Highlighting a time when the burgeoning Ghanaian diaspora across Europe and North America was utilising new music technology and recording techniques....
‘Classic Disco’ mixes 21 undeniable dancefloor landmarks from recognizable names like Rose Royce, Change, Manhattan Transferand Cheryl Lynn, with deeper...
Nu Groove continues to spotlight the artists that made the legendary NYC label a firm favourite of crate diggers then and now, with a series of their vital...
A 2xLP compilation featuring 42 of the world’s most supreme Northern Soul anthems.
An essential collection for any fan of great timeless music, this...
Continuing Four Flies' dedication to delving into lesser-explored periods of Italian music, Africamore takes us on a captivating journey into the intersection...
A whole new vibe on the astonishing cover of Scarborough Fair, in a modal style, where the shadow of McCoy Tyner seems to hang over the piano. The next...
Following the success of their previous Tokyo Glow compilation, Wewantsounds once again team up with Japanese Tokyo-based DJ Notoya to dig up the rich...
Síbín Vol. 1 is a charity compilation featuring exclusive collaborations between some of the leading figures in the UK and beyond, responding to the...
Discovered after spending 58 years on a dusty shelf in the Louis Wayne Moody Pictures vault, this previously unissued soundtrack contains a backpack’s...
An essential collection for any fan of great timeless music, this compilation celebrates the dance movement that emerged in Northern England and the Midlands...
A document of an era, before the internet, where clubs and record stores informed the tastes and direction of the burgeoning London music community and...
**A compilation of music at the center of Tokyo’s Techno Pop scene, ALFA/YEN Records!**
The label was established by Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi...
**Essential salsa compilation from the golden era in Venezuela!** Olindo Records focus in one of Venezuela's most significant record labels, Discomoda....
A counterculture movement united by an expansive, experimental and deeply soulful sensibility, Japan’s rebel protest music challenged the status quo...
All throughout the superb Woman On A Mission 2 compilation on Scoops Records, the reggae vibrations that are serve dup resonate with empowering fervour....
Today's club culture all started with Northern Soul and its roots in the Mod all-nighter scene of London clubs. All the ingredients were there: DJs privy...
Nu Groove spotlights the artists that made the legendary NYC label a firm favourite of crate diggers then and now with this 12” release of their vital...
From 1967-1980, Kansas City’s Forte Records captured nearly every iteration of popular Black music; basement bee-hivery from The Ray-Ons and Four Darlings,...
Operating in a basement studio at the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, pipeline man Howard Neal - and his appropriately named Shoestring...
Studio One's music in the 1970s took the label to new heights. The new style of Disco Mix brought many areas of Reggae together Roots, Lovers, Disco...
For this Studio One release we return to the roots of Reggae music-The Soundsystem. Throughout the late 1950s and 1960s Soundsystems played throughout...
Lovingly compiled, this album features only the finest Lovers from Jamaica’s finest label. From Blues parties in London, Birmingham, Bristol etc Lovers...
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Studio One Roots set the standard for Soul...
VINYL ALBUM ONLY RESTOCK preordering for 26 Jan 2024 (COMES WITHOUT DVD)
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In the mid-70s, clubs were booming in Tokyo and all over Japan. When the Fatback Band topped the 1975 US charts with their infectious "Do The Bus Stop"...
The follow-up that never was!
Nuggets vol. 2 as originally thought of by Lenny Kaye and released to celebrate the 50 years of the legendary compilation.
George A. Romero’s DAWN OF THE DEAD Original Theatrical Soundtrack. This expansive three LP set features the complete De Wolfe library cues from Romero’s...
At root, the blues is rich in its simplicity, but it has flowered across the years in a variety of rare complexity. Perhaps no form of popular art is more...
"The ultimate in art is self-expression, not escape."-Duke Ellington In this fascinating portrait of one of America's greatest musical legends, longtime...
Sun Rz, Pharoah, Milford Graves, Roy Ayers, Amiri Baraka + more
Awesome small and beautiful photo-zine. 36 pages, staple-bound, 14x20 cm
100% ESSENTIAL!
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This is a Record Store Day exclusive title and is not available to pre-order.
You can buy in-store from Sounds of the Universe from 9am, 20 Apr 2024.
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The most exhaustive bibliography of articles and books on African American Blues artists ever attempted, 770 pages, 20,000 entries, with a comprehensive...
*French Translation* Lady Sings the Blues is the inimitable autobiography of one of the greatest icons of the twentieth century. Born to a single mother...
Back To Roots Records bring you Peace Militia a limited cassette only mix series, creating a militia of DJs championing a dance floor unity through the...
A grim read from Goldman ..Ten years after the publication of his book on the life of Elvis Presley, the author examines the last 24 hours of Elvis' life....
Brian Ward is Lecturer in American History at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne .; This book is intended for american studies, American history postwar...
This text examines the legacy of the arrival of the "Empire Windrush" at Tilbury Dock in 1948. Contributors including Jackie Kay, Sonia Boyce, Stuart Hall...
The world's leading authority on jazz and popular song, Benny Green was a prolific writer whose material spanned every aspect of the musical arts. As an...
Leadbelly, Robert Johnson, Charley Patton-we are all familiar with the story of the Delta blues. Fierce, raw voices; tormented drifters; deals with the...
William Ferris, director of the centre for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, has written a book as deep as the blues: rich...
Studio One's music in the 1970s took the label to new heights. The new style of Disco Mix brought many areas of Reggae together Roots, Lovers, Disco...
Juan Atkins, Kevin Saunderson, Derrick May, Jeff Mills, Stacy Pullen, Robert Hood, Eddie Fowlkes, Cajmere. Richie Hawtin .... blimey!Detroit Rave Flyers...
Superb hardback 350-page book (nearly twice the size of the first one) with loads of text, photos, artefacts, record labels etc written by Noel Hawks....
LAST 25 EVER!200+ pages!!!! w/ Gilles Peterson, Anna Prior, Andrew Weatherall, Confidence Man, Don Letts, Eris Drew, Gabriels, HAAi, Luke Una, Orbital,...
Growing up in Chicago, later Detroit-based music producer, Theo Parrish is internationally well known for his own inimitable downtempo house music style....
"A near-definitive guide to some of the world's most extraordinary music." THE GUARDIAN
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Superb hardback 188-page book with loads of text, photos, artefacts, record labels etc written by Noel Hawks.
With contributions and quotes from (wait...
Unbelievably good photo-zine about early Factory Records (79/80) includes Joy Division, ACR, Durutti Column, The Buzzcocks, Martin Hannett, Jon Savage,...
The last and most monumental chapter of Lou Ragland’s Cleveland career. Understand Each Other serves as a spiritual magnum opus of generations of soul...
Unbelievably good photo-zine document of Manchester's MADCHESTER music scene (1989-91) where punk met rave and everything went baggy - includes A Certain...
Boo Williams returns with more underground heat, featuring 4 new tracks from label head Boo Williams. "Whip Lash" does exactly what it says on the tin....
Khruangbin and Vieux Farka Touré have announced a new collaborative album. Ali is in honour of Vieux’s late father Ali Farka Touré; the artists recreate...
VERY RARE Original UNPLAYED deadstock vinyl direct from Mali!
AWESOME LP!!! from Malian guitarist and vocalist Diabete w/full brass section. Ambassadeurs...
Four CLASSIC house music cuts from one of the legends of Chicago's house music scene, Mr. Fingers aka Larry Heard. Features the ESSENTIAL jack track 'Slam...
In the summer of 1989, when Trip City was first released with a soundtrack by A Guy Called Gerald, there had been no other British novel like it. This...
It's a great honour to announce this Detroit legend: Alton Miller! Alton needs no introduction. A classy producer for decades, we're more than happy that...
Release number three for Deeper Groove with label staple and Irish favourite Glenn Davis. Showcasing that signature classic house sound across three original...
Reissue of two rare Sunny & The Sunliners' cover versions! On the a-side is a version of 'Get Down' backed with their take on Billy Stewart's classic 'Cross...
Its a London thing tells the story of the black music culture that emerged in post-colonial London at the end of the twentieth century; the people who...