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...
– Ikoyi Blindness
– Gba Mi Leti Ki N'Dolowo (Slap Me Make I Get Money)
1. – Ikoyi Blindness
1. – Gba Mi Leti Ki N'Dolowo (Slap Me Make I Get Money)
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...
‘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...
By 1972, when Music of Fela: Roforofo Fight was originally released (on two vinyl albums, Music of Fela Volume One and Volume Two), Fela was becoming one...
Knitting Factory Records release the next installment of long-awaited vinyl reissues from the Fela Kuti catalog. Box Set #5 was co-curated by Fela’s...
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...
Unmissable classic afro-beat! Alagbon Close represents one of the first times anyone had directly taken on the Nigerian authorities in such a brash manner!
'Expensive Shit' is one of Fela's most notorious albums! This killer afro-beat LP was originally release in 1975 and now gets a reissue on Brooklyn-based...
Alagbon Close represents one of the first times anyone had directly taken on the Nigerian authorities in such a brash manner. Why Black Man Dey Suffer:...
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...
– Ikoyi Blindness
– Gba Mi Leti Ki N'Dolowo (Slap Me Make I Get Money)
1. – Ikoyi Blindness
1. – Gba Mi Leti Ki N'Dolowo (Slap Me Make I Get Money)
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...
‘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...
Knitting Factory Records release the next installment of long-awaited vinyl reissues from the Fela Kuti catalog. Box Set #5 was co-curated by Fela’s...
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...
Reissue of the classic ‘Music Of Many Colours’, the joint album between Roy Ayers and Fela Kuti, recorded after a three week tour of Nigeria’s major...
'Expensive Shit' is one of Fela's most notorious albums! This killer afro-beat LP was originally release in 1975 and now gets a reissue on Brooklyn-based...
On the title track Fela and the backup singers ridicule the mindset of men in uniform over an urgent, quick-march accompaniment from Afrika 70. The album...
'Expensive Shit' is one of Fela's most notorious albums! This killer afro-beat LP was originally release in 1975 and now gets a reissue on Brooklyn-based...
Reissue of the classic ‘Music Of Many Colours’, the joint album between Roy Ayers and Fela Kuti, recorded after a three week tour of Nigeria’s major...
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...
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...
Postcard-sized flyer from surely the best club in the world ever! Queues round the block to get in every night for about 15 years! Dynamite created its...
Originally recorded in 1974, "Confusion" is a 26-minute, one-track album that is entirely instrumental on the first side. Lyrically, the song is a polemical...
**Back in stock! Vinyl copies and CD too!! This essential album from the legendary drummer via Blue Note!**
Long time Fela Kuti drummer the late Tony...
Essential cut from one of the greatest hip hop albums of all time, the peerless 1994 album 'Illmatic' by Nas. The Ahmad Jamal-sampling, boom-bap classic...
The Chosen Few’s 2nd album originally released in 1975 aka “Everybody Plays The Fool” full of killer soulful funk reggae J.A. style with cover versions...
Funkadelic's masterpiece! A dark vision of what the future holds articulated through George Clinton's slightly hazy mutant funk rock with Eddie Hazel's...
Reissue of this Ccult classic by legendary Egyptian guitarist Omar Khorshid, first released on the label Voice Of Lebanon in 1974 and reissued here on...
Clancy Eccles influential rock steady and proto-reggae recordings provide the focus for this brand new collection.
Recorded between mid-1967 and late...
**Back in stock!** Ernie Hawks releases his debut album "Scorpio Man" on Timmion Records. The impressive trombonist/flautist, is known to hold no punches,...
Soul Jazz Records classic Studio One Rockers available once more on black vinyl edition + download code.
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UNBELIEVABLE new compilation of deep spiritual music by John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Oliver Nelson, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp and other groundbreaking...
• 4xLP box set is housed in a high-quality archival portfolio cast with a museum drop front.
• Magazine style booklet featuring original impulse! ads and artist photos
• Impulse! vinyl slipmat.
• Free UK shipping!
By the late Seventies, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry was at the height of his creative powers, producing a succession of spellbinding recordings from his compact...
Sought-after, bass-heavy techno from visionary Richard H Kirk aka Sandoz! Originally released on his own Intone label in 1992 and now getting the necessary...
Back in limited stock.....Very rare early roots tune from Nora Dean, originally issued on Bullet in the U.K. in 1971, hard to find an original copy, so...
Classic 1990 house and techno from Detroit's Neal Howard! Backed with Derrick May's and Bad Boy Bill's remixes of the 1988 techno blueprint 'To Be Or Not...
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...