This mix by Fruitman is a little tongue-in-cheek: remembering where the funk, soul and disco music we love came from and who it was invented and pioneered by but also how influence can reach across race and what a leveller music can be.

read Fruitman – Some Folks Is Even Whiter Than Me!

We are delighted to be presenting you once again with one of our favourite bands and collectives, Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings. Sharon’s raw power, rhythmic swagger, moaning soulfulness, and melodic command set…

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Perfect timing, a new Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings is released this week from the new LP with Better Things & Window Shopping featured on each side, as ever it’s the pure unadulterated funk music we have become…

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We featured B.Bravo in our Bona Fide Skills hype section not so long ago and now we have him back with us again. B. took some time out from his busy schedule to provide us with a wonderful guest mix and …

read B.Bravo Choice Cuts Guest Mix

Label love indeed. We thought it would be nice to shed some light over a favorite record label of ours from the early eighties and one that has had many classic productions from the main man behind the boards – Roy…

read Uno Melodic – Label Love

This coming May, the 4th to be exact Sharon Jones & the fantastic Dap Kings will release their 4th Studio Album entitled ‘I Learned the Hard Way’ on Daptone, and as you would guess it’s sounding amazing. The title…

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The super talented T&S crew feature on this BunchTV production, the show is recorded from Cologne in Germany last month and we are working our best to make this show happen in Ireland this year, Lee Fields has a…

read Money is King

Sometimes records attain legendary status because they’ve been long unavailable and to hear them you have to part with a week’s wages for a dusty slab of vinyl. Their status is derived from their scarcity as much as…

read Candi Staton & Live Band

Two of our good friends join forces and drop a new mix titled ‘Music for Night People’. Daniel Drumz and Mr. Krime are true school deejays from Krakow, Poland who are as soulful as they are funky. So it comes as no…

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Truth & Soul do it again, this time unearthing a gem from Ghetto Brothers.

One of the most enigmatic, purely New York records of all time is finally available to the masses. The Ghetto Brothers 45 “Ghetto…

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A little over two weeks to go to this highly anticipated show that seems to be grabbing the attention in all corners of Dublin and beyond..new single/vid and interview to whet the appetite. Oh, and go snap up the…

read Green Eyed Love Vid & Interview

Dam Funk plays Burn Rubber and Killdat live from Seoul, Korea – a leg of his Japanese Tour. Playing Revolution @ The Twisted Pepper on Friday October…

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After a four-year break from the studio, L.A.’s finest practitioners of gritty soul/jazz, party funk & breaks, BREAKESTRA, return to the fray with a brand new studio album on Strut this September, ‘DUSK…

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Our favourite funk label have a new download to give away, bless the good people at T&S

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Truth & Soul is proud to present the first single from Michael Leonhart & The Avramina 7. Long time…

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UPDATE: 4 star review from Mojo here (PDF, .5MB) for the new album album ‘A Strange Arrangement’

Mayer Hawthorne grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, just outside of Detroit, and vividly remembers, as a child, driving…

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UPDATE: 4 star review from Mojo here (PDF, .5MB) for the new album album ‘A Strange Arrangement’

Mayer Hawthorne grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, just outside of Detroit, and vividly remembers, as a child, driving…

read Mayer Hawthorne & The County

New Breakestra LP about to drop in September for the funk fans

BREAKESTRA ‘DUSK TILL DAWN’

1. NEED A LITTLE LOVE?2. DARK CLOUDS RAIN SOUL
3. COME ON OVER feat. Afrodyete?4. BACK AT THE BOATHOUSE
5. GET…

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Download courtesy of Stones Throw, we will be announcing Mayer Hawthorne’s Irish Dates next week, in the meantime, download this and wait for the album ‘A Strange Arrangement’ to drop…

read Your easy lovin’

Hell yeah, Truth & Soul finally leak some new material from this imminent release. Lee Fields LP as you probably know is the record most anticipated this year by us here in ChoiceCuts. Here is a soul sizzler …

read Lee Fields – Ladies

Darondo sounds like a mix between Curtis Mayfield and Al Green, his Ubiquity release from two years back with the peerless ‘Didn’t I’ included certainly caught the interest of the music buying public who slept on…

read Listen to my Song