Johnny Lytle Be Proud (1969)

Super jazz album from vibes man Lytle.

Vibesman par excellence - wicked soul jazz, original pressing 1962 Jazzland records

Original = USA vinyl VG /Sleeve VG- (lot of spine/wear)

+High-end Audio Desk Systeme Pro Machine Utrasonic cleaned+

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Seminal jazz dance classic includes 'Selim', an essential to any Gilles Peterson Dingwalls jazz dance set in the late 80s. Killer!

Original latin meets funk and soul crossover album from percussionist extraordinaire Candido. Funky jazz line-up cover Booker T, Rufus Thomas and more.

Killer selection from Pressure Sounds of Bunny 'Striker' Lee's late 60s early 70s productions in the new faster style of reggae. Featuring Delroy Wilson, Rico, Stranger Cole, Dave Barker, U Roy and many more. Ranging from vocal reggae cuts to early roots and funky instrumentals 21 tracks of some rare tunes back to back with classic Bunny Lee productions.

The second LP from Austrian musician and producer Dorian Concept.  Returning with a bold follow up to 2009's "When Planet's Explode", with weighty bass lines, and trippy synths similiar to Flying Lotus, and the LA scene he was first linked to, as well as the jazzier broken feel of FaltyDL and Four Tet.

Killer funky southern/country rock from the original Nashville supergroup of inhouse musicians - Wayne Moss, Norbert Puttnam, Charlie McCoy, Weldon Myrick, Mac Gayden.  On soul jazz's Delta Swamp Rock 2

Ella goes soul! Great funky version of "Get Ready"!

More lengthy club tracks from Floating Points who, with 'Nuits Sonores', explores more techno side of his production. Backed with the more soulful cut 'Nectarines', this single sees FP striding out with some of his best music to date. Killer!  

USA vinyl

Quality modern highlife
Original Nigerian vinyl. (none for sale on discogs)
Vinyl G, sleeve G-
+High-end Audio Desk Systeme Pro Machine Utrasonic cleaned+

Awesome last studio album.

Classic Kerri Chandler tracks on one 12"! Includes the indispensible 'Bar A Thym' and more! 

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Now, finally, after fifty years in the business, George Clinton is ready to deliver the whole P-Funk saga. It's a story without compare: the musical innovations, the rock-and-roll debauchery, the ups and downs of his career. More to the point, it's a story told by the man who made it happen, and told in his own unique style, which combines an almost photographic recollection of the events of his life with an impish sense of humour and a philosophical bent. There's no one like George Clinton, and no one better prepared to tell the tale of a half-century of innovation, triumph, disappointment, addiction, contradiction, artistry, fandom, fun, and - above all - funk.

Rare independent Highlife by Austin Power (not Mike Myers)

Original Nigerian vinyl.
Vinyl VG (listen actual audio), sleeve F/G- (lots of wear, tear to right edge of sleeve)
+High-end Audio Desk Systeme Pro Machine Utrasonic cleaned+
(Very rare independent release - none for sale on discogs)

Very cool original Oliver Nelson LP, arranged and conducted by Oliver Nelson. Sounds like a proto-David Axelrod production from 70s. Deep!

James Blake is back with a darker twist in his sound - check these grime-inspired polyrhythms of '200 Press'! Limited copies available!

Since his passing in August 2004, Rick James has remained a legendary icon whose name is nearly synonymous with funk music-and who help[ed popularized the genre, creating a lasting influence on pop artists from Prince to Jay-Z to Snoop Dogg. In Glow, Rick James and acclaimed music biographer David Ritz collaborated to write a no-holds-barred memoir about the boy and the man who became a music superstar in America's disco age. It tells of James's upbringing and how his mother introduced him to musical geniuses of the time. And it reveals details on many universally revered artists, from Marvin Gaye and Prince to Nash, Teena Marie, and Berry Gordy. 

All time latin dance jazz classic! Includes the title track "Para Los Rumberos" (For Dancers) which says it all. As covered by Santana but this is the heavyweight original!

Rare Original Venezuelan issue Fania. VG/VG - listen actual audio

Composer, arranger, bandleader, vibist and percussionist, Louie Ramirez was a major figure on the NY latin scene. Here, on his second outing for Fania, he covers mambo, boogaloo and tipico.

Tropicalia: A Brazilian Revolution in Sound. Tropicalia is one of the most significant cultural movements in Brazil encompassing music, film, visual art and theatre.

‘Tropicalia' is the first album to bring together all the key artists involved in the movement – Os Mutantes, Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Tom Zé, Gal Costa and many more.

The Tropicália movement was born in 1968, a momentous year around the world. It was the year of the Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy assassinations, the Prague Spring, the Chicago Convention, the Tet Offensive in Vietnam and the anti-war movement, the student rebellion in France, civil rights, the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union and the birth of the women’s movement. In Brazil, army violence that killed three protesters in the opening months of 1968 failed to keep students from protesting the four-year-old repressive Brazilian military dictatorship. It was against this extraordinary backdrop that Tropicália arrived. As a coherent movement allied to worldwide political and cultural unrest, Tropicália lasted little more than a year, yet it had – and continues to have – a profound effect on Brazilian society.

Mixing psychedelic rock, avant-garde musique concrete (tape loops, sound experiments), samba, funk and soul, Tropicália was so radical – and its social implications so politically profound - that its leading protagonists, Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, were arrested, imprisoned and finally exiled in 1969. Tropicália’s unique ideology mixed high art with mass culture. Tropicália created musical and cultural anarchy, a revolution in Brazilian sound with a legacy later to be internationally championed by such diverse artists as David Byrne, Beck, Kurt Cobain, Stereolab, The Bees and Tortoise. Tropicália artists loved the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix. They loved such forgotten Brazilian musical radio heroes as Dorival Caymmi, Luis Gonzaga and Orlando Silva as much as they were interested in the avant-garde of John Cage and Stockhausen. The Tropicália artists loved Joao Gilberto even though the rise of Tropicália in many ways resulted in the demise of Bossa Nova, the elegant Brazilian music that had swept to international prominence at the start of the Sixties.

REVIEWS

 "Essential! The vibrant sound of late 60's Brazil" Q MAGAZINE

"A near perfect primer to Brazilian psychedelica" TIME OUT

"An exhilarating blend of Bossa Nova, acid rock and avant-garde samba, funk and soul" MOJO

"Subversive, psychedelic and rocking. A superlative compilation" THE GUARDIAN (CD of the Week)

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The first official release of the June 1970 Montreux Jazz Festival concert featuring trumpeter Ian Carr’s pioneering Nucleus performing with US vocalist Leon Thomas on a set of Thomas’ repertoire.

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MO' META BLUES is a punch-drunk-on-culture memoir in which Ahmir 'Questlove' Thompson tells his own story while tackling the greats, the lates, the fakes, the headliners, and the almost-weres of music, as well as pivotal moments in black art and culture. His book will reveal his own formative experiences, such as growing up in 1970s North Philly with 1950s doo-wop singers as parents, finding his way though music, and ultimately founding and rising up with The Roots, as well as some random musings about his run-ins with celebrities and playing with his idols. This book is a psychedelic amalgam of self-examination, music, pop culture, black culture, and is absolutely one-of-a-kind!

Original Nigerian Vinyl! Digital highlife

Rare Independent Nigerian vinyl (not on discogs!) . VG/Sleeve G+ (wear)

+High-end Audio Desk Systeme Pro Machine Utrasonic cleaned+

Nice vocal soul group

Brilliant new compilation of early traditional Turkish music from the ever-excellent Honest Jons records!

Drawn from recordings made in Istanbul by the Gramophone Company and HMV, amidst the ruins of the Ottoman Empire, 'To Scratch Your Heart' crosses and mixes the folk and classical heritage of Turks, Greeks, Armenians and Gypsies, Muslims, Christians and Jews, urbanites and country-people, and the demands of tradition and modernity, musical improvisation, composition and system.

Most of the singers here are 'hafiz', versed in a musical reading of the Koran, and renowned for mastery of the exalted, improvisatory form of the 'gazel': there are several magnificent examples here, by legendary artists. Three gazelhans beautifully interpret folk songs, and another contributor, the folklorist Agyazar Efendi, sings a long Armenian air with utter authenticity, but in the style of a gazel. Exemplifying the new political freedoms of the Republic, there are two heart-melting female vocal performances of a kind of art-song called 'sarki'. Also featured is the 'taksim', a kind of improvisation in which one-off musical fireworks, designed to ravish the listener's soul, illuminate deep fluency in the 'makam': a who's who of the pre-eminent instrumentalists of this first half-century of Turkish recording, in performances which are simply stunning — breath-taking, exquisite and other-worldly.

Brilliantly restored at Abbey Road, fully annotated with rare photographs, and luxuriously presented in both formats.

Exclusive live mix full of cherry-picked tunes from one of our favourite DJ's (as heard on Ben UFO's Rinse Fm show). Excellent sequencing of little-known soul bullets, brazilian and more - flawlessly mixed with killer EQ drop-outs!   As mixes go this is something special and we can't recommend this enough!   Numbered, embossed sleeves. 

Jazz writings.

RARE Original Nigerian vinyl. Nigeria digital roots reggae.

Vinyl VG+, sleeve VG
+High-end Audio Desk Systeme Pro Machine Utrasonic cleaned+