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Audiopile Review: In what’s shaping up to be an incredible run for Organic Pulse Ensemble, the one-man band made up of the wildly talented Gustav Horneij chases a pair of near-perfectly executed spiritual jazz juggernauts for Ultraääni, plus an instantly sold-out 10” EP for Jazzagression, with a new album that...
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Audiopile Review: Independent jazz imprints RR Gems and Ultraääni have a lot of crossover appeal for connoisseurs of contemporary jazz, the two labels trading off releases between like-minded acts in an inspiring display of mutual love and appreciation that conjures the communal spirit of independent jazz labels of 70 years...
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Audiopile Review: Those of you who only know Mazzy Star from ‘So Tonight That I Might See’ are in for a shock. Sure, that album’s great. And, yes, we love ‘Fade Into You’. But ‘So Tonight…’ is honestly the band’s third-best album, after ‘She Hangs Brightly’ and ‘Among My Swan’,...
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Among My Swan features the same swirling, psychedelic folk music that brought Mazzy Star mainstream success with 1993's So Tonight that I Might See. The songs employ the sparse arrangements and dark sense of space first explored by bands like Big Star (on Third / Sister Lovers) and the Velvet...
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Audiopile Review: When is pop truly sophisticated? No shade on sophistipop per se acts like The Blue Nile and Prefab Sprout. We love them. But there’s another stratum of sophisticated pop acts where the sheen is often less shiny but the musical and lyrical content is arguably more truly sophisticated....
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Audiopile Review: Absolute bliss-out session from the long-running ambi-folk project of Dutch musician Jonny Nash. Arriving a couple of years since his Point Of Entry album, Nash slips into a balearic-zoner after the ghostly shimmer-folk of its predecessor, lazily waltzing towards sunnier pastures this time around. Circular guitar lines lazily...
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Audiopile Review: Despite being one of the most influential and flat-out-best experimental electronic artists of the 21st-century, Christian Fennesz keeps an oddly low profile these days. You might even have missed his excellent 2024 album ‘Mosaic’, particularly as the Touch label only put it out on CD. The sole vinyl...
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Audiopile Review: Long-awaited vinyl edition of Salamanda’s 2nd album, 2021’s magnificent and sorely overlooked Sphere. Initially released only on cassette and CD, the album disappeared between the cracks of their splashy debut for Good Morning Tapes and the widely praised pairing of Ashblakum and In Parallel. Japanese imprint Plancha satiate...
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Audiopile Review: Back to back winners from Dutch producer Mammo, who follows up the very recently highlighted 2x12” under his Fabiano guise with his first full length under his most notorious moniker. With about a dozen 12”s as Mammo and various ungoogleable pseudonyms (2301, 2302, 2401, A∞x, CoA-A) since arriving...
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Audiopile Review: Up until the turn of the millennium, Finnish electronic duo Pan Sonic built a small but perfectly formed discography. After that, the situation started to get a little fuzzy, as Mika Vainio and Ilpo Väisänen indulged in all manner of collaborations and solo projects. It can all be...
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Audiopile Review: ddwy returns after 2024’s fantastic Spinning Stones with another brief delight in the form of Beaming Backwards—four cuts of dreamy, dubby, and groove-heavy bliss that feel tailor-made for summer’s waning hours. This time around, a deeper dream pop influence runs through the haze, with hints of Broadcast-like ambient...
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Through the interaction of dulcet textures and harmonious melodies, infused with Greek bouzouki string plucks, sporadic piano and violin, enigmatic musician Gabriel Brady laments the everyday with daring simplicity on his lustrous alt-ambient debut for the Tonal Union imprint. Across its seven vignettes, 'Day-blind' is life animated as Brady makes...
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Domenique Dumont’s fourth album, Deux Paradis, arrives like the three that came before it – with an air of mystery and wonder. This is dance music for inner worlds – rituals, revelations and reveries. Deux Paradis is a ten-track song cycle that leads the listener through the rhythm of a...
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Music From Memory are thrilled to announce the forthcoming release of ‘Pastoral Blend,’ a new album from the duo of N Kramer and Magnus Bang Olsen (The Zenmenn). Recorded in Berlin between August 2023 and March 2024, ‘Pastoral Blend’ combines Kramer's improvisational process and mastery of contemporary production techniques with...
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Sofia Kourtesis has announced that she will release her new EP Volver on 1 August via Ninja Tune. Along with the announcement she has shared lead single ‘Unidos’ which is made in collaboration with Daphni (aka Dan Snaith aka Caribou), the first ever Daphni collaboration track....
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SofaTalk’s deliciously eclectic music presents as a patchwork of styles carefully pieced together to produce a sound that, whilst tricky to define, ultimately, is a true joy to experience. His unique take on electronica pulls influence from across the global underground, his homeland of Italy, the nu-jazz movement, and beyond....
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"If you like your drum & bass to go deep and ride half-time, lock into this one from Berlin's music composer, publisher and researcher, Felix K. Presumably influenced by the subterranean depths of the murkier corners of his hometown, these are menacing cuts that stay low but hit big. The...
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Gradually, the latest album by Julien Mier, is a sonic journey that delves into the transitions of life, identity, and the blurred boundaries between art and personal growth. With a trilingual brain, Mier reflects on how language shifts have shaped his sense of self throughout his life and the music...
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Space Dimension Controller (Ninja Tune, R&S, Dekmantel, Royal Oak) returns with a six-track EP that pays homage to the early 90s Artificial Intelligence era—think Warp Records, ambient techno, and the roots of IDM—but with his signature futuristic twist. While the foundation is unmistakably retrofuturist, SDC propels the sound into new...
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RWR’s latest release comes straight from Berlin’s underground Electronic Jazz scene. Simon Herody, originally from the South of France but living in the German capital since 2020, delivers an eight-track suite of ambient-informed Jazz. The album grew out of solo gigs in hotel lobbies, low-key half improvised...
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Highlighting a decade of working together as ‘Fronte Violeta’, Brazilian transdisciplinary artist Anelena Toku and musician and sound artist Carla Boregas are set to release the album ‘Fronte Violeta’, a captivating blend of aural compositions, scents and experiences. Switching the moniker name to the album title serves as a way...
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"Wind, Again" is Sary Moussa’s fourth studio album and second album on Other People. Based between France and Lebanon, Moussa returns with a riveting electro-acoustic album informed by his ever-changing relationships to space, listening, and resonance as well as his growing interest in the study of harmonics in electronic and...
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Founded in 2020 by Austrian producer Lee Stevens, Rising Seed has evolved into a joint venture with Ken Hayakawa and a collective of guest musicians. Blending acid jazz, trip hop, and disco, the project bridges the warmth of live instrumentation with the depth of electronic production. With a strong focus...
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ETNOBOTANIKA - remember them? Well, now it's KOSMOBOTANIKA! But rest assured - it's still the same excellent band from Ruda ?l?ska, only this time instead of a forest full of ghosts or a land of fairy tale creatures like a Fruwajacy Przestepca the duo of producers takes us on an...
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Zach writes his dreams, his grand inner music emanating directly from his soul and offering it to the world, guided by his intuition. Nine abstract, ambient, and celestial tracks, evolving with his sensitivity, conducted like an intimate orchestra, revealing his landscapes and skies. Sweetzak takes us on a journey within...
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After a stay in Detroit in 2022 (where I met some of the artists whose music I admire the most), I returned to Montreuil, illuminated and brimming with energy. I had my MPC2000XL repaired, found a second-hand Yamaha Motif ES6 at Zikplace in Croix de Chavaux, and a Korg Triton...
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Third studio album of Tren, following two sold-out releases (The Rising and Setting of the Heavenly Bodies; The Passages through Space and Time). An hour of hypnotic minimal techno and electronica, unfolding seamlessly to guide the listener on an introspective journey. Coming out 1.5 year after the unreleased set (mixed...
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Originally released in 1999 on Kog Transmssions in NZ, and then worldwide via Universal Jazz in 2000, this was MdCL's first major international release. Presenting a new voice on the global crossover jazz scene, Six Degrees showcased Mark's first time integrating sample and beat technology with his keyboards and compositions....
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Petre Inspirescu returns with a four-part suite of mesmeric, long-form compositions. Spanning two 12" records, each track occupies a full side - unfolding with the patience and precision of serialist structures. Drawing from minimalism and contemporary classical traditions, this is introspective electronica in its most refined form - hypnotic, elegant,...
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A love letter to the open-hearted spirit of the Adriatic coast and the sounds that have defined her career. Curated with the theme “U Skladu” (Croatian for “In Harmony”) in mind, the 13-track collection embodies the soulful, euphoric energy of Love International....
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Label head Moopie and digger extraordinaire Bayu shine light on a set of gems excavated from a curious period of IDM-electronica. The sentimental sequel to their stunning I Won't Have To Think About You compilation, the ten tracks float in melancholic space yet sound beautifully human. Neo Ouija alumni Bauri...
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We are back with another chapter in our ongoing series of unearthing smooth vibes from all over the world, this time we go back to the FUTURE for you with: THE SUNSET MANIFESTO Volume 2. After a five year break mainly concentrating on the late 70s/early 80s Westcoast Soul/Yacht/AOR sound,...
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Toy Tonics ITALOMANIA Vol. 3 is a compilation dedicated to NEW ITALIAN DISCO. (Not Italo Disco.) 14 young contemporary Italian producers made new organic disco, indie dance, pop house tracks with Italian vocals. Everything on this compilation has been produced in 2024. Fresh dance music by Italian artists Paul Older,...
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A DJ, producer and significant figure in contemporary electronic music, Marcel Dettmann steps forward to contribute to Running Back’s ongoing Mastermix series. Whereas previous editions of Mastermix have taken an ear to the sound of lapsed, legendary clubs such as Wild Pitch and Front, Dettmann’s curation deftly captures the man...
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A Colourful Storm proudly presents remastered first-time vinyl and digital editions of Lone Capture Library’s modern-day DIY environmental masterpiece, All Natures Most Mundane Materials. “Environmental”, you say? Well, this certainly wasn’t recorded for dinner party ambience nor was it commissioned by Harrods. But it does document a haphazard wander through...
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Emotional Rescue dives back into one of its specialties, the formative years of Post Punk and Dub influenced music, presenting the, to date, unheralded Skinbat Scramble. The rarity of the unknown, the discovery of rich, lost music, it is a delight to release a compilation of the band’s previously unreleased...
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Annie Achron is the nom de plume of Philadelphia sound artist (& dedicated surfer), Nicole Siering. 'Never Paradise' is the long awaited followup to her debut (cassette) release from 2021, 'Silver-Handed Subterranea', which some of you out there may be lucky enough to own. One of the subtle delights of...
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Lard’s Power Of Lard is over forty-four minutes of music by Jello Biafra and Ministry! Came out originally in 1989. “Jello Biafra and Ministry teamed up for this slab of wax. The title track is great. Imagine Ministry playing thrash, that’s what it is. ‘Hellfudge’ sounds like Flipper meets Jerry...
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Sorcerer Records present a reissue of F/i's Space Mantra, originally released on RRRecords in 1988. First time on vinyl for nearly 30 years for this classic slice of American space rock. Milwaukee's F/i have been an ongoing concern since 1981, pioneering a certain brand of experimental rock which encompasses elements...
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Italian label Urashima unveils its most ambitious release yet: Collection 001–010, a deluxe 10 LP box set limited to just 299 copies. This monumental edition compiles Merzbow’s first ten releases from 1981—originally issued on cassette—most appearing on vinyl for the first time. These recordings capture the early incarnation of Merzbow...
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WRWTFWW Records is very happy to release Swiss cult band Grauzone’s recording of their April 12th 1980 live show at Gaskessel in their hometown of Bern. The 9-track album, documenting the very beginnings of the group, is available as a limited edition white vinyl LP in heavy 350gsm sleeve with...
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Multi-instrumentalist producer and songwriter Barney Keen makes music for the long drive and nature’s embrace. Influenced by a dynamic range of styles including Brazilian MPB (having spent time in northwest Brazil, learned Portuguese and written songs on classical guitar), experimental electronic music, folk, soul and other rhythms, it’s clear in...
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TAMTAM’s latest full-length album marks their second international release on PPU (Peoples Potential Unlimited), a label based in Washington, D.C. Inspired by their travels, the album centers on the theme of "inhabitants"—ranging from plants and animals to inanimate objects and imaginary creatures. It evokes a sense of wonder toward forces...
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On his fifth LP, Big Black Plume, Melbourne-based and Californian-born musician Michael Beach reveals the vitalizing power of connection in an often hostile world. Equally informed by the songwriting of Bill Fay and Peter Laughner, the minimalism of Tony Conrad and Terry Riley, and the rock and roll heart of...
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The second solo record by Mike Polizze of Philadelphia psych-squallers Purling Hiss and Birds of Maya, a rainier and more pensive affair than its predecessor—despite its playful humor and plentiful hooks—affirms his status as a consummate (and now not-so-secret) craftsman of instantly memorable bucolic odes of languid beauty, deepening his...
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The Armed return with their new album The Future Is Here and Everything Needs to Be Destroyed, the follow up to 2023’s critically acclaimed album Perfect Saviors. After completing a trilogy of albums laser-focused on dissecting artistic authenticity in the Information Age, The Armed began work on new material with...
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2 covers of artists and friends who the band lost in the last year—Shellac (Albini) and Drive Like Jehu (Rick Froberg). First new rye recordings in almost 20 years. Every copy unique, handmade, numbered, letter pressed covers, etc.—this one is a huge labor of love, with our friends, for our...
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Limited edition 20th anniversary vinyl edition of Jamiroquai’s 6th studio album ‘Dynamite’ which includes the singles “Feels Just Like It Should”, “Seven Days In Sunny June”, “(Don’t) Give Hate A Chance”. Originally released in June 2005, this 2LP anniversary edition is pressed on “dynamite smoke” coloured vinyl and includes a...
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Grinderman 2 Rmx - a collection of remixes, reinterpretations and collaborations based on the songs contained in the band's 2010 critically celebrated album Grinderman 2. Grinderman 2 Rmx's many outstanding tracks include 'Super Heathen Child' - a collaborative version of Grinderman's 'Heathen Child' (mojo honours song of the year 2011)...
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Maybe I’m Dreaming is the latest collection selected by Mikey Young (Total Control, Eddy Suppression Ring) and Keith Abrahamsson (Founder and Head of A&R at Anthology Recordings), the bent brains behind the beloved Follow the Sun and Sad About the Times compilations. The twenty tracks of Dreaming make a conscious,...
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Originally released in 1996, Kerosene 454’s sophomore album 'Came By To Kill Me’, is back in print after 28 years. These were the first recordings written exclusively with drummer Darren Zentek (formerly of the band, Glendale) and came at a time when the band felt like they were moving at...
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Jackie McLean’s evocative 1965 album Jacknife captured the alto saxophonist in an envelope-pushing post-bop mode. The session featured two trumpeters—Lee Morgan and Charles Tolliver—who are heard together to great effect on Morgan’s groovy “Soft Blue,” but otherwise take turns in the spotlight. McLean also assembled a deeply engaged rhythm section...
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Horace Silver’s 1962 tour of Japan had a profound impact on the pianist who returned to the U.S. and dedicated his subsequent album The Tokyo Blues to his fervent Japanese fans. Along with his quintet featuring trumpeter Blue Mitchell, tenor saxophonist Junior Cook, bassist Gene Taylor, and drummer John Harris...
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NooPop Records proudly presents 'Naissoo Freeform Quintet,' led by keyboard maestro Tõnu Naissoo. Recorded in Tallinn during two electrifying, improvisational sessions in July 2024, this LP captures the infectious energy of funk, the adventurous spirit of free jazz, and infused with a nostalgic nod to the psychedelic era. This album...
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A much-needed re-issue by Japan's P-Vine Records of vibraphonist and percussionist Billy Wooten's rare soul-jazz-funk session from 1972, which features some amazing drumming by Harold Cardwell. Highly recommended....
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Tim Barnes is a storied drummer, engineer and producer whose CV encompasses col- laborations with a serious who’s-who of late 20th and early 21st century music. Most well known as one of the two drummers (alongside Glenn Kotche) on Jim O’Ro- urke’s seminal late 90s and early 2000s recordings, Tim...
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Tim Barnes is a storied drummer, engineer and producer whose CV encompasses col- laborations with a serious who’s-who of late 20th and early 21st century music. Most well known as one of the two drummers (alongside Glenn Kotche) on Jim O’Ro- urke’s seminal late 90s and early 2000s recordings, Tim...
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Solace of the Mind is a profoundly lyrical solo album from pianist, organist, vocalist, and newly minted NEA Jazz Master Amina Claudine Myers. This extraordinary recording – a follow up to her critically acclaimed duo with Wadada Leo Smith, Central Park's Mosaic of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens, released via...
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Musical messages from Oslo, New York, Basel and Lugano – recorded between 2018 and 2022 – are juxtaposed and recombined on an absorbing recording that features Norwegian drummer Thomas Strønen solo and in a series of duets . With such partners as Craig Taborn, Chris Potter, Sinikka Langeland and Jorge...
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NooPop Records is proud to present Naissoo Freeform Quintet, led by keyboard maestro Tõnu Naissoo. Recorded in a local music den on a single night in Tallinn, this electrifying LP captures the raw energy of funk and the adventurous spirit of free jazz. It’s infused with psychedelic nostalgia from the...
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"The re-discovered third album by India's best known psychedelic-rock ensemble, presented in its entirety. The companion piece our Atomic Forest anthology Obsession. Covers of Deodato, Stevie Wonder and 'Spectrum,' the heaviest Indian psych-funk jam unearthed to date. Over the course of four years, culminating in 2011, we at Now-Again Records...
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"When Ruff Draft saw its initial release in 2003, J Dilla possessed production skills on par with anyone in hip-hop -- technically and creatively. 'At the top of his game,' says longtime friend and collaborator, Karriem Riggins. After years of building while modestly deferring to others of both greater and...
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After reissuing his much sought-after Time and Place LP, many questions still remained (Lee was a mysterious man!) – but the one asked most was, “where’s “Bad Girl”?!” Not included on his lone LP, “Bad Girl” is an undisputed Southern soul classic – arguably the song Lee Moses’...
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2021 restock; double LP version. 140 gram vinyl. Includes download code. Einstürzende Neubauten have discovered sounds beyond the pain barrier, the beauty of dissonance and the aesthetics of the scrapyard. They are regarded as the most important engines in the development of new musical strategies; Hardly another German band has...
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After Dinner from Japan, embraced new wave, traditional Japanese music, free contemporary and avant-garde rock. Founded by female vocalist, musician and composer Haco in 1981, After Dinner broached a very interesting collective cohesion. Their backgrounds, though however various, brought them together during times of recording and live performance. 1982-85 includes...
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¡Soltad a Barrabás! (Release Barrabás!) was the third album by the famous Spanish funk-rock band. Recorded in the US and originally released in 1974, housed in a shocking gatefold cover, this time the sound was 100% funk oriented and included big hits like "Hi-Jack", covered by Herbie Mann. First ever...
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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,...
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Bonfire Records present a reissue of The Free Design's Heaven/Earth, originally released in 1969. A vocal band that made it through, the Free Design have been more than an exception in the glittering world of the psychedelic circus. That was the Age of Aquarius in the end, but in the...
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Mad About Records present a reissue of The Cult's The Mail Must Go Through, originally released in 1976. Super rare funk collectible from Las Vegas, one of the rarest West Coast funk LPs. A must for any serious collector. Super-rare funk collectible from Las Vegas released on Starburst Records in...
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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...
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Dan Snaiths groundbreaking debut album, originally released as Manitoba in 2001. Limited 2021 reissue with download code included.
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Dan Snaiths brilliant third album from 2005 and his first as Caribou. Limited 2021 reissue in gatefold sleeve with download code included.
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Originally released as Manitoba in 2003, the LP is now available under the Caribou name. Limited 2021 reissue with download code included.
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Beyond the afrofuturist world-building of Drexciya and the hardware jams of Dopplereffekt, Gerald Donald consistently found new ways of pushing his synthesisers and drum machines to their limits in pursuit of his career-long fascination of both conceptual and practical technological impacts. Having breached the quantum level on 2005’s Quantum Transpositions,...
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“The entire world seems to be moving toward wirelessness,” a computerised voice coldly states. It’s a particularly prescient statement from a producer already highly regarded for exploring the impact of technology as one half of Drexciya and member of Dopplereffekt. Beneath the intellectual fascinations of Wireless Internet, popping arps and...
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Beggars Arkive is happy to announce the reissue of The Charlatans self-titled fourth album. The pressing is on marbled yellow vinyl with a gatefold sleeve and it hasn't been pressed on vinyl in over twenty years. The audio is via transfer to 96khz/24 bit, with vinyl mastering by Frank Arkwright...
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At some point in the mid-2000s Madlib got itchy fingers from waiting around to do a second Madvillain record. To keep himself busy he decided to make a bunch of new beats for MF DOOM’s bars from their seminal 2004 LP. Initially conceived for Madlib’s private stash, it turned out...
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We've got a bit of an obsession with Hozan Yamamoto here at Mr Bongo! A legend of Japanese jazz, he is rightly regarded as a true master and was recognised as a "living national treasure" by the Japanese government in 2002. Over five decades he pushed the genre into new...
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Complete rendition of the saxophonist’s famed divinely inspired suite was recorded at Seattle’s Penthouse in 1965. Despite being John Coltrane’s most celebrated album, and one of the most beloved jazz albums of all time, A Love Supreme wasn’t a record that the saxophonist touched on much in the live setting....
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Three years in the making, Netflix’s Yasuke is a six-episode anime series created by Bronx-bred and Japan-based television animation creator, producer, and director LeSean Thomas (Cannon Busters, Children of Ether, The Boondocks) and starring actor / executive producer LaKeith Stanfield (Atlanta, Sorry To Bother You) as the voice of the...
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Chicago comes good again with both volumes of Jaimie Branch’s 2017/2019 sessions ‘Fly or Die Live’ repackaged as one deadly showcase of her ensemble, lead by her trumpet and vocals “There is a moment near the top of jaimie branch’s FLY or DIE LIVE, the new album recorded by the...
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Betty Davis was riding high in the 70s. A new record label, a series of high profile relationships, and intensely sexualized live performances made her a rising star. It seemed like everything was aligned to take the music world by storm. So Betty and band got back into...
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"I still remember the first time I heard Ahmed Malek. It was 2012. Back then I didn’t know much about Arabic music, but I was about to leave Berlin for a couple of weeks to go to Tunisia. I was working as a project manager for a music recoding session...
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There are few musicians - let alone beat-makers - in the world whose output in it's raw form provides his listener with a full on musical experience before anything is added. Madlib is such a talent. Hip hop is his canvas, but he creates the most wondrous things with it....
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Compilation culled from Abners' self released LPs & 7"s featuring hits such as 'I'm So Depressed,' 'Cocaine', 'Vietnam,' & 'The Reason Young People Do Drugs.' Abner Jay was a one-man band He plays the guitar or 6-string electric banjo, harmonica and bass drum and high hat with his feet. A...
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There is lots of unreleased music in the world and as time progresses a lot of it it being issued by us and many others. The reasons that it was left in the vault vary, it could have been because too much great material was recorded at the same time...
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Chet Baker recorded "Chet Is Back!" (RCA Victor PML-10307) on January 5, 1962, just three weeks after having been released from his drug-related imprisonment in Italy. He was accompanied on the LP by a number of highly talented European players, among them two Belgian stars: tenor saxophonist, flutist and composer...
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Funk, Jazz, Soul, Soul & Funk
The Globeflower Masters Vol. 1 takes its inspiration from classic soundtrack and cinematic composers such as Axelrod, Morricone, Gainsbourg, Jean-Claude Vannier and Piero Umiliani. Created during Summer 2020, this album is the product of a fruitful collaboration between Brighton-based musicians Glenn Fallows (The Impellers / Andres y Xavi) and Mark...
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Incredible Bongo Band was the brain child of prolific film and record producer Michael Viner, put together in 1972 to supplement the soundtrack to the virtually anonymous B-Movie film The Thing With Two Heads. They went from a loose studio collective to an instrumental pop covers consortium, interpreting classics of...
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While spending time trying to conquer the audio of live-stream at-home performances, I got better acquainted with my friend Adam McDaniel, a local engineer and producer in Asheville, NC. Adam and I had known each other for years. When the band was a bit smaller I would often rent his...
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After his great success as a new discovery through playing on tour and in the studio with Art Blakey’s creative and inspirational group, the Jazz Messengers, Freddie Hubbard made a dozen LPs over 16 years for Blue Note and Impulse under his own direction. It was no wonder then that...
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It feels like, every week something special is recorded in our Linear Labs recording studio, here in Los Angeles. But this right here? This right here is special. Over the last year Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad have been making music with the masters. Composing and producing brand new...
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In February 2018, Roy Ayers performed four sold out shows in Los Angeles as part of the Jazz Is Dead Black History Month series. It wasn’t until 2020 that fans of Ayers discovered that in addition to those shows, the legendary vibraphone player had also recorded an entire album of...
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WOW! 'Confusion' is an exceptional record in one of the most outstanding oeuvres in 20th century music. One long, 20+ minute piece split over two sides, it's possibly at once the most abstract and urgent missive we've heard from the man and his legendary band. You'd be forgiven for questioning...
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A lonely scrivener operating at the fringe beyond what we might call break core, shadowy producer Christoph De Babalon outlines a new continent on his vast sound map with 044 (Hilf Dir Selbst!). Here’s another record best suited either to wrecking the dance or headphone escapism, the beats are utterly...
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LP comes with huge fold out poster. Steve Summers delivers his long anticipated debut double lp for L.I.E.S. Stepping up with 13 tracks, Summers goes across the board exploring all ends of the long lineage of Chicago House music. As a member of Mutant Beat Dance with Traxx and Beau...
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Highly anticipated sophomore release from saxophonist and composer Sisonke Xonti, winner of South Africa's 2020 Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Jazz. At the centre of the album, Xonti's four-part "Migration Suite" is his boldest work to date, exploring rural and urban identity and the perilous spiritual journey from homeland...
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Following the release of his debut EP ‘An Iceberg Cruising The Jamaican Coastline’, Froid Dub presents a companion EP of dub versions and bonus beats for DJs. Prime cuts like ‘Iguana’s Dub’ take the originals’ icy grooves into even deeper, head-nodding territory, while the isolated beats underline Froid Dub’s compositional...
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A really beautiful record from reedman Nat Birchall – a solo set, but one that's got the same spiritual flow as his records with a group – as Nat himself handles a number of different instruments over the course of the set, using overdubs to give the whole thing the...
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Mannequin Records is elated to present for the first time on vinyl the reissue of Giovanotti Mondani Meccanici’s first video soundtrack, originally released in 1984 as an audiotape in less than one hundred copies. Giovanotti Mondani Meccanici (literally Mundane Mechanical Youth) or GMM was one of the most unclassifiable audiovisual...
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For many of us, the first few weeks of the global pandemic made an alien landscape out of the familiar; to venture outside — to the supermarket, to the post office, for a stroll in the park — was to tread into unknown territory, where the presence of another human...
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Sweet Trip's third album You Will Never Know Why (2009) still sounds new and unlike anything else. Laden with bossa, latin, electronic and shoegaze influences, male/female vocal interplay, immaculate acoustic guitars, pulsing bass lines, complex rhythms, odd time signatures, lush strings and imaginative sound effects, there's a lot going on...
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The global corporation Columbia recorded and released only two LPs with pianist Bill Evans. A meagre result when one considers the numerous concerts that the new trio undertook between 1969 and 1974. Together with Eddie Gomez, a phenomenon on the bass, and drummer Marty Mortell, the three established a firm...
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Johnny Cash was a country legend even during his lifetime, although, or perhaps because, he was very different from the numerous country singers with chequered shirts. When performing he chose to wear black as a symbol of solidarity with the oppressed and those who had no rights. His chosen...
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Cultural polymath - pop star, filmmaker, radio broadcaster, commentator, Grammy winner. Oh and DJ, too. Take your pick from the many coats worn by our selector, Don Letts aka The Rebel Dread. Born in Brixton, a child of the Windrush Generation, Letts’ slippery and unorthodox career is somewhat hard to...
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Thirty years on from their groundbreaking debut Foxbase Alpha, the much-loved London trio Saint Etienne announce their 10th studio album I’ve Been Trying To Tell You slated for release on September 10th via Heavenly Recordings. The album was made largely from samples and sounds drawn from the years 1997-2001, a...
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Colourgrade follows on from 2018’s immediate cult classic LP, Devotion. It forms a subconscious snapshot from across a year when Tirzah was playing live regularly for the first time, in the depths of promoting Devotion and recorded soon after the birth of her first child and shortly before...
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"Official gatefold double album of early 1970s Scottish underground heavy rock from Iron Claw, a band who were stomping around the UK with the likes of Black Sabbath, Hackensack, Pink Fairies, Juicy Lucy and others, but who never released a proper album. Iron Claw started their career in 1970 as...
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Touted as one of 2005's Top 10 Most Anticipated albums by XXL Magazine, Little Brother's latest masterpiece is reminiscent of the days when Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul and others carefully crafted complete experiences from beginning to end. The North Carolina outfit made up of MC's Phonte, Rapper Big...
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After touring Europe in 2010 he ran into visa issues and was extradited to the place of his birth. This has probably put a damper on the completion of releases like Madvillainy 2 and kept DOOM away from family and friends. Fortunately the seasoned MC is resilient and has proven...
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Active as a professional DJ in Japan since the late eighties, DJ Yoshizawa Dynamite is also a renowned remixer, compiler and producer. An avid record collector and an expert of the Wamono style, Yoshizawa published the Wamono A to Z records guide book in 2015 which instantly sold-out. The book...
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Originally released in 1976, My Ancestors is one of the greatest releases from Zambia’s Zamrock scene. The album travels the darker undercurrents of 70s rock and roll, warping and heightening the influences of Jimi, the Stones, the Beatles, Black Sabbath, and James Brown. 27 year old Chrissy “Zebby” Tembo provided...
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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...
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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...
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박혜진 Park Hye Jin announces her highly-anticipated debut album ‘Before I Die’, set for release on 10th September on Ninja Tune. The album—entirely written, produced and performed by the South Korean-born and now LA-based the producer, rapper, singer, and DJ—follows the release of her hugely successful ‘How can I’ EP...
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Chock full of humid, resonant soundscapes that bend time and emphasize texture, tone and timbre, Sarah Davachi's latest is her most defining and rewarding full-length to date. We're floored, again - there's nobody else doing it quite like this. Composed using a Mellotron, electric organ, piano and synthesizers, "Antiphonals" takes...
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Neil Young has announced the first volume in his upcoming series of bootleg recordings. The Neil Young Official Bootleg Series — Carnegie Hall 1970 is set to be released via Shaky Pictures/Reprise Records. The 23-track collection captures the magic of the singer-songwriter’s near-mythic performance on the night of December 4th,...
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Svn Fngrs is a seven track mini album first released in 2008. For this album, Black Francis wrote around the idea of demi gods, starting with Cú Chulainn of Eire, who apparently had seven fingers and seven toes on each hand and foot. “It's stripped down, minimal soloing, short, to...
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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...
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Analog Africa No.6 - ORCHESTRE POLY-RYTHMO DE COTONOU Volume 2 'Echos Hypnotiques' - From the Vaults of Albarika Store 1969-1979 'The riches of Vodoun rhythms are of such magnitude that one would never get to the bottom of it - we've tried.' Vincent Ahehehinnou - lead vocalist of Orchestre of...
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