Sowas Von Egal 2: German Synth Wave Underground 1981-1984Various Artists

Some tracks have been remastered and restored, and some are presented on vinyl after many years. Nice graphic design. 300g cardboard. Liner notes by Pablo...

Volume 2 of this series focused on the amazing sonic treasures Bollywood music has to offer. This second volume is centered on the incredible instrumental...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

Conrad Schnitzler created Control during a particularly fertile period, working closely with Peter Baumann, formerly of Tangerine Dream, to access new...

'Convex' is one of a series of LPs that Schnitzler released himself in the 1980s. Some of the covers of these LPs contain useful information such as track...

This year, Finnish musician and composer Jimi Tenor celebrated his 60th birthday. He couldn't have imagined a better place to do so than on stage, and...

While working in Berlin Wedding at andereBaustelle studio on their upcoming album – scheduled for release in May 2026 on Bureau B – Kreidler found...

Schnitzler's collaborations with Wolf Sequenza aka Wolfgang Seidel occupy a special place in his vast musical output. They brought him closer to pop music...

On their last trip to Silberland, Bureau B hurtled along the chrome highways and glass skyways of the kosmische landscape, powered ever onwards in perpetual...

If you're already aware of Rüdiger Lorenz, chances are you washed ashore on 'Southland', his cult kosmische curio graciously reissued by the ever-benevolent...

Forty years since their inception, and almost two decades since their last release, art-synth auteurs Propaganda return with a brand new chapter in their...

Martin Rev's first solo record from 1980, recorded on the No Wave label Lust/Unlust. Unshackled from working with Suicide and Alan Vega, Rev explores with...

Kreidler's seventh long-playing record for Bureau B is an affair of electronic pop music nurtured in now-clubs and rooted in Rhenish kraut, British post-punk...

Numerous solo releases complete Conrad Schnitzler's extensive oeuvre, one of them being 'CON 84', probably his most composed work, on which he challenges...

Conrad Schnitzler (1937-2011) was one of the most influential figures of the electronic avant-garde in Germany. In addition to numerous solo releases Schnitzler...

Channelling minimalist, tenebrous intensity, Die Wilde Jagd's music weaves a dense and atmospheric web of drama, romance, ecstasy and melancholy in this...

Martin Rev - one half of the seminal no-wave duo, Suicide - recorded this album in the mid 80s for French label, New Rose. 'Clouds Of Glory' is Rev in...

Bureau B reissue the third, classic album from Richard Pinhas' space rock group, Heldon! Originally released on Pinhas' Disjuncta label in 1975.

The fourth and final album to be released during Faust's original lifespan, originally released by Virgin Records in 1973. Opens with one of their most...

Bureau B focus on archive material from cosmic, space, ambient minimal synth and experimental music from French duo Annanka Raghel and Ivan Coaquette (formerly...

2016 reissue of the cold wave classic "Communication". The album is about the way images determine our view of the world and how electronic media...

Legendary avant-garde German electronic experimentalist Conrad Schnitzler! The yellow album recorded in 1974, is an important document in Schnitzler's...

Composer and conceptual artist, Conrad Schitzler is one of the most important representatives of Germany’s avant-garde electronic music.The blue...

50th Anniversary edition of Conrad Schnitzler's ‘Rot’, his first solo LP from 1973. A wild, psychedelic ride across electronic and proto-techno sonics...

Few debut albums arrive with the kind of self-contained logic and radical spirit found on the self titled ‘Faust’. Released in 1971, it marked the...

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

This album coincides with the massive new exhibition Soul of A Nation - Art in the Age of Black Power at Tate Modern, London. Watch Channel 4 news piece...

Soul Jazz Records’ new release ‘Soul of A Nation: Jazz is the Teacher, Funk is the Preacher’ is a powerful new collection of radical jazz, street...