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Glenn UndergroundAtmosfear (35th Anniversary Edition)Peacefrog
Glenn UndergroundThe Jerusalem EP’s (35th Anniversary Edition)Peacefrog
Paul JohnsonBump Talkin’ (35th Anniversary Edition)Peacefrog
Paul JohnsonFeel The Music (35th Anniversary Edition)Peacefrog
Black Jazz RecordsThe Best Of Black Jazz Records 1971-75Soul Jazz Records
Doug CarnThe Best Of Doug CarnSoul Jazz Records
ShabakaOf The EarthShabaka Records
Pan Afrikan People's ArkestraLive At Widney High December 26th, 1971The Village
The GladiatorsBongo Red / VersionSoul Jazz Records
600% DynamiteSka, Soul, Rocksteady, Funk and Dub in Jamaica NEW EDITION 2026Soul Jazz Records
Gal CostaGal CostaVampisoul
Jackie MittooGet Up and Get It / Keep On DancingSoul Jazz Records
IntertotoSiccar PointWhat About Never
Jerry JonesThere's A Chance For Me / Trying TimesSoul Jazz Records
KNEECAPNo Comment **BANKSY ART**Heavenly Recordings
The Soul VendorsSwing Easy / Ringo RockSoul Jazz Records
Lo BorgesLo BorgesVampisoul
Junglist!Old Skool Ragga, D&B, Jungle 1993-95Soul Jazz Records
Daniel LopatinMarty Supreme (Original Soundtrack)A24 Music
Augustus PabloRockers United!Nature Sounds
Bayete Umbra ZindikoSeeking Other BeautyReal Gone Music
The EmotionsUntouchedReal Gone Music
Arlo ParksAmbiguous DesireTransgressive Records
SAULTChapter 1Forever Living Originals
Modern Sound QuartetItalian Library BreaksFour Flies
Shy OneMaliTouching Bass
AbacusAnalog Stories Vol. 5Phonogramme
TAMTAMRamble In The RainbowPeoples Potential Unlimited
Kelan Phil Cohran & LegacyAfrican SkiesListening Position
BTSARIRANGInterscope
Harry StylesKiss All The Time. Disco, OccasionallySony
Michael JacksonNumber OnesSony
Stranger Things 5 (Netflix Soundtrack)Various ArtistsSony
StanrickCool And DeadlyRoof International
Prince AllaDrift AwayTime To Roots
- LP£10.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
- 1. Ungrateful Dub
- 2. Ease The Pain Dub
- 3. Unity Dub
- 4. I Walk The Line Dub
- 5. Be Strong Dub
- 6. Outward Show Dub
- 7. Jehovah Rule Dub
- 8. Sound The Trumpet Dub
- 9. May Pen Market Dub
- 10. What's Happening In The Dance Dub
Digital roots 80s dub album of raw stripped down riddims from Yabby You mixed at King Tubby's by Scientist and the man himself.
Kae TempestDivisible by itself and one
Divisible by Itself and One is the powerful new collection from our foremost truth-teller Kae Tempest. Ruminative, wise, with a newer, more contemplative...
- Book (200g)£10.99In stockAdd to Bag
BOOK! Boss Reggae From PamaForeword by Harry Palmer
We got some more!
BOMB REGGAE BOOK!!
Originally formed in 1967 by the Palmer brothers - Harry, Jeff and Carl – Pama Records was a pioneer in bringing...
- Book (500g)£28.00In stockAdd to Bag
Rebel SoundsMusic as Resistance
'Empathy is the currency of all music and Joe Mulhall does a great job of explaining how that quality has been used to generate solidarity for the struggle...
- Book (350g) 9781804442241£10.99In stockAdd to Bag
Nikki GiovanniPoems: 1968-2020
Nikki Giovanni's poetry has dazzled and inspired readers for more than sixty years. When she first emerged from the Black Arts Movement in the late 1960s,...
- Book (600g)£12.99In stockAdd to Bag
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...
- New LP (Coloured Vinyl) 0309272740004£26.00In stockAdd to Bag
I Hear Music In The StreetsNew York 1969-89
Capturing the energy of New York City's music subcultures—across hip-hop, punk and rap—through an array of snapshots by photographers including...
- Book (1.4kg) 9788410024687£48.00In stockAdd to Bag
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...
- Book (900g)£30.00In stockAdd to Bag
Machito and his Afro Cuban Jazz EnsembleWith Flute To Boot!
- New LP 8435307616937£18.99In stockAdd to Bag
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£18.99In stockAdd to Bag
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...
- Book (1.9kg)£42.99 £15.00In stockAdd to Bag
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...
- Book (2.1kg)£50.00In stockAdd to Bag
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...
- Book (350g)£12.99In stockAdd to Bag
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£40.00In stockAdd to Bag
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...
- Book (250g)£6.99In stockAdd to Bag
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,...
- Book (300g)£10.99In stockAdd to Bag
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...
- Book (1.1kg)£38.95In 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...
- Book (350g)£13.99In stockAdd to Bag
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...
- 2×LP HVNLP237£32.99In stockAdd to Bag
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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...
- Book (350g)£13.99In stockAdd to Bag
Sabroso Guaganco Vol. 11Sabroso Guaganco Vol. 11
Latin compilation
- Original CD£9.99CD disc condition: VG+Case & booklet condition: VG+Original Pre-Owned CD in great conditionIn stockAdd to Bag
Sabroso Guaganco Vol. 12Sabroso Guaganco Vol. 12
Latin compilation
- Original CD£9.99CD disc condition: VG+Case & booklet condition: VG+Original Pre-Owned CD in great conditionIn stockAdd to Bag
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£9.99In stockAdd to Bag
Salsa Y Ache
- Original CD£4.99CD disc condition: VG+Case & booklet condition: VG+Original Pre-Owned CD in great conditionIn stockAdd to Bag
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...
- Book (1.3kg)£50.00In stockAdd to Bag
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£10.99In stockAdd to Bag
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...
- Book (450g)£18.99In stockAdd to Bag
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£20.00In stockAdd to Bag
Women and the Piano : A History in 50 Livesby Susan Tomes
- Book (1.1kg) 9780300266573£25.00In stockAdd to Bag
Sjob MovementA Move In The Right Direction 1974Academy
First ever reissue of this classic 1974 album!
Deep and spacey Afro-Funk rhythms from four heavy weight Nigerian musicians, ex members of the Sonny...
- – Country Love
- – You Only Live Once
- – Omo Oloro (To Nje Eyin Awo)
- 1. – Country Love
- 3. – You Only Live Once
- 4. – Omo Oloro (To Nje Eyin Awo)
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- LP ACD002LP£15.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
- CD ACD002CD£13.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
NineyQuietObserver
Deep left field late 70s skanker from Niney The Observer with a dub plate mix on the flip,
- Niney – Quiet
- The Obervers – Dub Plate Mix
- 1. Niney – Quiet
- 2. The Obervers – Dub Plate Mix
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- 7"£8.00Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Sun Ra And His Myth Science Solar ArkestraThe Antique BlacksArt Yard
Another much sought after and long unavailable title recorded in 1974 with a small-ish ensemble consisting of stalwarts Marshall Allen, John Gilmore, Danny...
- – song no.1
- – the antique blacks
- – space is the place
- 1. – song no.1
- 3. – the antique blacks
- 7. – space is the place
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- LP CIA100£16.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Joy WhiteDread Out DeLeo
sweet vocal cut from joy white over tuff funky roots rhythm with a trombone/dub version on the b-side clean and loud pressing.
- Joy White – Dread Out De
- 1. Joy White – Dread Out De
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- 7"£4.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Sun RaSleeping BeautyStrut Records
The holy grail of Sun Ra albums! Utterly essential deep jazz with vocals and Sun Ra on electric piano - this is up there with Lanquidity as one of his...
- – Door of the Cosmos
- – Sleeping Beauty
- 2. – Door of the Cosmos
- 3. – Sleeping Beauty
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- LP STRUT474LP£25.99In stockAdd to Bag
Triston PalmaSpliff TailBlack Solidarity
- – Spliff Tail
- 1. – Spliff Tail
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- 7"£3.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Iron PhoenixNatty Dread ChristmasObserver
Superb roots tune complete with killer dub, yes christmas has come early !! the heptones?? no company sleeve now..
- – Natty Dread Christmas
- – Part 2
- 1. – Natty Dread Christmas
- 2. – Part 2
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- 7"£8.00In stockAdd to Bag
The Gil Evans OrchestraInto The Hot (1961)Impulse!
Classic album from Miles Davis' arranger. Original mono copy, clean on Impulse, Impulse inners!
- Original LP£30.00Vinyl condition: VG+Sleeve condition: VG+Original = Original USA Vinyl minor ageing edge wear
100% Guarantee on this and all Original Vinyl at Sounds Of The Universe - 'if you're not happy we're not happy' or your money back!Sold out Notify me when in stock
The OfficialsBabyloniansObserver
obscure roots vocal cut with production by niney. clean and loud pressings get em' while you can!!
- The Officials – Babylonians
- The Dynamites – 1974 Version
- 1. The Officials – Babylonians
- 2. The Dynamites – 1974 Version
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P.E Hewitt Jazz EnsembleWinter Winds : The Complete Works 1968-70Now Again / Stonesthrow
Deep jazz from a teenage prodigy!
Collected here are three lost albums by Bay Area vibraphonist/composer/arranger PE Hewitt! Masterpieces in parkeresque...
- – free
- – now is here
- – it doesn't matter...yes it does...but i can't stop
- – oma rakas
- – bada que bash
- 1. – free
- 11. – now is here
- 14. – it doesn't matter...yes it does...but i can't stop
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- 3×LP NA5044LP£39.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
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Ray IWeatherman SkankBlack & White
- Ray I – Weatherman Skank
- 1. Ray I – Weatherman Skank
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- 7"£5.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
The ChantellsBlood RiverPhase One
- – Blood River
- – Version
- 1. – Blood River
- 2. – Version
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- 7" PRFS004£9.00Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Horace AndyQuiet PlaceGorgon
Killer roots version of The Paragons rocksteady classic, produced by Bunny Lee with heavyweight dub on the flip!!
- – Quiet Place
- 1. – Quiet Place
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- 7" GORGON104£9.00Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Max RoachPercussion Bitter SweetVerve
Percussion Bittersweet from 1961 captures Max Roach at his most radical, both politically and emotionally, as well as sonically. The album was recorded...
- – Garvey's Ghost
- – Mama
- – Tender Warriors
- – Praise For A Martyr
- – Mendacity
- – Man From South Africa
- 1. – Garvey's Ghost
- 2. – Mama
- 3. – Tender Warriors
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- LP 7826289£27.99In stockAdd to Bag