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Pat MethenyMoonDialModern Recordings
DJ QuikRhythm-al-ismBe With Records
Night Train: Transcontinental Landscapes 1968 – 2019Various ArtistsTwo-Piers
Sam MortonDaffodils & DirtXL Recordings
Will Gregory Moog EnsembleHeat Ray: The Archimedes ProjectMute
David BowieRock ‘n’ Roll Star! (Half-Speed Master)Parlophone
Ike & Tina Turner'Nuff SaidMusic On Vinyl
Arthur Baker presentsBreaker's RevengeOriginal B-Boy and B-Girl Breakdance Classics 1975-84Soul Jazz Records
Kenny Dorham & Jackie McLeanInta Somethin’ (Tone Poet)Decca (UMO) / Blue Note
Doug WatkinsWatkins At Large (Tone Poet)Decca (UMO) / Blue Note
Kenny Wheeler, Lee Konitz, Dave Holland & Bill FrisellAngel SongECM
Amon TobinPermutation (25 Year Anniversary)Ninja Tune
Paul Weller66Polydor
Sugar MinottBitter SweetMusic On Vinyl
Lonnie SmithFunk ReactionMr Bongo
Danger Mouse & JeminiGhetto Pop LifeLex Records
Billie EilishHit Me Hard And SoftInterscope
Beth GibbonsLives OutgrownDomino Records
CymandePromised HeightsPartisan Records
GabrielleA Place In Your HeartBMG Rights Management
Kings of LeonCan We Please Have FunCaptiol US
Ghana Special 2Various ArtistsSoundway
Kenny BurrellGuitar Forms (Acoustic Sounds)Decca (UMO) / Jazz / Verve
In The Beginning There Was Rhythm(Feat. ACR, Cabaret Voltaire, The Pop Group, Gang of Four, etc)Soul Jazz Records
Let's Do Rock Steady (The Soul of Jamaica)Various ArtistsTrojan Records
Jordan RakeiThe LoopDecca
Group ListeningWalksPRAH Recordings
Goma LacaCala Boca MeninoJazz Room Records
Fontaines DC / Massive Attack / Young FathersCeasefireBattle Box
Eccentric Soul: The Tammy LabelVarious ArtistsNumero Group
Kamasi WashingtonFearless MovementYoung
Kleenex / LiliputFirst SongsKill Rock Stars
Dua LipaRadical OptimismWarner Records
Delta 5Singles & Sessions 1979-1981Kill Rock Stars
Bobby HutchersonTotal Eclipse (Tone Poet)Decca (UMO) / Blue Note
- Book (300g) 9780571334490£9.99Out of stock Notify me when this item is released/available
From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads: The Secret DJ's Guide to Surviving Dance Music is a true story of DJing, from an authentic voice speaking to this scene. The Secret DJ will give hints and guide newbies, as well as telling it as it really is for most DJs.
The Secret DJBook TwoVelocity Press
Through four decades of dance music and club culture, how capitalism bought and sold the utopian dreams of the Acid House generation. Essential reading...
- Book (450g) 9781913231057£14.99In stockAdd to Bag
Chamber MusicWu-Tang and AmericaFaber & Faber
USA HARDBACK £10 ONLY - THAT's £10 OFF!! That's HALF-PRICE!Will Ashon tells, in 36 interlinked "chambers", the story of Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)...
- Book (550g) 0571350003£20.00 £10.00In stockAdd to Bag
All Gates OpenThe Story of CanFaber & Faber
"All Gates Open" presents the definitive story of arguably the most influential and revered avant-garde band of the late twentieth century: CAN.
- Book (750g) 9780571311521£14.99In stockAdd to Bag
Sweet DreamsFrom Club Culture to Style Culture, the Story of the New RomanticsFaber & Faber
ONLY £8. Cheaper than AmazonOne of the most creative entrepreneurial periods since the Sixties, the era of the New Romantics grew out of the remnants...
- Book (750g)£12.99 £8.00New UK paperbackIn stockAdd to Bag
Indian SunThe Life and Music of Ravi ShankarFaber & Faber
SUPERB DELUXE HARDBACK EDITION BOOK ABOUT THE GREAT RAVI SHANKAR 50% OFF PRICE- THAT"S £10 OFF!!!A major biography of Ravi Shankar published on the centenary...
- Book (1.2kg) 0571350852£20.00 £12.00In stockAdd to Bag
Musical TruthA Musical History of Modern Black Britain in 28 SongsFaber & Faber
Music can carry the stories of history like a message in a bottle. Lord Kitchener, Neneh Cherry, Smiley Culture, Stormzy ...
Groundbreaking musicians...
- Book (600g) 9780571366484£12.99 £8.00New hardback bookIn stockAdd to Bag
Beastie Boys BookMichael Diamond/Adam HorovitzFaber & Faber
Formed as a New York City hardcore band in 1981, Beastie Boys struck an unlikely path to global hip-hop superstardom. Here is their story, told for the...
- Book (1.7kg) 9780571308040£35.00In stockAdd to Bag
Bicycle DiariesDavid ByrneFaber & Faber
Since the early 1980s, David Byrne has been riding a bicycle as his principal means of transportation in New York City. A few years later he discovered...
- Book (500g) 9780571241033£10.99Out of stock Notify me when this item is released/available
- Original Book (700g)£15.00Secondhand 1st edn hardback book in good conditionIn stockAdd to Bag
The Secret DJBook TwoVelocity Press
Through four decades of dance music and club culture, how capitalism bought and sold the utopian dreams of the Acid House generation. Essential reading...
- Book (450g) 9781913231057£14.99In stockAdd to Bag
The Music of Black Americans: A Historyby Eileen SouthernW.W Norton & Company
- Original Book (800g)£20.00Original USA out of print edition paperback, wear to top of spine, ageing.
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Giants of Black Musicby Pauline Rivelli & Robert LevinA Dacapo
Original 1970 Interviews with Alice Coltrane, Horace Tapscott, John Coltrane, Leon Thomas, Gary Bartz and more! Beat that!
- Original Book (250g)£25.00Original USA hardback ex library with stamps and stickers in good condIn stockAdd to Bag
I Know What I KnowThe Music Of Charles Mingus By Todd S. JenkinsPraeger
s/hand hardback book w/dustjacket ex libraryFrom the mid-1940s until his death in 1979, Charles Mingus created an unparalleled body of recorded work, most...
- Original Book (600g)£12.00
Voguing: Voguing and the House Ballroom Scene of New York City 1989-92Photographs and interviews by Chantal Regnault, Introduction by Tim LawrenceSoul Jazz Books
BACK IN PRINT!!! The ESSENTIAL book about Voguing featuring 200+ photographs, interviews and text on the LEGENDS of the House Ballroom Scene of New York...
- Book (1.3kg) SJR249£30.00In stockAdd to Bag
White Line FeverLemmy: The AutobiographyPocket Books
Lemmy’s name was synonymous with notorious excess. His blood would have killed another human being. This is the up-to-date story of the heaviest drinking,...
- Book (200g) 9781849834315£8.99 £5.00Out of stock Notify me when this item is released/available
In The Spiritby Michael P Smith
- Book (600g)£20.00Out of stock Notify me when this item is released/available
24 Hour Party PeopleThe Story Of Tony Wilson and Factory RecordsChannel 4 Books
Really funny and great book by the late Tony Wilson, founder of Factory Records. The story was later made into an equally funny and great film of...
- Book (400g) 9780752220253£6.00Secondhand paperbackOut of stock Notify me when this item is released/available
People Apart1950s Cape Town RevisitedBlack Dog Publishing
People Apart: 1950s Cape Town Revisited offers a rich and fascinating insight into South Africa at the very beginning of the apartheid era through Bryan...
- Book (1.3kg) 978-1907317859£19.95 £10.00Out of stock Notify me when this item is released/available
Afro-Brazilian Percussion Guide CandombleBy Kirk Brundage
Out-of-print - as new
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil is an important cradle of Afro-Brazilian culture, and home to musical styles that form the bedrock of much...
- Book (300g)£35.00Out of stock Notify me when this item is released/available
Soul of a Nation (BOOK)Art in the Age of Black Power
BACK IN STOCK!!!!In the period of radical change that was 1963-1983, young Black artists at the beginning of their careers in the USA confronted key questions...
- Book (1.4kg) 9781849764636£30.00Out of stock Notify me when this item is released/available
JunkanooFestival Of The BahamasMacMillan Caribbean
Examines the history and development of the festival called Junkanoo, held each Christmas in the Bahamas. This survey aims to give the reader an insight...
- Book (750g) 9780333554692£9.99Out of stock Notify me when this item is released/available
- Original Book (400g) 0333554698£7.99
Between WorldsA Sourcebook of Central European Avant-Gardes, 1910-1930The MIT Press
USA IMPORT BIG HARDBACK BOOK - 75% OFF!!!!Hundreds of primary documents from the Central European artistic avant-gardes, most of them translated into English...
- Book (1.7kg) 9780262025300£40.00 £10.00Out of stock Notify me when this item is released/available
Tradition And The Black AtlanticCritical Theory in the African DiasporaBasic Civitas Books
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s Tradition and the Black Atlantic is both a vibrant romp down the rabbit hole of cultural studies and an examination...
- Book (350g) 9780465014101£14.99Out of stock Notify me when this item is released/available
Silencing the Sounded SelfJohn Cage and the American Experimental Tradition By Christopher ShultisUniversity Press of New England
Import USA Paperback edition bookHaving placed Cage in the experimental tradition of music, poetry, and literature, Christopher Shultis offers provocative...
- Book (300g) 9781611685077£35.00 £7.99Out of stock Notify me when this item is released/available
Alton Miller & Amp FiddlerWhen The Morning Comes (inc. Kyle Hall remix)NSR Vinyl
A reissue of Alton Miller's highly sought-after collaboration with the prince of Detroit's rubberfunk, Amp Fiddler, 'When The Morning Comes' including...
- – When The Morning Comes (Original)
- – When The Morning Comes (Instrumental)
- – When The Morning Comes (Kyle Hall & Amp Fiddler Remix)
- 1. – When The Morning Comes (Original)
- 2. – When The Morning Comes (Instrumental)
- 3. – When The Morning Comes (Kyle Hall & Amp Fiddler Remix)
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- 12" NSRVINYL011£13.99Out of stock Notify me when this item is released/available
BackbeatEarl Palmer's StorySmithsonian Institute Press
USA IMPORT HARDBACK BOOK 50% OFF. INTERESTED IN NEW ORLEANS FUNK - 100%read about New Orleans finest drummer!There he is, drumming on "Tutti Frutti," "You've...
- Book (600g) 9781560988441£19.99 £10.00Out of stock Notify me when this item is released/available
Lamont ButlerIt's Time For A ChangeAcid Jazz
Reissue of Lamont Butler's very-rare and sought-after gospel masterpiece from 1981 via Acid Jazz!
- LP AJXLP502£19.99Out of stock Notify me when this item is released/available
- CD AJXCD502£10.99Out of stock Notify me when this item is released/available
Lipstick TracesA Secret History of the Twentieth CenturyFaber & Faber
In Lipstick Traces, Greil Marcus's classic book on punk, Dadaism, the situationists, medieval heretics and the Knights of the Round Table (amongst others),...
- Book (950g) 0571277101£15.00Out of stock Notify me when this item is released/available
StormzyGang Signs & PrayerMerky Records
Debut album from one of the biggest grime MC's in the game right now - Stormzy. Includes future classics 'Shut Up' & 'Cold'
- – First Things First
- – Cold
- – Bad Boys (featuring Ghetts and J HUS)
- – Big for Your Boots
- 1. – First Things First
- 2. – Cold
- 3. – Bad Boys (featuring Ghetts and J HUS)
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- 2×LP (180g) 0190296968020£22.99Out of stock Notify me when this item is released/available
- CD 0190296979279£13.99Out of stock Notify me when this item is released/available
Listening for AfricaFreedom, Modernity, and the Logic of Black Music's African OriginsDuke University Press
In Listening for Africa David F. Garcia explores how a diverse group of musicians, dancers, academics, and activists engaged with the idea of black music...
- Book (600g) 9780822363705£24.99Out of stock Notify me when this item is released/available
SamiiFiguring It Out2000black
Killer, mid-tempo, soulful house/slow jams on this promising debut from talent Samii! Wicked vocal delivery with production being handled from Dego, Kaidi...
- – Wake Me Up
- – Spaced-Out Summer Tours & Back Again
- – For Too Long
- – Here To Luv Myself
- 1. – Wake Me Up
- 2. – Spaced-Out Summer Tours & Back Again
- 3. – For Too Long
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- 12" EP 2051BLACK£11.00Out of stock Notify me when this item is released/available
Black Music Four Lives (Spellman)Schocken Books (1966)
Late 60s book about new jazz scene, specifically Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman, Herbie Nichols and Jackie McClean. One of the main strengths of this book...
- Original Book (300g)£30.00Original 1976 s/hand paperback in good condition
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James Stewart feat. Ayuune SuleAtlantic River Drive (inc. SMBD remixes)Mawimbi
French producer James Stewart teams up with Ghanaian kologo musician Ayuune Sule on this lively Afro-house EP. Check the KILLER dub version from SMBD!
- – Atlantic River Drive
- – Where Are We Going?
- – Where Are You Going? (SMBD Earthy Mix)
- – Where Are You Going? (SMBD People Dub)
- 1. – Atlantic River Drive
- 2. – Where Are We Going?
- 3. – Where Are You Going? (SMBD Earthy Mix)
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- 12" EP MWB013£13.00Out of stock Notify me when this item is released/available
Nationalizing Blackness: Afrocubanismo and Artistic Revolution in Havanaby Robin D MooreUniversity of Pittsburg Press
Secondhand paperback in ok condition (stamps, wear, underlining etc)
- Original Book (600g)£12.00