Unissued clevleand ohio soul gem!Mother Braintree were a 1973 group out of Cleveland Ohio. Influenced by Funkadelic, Sly and the family stone and Hendrix. Which you can hear on the amazing ghetto funk b side of “let me lay beside you” that’s flute led and drops into a killer drum break. The… Read more

One of our favourite labels 'Axe On Wax' drop their 8th release, bringing you a lineup of hot house producers providing more heat for the dancefloor. 'Grooving' is the flavour for these. Funky rhythms, jazz piano, muted trumpet, soulful vocals and broken beats. Features tracks from Marlon Hoffstadt… Read more

Wicked rare Strata-East album now reissued. Includes the deep, deep, moody Smilin Billy Suite (sampled a squillion times). HEAVY

Massive rare jazz dance album with the killer Sombre Guitar

Reissu of this rare disco funk album is a hidden gem. The original is on many wants lists and rarely turns up. Heady disco funk from the glory days of the Miami soul scene in the 70’s. This smoking album by the group Obatala is tight in a good way. Core funk energy mixed with some added strings… Read more

Athens of the North and Symphoncal Records are proud to present the long lost Raw Soul Express LP in a special limited Vinyl only release. Mastered personally from the original tapes with love. If you don't know what this is then you're in the wrong game, the LP also includes the Full previously unreleased… Read more

NEW SUPER LTD. first edition of 300 copies. Only available EXCLUSIVELY to customers at Soul Jazz Records/Sounds of the Universe. Alive's massive jazz dance/ latin/brazilian bomb 'Skindo Le Le' originally featured on Soul Jazz Records' London Jazz Classics.  A… Read more

This album is released to coincide with the new exhibition Soul of A Nation now on at Tate Modern, London.For more information on the TATE MODERN exhibition go here Watch Channel 4 news piece here Read Guardian feature here The… Read more

On the A side we have a classic cut from Leroy Hutson “Get to this”  in a soul funk boogie style with Leroy's fantastic vocals. The B side is a boogie funk stomper from Michael Gregory Jackson “Risin’ up ”. Receiving support from Gilles Peterson and all the usual suspects!

She’s back! As a cross-pollinating creativity recaptures the UK jazz scene, Zara McFarlane returns with a new single offering a different spin on the Max Roach classic ‘All Africa’. Taking the original’s all-out, percussive trip into a looser, more softly mesmerising kind of territory,… Read more

Reissue of this super-rare and hugely sought-after Trinidadian / island-disco jam from Shadow! Reissued exactly how it was in 1980 with a lovely looking, facsimile sleeve. 

One of the best labels in the business drops another killer 12" full of the usual smatterings of broken beat, boogie and funk!  Includes the cover version on Grace Jones's 'Private Lives' where the quartet expand on the original for a soulful dubbed out trip. Don't sleep!!!! 

Dam Funk dons his Garrett guise and takes an ride out to the further reaches of kosmiche, new age and dream house music via the amazing Music From Memory label! This is ace! 

Thousand Knives & Plastic Bamboo by the legendary Ryuichi Sakamoto are taken from the incredible Better Days label catalog. Both killer slices of 80ties Japanese electronic music. Latest addition to Rush Hour's Japan 7" series. Recommended!   

**UPFRONT EXCLUSIVE!**  Third release on one of our favourite labels, Suncut! This time the label reaches out to the archive of little known Detroit soul group, Masterpiece. This is the first ever reissue of the band's only known release, that originally surfaced on the rare Ypsi label in… Read more

NEW SUPER LTD 300 copies. Only available EXCLUSIVELY to customers at Soul Jazz Records/Sounds of the Universe. MASSIVE drum breaks and heavyweight MIAMI FEMALE FUNK. YVONNE FAIR was one of the earliest James Brown vocalists. This is the only release… Read more

The first ever official, vinyl release of the atmospheric, mediative and ritualistic soundtrack to Mamoru Oshii's legendary Manga science fiction anime film 'Ghost In The Shell' from 1995. N.B. A limited vinyl format includes a bonus 7” with OBI strip and… Read more

One of the most anticipated releases of 2017! It's true - these are the lost recordings from Drexciya's James Stinson, recorded in the early 2000s during The Other People's place era. It never saw the light of day due to James Stinson's untimely death. Finally, they have resurfaced on a long… Read more

Soul Jazz Records’ new Space, Energy and Light is a collection of music by early electronic and synthesizer pioneers (from the 1960s through the 1970s), mid-1970s proto-new age gurus and 1980s guerrilla D-I-Y cassette-era electronic artists, spanning in total over a near 30-year time frame. All of… Read more

Jonny Nash & Suzanne Kraft form the inaugural collaboration on Nash's Melody As Truth heading deep into worlds of Eno's 'Music For Airports' and 'Another Green World'. Gorgeous. 

Floating Points summons his ensemble again for an album of sweeping, panoramic jazz and electronic passages entitled, 'Reflections - Mojave Desert'; finding the surroundings in the Californian desert offered a unique recording environment that led to the album's production. 'Reflections… Read more

Reissue of this extremely obscure digital / computerized dancehall tune from '84 on Music From Memory! This issue features extra production from TAPES (check the remix!) and the bonus, 'lost' jazz funk splendour of 'Supernatural Magic'. What a release!

Jonny Nash & Suzanne Kraft form the inaugural collaboration on Nash's Melody As Truth heading deep into worlds of Eno's 'Music For Airports' and 'Another Green World'. Gorgeous. 

Berghain resident and MDR records boss, Marcel Dettmann weighs in with a KILLER selection of industrial, minimal synth and post punk tracks for the third part of Dekmantel's 'Selectors' series! Features music from greats such as Front 242, Cabaret Voltaire, Ministry, Fad Gadget and more!

Label heads and broken beat pioneers IG Culture and Alex Phountzi were integral to this sound; the focal point being the CoOp club night, which ran predominantly on the famed floors of Plastic People, up until 2007. CoOp remerged late in 2015 as a Boiler Room session, in which the originators linked… Read more

NEW SUPER LTD. first edition of 300 copies. Only available EXCLUSIVELY to customers at Soul Jazz Records/Sounds of the Universe.KILLER NEW ORLEANS FUNK PARTY BOMB!!One of the rarest of all New Orleans Funk singles issued here in exact repro artwork. The SEMINAL Dap… Read more

Fantastic compilation of 1970's experimental / electronic music recorded in soviet Russia by Yuri Morozov. An eccentric blend of wonderful, colourful psych, prog, electronic and library-style funk madness!Banned by the KGB for its esoteric content and references to forbidden spiritual texts,… Read more

Zambia's turbulent period throughout the 70's led the rock revolution that has come to be known as 'Zamrock'. Fuzz guitars were commonplace, as were driving rhythms as influenced by James Brown’s funk as Jimi Hendrix’s rock predominated. Musical themes, mainly sung in the country’s constitutional… Read more

A band known to deep soul, funk and disco collectors for decades for their sought after 7” 'Watching Out / Dazed', long thought to be the band’s only recordings. Now-Again issues this never-before-released album of devastatingly good disco and boogie from the unlikelycity of Des Moines, Iowa. One… Read more

Limited, single-sided (etched b-side) 12" issue of this Nightfall remix of one of the key tracks from BadBadNotGood's incredible 'IV' album - this time with a guest vocal from Kaytranada and Snoop Dogg!

Reissue of this HUGELY sought-after Nigerian boogie funk gem album from Hotline group, recorded at Decca studio (Lagos) in 1986. Essential reissue!

Trumpeter and composer drops his debut full-length solo album - Astral Progressions This is a powerful record in the canon of 21st century music, continuing on the momentum Leimberg achieved on the Kendrick Lamar Grammy Award winning album 'To Pimp A Butterfly' creating a unique hybrid… Read more

Four deep, totally smudged out, jazzy house music trips from cult Detroit producer, Rick Wade! Features extra Motor City style production from label regular, LK!

The second release from MIC comes from Ladies As Pimps - LAPS for short - an anarchic Glasgow duo formed by Lady Two Collars of Golden Teacher and Sue Zuki from Organs Of Love. 'Who Me?' blends dub, post-punk, RnB, and house music - essential second release from MIC!

A much-needed reissue of 'Cosmic Music', originally self-released by Alice Coltrane in 1968 and later issued by Impulse!. The album features two tracks ('Manifestation' and 'Rev. King') performed by John Coltrane's legendary final quintet that were recorded in San Francisco, 1966… Read more

Unapologetically ambitious, complex, staggeringly powerful music, simultaneously haunting and moving. A collaborator of Jandek and Michael Rother, amongst others, Anika spins a surreal tale of longing and fate, with a quasi-religious delivery in deadpan counterpoint to its account… Read more