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Black Disco Night Express

LP MM108£22.99
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Black Disco – Yasmeen's Blues
Black Disco – Night Express
Black Disco – Super Natural Love
Black Disco – Oh Happy Day
Black Disco – Echo On The Delay

1. Yasmeen's Blues
2. Night Express
3. Super Natural Love
4. Oh Happy Day
5. Echo On The Delay
6. Odds On

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Black Disco’s Night Express arrived to instant acclaim in South African townships in 1976. Part Philly-soul, part Cape Jazz and part bump-jive, it immediately struck a chord across apartheid-defined boundaries. “It was our way of saying we are with you”, recalls band leader Pops Mohamed. Originally entitled Black Discovery/Night Express, this was changed to avoid censorship.

The album – part of a series of ‘70s releases, three as Black Disco and two as Movement in the City – lives on as a declaration of musical identity from communities whose jazz histories have hardly been documented yet – the apartheid defined ‘coloured’ townships of Johannesburg’s East Rand.

Matsuli Music reissue this rare gem in deluxe 180g vinyl format, with a original sleeve art printed on reverse card.

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Bea Benjamin with Dollar Brand African Songbird Matsuli Music

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The Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band 55 Big Crown Records

Shrouded in mystery, hailing from Hamburg, Germany, Bacao Rhythm and Steel Band (BRSB) releases their long awaited debut 55 on Brooklyn's own Big Crown...

Electronic Funk/Soul

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Batsumi Batsumi Matsuli Music

Back in stock! 2016 repress of this landmark afro-jazz album from South Africa! Matsuli follow up their brilliant Dick Khoza reissue with a deep spiritualised...

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Ronald Snijders The Nelson & Djosa Sessions V2 Recordings

Kaseko (a fusion of African, European and American styles from Surinam) jazz musician, Ronald Snijders has been making music since the 70s....

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Lena D'Água Jardim Zoológico Strangelove Music

Reissue of this obscure, leftfield disco-not-disco / new wave gem from 1983. Originally released on 7" format, this expanded 12" issue was written and...

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Only available EXCLUSIVELY to customers at Soul Jazz Records/Sounds of the Universe. Stone-cold CLASSIC two-step funky soul bomb! Soul Jazz Records/Sounds...

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Stripped back roots from Barrington Levy and The Roots Radics originally released in the early eighties produced by Henry Junjo Lawes with version...

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Space Echo: The Mystery Behind the Cosmic Sound of Cabo Verde Finally Revealed!Analog Africa

Analog Africa presents a compilation of dancefloor grooves from Cabo Verde, revealing the mystery behind the island's cosmic synth sound. Located 350 miles...

Antonio Sanches – Pinta Manta
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Killer 10" taking a classic Carlos Garnett track and reworking it for past and present. Rewind to 1974 for the Norman Connors version in pure jazz-dance...

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M'Bamina Expérimental Africa Seven

Reissue of this rare, afro-funk / disco album from 1978 blending in elements of R&B, Rumba, Afro-Cuban, funk and traditional African music.

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DJ Aakmael / Laurence Guy / Aquarium / Debukas Church Volumes 002 Church

Second part in the compilation series from one of London's most sought after and talked about labels - Church!!! This latest EP is backing up all...

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Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda Moochin' About

SORRY SOLD OUT!!!! Numbered edition of 1000. Single sided, with beautifully detailed etching on the B side. Features a previously unreleased recording...

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Count Ossie & The Rasta Family Man From Higher Heights Soul Jazz Records

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Uneven Paths: Deviant Pop From Europe 1980-1991 Music From Memory

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Boombox Soul Jazz Records

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Africaine 808 Everybody Wants To Golf Channel

Hot on the heels of the release of their brilliant debut album, Basar, Africaine 808 drop a fresh single. Intriguingly, "Everybody Wants To" is something...

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The Cannonball Adderley Quintet In San Francisco (1959)Riverside Records

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The Cannonball Adderley Quintet & Orchestra The Cannonball Adderley Quintet & Orchestra (1970)Capitol

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