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    LabyrinthBritish Jazz on Record 1960-75
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      Power Pop! (RSD 2026)American Power Pop for the Now Generation 1977-1981
      One-off coloured pressing exclusive for RSD 2026 15 super-rare USA punk/power pop classics you never heard from bands you never knew! Soul Jazz Records’...
      • Ambulance – It's All Up To You
      • Dow Jones and The Industrials – Let’s Go Steady
      • Hot Dates – I Can't Stay
      • Nastyfacts – Drive My Car
      • Pointed Sticks – What Do You Want Me to Do?
      • The Normals – Hardcore
      • Shoes – Tomorrow Night
      • The Reactions – It's Our Turn Now
      • Puppet Rulers – Outta My Mind
      • Testors – Together
      • The Scruffs – You're No Fun
      • The Reruns – So So Alone
      • The Wigs – You Say Ono
      • The Fingers – Isolation
      • The Reactions – In Society
      Jocelyn BrownSomebody Else's Guy
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        Simon Fisher TurnerSTUFF
        After portraying Ned East in the 1971 BBC TV adaptation of Tom Brown’s Schooldays and roles in films such as The Big Sleep (with Robert Mitchum) (1978),...
          Wayne Jarrett And The Bull Wackie AllstarsAfrican Woman
          DKR say..Six track 12" collecting all the cuts of Wayne's first recording for Wackie's, from 1976. A classic of raw underground vibes from the Sounds Unlimited...
          • Wayne Jarrett – African Woman
          • Wayne Jarrett – African Woman (LP Mix)
          Nicola ConteNAQUELA BASE
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            XzibitRestless
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              TroublemanTIME OUT OF MIND
              An expanded edition of a long out of print Far Out classic. This double vinyl edition will include the track 'Strikehard' for the first time, which was...
                • New 2×LP (Coloured Vinyl)£26.00
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                Carol Ann DuffyFeminine Gospels
                n Feminine Gospels, Carol Ann Duffy draws on the historical, the archetypal, the biblical and the fantastical to create various visions – and revisions...
                  • Book (200g) 9781035038565£10.99
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                  Andy WarholA
                  Part novel, part Pop artwork, Andy Warhol's a is an electrifying slice of life at his Factory studio'A work of genius' NewsweekIn the early 1960s, Andy...
                    Kae TempestDivisible by itself and one
                    Divisible by Itself and One is the powerful new collection from our foremost truth-teller Kae Tempest. Ruminative, wise, with a newer, more contemplative...
                      Straighten Up! BOOK Boss Reggae From PamaForeword by Harry Palmer
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                        Awopbopaloobop AlopbamboomBy Nik Cohn
                          • Original Book (300g)£12.00
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                          The West Indian Experience in British SchoolsBy Raymond Giles
                            • Original Book (350g)£15.00
                              Original Pre-Owned Out-of-Print Paperback Book in good condition
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                            Rebel SoundsMusic as Resistance
                            'Empathy is the currency of all music and Joe Mulhall does a great job of explaining how that quality has been used to generate solidarity for the struggle...
                              • Book (350g) 9781804442241£10.99
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                              Nikki GiovanniPoems: 1968-2020
                              Nikki Giovanni's poetry has dazzled and inspired readers for more than sixty years. When she first emerged from the Black Arts Movement in the late 1960s,...
                                Jamie Lidell & Luke SchneiderA Companion For The Spaces Between Dreams
                                Jamie Lidell and Luke Schneider have created a kind of sonic tool to navigate a liminal state of mind. Their new collaborative LP, A Companion For The...
                                  • New LP (Coloured Vinyl) 0309272740004£26.00
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                                  I Hear Music In The StreetsNew York 1969-89
                                  Capturing the energy of New York City's music subcultures—across hip-hop, punk and rap—through an array of snapshots by photographers including...
                                    • Book (1.4kg) 9788410024687£48.00
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                                    Don CherryHear & Now
                                      • New LP (Coloured Vinyl) 0889397842512£17.00
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                                      Ellis ReginaO Bem Do Amor
                                        • New LP (Coloured Vinyl) 7427255403500£18.99
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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...
                                          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...
                                            • Book (1.5kg) 9780956777393£40.00 £35.00
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                                            Greensleeves BOOKThe First 100 Covers
                                            WICKED NEW HARDBACK BOOK! Charts the story of Greensleeves Records —from its beginnings as a mid-1970s West London record shop to its rise as a...
                                              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...
                                                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.
                                                  Susan SontagNotes on Camp
                                                  These two classic essays were the first works of criticism to break down the boundaries between 'high' and 'low' culture, and made Susan Sontag a literary...
                                                    The Second Sexby Simone de Beauvoir
                                                    Everyone who cares about freedom and justice for women should read The Second Sex' GuardianSimone de Beauvoir famously wrote, 'One is not born, but rather...
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                                                      Beneath the UnderdogBy Charles Mingus
                                                      Bass player extraordinaire Charles Mingus, who died in 1979, is one of the essential composers in the history of jazz, and Beneath the Underdog, his celebrated,...
                                                        The Art of DancehallPosters and Flyers of Soundsystem Culture
                                                        Wicked book! Combining the energy and vibrancy of vernacular Jamaican art with the cultural insight that only original ephemera can bring, the flyers...
                                                          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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