Fela Anikulapo Kuti The Complete Works Of Fela Anikulapo Kuti

Fela used the cover of ‘Ikoyi Blindness’ to announce his change of middle name from Ransome, which he now considered a slave name, to Anikulapo, which...

This edition of ‘Original Sufferhead’ is a major event. With the release of ‘Box Set #5’, and now on this reissue, the title track of this magnificent...

‘Overtake Don Overtake Overtake’ was the penultimate album of newly recorded studio material released by Fela before he passed in 1997.Like its immediate...

The ‘Kalakuta Show’ album was Fela Kuti’s undaunted manner of extracting revenge on the military regime that attacked and brutalized him in 1974....

The Nigerian establishment labelled Kalakuta Republic inhabitants as ‘hooligans’, ‘hemp smokers’, etc. ‘Noise For Vendor Mouth’ is Fela’s...

‘Why Black Man Dey Suffer’, recorded in 1971, was originally deemed too controversial for release by EMI, his label at the time. Having recently been...

“Gentleman is the last of Fela's early 1970s albums recorded with the Africa 70. The title track can be interpreted literally or as a metaphor concerning...

Reissue of Fela's highly sought-after 1971 album, 'Open & Close'! Super-funky Afrobeat featuring the incredible title track!

Fela Kuti stories Nigeria’s attempt at ‘democracy’ in 1979 after more than a decade ofmilitary rule told through this album, originally released...

Fela Kuti made some frantic albums in his career--ones that popped with his enthusiastic political disobedience and ones that roared with fury at the Nigerian...

Originally released in 1977, ‘Johnny Just Drop (J.J.D.)’ features Fela lampooning Nigeria’s ‘been-tos’, people who had been to Europe or America...

Reissue of one of Fela's later recordings, comprised of two extended tracks, the title cut and the classic, 'Pansa Pansa'.

1973 Nigerian afro beat funk at it's best from the master - Fela Kuti 

'International Thief Thief' classic Fela from 1979

Another killer gem from the undisputed 'King Of Afrobeat' Fela Kuti! Originally released in 1975. Expect nothing less than perfection. Sweet locked-in...

Hypnotic afrobeat bullet from 1972 - recorded in Lagos. Sprited percussion, tight horns, and pure funk! As with most of the great man's albums, this is...

Originally released in 1977, Fela and Afrika 70 rise to their peak with rowsing, radical stuff as espoused by 'Colonial Mentality'.

In 'Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense', Fela explains the role of the teacher in any society with the concept that all the things we consider to be problems...

He Miss Road', also 1975, was produced by Ginger Baker. A deep and darker shade of afro-beat that is one of Fela's best.

'Let's Start' - Seriously killer tune! and loads more. It's hard to go wrong with Fela Kuti's work from the 1970s, and LIVE!, which features the Afrobeat...

Yellow Fever’ was originally released in 1976, during Fela’s extraordinarily prolific 1975-77 purple period, when he released 24 albums in Nigeria...

Glenn Underground is the founding member of the Strictly Jaz Unit. He was raised on disco classics and freeform jazz in Chicago's Southside, the place...

Glenn Underground is the founding member of the Strictly Jaz Unit. He was raised on disco classics and freeform jazz in Chicago's Southside, the place...

Born and raised in the birthplace of House Music, Paul Johnson was known for his raw, soulful, and infectious sound, that helped shape Chicago's house...

Born and raised in the birthplace of House Music, Paul Johnson was known for his raw, soulful, and infectious sound, that helped shape Chicago's house...

Riding a hefty drop down bass riff courtesy of the track’s producer, acclaimed DJ/artist, Sub Focus, the Belfast / Derry trio, KNEECAP, have focused...

Soul Jazz Records new Junglist! is a heavyweight selection of classic and rare original Jungle and features Krome & Time, Cutty Ranks, M-Beat, Bizzy B,...

Stones Throw Records debuts new imprint Listening Position with the long-awaited reissue of Kelan Phil Cohran & Legacy’s spiritual jazz masterpiece African...

WE GOT A BOX MORE! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rare book! Independently published...

Basic Reshape features Basic Channel's very free takes of two of Carl Craig's projects that were originally released separately from each other on his...

Isao Suzuki's New Family ensemble resurfaces on Jazz Room with a fresh edition of Mongolian Chant, a five track fusion LP long prized by collectors for...

Two unbelievably groovy and super-rare BOMB rocksteady tunes from Studio One!Freshly pressed from original Studio One master tapes! ESSENTIAL

As is often the case with vintage b-movies, it's the poster for the 1967 Amicus production of They Came From Beyond Space that draws you in. The curvaceous...

Ska-tastic 45 Originally released as The Soul Brothers on the Ska Beat label in the UK in 1965, led by the mighty Jackie Mittoo. Original copies in good...

Warrior Voices finally completes the vision first sketched on Ambient Warrior's mid-90s cult classic Dub Journey. Recorded between 1993-95, these newly...

This enchanting album from Welsh jazz harpist Amanda Whiting is a heartwarming celebration of the festive season. Combining her deep love for Welsh culture,...

Drawn from the Audio Productions catalogue of early 80s Nairobi, this is a compilation that captures a luminous period in Kenya's urban music, when rumba...

Outsider specialist Beau Wanzer returns with one of his grottiest and most unfiltered transmissions yet as he delivers seven slabs of mutant rhythm that...

Patrick Keel started his career as a drummer with various unsuccessful bands, before buying a synthesizer in 1980 and forming "one-man-band" The Pool....

The ever-reliable Rick Wade returns to Phonogramme following their release of his excellent label debut, Dusk Runner, earlier in 2025. This time round,...

Tel Aviv producer and multi-instrumentalist Kutiman joins Batov's Middle Eastern Grooves series with two blistering psych-funk workouts that blur the line...

Rahaan Young plays dirty with the archetypal gospel edit, bringing decades' worth of Chicago coalfire to a new six-track vinyl deuces' high, serving up...

Dub techno classics from Vainqueur's essential, Basic Channel affiliated, Chain Reaction 12"s! Miss at your peril!

Chicago in the mid-50s was the launchpad for Sun Ra's first steps beyond the straight-ahead jazz idiom. Working with his early Arkestra, he assembled a...

There are certain albums which shake the world immediately upon release, and others which come from far underground and whose shocks and aftershocks...

After a three-year hiatus, Star Creature once more joins forces with Windy City crate diggers Boogie Munsters to deliver a fourth collection of impossible-to-find...

Since Volcov's Neroli label was named in honour of a fine ambient album by Brian Eno, it made sense to mark the imprint's 20th birthday with a compilation...

Kaidi Tatham maintains one of the most prolific artists from the UK, he's been releasing music for 30+ years and has reached some form of cult status amongst...

Originally released on Dynamic records J.A. in 1977, wicked DJ toasting album by Everard Metcalf aka Jah Ruby produced by Barry Biggs at Dynamic & Channel...

Classic roots vocal cut from 1979 produced by Augustus Pablo with The Rockers All Stars. Four mixes including Ras Menelik Congo harmonica version

Heavyweight Rubadub scorcher from Audrey Hall! Full up of synths and killer vibes, these are previously unreleased mixes, including for the first time...

“Girls Talk” by cousins Dessie & Freddie is a long-lost treasure from the early eighties Recorded at the legendary Aquarius Studio in 1982 and arranged...

Deadly soundsystem music from Hitman & Fiza! Featuring the crucial deejay lyrics from Tony Reid! This is the counterpart for the Pad Anthony 'Rebel' cut....

Yami Bolo's second showcase roots album recorded with Augustus Pablo & The Rockers All Stars in the late eighties.