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New Soul Jazz Records Website

Welcome to the new Soul Jazz Records website.

Lots of new functions for you to explore including no more putting in your card details each time and more!

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Brand New OFFICIAL Studio One T-Shirts

Soul Jazz Records bring you Brand new OFFICIAL Studio One - nuff colours and sizes. See them all here

Next Fri 16th Sep at 7pm! SOUL JAZZ RECORDS PRESENTS MONTHLY BLAXPLOITATION FILMS AT REGENT STREET CINEMA

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Opening night: PAM GRIER is FOXY BROWN. One-off screening next Fri 16th Sep at Regent Street Cinema, London + free Funk & Soul party after the film. Doors open 7pm, film starts 7.30 then music to 11pm.

Map (2 mins from Oxford Circus tube) here.

Ten Essential Soul Jazz Records releases

Read here top 10 essential Soul Jazz Records albums on FACT Mag/Vinyl Factory.

Nigeria Freedom Sounds!

Soul Jazz Records' new Nigeria Freedom Sounds! is out now.

"A Comprehensive guide. A fascinating compilation with extensive background information included." THE GUARDIAN ****

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Boombox!

OUT NOW! You can listen/order your copy now here.

New on Soul Jazz Records

Soul Jazz Records DJ party at Ronnie Scotts, London this Sun 15 May

Party with Joe Davis (Far Out Records). 6-12pm £5 Info 020 7734 3341 See here

Mirror To The Soul

New York Noise New Edition

Read Guardian newspaper new article on Soul Jazz Records' New York Noise versus the new HBO series Vinyl (New York Noise is better!). Read here

New York Noise

Read new interview in Vice magazine/Thump with Stuart Baker, who runs Soul Jazz, talking about our new 2016 issue of New York Noise - Dance Music From The New York Underground 1977-82

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New York Noise 2016 Edition

New York Noise large feature in Pop Matters. Read here http://bit.ly/1WtbdEQ

"Contrary to the somehow prevailing beliefs, reissue culture, as of this century, is not damaging per se. The notion that continuously digging the past and trawling history in search for something exciting, as in a cultural and anthropological exercise. Simon Reynolds’ fearmongering on the subject, mostly through the lens of his Retromania, has propagated a notion according to which our love for the past has obstructed somewhat a love for the new. It’s a daring theoretical construction that finds some obstacles, given the very own concept of what music usually stands for. Given the unprecedented access to music with which the internet has provided us, there is no need to fear a bright love and curiosity one could have for the past. The past can be, as we now know, a way of recontextualizing the new."

Chris Bowden Time Capsule

20 years after Chris Bowden's ground-breaking Time Capsule album was released on Soul Jazz Records, he talks to UKVibe in an in-depth interview about his music.

Read here: bit.ly/1TdqE4o

Interview & DJ set recorded in Port au Prince, Haiti, with Soul Jazz Records' founder Stuart Baker

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An hour-long interview & DJ set recorded at Radyo Shak, a temporary radio station that set up in downtown Port au Prince as part of the Ghetto Biennale art festival.

The interview is presented by Richard Fleming for NYC's Clocktower Radio.

Soul Jazz Sound System in Barcelona 2 Apr 2016

Soul Jazz Sound System DJs landing in Barcelona, 2 Apr 2016 at the Lapsus festival.

New Releases

Tee Mac Night Illusion (1980)Soul Jazz Records

Soul Jazz Records’ are releasing Tee Mac’s ‘Night Illusion’, a lost classic Nigerian Afro soul meets disco boogie funk album originally released in Nigeria in 1980 as a private-press release of 1000 copies on the enigmatic artists’ own label. Impossibly hard to find, the record remains practically… Read more

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1. Living Everyday
2. Struggle
3. Talk To Me
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Tee MacNight Illusion (1980)Soul Jazz Records

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1. Living Everyday
2. Struggle
3. Talk To Me
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Nigeria Soul FeverAfro Funk, Disco and Boogie - West African Disco Mayhem!Soul Jazz Records

Soul Jazz Records’ new Nigeria Soul Fever is their first release to explore the vast wealth of Nigerian music recorded in the 1970s. The new album comes with introductory sleevenotes by Bill Brewster (author of Last Night A DJ Saved My Life). Packed-full with Afro-Funk, Disco and Boogie all… Read more

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1. Joni Haastrup – Free My People
2. Christy Essien – You Can't Change A Man
3. Akin Richards & The Executives – Afrikana Disco
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Nigeria Freedom Sounds!Popular Music and The Birth Of Independent Nigeria 1960-63: Calypso, Highlife, Apala, Mambo, JujuSoul Jazz Records

Soul Jazz Records’ new Nigeria Freedom Sounds! features a stunning selection of material spotlighting the vibrant musical scene in Nigeria at the start of the 1960s. With a wealth of musical and cultural history and newly independent from Britain, Nigerian music during this era was complex, diverse… Read more

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1. I.K. Dairo and his Blue Spots – E Ma Mobun Saya
2. Chris Ajilo and his Cubanos – Ariwo
3. I.K. Dairo and his Blue Spots – Aye Wa Kael
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Venezuela 70Cosmic Visions Of A Latin American Earth: Venezuelan Experimental Rock In The 1970sSoul Jazz Records

Soul Jazz Records’ new Venezuela 70 is the first-ever album of its kind to take a look at the groundbreaking experimental rock music made in Venezuela and created in the 1970s – during a time when the country was both a modern cultural and economic powerhouse in Latin America on account of wealth… Read more

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1. Vytas Brenner – Araguaney
2. Pablo Schneider – Amor En Llamas
3. Un Dos Tres y Fuera – Machu Picchu
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Betty HarrisMean Man / I'm Gonna Git YaSoul Jazz Records

EXCLUSIVE NEW 45rpm - ONLY available direct from Soul Jazz Records or Sounds of the Universe.This is our second Betty Harris single in our series of New Orleans essential Funk 45s.THIS 7-inch can ONLY be bought directly here from Soul Jazz Records or Sounds of the Universe websites… Read more

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1. Mean Man
2. I'm Gonna Git Ya
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BoomboxEarly Independent Hip Hop, Electro and Disco Rap 79 - 82Soul Jazz Records

Out now! Soul Jazz Records’ new ‘Boombox’ features some of the many innovative underground first-wave of rap records made in New York in the period 1979-82, all released on small, independent, often family-concern record companies, at a time when hip-hop music still remained under the radar. This… Read more

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1. Mr Sweety G – At The Place To Be
2. Love Bug Star-Ski and The Harlem World Crew – Positive Life
3. Neil B – Body Rock
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Studio One Dub Fire SpecialChapter 3: 18 Heavyweight Dub Cuts From Brentford RoadSoul Jazz Records

Soul Jazz Records’ new ‘Studio One Dub Fire Special’ brings together 18 heavyweight dub cuts all recorded at 13 Brentford Road in the 1970s. Featuring a stellar selection of dub cuts to classic and foundation songs recorded at Studio One with music from the legendary in-house bands… Read more

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1. Cairo
2. Lourenco Marques
3. Callie Roots
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Brentford All Stars / Im and Sound DimensionGreedy G / Love JahSoul Jazz Records

All time B-Boy classic! First time ever on 7" single! 100% Essential tune rocks every party! KILLER!

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1. Brentford All Stars – Greedy G
2. Im and Sound Dimension – Love Jah
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Betty HarrisThere's A Break In The RoadSoul Jazz Records

EXCLUSIVE NEW 45rpm - ONLY available direct from Soul Jazz Records or Sounds of the Universe.All time-killer New Orleans heavyweight funk bomb on loud 7" single! Betty Harris's seminal vocals, The Meters’ Leo Nocentelli and George Porter Jr + the incredible James Black on drums.… Read more

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1. There's A Break In The Road
2. Show It
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Count Ossie & The Rasta FamilyMan From Higher HeightsSoul Jazz Records

This album is a strictly 1000-copies only worldwide digitally remastered exact repro LP+ download code. Also available as a very limited Japanese card sleeve edition CD - first copies only! Also digital album.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Soul… Read more

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1. Africa We Want Fe Go
2. Cruisng Down The Line
3. Misfits
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Africans With Mainframes (Hieroglyphic Being + Noleian Reusse)K.M.T.Soul Jazz Records

"A devastating album of epic dancefloor rituals and visions from Jamal Moss (Hieroglyphic Being) and Noleian Reusse in their prized Africans With Mainframes guise, amounting to their most substantial and impressive collection." BOOMKAT--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------This… Read more

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1. Anachronistic
2. Hierachical
3. Book Of Gatis
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Coxsone's Music 2The Sound Of Young Jamaica - More Early Cuts From The Vaults Of Studio One 1959-63Soul Jazz Records

Over 40 tracks!This is the second collection to bring together many of the visionary producer Clement ‘Sir Coxsone’ Dodd’s early recordings made with Jamaica’s most exciting young artists and musicians who helped define the world of reggae music over the decades following Jamaican Independence. These… Read more

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1. Roland and his Alley Cats – Jerk Pork
2. Neville Esson – Lovers Jive
3. Monty & The Cyclones – Lazy Lou
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TenderloniousBounty **one per customerSounds Of The Universe

Sounds of The Universe Art + Sound single #11 THIS RECORD IS ONLY AVAILABLE DIRECT FROM Soul Jazz Records or Sounds of the Universe website and shop! Instant collectors item - Buy it now!Brand new super-limited WORLD EXCLUSIVE 300-copies Sounds of the Universe/Soul Jazz Records/ Art+Sound… Read more

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1. Bounty
2. Good Numba
3. 22 Truckin
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PUNK 45 : Chaos In The City Of Angels and DevilsHollywood From X To Zero & Hardcore On The Beaches : Punk In Los Angeles 1977 - 81Soul Jazz Records

‘Chaos in the City of Angels and Devils’ is the new instalment of Soul Jazz Records’ Punk 45 series featuring an array of first generation Los Angeles punk bands including X, The Germs, The Zeros, The Urinals, The Weirdos through to second generation hardcore groups like The Circle Jerks, Adolescents… Read more

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1. The Middle Class – Out Of Vogue
2. X – We're Desperate
3. The Flesh Eaters – Disintegration Nation
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Golden Teacher Divine / RaveinstigatorSounds Of The Universe / Soul Jazz Records

The bomb from Glasgow's finest! New 300-press edition in white card sleeve. EXCLUSIVE Sounds of The Universe/Soul Jazz Records 12" single + free download code.Chicago Trax-style acid experimentalism + New York no wave/mutant dance + King Jammy digital dancehall.Sounds of The Universe… Read more

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1. Divine (6.58)
2. Raveinstigator (8.45)
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Horace Andy/Jackie MittooSee A Man's Face/One Step BeyondSoul Jazz Records

Brand new - limited edition two killer Studio One cuts back-to-back

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1. Horace Andy – See A Man's Face
2. Jackie Mittoo – One Step Beyond
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The Skatalites at Studio One Collectors 7" Box SetIndependence Ska and The Far East SoundOriginal Ska Sounds From The Skatalites 1963-65Soul Jazz Records

LAST COPIES!!!!! - GOING,GOING ........Unique new Soul Jazz Records’ Collectors Limited-Edition 7-inch box set special edition release from the greatest ska band of all time!Ten stone-cold classic, killer tracks from Studio One, brought together here on this one-off pressing limited-edition… Read more

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1. The Skatalites – Guns Of Navarone
2. The Skatalites – Suavito
3. The Skatalites – Russian Ska Fever
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New York Noise 2016 EditionDance Music From The New York Underground 1977–1982Soul Jazz Records

This is the new 2016 edition of Soul Jazz Records’ long out of print first New York Noise collection, Dance Music From The New York Underground 1978-82.This new 2016 edition features classic New York post-punk, punk funk and no wave tracks from Arthur Russell/Dinosaur L, James White and the Contortions,… Read more

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1. The Dance – Do Dada
2. The Contortions – Contort Yourself
3. Theoretical Girls – You Got Me
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Le Frank O Keep On Gettin' Down Soul Jazz Records/Sounds of the Universe

This unique 7" single is ONLY available to customers to the Soul Jazz Records or Sounds of the Universe websites or retail store!It is the 2nd EXCLUSIVE in our SOUL series 7"s which debuted last year with Brief Encounter's awesome "Human/Total Satisfaction" release… Read more

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1. keep on gettin' down
2. keep on gettin' down part 2
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New Orleans Funk Box SetLtd. Edition Collectors Edition 7" Box SetThe Original Sound Of FunkSoul Jazz Records

LAST COPIES!!! - GOING,GOING ...........Soul Jazz Records’ Exclusive Limited-Edition New Orleans Funk 7” Box Set comprising five classic New Orleans’ seven-inch singles reproduced here in exact replica bespoke label artwork and all digitally re-mastered. Seriously rare, killer and classic… Read more

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1. The Explosions – Garden Of Four Trees
2. The Explosions – Teach Me
3. Professor Longhair – Big Chief (Part 1)
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Count Ossie & The Mystic Revelation Of RastafariTales Of MozambiqueSoul Jazz Records

Soul Jazz Records are releasing Count Ossie and The Mystic Revelation’s seminal 1975 album Tales of Mozambique in an expanded double album/single CD/digital format, fully remastered and with the inclusion of two bonus rare single-only tracks, full sleevenotes, exclusive photographs and interview. Count… Read more

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1. Sam's Intro
2. Tales Of Mozambique
3. Selam Nna Wadada (Peace & Love)
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Studio One ShowcaseThe Sound Of Studio One In The 1970sSoul Jazz Records

Studio One Showcase brings together a new fine selection of classic tracks from Horace Andy, Freddy McGregor, Johnny Osbourne, Lone Ranger, Sugar Minott, The Heptones, Wailing Souls and other seminal reggae artists all recorded at Studio One in the 1970s. By the start of the 1970s, Clement Dodd’s… Read more

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1. Horace Andy – See A Man's Face
2. Cedric Im Brooks and Count Ossie – Right On Rasta
3. Prince Jazzbo – Jah Dread
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Coxsone's MusicThe First Recordings Of Sir Coxsone The Downbeat 1960-63Soul Jazz Records

Coxsone's Music is a stunning new 3-CD/two separate double LP (+ free download) collection featuring over two and half hours of early Jamaican proto-ska, rhythm and blues, jazz, rastafari and gospel music - charting the earliest recordings produced by Clement Dodd, in the years before he launched the… Read more

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1. Don Drummond – Roll On Sweet Don
2. Derrick Harriott – Answer Me
3. Aubrey Adams – Do Du Wap
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Hieroglyphic BeingThe Acid DocumentsSoul Jazz Records

Current Wire magazine front cover artist Hieroglyphic Being’s debut album for Soul Jazz - The Acid Documents - is an album made up of tracks first released last year only ever available in a bespoke edition of 100 copies (yes 100) – in the form of a homemade CD-R – made exclusively… Read more

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1. Culdees
2. Dualism
3. Fabian Society
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RastafariThe Dreads Enter Babylon 1955 - 1983Soul Jazz Records

Soul Jazz Records new album Rastafari: The Dreads Enter Babylon 1955-83 charts the many links between reggae music and the Rastafarian religion. Spanning nearly 30 years of revolutionary music and featuring the music of Count Ossie, Johnny Clarke, The Mystic Revelation of Rastafari, Ras Michael and… Read more

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1. Count Ossie & The Rasta Family – Africa We Want Fe Go
2. Johnny Clarke – None Shall Escape The Judgement
3. Laurel Aitken – Haile Selassie
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Disco 2A Further Fine Selection of Independent Disco, Modern Soul and Boogie 1976-80Soul Jazz Records

This is a second selection of independent disco records featuring rare and classic tracks originally released in the USA between the halcyon years of 1977 and 1985.This release features only the finest disco, modern soul and boogie and is compiled by Disco Patrick who put together for Soul Jazz Records… Read more

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1. Stevo – Pay The Price
2. High Frequency – Summertime
3. Dunn Pearson Jr. – Groove On Down
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Iron in the Soul: The Haiti Documentary Films of Leah GordonSoul Jazz Records

Soul Jazz Records/Films presents Iron in the Soul, a stunning new DVD collection of documentary films about the world of Haiti – Vodou, art & culture by filmmaker and photographer Leah Gordon. Gordon’s photography book ‘Kanaval: Vodou, Politics and Revolution on the Streets of Haiti’ was… Read more

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Nu Yorica! Culture Clash in New York CityExperiments in Latin Music 1970-77Soul Jazz Records

This is the 20th anniversary 2015 expanded edition of one of Soul Jazz Records earliest definitive releases: ‘Nu Yorica : Culture Clash In New York City – Experiments in Latin Music 1970-77’, a stunning and ground-breaking collection of music bringing together Latin, Soul, Jazz, Funk and more from… Read more

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1. Charlie Palmieri – Las Negritas De Carnaval
2. Cortijo – Gumbo
3. Cachao – La Trompeta Y La Flauta
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