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Glenn UndergroundAtmosfear (35th Anniversary Edition)Peacefrog
Glenn UndergroundThe Jerusalem EP’s (35th Anniversary Edition)Peacefrog
Paul JohnsonBump Talkin’ (35th Anniversary Edition)Peacefrog
Paul JohnsonFeel The Music (35th Anniversary Edition)Peacefrog
KNEECAPNo Comment **BANKSY ART**Heavenly Recordings
Junglist!Old Skool Ragga, D&B, Jungle 1993-95Soul Jazz Records
Kelan Phil Cohran & LegacyAfrican SkiesListening Position
Lloyd Charmers / The LyricsMr. Moses / Girls Like DirtStudio One
Jackie Mittoo / Jackie OpelTrain To Skaville / Go WheyStudio One
BOOK! Boss Reggae From PamaForeword by Harry Palmer
Julian Marley & Papa LeviCan't Stop This / South Of The RiverLove Injection Production
MarijahInna MeditationJah Embassy Music
Haroon AyyazInnocent BloodRejoice
Leslie ButlerJa-Gan Expanded EditionDoctor Bird
Mykal RoseSweeterLove Injection Production
RejoiceSymbiosisRejoice
Fenton LawlessThe New York Graffiti Experience 1976Unsettled Scores Records
DhazedTime Is NowJah Embassy Music
Tubby IsiahChanting LionMoonshine Recordings
Dub KazmanStay Humble Vol.1Rough Signal
DanmanWe Need Jah Jah LoveMystic Warrior Sound
Oasis(What's The Story) Morning Glory? [Singles Box]Big Brother
Danny L HarleCeruleanXL Recordings
Mauricio FleuryRevoadaAltercat
DoomCannonSomewhere In BetweenJazz Re:freshed
Temporary BlessingsSumbisoriCollege Of Knowledge
Hitomi Penny TohyamaTokyo Funk Diva 1981-1988Wewantsounds
LukidUnderloopDeath Is Not The End
Weathering: Issue 17We Jazz
Stephen McCravenWooley The NewtMoved By Sound
Ambush (feat. Tito Puente, The Bronx Horns & Mitch Frohman)Various ArtistsIn The Woods
El Michels AffairAnticipate / IndifferenceBig Crown
Parlor GreensAuld Lang Syne / Everyday Will Be Like A HolidayColemine
Hit-Boy & The AlchemistGOLDFISHSurf Club Inc.
Kelly FinniganI Can't Wait (For Christmas Time) / Snowy Night In OhioColemine
- 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."
BOOK! Boss Reggae From PamaForeword by Harry Palmer
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BOMB REGGAE BOOK!!
Originally formed in 1967 by the Palmer brothers - Harry, Jeff and Carl – Pama Records was a pioneer in bringing...
- Book (500g)£28.00Expected 12 DecPreorder
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£10.99In stockAdd to Bag
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,...
- Book (600g)£12.99In stockAdd to Bag
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£26.00In stockAdd to Bag
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)£30.00In stockAdd to Bag
Freedom Rhythm and Sound Chapter 2 EVENTThu 18 Dec 2025
Gilles Peterson + Stuart Baker (Soul Jazz Records) + Special Guests Theon Cross and Marysia Osu.
An evening of conversation, music and visuals 7.30-10pm...
- Event E-Ticket£17.50In stockAdd to Bag
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
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...
- Book (2.1kg)£50.00In 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£40.00In stockAdd to Bag
The Second Sex (Vintage Feminism Short Edition)by Simone de Beauvoir
Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short formWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NATALIE HAYNESWhen this book was first published in 1949 it was to outrage...
- Book (250g)£6.99In stockAdd to Bag
Beneath the UnderdogBy Chalrles 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,...
- Book (300g)£10.99In stockAdd to Bag
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...
- Book (1.1kg)£38.95In 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
- 2×CD HVNLP237CD£14.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
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. 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...
- Book (450g)£18.99In stockAdd to Bag
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
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
Jazz Religion, The Second Line And Black New OrleansBy Richard Brent TurnerIndiana University Press
Great New Orleans music book! NEW EDITION DIFFT COVER
Richard Brent Turner explores the history and contemporary significance of the...
- Book (350g)£19.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Musica BrasileiraA History of Popular Music and the People of BrazilMarion Boyars
STILL ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS ON BRAZILIAN MUSIC! Only £6!!!
Written by Claus Schreiner, this is an excellent book covering all aspects of Brazilian music...
- Book (450g) 9780714530666£9.99 £6.00Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Dakota StatonI Want A Country Man (1973)Groove Merchant
Original USA 1973 Groove Merchant reocrds w/ Frank Wess, Cecil Bridgewater, Bill Watrous produced by Sonny Lester
- Original LP GM 521£9.99Vinyl condition: VG+Sleeve condition: VG+Sold out Notify me when in stock
Dollar Bill Y'AllSpring Records And The First Decade Of Hip HopBGP
In 1979, Spring Records released the first hip-hop style rap record ‘King Tim III (Personality Jock)’ by The Fatback Band. The label, initially relegated...
- – Money (Dollar Bill Y'All) (Long Version) - Jimmy Spicer
- – King Tim III (Personality Jock) - Fatback
- – Charley Says! (Roller Boogie Baby) - King Tim III
- – Magic's Message (There Has To Be A Better Way) - Mr Magic
- – To Whoever It May Concern - DJ Hollywood
- – Go For What You Know - Bally Boys
- – I'm Hot - The Rangers
- – Cars (Zulu Club Mix) - Afrika & The Zulu Kings
- – Rockin' It - MC Flex & The FBI Crew
- – Tearin' It Up - D4
- – The Beach (Long Vocal Version) - Afrika & The Zulu Kings
- 1. – Money (Dollar Bill Y'All) (Long Version) - Jimmy Spicer
- 2. – King Tim III (Personality Jock) - Fatback
- 3. – Charley Says! (Roller Boogie Baby) - King Tim III
- View full info and tracklisting
- New 2×LP BGP2317£20.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
- CD CDBGPD317£11.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
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£35.00 £28.00In 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
- View full info and tracklisting
- 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)
- View full info and tracklisting
- 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
- View full info and tracklisting
- 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