Soul Jazz Records’ new Secret Superstar Sounds brings together a wealth of punk/power pop tunes from late-70s/early-80s British group’s that you have...
Brand new expanded double album edition of Showcase 45 includes 8 bonus tracks!
Soul Jazz Records' Studio One Showcase 45 features a roll call of classic...
Praise Poems Vol.10 presents sixteen (almost) forgotten rare groove gems, all released between the years 1970 and 1984. One of the many highlights is...
Top of the Pops, December 1988. The world sat up as a young woman made her debut: gold bra, gold bomber jacket, and proudly, gloriously, seven months pregnant....
By Don Letts and Mal Peachey
Don Letts – filmmaker, musician, DJ, broadcaster, social commentator, husband and father – has always defied conformity....
The historical origins of cumbia are nebulous and imprecise. The mythology surrounding it suggests an ancient past when Amerindian, African and European...
Since its inception in 2010, A Love from Outer Space (ALFOS) has been a steady presence in the underground music scene, fostering a close-knit community...
King Street Sounds continues to deliver deep house classics with the third various artist sampler in the series. This release taps into the essence of...
Emerging in the late 1960s as women artists struggled to de-gender their work to compete in a male-dominated arena, the feminist art movement has played...
Superb new 10 track vinyl compilation featuring Little John's productions from 1986-1990. Killer tuff eighties Digiroots rhythms of the day with Baker...
Ralph Ellison's blistering and impassioned first novel tells the extraordinary story of a man invisible 'simply because people refuse to see me'. Published...
Gabriel García Márquez's great masterpiece is the story of seven generations of the Buendía family and of Macondo, the town they built. Though little...
A visual and global chronicle of the triumphs, challenges, and impact of over 100 women in architecture, from early practitioners to contemporary leaders.
Marion...
Okonkwo is the greatest wrestler and warrior alive, and his fame spreads throughout West Africa like a bush-fire in the harmattan. But when he accidentally...
Vol. 2 of this essential collection focuses on the dreamy, early 90s house music sound of Italy. A selection of the best “paradise” house tracks, compiled...
“Who was / is the brilliantly named David Beast? Did Kraftwerk engage trans-european lawyers after hearing Endurance Test? Was Sylvia Sommer deliberately...
A labour of love, it showcases a tantalising cross- section of disco, funk, boogie, samba and MPB, from past to present. Unearthing tracks from the seemingly...
Dedicated to the Trojan related labels between 1965 and 1975. Hot Sauce volume 5 features outstanding original Rocksteady, Boss Reggae and early Reggae...
At the height of her career, concert pianist Elsa M. Anderson - former child prodigy, now in her thirties - walks off the stage in Vienna, mid-performance....
Throughout the 1980s and early 90s, Kim Gordon-widely known as a founding member of the influential band Sonic Youth - produced a series of writings on...
On a planet where men are contained in ghettoised isolation, women enjoy the fruits of a queer matriarchal utopia -- until a boy escapes and a young woman's...
Cutting-edge theorist Jean Baudrillard on the complicitous dance of art, politics, economics, and media; includes "War Porn," on Abu Ghraib as a new genre...
The philosopher and activist Simone Weil was one of the most courageous thinkers of the twentieth century. Here she writes, with honesty and moral clarity,...
Taking George Orwell's famous essay, 'Why I Write', as a jumping-off point, Deborah Levy offers her own indispensable reflections of the writing life....
How should we think and act in the world? These writings on the human condition by one of the twentieth century's great philosophers explore the absurdity...
"High quality music to be enjoyed by many people all around the world, no matter where they are." - Andreas Brunner-Schwer, MPS Records. The German SABA...
You know Dolly, Loretta, Tammy, and Bobbie - but what about Joyce, Mona, Cathy or Judy? Barnyard Beehive lassos 16 Opry hopefuls from across the Numeroverse,...
With 365 photographs, taking you through a single year, A Book of Days is a new way to experience the expansive mind of the visionary poet, writer, and...
Struck for circulation after 63 years in hock within the Lou-Mood Pictures vault, this previously unissued soundtrack traffics in the hightone timbre and...
Collector, seeker and storyteller Charles Bals brings his curatorial finesse to Hamburg's Bureau B with 'Ambientale', a journey into otherworldly sounds...
As soon as Martin Circus was born in 1969, the band laid foundations for the French "Pop Musique" genre, deliberately turning its back on both French yéyés...
Born in Algeria, when it was still among France's colonies, to French parents who themselves claimed Italian heritage, it makes perfect sense that Edouard...
The album presents a feverish and energetic soundtrack in which nabo, peulh and waama are enlivened with drum lines and spiced up with more "modern" sounds,...
Killer collection of tracks from Bukino Faso artist Sandwidi Pierre on the ever reliable Born Bad Records.Pierre Sandwidi stands as one of the finest Voltaic...
Private-label gem originally released in 1976, Manfredo Fest's 'Brazilian Dorian Dream' drew upon the influences of Brazilian rhythms,+ USA jazz and funk...
Just as Al Green’s “Back Up Train” was pulling out of Grand Rapids, Michigan, for a whistle stop tour to the top of the charts, producer Palmer James...
17 party-starting cuts of soca crossover, rapso, electronic calypso, and Caribbean ‘soca-soul’ that sit alsongide the resurgence of burger-highlife,...
Wicked sampler release (all for a good cause!) featuring Balearic, electronic-funk and weird pop vibes from Locossolus (aka DJ Harvey), Apiento & Tepper,...
The 'Message In Our Music' series continues with a second, crucial voume, focusing on the rare modern soul sound with a killer pick - by French disco selector,...
Classic hip-hop breaks - as sampled by the likes of Mobb Deep, Mary J. Blige, Beyonce, The Notorious B.I.G. - from classic funk and rare groove tunes by...
Z Records continues its commitment to unearthing the obscure and long forgotten club tracks from the last 40 years through the ever-popular 'Under The...
Drift off to this lush addition to the Music From Memory catalogue from Grizzly Bear (Warp) founder member, Christopher Bear. One for the fans of early...
Another killer, 2-step/mid tempo disco compilation from How Do You Are? featuring gems from these female artists, released between '74 and '82. Includes...
Author Tim Lawrence (Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor, Hold on to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene) compiles 'Love Saves...
Primal Scream's frontman, Bobby Gillespie, takes a moment and reflects upon a selection of music that had an influence on him and also hold personal...
Jazzman revive their highly acclaimed 'A New Life' compilation with 'Vol. 2', assembling another ground-breaking collection of Brit jazz anomalies and...
"Khruangbin has always been multilingual, weaving far-flung musical languages like East Asian surf-rock, Persian funk, and Jamaican dub into mellifluous...
The mighty Soundway Records present a new compilation, this time turning their attention to South America, specifically Brazil. This is a treasure trove...
The one and only DJ Harvey selects key tracks for his 'Mercury Rising' sets and cult Ibiza club, Pikes. Features tracks from the likes of Nu Guinea, Mildlife,...
Recorded over the course of a year in Bibio's countryside home studio 'Sleep On The Wing' sees him mixing folk influences with field recordings from his...
Soul Jazz Records’ new Punk 45 release documents the first radical underground punk bands to come out of France including Metal Urbain (the first group...
Jazz runs deep through the music of A Tribe Called Quest; two KILLER tracks by DJ and producer Soul Supreme is in its own way a reflection of that. Both...
Master digger, Charles Maurice compiles thirteen more forgotten gems, all produced in France; sung in French; or by French artists between 1977 and 1991....
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Light In The Attic dig deeper into the sounds of bubble-era Japan with their superb 'Pacific Breeze 2' compilation! From the proto-City...