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Charlie Parker had a complicated relationship with his hometown of Kansas City, MO owing both to its history of racial segregation and to his strong ties to his family and friends there. This new set of rare recordings dating from 1941–1951, entitled Bird in Kansas City chronicle Bird’s evolution from...
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Quixotic, the acclaimed debut album from Martina Topley-Bird, will soon be reissued on vinyl. On Sept. 6, Craft Recordings and Independiente will release an expanded 2xLP version of the album in a gatefold sleeve, featuring the original tracklist plus three B-sides and an alternate mix of lead single “Sandpaper Kisses.”...
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1-LP 140gm pressing bringing together the last sessions of Django Reinhardt for Decca and Blue Star, recorded in Paris from January to April 1953, shortly before his passing at the age of 43. Remastered from original master tapes and presented in a single sleeve with new liner notes. ...
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Arguably the most popular album in the Frank Zappa catalog, apostrophe (‘) has consistently been a best-seller. It was Zappa’s first Gold Record Award in the U.S., peaking at #10 on the Billboard 200 chart. The “Don’t Eat The Yellow Snow” single also made the Billboard Top 100 Hits chart,...
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First ever official vinyl release of the 2001 The Smashing Pumpkins’ Rotten Apples Greatest Hits collection, featuring the hit singles “Today,” “Bullet with Butterfly Wings,” “1979,” “Tonight, Tonight” and many more!...
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Celebrating the 30th anniversary of Beastie Boys’ multiplatinum album, III Communication, this limited-edition deluxe reissue is a rare version of the album that was originally released as a limited run in 2009. Long out-of-print and sought after by fans and collectors, this 3 LP set is pressed on 180g vinyl,...
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David Bowie’s groundbreaking debut album is set for a vibrant revival with a reissue on both CD and coloured vinyl, boasting exclusive tracklists to tantalize fans old and new. Critics of the time commented; with the NME praising Bowie’s fresh sound as “all very refreshing” and hailing him as “a...
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Blending hip-hop with traditional soul and jazz vocal stylings, neo soul singer-songwriter Erykah Badu took the music world by storm with her 1997 debut album Baduizm. Politically and socially engaged, Badu drew flattering comparisons to music luminaries and evident influences like Billie Holiday and Nina Simone. Baduizm rose all the...
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Small jazz groups brought out the best in Billie Holiday - especially groups as good as the one heard on this classic 1957 recording. Ben Webster, Barney Kessel and the other members of this stellar ensemble were not just gifted soloists but sensitive accompanists as well. Lady Day was rarely...
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Universal Music Recordings and Decca Records are making Jazz guitarist Amancio D’Silva’s album ‘Reflections (The Romantic Guitar Of Amancio D’Silva)’ available again for the first time since it was released in 1971, on limited edition clear vinyl. Long sought after by collectors and connoisseurs, original copies now sell for upwards...
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Double vinyl LP pressing. Kendrick Lamar's highly anticipated 2015 album, To Pimp a Butterfly: "honest, fearful and unapologetic". The album is the follow-up to the rapper's critically-acclaimed 2012 Effort Good Kid, M.A.A.D City. The album was recorded in studios throughout the United States, with executive production from Dr. Dre and...
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With Les Liaisons dangereuses 1960, Roger Vadim stirred up a scandal. Based on the famous epistolary novel by Laclos, the director presented audiences in the early 1960s with a film in which libertinism, scheming and the upper middle classes intertwine in 1960s Paris. Gérard Philipe and Jeanne Moreau excel, and...
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Downtempo, Experimental, IDM … Future Sound of London released ISDN in December 1994, originally with a black cover as a limited release. June 1995 saw an alternative white-covered version released, this had a different track listing on the 4th side of the LP set with new tracks....
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Probably the most commercial release that David Sylvian has ever been involved with, Nine Horses still manages to sound unlike any other album out there at the moment. Breaking boundaries, fusing styles and yet delivering beautiful pop melodies and stunning vocals on songs that Sylvian fans everywhere are bound to...
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Grammy winning duo Blue Lab Beats one of the fastest-rising production duos in the world right now, release their eagerly anticipated fourth studio album, BLUE ECLIPSE today, April 19th . The prodigiously talented duo who ended 2023 by selling out KOKO and picking up their second MOBO Nomination, got 2024...
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A pivotal moment for The Temptations – a set that has the group hitting even more of a deep soul sound than before – at a level that really sets them apart from some of the other groups on Motown at the time! There's a richer, fuller sound going on...
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Limited 25th Anniversary Edition of the pioneering Bristol trio’s album, Roseland NYC Live; recorded and filmed at New York’s Roseland Ballroom with a 28-piece orchestra in 1997, and released in 1998. The 2LP edition comes pressed on solid red vinyl with gatefold sleeve, with a double-sided fold-out poster and a...
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Cold Fact is the debut album from American singer-songwriter Rodriguez. It was released in the United States on the Sussex label in March 1970. The album sold very poorly in the United States (Rodriguez was himself an unknown in the US), but managed to sell well in both South Africa...
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Incesticide is a compilation album by the American rock band Nirvana. It consists of their 1990 non-album single "Sliver", B-sides, demos, outtakes, cover versions, and radio broadcast recordings, and as such is not the official follow-up to the band's breakthrough album, Nevermind. The album was released on December 14, 1992,...
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Superunknown is the fourth studio album by American rock band Soundgarden, released on March 8, 1994, through A&M Records. Five singles were released from the album: "The Day I Tried to Live", "My Wave", "Fell on Black Days", "Spoonman", and "Black Hole Sun", the latter two of which won Grammy...
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Compare Spirit of Eden with any other previous release in the Talk Talk catalog, and it's almost impossible to believe it's the work of the same band -- exchanging electronics for live, organic sounds and rejecting structure in favor of mood and atmosphere, the album is an unprecedented breakthrough, a...
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How should we manage the distance between ourselves and others? I observe myself feeling isolated and yet not wanting to get close to others, and I fall into confusion. What is it to want to connect with others? And likewise, what is it to not to want to? There are...
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What is it that "human" means now? In our current society the existence of truth and value has become obscured. What should we possibly strive for? Until recent years it was possible to see the structure of society and culture in the balance of capitalism and socialism. However, slowly, the...
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Brown Sugar is the debut studio album by American R&B singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist D'Angelo. It was released on July 3, 1995, by EMI Music. The album was recorded during 1994 and 1995 in sessions at Battery Studios and RPM Studios in New York City and at the Pookie Lab...
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Vinyl LP repressing of this iconic album. The Velvet Underground was the third album by Lou Reed and his cohorts. It was their first record to feature Doug Yule, John Cale's replacement. The album's sound - consisting largely of ballads and straight-forward rock songs - marked a notable shift in...
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Murray Street is Sonic Youth's twelfth full-length studio effort and first to feature the all-out collaboration (writing, playing and production) of the great Jim O'Rourke. Named after the New York street where the band's studio was situated and where a plane engine landed on September 11, 2001, Murray Street finds...
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Newly remastered by Miles Showell at Abbey Road – celebrating Eno’s first-ever solo tour, ‘Ships across Europe’, joined by Baltic Sea Philharmonic conducted by Kristjan Järvi in October 2023. “The Ship is a great, unexpected record. The title track and “Fickle Sun (i)” on their own and as a connected...
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Recording both as Parliament and Funkadelic, George Clinton revolutionized R&B during the ’70s, twisting soul music into funk by adding influences from several late-’60s acid heroes: Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, and Sly Stone. The Parliament/Funkadelic machine ruled black music during the ’70s, capturing over 40 R&B hit singles (including three...
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Thin Lizzy’s breakthrough album, 1973’s Vagabonds Of The Western World, is being reissued for its 50th anniversary via multi-disc vinyl and CD box sets, with the latter including a blu-ray audio with a Dolby Atmos Mix of the album (a first for Lizzy!). The band’s third studio album features the...
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Despite being rap veterans at the time, The Roots maintained a sense of artistic urgency, crafting this conceptual album with a loose narrative that follows Undun's imaginary protagonist, Redford Stevens, through a journey of imbalance, self-reflection, and triumph. Couched in an impoverished setting, it is an existential concept album entirely...
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Tricky’s groundbreaking and peerless 1995 debut-album Maxinquaye is being reissued in triple-LP, single-LP, double-CD. Maxinquaye (Reincarnated) contains rarities and brand new versions of tracks many of which have not been officially released before. The single-LP contains the original album remastered at Abbey Road Studio. The super deluxe triple-LP set and...
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Celebrating In Utero’s 30th, the 8LP Super Deluxe features 180-gram pressings of the album + 5 b-sides & bonus tracks newly remastered, 2 complete concerts from Los Angeles ’93 & Seattle ‘94 plus 6 bonus live songs from the tour – 72 total tracks – 53 unreleased tracks. Bonus items:...
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Lethal Injection is Ice Cube's fourth studio album, and similar to the rapper's previous albums, it was a commercial hit. The album includes the popular singles "You Know How We Do It" and the Funkadelic-sampling "Bop Gun (One Nation)", which became a staple on MTV. Heavyweight vinyl produced by Priority...
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Black on Both Sides is the debut album from Mos Def, released on Rawkus Records. Prior to the album's recording, Mos Def had collaborated with rapper Talib Kweli for the duo's studio album, Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star. Black on Both Sides features an emphasis on live...
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Hole released their second album ‘Live Through This’ in 1994, with Courtney Love revamping the original group members from their debut album. The title is taken from ‘Gone With the Wind‘ and has been met with critical acclaim, featuring in Rolling Stone’s ‘500 Greatest Albums of All Time’. <iframe...
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The fourth Siouxsie And The Banshees album, released in June 1981, bewitched and bewildered the post-punk generation, proving the band to be much more than just punk-era chancers and establishing them as serious, transgressive artists with a unique voice and vision and a sound that entranced with style and subversion....
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Double Heavyweight vinyl reissue of Portishead’s studio album Third from 2008, their first following the group’s hiatus. Heavily influenced by the Silver Apples, out rock and even industrial and krautrock, they constructed an album that is stark, uncompromising and yet strangely beautiful. It features an update of their...
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Double 180gm vinyl LP pressing featuring the bonus track "I Know It's True" which has never been on vinyl in the US. Get On the Good Foot is a studio album by funk and soul legend James Brown. It released as a double LP on November 20, 1972, by Polydor...
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Harumi Ohzora’s “Viva” first released in 1983. This album features an array of musical influences from Salsa to Synth-pop and Rumba to Mambo. The record’s lyrics were composed by Takashi Matsumoto and its music composed by Haruomi Hosono. ...
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Celebrating In Utero’s 30th, the album pressed on 180-gram vinyl plus 5 b-sides & bonus tracks pressed on a 10-inch have been newly remastered from 96kHz 24-bit transfers of the original analog tapes by original album engineer Bob Weston. Original album artwork has been expanded to a premium tip-on gatefold...
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Black Story tells the history of our iconic UK Black musical icons. UMR want to celebrate not only the culture; but the scenes, the sounds and the artists which shaped UK Music, giving flowers to the incredible Black artists in our archives. We seek to deliver these influential (and sometimes...
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Black Story tells the history of our iconic UK Black musical icons. UMR want to celebrate not only the culture; but the scenes, the sounds and the artists which shaped UK Music, giving flowers to the incredible Black artists in our archives. We seek to deliver these influential (and sometimes...
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“Vivian was a talented singer-songwriter who never realised his full potential. Leroy Smart’s popular ‘Pride and Ambition’ was written by Vivian, but he was not even credited on the record. When I decided to make reggae recordings of my poetry, it was Vivian who showed me how to go about...
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A first-time reissue of Doin’ Things by legendary singer Madeline Bell. Dusty Springfield, The Rolling Stones, John Lennon, Elton John, Pink Floyd, Joe Cocker, Stevie Wonder, Rod Stewart, Donna Summer, and many more. What, or more precisely who do they all have in common? – the backing vocal skills of...
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Dusty Springfield’s fifth album, Dusty In Memphis, has been remastered and cut at half-speed for the latest in Universal Music’s ‘Mastered At Abbey Road’ half-speed vinyl releases. Originally issued in 1969, the album was recorded at American Sound studios in Memphis with a crack team of their finest musicians and...
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Steely Dan’s 1977 landmark Aja is to be the next release in Geffen/UMe’s extensive reissue program of the group’s hallowed catalog of releases for ABC and MCA Records. Newly remastered from the analog tapes. Like its forerunners in the series – the debut album Can’t Buy A Thrill last November,...
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1987 was the world’s introduction to Chuck D’s powerful lyrics and the comic persona of Flava Flav, sharp scratches from DJ Terminator X, as well as Bomb Squad’s bombastic production. An album of furious resistance and consciousness, 'Yo! Bum Rush The Show' includes tracks like “Miuzi Weighs A Ton,” “Sophisticated...
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Gram Parsons and Chris Hillman formed The Flying Burrito Bros after both leaving The Byrds. They brought in bassist Chris Ethridge and pedal steel guitarist "Sneaky" Pete Kleinow to complete the line-up, appropriating the band's name from a group of Los Angeles musicians who gathered for jam sessions. The Burrito...
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