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Kelan Phil Cohran & LegacyAfrican SkiesListening Position
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
Ambush (feat. Tito Puente, The Bronx Horns & Mitch Frohman)Various ArtistsIn The Woods
Horace AndySkylarking (Studio One)Studio One
The Bug vs Ghost DubsImplosionPressure
UK Rave Flyers 1988 – 1989Phatmedia presents ...
Nikki GiovanniPoems: 1968-2020
The 18th Parallel meets Roberto SanchezDub Avalanche Vol. 1Fruits Records
Discotheque CreditsForgiveness Not Permission EP 1Forgiveness Not Permission
Discotheque CreditsForgiveness Not Permission EP 2Forgiveness Not Permission
Akiko Yano7 O'clock In TokyoWewantsounds
WooolheadsCan't Think About It All The TimeKlang Tone
Daphne Oram: Vari/ations: Ode To OramVarious ArtistsNonclassical
Joe Chambers & Larry YoungDouble ExposureTime Traveler
Bastien KebGhoulsFirst Word
ZiarraHuman FormSonic Serpent
OmastaJazz Report From The HoodAstigmatic
Woody ShawLove DanceTime Traveler
Dele Sosimi & The Estuary 21Mo Se Bola TanMukatsuku
Bukky LeoObedun Sweet Soup: Afrobeat Dance Spoken Words (Deluxe Edition)Drift Recordings
CRYSTALReflection OverdriveFLAU
TezetaSEVENTH PLACEKlang Tone Records
StargazersStargazersNight Dreamer
Ife OgunjobiTell Them I'm HereIfe Ogunjobi
HeadacheThank You For Almost EverythingPLZ Make It Ruins
The Lunacy Of FlowersW H I T E S H A D O W SL.O.T.S Records
Skinshape x HorusAct Like You Know ft. Andy PlattsLewis Recordings
Taylor WilliamsDreaming / What About Me?Colemine
BonoboLazarus (Adult Swim Original Series Soundtrack)Sony
Floating PointsLazarus (Adult Swim Original Series Soundtrack)Sony
Jamie Lidell & Luke SchneiderA Companion For The Spaces Between Dreams
Jah MinstrelAfrica RootsJmc Records
Los BilltonesAtlantis / Rattlesnake TwistTip-A-Top Records
Tony MontanaCrosses A Follow Me / Oh Jah / Jamaica NiceBay City Music
Junior VibesFed Up A ThemMeshock I
- 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.
UK Rave Flyers 1988 – 1989Phatmedia presents ...
Deluxe book showcasing original flyers from the breakthrough years of UK acid house. Sourced from the phatmedia archive and beyond, it captures the raw...
- Book (1.5kg)£45.00 £40.00Expected 30 NovPreorder
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,...
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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
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
Freedom Rhythm and Sound Chapter 2 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...
- EARLY BIRD Live Event E-Ticket£10.00In 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
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£35.00In 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£32.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
- 2×CD HVNLP237CD£14.99In stockAdd to Bag
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
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£25.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
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??
- – 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
- 3×CD NA5044£18.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
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 SweetImpulse!
- New LP (180g) B0012607-01£12.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Art Ensemble Of ChicagoA Jackson In Your HouseActuel
Recorded during their prolific period in Paris in the summer of '69.
- Reissue LP BYG2£12.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Anthony Red RoseUnder Mi fat thingFirehouse
killer party dancehall slackness anthem on sleng teng rhythm with version on the b-side
- – Under Mi fat thing
- 1. – Under Mi fat thing
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- 7"£5.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Psych-Funk 101: 1968-1975 A Global Psychedelic Funk CollectionWorld Psychedelic Funk Classics
Killer funky fuzzy psychedelic tracks from 60s and 70s Nigeria, Iran, Turkey, Russia, South Korean and beyond!!!!
Psych-Funk 101 showcases the global...
- husnu ozkartal orkestrasi – su derenin sulari
- kukumbas – respect
- kim sun – the man who must leave
- mehr pooya – ghabileh-ye lily
- george garanian with the melodiya jazz ensemble – the big search
- 1. husnu ozkartal orkestrasi – su derenin sulari
- 2. kukumbas – respect
- 4. kim sun – the man who must leave
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