A two minute primer on Los Angeles eccentric soul and funk mavens 4th Coming.

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Above, watch a primer about one of Southern California’s most mysterious soul and funk outfits, our heroes the 4th Coming, shot and edited by Bennet Piscitelli. Their lost album, Strange Things, is out now..

Now-Again Records has enjoyed a long and creative partnership with Munich-based multi-instrumentalist JJ Whitefield, creative force behind the Poets of Rhythm, Whitefield Brothers and Karl Hector & The Malcouns. Rodinia, his latest project, is quite different than anything that’s come from his oeuvre to date, but follows in the line of the Poets of Rhythm’s great Discern/Define, as it reaches back to Krautrock’s experimental hey day but pushes its boundaries with a post-hip-hop approach. One stop clearance.

Download: Rodinia – Drumside/Dreamside

Strange Things, the lost 4th Coming album, is a marvelous example of the undercurrent that existed in 1970s Hollywood, when talented unknowns mixed with polished studio professionals, and recorded music that happily sits near their major label peers. With this album of quirky Funkadelic, Sly Stone and Charles Wright influenced music, we offer one stop clearance.

Download: 4th Coming – Strange Things

Pazazz were a talented Miami disco band that only ever managed to issue one 7″ single. But what a killer record – two sides of sunburnt, effusive South Florida disco soul. It’s so good that the legendary DJ and producer Kenny Dope asked US if he could remix the tunes – and this is the result. One stop clearance.

Download: Kenny Dope’s Pazazz Remixes

We announced JJ Whitefield’s latest project for Now-Again – Rodinia’s Drumside/Dreamside – in an earlier post. And, given that it’s really hard to put into words just why the project is so damn intriguing to us, we decided to put it into visual form. Check it out above and, if you’re into it, purchase it here, via our Rappcats webstore.