Soul Jazz Records’ new Secret Superstar Sounds brings together a wealth of punk/power pop tunes from late-70s/early-80s British group’s that you have...
Brand new expanded double album edition of Showcase 45 includes 8 bonus tracks!
Soul Jazz Records' Studio One Showcase 45 features a roll call of classic...
Praise Poems Vol.10 presents sixteen (almost) forgotten rare groove gems, all released between the years 1970 and 1984. One of the many highlights is...
Top of the Pops, December 1988. The world sat up as a young woman made her debut: gold bra, gold bomber jacket, and proudly, gloriously, seven months pregnant....
By Don Letts and Mal Peachey
Don Letts – filmmaker, musician, DJ, broadcaster, social commentator, husband and father – has always defied conformity....
The historical origins of cumbia are nebulous and imprecise. The mythology surrounding it suggests an ancient past when Amerindian, African and European...
Since its inception in 2010, A Love from Outer Space (ALFOS) has been a steady presence in the underground music scene, fostering a close-knit community...
King Street Sounds continues to deliver deep house classics with the third various artist sampler in the series. This release taps into the essence of...
Superb new 10 track vinyl compilation featuring Little John's productions from 1986-1990. Killer tuff eighties Digiroots rhythms of the day with Baker...
Ralph Ellison's blistering and impassioned first novel tells the extraordinary story of a man invisible 'simply because people refuse to see me'. Published...
Gabriel García Márquez's great masterpiece is the story of seven generations of the Buendía family and of Macondo, the town they built. Though little...
A visual and global chronicle of the triumphs, challenges, and impact of over 100 women in architecture, from early practitioners to contemporary leaders.
Marion...
Okonkwo is the greatest wrestler and warrior alive, and his fame spreads throughout West Africa like a bush-fire in the harmattan. But when he accidentally...
Vol. 2 of this essential collection focuses on the dreamy, early 90s house music sound of Italy. A selection of the best “paradise” house tracks, compiled...
“Who was / is the brilliantly named David Beast? Did Kraftwerk engage trans-european lawyers after hearing Endurance Test? Was Sylvia Sommer deliberately...
A labour of love, it showcases a tantalising cross- section of disco, funk, boogie, samba and MPB, from past to present. Unearthing tracks from the seemingly...
Dedicated to the Trojan related labels between 1965 and 1975. Hot Sauce volume 5 features outstanding original Rocksteady, Boss Reggae and early Reggae...
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....
Throughout the 1980s and early 90s, Kim Gordon-widely known as a founding member of the influential band Sonic Youth - produced a series of writings on...
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...
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...
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,...
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....
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...
"High quality music to be enjoyed by many people all around the world, no matter where they are." - Andreas Brunner-Schwer, MPS Records. The German SABA...
You know Dolly, Loretta, Tammy, and Bobbie - but what about Joyce, Mona, Cathy or Judy? Barnyard Beehive lassos 16 Opry hopefuls from across the Numeroverse,...
With 365 photographs, taking you through a single year, A Book of Days is a new way to experience the expansive mind of the visionary poet, writer, and...
Struck for circulation after 63 years in hock within the Lou-Mood Pictures vault, this previously unissued soundtrack traffics in the hightone timbre and...
Collector, seeker and storyteller Charles Bals brings his curatorial finesse to Hamburg's Bureau B with 'Ambientale', a journey into otherworldly sounds...
An incomplete anthology of Memphis rap albums from the 90s curated by 404 Eros & Asel Tambay. 48 page zine of early 90s Memphis rap album and cassette...
Fred Spider Presents CHAKALAKA JAZZ A selection of South African GemsWhile music traditions are often defined by established and protected sets of characteristics,...
Dave Okumu, known perhaps best as frontman for The Invisible, though digging deeper into his production credits, huge names emerge such as; Grace Jones,...
In 2022, Guts brought together his musical family for his 'Estrellas' album. An ambitious project that brought together musicians from: France, Cuba and...
John Betsch (drums, percussion), Billy Puett (flute, alto flute, alto and tenor saxophone, bass clarinet), Bob Holmes (piano, electric piano, percussion),...
The first single from Blundetto’s forthcoming album sees the French producer collaborate with a true great of Jamaican music, the legendary reggae vocalist...
Heavenly Sweetness celebrate 10 years in the game with this excellent collection featuring 10 new and exclusive tracks recorded by the labels artists to...
Third part in the series from new project Cotonete, made up of members of Ethio Jazz group Akalé Wubé and keyboardist Florian Pellissier. Wicked 70's...
Sly Johnson's beatmaker project, back to his hip hop roots!!!Guided by Hip Hop since the 90's until today, worked in great detail, YOUARESURROUNDED highlights...
E-S-S-E-N-T-I-A-L deep jazz from 1970s Ethiopia! Mulatu is a cult figure for fans of both 1970s indy deep jazz (think Strata East) and African music -...
The first 'Best of' on vinyl from the legendary 'Ethiopiques' series. Francis Falcetto, the founder of the series specialist in Ethiopian music, picks...
A few years ago the world discovered a unique sound coming from the distant Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. The emotional blow was only matched by the...
Brilliant compilation of rare Ethiopian music from the 1970s! Has Mulatu Astake left you hungry for more? Then this is the record for you!
Nine brilliant...
After releasing around fifty 45 rpm singles and his first 33 rpm album (Ethiopian Modern Instrumental Hits AELP 10, re-released by Heavenly Sweetness HL092VL),...
Second part of MOV's Trojan compilation series, which celebrates the best works from the legendary reggae label Trojan Records. It was compiled by Laurence...
Tenderlonious mediataes on the Eastern classical music with Lahore, Pakistan based musicians, Jaubi. Deeply spiritual, improvised, cosmic, raga-jazz trance...
Strut present the first official reissue of a landmark album in the field of African music - Mulatu Astatke’s ‘Mulatu Of Ethiopia’ from 1972. Recorded...
Alongside Mulatu Astatke and Mahmoud Ahmed, Alemayehu Eshete is one of the key Ethiopian recording artists of the 1970s, producing cult classic recordings...
A stunning set of vocal recordings by Tlahoun Gessesse - one of the most important singers during the golden age of Ethiopian music - caught here on a...
RSD 2021 DROP 1. Available online from 6pm Sat June 12£312LPIn 2009, Brian Cross (aka B+) organized a series of live events at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex...
An essential primer for those with an interest in Japanese popular music culture and, specifically, the 'Wamono' sound - the cream of the Japanese funk,...
Second Impluse! records release for cult UK jazz psychonauts, Sons Of Kemet! Frenetic, spiritual, cosmic jazz energy from Shabaka Hutchings, Theon Cross...
It's hard to go wrong with Fela Kuti's work from the 1970s, and LIVE!, which features the Afrobeat innovator backed by his powerhouse band Africa '70 and...
3 Feet High and Rising is the debut studio album by hip hop trio De La
Soul and was released on March 3, 1989
It marked the first of three full- length...
Tough, funky jazz CTI/Kudu Creed Taylor production with deep arrangements.
'Hard to Face the Music and Sudan are heavyweight boogie funk and Dingwalls...
Wow! A brilliant follow-up to Strut's essential Nigeria 70 compilation from a few years back!
This is a brilliant compilation that will certainly appeal...
Essential double disc compilation of brilliant afro beat and afro funk from 1970s Nigeria!
This first volume of Nigeria 70 was one of the last releases...
On Vinyl’s Trojan compilation series, which celebrates the best works from the legendary reggae label Trojan Records. It was compiled by Laurence Cane-Honeysett,...