Rebles
Sweetest Taboo (12") [ Soundway / 12in - released 7/Jun/2019 ] Soundway Records re-issue the massively in-demand Soca cover-version of Sade's classic cut "Sweetest Taboo" by Caribbean band Rebles from 1986. In the late 80s, as electronic music permeated popular culture, Rebles helped define the soca genre... |
Various Artists
Body Beat: Soca-Dub And Electronic Calypso (1979-98) (LP) [ Soundway / 2 LP - released 25/Oct/2019 ] 17 obscure Soca B-side versions, dubs, instrumentals and edits as well as vocal tracks influenced by disco, boogie, house-music, soul and the more conscious lyrics of roots reggae. Owing as much to New York, Toronto and London as to the Caribbean... |
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... |
Various Artists
Esa Presents Amandla: Music To The People (LP) [ Soundway / 2 LP - released 6/Sep/2019 ] Esa Presents Amandla: Music To The People is a double vinyl electronic music compilation by DJ and producer Esa Williams. Growing up in Cape Town, South Africa, during the last days of Apartheid, Esa recalls the immense power that music had in... |
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
Batida (LP) [ Soundway / LP - released 27/Apr/2012 ] Limited edition vinyl issue. LP includes free download. The debut album from Batida, the brainchild of Angolan / Portuguese Pedro Coquenão. A distinctly modern and vibrant project with its feet firmly rooted in the past, Batida combine samples... |
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. |
Bomba Esterio
Elegancia Tropical [ Soundway / CD - released 1/Mar/2013 ] |
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 ] |
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... |
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... |
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... |
Felbm
Tape 3 / Tape 4 (LP) [ Soundway / LP - released 20/Nov/2020 ] Following on from 2018's Tape 1 & Tape 2, Dutch producer and musician Eelco Topper returns to Soundway Records for the next two instalments of his Felbm project. Tape 3 & Tape 4 is an intimate, emotional, lilting and melodic solo project with a... |
Flamingods
Majesty [ Soundway / CD - released 1/Jul/2016 ] |