Fourth instalment in the excellent 'Africa Airways' series from Africa Seven! This time around all tunes have the exotic disco flavour, featuring dancefloor killers from Tala A.M., Manu Dibango, Jake Sollo and more!
At last, Doctor Bird collection presents a second hit-packed collection of feel-good reggae hits from the 1970s!
Picking up where the popular 2021 compilation...
The begena is a large ten-stringed lyre which is part of the traditional Amharic heritage of Ethiopia. The Amharas, who have long formed the politically...
The collaboration between BBE Music and If Music continues with another excellent compilation in the ongoing If Music Presents series with this 2nd volume...
R2 and Yoruba celebrate their respective 25 years in the business with this killer double pack of sought after and previously unreleased house music tracks...
Peace and love in late 60s America did not come without parallel feelings of fear and confusion about the social situation – specifically about Vietnam....
King Street Sounds return for the fifth sampler in the series. This release showcases four releases from six house music aficionados such as Mood II Swing,...
As we’ve come to expect from Ace’s much-admired series of Jon Savage-curated two CD collections, this new – and sadly final – volume is a multi-genre...
By turns a handbook of countercultural living, a manual for street protest, and a feminist broadside against the repressive state apparatus, Revolutionary...
Prime Direct Distribution welcome the legendary Sub-Urban with a brand-new vinyl series, The Sound Of Sub-Urban.
Volume 1 showcases four cuts that bridge...
Welcome to a kaleidoscopic picnic where you can feast on a music scene that was rich, sparkling, multi-colored, ground-breaking and it'll blow your mind....
King Street Sounds are back again with their fourth installment in the King Street Sounds Sampler Series. This release unearths four classics from house...
Jazz Room Head Honcho Paul Murphy kept hearing all these fab versions of some of his favourite tunes.He couldn't release them all, a year is just not long...
In 1964, Nell Dunn spoke to nine of her friends over a bottle of wine about men, sex, work, money, babies, freedom and love. The Pop Artist Pauline Boty...
Freestyle Records compile a killer overview of rare & undersung UK street soul & boogie tracks from across the 80s and early 90s, selected from the creme...
Nova Scotia House takes us to the heart of a relationship, a community and an era. It is both a love story and a lament; bearing witness to the enduring...
Vinyl LP pressing. Manic fuzzed out instrumentals, mind blowing high-energy rock´n’roll, mysterious exotica, and more in this wild compilation of ass-kicking...
Much has changed for Ilan Pdahtzur since the release of his Night City Life compilation six years ago. Back then, he was a little-known record collector...
2025 marks the 15th anniversary of 2010's comedy film Scott Pilgrim Vs The World, co-written, produced and directed by Edgar Wright, based on the graphic...
In the dead of night, he remembers his friends who died in the late 1980s and 1990s, his years as a teenage throwaway and sex worker, and ruminates on...
Featuring images recently discovered in the archives of Swedish television, The Black Power Mixtape shows the Black Power movement as never seen before....
The next destination on the Eccentric Soul journey, Eccentric Spiritual Soul is a rare groove with a transcendent, introspective f lair. Laced with lush...
Invictus Records is one of the legendary soul music labels from 1960/70s America. Founded in 1969 by the legendary songwriting and production team Holland-Dozier-Holland...
Featured artists include Yaya Bey, Sudan Archives, Yaeji, COUCOU CHLOE, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Miso Extra, Aunty Rayzor, TeeZandos, Queenie, MC Yallah,...
Berlin-based Colombian DJ, producer, and curator Edna Martinez presents a sonic journey into the electrifying world of Picó - the vibrant and dynamic...
What planet were you born on? To be honest, it never really matters with Light Sounds Dark. Sent off in search of intelligent sounds from across the universe,...
2025 marks 20 years of Tectonic, the pioneering dubstep and electronic label founded in 2005 by Bristol’s underground originator, DJ Pinch.
The Tectonic...
2025 marks 20 years of Tectonic, the pioneering dubstep and electronic label founded in 2005 by Bristol’s underground originator, DJ Pinch.
The Tectonic...
2025 marks 20 years of Tectonic, the pioneering dubstep and electronic label founded in 2005 by Bristol’s underground originator, DJ Pinch.
The Tectonic...
Francis Bebey was a visionary who explored the intersection of African traditions and global music long before it became a global trend. Born in Cameroon,...
Tresor Magnetique, this compilation of unreleased tracks, archival recordings, and neglected gems from Bebey's vault, feels like a grand reveal in an ongoing...
Killer LP on Maddjazz Recordings from London based DJ, producer and synth enthusiast Henry Keen! Loose beats and percussion fused with mid and uptempo...
First official reissue of Nigerian disco-boogie, holy-grail LP produced by Grotto for EMI Nigeria and originally released in 1978. Contains disco gem ‘Bad...
Stunning compilation of soul, funk and disco cuts from New Zealand, recorded and released between 1973 to 1983! Features some incredibly rare and sought-after...
Released via an Idle Hands and Blackest Ever Black collaborative effort, Silent Street, 'I Can't Stand It Here On Quiet Nights' focus in on some of the...
WOW! What can we say? This incredible reissue has completely floored us here at Sound of the Universe!
This obscure, proto-techno bomb was recorded in...
Far Out Recordings celebrate their 200th release with a previously unreleased album by the maestro & cultural icon - Hermeto Pascoal and his ‘Grupo Vice...
Saxophonist Winston 'Mankunku' Ngozi's 1968 masterpiece Yakhal'Inkomo stands in the front rank of global jazz recordings. A certified jazz classic in South...
Burkina Faso may be one of the least well-known parts of West Africa but it has a deep history and musical pedigree. A few years before President Thomas...
First Word Records continue their rich vein of form with another sure shot winner - The debut LP from the Darkhouse Family, a duo consisting of Earl Jeffers...