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A Tribe Called Quest
We Got It From Here...Thank You 4 Your Service (Double LP) [ Sony / 2 LP - released 20/Jan/2016 ] A Tribe Called Quest - Q-Tip, Phife Dawg (who died on March 22nd, 2016), Ali Shaheed Muhammad, and Jarobi White - the groundbreaking '90s group that forever transformed the urban music landscape, detonates new shock waves on their first - and last -... |
Trio-Da Kali and Kronos Quartet
Ladilikan (LP) [ BMG / ADA / LP - released 15/Sep/2017 ] You take a trio of the finest traditional griot musicians from Mali and put them in the studio with a renowned and revolutionary Western string quartet - and the resulting album is one of the most richly rewarding musical collaborations you are... |
Troy Kingi
The Ghost Of Freddie Cesar (LP) [ Triple A Records / LP - released 11/Sep/2020 ] Multi-award winning artist Troy Kingi take us on a deeply personal discovery through an album dedicated to 70s funk, lost souls and memories. The Ghost of Freddie Cesar is Troy Kingi's most personal work to date - one that invites the listener to... |
Ty Segall
Freedom's Goblin (Double Gatefold LP) [ Drag City / 2 LP - released 2/Feb/2018 ] Freedom's Goblin is the new Ty Segall album: 19 tracks strong, filling four sides of vinyl nonstop, with an unrestricted sense of coming together to make an album. It wants you to get your head straight-but first, the process will make your head... |
U.S. Girls
In A Poem Unlimited [ 4AD / CD - released 16/Feb/2018 ] 2017 marked a decade of U.S. Girls, the protean musical enterprise of multi-disciplinary artist Meg Remy. Remy's second release for 4AD, which also includes her recently released single, 'Mad As Hell' - a clarion call for pacifism - was tracked in... |
Various Artists / Nightmares On Wax
Back to Mine - Nightmares on Wax [ Back To Mine / 2 CD - released 25/Jan/2019 ] The celebrated mix series, which has hosted everyone from Röyksopp to Tricky and Carl Cox, will celebrate 20 years with an entry from Leeds pioneer George Evelyn-the first Back To Mine since 2008. Though Evelyn is known for a downtempo sound... |
Vagabon
Vagabon [ Nonesuch / Warner / CD - released 18/Oct/2019 ] Lætitia Tamko's self-titled Nonesuch Records debut finds her in a state of creative expansion, leaning fully into some of the experimental instincts she flirted with on her previous album. This time around, she's throwing genre to the wind. Vagabon... |
Various Artists
Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present: The Tears of Technology (Double Gatefold LP) [ Ace Records / 2 LP - released 28/Aug/2020 ] At the turn of the 80s, a new generation of musicians appeared who saw synthesisers not as dehumanizing machines but as musical instruments that could be coaxed into creating modern, beautiful and decidedly emotional music. It was almost as if the... |
Various Artists
The Jack Nitzsche Story: 1963-1978 [ Ace Records / CD - released 24/May/2005 ] Featuring Bobby Darin, Jackie DeShannon, Stevie Wonder, Tim Buckley, Graham Parker, Mink DeVille, Marianne Faithfull, The Righteous Brothers, Judy Henske, The James Gang, Frankie Laine, etc. |
Various Artists
Celestial Blues: Cosmic, Political and Spiritual Jazz 1970 - 1974 (Double LP) [ BGP / 2 LP - released 16/Sep/2016 ] Progressive jazz from the 1970s: music which has influenced Kamasi Washington and the Brainfeeder crew. Something strange happened to jazz in 2015, an album by a previously under-the-radar session saxophonist broke through to international... |
Various Artists
Ernesto Chahoud presents TAITU - Soul-fuelled Stompers from 1960s - 1970s Ethiopia [ Strut / CD - released 16/Feb/2018 ] Ernesto Chahoud's 'Taitu' is a collection of soul-fuelled stompers straight from the dancefloors of 1970s Addis Ababa. A breathless journey through the unique Ethio sound that bands were forging at the time, the 24-track compilation is the result of... |
Various Artists
Fly Girls! [ Soul Jazz / 2 CD - released 31/Jan/2009 ] This double-CD narrates the story of female rap from its birth in the tenement block parties in New York City's outer boroughs through to the dizzying career heights of Queen Latifah, Missy Elliott and other modern day power brokers. 'Fly Girls!'... |
Various Artists
Mr Bongo Record Club Vol 2 [ Mr Bongo / CD - released 15/Dec/2017 ] Compiled by David 'Mr Bongo' Buttle and Gareth Stephens, plus a few personal favourites from Gary Johnson, Ville Marttila and Graham Luckhurst. Volume Two' picks up where the last one left off - with a touch more soul and disco - records we've... |
Various Artists
Mr Bongo Record Club Vol 2 (LP) [ Mr Bongo / 2 LP - released 15/Dec/2017 ] Compiled by David 'Mr Bongo' Buttle and Gareth Stephens, plus a few personal favourites from Gary Johnson, Ville Marttila and Graham Luckhurst. Volume Two' picks up where the last one left off - with a touch more soul and disco - records we've... |
Various Artists
Mr Bongo Record Club Vol 3 (LP) [ Mr Bongo / LP - released 7/Jun/2019 ] Volume Three in the Mr Bongo Record club series. Another showcase of recent vinyl finds and favourites from our DJ sets and radio shows. This is an extra special one however, as it lands in 2019, the year that we celebrate 30 years since it all began... |
Various Artists
Remembering Mountains: Unheard Songs By Karen Dalton [ Tompkins Square / CD - released 29/Jul/2016 ] Karen Dalton (1937-1993) recorded two studio albums during her lifetime, neither of which contain any songs she wrote. By the good graces of legendary guitarist Peter Walker, who oversees Karen's Estate, we are gifted with these lost lyrics, now... |
Various Artists
Scotch Bonnet Presents Puffers Choice Vol. 2 [ Scotch Bonnet / CD - released 29/Jun/2018 ] Scotch Bonnet Presents: Puffer's Choice Vol. II (Various Artists) on CD Following the success of 2016's Puffer's Choice Vol. I (SCOB 007CD/LP), the label arm of Glasgow's Mungo's Hi-Fi has selected more cream cuts from their globe-trotting link-ups... |
Various Artists
Stand Up, People: Gypsy Pop Songs From Tito's Yugoslavia 1964 - 1980 [ Asphalt Tango / CD - released 3/Jun/2013 ] Stand Up, People is an astonishing collection of rare Pop songs by Roma Gypsy musicians from Tito′s socialist Yugoslavia, 1960-1980. Combing rootsy Gypsy Folk rhythms with the new influences of Bollywood film music, Turkish psychedelia and British... |
Various Artists
The Time For Peace Is Now (LP) [ Luaka Bop / LP - released 13/Sep/2019 ] World Spirituality Classics 2 from Luaka Bop These undeniably soulful, passionate, and urgent songs from obscure 45's, dug up from a long dormancy in attics, sheds and crates across the American south, are a subset of 70s-era gospel, focusing not... |
Various Artists, On-U Sound
Pay It All Back Vol. 7 (LP) [ On-U Sound Records / 2 LP - released 29/Mar/2019 ] 18 track showcase of new Adrian Sherwood productions featuring previews of several forthcoming On-U releases, unique mixes, deep cuts, and unreleased tracks from Roots Manuva, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Coldcut, Gary Lucas (Captain Beefheart's Magic Band),... |
