Back in Issue #29, we profiled Plantlife’s Jack Splash–the man behind 2004’s critically acclaimed future-funk/hip-hop masterpiece, The Return of Jack Splash and its follow-up, Time Traveler. In anticipation for his upcoming album Technology and Love Might Save Us All, Splash brings us the mixtape Heir to the Throne Vol.1. In collaboration with DJ Skee, Splash mixes funk, R&B, hip-hop, and pop into fifteen lively, energetic tracks. Heir to the Throne is now available for download over at The Smoking Section.

Strictly for the poppies, this second installment of Cuban funk courtesy of Waxing Deep is a pretty thorough roundup of the best that the island had to offer in the ’70s. It’s got the heavy conga workouts (Grupo Monumental’s “Tremendo Tremendo”), the more sophisticated styles for your mature audience (Juan Pablo Torres’s “Y Aperecio el Trombon”), as well as some straight-up harder hitting funk (Los Llamas’ “Siboney”). This comp is pretty sassy and offers a particularly revealing look at what communism should have sounded like. Check out volume one as well.

This compilation comes direct from Benin, Africa, the original home of Vodun, known to the western world as Voodoo. No surprises there, as this album will straight-up possess your body. These far-out and funky Afro rhythms are not for the faint of heart.