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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
The Bug vs Ghost DubsImplosionPressure
Carlos GarnettCosmos NucleusTime Traveler
Kenny BarronSunset To DawnTime Traveler
Roy BrooksThe Free SlaveTime Traveler
Tyler The CreatorCHROMAKOPIAColumbia
GILLES PETERSON and STUART BAKER (SOUL JAZZ RECORDS)FREEDOM, RHYTHM AND SOUND Chapter 2: Journeys To Enlightenment BOOKRevolutionary Jazz Original Cover ArtSoul Jazz Records
Madala Kunene & Sibusile XabaKwantuMushroom Hour Half Hour
Techno Kayo Vol 1: Japanese Techno Pop 1981-1989Various ArtistsRush Hour
Kid SublimeThe Paradigm ShiftNatural Element
No One's Listening AnywayUK DIY Post Punk & Dubs 1978-1984 (Volume 2)Caroline True Records
Idjut Boys / Minjung Kate KimWTF: Further Adventures Of The WTF BandBite The Day
Mick HarrisCulvert Dub Sessions FourL.I.E.S.
Emilio SantiagoMais Que Um MomentoUniversal
Jonny NashOnce Was Ours ForeverMelody As Truth
Arp Frique & The Perpetual SingersSave Your SoulUnknownunknown
G.G. Grossett, Carl Bryan & The Mudie All StarsRun Girl / Run For Your LifeMoodisc Records
Harry Mudie & Dennis Walks with Mudies All StarsShe Pon Top / Black BeatMoodisc Records
Winston ReedyTurf War / Mr Boss ManRoom In The Sky
CoilBackwardsCold Spring
Crissin ft. ShaggyCall On Me / Vacation GirlC&I Jah Bless Records
J DillaDonuts (Audiophile Edition)Stones Throw Records
Maino ft. DirtsmanHotta This Year / Back It UpC&I Jah Bless Records
Maxi PriestIf I Made A Wish / Love AppleC&I Jah Bless Records
Freddie McKayIf You Must GoMelrose
Augustus PabloKing Selassie I CallingOnlyroots
Freddie McKayOur RendezvousJaguar
Frankie PaulStrange FeelingHornin' Sounds
Lily AllenWest End GirlBMG
Sun RaFate In A Pleasent MoodPan Am Records
Orchestra BaobabKelen Ati Leen / SouleymaneMr. Bongo
Kibrom BirhaneLISANE BAHIRFlying Carpet
Rick WadeNight Trackin'Rawax Motor CIty Edition
Elsio Mancuso & Berto PisanoNude Per L'AssassinoFour Flies
Sleaford ModsThe Demise Of Planet XRough Trade Records
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The untold story of British dance music’s first sub-bass revolution, tracing the origins, development, impact and influence of bleep techno, and the subsequent musical styles it inspired, on UK club culture.
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...
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Freedom Rhythm and Sound 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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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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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
Revolutionary Letters
By turns a handbook of countercultural living, a manual for street protest, and a feminist broadside against the repressive state apparatus, Revolutionary...
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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...
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Talking to Women
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...
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Sabroso Guaganco Vol. 10Sabroso Guaganco Vol. 10
Latin compilation
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Sabroso Guaganco Vol. 11Sabroso Guaganco Vol. 11
Latin compilation
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Sabroso Guaganco Vol. 12Sabroso Guaganco Vol. 12
Latin compilation
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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...
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Salsa Y Ache
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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Women and the Piano : A History in 50 Livesby Susan Tomes
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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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James Kaplan3 Shades of Blue : Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans & The Lost Empire of Cool
1959 saw Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans and the other members of Miles's sextet come together to record the bestselling jazz album of all time:...
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Nettleblackby Nat Reeve
'To be blunt: I must escape.' 1893. Henry Nettleblack has to act fast or she'll be married off by her elder sister. But leaving the safety of her wealthy...
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Eros the Bittersweet : An Essayby Anne Carson
Named one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time by the Modern LibraryAnne Carson’s remarkable first book about the paradoxical nature of romantic...
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Luke de NoronhaDeporting Black Britons : Portraits of Deportation to Jamaica
Since the late nineties, the UK has deported thousands of people to Jamaica. Many of these ‘deportees’ left the Caribbean as infants and grew up in...
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Jacqueline CrooksFire Rush
Yamaye lives for the weekend, when she can go raving with her friends at The Crypt, an underground club on the outskirts of London. Then everything changes....
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We Were There:How Black culture, resistance and community shaped modern Britain
We Were There is about a Black Britain that for too long has been unknown and unexplored – the one that exists beyond London. **An Esquire and GQ best...
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Dr Maya AngelouI Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou's six volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows...
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Keith Gildart & Stephen CatterallKeeping the Faith : A History of Northern Soul
In the 1970s, Northern Soul held a pivotal position in British youth culture. Originating in the English North and Midlands in the late-1960s, by the mid-1970s...
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Margo JeffersonNegroland : A Memoir
'Jefferson's eye for details yields some devastatingly honest and painful insights' The Times'Captivating... Charm is this book's watchword' Colin Grant,...
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Emanuele CocciaPhilosophy of the Home : Domestic Space and Happiness
A bedroom, a kitchen, a bathroom - are these rooms all that make a home? Not at all, argues Emanuele Coccia. The buildings we inhabit are of immense psychological...
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Jason OkundayeRevolutionary Acts
In this landmark work, Jason Okundaye meets an elder generation of Black gay men and finds a spirited community full of courage, charisma and good humour,...
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Alex Haley (Author) , Malcolm X (Author)The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X's The Autobiography of Malcolm X was written in collaboration with Alex Haley, author of Roots, and includes an introduction by Paul Gilroy,...
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Daft PunkWe Were The Robots: A Disco Pogo Tribute
Featuring a new foreword by David and Stephen Dewaele, better known as Soulwax and 2manydjs.
Daft Punk featured often in the formative years of Jockey...
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Friedrich NietzscheWhy I Am so Clever
'Why do I know a few more things? Why am I so clever altogether?'Self-celebrating and self-mocking autobiographical writings from Ecce Homo, the last work...
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Woman Life Freedom
Jina Mahsa Amini’s death at the hands of Iran’s Morality Police on 16 September 2022 sparked widespread protests across the country. Women took to...
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State of BassJungle: The Story So FarVelocity Press
ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL NEW EDITION OF THIS SEMINAL STUDY ON JUNGLE
Originally published in 1997, State of Bass explores the scene’s roots through its...
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All Crews: Journey's Through Jungle/Drum & Bass CultureBy Brian Belle-FortuneVision Publishing
Killer book on the evolution of Jungle and Drum and Bass in the UK. The raves, the shops, the djs, the mcs. Essential!
"The Definitive book on Jungle"....
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Knowledge
MONSTER HEAVYWEIGHT BOOK!
From 1994 – 2014 Knowledge magazine was the essential destination for the latest drum & bass news and features and had a massive...
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FunkadelicMaggot Brain (1971)Westbound
Funkadelic's masterpiece! A dark vision of what the future holds articulated through George Clinton's slightly hazy mutant funk rock with Eddie Hazel's...
- – Maggot Brain
- 1. – Maggot Brain
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HardriveDeep InsideStrictly Rhythm
CLASSIC Louie Vega production from Strictly's golden era, 1993! Features the ESSENTIAL title track and other NYC club classics such as 'Just Believe',...
- – Deep Inside
- – No Cure
- – Just Believe
- – Maurice's Vibe
- – Deep Inside (The Dub)
- 1. – Deep Inside
- 2. – No Cure
- 3. – Just Believe
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- Original 12"£30.00Vinyl condition: VG+Sleeve condition: VG+Original Pre-Owned USA VinylSold out Notify me when in stock
Fela KutiZombieKnitting Factory Records
On the title track Fela and the backup singers ridicule the mindset of men in uniform over an urgent, quick-march accompaniment from Afrika 70. The album...
- – Zombie
- – Mr. Follow Follow (Mister Follow Follow)
- 1. – Zombie
- 2. – Mr. Follow Follow (Mister Follow Follow)
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Fela KutiExpensive ShitKnitting Factory Records
'Expensive Shit' is one of Fela's most notorious albums! This killer afro-beat LP was originally release in 1975 and now gets a reissue on Brooklyn-based...
- – Expensive Shit
- – Water No Get Enemy
- 1. – Expensive Shit
- 2. – Water No Get Enemy
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Space Funk - Afro Futurist Electro Funk In Space 1976-84Soul Jazz Records
‘Space Funk – Afro Futurist Electro Funk in Space 1976-84’, is an intergalactic journey into black space, fuelled by funk, powered by computers.
‘Space...
- L E O – Fee Fi Fo Fum
- The Sonarphonic – Super Breaker
- Santiago – Bionic Funk
- Frank Cornilius – Computer Games
- JUJU & The Space Rangers – Plastic
- Jamie Jupitor – Computer Power
- Solaris – Space Invaders
- Copperfield – Make It Good To Me Baby
- Robotron 4 – Electro-?
- Ernest Flippin II – Supersonic Space Lady
- Funk Machine – Funk Machine
- Ramsey 2C-3D – Fly Guy and The Unemployed
- Osé – Computer Funk
- 7 Below Zero Band – Seven (We Are)
- Rodney Stepp – Break-Out
- 1. L E O – Fee Fi Fo Fum
- 2. The Sonarphonic – Super Breaker
- 3. Santiago – Bionic Funk
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Black RiotEarly Jungle, Rave and HardcoreSoul Jazz Records
VINYL FACTORY COMPILATION OF THE YEAR 2020!!!
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Soul...
- Rhythm For Reasons – The Smokers Rhythm
- Babylon Timewarp – Durban Poison
- The Terrorist – RK1
- DJ Dubplate – Tings A Go On
- Leviticus – Burial (Lovers Rock Mix)
- The Freaky – Time and Age
- Trip One – Snowball Remix
- DJ Krome & Mr. Time – Ganja Man
- New Vision – Way Of Life
- DJ Dubplate – Original Rubadubstyle
- Hi Fi Power – Chill Out (Raggafunks U)
- Nu Jacks featuring Ivory Ranks – House Sensation
- 1. Rhythm For Reasons – The Smokers Rhythm
- 2. Babylon Timewarp – Durban Poison
- 3. The Terrorist – RK1
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- 2xLP (+ Download Code) SJRLP452£26.00Out of stock Notify me when in stock
- CD plus Limited Edition Graphic story SJRCD452£13.00In stockAdd to Bag
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The Best Of Jicco Funk Vol. 1Dig This Way Records
Dig This Way put the spotlight on the music released through Nigerian label Jicco Funk in the late 70s and early 80s. The first volume in the series focuses...
- Jah Children – Giving Love To Your Fellow Man
- The Combats – Rock On
- Black Gold – I Want You
- Freedom Family – Africa My Fathers Land
- The Combats – Let's Get Together
- The Sea Men International – Satan Don Come Across
- Felix Lebarty's Gang – Port-Harcourt Girls
- Jimmy Sky & The Gaylords – World Need Peace
- 1. Jah Children – Giving Love To Your Fellow Man
- 2. The Combats – Rock On
- 3. Black Gold – I Want You
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AbengGrown In CaptivityDig This Way Records
Fresh new roots from Italian label Dig This Way comes Abeng with his second single after his killer "Crying Time" this time backed with Med Ton Allstars...
- Abeng – Grown In Captivity
- Manasseh – Dub In Captivity
- 1. Abeng – Grown In Captivity
- 2. Manasseh – Dub In Captivity
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- 7" DTWS004£13.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Tony AllenThe SourceBlue Note
**Back in stock! Vinyl copies and CD too!! This essential album from the legendary drummer via Blue Note!**
Long time Fela Kuti drummer the late Tony...
- – Moody Boy
- – Bad Roads
- – Cruising
- – On Fire
- – Woro Dance
- – Tony's Blues
- 1. – Moody Boy
- 2. – Bad Roads
- 3. – Cruising
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Weldon Irvine I Love YouAthens Of The North
LONG OUT OF PRINT!!!! BACK IN PRINT!!!! 100% ESSENTIAL
SEMINAL cut from Weldon Irvine featuring DON BLACKMAN's truly soulful vocals. Essential, conscious...
- – I Love You (feat. Don Blackman)
- – What's Going On?
- 1. – I Love You (feat. Don Blackman)
- 2. – What's Going On?
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Original Silk Screen PrintLee Perry ( brown recycled card)
New hand-numbered editionUnbelievably groovy and very limited hand-printed, individually numbered silkscreen A4 prints by Jeremy Collingwood. All...
- Original Silk Screen Print£15.00Out of stock Notify me when in stock
URKnights Of The JaguarUnderground Resistance
Defining Detroit techno from the UR crew! Now you've have a chance to grab it or replace your undoubtedly battered copy of a beautiful and timeless piece...
- – Jaguar
- – Ascesion
- 1. – Jaguar
- 2. – Ascesion
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