Sold Date: February 25, 2016
Start Date: January 30, 2016
Final Price: $17.99 (USD)
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Originally released in Turkey 1973, Özkent’s masterpiece (creation) of an all instrumental Turkish Psychedelic Funk album, filled with classic beats and breaks still inspires long time fans and first time listeners. The funky rhythms, hypnotic percussions, and heavy break beats makes this a holy grail amongst DJ’s and music fans alike. Only a handful of copies from the original pressing are known to still exist making this reissue a welcome addition to any record collection.

• Turkish Psych/Funk Instrumental Classic
• First US Pressing on Vinyl
• Psychedelic Splatter Colored Vinyl

The concept is very complicated, futuristic and free from categorization. Traditional folk songs mixed with rock, jazz, blues, funk and psych. Özkent took traditional turkish folk songs and reconstructed them for the new “hip” generation. It was recorded live in just one day with some of the best studio musicians in Turkey.

The band was made up of 2 drummers, 2 guitarists, 2 percussionists, a bassist and a Hammond B3 organist. Özkent created his own unique guitar sound by adding extra frets and a clutch of effect pedals in order to create quarter notes and emulate turkish traditional scales.

Mustafa Özkent has since made arrangements for hundreds of other artists in Turkey. But this unique album documents his most revered work. In the more than 40 years since the Mustafa Özkent Ve Orkestrası recorded “Gençlik Ile Elele,” it seems that the world is still just discovering this gem.

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This record will be shipped in a new cardboard mailer designed for shipping records, NOT in some jury-rigged postal box. We're all record collectors here at Jackpot Records and know firsthand the frustration in receiving a great record in terrible packaging. We will pack your record as carefully and lovingly as if we were sending it to ourselves. 

Priority mail shipping for the record which includes delivery confirmation and usually takes 2-3 days is $11.00.  Media mail is available for $4.00 including delivery confirmation.  

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This record is being sold by Jackpot Records, an independent record store located in Portland, Oregon.