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Mbalax is a genre of dance music that is primarily performed in Senegal and The Gambia Here we have re interpretations of the mesmerizing master drumming rhythms from Holy Tongue Beatrice Dillon Lamin Fofana and LABOUR Holy Tongue Al Wootton Susumu Mukai Valentina Magaletti take...
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As you might expect there s no fuss and no fight to Drippin For A Trip Tripp a Dubb mix it s a laidback party friendly showcase of Sotofett s seductive charms and easy way with a collaboration whether keeping the sun up with the tribalised drums and colourful bird...
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Absolutely ESSENTIAL album from reggae dub legend Lee Perry originally released in 1980 final work to emerge from the Black Ark studio before its permanent destruction The last in a series of such LP masterworks as Super Ape War In A Babylon Police...
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The out of this world recordings of Dilson de Souza leading a kind of tropical chamber jazz on leaves from a ficus tree Dilson was from Barra do Pirai in the Brazilian countryside moving to Rio as a young man where he worked in construction He recorded his first record...
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At Eighty Five jazz legend Philip Cohran is doing pretty well Keeping busy in his adopted hometown of Chicago he s still a regular sight around town and by the sounds of this latest album recorded last summer he s not lost any of his edge Cohran is still best...
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Genuinely some of the most exciting dance music ever made we almost couldn t believe our ears on first listen or the tenth It was perhaps only when we witnessed the accompanying videos on youtube that it started to settle into place watching liquid hipped Shangaan dancers scuttle and stomp...
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Consummate Berlin dub science by the maestro Beautifully textured shuffling Lagos funk on home made percussion militant horns and a walloping filthy stinking kick drum like the bucking hairy hind most of the Devil himself The Dub is Warrior Charge 2016 What a record Bim squared...
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Double LP version A stunning survey of the 1970s heyday of great Japanese singer and countercultural icon Maki Asakawa 1942 2010 Deep indigo dead of night enka folk and blues inhaling Billie Holiday and Nina Simone down to the bone A traditional waltz abuts Nico style incantation defamiliarized versions of...
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Another impressive compilation from Honest Jons A great partner to London Is The Place For Me series Marvellous Boy is the West African counterpart of the 1950s Soho scene of our series London Is The Place For Me Calypso highlife and jazz brimming over with lust for life topicality and...
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Honest Jon s Records present Solo Guitar Volume 1 a reissue of Derek Bailey s Solo Guitar release on Incus in 1971 with additional tracks included on previous reissues and a performance at York University in 1972 Kicking off a series of collaborations between Honest Jon s Records and Incus...
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2018 small repress Honest Jon s Records present a reissue of Derek Bailey and Anthony Braxton s Royal expanded to include both intended volumes Volume 1 was originally released in 1984 the second volume was never issued The second release in a series of collaborations between Honest Jon s Records...
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The third volume in Honest Jon s Records reissue of early and essential albums from UK free improvising guitarist Derek Bailey remastering and adding additional unreleased material here from Bailey s duo album with Dutch drummer Han Bennink from 1972 recorded in 69 originally issued on Bailey s Incus label...
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A reissue of the 1981 LP of guitarist Derek Bailey with one time King Crimson percussionist Jamie Muir Larks Tongues in Aspic also a member of Bailey s Music Improvisation Company an album of hovering harmonics from Bailey s feedback amidst Muir s kitchen sink collection of items that creates...
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Honest Jon s Records present a reissue of Derek Bailey and Cyro Baptista s Cyro originally released on Incus in 1988 When Cyro Baptista moved to New York in 1980 from his home city of São Paulo he brought with him an arsenal of percussion instruments including the cuica friction...
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The illustrious Actress returns to the fold once again with Honest Jon s and quite an event it is Rainy Day is an epic nine minute journey into a landscape of reverberating science fiction physically and sonically dripping in all its liquid metal wonder Faceless meanwhile stays in the same...
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Deeply unhinged potent revisions of the Shangaan sound from the inimitable Actress Let s not beat around the bush here these are two of the most out there productions in his catalogue venturing further between worlds than any of his peers dare and at once resetting the consensual allowance for...
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Gonzalo Benitez and Luis Alberto Valencia were kingpins of the musica nacional movement in Ecuador Check them out on the cover on a rooftop in Quito s Old Town surveying their dominion In 1970 when Valencia collapsed onstage during a performance of the yaravi Desesperacion My heart is already in...
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An advanced masterclass in Berlin beat science Wireless is the final and arguably strongest solo release by T++ aka Torsten Pröfrock an artist with a long lineage of important releases under numrous aliases Dynamo Erosion Log Resilent Traktor Various Artists and more a true pillar of Berlin s Techno legacy...
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Selections from an HMV run of more than four hundred 78s recordings made in Uganda and Kenya from the mid 1930s till the mid 1950s...
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Two of dubstep s most distinguished forces converge on an exceptional collaboration a new highpoint in the genre s long playing category Between them Pinch and Shackleton have consistently represented something more than the usual nihilistic sensory assault of bass synths and skullcrush percussion which dubstep has mostly calcified into...
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Brilliant haughty Jamaican avant gardism inspired by Jammy s Sleng Teng explosion rearing up at a Hackney crossroads opposite techno hiphop breakbeat and rave Presented as a next generation companion to London Is The Place For Me the mood is more defiant a Jamaican secession from London with themes of...
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Following on from the Lagos Chop Up album this lavishly packaged second LP of afrobeat juju apala afrofunk highlife and funk is a superb expose of the rich tapestry of Nigerian music that has long been obscured by the Fela Kuti s success in the West Ranging across styles from...
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2020 restock originally released in 2005 Tremendous gatefold presentation and one of HJR s most impressive documents to date Poet composer street musician and cosmologist Moondog Louis Thomas Hardin 1916 1999 learned rhythm from American Indians and counterpoint from J S Bach Many of his recordings feature instruments he built...
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This is the second in Honest Jon s series of albums exploring the earliest 78s held in the EMI Hayes Archive In the mid 1920s The Gramophone Company soon before it became EMI employed two or three Europeans to criss cross Iraq They logged regional demographics assessed the German competition...
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In 1977 Henry Stone invited Thomas Spann down to Florida Spann was founder and leader of The Brooklyn All Stars one of the most celebrated gospel quartets in the US Stone headed TK Records the biggest independent record company in the world The All Stars contract with Jewel Records just...
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After crafting one of the most enduring albums of the last few years with 2008 s Hazyville Actress sets his sights on the future with a crucial debut for Honest Jon s Wheras it s predecessor was composed over a staggered period of many many years this album was fashioned...
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Two years since Splazsh topped a stack of annual polls Actress presents his 3rd and most coherent album R I P his 2nd for Honest Jon s Despite being a vital cog in the machinery of underground UK dance and electronics since at least 2004 when he released his No...
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Honest Jons finally compile their amazing lineup of Tony Allen remixes for this one mighty package Reworkings from Basic Channel s Mark Ernestus and Mauritz Von Oswald head the lineup with Mauritz delivering a Ten and a half minute basic channel classic a mighty Steppers version that unfolds in textbook...
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Following the almost unanimous praise for their previous studio masterpiece Moritz Von Oswald Maurizio Rhythm amp Sound Max Loderbauer Nsi Sun Electric and Sasu Ripatti Vladislav Delay present Horizontal Structures the jazz suave and rolling x axis to the kosmische y of Vertical Ascent The curve of their projections becomes...
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Moritz Von Oswald conducts a cabinet reshuffle exchanging Vladislav Delay for legendary Afrobeat percussionist Tony Allen on his superb fourth Trio album and follow up to Borderland with Juan Atkins Alongside original member Max Loderbauer the trio embark on a new and deeply charming chapter of elemental rhythm and sound...
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