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Kelan Phil Cohran & LegacyAfrican SkiesListening Position
NOW JAZZ NOW - 100 Essential Free Jazz & Improvisation Recordings [1960-80]Writing from Thurston Moore, Byron Coley, Mats GustafssonPreface by Neneh Cherry. Afterword by Joe McPheeECSTATIC PEACE LIBRARY
Ambush (feat. Tito Puente, The Bronx Horns & Mitch Frohman)Various ArtistsIn The Woods
The Bug vs Ghost DubsImplosionPressure
UK Rave Flyers 1988 – 1989Phatmedia presents ...
Larry MarshallRun Babylon / VersionStudio One
Akiko Yano7 O'clock In TokyoWewantsounds
WooolheadsCan't Think About It All The TimeKlang Tone
Daphne Oram: Vari/ations: Ode To OramVarious ArtistsNonclassical
Joe Chambers & Larry YoungDouble ExposureTime Traveler
Bastien KebGhoulsFirst Word
ZiarraHuman FormSonic Serpent
OmastaJazz Report From The HoodAstigmatic
Woody ShawLove DanceTime Traveler
Dele Sosimi & The Estuary 21Mo Se Bola TanMukatsuku
Bukky LeoObedun Sweet Soup: Afrobeat Dance Spoken Words (Deluxe Edition)Drift Recordings
Don LettsOutta SyncCooking Vinyl
CRYSTALReflection OverdriveFLAU
TezetaSEVENTH PLACEKlang Tone Records
StargazersStargazersNight Dreamer
Ife OgunjobiTell Them I'm HereIfe Ogunjobi
HeadacheThank You For Almost EverythingPLZ Make It Ruins
The Lunacy Of FlowersW H I T E S H A D O W SL.O.T.S Records
Skinshape x HorusAct Like You Know ft. Andy PlattsLewis Recordings
Taylor WilliamsDreaming / What About Me?Colemine
BonoboLazarus (Adult Swim Original Series Soundtrack)Sony
Floating PointsLazarus (Adult Swim Original Series Soundtrack)Sony
Jamie Lidell & Luke SchneiderA Companion For The Spaces Between Dreams
Jah MinstrelAfrica RootsJmc Records
Los BilltonesAtlantis / Rattlesnake TwistTip-A-Top Records
Tony MontanaCrosses A Follow Me / Oh Jah / Jamaica NiceBay City Music
Junior VibesFed Up A ThemMeshock I
The DiplomatsGoing Along / Don't Want To Let You GoCaltone
Tad HunterHail YahDebtera Records
Paul ElliotImport CorruptionLucky Love Promotions
- Book (350g) 9780738550060£14.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
A collection of photographs of the Latino musicians from 1930 - 1980's primarily in El Barrio, NY but features several from Los Angeles, CA and other parts of the country. In it are many great photographs.
What's not to like?
UK Rave Flyers 1988 – 1989Phatmedia presents ...
Deluxe book showcasing original flyers from the breakthrough years of UK acid house. Sourced from the phatmedia archive and beyond, it captures the raw...
- Book (1.5kg)£45.00 £40.00Expected 30 NovPreorder
Jamie Lidell & Luke SchneiderA Companion For The Spaces Between Dreams
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...
- New LP (Coloured Vinyl) 0309272740004£26.00In stockAdd to Bag
Punk: The Last WordBy Chris Sullivan and Stephen Colegrave
'A thoroughly enjoyable compendium of appalling behaviour.' Nick Logan, Editor NME (1973-1978), founder of The Face
'From the shabby stowaways of the...
- Book (900g)£30.00In stockAdd to Bag
Freedom Rhythm and Sound Chapter 2 EVENTThu 18 Dec 2025
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...
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Machito and his Afro Cuban Jazz EnsembleWith Flute To Boot!
- New LP 8435307616937£18.99In stockAdd to Bag
Up the Youth Club : Illuminating a Hidden Historyby Emma Warren
'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,...
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Rock Against Racism 1976-1981By Syd Shelton
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...
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Greensleeves BOOKThe First 100 Covers
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...
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The Other Side : A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World
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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Soul Jazz Records hoodie (navy)
Brand new Soul Jazz Records Functional Outer Wear Product #1
Exclusive to Sounds of the Universe
Limited edition navy hoodie (large) with design.
- Sweatshirt£35.00In stockAdd to Bag
Susan SontagNotes on 'Camp'
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...
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The Second Sex (Vintage Feminism Short Edition)by Simone de Beauvoir
Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short formWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NATALIE HAYNESWhen this book was first published in 1949 it was to outrage...
- Book (250g)£6.99In stockAdd to Bag
Beneath the UnderdogBy Chalrles Mingus
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,...
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The Art of DancehallPosters and Flyers of Soundsystem Culture
Wicked book!
Combining the energy and vibrancy of vernacular Jamaican art with the cultural insight that only original ephemera can bring, the flyers...
- Book (1.1kg)£38.95In stockAdd to Bag
Revolutionary Letters
By turns a handbook of countercultural living, a manual for street protest, and a feminist broadside against the repressive state apparatus, Revolutionary...
- Book (350g)£13.99In stockAdd to Bag
Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy presents 'Balearic Breakfast' Volume 4
“There are curators, and then there's Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy.” - Resident Advisor
The sun has finally come out. It’s the first time something...
- 2×LP HVNLP237£32.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
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Sabroso Guaganco Vol. 11Sabroso Guaganco Vol. 11
Latin compilation
- Original CD£9.99CD disc condition: VG+Case & booklet condition: VG+Original Pre-Owned CD in great conditionIn stockAdd to Bag
Sabroso Guaganco Vol. 12Sabroso Guaganco Vol. 12
Latin compilation
- Original CD£9.99CD disc condition: VG+Case & booklet condition: VG+Original Pre-Owned CD in great conditionIn stockAdd to Bag
The Blood of OthersSimone de Beauvoir
Potent and vividly emotional, Simone de Beauvoir’s captivating novel questions freedom and individual responsibility in the face of brutality‘These...
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Salsa Y Ache
- Original CD£4.99CD disc condition: VG+Case & booklet condition: VG+Original Pre-Owned CD in great conditionIn stockAdd to Bag
Alice Coltrane - Monument Eternal (DELUXE HARDBACK)By Ann Philbin, Franya J. Berkman
Rashid Johnson, Cauleen Smith and others pay tribute to a truly extraordinary figure in 20th-century American jazz. This volume unpacks the cultural legacy...
- Book (1.3kg)£50.00In stockAdd to Bag
My Grandmother's Hands : Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodiesby Resmaa Menakem
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Insightful, thought-provoking and profound. I can't recommend highly enough' Sunny Singh'A revolutionary work of beauty,...
- Book (350g) 9780141996479£10.99In stockAdd to Bag
Nova Scotia House : A Novel
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...
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This Woman's Work : Essays on Music
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...
- Book (600g) 9781474621472£20.00In stockAdd to Bag
Women and the Piano : A History in 50 Livesby Susan Tomes
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Dundun: The Talking Drum of the Yoruba People of South-West Nigeriaby Oyeniyi OsundinaAustin Macauley
In Dundun, Niyi Osundina offers the reader the chance to dip into a key cultural component of the people of western Nigeria. Drumming is a vital tradition...
- Original Book (200g)£8.99Sold out Notify me when in stock
Young, Gifted & BlackThe Story of Trojan RecordsOmnibus Press
The inside story - gossipy and addictive!
- Original Book (500g) 9781787601178£10.00Original Pre-Owned UK paperback in good conditionSold out Notify me when in stock
Music Is The Weapon Of The FutureFifty Years Of African Popular MusicLawrence Hill Books
Secondhand book in good condition, stickers on cover, insides cleanFrom the unique voice of Salif Keita and the hard funk of Fela Kuti to the poignant...
- Book (450g) 9781556524509£18.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
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Trouble Man: The Life and Death of Marvin Gayeby Steve TurnerMichael Joseph
- Original Book (500g) 9780140271027£10.00Secondhand out of print paperback in good conditionSold out Notify me when in stock
Message to Our Folks: The Art Ensemble of ChicagoPaul SteinbeckChicago University Press
This year marks the golden anniversary of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, the flagship band of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians....
- Book (650g) 9780226375960£35.00Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Point From Which Creation Begins (2004)The Black Artist's Group Of St. LouisMissouri Historical Society Press
From 1968 to 1972, St. Louis was home to the Black Artists' Group (BAG), a seminal arts collective that nurtured African American experimentalists involved...
- Book (750g) 9781883982515£28.00Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Love Saves The DayA History Of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979Duke University Press
Essential, thorough book on the underground New York Disco scene of the 1970s written by Tim Lawrence (who also wrote the sleevenotes for Soul Jazz Records'...
- Book (800g) 9780822331988£24.00Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Lee 'Scratch' Perry - Kiss Me NeckThe Scratch Story In Words, Pictures And RecordsCherry Red Books
With more than 1,000 releases to Lee "Scratch" Perry's name in some form or other, there is a wealth of material for fans and collectors to immerse themselves...
- Book (700g) 9781901447965£14.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Lion SongsThomas Mapfumo and the Music That Made Zimbabwe
Like Fela Kuti and Bob Marley, singer, composer, and bandleader Thomas Mapfumo and his music came to represent his native country's anticolonial struggle...
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Nile Rodgers Le FreakNile RodgersOrion
Nile Rodgers is a founding member of Chic, and one of the world's most successful music producers. He wrote 'We are Family' for Sister Sledge and 'I'm...
- Book (650g) 0751542776£9.99 £5.00Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Wild DayzPhotos by BeezerTangent Books
As a photographer Beezer was in a unique position in Bristol in the 1980s. Close friends with the Wild Bunch (later to become Massive Attack) and other...
- Book (500g) 9781906477332£15.00Out of stock Notify me when in stock
VirginA History Of Virgin Records
Richard Branson was the publisher of a small alternative music magazine in London in the early 1970s when he founded Virgin Records with his partner Simon...
- Book (1.2kg) 9781899116003£14.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Beats to the RhymeA Collection of Instrumental Hip-Hop Records for the Beat ConnoisseurGingko Press
£10 off this wicked book! Cheaper than Amazon!
USA IMPORT DIE CUT, SHRINK-WRAPPED COVER HARDBACK BOOK 40% OFF Original price! COMES WITH FREE CD! THE...
- Book (700g) 9781584235385£22.00 £12.00New USA hardback includes CD!Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Running The Voodoo DownThe Electric Music Of Miles DavisBackbeat Books
£8 OFF UK PAPERBACK CHEAPER THAN AMAZONSTILL ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS ON MILES! Classic Electric Miles book This book re-assesses Miles Davis' "electric...
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Make Some SpaceTuning Into Total Refreshment CentreSweet Machine Press
Shabaka Hutchings , Nubya Garcia, Sons of Kemet - read how the new jazz scene started in this wicked book about The Total Refreshment Centre.
Included...
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Musica BrasileiraA History of Popular Music and the People of BrazilMarion Boyars
STILL ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS ON BRAZILIAN MUSIC! Only £6!!!
Written by Claus Schreiner, this is an excellent book covering all aspects of Brazilian music...
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Sonny Rollins: The Cutting Edgeby Richard PalmerContinuum
- Original Book (300g)£10.00Secondhand paperback book in good conditionSold out Notify me when in stock
Castles Made Of Sound: The Story Of Gil EvansBy Larry HicockDa Capo Press
SUPERB AMERICAN IMPORT HARDBACK BOOK £40 ON Amazon! £15 - that's £25 cheaper! Limited copies available. Don't miss out!
Gil Evans is the man!
"Gil...
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How To DJ Properly: The Art And Science Of Playing Recordsby Frank Broughton & Bill Brewster
- Original Book (900g)£9.00Secondhand paperback book in good conditionSold out Notify me when in stock
Talking 'Bout Your MamaThe Dozens, Snaps, And The Deep Roots Of RapOxford University Press
ONLY £10 Import USA HARDBACK BOOK CHEAPER THAN AMAZON
From Two Live Crew's controversial comedy to Ice Cube's gangsta styling and the battle rhymes of...
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Chuck DFight The Power: Rap, Race, and RealityPayback Press
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Chuck D, the creative force behind Public Enemy and one of the most outspoken, politically active and controversial rappers in music,...
- Original Book (400g)£10.00Original Out-of-Print Pre-owned hardback in good conditionSold out Notify me when in stock
Highlife GiantsWest African Dance Band PioneersCassava Republic Press
As West Africa's oldest form of popular music, Highlife was the soundtrack of the independence era and its influence still resonates widely today. Highlife...
- Book (600g) 9781911115298£12.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Divine HorsemenThe Living Gods Of Haiti by Maya DerenDocumentext
First published in 1953, Maya Deren's famous account of the Haitian deities, practitioners and rituals of Voudoun was written with the special insight...
- Book (500g) 9780914232636£20.00Out of stock Notify me when in stock
The HaciendaHow Not To Run A ClubPocket Books
Peter Hook, as co-founder of Joy Division and New Order, has been shaping the course of popular music for thirty years. He provided the propulsive bass...
- Book (550g) 9781471160080£8.99 £6.00Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Jazz PeopleBy Valerie WilmerAllison and Busby
Fantastic. Deep jazz all the way. w/ Archie Shepp, Cecil Taylor, Monk, Randy Weston and more.
- Original Book (350g)£10.00Secondhand out of print edition paperback in good condition (crease to cover and inside inscription)Sold out Notify me when in stock