James Brown Plays New Breed (The Boo-Ga-Loo) is an instrumental album released in 1966 on Smash Records, a subsidiary of Mercury. The record reflects Brown's transition toward the boogaloo sound, a style that blended rhythm and blues with Latin influences and early funk.
Recorded between 1965 and 1966, the album features Brown's band, The Famous Flames, in a purely instrumental format, without vocals. It was produced by James Brown himself, who sought to capitalize on the growing popularity of boogaloo in the African American music scene.
The album reached number 21 on the Billboard R&B Albums chart and number 125 on the Billboard 200. Although it does not contain his major vocal hits, it is considered an important document of Brown's stylistic evolution toward funk.