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Invisible Inc is back with another remarkable release, this time diving even further into ambient, spiritual and folk-infused psychedelia “Mondo Organico”, as the name suggests, is a concept compilation that captures the “organic” side of Invisible Inc The use of non-electronic instrumentation is a familiar theme... -
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Cosmocities presents a brand new music project dedicated to Japanese electronic music His influence on our vision and endeavours was paramount to the development of our catalague The first volume gets the ball rolling with a fine assortment of mostly ambient, electronica and deep house-focussed joints, which outlines with its...
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Cosmocities presents a brand new music project dedicated to Japanese electronic music His influence on our vision and endeavours was paramount to the development of our catalague On this second volume, focus is laid on the boogier side of Japanese sonics, nimbly moving the cursor from jazz to Afro-house, via deep technoid wares...
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"A rare document of the 1960s Black Arts Movement featuring Albert Ayler, Amiri Baraka, Milford Graves, Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor and many more, The Cricket fostered critical and political dialogue for Black musicians and writers Edited by poets and writers Amiri Baraka, AB Spellman and Larry Neal between 1968 and 1969, and published...
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Latin Freestyle was a dizzying, passionate, ultra-modern music It was the aural equivalent of a can of thirst-quenching Quatro or a Spanish Harlem dance-off, and it became the electronically constructed bridge between disco and house Freestyle grew out of the electro sound of the early 80s, combined clean staccato rhythms with...
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Paul Hillery's third compilation in this series of rare and hard to find grooves is as much a geographical journey as it is a musical one With acts, artists and tracks linked to London, Florida, Atlanta, the Netherlands, Switzerland, California, India and Germany and more this compilation is very much proof of the global language...
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The next installment of our "Eccentric" single LP compilation series, in the same style as our Eccentric Funk and Eccentric Disco releases A simple digestable run-down of our favorite genre specific tracks Eccentric Deep Soul by...
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LP version Over the last ten years a strange mycelium was sprouting from the ground of Germany's sound topography, going widely unnoticed while creeping its way up through the corpse of the ubiquitous "neo-kraut", "diskurs-pop", and the like This is a small underground network of artists and projects with poetic, mysterious names...
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The cheeky yet sophisticated “Manzo Edit” calf returns with a fresh assortment of four lushly revisited cuts First on the menu is “Digestif”, a laid-back Disco House track ideal for setting the dance floor groovin “Get It” also falls into the downtempo realm with its smoky acid beat, while “Dancecraft” hits you...
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Originally issued on the first day of term in September, 2006, ‘DJs Di Guetto’ introduced the young Lisbon scenius surrounding DJ/producers Marfox and Nervoso, whose road-ready mutations of kuduro and tarraxo kickstarted a whole movement whose influence is still rippling through multiple club scenes to this day In step with...
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"XKatedral Anthology II is the second instalment in a series of archival releases dedicated to presenting music by composers affiliated with XKatedral working within the realm of slowly evolving harmonic and timbral music This double-vinyl set contains an array of pieces dating from 2018 - 2020 This collection of pieces focuses on...
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Opening with Jah Walton who would go on to greater success as Joseph Cotton in the nineties, followed by Big Youth who had made some of his earliest records with Phil Pratt I Roy, Jamaica's most literate and articulate deejay, steps forward with two big hits, 'Ital Dish' and 'Musical Air Raid' before two tracks from King Sighta, a...
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Expanded edition which now features five extra tracks! This ground-breaking album features non-stop killer reggae versions of original funk and soul classics in a disco style Reggae disco updates of seminal classics by Anita Ward (‘Ring My Bell’), Chaka Khan (‘I’m Every Woman’), Michael Jackson ‘Don’t Stop ‘til...
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The legendary Skatalites, alongside the later Studio One in-house bands - the Soul Vendors, Sound Dimension, Soul Defenders and Brentford Road All Stars – were as much a part of the classic Studio One sound as were the singers that they accompanied such as Alton Ellis, Horace Andy, Marcia Griffiths and Bob Marley and The...
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15 tracks on 180 gram gatefold 2LP with liner notes Artists: Chakachas, Mad Unity, René Costy, Alex Scorier, Open Sky Unit, Plus, André Brasseur, Les Hélions, Chicken Curry & His Pop Percussion Orchestra, Placebo, Black Blood, SSO (feat Douglas Lucas & The Sugar Sisters, Nico Gomez & His Afro Percussion Inc, and...
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Soul Jazz Records are releasing this new 2xLP expanded version of Studio One 007 - Licenced to Ska: James Bond and other Film Soundtracks and TV Themes, originally only ever available as a long deleted 7” RSD box set This new edition is fully remastered and expanded to a massive 18 super rare and killer cuts from the Studio One...
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“Longtime disco innovators Faze Action have dug deep into their vaults for Faze Action present the Balearic Sounds of FAR It's a collection of their most laidback and beauty sounds, those that will soundtrack warm summer evenings, sunset dancing and hazy afternoons by the pool There are plenty of forgotten B-sides and overlooked...
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Raw Revelations for Rapturous Times… In this era of tumult and strife, shadow and light…take these seeds and let them grow Apocalyptic Visions and Luciferian Combat, Armageddon Fever Dreams and Biblical Torments, Restless Redemptions and Ultimate Resurrections Some collected from the acclaimed and out-of-print...
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When a passionate DJ and crate digger intuitively selects music for a DJ compilation, without artistic compromise and without the burden of trends, AfroMagic vol1 emerges from the depths of his soul Herewith we present the new favorite phonomancer’s tool for all the DJs who experience the dance floor as a sanctuary and...
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Ebalunga!!!, Everland and Dundgol invite you to discover the rich and diverse world of Mongolian music “Mongolian Music from 70s – vol I” opens the gates to the golden era of Mongolian music This period, spanning from the 1970s to the early 1980s, is considered as the brightest and most influential period in history...
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Dub techno don Steve O'Sullivan's Mosaic label is back with a new dubs series and vol 1 kicks things off with a real doozy on lovely red wax The boss himself offers up a Bluetrain special edition dub of Hidden Sequence's 'Synapse' which is all icy lines and liquid rhythms which make you think of some frozen lake on a misty morning...
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Northern soul floor fillers of the Eccentric variety Compiling 17 handpicked gems from across the Numeroverse, this album keeps the faith for both newcomers and veterans alike Soaring vocals, driving beats, and syrupy strings… expect a blend of classic Motown-inspired sounds with a unique British flair that is sure to get your...
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LP version Includes 20-page booklet France, early sixties: the Mouvement de l'École moderne is in full bloom Relying on the experiments and writings of its founder, the educationist Célestin Freinet, this consortium of teachers is about to give empirical evidence proving that another approach to music in school can be fruitful...
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The historical origins of cumbia in Colombia are nebulous and imprecise The mythology surrounding it suggests an ancient past when Amerindian, African and European musical sounds were mixed together The main record companies in Colombia such as Discos Fuentes, Discos Tropical, Sonolux, Zeida-Codiscos, Silver, Ondina, Discos...
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Real Steel Volume 2 Rare 7" singles from the 80s US Metal Underground Even more stupidly rare METAL, all sourced from self-released USA singles, with this second volume all from the 1980s Even more production technique gets thrown at these 45s, so they all totally shred Some of the best metal vinyl from this decade, and totally...
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Real Steel Volume 1 - Rare 7" singles from the 70s-80s US Hard Rock and Metal Underground Insanely rare independently released USA metal 45s, many of them completely unknown, all dating from the late 70s and early 80s This is metal kiddos, not biker rock or psych rock METAL METAL METAL These bands are not fucking around, they were...
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Orpheu the Wizard has a magic touch at finding records that fall between the gaps in music - oddities, curios, the weird, the wonderful But that's just half the trick It takes a sensitive and selective ear to construct a coherent, accessible narrative from them So you get DJs who can play for the crowd and "selectors" adept at...
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Hi Scores and Crammed Discs present SSR Records: In Retrospect, nine tracks from the vast SSR catalog originally created between 1990 and 1996 and now remastered for today’s dance floors Released on premium gatefold sleeve double LP with extensive liner notes and through all digital platforms Hi Scores is beyond excited to...
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A blistering collection of ska tunes from Clement 'Sir Coxsone' Dodd's legendary Studio One Records, Jamaica's foundation label of reggae music Featuring classic cuts from the originators of Ska - The Skatalites, The Wailers, Lee Perry - alongside a heavy dose of superb rarities from the might vaults of 13 Brentford Road - pure...
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With excellent sleevenotes by Lloyd Bradley (author of the classic book Bass Culture - When Reggae Was King (Penguin)) this album is dedicated to rocksteady at Studio One as well as covering reggae soul and the birth of reggae Featuring an all-star selection of artists: Ken Boothe, Marcia Griffiths, Jackie Mittoo, The Heptones,...
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Coco María and Bongo Joe reunite for the second edition of Club Coco, featuring a sackful of Latin inspired tracks from international bands and producers All the songs were selected by Coco María, who in recent years has gone from a promising up-and-comer to an ever-present and influential figure in the music industry, widely...
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1 THE APARTHEID BOYCOTT In the 80s, the world – rightly - stepped up its boycott against South Africa’s apartheid government But this had unexpected and sometimes adverse consequences for South Africa’s music professionals and consumers Musicians still needed to work live shows both at home and abroad, and to make and...
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A further exercise in musical curation, Child Of Nature is our latest sonic confluence of self-released tracks from the loners, hippies and outsiders of the 70s and early 80s A collection of privately pressed music, able to breathe and be created free from the constraints of heavy handed commercialism, yielding a pure vision of...
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Mr Bongo presents a much anticipated second volume of ‘É Soul Cultura’, curated by the charismatic Manchester based DJ Luke Una In May 2022, ‘É Soul Cultura’ Vol1 seemed to land at exactly the right moment Post-lockdown, optimism was back on the rise and the dance floors swelled again For many listeners, Luke Una’s...
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Fueled by the financial drippings of number runners and boosted by Hall-of-Fame running back Jim Brown, Cleveland, Ohio’s Way Out Records offered asylum for a rising crop of rogue soul men, rust-belt vocal ensembles, and trial-by-fire producers Helmed by a friendly consortium of hustlers, police officers, and gridiron giants,...
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Three years we told the world about Columbus, Ohio’s secret soul history, Numero returned to the scene of the crime for further exploration Victim: Clem Price and George Beter’s no-rep custom studio Harmonic Sounds and its Prix imprint Built around a few stray boxes of demos, including Penny & the Quarters’...
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The 20th volume of our flagship Eccentric Soul series has all the boxes checked: Gun-toting, skip-tracing record producers, child stars, rip-offs, the “World’s Greatest Bail Bondsman,” swindles, soaring falsettos, and a dwindling rust-belt cityscape offering mere glimpses of hope before the record industry escaped for the...
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Latest release in the ‘Artist Cod3’ series as always a focus on eclecticism, open-mindedness, divergence and non-conformity The usual wide range of electronic music from downtempo/lounge, leftfield, deep house,and techno, all hand picked by Laurent Garnier & Scan X COD3 QR wants to remain free of all expectations and...
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Non Volevo Ma Volavo strikes back for yet another trip down memory lane Four timelessly ecstatic cuts that survived the slow passing of time, retraced and restored from the archives of Italian dance legends (Visnadi, Gambarelli), specially crafted to make you fly over the dancefloor today, just as they did back then NON VOLEVO...
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Avon Blume lights it off with screwed hardcore jungle drumfunk ‘3 Minutes Short’ like some vintage Mo Wax cut that's had years of heavy rotation by the likes of Tom Boogizm, while the consistently brilliant Filter Dread fires up the Amiga for the cuboid amen atom-splitting of ‘Digital Voodoo’ on a Rufige Kru flex, beside a...
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After "Afro Exotique - Adventures In The Leftfield, Africa 1972-88" was enthusiastically embraced by heads, collectors and core Africa Seven enthusiasts alike, we dived back down into the vaults, and hope we've come up with another volume of listenable esoterica from roughly the same period "The Quest", courtesy of fleeting...
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Sixteen trips might fry the fragile psyche of your average teenager, but us hoary old heads at Brown Acid boiled our brain pans long ago! As such, we’re bringing you EVEN MORE hard rock, heavy psych, and garage rock rarities from the North American wasteland of the 1970s From LA to Youngstown, OH, from Toronto to Charlotte, The...
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Excellent 2 X LP compilation of rare soul on new Mississippi Records imprint Cairo Records Essential...
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A new denim jacket, just in time for Spring The tenth volume of Numero’s elaborately packaged Cabinet of Curiosities series, L80s finds the group exploring the far-flung corners of the global downtempo underground This 12-song mix tape weaves icy hot coldwave, Sausalito seafood jazz, Glaswegian goth, makeshift Madonna,...
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"You know we had to do it, so here's the near companion dub album to our recent Roots from the Record Smith compilation This LP features the B-side dub versions from the original 45's of almost all the tracks from the vocal comp, nearly all taken from master tapes For the curious and studious, here's a breakdown of the deviations...
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Canto A Lo Divino is the sacred music of Chile’s Central Valley It is a communal form of worship and reflection for the peasants of the remote region, played in packed rooms throughout the night when work is done, hypnotic variations chiming out on the guitar and the celestial, 25-string guitarron The Canto has persisted for...
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We’re glad to be back with the third instalment of our new series of DJ and Artist curated 12” mini compilations: Melodies Record Club Following Ben UFO and Four Tet’s selections last year, Hunee helms volume three which includes three tracks this time including music from Digital Justice, Dorothy Ashby and Frantz Tuernal...
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’Pressure’ is MAL’s rude resistance to an increasingly tense socio-political climate Finding strength in collaboration, it organises a phalanx of contemporary club pioneers, programmers, dynamos and disruptors under a clarion call to dance away our worries Shoulder-to-shoulder, Equiknoxx’s Bobby Blackbird does aerobic...
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