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Earl Sweatshirt & AlchemistVoir DireWarner Records
Andre 3000New Blue SunEpic
Charles MingusMingus Takes Manhattan- The Complete Birdland Dates: 1961 - 1962Newland
PhotekModus OperandiProper Records
Dominoes: Issue 10We Jazz
Delia Derbyshire & BBC RWSInventions For RadioSilva Screen
AbacusAnalogue Stories Vol. 2Phonogramme
Larry HeardAnother Night (inc. Moodymann edit)Alleviated
Sam Gendel & Marcella CytrynowiczAUDIOBOOKPsychic Hotline
Last Nubian & Sweet Fruity BrunchBabylon ShuffleTouching Bass
Gregory IsaacsDon't Believe Him / The VillageJamaican Recordings
Mad ProfessorDub Me Crazy!! 2024 Ariwa CalenderAriwa
Foremost PoetsFlowers EPFoundation Music Productions
East Coast Love AffairI Can't Wait (feat. Philomenah)Athens Of The North
GabrielsLove And Hate In A Different Time (Greg Wilson Remixes)Atlas Artists/Parlophone
Prince FattyMeets The Gorgon In Dub17 North Parade
Ron Carroll / Trilogy Inc.Mysteries / Dreams / Awakening / Hi CycleNu Groove Records
SandeeNotice MeFever Records
Piccolo JT / Rio LovePiccolo JT / Rio Love EPAlleviated Records
Detroit RisingRocket Love (feat. Jimpster & Kaidi Tatham remixes)Down Jazz Records
CymandeSecond Time RoundPartisan Records
Bob MarleySelassie Is The ChapelJAD
East Coast Love AffairTonight (feat. Theo)Athens Of The North
Redman InternationalWe Run ThingsVP Records
Horace AndyYou Are My AngelJamaican Recordings
muva of Earthalign with Nature's IntelligenceBrownswood Recordings
Bag-O-WireBag-O-WireStudio 16
Love & UnityCan't Let You GoStudio 16
Love & UnityI Just Don't Care / Cut From Master TapeStudio 16
Mellow RoseImitation Love / Dub And Rub Ina Imitation WayStudio 16
Ja-Man AllstarsKing's DubStudio 16
Dennis BrownStage Coach ShowcaseStudio 16
Teddy BryantDinner For TwoStormyweather Records
Alton MillerEast Side EPNoble Sqaure
Adam Rudolph's Moving PicturesGlare of the TigerMeta Records
Hellraisers A Complete Visual History of Heavy Metal Mayhem
Race Point Publishing
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Take a journey through the history of metal music from its earliest roots with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath to its popular modern incarnations like experimental black metal, stoner doom, and djent. Get incredible looks at modern prog metal musicians tearing up the fret board, or remember some of your favorite, old 38s from years gone by. Everything from AC/DC and Anthrax to Meshuggah and Mastodon is on display in this superfan's-eye-view exploration of metal’s most innovative and hardcore sounds that can be heard around the world. Co-authored by Axl Rosenberg and Chris Krovatin of the hugely popular blog metalsucks.com, this is a visually dynamic history, complete with exclusive band interviews, over 200 full colour photos, genre-by-genre playlists, and plenty more to keep you throwing horns all night long.
Ebo Taylor, Uhuru Yenzu & Pat ThomasOriginal Ghanaian Highlife & Afrobeat Classics Volume 2Mukatsuku
Second volume of 'Original Ghanaian Highlife & Afrobeat Classics', this time focusing on two artists legendary in the genre. First up first time on a 45...
- Ebo Taylor & Uhuru Yenzu – What Is Life?
- Pat Thomas – Gyae Su (Mpaebo LP Version)
- 1. Ebo Taylor & Uhuru Yenzu – What Is Life?
- 2. Pat Thomas – Gyae Su (Mpaebo LP Version)
- View full info and tracklisting
- 7"£9.00
Parallel LivesCharles Ives and Aaron Copland: A Portrait of Two American ComposersAmadeus Press
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This book explains in vivid picturesque detail why we still listen with admiration to the work of these...
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Traditional Music in Coastal LouisianaThe 1934 Lomax Recordings by Joshua Clegg CafferyLouisiana State University Press
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Alan Lomax's prolific sixty-four-year career as a folklorist and musicologist...
- Book (900g)£35.00 £10.00
Lion SongsThomas Mapfumo and the Music That Made Zimbabwe
Like Fela Kuti and Bob Marley, singer, composer, and bandleader Thomas Mapfumo and his music came to represent his native country's anticolonial struggle...
- Book (750g)£20.00 £10.00
The Adventures Of Grandmaster Flash: A MemoirBy Grandmaster Flash with David RitzBroadway
- Original Book (600g)£15.00Original out of print secondhand USA hardback w/dustjacket ex-library w/stamps and plastic coverIn stockAdd to Bag
Motown - Artist by Artistby Pat Morgan
- Original Book (600g)£8.00Original UK hardbackIn stockAdd to Bag
Bomb The SuburbsBy William Upski WimsattSubway & Elevated
- Original Book (250g)£8.00Original out of print secondhand book ex-library with stamps
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Old School Rap and Hip-HopChris Woodstra, John Bush, Stephen Thomas ErlewineBackbeat Books
Only £8 IMPORT USA PAPERBACK BOOK The real old school! More than 500 reviews plus artist bios and the true tales of the birth of the art form
- Original Book (350g)£8.00
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Edwidge DanticatAfter the Dance - A Walk Through carnival in Jacmel, HaitiCrown
If you've seen Soul Jazz Records' Kanaval book - here is an eye-witness look at the carinival in Haiti
- Original Book (300g)£10.00S/hand hardback US first edition book
The VultureBy Gil Scott-HeronCanongate
Gil-Scott Heron's book was first published in 1970. THE VULTURE is a hip and fast-moving thriller. It relates the strange story of the murder of a teenage...
- Book (200g)£9.99
Language, Rhythm & Sound: Black Popular Culture into the 21 Century By Joseph K. Adjaye Uni of Pittsburgh (1997)
Focusing on expressions of popular culture among blacks in Africa, the United States and the Caribbean, this collection of 15 multidisciplinary essays...
- Original Book (500g)£12.00secondhand ex-library paperback
Breakout - Profiles in African RhythmBy Gary StewartChicago (1992)
Features on Fela Kuti, Kanda Bongo Man, Docteur Nico, Sonny Okosuns, Afro-Beat and more.
- Original Book (250g)£12.00Secondhand ex-library in ok condition
Drum and Candleby David St. ClairDoubleday & Company
Out-of-print book club edition secondhand hardback book w/dustjacket small tear
- Original Book (400g)£15.00In stockAdd to Bag
The Stevie Wonder Scrapbookby James Haskins with Kathleen BensonCassell
Great 1979 book about Stevie Wonder's life with loads (100s) of stunning black and white photos and text. Great!
- Original Book (600g)£10.00Out of print secondhand p/b in good condition
The Brothers Neville - An AutobiographyArt Neville, Aaron Neville, Charles Neville, Cyril Neville and David RitzLibrary of Congress
All you need to know about new Orleans finest funk brothers.
Secondhand paperback original book
- Original Book (1kg)£9.00In stockAdd to Bag
JoniThe AnthologyPicaador
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In collecting materials long unavailable, rare, or otherwise difficult to find,...
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Musical Instruments of Africa; Their Nature, Use, and Place in the Life of a Deeply Musical Peopleby Elisabeth Hoffmann DietzThe John Day Company
Excellent secondhand large hardback book about African musical instruments co-written by Babatunde Olatunji.
- Original Book (700g)£20.00First edition 1965 ex-library, no record, plastic cover on dustjacket
Gotta Go Gotta FlowLife, Love, and Lust on Chicago's South Side From the SeventiesCity Files Press
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AWESOME BACK - wicked photos Chicago black club life in the 1970s. Accompanied...
- Book (1.3kg)£35.00 £15.00
Fungai MaliangaFinsbury Park Party / Things We Say TodayBackatcha
Disco-funk recorded in London in the late-70s by Fungai Malianga who’d relocated from South Africa to North London. His funk-led ode to his manor with...
- – Finsbury Park Party
- – Things We Say Today
- 1. – Finsbury Park Party
- 2. – Things We Say Today
- View full info and tracklisting
- 7"£11.99
Black Power 50Edited by Sylviane A. Diouf and Komozi Woodward
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Black Power burst onto the world scene in 1966 with ideas, politics,...
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Johnny PateOST : Shaft In AfricaDynamite Cuts
This classic funky blaxploitation soundtrack rarity is one of the toughest soundtracks to come from the early '70s' Black action cinema movement - produced...
- – You Can't Even Walk In The Park (Opening Theme)
- – Truck Stop
- – Shaft In Africa
- – El Jardia
- 1. – You Can't Even Walk In The Park (Opening Theme)
- 2. – Truck Stop
- 3. – Shaft In Africa
- View full info and tracklisting
- 2×7"£17.99
The Kingdom of ZydecoBy Michael Tisserand
There’s a musical kingdom in the American South that’s not marked on any map. Stretching from the prairies of Louisiana to the oil towns of East Texas,...
- Book (650g)£14.99
Leon Thomas Love Each Other / L.O.V.ESoul Brother Records
First ever reissue of these two Leon Thomas classics! Both come from his time at Flying Dutchman in the early 70s and fully reflect the individuality and...
- – Love Each Other
- – L.O.V.E
- 1. – Love Each Other
- 2. – L.O.V.E
- View full info and tracklisting
- 7"£9.99
Making People's MusicMoe Asch and Folkways RecordsSmithsonian Books
During his nearly 40-year tenure with Folkways Records, Moe Asch, the company's founder, amassed a catalogue of almost 2,200 recordings that had expanded...
- Book (650g)£12.99 £6.99