‘The Complete Josie Recordings, 1968-1970.’

The complete Josie, Reprise & Warner recordings, 1968-1977. Eight full albums, plus non-album singles, bonus material, single edits, and a rare 1977 disco mix of Disco Is The Thing Today. 40-page booklet.

‘Former Mind & Matter bandmates James ‘Jimmy Jam’ Harris and Michael Dixon teamed up for this 1978 gospel-boogie banger, originally on the private Mad label.’

Calling all Disco Freaks!

‘The great South African tenorist Mike Makhamalele was a graduate of the key early-seventies group The Drive (alongside Bheki Mseleku and Kaya Mahlangu); and a mainstay of the scene centred on the Pelican nightclub in Soweto. From 1975, he began to record under his own name, developing a sophisticated fusion sound in a musical lane which few of his contemporaries were travelling.
‘Always attuned to other global fashions in Black dance and pop music, under numerous studio aliases he cut 45rpm covers of Fela’s Shakara and the Sugar Hill Gang’s Rapper’s Delight; and in 1979 he entered the Gallo studios with producer Peter Ceronio to respond to the ascendant sound of disco. Named after a township dance craze, Kabuzela was the result: four extended tracks of bouncing, upful disco jazz. Perfectly calibrated for dancing, heavy on the bass and drums, the album is set off by a gleaming centre piece, Disco Freaks — a joyous paean to the weekend and true lost gem of global disco, perfect for the most discerning dancefloors.’

Outsider electro-funk entirely self-produced, designed and distributed by Fushimi himself in 1985, featuring some deadly shamisen in amongst the drum machines and synths.
With a four-page insert including the hand-written comic which came with the original release, plus an English translation.

All fifteen A-sides, along with nine B-sides, by one of the 1960s very greatest soul singers.

The bees-knees in heart-broken, close-harmony, symphonic soul; up there with the very best of The Delfonics, The Stylistics and co. Nearly all ballads, with Billy Brown’s falsetto in devastating form, though that’s Harry Ray leading their all-time-classic To You With Love — as sampled by Dilla at the end of Donuts — in all the straight-up glory of its original setting.