Browse by Label: DAPTONE

Artist:	JONES & THE DAP-KINGS, SHARON
Title:	Dap-Dippin' With...
Label:	DAPTONE
Format:	LP
Price:	$16.50
Catalog #:	DAP 001LP

2002 release. "Sharon Jones' brand of raw, heavy, hard-driving funk is such a throwback to the '70s, and she pulls it off so well, that you wonder how she could have escaped that decade without at least a few rare, classic 45s (in the vein of labelmate Lee Fields). It's not hard to believe she once made her living as a prison guard, based on the tough-as-nails, no-nonsense performances she belts out on Dap Dippin' with Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, the first full-length release on Desco's descendant, Dap-Tone. Backed by the Dap-Tone house band (a conglomeration of studio pros with connections reaching back to the Desco orbit), Jones delivers a storming set of tunes that would have sounded perfectly at home on the James Brown's Original Funky Divas compilation."

Artist:	JONES & THE DAP-KINGS, SHARON
Title:	Naturally
Label:	DAPTONE
Format:	LP
Price:	$16.50
Catalog #:	DAP 004LP

2007 release. "Another session of full-force funk that pays homage to the genre's glory years without coming off as contrived. It's a session worthy of being found in any beat-miner's record collection and any funk enthusiast's basket of obscurities and rarities. Her cover of 'This Land Is Your Land' is equally as impressive, as she somehow takes the song from being an American folk standard and turns it into a full-on sonic explosion." Gatefold sleeve.

Artist:	JONES & THE DAP-KINGS, SHARON
Title:	100 Days, 100 Nights
Label:	DAPTONE
Format:	LP
Price:	$18.50
Catalog #:	DAP 012LP

2007 release. "Sometimes you can judge a book by its cover. The artwork for 100 Days, 100 Nights is unabashedly steeped somewhere in the early '60s. It is this era that the Dap Kings and their bodacious frontwoman cannily inhabit. Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings set the gold standard for the so-called 'retro-soul' movement that reached its peak in 2007. While some groups seemed like pale imitations of the Funk Brothers and the Meters, the Dap Kings were the genuine article. The ferocity of Sharon Jones, too, could single-handedly squash other vocalists clamoring for a slice of the soul pie. Irrespective of genre, 100 Days, 100 Nights is an essential music-listening experience."

Artist:	NICHOLAS AND THE NETTEY FAMILY, PAX
Title:	Na Teef Know De Road Of Teef
Label:	DAPTONE
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	DAP 017CD

"The first record Pax Nicholas appeared on was Lady Shakara -- an international smash hit and one of Fela's greatest. Nicholas was at the right place at the right time. In the 70s, stars like James Brown, B.B. King, Ginger Baker, Stevie Wonder and Manu Dibango came to Lagos to visit Fela's Shrine club to hear this new and incredibly heavy thing called Afrobeat. While playing and recording for Felas's Africa 70 (Nicholas appeared on all Fela's releases between 1971 and 1978), Mr. Addo-Nettey always had his own thing going on the side. He released Na Teef Know The Road of Teef in 1973 and is a heavy afro-funk. Fela reportedly said: 'Don't you ever, EVER play it again!' And so it was. Despite being a killer record, Na Teef Know The Road of Teef remained undercover for more than 30 years."

Artist:	JONES & THE DAP-KINGS, SHARON
Title:	I Learned The Hard Way
Label:	DAPTONE
Format:	LP
Price:	$16.50
Catalog #:	DAP 019LP

2010 release. "Sharon's raw power, rhythmic swagger, moaning soulfulness, and melodic command set her alongside Tina Turner, James Brown, Mavis Staples, and Aretha in the canon of soul music. From the lush Philly-Soul fanfare that ushers in 'The Game Gets Old' at the top of the record, to the stripped down Sam Cooke-style 'Mama Don't Like My Man' at the tail, the Dap-Kings dance seamlessly through both the most crafted and simple arrangements with subtlety and discipline. I Learned the Hard Way is the 'Daptone Sound' at its finest."

Artist:	BUDOS BAND, THE
Title:	The Budos Band III
Label:	DAPTONE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	DAP 020CD

"Daptone Records is proud to present The Budos Band III, unleashing The Budos Band's brazen sound and inspiring fervor among music lovers throughout the world. Produced by Bosco Mann and TNT at Daptone Records' House of Soul Studios in Bushwick, Brooklyn, the band's third full-length studio effort was conceived during weekly, beer-fueled Staten Island writing sessions as well as more than 150 live gigs over the last two years and recorded during a 48-hour period in January 2010. If the menacing album art, which features a cobra primed for the attack, is any indication of the music itself, we can expect an all-out assault of the senses, with a tendency towards the venomous and psychedelic. 'The end result,' as Pitchforkmedia states, 'is something so hip it could kill you in large doses but in the right doses it just plain kills.'"

Artist:	BRADLEY, CHARLES
Title:	No Time for Dreaming
Label:	DAPTONE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	DAP 022CD

"Charles Bradley's voice has evolved from a lifetime of paying dues, having nomadically labored for decades at various day jobs from Maine to Alaska--singing and performing in his spare time--before re-settling in his hometown Brooklyn and eventually finding a musical home at Dunham/Daptone. In his distinctively rough-hewn timbre one hears the unmistakable voice of experience--each note and gruff infection a reflection of his extended, sometimes rocky, personal path. It's only fitting that No Time For Dreaming's producer Thomas 'Tommy TNT' Brenneck (also a member of The Dap-Kings and The Budos Band) would recognize in Bradley a kindred musical spirit--a singer whose performances exude both raw power and poignant beauty. Recorded at Dunham Studios, and mixed at Daptone Records' internationally revered 'House of Soul' Studios, No Time For Dreaming is the inspired sound of an awakening."

Artist:	EL REGO
Title:	El Rego
Label:	DAPTONE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	DAP 023CD

"El Rego is a true legend of African soul music. Here for the first time on album are 12 of his greatest recordings from the late '60s and early '70s hand-picked by Daptone Records. Afro-soul collector/DJ Frank Gossner had spent years combing West Africa tracking down 45's by Theophile Do Rego (aka El Rego) before finally meeting him face to face in his home in Benin. From that relationship came this album, which we present to you here in a 20-page hardcover bookcase CD featuring El Rego's own story of his life and music along with pictures from his personal collection and artwork from his original 45's. The music has been remastered with great care, and the vinyl contains an exclusive BONUS 45' (while supplies last) of 'Se Na Min', one of his most sought after Afro-Funk tracks, backed with 'E Ma Non Tin Me', a beautiful and somewhat more traditional song about two blind men who agree to go together and leap to their deaths into a river. The music of El Rego varies astoundingly in style and rhythm: traditional rhythms of Benin played with modern instruments, John Lee Hooker-esque blues, Fela Kuti inspired afro-beat, afro-cuban claves, and straight-up James Brown style funk. However, there is a common musical thread that runs throughout. The music has a raw soulfulness and a unique avor that can be attributed beyond the sound of Benin, to the sound of El Rego himself. There is a timelessness to the recordings that ties all of the traditions that inspire them directly to the grooves that were dominating the radios and jukeboxes of the early '70s. The record is teeming with breaking drums and twanging guitars, twisting basslines and undulating percussion."

Artist:	BRADLEY, CHARLES
Title:	No Time For Dreaming- The Instrumentals
Label:	DAPTONE
Format:	LP
Price:	$16.50
Catalog #:	DAP 025LP

"Daptone Family, your prayers have been answered! Charles Bradley No Time for Dreaming - The Instrumentals is here! Never before has the Daptone H.Q. experienced such a unanimous outcry for instrumental satisfaction. We're talking interplanetary, people. I believe our request came in just minutes after Charles Bradley's international, smash-hit debut left the pressing plant. A truck leaving the plant was held up by a couple of rogue DJs (we assume) trying to lock down the freshest wax for a party they were throwing later that evening. Gunfire ensued, but the dastardly ends escaped with one copy of No Time for Dreaming. This is purely speculation, but authorities believe one of the thugs must have been carrying a portable player, because just seconds after word of the great heist was leaked to the media, Daptone H.Q. received a mysterious message - the voice barely audible due to some sort of digital trickery - begging for Charles Bradley instrumentals. The calls haven't stopped since. Our solution: 12 dynamite tracks of unstoppable instrumentality. These hypnotic hymns--played oh so skillfully by Brooklyn's premier super group, Menahan Street Band, promises to be the consummate summer soundtrack for all you hip cats and kittens."

Artist:	SUGARMAN 3, THE
Title:	What The World Needs Now
Label:	DAPTONE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	DAP 026CD

"After years of research, ten to be exact, it came to our attention that everyone's favorite funky instrumentalists, The Sugarman 3 hadn't released a new LP in some time. Well, of course!!! How could we have been so neglectful to our fans? Within hours of this epiphany Daptone Brass had the boys back in the studio. With only eight tape tracks, a handful of peanuts, and a bottle of high proof Dutch Schnapps these gentlemen flexed their musical maturity--writing and tracking the entire album in four days. There were tears shed, and blood spilled over those four fateful sessions, but we're happy to report that what went down is some of the finest instrumental tunes ever laid to tape."

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Artist:	MENAHAN STREET BAND
Title:	Make The Road By Walking
Label:	DAPTONE
Format:	LP
Price:	$18.50
Catalog #:	DAP 015LP

Artist:	SHELTON & THE GOSPEL QUEENS, NAOMI
Title:	What Have You Done, My Brother?
Label:	DAPTONE
Format:	LP
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	DAP 016LP