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Carlos GarnettCosmos NucleusTime Traveler
Kenny BarronSunset To DawnTime Traveler
Roy BrooksThe Free SlaveTime Traveler
Yazmin LaceyTeal DreamsAMF Records
MoodymannBlack MahoganiPeacefrog
MoodymannBlack Mahogani IIPeacefrog
Soul JamaicaFeat. Alton Ellis, Jackie Mittoo, The Heptones, Sound Dimension and more!Soul Jazz Records
Bobby HutchersonMontaraBlue Note
Alfa MistRouletteSekito
Sven WunderDaybreakPiano Piano Records
Winston Matthews / The PurpleitesSun Is Shining / The Pressure Is OnStudio One
Roy Ayers UbiquityChange Up The GrooveVampisoul
Latin Fire!Tropical Dance Music from Discos Fuentes, Colombia 1956-83Cumbia-Salsa-Afro-FunkSoul Jazz Records
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Al WoottonCRUXPuu
Eddie KendricksDate With The RainSoul Brother Records
Nu EraElectric IllusionOmniverse
King Street Sounds Sampler Vol. 5Various ArtistsKing Street Sounds
PangaeaManía / NeuromanceHessle Audio
Captain SkyMoonchildPast Due Records
Ø (Mika Vainio)OlentoSahko Recordings
ArtworkRed E.PBig Apple Records
Black JadeRockersSolid Roots
Keith & Ken with The Jamaican Steel BandYou'll Love JamaicaKids Of Yesterday
Ashanti Selah & Joe AriwaLive Up RightAriwa
URThe Final FrontierUnderground Resistance
Tony Benjamin / Mad ProfessorTrod OnAriwa
Ze IbarraAFIMMr Bongo
Prince And The RevolutionAround The World In A DayWarner
LeilaCourtesy of Choice ۲۵ … asides and besidesXL Recordings
Nightmares On WaxEcho45 Sound SystemWarp
TroubadoursEverything Is Being Recorded All The TimeFew Crackles
Joseph KamaruHeavy CombinationDisciples
ZopelarPrimal Vision EPForbidden Dance
I Am An InstrumentReceiveand another and
- Book (550g)£25.00Expected 30 Nov Notify me when in stock
(Signed copies sold out)
We are getting more of these beauties - they will now ship in about 2 weeks - do not miss out on your chance to get one of these!
MIND-BLOWING first ever authorised biography of KING TUBBY complete with absolutely STUNNING rare photographs from Tubby's family.
From Tubby's origins in Waterhouse, where he lived and worked all his life to his murder in1989, through to his life in soundsystems, dub and electronics this book really is ESSENTIAL!
Very well written with a lot of reggae gossip! Don't miss out on this serious addition to reggae history by French writer Thibault Ehrengardt in this new English version.
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£35.00In 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£14.99In stockAdd to Bag
In a quAre Time and PlacePost-Slavery Temporalities, Blaxploitation, and Sun Ra's Afrofuturism Between Intersectionality and Heterogeneity
'In this book Tim Stüttgen considers the paradigm of (post-)slavery as an important epistemological break within predominantely white Gender and Queer...
- Book (600g)£16.00In 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...
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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
Lorraine HansberryA Raisin in the Sun
A revised Student Edition of Lorraine Hansberry's iconic 1959 play - the first play produced on Broadway to be written by a Black woman. Alongside the...
- Book (250g)£10.99In stockAdd to Bag
Friedrich NietzscheAphorisms on Love and Hate
'We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from our earliest youth ... Likewise, hatred must be learned and nurtured, if one wishes to become a...
- Book (150g)£4.00In stockAdd to Bag
Luke de NoronhaDeporting Black Britons : Portraits of Deportation to Jamaica
Since the late nineties, the UK has deported thousands of people to Jamaica. Many of these ‘deportees’ left the Caribbean as infants and grew up in...
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Jacqueline CrooksFire Rush
Yamaye lives for the weekend, when she can go raving with her friends at The Crypt, an underground club on the outskirts of London. Then everything changes....
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Dr Maya AngelouI Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou's six volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows...
- Book (350g)£10.99In stockAdd to Bag
Keith Gildart & Stephen CatterallKeeping the Faith : A History of Northern Soul
In the 1970s, Northern Soul held a pivotal position in British youth culture. Originating in the English North and Midlands in the late-1960s, by the mid-1970s...
- Book (650g)£25.00In stockAdd to Bag
Margo JeffersonNegroland : A Memoir
'Jefferson's eye for details yields some devastatingly honest and painful insights' The Times'Captivating... Charm is this book's watchword' Colin Grant,...
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Kae TempestOn Connection
An authentically soothing, powerful, thought-provoker.'MATT HAIG'On Connection is medicine for these wounded times.'MAX PORTER'On Connection came to me...
- Book (250g)£8.99In stockAdd to Bag
Emanuele CocciaPhilosophy of the Home : Domestic Space and Happiness
A bedroom, a kitchen, a bathroom - are these rooms all that make a home? Not at all, argues Emanuele Coccia. The buildings we inhabit are of immense psychological...
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Jason OkundayeRevolutionary Acts
In this landmark work, Jason Okundaye meets an elder generation of Black gay men and finds a spirited community full of courage, charisma and good humour,...
- Book (350g)£10.99In stockAdd to Bag
Alex Haley (Author) , Malcolm X (Author)The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X's The Autobiography of Malcolm X was written in collaboration with Alex Haley, author of Roots, and includes an introduction by Paul Gilroy,...
- Book (500g)£9.99In stockAdd to Bag
The Black Power Mixtape : 1967-1975
Featuring images recently discovered in the archives of Swedish television, The Black Power Mixtape shows the Black Power movement as never seen before....
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Karl Marx, Friedrich EngelsThe Communist Manifesto
'The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.'Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons to the working classes - one of the most important and...
- Book (150g)£4.00In stockAdd to Bag
Daft PunkWe Were The Robots: A Disco Pogo Tribute
Featuring a new foreword by David and Stephen Dewaele, better known as Soulwax and 2manydjs.
Daft Punk featured often in the formative years of Jockey...
- Book (2.1kg)£30.00In stockAdd to Bag
Friedrich NietzscheWhy I Am so Clever
'Why do I know a few more things? Why am I so clever altogether?'Self-celebrating and self-mocking autobiographical writings from Ecce Homo, the last work...
- Book (200g)£4.00In stockAdd to Bag
Michael E. VealLiving Space
Examines John Coltrane's "late period" and Miles Davis's "Lost Quintet" through the prisms of digital architecture and experimental photography Living...
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Alice ColtraneMonument Eternal
Alice Coltrane wrote this documentary on her spiritual life entitled Monument Eternal, which tells of her spiritual initiation, revelations, and austerities....
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The princess of 72nd StreetBy Elaine Kraf
Ellen is a single artist living alone on New York’s Upper West Side in the 1970s. She is beset by old boyfriends, paint pigment choices, and, occasionally,...
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No Logo: An insightful examination of advertising's impact on society and youth cultureBy Naomi Klein
By the time you’re twenty-one, you’ll have seen or heard a million advertisements. But you won’t be happier for it. This is a book about that much-maligned,...
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Alayo AkinkugbeReframing Blackness
Since the inception of mainstream art history, Blackness has been distinctly ignored.
In Reframing Blackness, art historian and founder of @ABlackHistoryOfArt,...
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Charles M. SchulzThe Philosophy of Snoopy
The world's most beloved beagle shares his philosophy on life in this beautifully produced gift book for all generations. In his inimitable style,...
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Dread, Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution
What is the relationship between poetry and social change? Standing at the forefront of political poetry since the 1970s, Linton Kwesi Johnson has been...
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Mystical MushroomsDiscover the Magic and Folklore of Fantastic Fungi
Mystical Mushrooms defines the beauty of mushrooms by focusing on their magical connections and symbolic meanings through folkloric tales and superstitions...
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Aphex Twin - A Disco Pogo Tribute
The next instalment in the Disco Pogo Tribute series is the legendary electronic artist Aphex Twin.
This follows the hugely successful Disco Pogo Tribute...
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Susan SontagOn Photography
Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs...
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Jess Sah BiJesus-Christ Ne Deçoit Pas
Jesus-Christ Ne Deçoit Pas is Jess Sah Bi’s first and only gospel album. Fortunately, fans responded with enthusiasm: widespread radio airplay and concerts...
- Cassette Tape AFTA051CS£14.99In stockAdd to Bag
King TubbyKing Tubby Meets Blackbeard's Ring Craft PossePatate Records
Unreleased dub mixes from King Tubby! Recordings from 1975 till 1980. Produced by "Blackbeard" Sinclair. Featuring rhythms from Black Uhuru, Drifter,...
- – African Drifter
- – Jah Love
- – Jam Rock
- – Baba
- 1. – African Drifter
- 2. – Jah Love
- 3. – Jam Rock
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- LP PRPLP036£19.49Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Blue Note Re:Imagined 1 (2020)Decca / Blue Note
A collection of classic Blue Note tracks, reworked and newly recorded by a selection of the UK scene’s most exciting young talents. Representing a bridge...
- Jorja Smith – Rose Rouge (from St Germain Tourist, 2000)
- Ezra Collective – Footprints (from Wayne Shorter Adam’s Apple, 1966)
- Poppy Ajudha – Watermelon Man (Under The Sun) (from Herbie Hancock Takin’ Off, 1962)
- Jordan Rakei – Wind Parade (from Donald Byrd Places and Spaces, 1975)
- Skinny Pelembe – Illusion (Silly Apparition) (from Andrew Hill One for One, 1969)
- Alfa Mist – Galaxy (rom Eddie Henderson Sunburst, 1975)
- Steam Down feat. Afronaut Zu – Etcetera (from Wayne Shorter Etcetera, 1965)
- Yazmin Lacey – I’ll Never Stop Loving You (from Dodo Greene My Hour of Need, 1962)
- 1. Jorja Smith – Rose Rouge (from St Germain Tourist, 2000)
- 2. Ezra Collective – Footprints (from Wayne Shorter Adam’s Apple, 1966)
- 3. Poppy Ajudha – Watermelon Man (Under The Sun) (from Herbie Hancock Takin’ Off, 1962)
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- 2×LP 890927£36.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
- 2×CD 710012£16.00Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Junior BylesBeat Down Babylon (Expanded)Doctor Bird
• FIRST OFFICIAL RE-ISSUE OF THE ICONIC ALBUM ON CD• MOST TRACKS CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE DIGITALLY• SLEEVE NOTES BY LEE PERRY BIOGRAPHER, DAVID KATZ
Released...
- – (Festival) Da Da
- – I’ve Got A Feeling
- – Don’t Know Why
- – Demonstration (and protest)
- – Coming Again
- – Beat Down Babylon
- – A Place Called Africa
- – A Matter Of Time
- – Poor Chubby
- – Come Da Da
- 2. – (Festival) Da Da
- 3. – I’ve Got A Feeling
- 4. – Don’t Know Why
- View full info and tracklisting
- 2×CD DBCDD060£16.00Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Roots Rock ReggaeDoctor Bird
• 13 TRACKS PREVIOUSLY UNAVAILABLE ON CD• INCLUDES 6 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED RECORDINGS• THE ALBUM’S FIRST GLOBAL REISSUE ON CD
Originally released...
- 2×CD DBCDD058£16.00In stockAdd to Bag
The OvationsToo Much WarLGM International Record Ltd.
- – Too Much War
- – Too Much War (Version)
- 1. – Too Much War
- 2. – Too Much War (Version)
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- 7" DSR6151£9.00Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Mike AnthonyWhy WarElements
Rare obscure late 70s / early 80s roots vocal cut from Mike Anthony with full version on the flip. Repressed with original label.
- – Why War
- – Y Dub (Version)
- 1. – Why War
- 2. – Y Dub (Version)
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- 7" ELE001£9.00Out of stock Notify me when in stock
O.B.F. & NazambaHot BeerDubquake Records
A roots reggae vibe, a nonchalant melody…We’re kicking back, Jamaican style, with a glass of warm beer poured from the latest collaboration between...
- – Hot Beer
- – Hot Riddim
- 1. – Hot Beer
- 2. – Hot Riddim
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- 7" OBFREC704£8.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Cry BabiesCry BabiesFar Out Recordings
Far Out reissue Cry Babies’ self-titled debut album from 1969. An early formation of Brazilian funk greats Banda Black Rio, Cry Babies took inspiration...
- – It's My Thing
- – Kool And The Gang
- – Daydream
- – Hey, Blood
- – Questions 67/68
- – Blás, Blás, Blás Soul
- – More Today Than Yesterday
- – Caminhos Diabólicos
- – I'll Never Fall In Love Again
- – Midnight
- – Good Golly Miss Molly
- 1. – It's My Thing
- 2. – Kool And The Gang
- 3. – Daydream
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- LP FORDIS06£20.00Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Manfredo FestBrazilian Dorian DreamFar Out Recordings
Private-label gem originally released in 1976, Manfredo Fest's 'Brazilian Dorian Dream' drew upon the influences of Brazilian rhythms,+ USA jazz and funk...
- – Brazilian Dorian Dream
- – Facing East
- – Jungle Cat
- – That’s What She Says
- – Slaughter On Tenth Avenue
- – Who Needs It
- – Braziliana No.1
- 1. – Brazilian Dorian Dream
- 2. – Facing East
- 3. – Jungle Cat
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- LP FARO219LP£20.00Out of stock Notify me when in stock
- CD FARO219CD£12.00Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Nubya GarciaSourceConcord
Hugely talented saxophonist and composer, Nubya Garcia, releases her anticipated album debut via iconic US jazz imprint, Concord! on 'Source' she "digs...
- – Pace
- – Source
- 1. – Pace
- 3. – Source
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- 2×LP 7217559£28.00In stockAdd to Bag
- CD 7217576£12.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Studio One Roots Vol. 3Soul Jazz Records
Roots music flourished in the 1970’s as Rastafarianism, Black consciousness and self-determinization became the most important aspects of Reggae music....
- Freddie Mckay – (I'm) A Free Man
- Jennifer Lara – A Change Is Gonna Come
- Alton & Zoot – Oppression
- Winston Flames – In A Armagideon
- Dillinger – Babylon Fever
- The Gladiators – Re Arrange
- Vin Gordon – Fullness
- Larry Marshall – Better Must Come
- Cliff Stewart – Burn Collie
- Im And Count Ossie – So Long Rastafari Calling
- The Nightingales – What A Situation
- Clifton Gibbs & The Selected Few – Brimstone & Fire
- Dub Specialist – Musical Science
- Prince Jazzbo – Creation Skank
- Errol Dunkley – Way Down Low
- Lloyd Forest – Where It's At
- The Dynamic Four – Let's Make Love
- Judah Eskender Tafari – Jah Light
- 1. Freddie Mckay – (I'm) A Free Man
- 2. Jennifer Lara – A Change Is Gonna Come
- 3. Alton & Zoot – Oppression
- View full info and tracklisting
- 2×LP SJRLP168£28.00Out of stock Notify me when in stock
- CD SJRCD168£12.00Out of stock Notify me when in stock
- MP3 Release SJRD168£9.99In stockAdd to Bag