If you like it funky, list or recommend some funk albums you enjoy here. Whether classic, rare or contemporary artists and albums, it's all fine. Just wanna get funked up & beggin' for more.

Three new releases recommendations:

Orgone The Killion Floor. Debut album from an LA band. Has a very hot Latin funk thang here. Mostly instrumental (my favorite being "Sophisticated Honky") with a few vocal covers ("Do Your Thing","Funky Nassau") and a great original ("Who Knows Who").

Lack Of Afro Press On. Lack of Afro is UK musician Adam Gibbons. This is the first full length album after releasing several singles and eps. Samples of old funk mixed with his own beats and breaks and stirring it with some James Brown sauce and the end result is funk to the extreme. Favorite tracks: "Rusty", "Pure Filth" and a cover of the Arctic Monkeys' "When The Sun Goes Down".

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings 100 Days 100 Nights. Much more funky than her previous albums. This sounds like a best-of collection more than a collection of mostly new tracks. More brass and a blues edge to her vocals but the unmistable funk beats are turned up high on this cd.

"Funky Nassau" by The Beginning of the End. You can still find it on some world music compilations from time to time. Ya can't listen and not dance to this one.

I hear ya on the The Beginning of the End, rockthief. Killer song and album. Both albums the band released were reissued on cd in the last year or so. Both are great though it's Funky Nassau that's an essential funk pick-up.

Great funk comp: V/A Midwest Funk: Funk 45s From Tornado Alley. This was released as an import a few years back, and domestically last year. If you think the cornstalk states are funkless, this collection will change your mind. Check out "Master Groove" by Henry Peters & The Imperials and "Pushin To The Top" by Markus Kelly & The Impassions for some monster funk.

hey man, thanks for the tips.

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Great funk comp: V/A Midwest Funk: Funk 45s From Tornado Alley. This was released as an import a few years back, and domestically last year. If you think the cornstalk states are funkless, this collection will change your mind. Check out "Master Groove" by Henry Peters & The Imperials and "Pushin To The Top" by Markus Kelly & The Impassions for some monster funk.

I was just listening to this yesterday (I hadn't noticed this thread until just now). Very good. I've also got a compilation called, Texas Funk: 1968-1975 on the same label (Jazzman Records), which is also pretty stellar.

Glad you're enjoying those funk comps, MJ. Jazzman has a knack for throwing togather a killer funk collection. There's also a Florida Funk which is dynamite, and a released-this-week Carolina Funk, which I have on order.

Now listening to "You Will Want Me" by Czeslaw Niemen I Enigmatic from Polish Funk 2. Who would have guessed Poland to churn out such funky tunes?! This set is more lively than Vol.1 of the series. A few songs border on jazz rock but there's still plenty of funk beats here. A mix of vocals and instrumentals, hard to pick style which funks out the best. Worth hunting down.

Soul Shaker Vol 4: More Deep Funk, Soul & Groovy Club Sounds From Today's Scene This is an excellent Italian v/a collection of modern funk (more funk than soul, unlike previous entries in the series). Artists from the US & Europe are featured here- Diplomats Of Solid Sound, Quantic, Boogoos, Ben Westbeech, Unity (2 great selections from them), Enri, among others. Fine cd for discovering what's out there in today's funk world.

Favorite funk album of the year (so far) -The Bongolian's A Psychedelic Trip To Outer Bongolia. Funktabulous 2nd release from Nasser "The Bongolian" Bouzida. It's all here: psychedelic space jams that are outta this world, synth-beats and Hammond havock out the wazoo, and plenty of bongolicious hit-the-dance-floor grooves. No samples, it's pure authentic funk heaven. Every song's a winner and my current top favorites include "Saturn's Eye", "Bongo Mambo", "The Wolf" and the number that features the vocal ahs & ooohs of the lovely Holly Golightly, "Paris Colonade". Instant funk classic!

German Funk Fieber Vol 1: Infectious Rare Grooves & Krauty Schlager Wonders 1969 to 1977. Though this collection isn't as good as those funk samplers from Poland, it definitely has more influences than funk & soul. Mostly instrumental tracks or those with slight vocals now & then. A few numbers sound so wild when they mix in just the right amount of Krautrock to the funk grooves. A cover of "Summertime" is too tame- I would have loved to hear the Krautrock poured on heavy in this song. A vocal take on "I Got My Mojo Working" is so cheesey that it works. Some selections here could be described as repressed funk, perhaps. Maybe the artists wanted to get down & funky but couldn't let it go. Still, it's worthy a listen, especially for lounge-funk addicts and anyone who loves exploring sound library material from European countries.