many classics… Lisa Lisa made the UK top ten with the 808 joy of ‘I Wonder If I Take You Home’. Stacey Q’s cosmically great ‘Two Of Hearts’ came out in 1986, while 1987 saw the likes of Company B’s ‘Fascinated’ and Exposé’s ‘Point Of No Return’ become huge UK club hits.

          Today, Freestyle is a scene with a solid collector’s market, and rarities like Janelle’s ‘Don’t Be Shy’ sell for hundreds of dollars. It’s a classic summer soundtrack, finally condensed in one Ace Records compilation – “Latin Freestyle”.

          TRACK LISTING

          1. Point Of No Return - Expose
          2. Don't Be Shy (vocal/radio Mix) - Janelle
          3. Lover Girl - Meg
          4. Two Of Hearts (12'' Version) - Stacey Q
          5. Together Forever (radio Edit) - Lisette Melendez
          6. I Wonder If I Take You Home – Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam With Full Force
          7. When I Hear Music - Debbie Deb
          8. Let's Go (Radio Version) - Nocera
          9. Funky Little Beat - Connie
          10. Show Me - Cover Girls
          11. Nightime - Pretty Poison
          12. Fascinated (12'' Version) - Company B
          13. Dreamin' - Will To Power
          14. Baby Talk - Alisha
          15. Take Me In Your Arms - Lil Suzy
          16. Thief Of Heart - Cynthia 

          Air Miami

          Me. Me. Me. - 2023 Reissue

            Double LP reissue of Air Miami’s lost-classic 1995 album, ‘Me. Me. Me.’ Remastered from original 2” tapes and now including 3 extra tracks. This one time pressing comes on coloured vinyl and in a gatefold sleeve.

            Made up of UNREST’s Mark Robinson and Bridget Cross, Air Miami formed shortly after the D.C. indie rock mainstay’s demise in 1995, and together with drummer Gabriel Stout and producer Guy Fixsen (The Breeders, My Bloody Valentine, Stereolab), they travelled to their namesake land of Miami to record the entirety of Me. Me. Me. over the month of May at the famed Criteria Studios; a place where James Brown, Aretha Franklin, the Bee Gees, Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, AC/DC and countless more have recorded classic works. The album was then mixed at a studio in London where labelmates Lush were recording their 1996 LP Lovelife at the same time.

            Nearly thirty years on, this deluxe reissue sees the 1995 album expanded to include all sixteen tracks from the album sessions, three of which are new to the tracklist: ‘Warm Miami May’ (not on original LP), ‘Pucker’ (previously unreleased), and the full version of ‘See-Through Plastic’ (edited version only previously seen on the EP). The record also features singles ‘I Hate Milk’ and ‘Seabird,’ a track that found new life recently when covered by current 4AD artist Maria Somerville, her first release for the label and part of the label’s 40th anniversary compilation Bills & Aches & Blues.


            TRACK LISTING

            1. I Hate Milk
            2. World Cup Fever
            3. Seabird
            4. Warm Miami May (not On Original LP)
            5. Special Angel
            6. Afternoon Train
            7. Dolphin Expressway
            8. Sweet As A Candy Bar
            9. Pucker (previously Unreleased)
            10. You Sweet Little Heartbreaker
            11. Neely
            12. Bubble Shield
            13. See-Through Plastic (full Version)
            14. The Event Horizon
            15. Definitely Beachy
            16. Reprise

            The Gun Club

            Miami - Special Edition

              This Special Edition not only features a remastered version of the original classic album, but also includes a 2nd disc featuring the Miami demos.

              This classic 1982 album has been digitally re-mastered and comes in beautiful gatefold packaging with extensive liner notes and archival photos and other collectable images.

              The Gun Club recorded a few albums after Miami, but this one with the original band is the one that is considered their masterpiece!

              TRACK LISTING

              Album Tracklisting
              LP 1:

              Carry Home
              Like Calling Up Thunder
              Brother And Sister
              Run Through the Jungle
              Devil In The Woods
              Texas Serenade
              Watermelon Man
              Bad Indian
              John Hardy
              Fire Of Love
              Sleeping In Blood City
              Mother Of Earth

              LP 2:
              Carry Home (Demo)
              Like Calling Up Thunder (Demo)
              Brother And Sister (Demo)
              Run Through The Jungle (Demo)
              Devil In The Woods (Demo)
              Texas Serenade (Demo)
              Watermelon Man (Demo)
              Bad Indian (Demo)
              John Hardy (Demo)
              Fire Of Love (Demo)
              Sleeping In Blood City (Demo)
              Mother Of Earth (Demo)

              CD Tracklisting
              CD 1:

              Carry Home / Like Calling Up Thunder
              Brother And Sister
              Run Through the Jungle
              Devil In The Woods
              Texas Serenade
              Watermelon Man
              Bad Indian
              John Hardy
              Fire Of Love
              Sleeping In Blood City
              Mother Of Earth

              CD2:
              Carry Home (Demo)
              Like Calling Up Thunder (Demo)
              Brother And Sister (Demo)
              Run Through The Jungle (Demo)
              Devil In The Woods (Demo)
              Texas Serenade (Demo)
              Watermelon Man (Demo)
              Bad Indian (Demo)
              John Hardy (Demo)
              Fire Of Love (Demo)
              Sleeping In Blood City (Demo)
              Mother Of Earth (Demo)
              Walkin’ With The Beast (Demo
              Prune Dicks From Mars (Demo)
              Vampires (Demo) / Journey To Zatar (Demo)
              Blue Hair (Demo)
              Pig Boys (Demo)

              Alex Cameron

              Miami Memory

                Alex Cameron’s newest and most musically expansive LP, the glistening Miami Memory, takes a surprising turn. Cameron’s flair for narrative and character are still on full display; yet Miami Memory’s most frequent narrator is, for the first time, Cameron himself—singing with stunning candor of his three-year relationship with his girlfriend.

                “When you listen to these songs, and you’re waiting for the twist, or the joke, or any kind of discomfort, I can assure you none of those things were there when I wrote them,” says Cameron. “These are true stories, of actual events. Specific but never esoteric. And graphic but never offensive. Miami Memory is the story of a couple balancing sex with contemporary family values...It’s my gift to my girlfriend, a symbol to hoist on the totem of love.”

                Though remnants of his synth-driven earlier work sneak in to unsettle the tone, the bulk of Miami Memory, produced by Jonathan Rado (Weyes Blood, Father John Misty) and recorded and mixed by Marta Salogni (Björk, Kelela), revels in the emotional overdrive of classic dad rock, its warm, anthemic songs driven by bass, guitar, sax, and layers of Vegas wedding chapel-ish organ.

                Cameron’s dad rock funhouse of an album ultimately twists and subverts the genre: it recalls classics the white male ego has historically visited for its regular adrenaline injection, and morphs them into a singular “stepdad” rock that largely turns its lens away from the dads, celebrating the demise of old norms of gender and power. In his depiction of his relationship, Cameron reveals a striking honesty about love and sex in a time where a palpable fleetingness hangs over everything from relationships to human life on this planet—but also where constricting mores have deteriorated enough to let “family life,” in all its morphing forms, exist outside of social obligation. With arresting straightforwardness, Cameron now sings as himself, paying tribute

                STAFF COMMENTS

                Barry says: Huge stadium-rock choruses and growling synths provide a glitzy and sturdy backdrop for Cameron's soaring vocals and robust 80's-tinged pomp. Huge, overblown, and great fun all round.

                TRACK LISTING

                SIDE A:
                1. Stepdad
                2. Miami Memory
                3. Far From Born Again
                4. Gaslight
                5. Bad For The Boy

                SIDE B:
                6. End Is Nigh
                7. PC With Me
                8. Divorce
                9. Other Ladies
                10. Too Far


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