The Budos Band

I’ve been looking for something new to listen to for awhile, something mellow,yet uplifting, something to calm the soul, well I found it. This band is amazing, full play through on all their albums. Highly recommended👍🏻👍🏻⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫✨💥🎺🎷🥁🪘🎸

Great debut album by the penultimate Budos band, but record has a divet scratch that takes out first song. I tried cleaning best I can, but a real disappointment for an awesome record and band!

First the good: They have almost perfectly nailed the late 1960s - early 1970s funk/jazz fusion sound with bass, guitar, eclectic percussion, big horns with a bright spacious reverb that reminds me of classic Stax sessions, and basic old-school mixing techniques. Sounds like it could be background music from an old Blaxploitation movie.Now the bad: I love this kind of groove/funk/soul stuff, and I wanted to give it five stars like everybody else... but ... This album sounds like background music from an old Blaxploitation movie. Emphasis on the word BACKGROUND. Track after track, the Budos Band lays down a really sweet-sounding bed and then does nothing with it. Each song is built around a basic musical phrase. After you hear the repeated phrase a couple of times, you start thinking "okay, now do something with it." You want to hear a solo or a melodic change or a drum break or something, but the band never adds any punctuation and the song ends up being an underscore that never quite pays off.To be fair, not all the songs are like this. There are 4 tracks I liked, but 4 out of 11 is less than 50%.And then there's the organ. I find no fault with Mike Deller's playing; he did the best he could with what he had. It's just that the organ itself sounds like crap. It's a thin, wimpy synth imitation of a Hammond (I myself have long suffered the heartbreak of playing an inadequate organ synth; it's hard to find one that sounds good these days.) Compounding the organ's inherent deficiency is the fact that apparently it was plugged straight into the board, because it has no reverb and sounds almost like it came from somewhere else .. floating on top of the mix and just not belonging there. It was heart-breaking to hear that cheesy organ slapped down on top of the big, ballsy horn section. Just didn't work for me. Thankfully the organ was not prominent on most tracks on the album.Still, for the price this is a pretty okay album. I've heard a lot worse. I just feel like the Budos Band could do a lot better ... In fact, I know they do, because i also got Budos II, which I more highly recommend.

I was standing around before a Mike Watt show in Atlanta and this was playing over the PA. The soundman gave me the scoop and I was not the least bit disappointed in the album when it arrived at my house. On first listen at the club, I thought I was hearing obscure African or South American funk from the 70s. I should have guessed this was the product of Dap-Tone Records out of Brooklyn, circa now. They claim they don't try to replicate vintage sounds, but I call BS on that. They certainly want their records to have the warmth and human feel of recordings from simpler times, before computers could obscure the humanity with mechanized non-music. If you love the trove of vintage releases a la the Numero Group label's Eccentric Soul, or any of the compilations of buzzy overseas funk released in the past decade or so, this will fit right in.

I don't know where to begin when trying to describe the Budos Band...they have hints of afrobeat, funk, jazz, and a troop of horns that will rattle your walls. (Not that you'd notice because the bass will have your floor vibrating.) I have listened to this CD constantly since first getting it. From the opening bass line of "Up From The South" I was hooked. I have purchased CD's by nearly every artist on the Daptone label and you really can't go wrong with any of them, but Budos definitely stand out. If you are a fan of funk or afrobeat, the Budos Band will hit the spot. I had the pleasure of seeing them live recently, and the grooves are twice as powerful when they are vibrating in your belly. If you want to funk your way through life, don't hesitate, just pick this disc up.

These Budos Band CDs have been popping up on my Amazon recommended list for several years already, but I only finally decided to try one out, that being this debut (?) album by the band. Holy funk! This is a keeper! Reminds me of some great lost 1970s soul-funk soundtrack. The tunes are all instrumental, and they all smoke, Plenty of horns and funky Hammond organ grooves, and wacka-wacky guitar riffs. If you like that sorta sound, don't miss this one. Very, very impressive album. I'm ready to try the other ones now.

Budos band delivers groovy tunes and upbeat afro-soul sounds with this knockout, one punch blow K.O. I highly recommend Budos band and its affiliates (el michels affair, menahan street band. I found the Budos band from David Axelrod pandora radio and fell for the triumphant horn, electric bass pulse that hit my ears the first time I heard the bands single "T.B.I.W.F". The entire album is good and recommend it to funky people who like instrumentals!!

Got this CD for my husband, I saw it on his wish list for some time, such beautiful music, absolutely addictive!

Afrobeat and jazz-funk melodies that makes you want to dance. Very good!

Afro-beats, NYC, This record is full-blown greatness. Glad to have started in to the world and works of Dunham and Daptone and in getting my feet wet with Menahan Street Band, then moving to Charles Bradley, then on to Daptone Gold wherein I got a full feel for the Daptone family. Budos jumped off the record and I had to whet my appetite for more by getting this record.Budos Band is a great mix of beats, horns and really great funk/soul/ and Rock? I don't even know how to categorize them. Out of time. 70's NYC comes to mind.One thing I do know. This band is legit.Daptone and Dunham- You've got a life long supporter.

This vinyl record is under the Daptone label the sound quality is good but on the first album I purchased their was a defect in the pressing on side two end of the last track, scraping could be heard. The second copy was better.

Tout dans ce disque respire le vintage, du funk rhythm and blues instrumental cuivré et groovy des Budos jusqu'à la présentation de l'objet façon 50s / 60s qui respecte le cahier des charges et la charte graphique du label DAPTONE.Malheureusement pour ceux qui achètent des vinyls pour l'objet (et non pour la hype actuelle !) ici il faudra préférer la version cd : pas de bon de téléchargement de l'album en mp3 (pas très grave en ce qui me concerne, j'ai trouvé le cd à la médiathèque !) mais surtout un vinyle de qualité bien banale, c'est-à-dire une fine et fragile galette bien loin des 180gr qui justifient l'éventuel retour actuel aux vinyles, le tout emballé dans une pochette carton simple et tout aussi fine.Bref : 4 étoiles pour la zik, 2 pour la version vinyle. Le digipack cd est bien plus sympa.

Stellar......