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1988's It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back is the second album from 2013 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Public Enemy (only the fourth hip-hop act to receive the honor) and follow-up to their 1987 debut Yo! Bum Rush the Show With innovative production from the Bomb Squad which brilliantly bolsters and balances the... -
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The Main Ingredient picks up right where Mecca And The Soul Brother left off, continuing classic back to back releases from the duo Characterized by sultry soul and jazz samples, The Main Ingredient saw a more polished sound from Pete & CL, building on the praise they got from All Souled Out & Mecca And The Soul...
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The fourth album by The Roots was recorded at Jimi Hendrix's Electric Lady Studios and released in 1999 Considered by critics as their breakthrough, Things Fall Apart was the first album of The Roots that exceeded half a million sold units Spin Magazine called the album a landmark moment for The Roots, as it 'swelled the Roots...
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Long-awaited 2010 album from Hip Hop pioneers The Roots The album, which takes it's name from Clara Ward's Gospel classic, is The Roots' first new release since joining Late Night with Jimmy Fallon for a full time gig as the show's house band Grammy Award winners The Roots characterize the songs on the album as "depicting the...
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“Quite unlike anything else he’s ever done, ‘Windowlicker’ is perhaps the most accessible and dancefloor-friendly track Richard D James has ever created A simple, gurgling riff paired with childishly sung vocals and thrown over straight-up 4/4 beats, groaning and developing, the bizarre sonics straining to burst through...
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Richard D James returns for his first AFX release since the Analord series on Rephlex...
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Nearly 5 years after the last Flying Lotus album"Òthe Grammy-nominated You're Dead! and Flying Lotus' stock has never been higher The interim years have seen him collaborating with Kendrick Lamar on the classic To Pimp a Butterfly, directing and writing the Sundance-premiered "Kuso" movie, and producing much of Thundercat's...
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The slo-beat pioneers Kruder & Dorfmeister of Vienna are among the hottest producers in the dance universe Even though they only produced two unreleased maxis, big names like Count Basie, Bomb The Bass, Alex Reece or United Future Organization had some of their tracks remixed by these exceptional producers Their productions on...
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Second edition with amended tracklisting (the track "I Got A Woman" has been deleted) Four years after his debut EP on Wolf + Lamb, Nicolas Jaar, the New Yorker by way of Chile returns to Circus Company with Space Is Only Noise, an uncompromising manifesto on traces of the past, love lost, and spectres of the future Jaar has made...
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Kosheen was a British electronic music group consisting of singer-songwriter Sian Evans and songwriters/producers Markee Ledge and Darren Decoder Their first album Resist was released in 2001 and includes their hits “Hide u” and "Catch" The album was a small move from Markee and Darren's previous work in the drum 'n' bass...
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"Since starting a band to realize the music from my LP, it has sparked a deep interest in the band itself, and so Kuiper is the result of playing with Leo, Alex and Susumu Each time we play it, its completely different We set the scene with electronics, and some drum machines that form the foundation to allow the unfurling of the...
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Elaenia is a dazzling score which puts Shepherd in the spotlight as a composer who has produced an album that bridges the gap between his rapturous dance music and formative classical roots that draws upon everything Shepherd has done to date Growing up in Manchester - he started out as a chorister at an early age - Shepherd...
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Written in Toronto and Montreal between 2017-2018, this debut LP from ex-terrestrial is in part the residue of long drives through Belgian countryside listening to shadow music Gamma Infolded is a reflection of the fractured self, a culmination of distractions erected into intricate edifices Dense foundations of dissonance support...
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Dreams Less Sweet is Psychic TV's classic second album originally released in 1983 Back on vinyl for the first time in over 20 years Featuring early PTV classics “The Orchids” & “White Nights” Originally issued by Some Bizarre, Genesis P Orridge and Sleazy were joined by Geff Rushton (aka Jhon Balance of Coil),...
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Inspired by the Great Lakes of North America and the “psychotropic and interstellar activity surrounding them,” Shorelights limn a sferic soundsphere glowing with a gently decaying/departing but phosphorescent energy Rod Modell’s celebrated, organically natural sound design talents are clearly on display, and guided by a...
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Agora is Christian Fennesz’s first solo album since ‘Mahler Remixed’ [Touch, 2014] and ‘Bécs’ [Editions Mego, 2014] Fennesz writes: “Its a simple story i had temporarily lost a proper studio workspace and had to move all my gear back to a small bedroom in my flat where I recorded this album It was all done on...
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The project started simply because we were on tour with the band, had just finished FYF fest in LA, and had a week before picking up the rest of the tour in phoenix on the way we stopped for a week near Joshua Tree National Park the idea was to go somewhere fairly remote and setup to rehearse it was peak summer, so we setup...
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"Canadian composer Scott Morgan's 12th long-player as loscil takes its title from an influential series of early 20th century photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, abstracting clouds into miasmic, painterly canvases of smoke and shadowplay It's a deeply fitting analog for Morgan's own musical process across the past two decades,...
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Los Angeles is the second studio album by American music producer Flying Lotus It was released through Warp Records and has received widespread critical acclaim The cover was designed by British graphic design agency Build featuring photography by Timothy Saccenti The album title refers to Flying Lotus's place of birth, Los...
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Composed, according to FlyLo, as 'a collage of mystical states, dreams, sleep and lullabies', Until the Quiet Comes has the distinct feel of this nocturnal trip From the twitching descent into a subconscious state and the out-of-focus time-ether of the journey that follows, the sound is an unhinged, yet elegant evolution of the...
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It's a sign of creative maturity and marks a welcome move away from the Fennesz-style layered glitchscapes that have dominated his back-catalogue It's hard to tell exactly how these drone tapestries are woven together; the granular laptop trickery of old is virtually undetectable and the source instruments detuned and dissolved...
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Incunabula is the debut release for Autechre When this album was released back in 1992, it gave the impression of being an inscrutable object built through a cryptic logic seemingly without any reference beyond itself As the duo progressed through their increasingly complex array of electronic sequencing throughout the '90s...
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Tri Repetae, the third album from Autechre finally made available again on vinyl, having been out of print on vinyl since 2001 On reflection, Tri Repeate stands tall as one of the most out-there (and if you know what that means) and boundary-pushing releases from Ae ever Going back to the group's roots as b-boy's, Tri features ten...
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Aphex Twin aka "The Duke Of Rave and The God of Electronic Music" (depending which time of night it is) returns once again with the Collapse EP, a five tracker hailing from the underground Its five tunes chew up notions of exhilaration with life-affirming abundance, high hats and sauntering arrangements, brain-scrambling noise and...
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This 12”, released as part of Warp’s thirtieth birthday series, presents one of Aphex Twin’s sessions for the John Peel show Taped in 1995, a point where Richard D James’ stock was arguably at its highest, these are four masterful pieces of prime-time Aphex fare Across the EP James moves between slow-motion IDM (‘Slo...
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The typography for this EP uses Decima Mono, just like for the previous album Syro, which was likewise designed by The Designers Republic On these minimalist covers the typeface stands out a lot While Syro references the look of receipts, the negative monospaced text for this record resembles a computer...
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A few years after recording Straight, No Chaser, Thelonious Monk disappeared from the public eye But as the years passed, more people became aware of the seminal role he played in the development in jazz as both pianist and composer, creating a standard of excellence that many musicians after him aspire to Produced by Teo...
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Monk, considered one of the greatest Jazz pianists of all time, recorded Underground in '67-'68 It's the last recording with the Thelonious Monk Quartet (Larry Gales on bass, Charlie Rouse on tenor sax, and Ben Riley on drums) and one of the last album he made for Columbia What makes Underground special is that unlike his other...
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The Blue Note 75th Anniversary Reissue Series is mastered from 24-bit hi-resolution digital audio files, transferred from the original master tapes, and pressed on 140g vinyl at United Record...
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Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus was Charles Mingus' last major studio recording of the 1960s (the solo Mingus Plays Piano would also be released in 1964) and it's a real treasure in the great jazz bassist's discography Two of the tracks ("Celia" and "I X Love") were recorded at the sessions for The Black Saint And The...
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Prior to 1959, Jackie McLean was an important young Turk whose sharp tone and intense style on alto grew out of Charlie Parker yet were very much his own Growing up in New York, his neighbors included such friends as Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins By 1951 he was recording with Miles Davis and other associations in...
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Known for his pioneering and multi-instrumental blend of jazz and Afro-Eastern musical traditions, Yusef Lateef was never content to just use his music to merely entertain, but long strived to encourage his audiences to engage their minds as well as their ears That constitution is more than evident on his excellent 1965 effort...
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Flutist Bobbi Humphrey found wide success with Blacks and Blues (1973), her breakout third album for Blue Note, working with the Mizell Brothers (who had recently hooked up with Donald Byrd to produce the trumpeter’s landmark album Black Byrd) to create a jazz-funk classic for the ages featuring the standout track “Harlem...
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Recorded in April 1964, In ‘N Out falls square in the middle of the formidable run of five classic Blue Note albums that launched tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson’s legendary career The line-up featured the transcendent frontline of Henderson and trumpeter Kenny Dorham along with a powerful rhythm section with pianist McCoy...
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The Return is a natural evolution from the Yussef Kamaal project, mining the influence of visionary jazz but blended with all kinds of texture, sounds and signals from the over-saturated London streets Notable tracks for old and new listeners are ‘Salaam', 'Situations', 'Medina', 'LDN Shuffle' which features Mansur Brown (of...
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Leon Thomas debut as a leader was this classic of spiritual jazz recorded for Bob Thiel’s Flying Dutchman label Originally pressed in 1969 it features an all-star band including Pharoah Sanders (under the name Little Rock), Lonnie Liston Smith (piano), James Spaulding (alto sax), Cecil McBee (bass), Roy Haynes (drums)...
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Stanley Turrentine’s 1960s Blue Note output was reliably excellent, but this 1964 session featuring his thick, blues-drenched tenor saxophone backed by organist Shirley Scott, guitarist Kenny Burrell, bassist Bob Cranshaw, and drummer Otis Finch, surely ranks with his very best From the relentless groove of “Trouble (No 2)”...
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"Now-Again Records presents limited edition deluxe reissues of the lauded black fire catalog in 2020 First up in the series, this previously unreleased live session recorded at the legendary Brooklyn venue The East in 1973 Magical, mystical, Afrocentric, progressive -- words that could be used to describe any number of musical...
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