**Leave Me Alone is the fifth, essential album by Tolouse Low Trax!** "With this album, he succeeds in an exciting, unforeseen new direction. The velvety heaviness and rawness of earlier records seems to have given way to a new playfulness. A playfulness perhaps in the sense of an electronica reminiscent… Read more

**REPRESSED - one of 2022's highlights!** Absolute monster! East Coast Love Affair cut Roy Ayer's classic CHICAGO tune in a wicked acid house style - MASSIVE! This tune is tough!

While originally lauded for his own hybrid of boogie, garage house, and downtempo grooves, Benedek is traversing new realms with his esoteric innovations. These are all facets of Benedek's sunny and seductive hometown of Los Angeles, and are sonically expressed in his catalog. But as much as he’s embraced… Read more

The SIXTH issue of We Jazz Magazine and a Black Jazz Records special! Other features include: As-Shams by Andy Thomas, Nyege Nyege Festival by Markus Karlqvist, Alina Bzhezhinska by Tina Edwards, Carl Stone by Peter Margasak, Gyedu-Blay Ambolley by Rob Garratt, Travelogue by Kari Ikonen, Pharoah / Jazz… Read more

Krikor soundtracks French documentary 'Toutes musclees' with this cassettes release of brilliantly original industrial dub, trap and ambient vignettes.

The official retrospective on one of Somalia's most famous and beloved private bands, Iftin, and a companion compilation to our Grammy-nominated "Sweet As Broken Dates". Digitized from cassettes recorded between 1982 and 1987 at the legendary Al-Uruba hotel's secret studio and the jams for the masses… Read more

Rough, rugged, analogue house music traxx from the uncanny alliance of SMBD (aka UK producer hero Simbad) and Capracara (Soul Jazz/DFA/Comeme)!

Available now, both mixes of the masterpiece 'Trip To Your Mind' coupled together for the first time on one 12". Known as one of the greatest brit-funk releases ever, recorded and played exclusively by a six-piece band from Chicago, produced and composed by bandleader Reg Hudson, keys-player for The… Read more

Gilles Peterson and Jean-Paul “Bluey” Maunick's STR4TA project return with their second full-length 'STR4TASFEAR' - inspired by the gritty DIY sounds of the cult 80s Brit Funk era, STR4TA combine all the best elements that scene, reminiscent of influential bands like Freeez and Atmosfear! Features… Read more

**Essential compilation on Soundway!** A digital rewilding of computer and synth powered music, dripping with an impressive variety of influence, from Italo disco, electro-funk, post punk, tango, ambience, jazz-fusion, Afro-folk and techno pop, the record is a cultural document of a musical decade transformed… Read more

'Unfiltered, unfettered electronic dance music from a modern legend of Chicago House'. *****Mojo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ‘There is no Acid in this House’ is Hieroglyphic Being’s stunning third solo album on… Read more

Wicked old school style bleep and Detroit techno homage from the talented, Tom Carruthers! One for the fans of vintage Nightmares on Wax, early B12 and classic Transmat/Mayday!

**Second ablum from the Gilles Peterson endorsed quintet!** Incredible, deep, spatial, spiritual jazz album from drummer and percussionist Stephen 'Bunny' Bunn and guitarist and keys player Jon deBrett - the founding members of cult UK jazz troupe, Mother Earth. First album flew — don't miss… Read more

The second installment of gems and nuggets straight from the infamous jukebox at Malcolm and Vivienne& Kings Road SEX boutique.Compiled again by Marco Pirroni (Adam and The Ants, Siouxsie and the Banshees) another collection of carefully curated tracks that were played on rotation at 430 kings road Chelsea,… Read more

Incredible material from System Olympia; radio host on NTS and vanguard of her unique pop, R&B and minimal wave fusion! Deep, nebulous, lysergic, sensual and emotive, 'Racing Heart' channels a DIY spirit throughout via her own Okay Nature label once again. Limited mini LP copies — don't miss!… Read more

Legendary labels Decca and Blue Note have joined forces again for Blue Note Re:imagined II; a collection of classic Blue Note tracks, reworked and newly recorded by a selection of the UK scene’s most exciting young talents. Blue Note Re:imagined returns this year with a new 16-track compilation featuring… Read more

"On his fifth album, Kendrick retreats from the limelight and turns to himself, highlighting his insecurities and beliefs. It’s ambitious and impressive."

Wicked set of boom-bap instrumentals evoking the golden era of early 90s hip-hop from the East Coast, but with some left-of-centre, SP1200 production wizardry from talent, Joe Cain. Inventive sample sources, leaning towards the more darker, modier side of things. Ace!

‘Eyes In The Tower’ is a uniquely London evolution of classic hip hop. It brings through lineages of jazz and was built on a cypher in which saxophone, drums, piano and double bass freestyle as powerfully as the lyricist. It is about friendships that have been built over thousands of hours hanging… Read more

"The Comet is Coming returns with their second full length album on Impulse! Records. King Shabaka, Danalogue, and Betamax’s newest effort finds the Mercury Prize-nominated trio creating a musical landscape that is equally cerebral as it is physically enthralling. While containing elements of jazz… Read more

"A near-definitive guide to some of the world's most extraordinary music." THE GUARDIAN ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Soul Jazz Records Deutsche Elektronische Music Volume 2 is now available as two separate double LPs (and… Read more

**Breathtaking collaboration between harpist Mary Lattimore and 'amplified ambient' pioneers, Growing!** Comprised of two side-long pieces, 'Gainer' is less a meeting point of harp and drone guitars and much more a singular creative group vision made up of elemental movements, electrically charged… Read more

The highly anticipated collaboration between DJ, producer and musician Lorenzo Morresi and 22a label boss, DJ, producer and musician Tenderlonious. 11 irresistible cuts of the finest, contemporary fusion inspired by sounds of Italian jazz funk and the Italian library music sound! Cosmic!

THIS ALBUM IS DEEP!Big brand new Studio One collection on Soul Jazz Records ... This new release delves deep into the unique melting pot sound of reggae, funk and dub created throughout the 1970s at the Studio One music lab situated at 13 Brentford Road, Kingston, where the intense experiments and… Read more