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Barbara Hernandez
All Nite Tonight (12") [ Soundway / 12in - released 31/May/2024 ] Cult soca disco 12", produced by Leston Paul and originally released in 1984 - now available in full vocal and instrumental versions for the first time in 40 years. Barbara Hernandez was working as a backing singer for Kool and the Gang in New... |
Lord Echo
Curiosities (Reissue LP) [ Soundway / 2 LP - released 13/Sep/2019 ] Soundway Records completes the Lord Echo album collection, finally reissuing the second album in the trilogy from the in-demand New Zealand multi-instrumentalist and producer. Originally released in 2013, 'Curiosities' is now available as a DJ... |
Lord Echo
Harmonies [ Soundway CD / CD - released 7/Apr/2017 ] Harmonies is the new long player from underground super-producer Lord Echo (aka Mike Fabulous). The new album solidifies his already distinctive mutations of reggae and rock steady with disco, African soul, techno and spiritual jazz. Harmonies... |
Lord Echo
Melodies (LP) [ Soundway / 2 LP - released 12/May/2017 ] Soundway reissue of Lord Echo debut LP 'Melodies', which features the amazing version of the Sister Sledge song "Thinking of You". Previously only available in Japan, is essential listening for the recent converts. This debut solo release is a... |
Various Artists
Doing It In Lagos - Boogie Pop & Disco In 1980s Nigeria (3LP) [ Soundway / 3 LP - released 16/Dec/2016 ] A new compilation featuring 20 rare tracks from the currently much talked about world of Nigerian pop music; a zeitgeist of their early 1980s club culture. The country's economy was booming at the time and so was its recording industry. Strongly... |
Black Truth Rhythm Band
Ifetayo (Remastered LP) [ Soundway / LP - released 15/Mar/2024 ] Long-awaited remaster and re-cut of the 1976 album 'Ifetayo' by Black Truth Rhythm Band, an important and overlooked chapter in Trinidad's rich musical history that blends West African influences with jazz, funk and the incisive social commentary of... |
The Circling Sun
Spirits (LP) [ Soundway / LP - released 3/Nov/2023 ] New Zealand's jazz luminaries have assembled to form an all-star cluster: The Circling Sun. Channeling spiritual/modal jazz and Latin rhythms, they simultaneously reference the greats such as Sun Ra, Pharoah Sanders and Alice Coltrane, while... |
Dar Disku
Dar Disku (LP) [ Soundway / LP - released 27/Sep/2024 ] The debut album from Bahraini-born, British based musical duo Dar Disku is a celebration of their Arabic heritage and multicultural influences that melds golden age West Asian and North African sounds with a contemporary dance floor focus. Recorded... |
Hotline
You Are Mine (LP) [ Soundway / LP - released 4/Aug/2017 ] This very rare Nigerian disco classic LP, originally released in 1986, is the only known recorded album by Hotline and features the track 'Fella's Doing It In Lagos', which gave its name to the recent Soundway 'Doing It In Lagos' compilation. 180... |
International Soleil Band
Ta Lassa (12") [ Soundway / 12in - released 26/Apr/2019 ] Composed by Gnamakoron Sidi Diabaté, Ta Lassa was featured originally on an album released in 1983 by French Warners offshoot WAM (West African Music) - a short lived label that recorded about 20 releases of West African music released in... |
Julien Dyne
Modes (LP) [ Soundway / LP - released 6/May/2022 ] Modes continues the forward-thinking percussive jazz and afro-inspired house music soundscapes explored on Dyne's recent album Teal, which garnered acclaim from peers and fans alike - including Late Night Tales, Toddla T, Ransom Note, and BBC6 Music... |
The Lahaar
The Lahaar EP (12") [ Soundway / 12in - released 31/Mar/2023 ] Drawing inspiration from the depths of late 70's NYC proto-rap disco instrumentals, Nigerian boogie, Jamaican dub and modern jazzy house - The Lahaar is a Trans-Tasman collaboration between Julien Dyne, Horatio Luna and Surprise Chef's Lachlan... |
Ondatropica
Ondatropica (LP & 7") [ Soundway / 3 LP - released 8/Feb/2019 ] Reissued 3LP with bonus 7" + full booklet documenting the creation of the record and the artists involved. Colombian musician, Mario Galeano, the force behind the band Frente Cumbiero, and English producer Will Holland a.k.a. Quantic, joined... |
Penny Penny
Shilungu (12") [ Soundway Records / 12in - released 28/Jun/2019 ] Preceding a double vinyl compilation from South African-raised, UK-based DJ and producer Esa Williams, this 12" features Penny Penny's impossibly rare Kwaito House monster "Shilungu". On the flip is the acid-soaked "Shilungu (Esa & Mervin Granger... |
Various Artists
Kenya Special: Selected East African Recordings 1970 -1980 (LP) [ Soundway LP / 3 LP - released 28/Jun/2013 ] Soundway Records present Kenya Special: Selected East African Recordings from the 1970s & '80s - a treasure-trove of rare and unusual recordings from East Africa. Spread out over two CDs and one triple LP, Kenya Special is accompanied by detailed... |
Batida
Batida [ Soundway / CD - released 27/Apr/2012 ] A distinctly modern and vibrant project with its feet firmly rooted in the past, Batida combine samples from old 1970s Angolan tracks with modern electronic dance music. |
Batida
Dois [ Soundway / CD - released 28/Nov/2014 ] Batida release new album "Dois" via Soundway Records. Strands of afro-house, kuduro, benga, semba, samples from The Clash and old Angolan movies and afro-beat tracks, African MCs and musicians from all over the world are all deftly mixed together by... |
Black Truth Rhythm Band
Ifetayo [ Soundway / CD - released 30/Jan/2012 ] Originally released in 1976, 'Ifetaya' was the only release from the Afro-centric Trinidadian band and is re-issued here for the first time on CD. |
Charles Amoah
Sweet Vibration (LP) [ Soundway / LP - released 4/Nov/2022 ] Following on from the runaway success of Soundway's release of Kiki Gyan's "24 Hours In A Disco", another Ghanaian legend looks to have his time to shine. One of the most well-known disco and burger highlife artists of the time, Charles Amoah... |
Chico Mann
Magical Thinking [ Soundway / CD - released 3/May/2013 ] Displaying his mastery over an arsenal of studio weapons and synthesizers, Chico Mann (aka Marcos Garcia) scores his fifth long player against a backdrop of pop sensibilities and guest vocalists. The album draws as much on 80's funk, boogie and... |
Chico Mann
Manifest Tone The Best of Volumes 1-3 [ Soundway / CD - released 28/Jun/2013 ] |
Circus Underwater
Circus Underwater (LP) [ Soundway / 2 LP - released 3/Nov/2023 ] Remastered release of Circus Underwater's 1984 self titled outing, including unreleased tracks taken from the original ¼" tapes. Soundway presents Circus Underwater's 1984 self-titled masterpiece. Remastered and extended to a double LP, this... |
Clear Path Ensemble
Solar Eclipse (LP) [ Soundway / LP - released 9/Sep/2022 ] As pockets of new jazz scenes emerge around the world, it's apparent that New Zealand's bubbling microcosm in Wellington interprets the genre through a unique lens. Clear Path Ensemble bottles the energy of that burgeoning movement and distils it... |
Colleen Grant/Sandra Hamilton
Latin Parang / Parang Jam (12") [ Soundway / 12in - released 6/Dec/2019 ] Soundway presents two rare Parang dancefloor cuts from early 1980s Trinidad & Tobago. Parang is a style of folk music that originated from Venezuelan and Colombian immigrants that came to the Caribbean, and evolved to include elements of Latin... |
Debruit & Alsarah
Aljawal [ Soundway / CD - released 15/Nov/2013 ] Soundway records present a unique record: a modern, haunting take on Sudanese music heard through the sonic lens of French artist / producer, Débruit and the poetic, ethereal lyrics and melodies of Sudanese-born singer Alsarah. Aljawal (The... |
Edzayawa
Projection One [ Soundway / CD - released 16/Apr/2012 ] |
Family Atlantica
Family Atlantica [ Soundway / CD - released 3/May/2013 ] Recorded over 4 years in London and Venezuela, Cuban rumba, Venezuelan tambor and tonada, Ghanaian highlife, Ethiopian blues and calypso have been soaked and infused with psychedelia and spiritual jazz. Gilles Peterson included the band in his recent... |
Flamingo Pier
Flamingo Pier (LP) [ Soundway / LP - released 18/Jun/2021 ] Serving up euphoric disco hooks, to classic house choruses and forays into Latin funk, Balearic and psychedelia - New Zealand collective Flamingo Pier deliver their debut album. In 2019 and 2020 they released two widely lauded EPs on Soundway... |
Flamingods
Majesty [ Soundway / CD - released 1/Jul/2016 ] |
Free Youth
We Can Move (12") [ Soundway / 12in - released 12/Jul/2019 ] Soundway Records reissues Free Youth's long sought-after 1985 single "We Can Move", one of the first known examples of Ghanaian hip hop, emerging at the dawn of 'hip-life' (hip hop meets highlife). It was the trio's only release and originally... |
G.C. Cameron
Live For Love (LP) [ Soundway / LP - released 9/Jun/2023 ] Soundway reissues the vocal and instrumental versions of 'If I Love You', from G.C. Cameron, the lead singer of the legendary soul group The Spinners. The release also includes two unreleased recordings from the same session - 'Live for Love' and... |
Hedzoleh
Hedzoleh [ Soundway / CD - released 10/May/2010 ] |
Heliocentrics
A World of Masks [ Soundway / CD - released 23/Jun/2017 ] The Heliocentrics are a group for which genres are meaningless and boundaries invisible. They've spent years squeezing fragments of hip-hop, jazz, psych, and krautrock into their hypnotic, thrumming compositions since debuting on DJ Shadow's 2006... |
Heliocentrics
A World of Masks (LP) [ Soundway / LP - released 23/Jun/2017 ] The Heliocentrics are a group for which genres are meaningless and boundaries invisible. They've spent years squeezing fragments of hip-hop, jazz, psych, and krautrock into their hypnotic, thrumming compositions since debuting on DJ Shadow's 2006... |
Kiki Gyan
24 Hours In A Disco - 1978-1982 [ Soundway / CD - released 7/Dec/2012 ] Soundway Records present '24 Hours in A Disco 1978 - 82', 7 cuts of relentless disco grooves from the sublimely gifted Kiki Gyan. Hailed as Africa's answer to Stevie Wonder, Ghanaian multi-instrumentalist Kiki Gyan was a musical wunderkind who by... |
Konkoma
Konkoma [ Soundway / CD - released 7/Dec/2012 ] Rooted in 1970s Ghana, Afro-funk outfit KonKoma was produced and formulated by saxophonist Max Grunhard and producer Ben Lamdin (Nostalgia 77). The idea was to create a band around two highly esteemed Ghanaian musicians - Alfred Bannerman and... |
La Yegros
Magnetismo [ Soundway / CD - released 8/Apr/2016 ] |
The Mauskovic Dance Band
Down In The Basement EP (12") [ Soundway / 12in - released 15/Jun/2018 ] Soundway presents the debut EP from The Mauskovic Dance Band - a potent, modern blend of Afro-Caribbean rhythms and space-disco. Afro-Colombian styles such as champeta and cumbia are integrated with '80s No-Wave drum machines and synths: shaking... |
Meridian Brothers
Dersesperanza [ SOUNDWAY / CD - released 7/Dec/2012 ] |
Meridian Brothers
Dersesperanza (LP) [ Soundway / LP - released 7/Dec/2012 ] |
