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New KILLER 100% essential MASSIVE 450+ pages book about the history of electronic music.
'Mars by 1980' is written by the very groovy David Stubbs, author of the classic book about German Rock ('Future Days') as well as - more importantly - sleevenotes to our own Deutsche Electronische Musik albums!
From the beginnings of electronic music in the world of avant-classical composition, up to the cosmic funk of Stevie Wonder, Giorgio Moroder and others, on to 80s pioneers and a current trawl through underground electronic music this book is the bomb!
Featuring Kraftwerk, Suicide, Delia Derbyshire, Sun Ra, Steve Reich, Joy Division, Aphex Twin, Prince, Miles Davis, Brian Eno and about a squillion more!
Superb hardback 188-page book with loads of text, photos, artefacts, record labels etc written by Noel Hawks.
With contributions and quotes from (wait for it): King Jammy, Bunny Lee, Dennis Alcapone, Bob Marley, Paul Khouri, Graeme Goodall, Horace Andy, Burning Spear, Augustus Pablo, Marcia Griffiths, Jojo Hookim, Derrick Harriott and many many more!
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'An absolutely crucial survey of the origins of the Jamaican music industry replete with chapter and verse quotes from many of the pivotal movers and shakers.
"A wealth of new information, expertly marshalled: this is a book whose time has come!" STEVE BARROW (Rough Guide to Reggae).
This is a limited-edition book, DO NOT MISS OUT!
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Original secondhand hardback book, stickers on cover. Nice hard to find out of print book!
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Collectible original a4 small book on Japan (the group not the country!) in good condition
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Original secondhand hardback book w/dustjacket in good condition, name of previous owner stamped on side
- Original Book (800g)£30.00In stockAdd to Bag
Man like Diplo travels round the world innit - pretty good. Original secondhand paperback book
- Original Book (800g)£12.00In stockAdd to Bag
Out of print original secondhand book in good condition
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Cuba in photographs. Secondhand original hardback book in good condition
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Original secondhand hardback book w/no dustjacket ex-library
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Excellent book on deep Brazilian Macumba. Original secondhand out of print paperback in good condition
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'This is the work of a born storyteller at the height of his powers' Edmund White, Washington Post
When Arthur Montana, world-renowned 'Emperor of Soul', is found dead in a London pub, his grief-stricken brother looks back over thirty years in the lives of their group of friends: from their childhood spent preaching and singing in Harlem churches, to their struggles with war and poverty, and their encounters with wealth, love and fame.
- Original Book (900g)£20.00UK 1st edition hardback w/dustjacket covered in plastic ex-library w/stampsIn stockAdd to Bag
DELAYED - WE ARE EXPECTING COPIES END OF THIS WEEK est. Fri 13th August and will ship as soon as they arrive
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500 pages! Over 200 photos!
Absolutely stunning book documenting Don Cherry's musical and personal world in Europe - really one of the best books we have seen! So full of details and stunning ephemera, text and more! REALLY GOOD BOOK!
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Jazz icon Don Cherry and textile artist Moki Cherry (née Karlsson) met in Sweden in the late sixties. They began to live and perform together, dubbing their mix of communal art, social and environmentalist activism, children’s education, and pan-ethnic expression “Organic Music.”
Organic Music Societies highlights models for collectivism and pedagogy deployed in the Cherrys’ interpersonal and artistic work through the presentation of archival documents alongside newly translated and commissioned writings by musicians, scholars, and artists alike.
Covering Don Cherry's ensembles during his Sweden years and beyond. Two selections of Moki’s unpublished writings—consisting of autobiography, observations, illustrations, and diary entries, as well as poetry and aphorisms—are framed by tributes from her daughter Neneh Cherry and granddaughter Naima Karlsson.
Swedish Cherry collaborator Christer Bothén contributes period travelogues from Morocco, Mali, and New York, providing insight into the cross-cultural communication that would soon come to be called “world music.” The collection also features several previously unpublished interviews with Don. Also here is a an interview with Terry Riley.
Taken together, the texts, artwork, and abundant photographs collected in Organic Music Societiesshine a long overdue spotlight on Don and Moki’s prescient and collaborative experiments in the art of living.
- Book (1kg)£16.00Expected 06 AugPreorder
1971 collection, original hardback book w/dustjacket, ex-library w/stamps
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Secondhand paperback in good condition
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Cajun style - secondhand out of print paperback cookery book in good condition (tear to dustjacket)
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Cajun style - secondhand out of print paperback cookery book in good condition
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Secondhand hardback book in plastic sleeve, ex-library w/stamps
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VERY HEAVY Deep dubby, dancehally, very twisted, electronic beauty! THIS RECORD IS HEAVY!
Super moody white label from KRIKOR with hand-stamped label/hand-stamped sleeve 7" ONLY available here!
DO NOT MISS OUT!!
- Krikor Kouchian – Pectineus
- Krikor Kouchian – Pectoralis Minor
- 1. Krikor Kouchian – Pectineus
- 2. Krikor Kouchian – Pectoralis Minor
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Secondhand hardback book w/dustjacket in good condition
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Cajun style - secondhand out of print hardback cookery book in good condition
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Secondhand paperback book
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Secondhand large format paperback book in good condition
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NEW £1000+ KILLER LA low-rider electro rap groover.
MASSIVE tune + seriously hip twisted electro instrumental courtesy of the great Rich Cason. BUMPIN!
SUPER-RARE Originally released in Phoenix, Arizona 1982, new edition LOUD 12" on Soul Jazz Records.
Limited edition, one-off pressing, ONLY AVAILABLE DIRECT FOR 2 MONTHS!
This is one of two KILLER Poor Boy Rappers 12" - next one coming soon!
- Poor Boy Rappers – Low Rider Rap
- Poor Boy Rappers – Low Rider Rap (Instrumental)
- 1. Poor Boy Rappers – Low Rider Rap
- 2. Poor Boy Rappers – Low Rider Rap (Instrumental)
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Original = Original UK pressing LP VG+ /Sleeve VG+
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- Original LP£14.00
A Bowl of Soul was the result of two sessions the exact dates are unknown in March of 1964. They both featured Holmes backed by an orchestra conducted and arranged by Onzy Matthews, who had already worked with musicians like Ray Charles and Lou Rawls by that time.
Original = Original USA Vinyl VG+ /Sleeve G+ (bad damage at back)
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- Original LP£6.99
Featuring: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Pharoah Sanders, Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman, Roland Kirk, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Alice Coltrane, Eric Dolphy, Leon Thomas, Cecil Taylor and more!
The 100s of stunning photographs in this new deluxe large format hardback book capture the radicalism and self- determination of pioneering jazz artists in the 1960s and early 1970s
During this era, jazz music in the USA was in an almost constant state of revolution with the music and lives of African-American artists radicalised by civil rights, the avant garde, Black Power and a new spiritual awakening.
At the start of the 1960s, jazz entered a unique new period of revolution as African-American musicians re-defined the art form in the context of the civil rights movement, afro-centric rhythm and thought and an ideology of black economic empowerment.
John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra, Pharoah Sanders, Albert Ayler and others developed a new cosmology of sound that was as revolutionary as the social and political changes that took place in America throughout the decade. From the musical explorations of John Coltrane, Cecil Taylor and Ornette Coleman, to the collective and community concerns of Chicagos Advancement for Creative Musicians and the black science fiction of Sun Ra, the new jazz musicians created a musical and cultural landscape from which jazz music never looked back.
This large-format deluxe hardback book features hundreds of stunning photographs of the new jazz musicians in the USA throughout the 1960s presented with introductory essay and biographies on the many artists included in the book.
- SJ Book (2.3kg)£30.00
Soul Jazz Records are issuing the awesome deep jazz album Rhythmatism (1976) from the legendary Steve Reid long out of print in a new edition very limited 1000-copies COLOURED vinyl (+download code) and CD.
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‘Steve Reid is one of the greatest drummers.
He is a musical genius’ KIERAN HEBDEN (Four Tet)
‘A truly phenomenal artist.’ GILLES PETERSON
‘Steve Reid reflects the spirit of a generation- Art Ensemble of Chicago, John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, the Black Artists Group.’ THE WIRE
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Drummer and composer extraordinaire Steve Reid’s Rhythmatism is one of his deepest and most radical of albums of all time and features some of the heaviest jazz players - Arthur Blythe ‘AKA Black Arthur’, Charles Tyler, David Wertman and others – joining Reid. The album was originally released on Reid’s own Mustevic Sound label in 1976
As a radical jazz artist, Steve Reid played with an extraordinary group of artists – including Miles Davis, Sun Ra, Fela Kuti, James Brown, Ornette Coleman, Lester Bowie, Freddie Hubbard, Jackie McLean, Dionne Warwick, Archie Shepp, Chief Bey, Olatunji, Arthur Blythe, , Dextor Gordon, Gary Bartz, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Sam Rivers, Leon Thomas, Lonnie Smith and Horace Silver!
Reid was born in the South Bronx, and grew up in Queens, New York. He played in the house band at Harlem's Apollo Theatre, accompanying James Brown, as well as playing in Sun Ra's Arkestra. He lived next to John Coltrane, worked in a department store with Ornette Coleman, had a son who played drums with NWA. He began his career as a teenager in the 1960s as a drummer at Motown when he played on Martha and The Vandellas "Heatwave" (aged 14).
At the end of the 1960s Reid was sentenced to four years in jail as a conscientious objector of the Vietnam war. On his release from prison in 1974, he formed the Legendary Master Brotherhood and started the independent record label, Mustevic Sound, to release his debut LP in 1976. Rhythmatism is released in its entirety and with full original cover art here and is one of a series of stunning independent records he released in the 1970s.
At the start of the 21st century, his career took a new twist when Steve Reid began a successful collaboration with Kieran Hebden (Four Tet). Hebden referred to Reid as his ‘musical soul mate’, resulting in a number of joint albums.
Steve Reid died in New York in 2010. Subsequently the Steve Reid Foundation was set up in his name, to help aspiring musicians and artists.
- Steve Reid – Kai
- Steve Reid – Rocks (for Cannonball)
- Steve Reid – Center Of The Earth
- Steve Reid – C You Around
- Steve Reid – One Minute Please
- 1. Steve Reid – Kai
- 2. Steve Reid – Rocks (for Cannonball)
- 3. Steve Reid – Center Of The Earth
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KILLER Lady Marmalade - stylee funky, funky Labelle prod by Allen Toussaint 75
Unplayed original USA 45
Original USA 7"Vinyl VG+ (Unplayed deadstock but few minor background pops etc) /Sleeve NM-
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- – Far As We Felt Like Goin'
- 1. – Far As We Felt Like Goin'
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- Original 7"£7.99
Rare and heavy pressing Atlantic LP from jazz vocalist Hibbler (who recorded a joint album with Roland Kirk)
Original = Original USA Vinyl VG+ /Sleeve VG
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- Original LP£19.99
The first serious ethnomusicological study of Malagasy music, ' Recollecting From The Past' evokes the complex sound and performative aesthetic in Madagascar called maresaka. Maresaka pertains not only to musical expression but extends into ways of remembering the past, aesthetics of everyday life and Malagasy concepts of self and community. Ron Emoff focuses on tromba spirit possession ceremonies in which Malagasy use devotional practice as an occasion to expressively re-figure worlds often impeded by colonialism and postcolonial phenomena, extreme material poverty, and widespread illness. Malagasy not only preserve the past, but they interpret, revalue and transform it to their own ends. Music is crucial to these performances since powerful ancestral spirits will not enter into the present if not enticed by masterful musical performances, and so music itself provides a complex symbolic system with which Malagasy can recall and reconstruct the past. This groundbreaking study will be of interest to readers in the fields of anthropology, ethnomusicology, cultural studies, African studies, postcolonial and performance studies.
- Book (400g)£9.99 £6.00
Rare Wicked Independent label Rare groove Funky 45 (none for sale on discogs)
Original = USA Unplayed 45 Vinyl VG /Sleeve VG+
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- – Feel Like Dancing Funky
- 1. – Feel Like Dancing Funky
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- Original 7"£25.00
The seminal boss reggae instrumental collection is now further enhanced with a dozen bonus tracks from Harry Johnson’s eponymously named All Stars band.
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USA IMPORT HARDBACK BOOK - 60% OFF!!!!!
Seventy colourful, pseudo-historical collage-drawings, digitally remastered for this edition, peopled with often-irreverent images of the author's real life friends and colleagues. Opposite each of the cartoons, are the fascinating documents from the author's personal archive relating to some of the unlikely things that really happened in Performance Art shows over the years.
- Book (800g)£25.00 £10.00
2 Original LP's On One CD.
Includes 3 bonus tracks
Recorded at Dynamic Sounds Studio, Kingston, Jamaica, 1969 to 1970.
- Monkey Man – Peeping Tom
- – Monkey Man
- – Pressure Drop
- From The Roots – Pee Pee Cluck Cluck
- – Thy Kingdom Come
- – One Eye Enos
- – She's My Scorcher (Alt. Version)
- – African Doctor (Alt. Version)
- 1. Monkey Man – Peeping Tom
- 8. – Monkey Man
- 10. – Pressure Drop
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- CD£12.99
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Lush, tropical infused drone / new age / club experiments from Ramzi who completes the third part of her 'Phobiza' series (previously on Mood Hut). With an appearance from Hashman Deejay this gorgeous, brain-melting release mixes up dub, dream house and other lysergic after-hours / early morning touches. Ace!
- – Bibwel Intro
- – Ya Chaki
- – Piton
- – Sunshini
- – Mui Chubbi
- – Det Calash
- – Tourtou
- – Evora
- – Coeur Cassé
- – Oxum
- – Warhasu
- 1. – Bibwel Intro
- 2. – Ya Chaki
- 3. – Piton
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- LP£15.99
Two best-selling Trojan albums from the early 1970s, featuring reggae music's golden couple : Bob Andy and Marcia Griffiths...
- CD£12.99
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All-time disco boogie classic!
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- CD£9.99
Collection of the four classic albums 'Africa's Blood', 'Battle Axe', 'Rhythm Shower', and 'Double Seven'.
- 2×CD£7.99
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50 year anniversary reissue of the second, incredible album by visionary producer, David Axelrod! 'Song Of Innocence' fuses elements of rock, classical, funk and psyche into one thoroughly cosmic, alchemical body of work. Essential.
- – Urizen
- – Holy Thursday
- – The Smile
- – A Dream
- – Song Of Innocence
- – Merlin's Prophecy
- – The Mental Traveler
- 1. – Urizen
- 2. – Holy Thursday
- 3. – The Smile
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Who do we become when we live our dreams? It’s all here - the high hairdos, the dreams and schemes, the tender camp, the wedding bell fantasias and chaste tragedies. Sister acts, studio receptionists, classmates, angelic voices of the 1960s; some legendary, many hidden in the basement of expired rainbows. Gathered on this deluxe double LP (or CD) are 28 (56 on the compact disc!) foiled escape attempts, now free to soar in girl group heaven. It features The Shades, The Belles, The Monzas, Vickie and the Van Dykes, Paulette and the Cupids, The Mellow Dawns and much more...
- The Four J’s – Will You Be My Love
- The Chantells With The Aqua Lads – I'll Never Know
- The Passionettes – My Fault
- The Tonettes – I Gotta Know
- Vickie & The Van Dykes – I Wanna Be A Winner
- The Vandelettes – A Love Of Mine
- The Devilettes – I'll Say Yes
- Dot & The Velvelettes – Searching For My Man
- 1. The Four J’s – Will You Be My Love
- 2. The Chantells With The Aqua Lads – I'll Never Know
- 3. The Passionettes – My Fault
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- 2×LP£30.99
- 2×CD + Book£21.99
Classic funky uplifting soulful boogie
- Original LP£10.00Vinyl condition: VG+Sleeve condition: VG+Original = Original UK Vinyl
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Large deep, spiritual jazz poster for your bedroom wall, innit.
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Sons of Kemet’s third studio album, and first under the impulse! label! Shabaka Hutchings and his band incorporate sounds of spiritual jazz music, while keeping a consistent and hypnotic rhythm throughout. Essential release!
- – My Queen Is Ada Eastman
- – My Queen Is Mamie Phipps Clark
- – My Queen Is Harriet Tubman
- – My Queen Is Anna Julia Cooper
- – My Queen Is Angela Davis
- – My Queen Is Nanny Of The Maroons
- – My Queen Is Yaa Asantewaa
- – My Queen Is Albertina Sisulu
- – My Queen Is Doreen Lawrence
- 1. – My Queen Is Ada Eastman
- 2. – My Queen Is Mamie Phipps Clark
- 3. – My Queen Is Harriet Tubman
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- 2xLP + Download Code£21.99
- CD£11.00In stockAdd to Bag