Roy Ayers Ubiquity

Limited Edition hand numbered 7” – 1000 Copies: First time 7” release of much sampled “Chicago” by iconic jazz funk artist Roy Ayers. Both sides originally from the album “Silver Vibrations” on Roy’s Uno Melodic label re-created on label art here. Special 7” length version of “D.C. City” released here for the first time on the original label.

Roy Ayer's still hot - man don't stop

Boogie funk

African influenced funk jazz from the man, following on from his previous collaboration with Fela.

Excellent Ubiquity line-up for this 1973 release with Harry Whitaker, Jimmy Lyons, Chano O'Ferral and the delectable vocals of Dee Dee Bridgewater on "Love From The Sun"!

RSD 2021 DROP 1. Available online from 6pm Sat June 12

£42

LP (Yellow Vinyl)

Same tracklisting as original vinyl (16 tracks / 1 LP), Deluxe packaging - trifold vinyl jacket, 28 page LP sized book and 40 page fanzine, highlighter yellow coloured vinyl

RSD 2021 DROP 1. Available online from 6pm Sat June 12

£16

7"

Haim release a coloured vinyl 7" featuring a new version of the track Gasoline with Taylor S plus the original version.

Whilst Celeste’s earlier music was more jazz and soul focused, ‘Not Your Muse’ is much more pop. Her sound is polished and the production on the album is flawless; the album itself sounding like it has come from an international pop star. This comparison is especially stark when compared to the grittier sound of her earlier work, such as her ‘Lately’ EP.

James Brown, 72

JB tells it like it is 74 - It's bad! Nobody wants to walk everybody wants to fly - You can't get a reservation

Spectral pop/R&B/electronic music experiments from the one and only James Blake!

Original Nigerian vinyl. Killer.

Original Nigerian Vinyl VG+ (some surface marks plays fine) /Sleeve VG (bit of creasing, pen mark on front and labels)

+High-end Audio Desk Systeme Pro Machine Utrasonic cleaned+
100% Guarantee on this and all Original Vinyl at Sounds Of The Universe - 'if you're not happy we're not happy' or your money back!

SEMINAL disco!

Tripped out calypso version of 'Love for Sale' and more.

Nice French LP!

Hmmm

UK soul sensation, Micheal Kiwanuka returns with his third studio album, 'KIWANUKA'. Similarly to his 'Love & Hate' album of 2016 this album has been blessed by the production alchemy of the one and only Danger Mouse. A future classic, make no mistake!

The heavyweight minister of funk doing his disco thang - original USA 45

KILLER Early 1973 album from the seminal latin-funk group. Includes "Fencewalk"!

Psychedelic Tropicalista nirvana. Check the tripped out 'Ando Medio Desligado.'

Wicked boogie funk soul disco

Mercury award winner James Blake returns with his 4th studio album 'Assume Form'. The album features collaborations with Travis Scott, André 3000, Metro Boomin, Moses Sumney and Rosalía.

Original = Original UK Vinyl VG+ /Sleeve VG+

100% Guarantee on this and all Original Vinyl at Sounds Of The Universe - 'if you're not happy we're not happy' or your money back!

Brilliant spiritual jazz featuring the beautiful vocals of Andy Bey!

Classic blaxploitation soundtrack! Amazing laidback soul and jazz grooves! Every track is a killer, check especially "T Plays It Cool" and "Trouble Man"!!!

Soul Jazz Records' journey into Dub and beyond, released to coincide with the new DVD film. Featuring an array of both legendary and current artists and producers connected to Dub.

This monster double CD / triple LP is a lightning journey through Dub featuring Jamaican originators such as King Tubby, Lee Perry, Prince Jammy and Bunny Lee, alongside electronic futurists and Dubstep artists such as Kode9, Harmonic 313 (Warp) and LV (Hyperdub), as well as hip hop pioneer Roots Manuva and original junglist Congo Natty. Musical worlds collide as Francois Kervorkian meets Jamaican DJ legend U-Roy, and German techno giants Rhythm & Sound meet Cornell Campbell.

This album is a celebration of all things Dub and related, featuring rare classics alongside new tracks from the pioneers and futurists of this electronic musical form.

REVIEWS
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Includes the SEMINAL Loft/garage ANTHEMS 'Girl You Need A Change Of Mind' and 'Date With The Rain'. Truly seminal spiritual uplifting soul out of Motown.

Essential Roy Ayers album. Includes the classic 'Running Away'.

Probably the best J.B's album in the world ! Full of great tracks.
Every track on this album is a funk classic - 'Pass the Peas', 'Gimme Some More' 'Hot Pants Road', 'The Grunt', 'Escapism', 'These Are the JBs'. Sublime and 100% essential.

Woven around soul searching, cautionary tales and parables for modern life, 'Freedom Fables' is the most accomplished album by the UK collective, effortlessly fusing different soul, jazz and global styles with deft musicianship and lyrical delivery.

Classic funky, funky soundtrack composed by James Brown and Fred Wesley and performed by The Godfather of Soul himself!

Psychedelic-country-rock-soul oddities from the 60s and 70s. While trying to take on from the likes of Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Tom Jones, or Jack Hammer, artists such as the unknown Leo Krokos, Gary Von, Ansley Fleetwood, or Randall Gray have created something surprisingly unique, eccentric and utterly compelling!

100% Stone-cold rare groove classic. "Walk that Walk" is a heavyweight monster tune. ESSENTIAL!

By 1974, 31 year-old Weldon Irvine was ready for the next phase of his career. Having spent years working variously as a pianist, band leader, composer, arranger and road manager with the likes of Joe Henderson and Nina Simone, his breakout moment as a solo artist finally came in 1974, when he signed with RCA Records. Finally backed with a budget that could match his ambitions, Irvine's first release was Cosmic Vortex, a sprawling, monumental work that embodied a musician at the height of his powers. The result is an album that molds his jazz instincts for free-form improvisation to fit a deep funk aesthetic, but also matched with strong, spiritual lyrics.

Includes the deep jazz dance Dingwalls classic "You've Got To Have Freedom", a Gilles Peterson favourite and one of the biggest tunes of the day - highly recommended !

Essential rare groove masterpiece!

New edition of this very rare deep spiritual jazz album, the debut release from flautist Lloyd McNeill released on his private-press Asha Record label and recorded in Washington, DC in 1969 (originally only 500 copies were ever made).  First reissued on Soul Jazz Records’ Universal Sound sub-label in 2011 (long deleted) and now available newly digitally remastered on Soul Jazz Records main label.

Lloyd McNeill is a multidisciplinary artist – a painter who lived in Paris in 1965 and was a friend of Picasso, a musician who has worked with Nina Simone, Nana Vasconceles, Ron Carter, Cecil McBee and many more and a music anthropologist, poet and teacher.

In the 1960s he was involved in the civil-rights movement and produced music for ballet, paintings and installations. His music mixes jazz with Latin, Brazilian and African rhythms that McNeill learnt was studying anthropology in his travels through much of Africa and Brazil (where he joined with Dom Salvador, Paulinho da Viola, Paulo Maura and Martinho da Vila).

The album comes with extensive sleevenotes and interview with Lloyd McNeill as well as exclusive photos and text. Vinyl is heavyweight vinyl pressing + download code limited to 1000 worldwide.

Lloyd McNeill features on two earlier Soul Jazz releases, 'New Thing' and 'Freedom, Rhythm and Sound". Soul Jazz Records have also recently reissued Lloyd McNeill's stunning 'Washington Suite' album recorded in 1970.

Features the late great Leon Thomas on vocals!!

A second killer funky jazz set from Herbie Hancock's offshoot group featuring Bennie Maupin, Paul Jackson and more. Essential!

Great compilation of loads of great early Gil Scott-Heron. Recommended. Every one is an essential track.

His only solo album, recorded just before his untimely death: great psychedelic soul featuring a cover of Curtis Mayfield's "Hard Times" and Sam Cooke's "A Change Is Gonna Come".

A strong contender favourite album of the year so far! LA-based experimentalist Fly Lo returns with his fourth album on Warp with guest appearances from Erykah Badu, Thom Yorke, Niki Randa, Laura Darlington and Thundercat. 

A beautifully woven, free-flowing patchwork of deamy soul, jazz, hip-hop, dubstep and electronica. Too much to love here, take "See Thru to U"  an emotional explosion of hypnotic, clattering, jazzy percussion and tribal drums with an almost ethereal vocal from Ms Badu. Some of the tracks work as short sketches, giving you just enough, like the fluttering electronic ambience of "Until the Colours Come" and the more straight ahead LA beats of "Getting There" smoothed with Niki Randa vocal. Wicked!

Long awaited reissue of Detroit pioneer Moodymann's second LP from 1998 - 'Mahogony Brown'. This is laid back, deep grooved, Jazzy, funked out deep house at it's very best. Quite simply - Everyone should have one of these!

Absolutely essential jazz funk album! A rare groove classic and the only album James Mason recorded. Every track's a winner but look out for "Sweet Power Your Embrace", "Free" and "Slick City" in particular! You need this album!!

This is the third volume in the ‘Beats & Pieces’ series.  Includes great tracks from Bobby Hutcherson, Billy Brooks, Amp Fiddler, Herbert and many more!

Check it out!

Sexy mellow soul masterpiece, produced by Leon Ware

Classic jazz funk album produced by the brilliant Mizell brothers! Features "Music Is My Sanctuary" and "Carnival De L'esprit"!

Features the rare groove anthem "Love Has Come Around"!

BBE reissue this fine collection of thirteen never-before-released tracks and outtakes from the Roy Ayers vaults.