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Funk Archaeology

Rare funk, soul, psychedelia and rap you won't hear anywhere else, selected by Egon.

Recent Funk Archaeology

AC Smooth

October 21, 2008 Hear five classic songs that exemplify the nearly extinct style of hyperactive, multisyllabic rap.

Madlib (left) and Stanton Davis loading up the car.

November 28, 2011 Hear the fruits of a record-canvassing mission co-piloted by Madlib.

Angola

September 24, 2010 When in Lisbon, Stones Throw Records GM Egon hits the record stores in search of Angolan funk.

A sign for Bubbha Thomas' free jazz classes, taken in 1972.

September 30, 2011 Teenagers in the city's Summer Jazz Workshops made deep jazz and raw funk way beyond their years.

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