Articles by Matt Bauer

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  Various

  Super Cool California Soul 2

  PUBLISHED May 22, 2007

  While California’s contribution to the world of funk and soul can be summed up by well known artists like Sly & the Family Stone, War or To...

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  Antibalas

  Security

  PUBLISHED Mar 23, 2007

  With their fourth full-length release, Brooklyn-based collective Antibalas have reached a new plateau. Co-produced with Tortoise auteur Joh...

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  The Sisters Love

  Give Me Your Love

  PUBLISHED Feb 20, 2007

  The Sisters Love are best known to Blaxploitation connoisseurs for their fleeting appearance in the 1972 classic "The Mack.” But as Give Me...

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  The Souljazz Orchestra

  Freedom No Go Die

  PUBLISHED Feb 20, 2007

  Fela Kuti is dead but his spirit is alive and well on the Souljazz Orchestra’s Freedom No Go Die. On their sophomore disc the Ottawa quinte...

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  Various

  The World's Rarest Funk 45's

  PUBLISHED Feb 20, 2007

  Compiled by Will Holland of the Quantic Soul Orchestra, The World’s Rarest Funk 45’s is 16 of the heaviest deep funk cuts you’ve probably n...

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  Mercenary

  The Hours that Remain

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2006

  With their fourth studio album, Mercenary prove that bands like Sweden’s Opeth and Finland’s Stratovarius don’t have a monopoly on near-sym...