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Message: [QUOTE="junglehusky, post: 2148101, member: 61"] Have you gotten into the the DapTone sound? Sharon Jones (RIP) and the Dap-Kings put out a lot of solid soul records. And Sharon wasn't emulating that era/sound, she's from that era, just never broke out until the 2000s. Having said that, there are younger musicians mining that era (and other eras), Gregory Porter is a jazz and soul singer, Kamasi Washington was mentioned on this thread, he's going back to classic Blue Note era complex compositional jazz. And I like the fact that you have crate digging DJ's like Kon & Amir and Oliver Wang, and labels like Numero Group finding and compiling/re-releasing old, forgotten soul music. But if you want another genre of older stuff to maybe explore, I'd suggest Brazilian music. Similar to North America, there's a wealth of different eras to choose from. There are many different genres over the decades coming from African, Native and colonial cultures that influence each other (as well as being influenced by American and UK rock, jazz, electronic genres), recombine and evolve... There's a million entry points, the obvious one is early 60s samba (Joao Gilberto) but I got really into 70s samba-funk which combined their samba and jazz with contemporary funk coming from the US... I highly recommend the compilation Samba Soul 70! for a taste. [MEDIA=youtube]id=Foz9J3cG6Ts;list=PLA5D66BA232626622[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]