In the mid-70s, clubs were booming in Tokyo and all over Japan. When the Fatback Band topped the 1975 US charts with their infectious "Do The Bus Stop"...
Operating in a basement studio at the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, pipeline man Howard Neal - and his appropriately named Shoestring...
From 1967-1980, Kansas City’s Forte Records captured nearly every iteration of popular Black music; basement bee-hivery from The Ray-Ons and Four Darlings,...
After the fall of the Deep City label, Rocketeers bandleader Frank Williams set up shop under the name of his twin daughters Saadia and Giwada and got...
**One per customer!** System Olympia returns with some more lysergic, 80's influenced pop/new wave traxx via her own Okay Nature label. ESSENTIAL release...
**New sleeve art**System Olympia collects some key tracks from the archives — tunes on limited runs that sold out quickly and some that have previously...
Wewantsounds release "TOUCH," a selection of sought-after tracks produced by Yuji Ohno, one of the most revered producers and arrangers on the Nippon music...
One of two superb 12” slabs of rare South London British Jazz-Funk both originally released in the UK in 1984 by Jamaican-born producer Tony Williams,...
**RIYL Larry Heard, Burrell Bros, Nu Groove, Model 500, Michael J. Blood**
Valerie from the Galerie steps back into the low-key, light-dark with another...
TRS Records unveils the next instalment of their Harry J reissues, shining a spotlight on the timeless classic "Callie Weed." The debate over who the lead...
Drummer and Composer David Lee Jr.’s stunning and rare album Evolution (1974) blends the deep experimentalism of John Coltrane and Sun Ra with the pulsating...
The first vocal album by beloved Ethiopian nun, composer, and pianist Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru - profound and deeply moving home cassette recordings made...