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Walhalla Records finally delivers the long-awaited seventh Volume of its much-loved Underground Wave series, which has become a cornerstone for fans of...
Drawn from the Audio Productions catalogue of early 80s Nairobi, this is a compilation that captures a luminous period in Kenya's urban music, when rumba...
Since Volcov's Neroli label was named in honour of a fine ambient album by Brian Eno, it made sense to mark the imprint's 20th birthday with a compilation...
Jerome Derradji's Past Due imprint continues to rummage around in the archives of one of New York disco's most overlooked and least-known talents - the...
Since being resurrected by Defected late last decade, 1990s NYC house label Sub-Urban has kept up a prolific digital release schedule. Surprisingly, though,...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
Freestyle Records compile a killer overview of rare & undersung UK street soul & boogie tracks from across the 80s and early 90s, selected from the creme...
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...
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 Helsinki-based Bowman Trio return with their second LP 'Persistence' on We Jazz Records. Comprised of bass, drums and trumpet, the band have created...
The mighty Prince Buster covering "Funky Nassau" by Beginning of the End and James Brown "Bring It Up". Buster adds his own funky charm and flavour to...
On this 1970 album recorded in Los Angeles, Donato departs from his Brazilian bossa nova roots, incorporating an eclectic, and electric, mix of funk, fusion...
Instrumentals JID019 captures the musical alchemy produced at the Linear Labs Studio by producers Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad. These instrumental...
Rock-A-Shacka presents the eagerly awaited third album from the vaults of the late, great Prince Buster.
The album features 12 tracks spanning from Jamaican...
A colection of rarities produced by three of the main originators of Jamaican ska music: Carlos Malcolm, Ronnie Nasrallaand Theo Beckford. Jamaica's national...
Wicked collection of early 70s Studio One tunes w/ highlights including alternate takes of Ken Boothe's Moving Away and Im and David's classic Heavy Beat....
Previously unreleased.DKR say..Killer previously unreleased mid '80s Tetrack tune finally out on road. Astute dubplate fiends may have heard this played...
'No Man is an Island' is the SEMINAL debut album by reggae legend Dennis Brown which launched his career. Recorded at Studio One around 1969-70 (when...
Jackie McLean’s music weaved in and out of the avant-garde throughout the late-60s but the saxophonist maintained a decidedly post-bop edge on Demon’s...
Features a collection of Sun Ra pieces by Francis Gooding, Mats Gustafsson, Rui Miguel Abreu, Stewart Smith and Joshua Lane, rare Sun Ra Arkestra photos...
The Great Warrior 12" E.P. is a musical tribute to the great Jah Shaka featuring vocalists Luciano, Earl 16, Mikey General, Asher Senator, Lion Man plus...
Originally available as a very limited-edition (sold out) coloured vinyl for RSD23 and now available as a black double vinyl edition (gatefold sleeve,...
One of the stand out roots reissues of the year so far..A Must Have!
This rare and deeply rootsy LP, self-produced by Freddie McKay, contains great tracks...
New album from the prolific roots singer Ras Teo, recorded with The Lone Ark Riddim Force & producer Roberto Sanchez. 10 tracks of roots & culture but...
Lahai is a “deeply human and evocative record as Sampha reflects on the world and his place within it. Spiritual and questing in nature it's a record...
A Must Have...the original 1st version from 1974, the sound of mid 70s J.A. with Freddie McKay's soulful roots delivery plus the killer dub wise on the...
Hard to find instrumental roots album originally released in 1977 on West London label Grove Music. Featuring the main soloists saxophone legend Tommy...
Pioneering new music from members of the iconic and legendary funk band Parliament Funkadelic. Detroit Rising is an exciting artist collective created...