Update RequiredTo play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
SAULTActs Of FaithForever Living Originals
Steve ReichCollected WorksNonesuch
Jacob CollierDjesse Vol. 4 (Deluxe Edition)Decca
Studio One Showcase 45 (Expanded Edition)Feat. The Skatalites, The Heptones, Horace Andy, Bob Marley, Jackie Mittoo and moreSoul Jazz Records
Holy TongueAmbulanceTrule
Q LazzarusGoodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus (Music from the Motion Picture)Sacred Bones
Joe BataanAftershower Funk / FinSoul Jazz Records
Joe BataanLatin Strut / Peace, Friendship and SolidaritySoul Jazz Records
A Love From Outer SpaceVarious ArtistsMaterial Music
Marshall AllenNew DawnWeek-End Records
Echoes Of Italy: Artists In Wonderland - Early 90s House Vibes Vol. 1 (Compiled By Don Carlos)Various ArtistsJungle Fantasy
Echoes Of Italy: Artists In Wonderland - Early 90s House Vibes Vol. 2 (Compiled By Don Carlos)Various ArtistsJungle Fantasy
The AltonsHeartache in Room 14Daptone Records
Arlene BaileyLet’s Stay In Love / Closer To YouBackatcha
Johnny DavisLife’s A Party / Expand Your MindBackatcha
MadvillainMadvillainy DemosStones Throw
Bonnie “Prince” BillyThe Purple BirdDomino
Vorsicht! Digital Themes From The Arcadia LibraryVarious ArtistsBuried Treasure Records
DillingerReady Natty DreadieStudio One (USA)
Tapper ZukieIn DubLantern Rec.
ScientistIn The Kingdom Of DubSuperior Viaduct
Imagine DragonsReflections (From The Vault Of Smoke + Mirrors)UMR
Horace SilverSerenade to a Soul SisterDecca / Blue Note
Wild Paarty SoundsLantern Rec.
Alfredo De La FeAlfredoMr Bongo
August BlueBy Deborah Levy
The Haunted TrailClassic Tales Of The Rambling Wild
Discovering the Folklore of PlantsBy Margaret Baker
A NovelGirls Against GodBy Jenny Hval
Wayward Lives, Beautiful ExperimentsIntimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queen RadicalsBy Saidiya Hartman
Satanic FeminismLucifer as the Liberator of Woman in Nineteenth-Century CultureBy Per Faxneld
Remembered for a WhileNick Drake
Roland KirkNow Please Don’t You Cry, Beautiful EdithDecca / Verve
Sonny RollinsSonny Rollins And The Contemporary LeadersConcord
Terminal BoredomBy Izumi Suzuki
- Book (900g) 9780822362029£26.99In stockAdd to Bag
Here we go .. massive NYC dancefloor 500+ page book by the excellent Tim Lawrence - who wrote Love Saves The Day and also has written for Soul Jazz Records' (Chantal Regnault's stunning Voguing book).
100% ESSENTIAL purchase! Buy now! Featuring Francois K, Fab 5 Freddy, Nicky Siano, Bambaataa, Keith Haring, Grandmaster Flash, Larry Levan discography - what are you waiting for!
"Tim Lawrence's powerfully pulsating and enthusiastically researched book Life and Times on the New York Dancefloor vividly captures the cultural revolution I took part in" FAB 5 FREDDY
"Tim Lawrence follows his now classic Love Saves The Day with a magnificent account of one of the most fertile and influential periods of NYC's long musical history. A must-read for anyone curious how modern dance music got to where it is." FRANCOIS KERVORKIAN
"As the 1970s gave way to the 80s, New York's party scene entered a ferociously inventive period characterized by its creativity, intensity, and hybridity. Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor chronicles this tumultuous time, charting the sonic and social eruptions that took place in the city's subterranean party venues as well as the way they cultivated breakthrough movements in art, performance, video, and film."
August Blue
At the height of her career, concert pianist Elsa M. Anderson - former child prodigy, now in her thirties - walks off the stage in Vienna, mid-performance....
- Book (250g)£9.99In stockAdd to Bag
The Haunted TrailClassic Tales Of The Rambling Wild
A remarkable blood-soaked stranger upends the lives of two Lake District ramblers; a lonely tavern offers its guests something much more disturbing than...
- Book (350g)£9.99In stockAdd to Bag
Discovering the Folklore of Plants
To primitive man the whisper and movement of leaves and the silent unfolding of flowers were proofs of life and power, and their regeneration was a promise...
- Book (300g)£6.99In stockAdd to Bag
A NovelGirls Against God
Welcome to 1990s Norway. White picket fences run in neat rows and Christian conservatism runs deep. But as the Artist considers her past, her practice...
- Book (250g)£11.99In stockAdd to Bag
Wayward Lives, Beautiful ExperimentsIntimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queen Radicals
At the dawn of the twentieth century, black women in the US were carving out new ways of living. The first generations born after emancipation, their struggle...
- Book (400g)£12.99In stockAdd to Bag
Satanic FeminismLucifer as the Liberator of Woman in Nineteenth-Century Culture
According to the Bible, Eve was the first to heed Satan's advice to eat the forbidden fruit and thus responsible for all of humanity's subsequent miseries....
- Book (1.1kg)£45.99In stockAdd to Bag
Remembered for a WhileNick Drake
The authorised companion to the music of Nick Drake, compiled, composed and edited by Cally Callomon and Gabrielle Drake, with contributions from Nick's...
- Book (2.1kg)£45.00In stockAdd to Bag
Terminal Boredom
On a planet where men are contained in ghettoised isolation, women enjoy the fruits of a queer matriarchal utopia -- until a boy escapes and a young woman's...
- Book (250g)£10.99In stockAdd to Bag
The Conspiracy of Art: Manifestos, Interviews, Essays
Cutting-edge theorist Jean Baudrillard on the complicitous dance of art, politics, economics, and media; includes "War Porn," on Abu Ghraib as a new genre...
- Book (450g)£13.99In stockAdd to Bag
The Power Of Words
The philosopher and activist Simone Weil was one of the most courageous thinkers of the twentieth century. Here she writes, with honesty and moral clarity,...
- Book (150g)£7.99In stockAdd to Bag
Things I Don't Want To Know
Taking George Orwell's famous essay, 'Why I Write', as a jumping-off point, Deborah Levy offers her own indispensable reflections of the writing life....
- Book (200g)£10.99In stockAdd to Bag
Art MonstersUnruly Bodies In Feminist Art
For decades, feminist artists have confronted the problem of how to tell the truth about their experiences as bodies. Queer bodies, sick bodies, racialised...
- Book (350g)£12.99In stockAdd to Bag
Weird WalkWanderings and Wonderings through the British Ritual Year
The first book by iconic zine creators and cultural phenomenon Weird Walk. This is a superbly designed guide to Britain's strange and ancient places, to...
- Book (1.4kg)£19.99In stockAdd to Bag
What Is Existentialism?
How should we think and act in the world? These writings on the human condition by one of the twentieth century's great philosophers explore the absurdity...
- Book (150g)£7.99In stockAdd to Bag
FemalesBy Andrea Long Chu
“Everyone is female, and everyone hates it.”So begins Andrea Long Chu’s genre-defying investigation into sex and lies, desperate artists and reckless...
- Book (150g)£7.99In stockAdd to Bag
Notes on GriefBy Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
On 10 June 2020, the scholar James Nwoye Adichie died suddenly in Nigeria.
In this tender and powerful essay, expanded from the original New Yorker text,...
- Book (150g)£7.99In stockAdd to Bag
The City and Its Uncertain WallsBy Haruki Murakami
When a young man’s girlfriend mysteriously vanishes, he sets his heart on finding the imaginary city where her true self lives. His search will lead...
- Book (750g)£25.00In stockAdd to Bag
Empire Roller DiscoPhotographs by Patrick D. Pagnano
Brooklyn’s Empire Rollerdrome opened its doors in 1941 and soon became the borough’s premier destination for recreational and competitive roller skating....
- Book (950g)£28.00In stockAdd to Bag
Play It As It LaysBy Joan Didion
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society...
- Book (250g)£9.99In stockAdd to Bag
The Markets Of LondonAlec Forshaw and Theo Bergström
What a great book!Together with street maps (which pinpoint nearest bus and tube stops) and the superb photographs.
- Original Book (400g)£10.00Original Pre-Owned Out-of-Print UK paperbackIn stockAdd to Bag
Disco 2Soul Jazz Records
This is a second selection of independent disco records featuring rare and classic tracks originally released in the USA between the halcyon years of 1977...
- Stevo – Pay The Price
- High Frequency – Summertime
- Dunn Pearson Jr. – Groove On Down
- Mad Dog Fire Department – Cosmic Funk
- Needa – Rock-A-Freak
- Cream De Coco – Disco Strut
- Anita Maldonado – What Can I Do To Make You Dance
- The Shades Of Love – Come Inside
- Skip Jackson – Micro Wave Boogie
- Jahneen – Everybody's Dancin'
- Montego Joe – Freestyle
- Timmy Thomas – Africano
- Paper Doll – Get Down Boy
- Jazz – I Feel Like Love
- Paco & Flaco & Coco – He's Here
- Ripple – Victorious
- Universal Love – Moon Ride
- Panache – Jam On
- Otis Brown's Grade A – Strut On
- 1. Stevo – Pay The Price
- 2. High Frequency – Summertime
- 3. Dunn Pearson Jr. – Groove On Down
- View full info and tracklisting
- 2×LP Vol.1 SJRLP311-1£26.00Out of stock Notify me when in stock
- 2×LP Vol.2 SJRLP311-2£26.00In stockAdd to Bag
- 2×CD SJRCD311£13.00In stockAdd to Bag
- MP3 Release SJRD311£8.99In stockAdd to Bag
Betty HarrisThe Lost Queen Of New Orleans SoulSoul Jazz Records
Betty Harris’ The Lost Queen of New Orleans Soul features all of her classic deep soul, sister funk and northern soul songs recorded in New Orleans in...
- Betty Harris – There's A Break In The Road
- Betty Harris – 12 Red Roses
- Betty Harris – Mean Man
- Betty Harris – I'm Gonna Git Ya
- Betty Harris – Ride Your Pony
- Betty Harris – Show It
- Betty Harris – I Don't Wanna Hear It
- Betty Harris – Bad Luck
- Betty Harris – Hook, Line 'n' Sinker
- Betty Harris – Lonely Hearts
- Betty Harris – What A Sad Feeling
- Betty Harris – What'd I Do Wrong
- Betty Harris – Trouble With My Lover
- Betty Harris – Sometime
- Betty Harris – I'm Evil Tonight
- Betty Harris – Nearer To You
- Betty Harris – All I Want Is You
- 1. Betty Harris – There's A Break In The Road
- 2. Betty Harris – 12 Red Roses
- 3. Betty Harris – Mean Man
- View full info and tracklisting
- 2×LP SJRLP345£28.00In stockAdd to Bag
The Fantastic FourAs Long As I Live ( I Live For You ) (1967)Ric Tic
Detroit deep Soul tune.
MINT UNPLAYED ORIGINAL 45
- – As Long As I Live I Live For You
- 1. – As Long As I Live I Live For You
- View full info and tracklisting
- Original 7"£10.00In stockAdd to Bag
Talking 'Bout Your MamaThe Dozens, Snaps, And The Deep Roots Of RapOxford University Press
ONLY £10 Import USA HARDBACK BOOK CHEAPER THAN AMAZON
From Two Live Crew's controversial comedy to Ice Cube's gangsta styling and the battle rhymes of...
- Book (350g) 9780199394043£16.00 £10.00In stockAdd to Bag
Bunny MackLet Me Love You (1980)Win Records
Rare independent Nigerian boogie funk.
Original Nigerian vinyl.Vinyl G only , sleeve Fair only so cheap £40 to £10+High-end Audio Desk Systeme Pro Machine...
- – Let Me Love You
- – Love You Forever
- 1. – Let Me Love You
- 2. – Love You Forever
- View full info and tracklisting
- Original LP WNL 111£10.00Sold out Notify me when in stock
Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe & His Nigeria Sound Makers InternationalJim´s SpecialSposa
Quality album of Igbo highlife.Rare Original Nigerian vinyl.Vinyl VG, sleeve F (wear)+High-end Audio Desk Systeme Pro Machine Utrasonic cleaned+
- – Jim´s Special
- 1. – Jim´s Special
- View full info and tracklisting
- Original LP Sposa 001£25.00Sold out Notify me when in stock
Brian EnoDiscreet Music - Half Speed MasterUMC / Virgin EMI
2018 version - 'half-speed' remaster at Abbey Road Studios.
Ambient music ground zero; first released in Britain in 1975 on Eno's own Obscure Records...
- 2xLP + Download Code ENO2LP5£23.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Kendrick Lamar To Pimp A Butterfly Aftermath / Interscope
KILLER new album from Kendrick Lamar featuring Dre, Snoop, George Clinton and Thundercat! Living up the mad hype on this one. Outkast freakiness, live...
- – Wesley's Theory
- – For Free? (Interlude)
- – King Kunta
- – Institutionalized
- – These Walls
- – U
- 1. – Wesley's Theory
- 2. – For Free? (Interlude)
- 3. – King Kunta
- View full info and tracklisting
- 2×LP 4731100£36.99In stockAdd to Bag
- CD 4730068£7.99In stockAdd to Bag
Dorothy AshbyAfro-Harping (1968) NEW EXPANDED DELUXE EDITIONCadet
Definitive deep funky album from harpist Dorothy Ashby. Excellent late 60's soulful jazz harp recorded for Chess with arrangements by Richard Evans and...
- – Soul Vibrations
- – Games
- – Action Line
- – Lonely Girl
- – Life Has Its Trials
- – Afro-Harping
- – Little Sunflower
- – Theme From Valley Of The Dolls
- – Come Live With Me
- – The Look Of Love
- 1. – Soul Vibrations
- 2. – Games
- 3. – Action Line
- View full info and tracklisting
- 2×LP 5399759£36.99Deluxe EditionIn stockAdd to Bag
- CD 5399757£13.99Deluxe EditionIn stockAdd to Bag
The Last SultanThe Life And Times Of Ahmet ErtegunSimon & Schuster
Import USA Paperback edition book 40% Off Original price!
The Last Sultan is the definitive biography of a man who changed popular culture throughout...
- Book (550g) 9781416558408£13.99 £7.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Pablo MilanésPablo Milanés Canta A Nicolás Guillén (1975)Areito
Original Cuban vinyl!Vinyl VG , sleeve GHigh-end Audio Desk Systeme Pro Machine Utrasonic cleaned+
- Original LP LD-4017£20.00Sold out Notify me when in stock
Brenda FassieBlack President (1990)Mercury
Rare Zimbabwe boogie
- – Street Girl
- – Bump Party Time
- 7. – Street Girl
- 8. – Bump Party Time
- View full info and tracklisting
- Original LP 4064851£35.00 £10.00Vinyl condition: VG-Sleeve condition: VG-ORIGINAL NIGERIAN VINYL MARK ON SIDE TWO TRACK 1, sleeve damage
+High-end Audio Desk Systeme Pro Machine Utrasonic cleaned+
100% Guarantee on this and all Original Vinyl at Sounds Of The Universe - 'if you're not happy we're not happy' or your money back!Sold out Notify me when in stock
ShadowsA John Cassavetes FilmBFI
Set in the jazzy, beatnik underground of 50s New York, John Cassavetes' first film features a score by Charles Mingus, improvised performances, a gritty...
- DVD/Blu Ray BFIB1125£9.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Arthur RussellThe World Of Arthur RussellSoul Jazz Records
New fully remastered re-release of Soul Jazz Records’ ‘The World of Arthur Russell’, the seminal collection of Arthur Russell’s essential music...
- Dinosuar L – Go Bang (Francois K Mix)
- Lola – Wax The Van
- Loose Joints – Is It All Over My Face (Larry Levan Mix)
- Arthur Russell – Keeping Up
- Arthur Russell – In The Light Of The Miracle
- Arthur Russell – A Little Lost
- Loose Joints – Pop Your Funk
- Arthur Russell – Lets Go Swimming (Walter Gibbons Mix)
- Dinosuar L – In The Cornbelt (Larry Levan Mix)
- Arthur Russell – Treehouse
- Indian Ocean – Schoolbell/Treehouse (Walter Gibbons Mix)
- 1. Dinosuar L – Go Bang (Francois K Mix)
- 2. Lola – Wax The Van
- 3. Loose Joints – Is It All Over My Face (Larry Levan Mix)
- View full info and tracklisting
- 3×LP SJRLP83£34.00Out of stock Notify me when in stock
- CD SJRCD83£12.00In stockAdd to Bag
JazzEdited by Nat Hentoff and Albert McCarthyQuartet Books (1977)
- Original Book (350g)£12.00Secondhand out of print book in good conditionIn stockAdd to Bag
Jazz Masters Of New OrleansBy Martin WilliamsMacMillan (1979)
Good book! Did you know why the drummers of New Orleans jazz have always been underrecorded? Did you know that Orson Welles was a big New Orleans jazz...
- Original Book (600g)£15.00Secondhand USA hardback (ex-library, plastic covered)In stockAdd to Bag
AmericaHoliday (1974)WB
- Original LP£10.00Vinyl condition: VG+Sleeve condition: VGOrig = Original secondhand USA vinyl copySold out Notify me when in stock
The Original Dancehall Dictionaryby Joan WilliamsYard Publications
Criss! Secondhand book
- Book (300g)£6.00Out of stock Notify me when in stock
A History of the Jamaican Recording IndustryBook One: The Birth of Ska 'From Mento to Studio One'
Superb hardback 188-page book with loads of text, photos, artefacts, record labels etc written by Noel Hawks.
With contributions and quotes from (wait...
- Book (550g) Jam Bk 3£18.99In stockAdd to Bag
Fly Girls!Soul Jazz Records
‘Fly Girls!’ celebrates the 30th anniversary of female rap on record
This double-CD (and limited edition two volumes of super-loud double-vinyl) narrates...
- JJ Fad – Ya Goin' Down
- Princess MC – Pump Up The Funk
- Tanya Winley – Vicious Rap
- Sweet Tee – I Got Da Feelin'
- Nikki Giovanni – Ego Tripping
- MC Lyte – Cha Cha Cha
- Two Sisters – B-Boys Beware
- Cookie Crew – Secrets of Success
- Sequence – Simon Says
- Bahamadia – Paper Thin
- Sparky D – I Can't Stop
- Queen Latifah Featuring Monie Love – Ladies First
- Lady B – To The Beat Y'All
- Camille Yarbrough – Take Yo' Praise
- Missy Elliot – The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)
- Dimples D – Sucker DJ
- She Rockers – Give It A Rest
- Sarah Webster Fabio – Glimpses
- The Kryptic Krew featuring Tina B – Jazzy Sensation
- Roxanne Shanté – Bite This
- 1. JJ Fad – Ya Goin' Down
- 2. Princess MC – Pump Up The Funk
- 3. Tanya Winley – Vicious Rap
- View full info and tracklisting
- Deluxe 2×CD SJRCD206£12.00Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Getting Together With The Jackson 5 (1971)Musico Records
Original = USA Original Vinyl G+ /Sleeve VG-
+High-end Audio Desk Systeme Pro Machine Utrasonic cleaned+100% Guarantee on this and all Original Vinyl...
- Original LP MDS 1047£10.00Sold out Notify me when in stock
Old School Rap and Hip-HopChris Woodstra, John Bush, Stephen Thomas ErlewineBackbeat Books
Only £8 IMPORT USA PAPERBACK BOOK The real old school! More than 500 reviews plus artist bios and the true tales of the birth of the art form
- Book (350g) 9780879309169£14.00 £8.00In stockAdd to Bag
Sonny OkosunThe Gospel Of Ozziddi (1981)EMI International
Afro-Disco funk.
Original Nigerian Vinyl VG, sleeve G- (lot of wear)
+High-end Audio Desk Systeme Pro Machine Utrasonic cleaned+100% Guarantee on this...
- – Carnival
- 3. – Carnival
- View full info and tracklisting
- Original LP NEMI (LP) 0530£25.00Sold out Notify me when in stock
Black Man's PrideSoul Jazz Records
While the righteousness of blackness is at the heart of the Rastafarian faith, this collection illustrates how black pride remained a central theme, if...
- Alton Ellis – Black Man's Pride
- Horace Andy – Child Of The Ghetto
- Dennis Brown – Created By The Father
- The Gladiators – Roots Natty
- The Classics – Got To Be Cool
- The Nightingales – Rasta Is Calling
- Glen Miller – Love & Understanding
- Sugar Minott – Woman Shadow
- Lloyd Jones & The Supernatural Six – Red In A Babylon
- Dudley Sibley & The Soul Gang – Love In Our Nation
- The Heptones – Equal Rights
- Glen Miller – You Must Be Love
- Winston Jarrett – Up Park No Mans Land
- Cedric Im Brooks – Why Can't I
- Larry Marshall – Let's Make It Up
- Freddie McGregor – Children Listen To The Wise Words
- John Holt – Build Our Dreams
- Johnny Osbourne – Forgive Them
- 1. Alton Ellis – Black Man's Pride
- 2. Horace Andy – Child Of The Ghetto
- 3. Dennis Brown – Created By The Father
- View full info and tracklisting
- 2xLP + Download Code SJRLP398£28.00Out of stock Notify me when in stock
- CD SJRCD398£12.00In stockAdd to Bag
- MP3 Release SJRD398£9.99In stockAdd to Bag