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NOW JAZZ NOW - 100 Essential Free Jazz & Improvisation Recordings [1960-80]Writing from Thurston Moore, Byron Coley, Mats GustafssonPreface by Neneh Cherry. Afterword by Joe McPheeECSTATIC PEACE LIBRARY
The Bug vs Ghost DubsImplosionPressure
Carlos GarnettCosmos NucleusTime Traveler
Kenny BarronSunset To DawnTime Traveler
Roy BrooksThe Free SlaveTime Traveler
Tyler The CreatorCHROMAKOPIAColumbia
GILLES PETERSON and STUART BAKER (SOUL JAZZ RECORDS)FREEDOM, RHYTHM AND SOUND Chapter 2: Journeys To Enlightenment BOOKRevolutionary Jazz Original Cover ArtSoul Jazz Records
No One's Listening AnywayUK DIY Post Punk & Dubs 1978-1984 (Volume 2)Caroline True Records
J DillaDonuts (Audiophile Edition)Stones Throw Records
Sun RaFate In A Pleasent MoodPan Am Records
Orchestra BaobabKelen Ati Leen / SouleymaneMr. Bongo
Kibrom BirhaneLISANE BAHIRFlying Carpet
Rick WadeNight Trackin'Rawax Motor CIty Edition
Elsio Mancuso & Berto PisanoNude Per L'AssassinoFour Flies
Sleaford ModsThe Demise Of Planet XRough Trade Records
Tomorrow Comes The HarvestThe HappeningAxis
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (50th Anniversary Edition)Various ArtistsOde Sounds
Reagan RulerTrouble Man EPNutria Sounds
Roger EnoWithout Wind / Without AirDeutsche Grammophon
Avril AHousewife SuperstarMemory Dance
Bop & The Beltones / Jackie MittooNot For A Moment / Man Pon SpotStudio One
Yazmin LaceyTeal DreamsAMF Records
Charles Stepney feat. Kitty HaywoodYou Make Me HighMirror Ball Recordings
Ronnie DavisBeware Of Evil MenWar
Joe Gibbs & The ProfessionalsDisco Love Dub - Joe Gibbs 12'' Dub Mixes 1978 to 1984Doctor Bird
Kabaka Pyramid / Buju BantonFaded AwayGhetto Youth / Buy Reggae
Dr. ObiBellsLion's Den
KreidlerEarly Recordings 1994-95Bureau B
Big Simon & General TKNo Hard DrugsRupa Rupa
Larry June & Harry FraudKeep GoingSRFSCHL
System OlympiaLove Language: A Collection Of Erotica ElectronicaMaterial Music
SquarepusherStereotypeWarp
Oneohtrix Point NeverTranquilizerWarp
DaveWe're All Alone In This TogetherNeighbourhood Recordings
Daft PunkHuman After All RemixesDaft Life
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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!
Punk: The Last WordBy Chris Sullivan and Stephen Colegrave
'A thoroughly enjoyable compendium of appalling behaviour.' Nick Logan, Editor NME (1973-1978), founder of The Face
'From the shabby stowaways of the...
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Freedom Rhythm and Sound EVENTThu 18 Dec 2025
Gilles Peterson + Stuart Baker (Soul Jazz Records) + Special GuestsAn evening of conversation, music and visuals 7.30-10pm Thu 18 Dec 2025 at The American...
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Rock Against Racism 1976-1981By Syd Shelton
Rock Against Racism is a body of photographs that Syd Shelton produced for and about the British Rock Against Racism movement (RAR) of 1976–1981. For...
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Clarks in JamaicaBy Al Fingers, includes photos by Adrian Boot, Dave Hendley, David Corio, Mark Read, Beth Lesser
Back in stock! Last copies!Superb brand new edition of this excellent deluxe 240 pages hardback, 100s and 100s of photos and text.
New edition includes...
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The Other Side : A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World
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...
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Soul Jazz Records hoodie (navy)
Brand new Soul Jazz Records Functional Outer Wear Product #1
Exclusive to Sounds of the Universe
Limited edition navy hoodie (large) with design.
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Namba RoyNo Black Sparrows
'A vivid portrait of Jamaica in the 1930s"
Excellent social realist novel. Written by Jamaican Namba Roy in the 1950s in Britain. He died in 1961 and...
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Revolutionary Letters
By turns a handbook of countercultural living, a manual for street protest, and a feminist broadside against the repressive state apparatus, Revolutionary...
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Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy presents 'Balearic Breakfast' Volume 4
“There are curators, and then there's Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy.” - Resident Advisor
The sun has finally come out. It’s the first time something...
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Sabroso Guaganco Vol. 10Sabroso Guaganco Vol. 10
Latin compilation
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Sabroso Guaganco Vol. 11Sabroso Guaganco Vol. 11
Latin compilation
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Sabroso Guaganco Vol. 12Sabroso Guaganco Vol. 12
Latin compilation
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The Blood of OthersSimone de Beauvoir
Potent and vividly emotional, Simone de Beauvoir’s captivating novel questions freedom and individual responsibility in the face of brutality‘These...
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Salsa Y Ache
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My Grandmother's Hands : Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodiesby Resmaa Menakem
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Insightful, thought-provoking and profound. I can't recommend highly enough' Sunny Singh'A revolutionary work of beauty,...
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Nova Scotia House : A Novel
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...
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This Woman's Work : Essays on Music
This Woman's Work: Essays on Music is edited by Kim Gordon and Sinead Gleeson and features contributors Anne Enright, Fatima Bhutto, Jenn Pelly, Rachel...
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Women and the Piano : A History in 50 Livesby Susan Tomes
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DJ Disciple & Henry KronkThe Beat, the Scene, the Sound : A DJ's Journey through the Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of House Music in New York City
A thrilling and tumultuous, behind-the-scenes account of house music in NYC. The Beat, the Scene, the Sound follows DJ Disciple and his behind-the-scenes...
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James Kaplan3 Shades of Blue : Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans & The Lost Empire of Cool
1959 saw Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans and the other members of Miles's sextet come together to record the bestselling jazz album of all time:...
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Nettleblackby Nat Reeve
'To be blunt: I must escape.' 1893. Henry Nettleblack has to act fast or she'll be married off by her elder sister. But leaving the safety of her wealthy...
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Friedrich NietzscheAphorisms on Love and Hate
'We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from our earliest youth ... Likewise, hatred must be learned and nurtured, if one wishes to become a...
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Eros the Bittersweet : An Essayby Anne Carson
Named one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time by the Modern LibraryAnne Carson’s remarkable first book about the paradoxical nature of romantic...
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Days at the Morisaki Bookshopby Satoshi Yagisawa
The beloved Japanese bestseller: a tale of love, family, new beginnings, and the comfort that can be found between the pages of a good book. When twenty-five-year-old...
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Jacqueline CrooksFire Rush
Yamaye lives for the weekend, when she can go raving with her friends at The Crypt, an underground club on the outskirts of London. Then everything changes....
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We Were There:How Black culture, resistance and community shaped modern Britain
We Were There is about a Black Britain that for too long has been unknown and unexplored – the one that exists beyond London. **An Esquire and GQ best...
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Dr Maya AngelouI Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou's six volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows...
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Keith Gildart & Stephen CatterallKeeping the Faith : A History of Northern Soul
In the 1970s, Northern Soul held a pivotal position in British youth culture. Originating in the English North and Midlands in the late-1960s, by the mid-1970s...
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Margo JeffersonNegroland : A Memoir
'Jefferson's eye for details yields some devastatingly honest and painful insights' The Times'Captivating... Charm is this book's watchword' Colin Grant,...
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Kae TempestOn Connection
An authentically soothing, powerful, thought-provoker.'MATT HAIG'On Connection is medicine for these wounded times.'MAX PORTER'On Connection came to me...
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Emanuele CocciaPhilosophy of the Home : Domestic Space and Happiness
A bedroom, a kitchen, a bathroom - are these rooms all that make a home? Not at all, argues Emanuele Coccia. The buildings we inhabit are of immense psychological...
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Jason OkundayeRevolutionary Acts
In this landmark work, Jason Okundaye meets an elder generation of Black gay men and finds a spirited community full of courage, charisma and good humour,...
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Alex Haley (Author) , Malcolm X (Author)The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X's The Autobiography of Malcolm X was written in collaboration with Alex Haley, author of Roots, and includes an introduction by Paul Gilroy,...
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Daft PunkWe Were The Robots: A Disco Pogo Tribute
Featuring a new foreword by David and Stephen Dewaele, better known as Soulwax and 2manydjs.
Daft Punk featured often in the formative years of Jockey...
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Poor Boy RappersLow Rider RapSoul Jazz Records
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...
- 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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GQDisco Nights (1979)Arista
All-time disco boogie classic!
- Original LP£15.00Vinyl condition: VG+Sleeve condition: VG+Original Pre-Owned Out-of-Print USA VinylSold out Notify me when in stock
Lee Perry & The UpsettersThe Trojan Albums Collection (1971-1973)Trojan Records
Collection of the four classic albums 'Africa's Blood', 'Battle Axe', 'Rhythm Shower', and 'Double Seven'.
- 2×CD TJDCD565£12.00In stockAdd to Bag
Boombox 3POSTERSoul Jazz Records
Oh yes! 50 x 70cm KILLER poster!!
Choose "Poster Freepost" if you want this poster sent with any other vinyl order item (LP/12" vinyl only) at NO extra...
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Basement Beehive: The Girl Group UndergroundNumero
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...
- 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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LabellePhoenix (1975)Epic
Classic funky uplifting soulful boogie
- Original LP£10.00Vinyl condition: VG+Sleeve condition: VG+Original = Original UK Vinyl
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Black Fire! New Spirits! PosterSoul Jazz Records
Large deep, spiritual jazz poster for your bedroom wall, innit.
Oh yes! 50 x 70cm KILLER poster!!
Choose "Poster Freepost" if you want this poster sent...
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Donna SummerFour Seasons Of Love (1976)Casablanca Records
Produced by Giorgio Moroder
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Instant FunkInstant Funk (1979)Salsoul
Includes "I Got My Mind Made Up"
- – I Got My Mind Made Up
- 1. – I Got My Mind Made Up
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- New LP (180g) SSL8513H£26.00Out of stock Notify me when in stock
- Original LP£15.00Vinyl condition: VG+Sleeve condition: VGOriginal Pre-Owned Out-of-Print USA Vinyl,Sold out Notify me when in stock
Understanding Jamaican PatoisAn Introduction to Afro-Jamaican GrammarLMH Publishing
This easy-to-understand introduction to Afro-Jamaican grammar explains clearly and simply the basics of Jamaican patois. Never again will u mix up your...
- Book (400g) 9789766101558£12.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Garfield FlemingGarfield FlemingCordial Recordings
Cordial Recordings release a mini-LP of new material from Philadelphia soul legend, Garfield Fleming!
- – Ain't Nothing Too Good For My Woman
- – Daddy's Home
- – Is That OK?
- – Grass Ain't Greener (Daft Funk's Funktion Creep Rub)
- – Is That OK?
- – Hustlin'
- 1. – Ain't Nothing Too Good For My Woman
- 2. – Daddy's Home
- 3. – Is That OK?
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- LP CORD12001£17.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Donna SummerBad Girls (1979)Casablanca
Disco classic double-album featuring "Hot Stuff" and "Bad Girls"...Toot toot, beep beep!
- – Bad Girls
- 2. – Bad Girls
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- Original 2×LP£12.00Vinyl condition: VG+Sleeve condition: VG+Original Pre-Owned USA vinylSold out Notify me when in stock
- CD 8225572£7.99In stockAdd to Bag
Thelma HoustonAny Way You Like It (1976)Motown/EMI
- – don't leave me this way
- 2. – don't leave me this way
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- Original LP£10.00Vinyl condition: VG+Sleeve condition: VG+Original Pre-Owned Out-of-Print USA VinylSold out Notify me when in stock
Brian EnoVisual MusicChronicle Books
Visual Music is a one-of-a-kind guided tour through the visual art of creative polymath Brian Eno. Featuring more than 300 images of Eno's installation,...
- Book (800g) 9781452169361£19.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
AfrodisiaElephant SunriseCordial Recordings
Cordial reissue Afrodisia's sought-after 'Elephant Sunrise' album from 1980. A combination of US soldiers with local musicians from Worms, Germany, Afrodisia....
- – T.M.F.F.
- – Elephant Sunrise
- – Psychic Summers
- – Could It Only Be Me
- – Sugar Free
- – Good Thang
- – Wild Turkey
- – Goin' Down To The Disco
- – Zugabe (Encore)
- 1. – T.M.F.F.
- 2. – Elephant Sunrise
- 3. – Psychic Summers
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- LP CORDLP002£20.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
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Ohio PlayersContradiction (1976)Mercury
Boogie funk, 76
- Original LP£8.00Vinyl condition: VGSleeve condition: VGOriginal Pre-Owned Out-of-Print USA vinyl VG ONLYSold out Notify me when in stock
Brothers Johnson Look Out For #1 (1976)A&M Records
Classic jazz funking toons
- Original LP SP-4567£9.99Vinyl condition: VG+Sleeve condition: VG+Original = Original USA Vinyl
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Voodoo, Truth and Fantasy (aka Voodoo Search for the Spirit)By Laennec HurbonNew Horizons
A bit like the Rough Guide to Reggae - except for Voodoo. Recommended!
Out of Africa came the cult of spirits who could enter human beings and cross...
- Original Book (250g) 9780810928572£10.00Original Pre-Owned Out-of-Print Paperback, sticker on frontSold out Notify me when in stock
Pink RhythmIndiaBe With Records
Be With Records reissue of the essential, classic, Brit-funk EP from Pink Rhythm. Richly melodic, funk fuelled cruisers, with the added blue-eyed soul...
- – India
- – Trust Me
- – More And More
- – India (Instrumental)
- 1. – India
- 2. – Trust Me
- 3. – More And More
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- 12" EP BEWITH009TWELVE£12.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
ChicChic (1977)Atlantic
Debut album from Chic with "Dance, Dance, Dance", "Everybody Dance" and more!
- LP 0603497857135£30.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Creative SourceCreative Source (1973)Polydor
Superb soul album featuring the classic tracks: "You Cant Hide Love" & "Who Is He And What Is He To You". A must have album.
- – You Can't Hide Love
- – Who Is He And What Is He To You
- 1. – You Can't Hide Love
- 7. – Who Is He And What Is He To You
- View full info and tracklisting
- Original LP£20.00Vinyl condition: VG+Sleeve condition: VGOriginal = Original USA Vinyl gatefold, some sleeve wear, sticker removal mark
surface marks plays fineSold out Notify me when in stock - CD SOL-CD-1207£14.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Afrobeat!Fela and the Imagined ContinentAFRICA WORLD PRESS
In the seventies, as signs of decay began to show in the capitalist experiment of the newly independent African countries, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti tore his...
- Book (500g) 9781592210752£21.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Young Holt UnlimitedSoulful Strut (1968)Brunswick
Seminal album. Features the party classics "Ain't There Something Money Can't Buy", "Soulful Strut" , "Who's Making Love".
- – Who's Making Love
- – Soulful Strut
- – Ain't There Something Money Can't Buy
- 1. – Who's Making Love
- 6. – Soulful Strut
- 11. – Ain't There Something Money Can't Buy
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- Original LP£25.00Vinyl condition: VG+Sleeve condition: VG+Original Pre-Owned USA vinyl,Sold out Notify me when in stock
Alice ColtraneJourney In Satchidananda (1971)Impulse!
100% essential, C-L-A-S-S-I-C spiritual jazz album featuring Pharoah Sanders! Deep-as-it-gets, hypnotic, trance-like, spiritually uplifting music featuring...
- – Journey in Satchidananda
- – Stopover Bombay
- 1. – Journey in Satchidananda
- 3. – Stopover Bombay
- View full info and tracklisting
- New LP (180g) AAIMP228£36.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
- CD IMP12282£7.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Flash Of The SpiritAfrican & Afro-American Art & PhilosophyVintage Books
NEARLY 50% OFF THIS BOOK!! CHEAPER THAN AMAZON!!
This is the BIBLE on African-American culture and art. Seminal text!
- Book (350g) 9780394723693£13.99 £7.50Out of stock Notify me when in stock