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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
The Hamlins / Nora DeanTell Me That You Love Me / Mojo GirlStudio One
Roy BrooksThe Free SlaveTime Traveler
Manny Corchado & His Orchestra / Nelson Y Sus EstrellasChicken & Booze / Aguardiente Y PolloVampisoul
Elijah MinnelliClams As A Main MealBreadminster County Council
Los Wembler's De IquitosSelvaVampisoul
Vick Lavender ft. Ron CarrollAll I Got For You (Is Love)Cataleya Music
Glenn DavisForma EPForma Music
E-DancerKMS Sampler Vol. 1KMS
DJ Alfredo / Deep Joy / Thrashing Doves / KC Flightt / The Metaluna MutantParaiso: The True Spirit of Ibiza (Bonus Sampler 1)Rebirth
Sassy J presents: A SanctuaryVarious ArtistsPatchwork
Slow RiffsSimulacraMood Hut
Global Communication76:14 (30th Anniversary Edition)Music On Vinyl
Zig-Zag BandChigiyo Music KingsAnalog Africa
Brian Auger & The TrinityDefinitely What!Strut
Florence & The MachineEverybody ScreamPolydor
RadioheadHail To The Thief (Live Recordings 2003-2009)XL Recordings
SMLHow You BeenInternational Anthem
Brian Auger's Oblivion ExpressStraight AheadSoul Bank Music
Sarathy KorwarThere Is Beauty There AlreadyOtherland
Jeb Loy NicholsThis House Is Empty Without YouTimmion
Yalla MikuYalla Miku 2Bongo Joe
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
Madala Kunene & Sibusile XabaKwantuMushroom Hour Half Hour
Techno Kayo Vol 1: Japanese Techno Pop 1981-1989Various ArtistsRush Hour
Kid SublimeThe Paradigm ShiftNatural Element
No One's Listening AnywayUK DIY Post Punk & Dubs 1978-1984 (Volume 2)Caroline True Records
Idjut Boys / Minjung Kate KimWTF: Further Adventures Of The WTF BandBite The Day
Mick HarrisCulvert Dub Sessions FourL.I.E.S.
Emilio SantiagoMais Que Um MomentoUniversal
Jonny NashOnce Was Ours ForeverMelody As Truth
- Book (900g) 9780822362029£24.00In 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."
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...
- Book (900g)£30.00Expected 30 NovPreorder
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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Machito and his Afro Cuban Jazz EnsembleWith Flute To Boot!
- New LP 8435307616937£18.99In stockAdd to Bag
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...
- Book (1.9kg)£42.99 £15.00In stockAdd to Bag
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...
- Book (350g)£12.99In stockAdd to Bag
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.
- Sweatshirt£35.00In stockAdd to Bag
Revolutionary Letters
By turns a handbook of countercultural living, a manual for street protest, and a feminist broadside against the repressive state apparatus, Revolutionary...
- Book (350g)£13.99In stockAdd to Bag
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...
- 2×LP HVNLP237£32.99In stockAdd to Bag
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Talking to Women
In 1964, Nell Dunn spoke to nine of her friends over a bottle of wine about men, sex, work, money, babies, freedom and love. The Pop Artist Pauline Boty...
- Book (350g)£13.99In stockAdd to Bag
Sabroso Guaganco Vol. 10Sabroso Guaganco Vol. 10
Latin compilation
- Original CD£9.99CD disc condition: VG+Case & booklet condition: VG+Original Pre-Owned CD in great conditionIn stockAdd to Bag
Sabroso Guaganco Vol. 11Sabroso Guaganco Vol. 11
Latin compilation
- Original CD£9.99CD disc condition: VG+Case & booklet condition: VG+Original Pre-Owned CD in great conditionIn stockAdd to Bag
Sabroso Guaganco Vol. 12Sabroso Guaganco Vol. 12
Latin compilation
- Original CD£9.99CD disc condition: VG+Case & booklet condition: VG+Original Pre-Owned CD in great conditionIn stockAdd to Bag
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...
- Book (350g) 9780241696453£9.99In stockAdd to Bag
Salsa Y Ache
- Original CD£4.99CD disc condition: VG+Case & booklet condition: VG+Original Pre-Owned CD in great conditionIn stockAdd to Bag
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,...
- Book (350g) 9780141996479£10.99In stockAdd to Bag
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...
- Book (600g) 9781474621472£20.00In stockAdd to Bag
Women and the Piano : A History in 50 Livesby Susan Tomes
- Book (1.1kg) 9780300266573£25.00In stockAdd to Bag
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...
- Book (600g)£25.00In stockAdd to Bag
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:...
- Book (300g)£12.99In stockAdd to Bag
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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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...
- Book (350g)£13.99In stockAdd to Bag
Luke de NoronhaDeporting Black Britons : Portraits of Deportation to Jamaica
Since the late nineties, the UK has deported thousands of people to Jamaica. Many of these ‘deportees’ left the Caribbean as infants and grew up in...
- Book (400g)£12.99In stockAdd to Bag
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....
- Book (700g)£16.99In 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
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- 2×CD SJRCD311£13.00In stockAdd to Bag
- MP3 Release SJRD311£8.99In stockAdd to Bag
Punk 45: The Singles Cover Art of Punk 1976-80Edited by Jon Savage and Stuart Baker with a new introduction by Bobbie GillespieSoul Jazz Books
Brand new edition of Soul Jazz Records’ massive deluxe 400-page Punk 45s cover art book edited and compiled by Jon Savage (author of the seminal book...
- Book (2.2kg) SJR526£35.00In stockAdd to Bag
Rhythms Of WonderStevie Wonder by Sharon DavisRobson Books
- Original Book (700g) 9781861059659£10.00Original Pre-Owned Out-of-Print UK HardbackSold out Notify me when in stock
Aretha Franklin - Lady SoulBy Leslie CourseFranklin Watts
- Original Book (300g)£20.00Original Pre-Owned Out of print Paperback BookIn stockAdd to Bag
Danny JohnsonIntroducing Danny Johnson (1978)First American
Chicago soul 78. Orig USA vinyl
- Original LP FA 7717£10.00Sold out Notify me when in stock
DJ Vadim & BlackstoneDouble SidedBBE
Long awaited full-length album from DJ Vadim & Blackstone. After providing a pair of stellar guest appearances on Vadim’s 2014 ‘Dubcatcher‘ album,...
- – Burning Love
- – Double Sided
- – Luv 2 Luv
- – Choose feat. Aima the Dreamer
- – No No No feat. Tiggy Tafari
- – Re Run
- 1. – Burning Love
- 2. – Double Sided
- 3. – Luv 2 Luv
- View full info and tracklisting
- 2×LP BBE436ALP£23.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
- CD BBE436ACD£10.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Peter Gordon & David Van TieghemWinter / SummerFoom
Two previously unreleased recordings from 1978 by Arthur Russell affiliate, Peter Gordon and David Van Tieghem who together we part of Love Of Life Orchestra...
- – Winter
- 1. – Winter
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- 12" FM006£8.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the MusicEdited by Leonard L. BrownOxford University Press
Edited by prominent musician and scholar Leonard Brown, John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music is a timely exploration...
- Book (450g) 978195328929£20.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Keith Jarrett: The Man and His Musicby Ian CarrGrafton Books
- Original Book (500g)£10.00Sold out Notify me when in stock
Richie Ray & Bobby CruzEl Sonido De La Bestia (1980)Vaya Records
Hardcore salsa.
Vinyl VG, sleeve G (tape on spine)+High-end Audio Desk Systeme Pro Machine Utrasonic cleaned+
Venezuelan vinyl
- – El Sonido De La Bestia
- 7. – El Sonido De La Bestia
- View full info and tracklisting
- Original LP£19.99Sold out Notify me when in stock
ABRARoseNinja Tune
Atlanta based singer, songwriter and producer ABRA releases her critically acclaimed 2015 mixtape ‘Rose’ as a limited vinyl edition via Ninja Tune!
- 2xLP + Download Code ZEN246£19.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
The Bobby Williams GroupBoogaloo Mardi GrasSoul Jazz Records
EXCLUSIVE NEW 45rpm - ONLY available direct from Soul Jazz Records or Sounds of the Universe.
This is another killer EDDIE BO...
- – Boogaloo Mardi Gras (Part 1)
- – Boogaloo Mardi Gras (Part 2)
- 1. – Boogaloo Mardi Gras (Part 1)
- 2. – Boogaloo Mardi Gras (Part 2)
- View full info and tracklisting
- 7" SJR356-7£12.00Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Small Axe Bookzine 6U RoyMuzik Tree
Great 50 page Bookzine with features on the original DJ Daddy U Roy. With photos, reviews and text
- Book (100g)£4.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jonesby Courtney RossWarner Books
- Original Book (1.1kg)£15.00Sold out Notify me when in stock
Eric MercuryEric Mercury (1975)Mercury
Boogie funk 75
- Original LP£9.99Sold out Notify me when in stock
The Funky 16 CornersStones Throw
Excellent funk album from the Stones Throw camp.
- – Intro
- Ernie And The Top Notes – Dap Walk
- James Reese and The Progressions – Let's Go (It's Summer Time)
- Bad Medicine – Trespasser
- 1. – Intro
- 2. Ernie And The Top Notes – Dap Walk
- 3. James Reese and The Progressions – Let's Go (It's Summer Time)
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- 2×LP I-STH2038£18.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Untouchable Machine ShopMachine Shop Part 1 / Part 2Soul Jazz Records
EXCLUSIVE NEW 45rpm - ONLY available direct from Soul Jazz Records or Sounds of the Universe.
KILLER rare groove funk bomb! This...
- – Machine Shop Part 1
- – Machine Shop Part 2
- 1. – Machine Shop Part 1
- 2. – Machine Shop Part 2
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- 7" SJR358-7£12.00Out of stock Notify me when in stock
PrinceInside the Music and the MasksSt Martin's Griffin
Prince is the first book to give full treatment to his thirty-five-year career. Acclaimed music journalist Ronin Ro traces Prince's rise from anonymity...
- Book (450g) 9781250127549£15.00 £10.00Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Miriam MakebaMy StoryBloomsbury
- Original Book (700g) 9780747501466£10.00Original Pre-Owned Out-of-Print Paperback,Sold out Notify me when in stock
Love And KissesHow Much, How Much I Love You (1978)Casablanca
Disco epic-ness produced by Alec Costandinos
- Original LP£10.00Vinyl condition: VG+Sleeve condition: VG+Original USA LP Vinyl in original shrink
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
The Complete Guide ToDisco DancingWarner Books
- Original Book (400g)£12.00Second-hand original paperback book in good condition
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Brass HorizonHorizon's Theme Pt. 1& 2Minda Mark / Super Disco Edit
Brass Horizon only ever had one effort put out onto vinyl. The much sought after 'We Want To Play" on the Minda Mark label. Currently commanding big bucks...
- – Horizons Theme (Part 1)
- – Horizons Theme (Part 2)
- 1. – Horizons Theme (Part 1)
- 2. – Horizons Theme (Part 2)
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- 7" SDE21£11.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Brazilian JiveFrom Samba to Bossa and RapReaktion Books
£7.50 OFF!!! That's 50% OFF!!! UK PAPERBACKIn Brazilian Jive, David Treece uncovers the genius of Brazilian song, both as a sophisticated, articulate...
- Book (600g) 1780230850£14.95 £7.50Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Theory of African MusicVolume 1
Taken together, these comprehensive volumes offer an authoritative account of the music of Africa. One of the most prominent experts on the subject, Gerhard...
- Book (800g) 9780226456911£24.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock