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It was way back in 2008 that multi-instrumentalist and beat-maker Hiroto Uyama first released debut album A Son of the Son, a sparkling, emotion-rich set that set out his jazz-meets-hip-hop fusion blueprint Now available on vinyl for the very first time (it was previously only available on CD and digital download), the set sees... -
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New World Science's Osmos (Movements) is a sincere foray into forth-world fantasy, where disparate synthesizer styles are tied together by harmonized saxophone musings Comprised of four recordings/jams between Francis Latreille (Priori-mastermind behind the project), Adam Feingold (Ex-Terrestrial), and Emmanuel Thibau, and... -
Max Cooper announces new album Unspoken Words, released on MeshPlease note: Singles, "Everything", "Exotic Contents" and "Pulse at the Centre of Being" are instant grat with the album pre-orderAs an audio-visual artist, Cooper often goes to the medium of video to enhance his music and the ideas and stories which inspire and inform... -
Even in the increasingly crowded field of electronic music, Kelly Lee Owens’ debut album arrives as a wonderful surprise An album that bridges the gaps between cavernous techno, spectral pop, and krautrock’s mechanical pulse, 'Kelly Lee Owens' brims with exploratory wonder, establishing a personal aesthetic that is as... -
Chaos In The CBD return to In Dust We Trust with Brainstorm, a twelve inch with 4 new cuts delving deeper into their take on dub-influenced house Kicking things off on the A1 is ‘Echolocation’, a track whose groove has you locked from the first bar, subtly building with warm stabs and rhythmic vocals to draw the dance floor in...
This year, Rhino / Parlophone is kicking off Jazz Appreciation Month with one of the most influential figures in 20th-century American music, Charles Mingus, who would have turned 100 on April 22 This year, Mingus’ legacy will be in the spotlight with the release of a deluxe edition of his album, Mingus Three, just in time for...
Universounds, HMV Record Shop and 180g team up for an exceptional release: from blazing hard bop to free jazz, to introspective saxophone solos and massive big band sounds, renowned Japanese jazz expert Yusuke Ogawa presents an essential 14 track collection of “WaJazz” music taken from the Nippon Columbia vaults Featuring Jiro...Out of stock
Containing newly remastered audio, Genesis Of Genius: The Contemporary Albums combines legendary Jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman's albums for Lester Koenig's Contemporary Records This deluxe box set features Coleman's first albums as a bandleader, Something Else!!!! and Tomorrow Is The Question! Both albums were originally...
Travellng beyond the tropical waters of the South Pacific, Afro-Desia showcases Martin Denny’s foremost foray into the sounds and rhythms of the African continent Pressed on flame-orange color vinyl, Afro-Desia’s twelve tracks burn bright and bring the groove with a chorus of marimbas, timbales, congas, and the sounds of the...
Coming hot off the heels of his iconic debut, Martin Denny’s follow-up to the original Exotica is the ultimate companion piece Originally released in mono in 1957—mere weeks after the first Exotica album kick-started the new lounge craze—Exotica Volume II further demonstrated Denny’s unique imagination as both a musician...
Originally released in 1958, Primitiva is a rhythmically rich and inimitably exotic Martin Denny experience Reissued by Jackpot Records on limited edition ocean blue color vinyl, Primitiva highlights the burgeoning sound of ’50s exotica music, with Denny’s diverse soundscape ranging from vibraphones and marimbas, to Burmese...
Gideon Nxumalo was a key figure during the formative years of South African jazz in the 1950s, helping shape the emerging South African jazz sound as a pianist and composer and contributing to the scene as a radio presenter, music teacher and arranger His recorded output as bandleader/composer is comprised of three iconic albums...
Dean Blunt x Arca x Mica Levi x made-up Idris Elba quotes x Hyperdub: it’s a lot Fronted by that image and opening with the most unsettling, unrelenting mantra “this makes me proud to be british”, set to harp, leisure centre noise and bleeping mobiles; Dean Blunt’s got us by the gullet with his debut LP...
Vision Songs Vol 1 is the Laraaji album like no other, located at the intersection of new age and gospel, his outlier and magnum opus, the feel-good DIY tape of the century Casio synth jams recorded at spiritual retreat guest rooms and a tiny bedroom on the Upper West Side in 1984, lysergically-spectacular anthems for a...
Robert Fripp & Brian Eno’s timeless 1975 electronic music classic Evening Star on vinyl for the first time in nearly 30 years The album’s return to the 12″ format is cut from masters approved by the artists, manufactured on 200g super-heavyweight vinyl and presented in a re-print of the original sleeve With King...
“In 2020, like everyone else, I was just a private person,” says Hval “No artists were allowed to perform I was reduced to ‘just me’” As a result, Hval questioned what “just me” could mean Was it the version that never got away from her hometown Was it the idea that there is an obvious truth behind a work of art Is...Out of stock
Sometimes a single is released that reaches such dizzying heights of success that it becomes a pinnacle of the decade they're indelibly tied to "Groove Is In The Heart" by dance-house trio Deee-Lite is one such single The infectiously quirky, and eminently danceable track is prominently based around samples of "Bring Down The...Out of stock
Communion, privately released in an impossibly small edition of twenty five cassettes in 1986, is a beguiling, politically underpinned meditation of cosmic improvisation and wayward folk music from Cleveland’s Universal Liberation Orchestra Universal Liberation Orchestra’s Communion arrives January 28, 2022 as part of...Out of stock
For five decades, Harold Budd stood on the forefront of the West Coast avant-garde Born in Los Angeles, he studied with Schoenberg-pupil Gerald Strang and began teaching at CalArts in 1970 While searching for his own voice, he was influenced as much by abstract expressionist painters as by John Cage and Morton Feldman In his work,...
Forevernevermore was originally released in 2000 and is the second full length on Peacefrog from Kenny Dixon Jnr Gathering together the best strands of Moodymann's late-'90s tracks on KDJ, Forevernevermore re-interprets these rare and sought after gems twisting and blending them into a new mesmerizing and idiosyncratic stew which...Out of stock
Silence In The Secret Garden is an intensely personal and spiritual journey into the heart & soul of black music From the reckless dark minimalism of the title track Silence In The Secret Garden to the irresistible funk of Yesterday’s Party… this classic album has continued to surprise and inspire in the 14 years since...
An incredible session from the legendary Tribe Records scene — an equal effort from leader Doug Hammond and keyboardist David Durrah, who contributes some ground breaking Fender Rhodes and moog work to the set! Hammond handles drums plus a bit of vocals and synthesizer on the session — working alongside Durrah in a groove that...
Inhale Exhale Records present the latest release of Buzz Compass from Russia, this time with a LP This guy has it all Live With You is a perfect journey from classic deep house, over funky cuts to ambient house vibes with a bliss of '80s synth sound, a la Jan...Out of stock
Sudi Wachspress returns to Tartelet Records with Dance Planet, a third LP of emotionally-charged house music to welcomes you back to the dancefloor The spirit of true house runs deep in the sound of Space Ghost Oakland native Sudi Wachspress is intuitively plugged into the romantic, mystical energy of 4/4 club music as a unifying...Out of stock
The Sound Of Love International 004 is a particularly poignant collection of rarities, collectables and unearthed gems, pulled together by the Italian DJ and crate digger Budino For the last two years, the pretty coastal town of Tisno in Croatia has been devoid of the (now) legendary Love International week-long celebration of...
A variety of ambient and experimental cuts to be found here A re-release of sorts, all original tracks were done by Enitokwa (Takashi Hasegawa) as rehearsal for a live performance at Tokyo - Batofar Festival in Paris in 2001 and were released on a limited CDR "promo" in 2002 All 8 tracks were recorded and mixed live in one...
For outsider gospel visionary and Detroit native Otis G Johnson, the Holy Ghost was in the machinein this case a rhythm-equipped Hammond organ Everything - God Is Love 78, a singular 1978 mid-fi document, features android percussion against chords of Otis’s own invention, possessed by minor tonality and frequent bum notes...
Fort Romeau, back on on Ghostly International "While a prolific DJ who orients many of his productions for the dancefloor, Fort Romeau still sees the album as the ultimate statement of intent, “a space to stretch out, to speak in full paragraphs rather than stunted sentences” He has explored several stylistic fragments in...
Some artists have gained huge recognition, some records have been idealized to the point of becoming cult albums… and that’s exactly the case of Marine Flowers, by Japanese multi artist Akira Ito An album that is unique, delicate, exploratory… a true one-of-a-kind sonic adventure that 35 years after its first release comes...Out of stock
Third installment of one of the most stunningly good compilations we've ever encountered Glorious American soul music, both ballads and rockers; in gold-foiled sleeves, with twelve pages of notes Mississippi about its new imprint Cairo: ‘It’s just the deepest soul music It’s not all obscurities either- there’s some...
During 1964 John Coltrane spent the least amount of time in the recording studio of his entire solo career It wasn’t until April 27 that ‘Trane, along with McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, and Elvin Jones went to the familiar surroundings of Rudy Van Gelder’s Englewood Cliff’s studio to begin work on the album that came to be...
Includes bonus track, "Mare A Mare (Sequenza Slow Version)" "Musical love at first sight" is one way to describe the genesis of the duo formed by Chloé and Bulgarian percussionist Vassilena Serafimova An impromptu meeting that has since turned into a lasting collaboration, culminating in the release of their first joint album...
This is the first ever reissue of the lost debut LP by Jamaican tenor saxophone player Fitz Gore and his experimental group The Talismen from 1975 The work was originally released on Gore’s GorBra label and delivers an introspective, sensitive form of Spiritual Jazz Recorded live in West Germany, the personnel are “Shepherd”...
Analogue bubblebath suds and chimes from multi monikered electronic maestro Ed Ruscha - founding member of 90’s shoegaze band Medicine - wrangling his imaginary ensemble The Only Thingz for a full-length follow-up to his sought-after 2018 entry for Good Morning Tapes' limited series ‘Ed Ruscha V & the Only...
Gorgeous third almanac from Good Morning Tapes, plucking exclusive pearls by label regulars Pataphysical, Nueen, Salamanda, Angel Hunt, Yama Yuki and Saphileaum, for the good of yr health Continuing to provide succour for stressed energies with their latest volume of the hugely collectable "All Welcome” series, volume 3 opens...Out of stock
Parisian Kuduro ambassador DJ Lycox kicks the club back to action with six killer, syncopated workouts on the indomitable Príncipe, swaggering between sultry and banging Afrohouse variations As part of Tia Maria Produções and with his solo shots, DJ Lycox has been a vital player on Lisbon’s finest label since 2014 The...Out of stock
Individually numbered to 350 copies Silk pressed artwork on reused sleeves, comes with insert in sealed bag with hype sticker “Latest album from Oiro Pena, one of the few contemporary bands that are in the forefront of the current Spiritual Jazz wave Instrumentalist Pentti Oironen at the controls of his musical universe playing...
Double LP version Gatefold sleeve New full length album by LeRon Carson titled Under The Conditions Follows 12-inches Lemonline and Tracks From the Tape on Sound Signature "Under The Conditions sounds like the pinnacle of what lo-fi house producers tried to accomplish a few years ago Carson carved forward-thinking house anthems...
Dick Essilfie-Bondzie was all ready for his 90th birthday party when the Covid pandemic hit The legendary producer, businessman and founder of Ghana's mighty Essiebons label had invited all his family and friends to the event and it was the disappointment at having to postpone that prompted Analog Africa founder Samy Ben Redjeb to...Out of stock
In the years following World War Two, Japan developed one of the most insatiable, dynamic and diverse markets for jazz For a crucial period of little over a decade – from the late 1960s to the early 1980s – Japanese jazz culture progressed at an astonishing rate, producing an extraordinary array of artists, recordings and...Out of stock
Repress! Western-influenced traditional Thai music from the '60s/'70s Exotic sounds mixed with '60s and '70s European and American rock influences Included are two...Out of stock
2021 restock Sharing social circles and spiritual ideologies with artists such as Iasos, Connie Demby and Deuter, whilst splitting label release schedules with Laraaji, Laurie Spiegel and Wendy Carlos, the unique Florida-raised soul mate duo known as Emerald Web released their privately pressed debut LP at an axis where post-prog...
2021 repress Aguirre Records present a reissue of Infinite Sound's Contemporary African-Amerikan Music This is conscious free jazz featuring Roland P Young, originally released in 1975 on the eclectic 1750 Arch records "'1750 Arch was a beautiful Spanish-style hacienda,'recalls Young 'It had a recording studio in the basement and...Out of stock
It's been now 25 years that Olivier Portal has been Playin' 4 the City Very versatile in the beginning, he has nurtured his productions while doing club residencies in Paris and Chicago, making his music all the more dancing and developing a very original touch drawing near to the sounds of Chi-Town and New Jersey By the end of...Out of stock
Cherry Drops is a collection of tracks written by Call Super It was started around the time they were working on a larger project called Tell Me I Didn't Choose This, that reflected on a period in their life of upheaval, trauma and self-discovery That project is bound up in a series of compositions for a self-made instrument...
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...Out of stock
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...Title
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