12. Saka Dit The King – Ody Ody (Tsy Mentsy Mandroso)
13. Michael – Razana Tsy Ho Meloko
14. Falafa – Rapela
15. Los Matadores – Andeha Hanarato
16. Nino Rafah – Oa Niny E
17. Kaiamba Orchestra – Tokatoka
18. Atrefy Andriana – Zaka Tiako Mamolaka Keriko
Strut continues its essential compilation series of Indian Ocean sounds with ‘Alefa Madagascar’, the first compilation to document the unique culture of salegy, soukous and soul music on the island during the ‘70s and ‘80s.
Drawn from the Audio Productions catalogue of early 80s Nairobi, this is a compilation that captures a luminous period in Kenya's urban music, when rumba...
Since Volcov's Neroli label was named in honour of a fine ambient album by Brian Eno, it made sense to mark the imprint's 20th birthday with a compilation...
Jerome Derradji's Past Due imprint continues to rummage around in the archives of one of New York disco's most overlooked and least-known talents - the...
Since being resurrected by Defected late last decade, 1990s NYC house label Sub-Urban has kept up a prolific digital release schedule. Surprisingly, though,...
Features aja monet by Ayana Contreras, Azymuth by Ben Lee, Henry Threadgill by Bret Sjerven, Sven-Åke Johansson by Magnus Nygren, Anna Webber by Stewart...
The Woods All Stars return with an essential Latin jazz session, uniting the great Tito Puente (with his Orchestra and Top Percussion Ensemble), saxophonist/flautist...
Originally released in 1980 on Third World subsidiary label Live & Love, featuring awesome dub mixes by the then Prince Jammy at King Tubby's. 10 heavyweight...
Gas, grass, or jazz, nobody rides for free. Jazz Dispensary presents Green Bullets, a new compilation of high-octane funk and fusion-soaked heaters, soundtracking...
Curated straight out of the Detroit Basement, this compilation captures the true spirit of a city that never stopped creating, never stopped fighting,...
The pioneering electronic sounds of Daphne Oram reimagined by TAAHLIAH, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Marta Salogni, Arushi Jain and others using tapes from Oram's...
On the label's latest deep dive, Miles Away tells the story of Boo Frazier's Cheri Records, a tiny New Jersey imprint whose slim catalogue (remarkably,...
DJ Yoshizawa Dynamite - a veteran of Japan's late-80s club scene and one of the country's foremost authorities on wamono - returns with another deep excavation...
Sassy J’s acclaimed A Sanctuary tape mix arrives as a double vinyl release, featuring 18 of the 22 original tracks. All exclusive and previously unreleased...
A dancefloor-friendly selection focusing on Japanese proto-techno, electro-pop, and synthpop from the 1980s. Pressed on 45 RPM. Comes with OBI and insert...
Originally released in 1977 on Winston Riley's Techniques label featuring killer dubs to classic Sensations, Johnny Osbourne, Techniques, Cornell Campbell...
Blurring the lines between fiction and documentary, the seminal film Wild Style, directed by Charlie Ahearn and developed alongside Fred Braithwaite aka...
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...
Peace and love in late 60s America did not come without parallel feelings of fear and confusion about the social situation – specifically about Vietnam....
In an illuminating blend of memoir and art history, The Other Side explores the lives and work of a group of extraordinary women artists. From the twelfth-century...
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...
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...
From the crypts of Parisian funk obscurity comes the long-lost Halloween holy grail, Disco Frankenstein from Ice AKA Lafayette Afro Rock Band. A teasing...
Ajomasé is the groundbreaking debut album by legendary Nigerian percussionist Gasper Lawal. Originally released in 1980 on his own label CAP, Strut are...
Strut Records proudly presents the official reissue of Hidden Fire Volumes 1 & 2, the final album released by Sun Ra on his El Saturn label in 1988.
Captured...
Strut presents Mulatu Plays Mulatu, the first major studio album in over 10 years from the father of Ethio-jazz, Mulatu Astatke.
Featuring masterful new...
Berlin-based Colombian DJ, producer, and curator Edna Martinez presents a sonic journey into the electrifying world of Picó - the vibrant and dynamic...
Matthew Herbert and drummer/vocalist Momoko Gill announce the release of new album Clay, via Strut records in collaboration with Accidental.
A soulful,...
A cosmic fusion of deep funk, interstellar jazz, and avant-garde soundscapes, On Jupiter stands as one of Sun Ra’s most iconic releases. Recorded in...
Strut introduces the highly anticipated third volume in the Disques Debs International series, diving deeper into the archives of one of the greatest French...
In February 2024 Ackamoor’s performing arts company, Cultural Odyssey, partnered with The Lab, a prominent San Francisco venue, to co-present ""Underground...
Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids are back with their first major new studio album in over 3 years, an epic, sprawling new work exploring the future, the...
Formed in Mamelodi township near Pretoria, the group started out as Malombo Jazz Men with Julian Bahula on malombo drums, Abbey Cindi on flute and Philip...
Strut revives a lost recording from the archives in January with a 2002 collaboration between acclaimed South African folk singer Vusi Mahlasela, singer...
Strut present the first ever reissue of an essential lost classic from the Black Fire catalogue, Wayne Davis’ powerful self-titled gospel-soul album...
Exclusive collaboration between two jazz greats, Bennie Maupin and Adam Rudolph, on ‘Symphonic Tone Poem For Brother Yusef’, originally commissioned...
Deluxe, definitive issue of the greatest Sun Ra album, recorded in NYC, 1978!
Super-deep, funky odd-ball jazz with spooky whispered vocals! Cult classic...
Strut present the definitive reissue of one of the all-time classic Caribbean soul and funk albums, the self-titled album by The Beginning Of The End,...
Seriously rare, killer and classic Nigerian 70s Afro-Funk, Afro-Disco & Afro-Rock tunes bought together.
Originally released as a now-long-out-of-print...
NEW EXCLUSIVE SUPER LTD. edition of 300 copies.
100% KILLER, KILLER 100% Nu Yorican LATIN FUNK masterpiece originally released in New York in 1974!
Alongside...
In 1964, the National Film Board of Canada asked John Coltrane to record the soundtrack for a French-language film titled 'Le Chat dans le Sac' ('The Cat...
Soul Jazz Records’ new Nigeria Soul Fever is their first release to explore the vast wealth of Nigerian music recorded in the 1970s. The new album comes...
Broken beat pioneer, producer and multi-instrumentalist, Kaidi Tatham returns to First Word Records with this killer EP. 'Serious Times' is another 4-track...
**Shipping early next week** 100% ESSENTIAL Very limited edition EXCLUSIVE SIGNED private press book! This is a one-off order with this mailout
Absolutely...
Producers at the heart of the broken beat revival, EVM128 and James Rudie met through the CDR project, and soon after started to mess about collaborating...
Second volume of Lee Perry's rare 12" mixes from The Black Ark, late 70s recordings featuring Junior Delgado, Jolly Brothers, Hugo Blackwood, Dr Alimantado,...
The first volume in a two-part collection of pirate radio adverts and idents, taken from recordings of London stations between 1984 and 1993. Brilliant...
Names You Can Trust's long-running Swing-A-Ling party in Brooklyn has become an epic warm weather celebration of all classic styles of Jamaican sound system...
REPRESS!Badboy 3rd release from Rhtyhm Section following a release by Al dobson Jr, and remixes from Ptaaki and Ruf Dug. Late night lsun-soaked ush deep...
Collecting 5 classic discomixes from Lee Perry's Black Ark Studio from 1977-79 featuring full original Upsetter 12" mix from 1977 of "Disco Devil" with...
Killer new EP of four to the floor business from the 22a boss and multi-instrumentalist. "Think Twice" continues Tenderlonious' evolution away from jazz,...
Little known funky-soul two sider by Los Keys. It was first presented to the world when it was included on Tramp's sixth volume in their Movements series...
Chicago collective Resavoir release their album debut through International Anthem Recording Company. The self-titled album presents a suite of elegantly-orchestrated...
In the summer of 2018 Beachfreaks Records founder and celebrated crate digger Charles Bals threw open the doors of Club Meduse, an imaginary open-air venue...
Tramp Records drop the killer Frederick Knight filler 'Steppin Down on 45, with the equally brilliant 'Heart Complication' on the flip. Two deep soul burners!
A definitive selection of music from legendary label Mainstream recorded between 1970 and 1973; showcasing the label's superb blend of funk, soul and jazz....
The groovier side of the Iron Curtain is uncovered by Funk Embassy Records via this killer 11-track compilation! Featuring music recorded between 1974-1988,...