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Bassist Henry Franklin's 1972 release for Black Jazz, The Skipper, is one of the highlights in a label catalog full of many, and his 1974 follow-up, The Skipper at Home ('The Skipper' is Franklin's nickname), lives up to its predecessor's high standard and might even surpass it Which is no surprise given that a lot of the same... -
The Awakening Mirage (Remastered Vinyl Edition) LP Regular Version The only 'group' on the Black Jazz roster, The Awakening today should be heralded as one of the great bands in early '70s jazz That they're not is the result of the Black Jazz label's distribution woes; witness the fact that original copies of both of their... -
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2021 repress "The compilation that started the renaissance In 2002 Audika Records entered into an exclusive licensing agreement with the estate of Arthur Russell to compile and issue previously unreleased and out of print material from Arthur's vast archive This first album Calling Out of Context, features 12 previously unreleased... -
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2021 restock Originally released in 1972, this is the second album by legendary German ambient pioneers Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius Moebius and Roedelius essentially create ambient electronic soundscapes that ebb and flow, droning on in a suspended world of anti-gravity where machine has conquered man Includes bonus... -
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Kleenex/Lilliput were formed in 1978 in Switzerland as Kleenex Legal action from the tissue brand forced them to change their name to Lilliput in 1980 The band were an important part of the feminist art punk movement along with British bands such as The Slits and The Raincoats Forceful bass, ricocheting drums and angular guitar... -
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Tracings in Honey is an electronic travelogue by CR Gillespie, inspired equally by imagination, immersion, and the emotional terrain of both inner and outer landscapes In anticipation of a trip to Northern Vietnam in 2019 with his partner, CR Gillespie created demos that would act as sonic vessels for the experiences and... -
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Papiro’s approach to music is never technical, but always personal Since the mid-Nineties, he has released a handful of noteworthy albums, each carefully put together and seemingly self-contained, yet all sharing an unmistakable musical language and a certain escapist aura La finestra dentata (The Toothed Window), is no... -
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Cosmic traveller Herman 'Sonny' Blount became Sun Ra after an alien abduction, proclaiming that he came from Saturn and using music to point to human failure on earth, offering space as ethereal alternative 'Super-Sonic Jazz' was released in 1957 on Ra's Saturn label and regularly reissued, even making it onto Impulse in 1974, its... -
Los Angeleno leftfield specialists Sam Gendel and Josiah Steinbrick join forces for a pair of elliptical textural voyages, drawn in refracted shades of saxophone, synthesizer, and percussion A channeling of sensory delight and nomadic fusion, serenading peripheries in... -
Bureau B present a reissue of Hans Joachim Roedelius and Alexander Czjzek's Weites Land, originally released 1987 Vienna, the early 1980s Krautrock, electronic, and ambient pioneer Hans Joachim Roedelius, co-founder Cluster and Harmonia and saxophone free spirit Alexander Czjzek meet for the first time Their longstanding... -
2021 clear vinyl repress with new cover art; originally released in 2017 Post-minimalist American composer Rafael Anton Irisarri's Umor Rex debut Inspired by a troubled socio-political climate, buried melodies punch their way through a bleak cover of noisy drones, periodically veering into some of Irisarri's most eerily pertinent... -
WRWTFWW Records announce the release of Para One's new album SPECTRE: Machines of Loving Grace The new album by Para One, whose real name is Jean-Baptiste de Laubier could be called fiction Six years after Club, eight years after Passion, this lover of electronic music, who has also been putting his sensitivity to the service of... -
DARKSIDE is an American rock band formed in Providence, Rhode Island in 2011 The group consists of Chilean electronic musician & vocalist Nicolás Jaar and American multi-instrumentalist Dave Harrington Jaar and Harrington first met while studying in Providence through their com- mon friend and saxophonist Will Epstein In the... -
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Mastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering By 1998, interest in Takeshi "Tee" Fujii's phenomenal success with his Three Blind Mice jazz label led him to make a compilation of his favorite tracks He chose across a wide swath of recordings between 1973 and 1978 for the resulting album, which he titled The Famous Sound... -
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Having previously celebrated the deep and colourful world of late ‘80s and early ‘80s Italian house via the popular Welcome To Paradise compilation series, Safe Trip has now turned its attention to the roots and formative years of trance music Planet Love: Early Transmissions 1991-95 showcases the roots and formative years... -
The Pusherman's debut album celebrates a quarter-century this year Remastered from the original DATs it's never sounded heavier, with all the virtuoso bass noodling and hyperactive break editing you can squash into one album = an IDM classic, no doubt Along with μ-Ziq, AFX and Luke Vibert's Plug, Tom Jenkinson was instrumental... -
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After such a strange year of acceleration/deceleration, it now feels the right time for On Danse Comme Des Fous (“Let’s Dance Like Crazies”), Gilb’r’s first solo album It’s not his first outing, of course; he is the Versatile Records guru, the ghost from Château Flight alongside I-Cube, and a revenant of our Bright... -
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Zulu brings the slow burning dancefloor energy of 1980s South Africa into sharp focus Comprised of Sello Mmutung and Keith Hutchinson, the original six track album Zulu Disco was laid down in Johannesburg circa 1983 Quite likely the first pressing to vinyl, ‘Zulu’ carries the mystical original recording mastered from... -
Griots is Gerald Cleaver's second electronic album, jointly released by 577 Records sub label Positive Elevation and Meakusma It sees Cleaver further exploring the depths of electronic music offered by his hometown Detroit, combining those influences with his personal musical background A jazz drummer originally from Detroit,... -
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Tropic of Love Music makes to bow here with an album from Idris Rahman, Leon Brichard and Tom Skinner, aka Wildflower Their third release is another deep and spiritual exploration of rhythm and sound with elements of jazz, hip-hop and broken beat all colouring the most contemporary sounds The confidence and musicianship of this... -
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Available on vinyl for the first time in 40 years, Outernational Sounds proudly presents a crucial document from the Los Angeles jazz underground - the Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra at their most together, stretching out on home turf in 1979, with the legendary Horace Tapscott at the helm Horace Tapscott is one of the unsung giants... -
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Available on vinyl for the first time since its original release in 1984, Outernational Sounds presents Build An Ark pianist Nate Morgan’s second outing for the celebrated Nimbus West label – the conscious and spiritualised sounds of Retribution, Reparation "Pianist Nate Morgan (1964-2013) was a central figure on the Los... -
Antonio L Newton AKA Tony Newton (born 1948) is a multi-instrumentalist from Detroit, MI who began his professional career at the age of thirteen, playing bass guitar with blues legends like John Lee Hooker and T-Bone Walker Discovered by Motown executive Hank Cosby while playing the Detroit blues circuit at the age of 18, he... -
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From acclaimed musician John Carroll Kirby, a new, electronic jazz album à la Herbie Hancock’s Head Hunters All tracks written and arranged by Kirby and performed by him and six additional musicians Three bonus dubs exclusive to vinyl and CD - John Carroll Kirby has collaborated with artists including Solange, Frank Ocean,... -
Appearing on vinyl for the very first time, this legendary spiritual jazz recording from 1980 features Billie Harris on saxophone, Horace Tapscott on piano, David Bryant on bass, Daaoud Woods on percussion and Everett Brown Jr on drums This edition is limited to 500... -
Jex Opolis is back with a full length of lush and effervescent goodness! The Canadian musician and producer delivers nine tunes composed after his sudden, Covid-hastened return to Northern Canada after five years in NYC Jex switches up his 80s influences and takes a left-turn into rubbery breakbeats, granular IDM and dubby sub... -
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upsammy enters the acoustic realm with her new side-project Sweepsculp Five addictive tracks fusing minimalism, IDM, folk, krautrock and various styles of jazz - using only an acoustic guitar besides drums Live recorded, digitally edited/sculpted and produced in her singular... -
In many ways Spring seems to the perfect seasonal match for upsammy: no matter the tempo nor intensity, her style is colourful, restorative and carries a tangible promise of new beginnings So Wild Chamber arrives at the right time, but it is an evergreen package - eight songs to slot into different situations, to speak to... -
Visual Art and Music have historically shared an important, entwined relationship; often posing questions of which provoked which in a project What about when the imagery is a medieval surrealist, hyper coloured XTC wonderland Genre-blurred and stirred, daring and dynamic dance music for the twistedly imaginative minds and bodies!... -
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180 gram audiophile vinyl pressing Tracks: A1 Rain Dance (9:16) A2 Hidden Shadows (10:13) B1 Hornets... -
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Recorded in 1961, but not released until 1967, The Witch Doctor features one of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers’ all-time great line-ups: Wayne Shorter on tenor saxophone, Lee Morgan on trumpet, Bobby Timmons on piano, and Jymie Merritt on bass Shorter and Morgan each contribute two tunes, with Timmons penning one... -
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“Onto my short review I have to admit that I’m biased in favor of Charles Tolliver He plays with a combination of strength and sweetness that goes beyond mere language The fact that he is self-taught is more miraculous This particular recording has the best sound quality I’ve ever heard The clarity is stunning and all... -
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"Traditional Heart“ is the second album by Gianni Brezzo - the band or the studio project – of the Cologne-based musician Marvin Horsch The title is by no means to be understood in the sense of an authenticity pathos à la love in times of Tinder, but addresses the process of musical production itself Says Brezzo: “This time... -
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The protagonist of Icelandic writer Halldór Laxness’s 1969 novel, World Light, gives a tearful goodbye to the grains and knots of his attic ceiling when he leaves after years spent staring up at them, bedridden On their album Philadelphia, Nicholas Krgovich, Joseph Shabason, and Chris Harris chase a similar kind of romance... -
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A reissue of the 1981 debut-album by new age pioneer JD Emmanuel On 'Rain Forest Music' Emmanuel turns gentle, short cycles of notes into floating clouds of sound, mostly improvising around single chords The "minimalism" in his music lies not in repetitive patterns that barely change -the extreme end of classical minimalism-, but... -
In the early 1970s, the journalist and composer Walter Bachauer played with experimental fusion group Between, and after founding the Meta Music Festival, began working for RIAS Berlin 1981's 'Luna Africana' was the first electronic album he issued as Clara Mondshine Produced by early Tangerine Dreamer Klaus Schulze, it's... -
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Around the time of this recording, Stanley Cowell had achieved a degree of prominence as the pianist for the advanced bop quartet Music Inc, which he co-led with trumpeter Charles Tolliver, as well as for unusual projects like his Piano Choir With Regeneration he chose another path, essentially trying to produce a jazz-infused pop... -
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Originally released via the R&S Ambient sub-label Apollo in '92 and repressed more times than anyone could even begin to keep a count of, Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works 85-92 is not only one of the most important releases in both the Aphex catalogue but also electronic music as an entire entity A richly woven tapestry of... -
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Featuring Danny Brown, Mac Miller, Earl Sweatshirt, Raekwon, Scarface, Domo Genesis, Ab-Soul, Polyester the Saint, BJ The Chicago Kid, Big Time Watts, G-Wiz, Casey Veggies, Sulaiman, Meechy Darko & Freddie Kane Freddie Gibbs is the product of violent, drug-laden streets but unlike most rappers with similar resumes, he... -
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