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Following on from the 2020 release of ‘On A Nimbus’, Priori returns with his second album ‘Your Own Power’ to be released on the 12th November via NAFF - the label he co-founded alongside Ex-Terrestrial ‘Your Own Power’ was produced between April and July of 2020, with the lockdown allowing Priori to spend more time... -
Bay Area jazz guitar legend Calvin Keys released his debut solo record, Shawn-Neeq, in 1971, and it remains one of the most beloved albums on the Black Jazz label But that record was mere prelude for 1974"s Proceed with Caution; this time around, the arrangements were more complex, the instrumentation more diverse In short, a... -
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The first album to be full! This dynamism, this freshness, this strength A striking blow that pours everything that the famous drummer, Hino Motohiko, can carry This is a masterpiece without... -
8 years after DJ Sotofett's last visit to our label(FPST1) we received some tracks perfectly timed AND perfectly primed for that elusive number 75 release This time teaming up with Rex Ronny, we're stoked to have him back and even more stoked about the music engraved in these grooves DJ Sotofett and Rex Ronny embodies a solid 7... -
Hanagasumi - hazy curtain of flowers, cherry blossoms appearing from a far like a white mist - this phenomenon can be seen during the sakura blossom in Japan The mysterious musician Shine Grooves inspired by Japanese culture is launching a label of the same name Shine Grooves owns the underground Quadrat label, his tracks were... -
Adele Sebastian was an Afro American jazz flutist and singer, active from the early 70s (when she was still a teenager) until her untimely death at the age of 27 (!) in 1983 from a kidney failure In fact she had been depending on monthly dialysis to stay alive for years She lived through and for the music and you can hear it on... -
An amazing session of spiritual soul jazz – and one of the rarest albums on Strata East! Shamek Farrah’s soulful alto is matched with the free spiritual piano of Sonelius Smith, for a totally memorable session that virtually defines the essence of the Strata-East sound! The music is free, but not too free; lyrical, but... -
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Gorgeous Balearic floatation tank vibes from another choice debutant to Good Morning Tapes, introducing Nueen with a romantically introspective suite of fluttering electronic productions gilded with glyding subbass, highly recommended if yr into the sferic label, Bola/0161-era Skam, Eno & Budd, Roméo Poirier or... -
bblisss specialists special guest dj and Ben Bondy’s Berlin/Brooklyn duo, xphresh, debut a lush volley of shatterproof jungle accelerators and RPG intrigued illbient beatdown on the newly minted 3XL division of Experiences Ltd, finding a gaseous spot somewhere between DJ Crystl’s pioneering ambient hardcore and NWAQ x Final... -
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A debut which uses nostalgic trippy, dubby Acid House elements to create a warm sound that could have surfaced around the early 90s alongside Massive Attack and Nightmares on Wax We have to draw attention to the fantastically apt cover art on this one Little alien man in his 90s spaceship, peering out over a green haze; at once a... -
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Double LP version In the late 1960s, the American trumpet player and free jazz pioneer Don Cherry (1936-1995) and the Swedish visual artist and designer Moki Cherry (1943-2009) began a collaboration that imagined an alternative space for creative music, most succinctly expressed in Moki's aphorism "the stage is home and home is a... -
Marco Shuttle's third album, Cobalt Desert Oasis, features a varied collection of music recorded across a two year period Often traveling to remote destinations, Marco would come back to Berlin with field recordings, images, and other inspirations to process in his studio and turn into sound The theme of the journey turns into a... -
Wendell Harrison was born in Detroit in 1942 where he began formal jazz studies for piano, clarinet and tenor saxophone At 14, while still in high school, Harrison started performing & recording professionally with artists such as Marvin Gaye, Grant Green, Sun Ra, Hank Crawford … and many others In 1971, Harrison began... -
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Music From Memory are excited to present the first compilation of works by British electronic pioneers MLO aka Peter Smith and Jon Tye Titled ‘Oumuamua’ and second up in the Virtual Dreams series, the compilation is an in-depth artist focused release containing twelve thoughtfully selected tracks that touch on highlights from... -
Live recordings from the years 2017-2019! On a meditative outing of rich textures, ambient soundscapes, tribal rhythms, field recordings and ritualistic atmospheres, Parisian artist DK is engaged in full flight mode, illustrating his project's aptitude for deep... -
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Jazz legend Pharoah Sanders’ one-of-a-kind, mosaical free jazz classic Thembi – not pressed on vinyl since 1987 – is now available once again via Impulse!/UMe Originally released in 1971, the Ed Michel and Bill Szymczyk-produced album is pressed on black vinyl and housed in a high-quality wrapped jacket Thembi, named... -
2021 repress; double LP version To feel the future is to feel the fall into time For the fourth instalment in Tresor's Kern mix series, DJ Stingray (Urban Tribe/Drexciya) presents a device for decoding time in all directions, a sonic prism that refracts our senses into auxiliary components of a total future-rush With a... -
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28 years ago Chris Mann and Paul Darking released their debut EP on Andrew Weatherall’s (RIP) Sabres Of Paradise A year later another EP came out on the same imprint, followed by two albums on Weatherall’s label Emissions Audio Output and a bunch of EP’s on Emissions’ sub- labels Two more albums saw the light of day on... -
Here’s something that will get your senses tingling: a 4-track release by Colombia’s number one house prodigy: Felipe Gordon His ‘Highly conductive rhythms’ EP has the talented producer showcasing the depths of his sound with classy compositions ranging from jazzy deep house to funky acid Felipe is someone who you might... -
Back in 2019, Safe Trip delivered a much-needed reissue of Trans-4m’s previously overlooked 1992 debut album, Sublunar Oracles, an ambient house and ambient techno masterpiece from Belgian brothers Stefan and Dimitri Van Elsen Now the label has dived into their archives again to present an expanded edition of their sought-after... -
Melody As Truth returns with "Talk From Home" an album from Los Angeles native Suzanne Kraft "Talk From Home" showcases Kraft's emotional depth as a producer, and skill as a multi-instrumentalist Recorded over a few weeks in the winter of 2014, the intimacy of the recordings shines through in a melancholic yet hopeful world of... -
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Nearly everything written about Tonstartssbandht opens with a running tally of the Orlando-based brothers Andy and Edwin White’s recorded output, which adds up to 18 albums with the release of Petunia Numbers, however, don’t adequately describe their latest LP’s place in a sprawling discography that spans 14 years and a... -
On his debut solo album, French cellist Gaspar Claus takes you on an imaginary journey to a remote beach, lost between the rocks and the sea, the earth and the sky, where a group of like-minded individuals retreat to find themselves Film soundtracks, post-classical, ambient, neo-flamenco, pop, electro, contemporary jazz,: his... -
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When this set was recorded in 1964, pianist Randy Weston had no luck interesting any label to release the music, so he came out with it independently on his tiny Bakton company & then in 1972 Atlantic released the performances It is surprising that no company in the mid-1960s signed Weston up because "Willie's Tune" from the... -
2021 restock 180 gram LP version This is the fourth solo album by German keyboardist Hans-Joachim Roedelius, originally released in 1980 on Sky Records With Selbstportrait, Roedelius gave unequivocal confirmation that he no longer was treading the hitherto common paths of electronic music Selbstportrait - Vol II corroborated the... -
The milestone of French electronic music, 25th anniversary edition Originally released in 1996 Only available on physical format -- no digital release Remastered version of the classic album Pansoul by French legends Philippe Zdar and Etienne de Crécy, aka Motorbass 2x12" in a gatefold... -
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Montreal’s eclectic producer CFCF (aka Mike Silver) follows 2019’s effusive corporate jungle opus Liquid Colours with a kaleidoscopic capital-E Electronica album that takes a range of styles from his earliest formative listening years (1997-2000) and throws them in a blender Elements of jungle, house, UK garage, trance, pop... -
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The Indianapolis-born trumpeter Freddie Hubbard introduced his prodigious talent on Blue Note Records with a run of remarkable albums recorded thru the early 1960s At first rooted firmly in hard bop, Hubbard began to broaden his approach on his masterwork Ready for Freddie, recorded in August 1961 “The way in which I’m most... -
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For a label that wasn't around long, Strata East achieved the same sort of label recognition that Impulse! or Blue Note managed to build In other words, you knew what you were getting when you bought a record on the label, even if you didn't know the names on the outside of the cover This is no exception Who is Shamek Farrah Who... -
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For the second release in our Re-Issue Series we've teamed up with London duo Euphonic for a cherry picked deep dive into their back catalogue exploring some of their finest works, fusing Jungle, Breaks, and Down Tempo with unique programming, bass lines and traditional jazz/blues instrumentation "Low Orbit Archives" features a... -
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The Asymptotical World EP is Yves Tumor’s successor to 2020’s lauded Heaven To A Tortured Mind, featuring some of their most anthemic rock moments to date A bold outfit of variegated styles across EP highlights, from the progressive climaxes of “Crushed Velvet” to the breakneck pace of “Secrecy Is Incredibly Important To... -
Complete, previously unreleased performance by the Grateful Dead on 180-Gram Vinyl with 10th Side Custom Etching, Limited Edition of 12,000 Plangent Processes tape restoration and speed correction, with mastering by Jeffrey Norman, Produced for release by David Lemieux One of the shortest-lived iterations of the Grateful Dead was... -
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Enchanting, expert guided 24-track tour of Ecuador’s Caife label circa the ‘60s, flush with suave fusions of jazz and indigenous traditional styles running counter to post-colonial, Eurocentric styles A real holiday for the ears “A dazzling survey of the last, bohemian flowering of the so-called Golden Era of Ecuadorian... -
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Gideon Nxumalo’s Gideon Plays might just be the most mythologised and sought-after LP in the whole South African canon A sophisticated bop excursion with a distinctive African edge, it was only Nxumalo’s second LP as leader, despite his crucial place in South African jazz history Pianist Nxumalo was a visionary jazz... -
The new album by 'Cosmic Nomad' David Ornette Cherry following his father's tradition, the legendary jazz innovator Don Cherry This a mosaic of healing soundscapes blending spiritual jazz, leftfield electronica, Eastern & native, indigenous sounds into musical parallels that transport the listener through doorways of ancient... -
TSVI & Seven Orbits debut their Paraadiso project with a whorl of sweeping choral arrangements and staggering rhythms for Shanghai’s SVBKVLT powerhouse Inspired by Italian folk music, noise, ancient compositions and rituals, the result is a sort of widescreen 4D soundworld, something like Enigma/FSOL’s ‘Lifeforms’... -
Obi strip Wewantsounds present a first-time reissue of the cult LP by master Japanese drummer George Otsuka and his quintet, recorded live on July, 19th 1975 at the Nemu Jazz Inn The album was released by cutting-edge Japanese label Bellwood in 1975 The album Loving You George is comprised of four superb performances fueled by... -
British post-industrial/ambient group O Yuki Conjugate arrives on Aguirre Records with a vinyl run of their previously CD only 1995 release Equator Coming four years after their lauded Peyote release, the group split and reformed into their Mk II phase with the two original members Roger Horberry and Andrew Hulme, along with... -
A deep dive into the one of most collectable jazz catalogues in the world, a selection of some of the rarest and most sought-after recordings from the 60s and 70s, a time when British jazz began to find its own identity Drawn from the iconic labels of Decca, Deram, Argo, EMI Columbia/Lansdowne Series, Fontana, Mercury, &... -
Released under the moniker of The 4th Cycle (not his backing band, but a reference to the improv techniques of the cycle of fourths used on the album) jazz keyboardist Walter Bishop Jr released ‘Keeper Of My Soul’ on the Black Jazz imprint in 1973 Free-form, improvised passages rub up against Latin and funk rhythms on this... -
The album title is apt, as this was saxman Rudolph Johnson’s second album for the Black Jazz label (and this reissue marks only the second time this 1973 album has been released on vinyl)! But more importantly, the quality of the music it contains renders the more common, Messianic meaning of the phrase “the second coming”... -
Outsider beat-poet and composer Eden Ahbez already was leading the hippie life long before the movement existed Best known for writing the classic song 'Nature Boy' in 1947, he released his exotica masterpiece 'Eden's Island' in 1960 Now back on vinyl, the album is an epic conceptual work about a utopian society on a far-away... -
Second in a series of three records of Library Music miniatures from composer and multi-instrumentalist Daniel O’Sullivan (Æthenor, Ulver, This Is Not This Heat, etc) following 2020’s Electric Māyā For heads, the term “Library Music” in 2021 might evoke dodgy Italian gray market LPs and crate-diggers hunting for... -
"Fate In Seven Lessons" is the new release by Cold Cave encompassing all of their past while moving deeper into the future It’s their heaviest and most romantic yet with brooding and sexy synth driven neo-psychedelic goth and the epitome of dreary and dreamy pop driven by synthesizers and poetry Seven melancholy and emotional... -
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Feelings is considered an absolute cult inside the library music panorama As the same Torossi recently said, the album was played only by studio musicians…; the best we could find at the time, and the results show The album sees the participation of Sandro Brugnolini, Giancarlo Gazzani, Puccio Roelens and Stefano Torossi,... -
Black Truffle present Sylva Sylvarum, an epic new work from Ora Clementi, the collaborative project of crys cole and James Rushford Primarily conceived and recorded over several months together in Melbourne, Sylva Sylvarum is a stunning step forward from the mumbled, creaking sound world of the duo's debut, Cover You Will Softer...
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