Salah Ragab & Cairo Jazz Band Egypt Strut

Strut reissue one of the most in-demand and significant albums from the archives of Jimmy Gray’s Black Fire Records, ‘Bow To The People’ (1976) by theatre collective Theatre West, based out of Dayton, Ohio.

Shelved following the original recording, the Bow To The People album eventually surfaced on a limited CD on Black Fire in 1993. Now receiving its first full international release, the album features the previously unreleased tracks ‘Man Of Many Means’ and ‘I Don’t Knpw Much About Love’.

Strut present the definitive edition of Patrice Rushen’s landmark, boogie album from 1982, ‘Straight From The Heart’. Includes the classics ‘Forget Me Nots’ and 'Number One' and bonus 12” versions of the album’s singles including a previously unreleased extended mix of ‘Tired Of Being Alone’.

Deluxe, definitive issue of the greatest Sun Ra album, recorded in NYC, 1978!

Super-deep, funky odd-ball jazz with spooky whispered vocals! Cult classic deep experimental jazz with an outer-space alien groove! Highly recommended!

Strut continue their reissues from the Black Fire label with a definitive edition of JuJu’s ‘Live At 131 Prince Street’, recorded in 1973 at Ornette Coleman’s gallery in New York and featuring a previously unheard recording of the Pharoah Sanders composition 'Thembi'.

Strut reissue 'My Pure Joy', a 90s album by Philadelphia jazz musician Byard Lancaster. He was known for blending together various styles - which, on this particular album, included a heavy Nigerian jazz influence amongst the spiritual grooves.

Strut release the debut album from Ghana’s Alostmen, led by Stevo Atambire. Produced by Wanlov The Kubolor (Fok’n Bois) and Percy Yip Tong and features Gyedu-Blay Ambolley, Yaa Pono, Medikal and Villy. 'Kologo' is based around kologo music traditions and driven by contemporary arrangement. Superb!

During a tour of Egypt in the early 70s, Sun Ra made a number of live recordings. 'Dark Myth Equation Visitation', also known as 'Live In Egypt Vol. 1' or 'Nature’s God', and was recorded in 1971. Side one of the LP features a recording of a TV performance, including an interview, and side two fronts tracks recorded during a concert in Heliopolis near Cairo.

Sun Ra's 11th studio album 'Horizon' was recorded at the Ballon Theatre in Cairo, Egypt. Contains a wild version of the classic 'Space Is The Place' and 'The Satellites Are Spinning'.

'Nidhamu' is one of a number of albums that Sun Ra recorded during an Egyptian tour in 1971. Features songs from a concert in Cairo with his Astro-Intergalactic-Infinity Arkestra plus a solo keyboard performance, recorded that same year.

Afro futurist sensations Onipa unleash their debut album, combining Afro grooves, electronics and fierce energy. Featuring guest vocals from Ghanaian star Wiyaala, and also collaborations with South African rapper Spoek Mathambo.

The Souljazz Orchestra continue to be an unstoppable force! The Canadian collective are back with a journey into politically-charged tropical, latin, afro, and soul jazz styles!

Strut reissue reissue this stunning (and now very rare) original album from the early career of Nigerian juju star Shina Peters, ‘Sewele’ from 1986!

12 piece, Nubiyan Twist blend elements of jazz, soul, hip hop and African styles on this killer single via Strut!

Strut present this killer compilation compiled by Optimo’s JD Twitch, ‘Kreaturen Der Nacht’, bringing together classics, rarities and oddities from Germany’s original post-punk and DIY scene!

Strut present a brand-new deluxe edition of Oneness of Juju’s Afro-jazz classic ‘African Rhythms’, originally released on Black Fire in 1975 and first reissued on Strut in 2002. Essential album!

Strut present the definitive reissue of one of the all-time classic Caribbean soul and funk albums, the self-titled album by The Beginning Of The End, originally released in 1976

Strut present the first in a series of essential original LP reissues exploring rare and under-rated African, Latin and Caribbean music classics kicking off with the killer ‘Sugar Daddy’, an experimental highlife / disco outing by Nigerian highlife guitarist Joe King Kologbo. Vibes!

Strut focus in on the séga sound of Mauritius, the “blues of the Indian Ocean", with a comprehensive look at this utterly unique dance music sounds of Mauritius.

Peruvian psychedelic folk collective, Kanaku Y El Tigre surface on Strut with long player 'Quema Quema Quema'.

'Quema Quema Quema' (meaning ‘Burn Burn Burn’ in Spanish) is the product of two years honing the Kanaku sound at the band’s Lima studio HQ and the result is a record which is feverish in intensity and which screams with joy and cries for help in the same breath. The album is a testament to the collective's new found approach with its euphoric, unapologetically feel-good hooks littered with electronic jitters, ghostly delays, serene Hawaiian slide guitars and a chorus of other-wordly vocal harmonies.

New studio album by one of Ghana’s all-time great vocalists, “The Golden Voice Of Africa”, Pat Thomas, in conjunction with the Kwashibu Area Band led by multi-instumentalist Kwame Yeboah (Cat Stevens, Patrice) and saxophonist Ben Abarbanel-Wolff (Ebo Taylor, Poets of Rhythm).

Strut and Art Yard collude once more for the first release anywhere of a live Sun Ra performance from Amiens, France in 1973, Planets Of Life Or Death. Features rare photos from Sun Ra’s 1973 European tour by photographer Jan Persson. 

This is the brand new album from cult ethio-jazz hero Mulatu Astatke on Strut Records!

His first solo album in over 20 years refines his singular musical vision and builds upon the foundation he has laid in his storied career! A collaboration with musicians of varying ages and nationalities.  The album is soaked in his 60's and 70's Ethopian deep jazz legacy as well asincorporating contemporary western jazz. Deep medative, spiritual, soulful ethio-jazz grooves, that will appeal to listeners of all ages!

An essential compilation showcasing defintive tracks from cult ethio-jazz legend Mulatu Astatke on Strut!!!

Vibraphone and keyboard player, master arranger and bandleader, Mulatu Astatke is one of the all-time greats of Ethiopian music and the creator of his own original music form, Ethio jazz. Through the acclaimed Ethiopiques album series and through featuring on the soundtrack to the Jim Jarmusch film Broken Flowers, his music has belatedly reached a global audience and a new, younger generation of fans. Last year, he recorded an inspired new album with London psych jazz band The Heliocentrics for Strut’s ‘Inspiration Information’ studio collaboration series. Now, the good peple at Strut have for the first time anywhere have compiled the definitive Mulatu career retrospective covering his landmark ‘60s and ‘70s recordings

Mulatu is a true pioneer of African music. He was the first Ethiopian musician of his generation to travel extensively and to record abroad – he studied in the UK in Wales and at Trinity College Of Music in London, cutting his teeth on the buoyant London jazz scene of the early ‘60s. He became the first African student to attend Harvard and he lived and recorded in New York, developing a unique sound that fused Western jazz with traditional Ethiopian melodies.

Tracing the progression of his Ethio jazz experiments with full access to all of the labels for whom he recorded, Mulatu Astatke: New York-Addis-London is the essential Mulatu. Covering his first recordings in the UK during 1965, his groundbreaking fusions for the small Worthy label in New York and his key ‘70s recordings back in Addis on Amha,

Includes extensive sleeve notes from Miles Cleret from Soundway Records and photos!

YOU NEED THIS ALBUM!

RSD 2021 DROP 1. Available online from 6pm Sat June 12

£32

7" Boxset

The second volume in a series of Brazilian 45 boxsets, curated with beats & love by DJ Marky. Brighton's very own DJ Format icurated Volume 1 for RSD 2020.

Limited Edition hand numbered 7” – 1000 Copies: First time 7” release of much sampled “Chicago” by iconic jazz funk artist Roy Ayers. Both sides originally from the album “Silver Vibrations” on Roy’s Uno Melodic label re-created on label art here. Special 7” length version of “D.C. City” released here for the first time on the original label.

BOOGIE FUNK CLASSIC! AS GOOD AS IT GETS!

Hand Numbered. There are two versions of an iconic 'rare groove' track back to back. The first is a reissue of an in demand US mix, not reissued since 1980. Originally pressings have sold for £100. The second is a brand new extended version of a mix that came out in the UK in 1980.

RSD 2021 DROP 1. Available online from 6pm Sat June 12

£36

2 x 180gm Black Vinyl - numbered

The Doors famed studio album ‘Morrison Hotel’ recently celebrated its 50th Anniversary, unearthing rare session tapes from the original recording sessions. Exclusively for Record Store Day 2021 “Morrison Hotel Sessions” will be pressed on vinyl for the first time, offering listeners a fly-on-the-wall experience to hear The Doors create “Roadhouse Blues,” “Peace Frog/Blue Sunday” and “Queen Of The Highway” from the masterpiece album. The limited edition package – which was mixed and assembled by The Doors original engineer Bruce Botnick – is pressed on 180gram, double vinyl and also features new liner notes from Botnick. Strictly limited and numbered to 16,000 copies.

TRACKLISTING SIDE ONE: BLACK DRESSED IN LEATHER (Queen Of The Highway Sessions) - First Session (11/15/68): 1. QUEEN OF THE HIGHWAY (Take 1), 2. QUEEN OF THE HIGHWAY (Various Takes), 3. QUEEN OF THE HIGHWAY (Take 44). Second Session (1/16/69): 4. QUEEN OF THE HIGHWAY (Take 12), 5. QUEEN OF THE HIGHWAY (Take 14) SIDE TWO: Third Session (Date unknown): 1. QUEEN OF THE HIGHWAY (TAKE 1), 2. QUEEN OF THE HIGHWAY (TAKES 5, 6 & 9), 3. QUEEN OF THE HIGHWAY (TAKE 14), 4. I WILL NEVER BE UNTRUE, 5. QUEEN OF THE HIGHWAY (TAKE UNKNOWN) | MONEY BEATS SOUL (Roadhouse Blues Sessions) - First Session: 6. Roadhouse Blues (Take 14) SIDE THREE: Second Session: 1. MONEY (THAT’S WHAT I WANT), 2. ROCK ME BABY. Third Session: 3. ROADHOUSE BLUES (TAKES 6 & 7), 4.ROADHOUSE BLUES (TAKE 8) SIDE FOUR: Fourth Session: 1. ROADHOUSE BLUES (TAKES 1 & 2), 2. ROADHOUSE BLUES (TAKES 5, 6 & 14) | Dawn’s Highway (Peace Frog/Blue Sunday Session) 3. PEACE FROG/BLUE SUNDAY (TAKE 4), 4. PEACE FROG (TAKE 12)

LP with Gatefold Sleeve + 20 page booklet

First official vinyl reissue of Frank Foster's seminal 1972 protest Jazz Funk classic reissued in a Deluxe format. Including newly remastered audio, original gatefold artwork plus a 20 page booklet full of beautiful unseen session photos, an interview with Dee Dee and Cecil Bridgewater by Paul Bowler and a new essay by Kevin Le Gendre (Echoes, BBC Radio 3, Jazzwise.

RSD 2021 DROP 1. Available online from 6pm Sat June 12

£22

1xLP (inc. slipmat)

Daptone is proud to present Penrose Records - Showcase Vol. I. 14 sides of Sweet Soul from some of the most exciting groups on the SoCal Souldies scene.

SO SOULFUL TWO-STEP BOMB!!!!

40 year anniversary release of this in demand modern soul masterpiece. For their forth vinyl outing, Selector Series dig into the Archives of New Jersey’s Debbie Records from 1981 to re-issue this storming boogie re interpretation of The Carpenters standard, which found itself a legion of fans in the UK thanks to Gary Dennis’s championing of it. In a pre Discogs era, this record attracted a £400 price tag amongst serious collectors back in the late eighties, with the original pressings still going for £500+ even now. The album has been re issued by several different labels over the ensuing years, but this double header is being made available for Record Store Day on a seven-inch format for the first time officially, featuring the original album sleeve artwork.

JVC FORCE STRONG ISLAND SAMPLE - The ultimate soul break!! What a tune!

Tom Moulton in the Mix!

The triple threat production force of Holland-Dozier-Holland put their special touch on Freda Payne - The Unhooked Generation for Invictus back in 1969. Much loved in the sampling world for its killer guitar hook intro, most famously used in JVC Force - Strong Island, this Tom Moulton remix has never been pressed as a single before.

MODERN SOUL SEMINAL TUNE! AWESOME! AS GOOD AS IT GETS!

DYNAMITE CUTS and its series of amazing 45s have unleashed another Gem for RSD. This Rare groove club classic has now been shrunk down to a stunning 7”, for the first time. Don’t miss out!!! - Must have vinyl release

Special Limited Edition Silver Pressing for RSD 2021. A foundation of hip hop featuring‘Apache’, Kool Herc’s ‘national anthemof hip hop’. Sampled by Nas,Kanye West, Sugarhill Gang, Jay-Z,Aphex Twin, DJ Shadow to name a few.

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£11

7 Inch, Punched Centre, Picture Sleeve

Two Ike & Tina Turner sought-after classics on either side of a 7 inch. The A side sees the ice-cold early funk jam ‘Bold Soul Sister’ featuring the trademark funk guitar stylings of Albert Collins, originally released on the Blue Thumb in 69 and favoured by hip hop producers for its wealth of sampling gold.The flip side houses ‘Somebody (Somewhere) Needs You’ a rare and pricey Northern Soul number penned by Motown songwriter Frank Wilson that goes for £150+ on Discogs. A 50 year anniversary release in a picture sleeve.

SUPER RARE BOOGIE FUNK SOULFUL UPLIFTING MASTERPIECE!

Hand Numbered. Only once before on 7" in 1979. Extremely rare now with originals have a collectors value of £200

RSD 2021 DROP 1. Available online from 6pm Sat June 12

£24

2LP (Splatter vinyl)

Vinyl only release/not released before/splatter vinyl

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£33

Gatefold LP + bonus 7"

Michel Legrand's cult soundtrack for Jacques Deray's 1969 classic 'La Piscine' gets reissued with three bonus tracks making their vinyl debut. Featuring newly remastered audio, gatefold sleeve designed by Eric Adrian Lee and Liner notes by Jeremy Allen (The Guardian, The Quietus). The RSD Edition will also include Michel Legrand's super rare and funky 7" OST for Deray's 1972 film 'Un Homme Est Mort'.

London, UK based trio return with their third, essential album release!

The beauty of 'Better Times' (broken up into "colour references" that are "suggestive of mood and tone"), lies in the "openness to form and structure these tunes, whilst a sense of groove and melodic development is maintained throughout. The confidence and versatility of the musicians is key, and so is the interaction between them, characterising a natural flow of unfolding musical ideas."

RSD 2021 DROP 1. Available online from 6pm Sat June 12

£30

1LP - 180gram black vinyl

“Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 1 (1963-1967): Highlights” is an exclusive LP, featuring highlights from the first volume of the ongoing Joni Mitchell Archives series. The release - which has been supervised by Joni Mitchell – features rare home recordings, live performances, and radio broadcasts recorded between 1963 and 1967. Pressed on 180gram vinyl, exclusively for Record Store Day 2021. Strictly limited to 15000 copies.

Side One: 1. HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN2. PASTURES OF PLENTY3. SEVEN DAFFODILS4. URGE FOR GOING5. DAY AFTER DAY6. THE CIRCLE GAME?

Side Two: 1. BOTH SIDES NOW2. BORN TO TAKE THE HIGHWAY3. BLUE ON BLUE4. STRAWFLOWER ME5. CHELSEA MORNING6. I DON’T KNOW WHERE I STAND

LP (Coloured)

Expanded LP edition of ‘dub poet’ Linton Kwesi Johnson’s classic 1984 album, featuring the original album + three bonus tracks. Bespoke gatefold sleeve with enhanced artwork.Remastered at Abbey Road, released on heavyweight YELLOW coloured vinyl. Produced by Linton Kwesi Johnson and the legendary Dennis Bovell (‘Blackbeard’), the album continues LKJ’s fierce, politically-charged view of Britain at the time. His outspoken comments on the 1981 Brixton riots, the New Cross fire that killed 13 black teenagers and confronting the National Front are all tackled but with an accessible and strident dub-reggae beat.Extensive liner notes from the original LP, by the late political activist and journalist Darcus Howe, are included in the package. Darcus was depicted in the recent Steve McQueen film, ‘Small Axe: Mangrove’ on BBC TV. Out of print on vinyl for many years.

RSD 2021 DROP 1. Available online from 6pm Sat June 12

£27

LP

Machine numbered. This jazz organ player released one signature album in 1980, now impossible to find on LP vinyl. It includes the 'rare groove' Be-Bop Boogie. Recorded at the same studio as Gil Scott-Heron's "The Bottle"

RSD 2021 DROP 1. Available online from 6pm Sat June 12

£17

7"

First-ever release of Suzanne Ciani’s groundbreaking musical effects for Xenon, in their isolated form, for the first time ever heard outside of the confines of the machine which recently earned the composer her own induction to the Pinball Expo Hall Of Fame. Xenon bumper blue vinyl 7" singel in die-cut 7' sleeve

RSD 2021 DROP 1. Available online from 6pm Sat June 12

£24

1xLP, 180g Vinyl

Carla Whitney (with Choker Campbell and the Super Sounds), a relatively unknown soul gem that has flown under the radar since its release 46 years ago. Backed by Motown royalty Choker Campbell, the velvet-throated Whitney is like Aretha, Marlena Shaw and Vicki Anderson all rolled into one, flitting from cottony crooners to full-out funk stormers. Campbell was the leader of Motown’s live band, the saxophonist and conductor who kept any number of Motortown Revue shows driving along. A respected leader of men, and later a talented producer. Somehow in 1975 the nearly 60-year-old Campbell managed to find his way to Canada, where he hooked up with the little-known but dyno-voiced Carla Whitney in Toronto, producing the only LP she would ever make and issuing it on the then-obscure Attic label. For the first time since its original release Attic are reissuing the album for RSD 2021, at a lot cheaper price than the original copies, if you can find one (£500!) 180g heavyweight vinyl.

RSD 2021 DROP 1. Available online from 6pm Sat June 12

£16

7"

For our Blue Note Re:imagined album campaign we released 4 7" records quarterly along the campaign ahead of album release. This 7" comes after the album release and is the 5th in the collectors series. It features Montara from Blue Lab Beats, the key focus track on album release and also the incredible Think Twice from japanese artist Kan Sano. This exclusive release is so special as the Kan Sano single only exists to this day digitally and this will be the first exclusive physical release of this song!

RSD 2021 DROP 1. Available online from 6pm Sat June 12

£20

LP

500 pressed on black vinyl. As the Stax/Volt Revue was busy touring the world during 1967, the city of Memphis had become the place to cut soul records. America’s record companies were sending artists down in droves to grab a piece of that magical sound the city’s recording engineers and producers were conjuring up. Yet Stax wasn’t the only place in town cutting hit records. While Sam & Dave were recording Soul Man at Ardent Studios, Chips Moman was cutting James Carr’s The Dark End of the Street at Willie Mitchell’s Royal Studios. Moman also had a couple of studios of his own, East Memphis and American Sound, where John Richbourg recorded many Sound Stage 7 artists. This LP brings you sixteen tracks cut in the city during that golden year. It features some artists you know and others you may not, and ranges from upfront dancers to deep soul ballads – Memphis Soul ’67 at its very best!

SIDE ONE 1 I Call You Lover But You Ain’t Nothing But A Tramp – Margie Hendrix 2. I Can’t Put My Fingers On It – Junior Parker 3. I Can’t Afford To Lose Him – Ella Washington 4. Times Are Bad – Bobby Barnes 5. Save Your Love – Buddy Lamp 6. Darling Please Tell Me – Roscoe Robinson 7. Mr Green Mrs Green – Gladys Tyler 8. High Society Woman – Roosevelt Grier

SIDE TWO 1. Restless – Margie Hendrix 2. So Good to Me – George Jackson 3. Words Won’t Say – Norm West 4. Can’t Get Over Losing You – Ray Scott 5. You Can Never Keep A Good Man Down – Danny White 6. I Shed A Tear – Bobby Barnes 7. Do Right Woman Do Right Man – Dee & Lola 8. Somebody Help! Anybody – Johnny Scott –

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£7

7"

To celebrate 20 years of the record label Jamaican Recordings,Jah Floyd has cut a track telling the story of its beginnings and the people involved. The initial meeting of legendary Reggae producer Bunny `Striker’ Lee in Jamaica and the various artists that became part of the labels catalogue. Such greats as Tapper Zukie, Niney The Obsever, Black Solidarity producer Ossie Thomas. Artists and Producers who music helped define the labels sound. A great collection of releases for all involved alongside its other label Kingston Sounds.

500 only 7’’ with a dub version on the b-side.

RSD 2021 DROP 1. Available online from 6pm Sat June 12

£31

2LP (coloured) + mp3s

This is the third set in our Soul Slabs sets, which compiles tracks from our diverse 45 releases showcasing artists big and small. It's a great way for folks to discover some of our lesser known artists or just discover our label's sound. Record shops have previously described our compilations as their RSD soundtrack! Our previous compilations have always sold out the day of (nearly) and maintained demand even upon the black vinyl represses. Red vinyl, gold-foil numbered, includes download card

LP (Yellow) + mp3s

1000 pressed on Yellow vinyl & DL card. Last released on vinyl in 1981. Long lost and simply breath taking live Ubu classic culled from 1981 recordings in Cleveland, London and Brussels featuring the band’s original line up. An essential pressing for all fans of the the celebrated post-punk innovators. Track listing: Side A. A1 Non-Alignment Pact A2 Street Waves A3 Real World A4 My Dark Ages A5 The Modern Dance A6 Humor Me. Side B. B1 Heart Of Darkness B2 Laughing B3 Can't Believe It B4 Over My Head B5 Sentimental Journey B6 30 Seconds Over Tokyo