fantastic post: great tracks and informative. i didn't know these were different names for the same group.
Thank you so much for info on these guys! I have been listening to Discern/Define for about a year and love it!
Santa's Got a Bag of Soul is kick ass, too! Where could we find tour dates?
"Practice What You Preach" was (is) an excelent album. Personally, it has inspired and encouraged me back then to do my own "Low-Fi" recordings since I learned that obviously they have been recording the album on a simple 8-track machine; I bought a used Tascam 38 then, and some of the results are still available for free on www.loukash.com/de/download/sub01.html
About 3 years ago I went to a gig of PoR here in Basel, Switzerland. They were desperately trying to emulate Fela Kuti's afro beat at that time. In my opinion they failed miserably. (I've seen Fela live in the late 80s, I've also seen his son Femi playing around 1990, so I guess I still can tell the difference. 
) Add a couple of uninspired funk "DJs" with almost no mixing skills and absolutely no sense for dramaturgy to the "mix" - and there you have a completely wasted nice warm summer night...
Discern/Define is certainly one of the best funk albums since the funk era. It still blows my mind that the Poets were in fact German. this is not kraut-funk in any way. Neither Can nor Neu! nor Kraftwerk influence POR's inspired funky sounds.
The "Practice what you preach" LP will be reissued on Daptone soon.
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Yeah, thanks for this post. I've been listening to a whole lot of Daptone recording artists (Sharon Jones, Lee Fields, Sugarman Three, Budos Band, etc.) and these groups fit my funky moods perfectly. Long live Jimmy Smith....
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