London Rave Flyers 1990-1996Wicked club flyers feat. Andy Weatherall, Danny Rampling, Fabio, Billy Nasty, Plaid, Sabresonic & loads more!

Features aja monet by Ayana Contreras, Azymuth by Ben Lee, Henry Threadgill by Bret Sjerven, Sven-Åke Johansson by Magnus Nygren, Anna Webber by Stewart...

The Woods All Stars return with an essential Latin jazz session, uniting the great Tito Puente (with his Orchestra and Top Percussion Ensemble), saxophonist/flautist...

Defected's House Masters series tribute to Frankie Knuckles is being released as two double LPs, but it could have easily been four or five, such is the...

Originally released in 1980 on Third World subsidiary label Live & Love, featuring awesome dub mixes by the then Prince Jammy at King Tubby's. 10 heavyweight...

Gas, grass, or jazz, nobody rides for free. Jazz Dispensary presents Green Bullets, a new compilation of high-octane funk and fusion-soaked heaters, soundtracking...

Curated straight out of the Detroit Basement, this compilation captures the true spirit of a city that never stopped creating, never stopped fighting,...

The pioneering electronic sounds of Daphne Oram reimagined by TAAHLIAH, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Marta Salogni, Arushi Jain and others using tapes from Oram's...

Sassy J’s acclaimed A Sanctuary tape mix arrives as a double vinyl release, featuring 18 of the 22 original tracks. All exclusive and previously unreleased...

A dancefloor-friendly selection focusing on Japanese proto-techno, electro-pop, and synthpop from the 1980s. Pressed on 45 RPM. Comes with OBI and insert...

Following his acclaimed five-part Viagem compilation series celebrating Brazil's forgotten bossa nova and samba jazz, Far Out, Blue Note and Schema recording...

The Legacy Continues… Pure Garage is back with an exclusive 25th Anniversary Special Edition, created for the true heads, collectors, and DJs who...

Originally released in 1977 on Winston Riley's Techniques label featuring killer dubs to classic Sensations, Johnny Osbourne, Techniques, Cornell Campbell...

Blurring the lines between fiction and documentary, the seminal film Wild Style, directed by Charlie Ahearn and developed alongside Fred Braithwaite aka...

Seminal sounds from the golden age of Ghanaian music. Highlife, rock, and soul collide and merge with tradition and culture. New styles meet old styles....

At last, Doctor Bird collection presents a second hit-packed collection of feel-good reggae hits from the 1970s! Picking up where the popular 2021 compilation...

The begena is a large ten-stringed lyre which is part of the traditional Amharic heritage of Ethiopia. The Amharas, who have long formed the politically...

The collaboration between BBE Music and If Music continues with another excellent compilation in the ongoing If Music Presents series with this 2nd volume...

Peace and love in late 60s America did not come without parallel feelings of fear and confusion about the social situation – specifically about Vietnam....

In an illuminating blend of memoir and art history, The Other Side explores the lives and work of a group of extraordinary women artists. From the twelfth-century...

As we’ve come to expect from Ace’s much-admired series of Jon Savage-curated two CD collections, this new – and sadly final – volume is a multi-genre...

By turns a handbook of countercultural living, a manual for street protest, and a feminist broadside against the repressive state apparatus, Revolutionary...

Welcome to a kaleidoscopic picnic where you can feast on a music scene that was rich, sparkling, multi-colored, ground-breaking and it'll blow your mind....

“There are curators, and then there's Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy.” - Resident Advisor The sun has finally come out. It’s the first time something...

Now, at long last, all four of these historically important albums have been gathered onto this superb two-disc set, with all but “Blow Your Horn”...

King Street Sounds are back again with their fourth installment in the King Street Sounds Sampler Series. This release unearths four classics from house...

Jazz Room Head Honcho Paul Murphy kept hearing all these fab versions of some of his favourite tunes.He couldn't release them all, a year is just not long...

In 1964, Nell Dunn spoke to nine of her friends over a bottle of wine about men, sex, work, money, babies, freedom and love. The Pop Artist Pauline Boty...

Since 2015, Les Disques Bongo Joe have been exploring musical margins with passion and precision — from rare reissues to bold local projects and...

Crate digger and music enthusiast James Endeacott compiles ‘Unlock Your Mind With Morning Glory’ for Two-Piers Records – A glorious heady mix of...

Nova Scotia House takes us to the heart of a relationship, a community and an era. It is both a love story and a lament; bearing witness to the enduring...

• Most tracks new to CD. • Includes numerous major Jamaican hits. • Features some of reggae’s biggest stars. During the first half of the 1970s,...

Vinyl LP pressing. Manic fuzzed out instrumentals, mind blowing high-energy rock´n’roll, mysterious exotica, and more in this wild compilation of ass-kicking...

Much has changed for Ilan Pdahtzur since the release of his Night City Life compilation six years ago. Back then, he was a little-known record collector...

2025 marks the 15th anniversary of 2010's comedy film Scott Pilgrim Vs The World, co-written, produced and directed by Edgar Wright, based on the graphic...

Gilles Peterson presents International Anthem is a Deluxe Double LP compilation chronicling the legendary London-based radio host, DJ, label head, curator...

We got some more! BOMB REGGAE BOOK!! Originally formed in 1967 by the Palmer brothers - Harry, Jeff and Carl – Pama Records was a pioneer in bringing...

Jamie Lidell and Luke Schneider have created a kind of sonic tool to navigate a liminal state of mind. Their new collaborative LP, A Companion For The...

'A thoroughly enjoyable compendium of appalling behaviour.' Nick Logan, Editor NME (1973-1978), founder of The Face 'From the shabby stowaways of the...

Gilles Peterson + Stuart Baker (Soul Jazz Records) + Special Guests Theon Cross and Marysia Osu. An evening of conversation, music and visuals 7.30-10pm...

In an illuminating blend of memoir and art history, The Other Side explores the lives and work of a group of extraordinary women artists. From the twelfth-century...

Brand new Soul Jazz Records Functional Outer Wear Product #1 Exclusive to Sounds of the Universe Limited edition navy hoodie (large) with design.

Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short formWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NATALIE HAYNESWhen this book was first published in 1949 it was to outrage...

Bass player extraordinaire Charles Mingus, who died in 1979, is one of the essential composers in the history of jazz, and Beneath the Underdog, his celebrated,...

Wicked book! Combining the energy and vibrancy of vernacular Jamaican art with the cultural insight that only original ephemera can bring, the flyers...

By turns a handbook of countercultural living, a manual for street protest, and a feminist broadside against the repressive state apparatus, Revolutionary...

“There are curators, and then there's Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy.” - Resident Advisor The sun has finally come out. It’s the first time something...

In 1964, Nell Dunn spoke to nine of her friends over a bottle of wine about men, sex, work, money, babies, freedom and love. The Pop Artist Pauline Boty...

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Potent and vividly emotional, Simone de Beauvoir’s captivating novel questions freedom and individual responsibility in the face of brutality‘These...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Insightful, thought-provoking and profound. I can't recommend highly enough' Sunny Singh'A revolutionary work of beauty,...

Nova Scotia House takes us to the heart of a relationship, a community and an era. It is both a love story and a lament; bearing witness to the enduring...

This Woman's Work: Essays on Music is edited by Kim Gordon and Sinead Gleeson and features contributors Anne Enright, Fatima Bhutto, Jenn Pelly, Rachel...

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...

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:...

'To be blunt: I must escape.' 1893. Henry Nettleblack has to act fast or she'll be married off by her elder sister. But leaving the safety of her wealthy...

'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...

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....

We Were There is about a Black Britain that for too long has been unknown and unexplored – the one that exists beyond London. **An Esquire and GQ best...

"A near-definitive guide to some of the world's most extraordinary music." THE GUARDIAN ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Soul...

A stone-cold classic conscious Lovers Rock tune from the seminal British reggae group Brown Sugar. 'I’m In Love With A Dreadlocks’ was originally released...

'Unfiltered, unfettered electronic dance music from a modern legend of Chicago House'. *****Mojo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ‘There...