Hot Shots Of Reggae is an recording on which a bunch of popular reggae songs are brought together. The album includes the Maytals' hit Monkey Man, the sparkling So Much Love by Joe White and the fine rythms of Ken Boothe's Freedom Street.
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...
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...
Blurring the lines between fiction and documentary, the seminal film Wild Style, directed by Charlie Ahearn and developed alongside Fred Braithwaite aka...
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....
King Street Sounds are back again with their fourth installment in the King Street Sounds Sampler Series. This release unearths four classics from house...
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...
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...
Much has changed for Ilan Pdahtzur since the release of his Night City Life compilation six years ago. Back then, he was a little-known record collector...
Gilles Peterson presents International Anthem is a Deluxe Double LP compilation chronicling the legendary London-based radio host, DJ, label head, curator...
The next destination on the Eccentric Soul journey, Eccentric Spiritual Soul is a rare groove with a transcendent, introspective f lair. Laced with lush...
By Inheritance is the third studio album by Danish thrash metal band Artillery and was released in 1990. standouts tracks: "Beneath the Clay (R.I.P.)"...
Few Jamaican music makers have demonstrated greater versatility or proficiency than Lloyd Charmers, who first made his name on the Jamaican music scene...
“Beyond a Dream” is a live jazz album by saxophonist Pharoah Sanders and drummer Norman Connors, recorded on July 22, 1978, at the Montreux Jazz Festival...
“Return of the Giant Slits” is the second studio album by the English punk band The Slits, released in October 1981 by CBS Records.This album marked...
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes played & recorded for a few decades, but the musical highlight of their career must have been when Teddy Pendergrass joined...
Irma Thomas, born Irma Lee and widely celebrated as the Soul Queen of New Orleans, is a Grammy-nominated artist who recorded her first single in 1959....
I’ll Be Your Rainbow is the only recorded album by classic soul singer Bobby Wilson. Originally released in 1975, the album is a perfect blend of the...
Freddie Hubbard’s fifth studio album released on Creed Taylor’s CTI label.The album features Hubbard alongside an ensemble that includes Junior Cook...
La Cuna is one of the best moves in producer Taylor Creed’s career, bringing together Ray Barretto, Tito Puento (Timbales) and Joe Farrell (Tenor & Soprano...
Let’s Get It On is the 7th album of reggae pioneer Ken Boothe . The album is produced by Lloyd Charmers and is originally released by Trojan Records...
Ken Boothe released his album Blood Brothers in 1976 but was picked up by Trojan Records two years later to be distributed internationally. The album features...
Reggae Charmers is the 1970 album by Lloyd Charmers, born Lloyd Tyrell. His career spans some of the most fertile periods of Jamaica’s musical history....
Two years after their formation, the English power pop band The Only Ones released their self-titled debut album in 1978. Led by the raffish and slightly...
'Nuff Said was the third album recorded by husband-and- wife duo Ike and Tina Turner in 1971, following up the 1970 hit album Workin’ Together. All tracks...
Brazilian jazz-funk classic album from the Earth, Wind and Fire of Brazil
Contains the MASSIVE rare groove soul/funk tune Miss Cheryl - a monster tune...
Sugar Minott was a Jamaican reggae star who was a pioneer of the dancehall style. Minott was a producer, label head, and sound system operator. He collaborated...
Influential dj, producer, radio-presentator and founder of the Acid Jazz, Talkin' Loud labels MBE Gilles Peterson has handpicked 11 of his jazz favourites...
Originally released on Talking Loud in 1998, this was Callier's comeback after his seminal early 1970s Chess/Cadet releases which had attained cult status...
Carter Jefferson was an American jazz tenor saxophonist who first made name for himself as member of Woody Shaw's first working quintet. As a sideman,...
Classic cult-favourite dub album from Lee Perry recorded at the Black Ark. Originally released in 1977 on Lion Of Judah / Upsetter records.
Check "Dyon...
Pharoah "Farrell" Sanders was a leading figure in the world of jazz and his tenor saxophone playing earned him a legendary status among jazz circles.This...
Pharoah Sanders' Moon Child was released in 1990 and bookended a decade of musical soul searching for Sanders.The record was co-written with Horace Silver,...
The pop world lost one of the most important soul singers ever to grace the world on 1st April 1984. Marvin Gaye has left behind a series of fantastic...
Cut from the original analogue master tapes by Kevin Gray. Features the hit single: “Soul Dressing". Throughout their history, Booker T. & The MG's racked...
Glen and Daves ‘Wake up to reality’ is an early plea for Jamaicans to get along and live together. The song is underpinned by the thumping Nyabinghi...
KC White has recorded Gregory Isaacs "Man No Dead" on different riddims, here is his first version, recorded in 1972 at Dynamics, and produced by Boris...
Soul Sugar drop their own reggae version of Marvin Gaye’s heartbreaking soul classic, 'I Want You' backed with Sly & Robbie vocal and dub versions -...
Backing singer to Bob Marley & The Wailers, Judy Mowatt came into her on second LP, originally on Jamaican label, Ashandan from 1980. Entirely produced...
Originally released in 1982 on Joe Gibbs Music produced by himself and Sly & Robbie. Rocking roots rhythms, features "Tribulation" "Rocking Time" "Love...