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    Nik Cohn Triksta: Life and Death of New Orleans Rap

    A tantalizing study of a city, its music, and a way of life journeys inside the intense and violent world of New Orleans rap music to bring to life the evolution of the popular form of music, the people who make it, and the hidden culture that surrounds it.

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    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...
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      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...
        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...
          • EARLY BIRD Live Event E-Ticket£10.00
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          Don CherryEternal Now
            • New LP (Coloured Vinyl) 0889397842314£17.00
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            Don CherryHear & Now
              • New LP (Coloured Vinyl) 0889397842512£17.00
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              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,...
                • Book (650g) 9780571389216£18.99
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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...
                  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...
                    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...
                      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.
                        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...
                          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...
                            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,...
                              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...
                                Revolutionary Letters
                                By turns a handbook of countercultural living, a manual for street protest, and a feminist broadside against the repressive state apparatus, Revolutionary...
                                  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...
                                    Sabroso Guaganco Vol. 11Sabroso Guaganco Vol. 11
                                    Latin compilation
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                                        CD disc condition: VG+Case & booklet condition: VG+Original Pre-Owned CD in great condition
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                                      Sabroso Guaganco Vol. 12Sabroso Guaganco Vol. 12
                                      Latin compilation
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                                          CD disc condition: VG+Case & booklet condition: VG+Original Pre-Owned CD in great condition
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                                        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...
                                          • Book (350g) 9780241696453£9.99
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                                          Salsa Y Ache
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                                            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...
                                              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£10.99
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                                                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...
                                                  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£20.00
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                                                    DJ Disciple & Henry KronkThe Beat, the Scene, the Sound : A DJ's Journey through the Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of House Music in New York City
                                                    A thrilling and tumultuous, behind-the-scenes account of house music in NYC. The Beat, the Scene, the Sound follows DJ Disciple and his behind-the-scenes...

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