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

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...

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

After an acclaimed first volume, Japanese jazz expert Yusuke Ogawa continues to explore the phenomenon of Wajazz by diving into the archives of King Records....

On the label's latest deep dive, Miles Away tells the story of Boo Frazier's Cheri Records, a tiny New Jersey imprint whose slim catalogue (remarkably,...

DJ Yoshizawa Dynamite - a veteran of Japan's late-80s club scene and one of the country's foremost authorities on wamono - returns with another deep excavation...

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...

R2 and Yoruba celebrate their respective 25 years in the business with this killer double pack of sought after and previously unreleased house music tracks...

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...

Prime Direct Distribution welcome the legendary Sub-Urban with a brand-new vinyl series, The Sound Of Sub-Urban. Volume 1 showcases four cuts that bridge...

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...

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...

We are back with another chapter in our ongoing series of unearthing smooth vibes from all over the world, this time we go back to the FUTURE for you with:THE...

Featuring images recently discovered in the archives of Swedish television, The Black Power Mixtape shows the Black Power movement as never seen before....

Deluxe book showcasing original flyers from the breakthrough years of UK acid house. Sourced from the phatmedia archive and beyond, it captures the raw...

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 GuestsAn evening of conversation, music and visuals 7.30-10pm Thu 18 Dec 2025 at The American...

'A timely reminder of what we all truly crave as human beings - connection.' Doc Brown'Warren hows why youth spaces matter - not just for young people,...

Rock Against Racism is a body of photographs that Syd Shelton produced for and about the British Rock Against Racism movement (RAR) of 1976–1981. For...

WICKED NEW HARDBACK BOOK! Charts the story of Greensleeves Records —from its beginnings as a mid-1970s West London record shop to its rise as a...

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...

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These two classic essays were the first works of criticism to break down the boundaries between 'high' and 'low' culture, and made Susan Sontag a literary...

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...

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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...

Rashid Johnson, Cauleen Smith and others pay tribute to a truly extraordinary figure in 20th-century American jazz. This volume unpacks the cultural legacy...

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

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...

UNBELIEVABLE new compilation of deep spiritual music by John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Oliver Nelson, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp and other groundbreaking...

Sunny Ozuna is a living legend and a man worthy of praise on many levels. In the Texas and Latin Music pantheon, few have been at it longer and are more...

You'll never need a plastic bag again or any bag for that matter!!! So many of our lovely customers wanted to have a more permanent Sounds Of The Universe...