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Too many people sleep on Tougher Than Leather, Run-DMC’s fourth album. But hear us out as we plead the case for this amazing LP. By 1988 there was a lot more competition in the rap game –Public Enemy, Boogie Down Productions, Eric B. and Rakim, Ice-T and many more had given Hollis, Queens’ prodigal sons lots of competition. But Joe, Darryl and Jay were still at the top of their game.

This wonderful self-titled album by pianist, singer and composer, Johnny Alf, was first released on vinyl in 1966 by Rozenblit.

Cypress Hill's eponymous debut album revolutionized hip-hop in several respects. 

Black and Blue is an album by Lou Rawls, originally released in January 1963 on Capitol Records

Portrait in Jazz was Bill Evans’ third album as a leader, following New Jazz Conceptions (1956) and Everybody Digs Bill Evans (1958).

Herb Alpert Presents Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 was released in August 1966.

Fôrça Bruta is the seventh studio album by Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist Jorge Ben. It was recorded with the Trio Mocotó band and released by Philips Records in September 1970. Conceived at a time of political tension in dictatorial Brazil, its title comes from the Portuguese term meaning "brute force" and has been interpreted ironically due to the music's relatively relaxed style.

The complete classic album + 2 bonus tracks - limited edition 180g audiophile pressing. Recorded at Capitol Studios in Los Angeles in August 1954, this was the first Emarcy recording of the legendary Clifford Brown & Max Roach Quintet featuring the great Harold Land on tenor sax, Richie Powell on piano and George Morrow on bass.

Originally released on Voodoo Rhythm in 2015, Rolando Bruno's Bailazo is full-blast psychedelic Latino cumbia garage.

Lush Life (1958) is among John Coltrane’s best endeavours on the Prestige (and Music) label.

The Fall is the fourth studio album by British virtual band Gorillaz.

The Beach Boys reached number 75 in national charts with their first single (the resultant song 'Surfin'') and were immediately signed to a major label.

Remastered for vinyl and expanded with new incarnations - live cuts from NPR's Tiny Desk and the band’s landmark Royal Albert Hall performance - Ezra Collective’s ‘Chapter 7 (10th Anniversary Edition)’ reissue presents ‘Chapter 7’ not simply as an early document, but a living manifesto: rhythm as ritual, youth culture as sanctuary and jazz as an open invitation.

Mystery Time is an alias of The Maghreban, who makes some of the most off-grid and eclectic grooves in the underground.

This is the sound of Antonio Carlos Jobim.

Two years after the Dave Brubeck Quartet’s ground- and time-signature breaking Time Out (1959), this classic quartet (Brubeck, piano, Paul Desmond, alto sax, Eugene Wright, bass, and Joe Morello, drums) would continue its jazz experiments in a series that was often inspired by abstract paintings. Time Further Out: Miró Reflections was the group’s attempt at a “jazz interpretation” of Miró’s 1925, a visually kinetic work featuring a prominent string of numerals descending from the upper edge of the canvas.

Research Records indicate their inclination for cosmic instrumentation and kraut pervaded polyrhythms once again with an introduction to newcomer Glass Beams.

Big Dada are incredibly proud to partner with the Anticon label to release the Young Fathers album in Europe. The Edinburgh based trio consist of Liberian, Nigerian and Scottish heritage and make exactly the sort of music the label was founded to release.

What We Say / What We Do is nothing short of a triumph, it will make you dance, you will play it on repeat, and after every couple of listens your favourite song will change, just like a good record should, right? And this is a great record. The synths on The Unknown dance around a creeping rhyth...

Legendary American musician Brian Jackson announces his first solo album in over 20 years, produced by Phenomenal Handclap Band founder Daniel Collás and released on BBE Music. 

Vinyl LP pressing. Musical Massage, the second solo album by songwriter, producer, composer and singer Leon Ware, is a classic that almost didn't happen.

Shades of Yesterday is a brand new covers record from 2 x Grammy Award-nominated producer, musician and songwriter, DJ Harrison.

After a first EP released in 2019 with Mother Tongue label, a single on Jazz à Vienne & Heavenly Sweetness's various " Past & Future", as well as numerous concerts in Europe, the French band never stopped reinventing itself. 

World Without Form was originally released in 2012 on CD format only, the album is now being made available on vinyl for the first time.

Also released as 'Soul Pioneers' (in the 1960s/70s), 'Milt Jackson Quartet' is one of most important albums of this fantastic vibraphone player and composer.

Kraak & Smaak Announce New Album Velvet Seas.

Cinematic funk visionaries The Diasonics deliver another solid set of Eastern-infused psychedelic, cinematic, disco-funk with their new album “Ornithology”,

Issued in January 2015, dedicated to the late Amy Winehouse and featuring the smash hit ‘Uptown Funk’, Uptown Special was Ronson’s first UK number one album, also going top five on the US Billboard 200.

Following his late-career resurgence with 1989’s The Healer, John Lee Hooker stepped into Russian Hill Recording in San Francisco and The Record Plant in Sausalito to reimagine some of his most iconic songs, including “Boom Boom,” which lends this album its title.

Cuban-born percussionist Cándido de Guerra Camero, also known simply as Candido backed numerous jazz acts since the 1950s.

Brand New Heavies Orginal Flava was orignially released in 1994, but includes material from before their seminal, self-title 1990 debut Brand New Heavies.

15 years after it's original release, Freestyle Records serve up a reissue for The Apples' Kings LP - fully remastered & fully re-cut, it's sounding better than ever!

Blunted On Reality is the 1994 debut album by Wyclef Jean, Lauryn Hill and Pras Michel, collectively known as The Fugees. The album contains less political lyrics than their second album The Score [MOVLP068], but there definitively were political intentions.

List of Demands, Damon Locks' first foray into creating an entire album from spoken and text-based work, finds the Chicago-based musician and educator collecting cultural abstractions and reorganizing them into a firm truth. The album lays out a vision of Black liberation and transmits it outward as a song cycle of bite-sized.

Snoop Dogg’s new album, Missionary, produced entirely by Dr. Dre, brings together a lineup of legendary collaborations.

Arthur Conley’s album was released on 15th September 1967.

Named after the small wood cabin at the bottom of their garden where the album was recorded, Cabana is a deeply personal record of memory, self-discovery and imagination.

Wah Wah 45s are very proud and excited to announce the debut album fromYouthsayers- an ongoing and enduring South London community project, founded byRobin HopcraftandIdris Rahmanof our very own, legendary Afro-reggae outfitSoothsayers.

UK jazz ensemble The Jazz Defenders release their third album "Memory In Motion" in April on Haggis Records (home of The Haggis Horns and Malcolm Strachan).

Donovan's second album

Inspired by his cultural background Bukky goes in search of the cuisine traditions of his mother land Nigeria.

Little Lion Sound's illustrious journey in the world of music reached a significant milestone with the release of their iconic album, Kingston Journey.

Sababa 5 continues their musical journey following the success of their acclaimed self-titled debut album, which fused deep funk and Middle Eastern grooves.

The Pioneers became one of the first Jamaican acts to achieve international success with their UK hit, “Long Shot (Kick De Bucket)”.

The album is a fusion of highlife and soul.

Wewantsounds is delighted to reissue Brion Gysin's cult avant funk album produced in Paris by Ramuntcho Matta in the early 80's.

Extinction Level Event 2: The Wrath of God marks Rhymes' return with his star-studded follow up to the seminal 1998 three-time Grammy nominated, RIAA Certified Platinum album E.L.E. (Extinction Level Event): The Final World Front.

Deep Nyabinghi drumming and chanting on a version of the Ethiopian national anthem gets things underway on Slave Call, a majestic journey through the spiritual roots of reggae. Later songs add guitars, bass, keyboards, and horns to build a more standard reggae sound on that foundation, but there’s always a dignified restraint and the profundity of the nyabinghi beat. the entire album revolves around Leonard Dillon’s Rastafarian beliefs, with even the cover of the Beatles’ “Let It Be” rewritten to a religious end.

If anything, the hugely prolific Motor City mainstay that is Omar S seems to be getting even more prolific as time goes on. 

Recorded in 1982 at Tuff Gong studio for vocals, mixed at Channel One by Scientist and Henry "Junjo" Lawes, this 1982 album was reissued only once on vinyl in the USA via RAS Records in 1991.

The 12 tracks of "Return of the Iron Monkey" are full of floor-shaking Hammond grooves, heavy deep funk & super dancefloor mod-jazz tunes.

A new remix EP reimagining tracks from their acclaimed album Tuff Times Never Last through the lens of some of Brazil's most exciting contemporary artists.

Beat scene-inflected jazz funq sketches informed by the brittle Electro Harmonix DRM32 drum machine.

This may be one of the pearls in the history of jazz recordings, the John Coltrane Quartet featuring; McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, and Elvin Jones with guest Eric Dolphy.

The complete album + 2 bonus track - limited edition pressing on 180g vinyl.

Coltrane's eponymous album has since come to be known as a piece of art as definitive as he ever produced.

One of the early works of art created for the West by the Grandfather of World Music. This album stands as an early attempt to teach the curious western listener about the complexity and beauty of Indian music.

The legendary soundtrack by Miles Davis for the film of the same name by Louis Malle, Ascenseur Pour L'échafaud (Lift to the Scaffold), is a masterpiece of atmosphere and improvisation.

The Pink Panther (1963) soundtrack, composed by Henry Mancini, is one of the most iconic film scores in cinematic history. Its title theme, “The Pink Panther Theme,” was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score and features a memorable tenor saxophone solo by Plas Johnson. The tune, composed in E minor, was specifically timed to match the animated antics of the Pink Panther character in the film’s opening credits

"Even in 1956 (more than a year before he joined the Miles Davis Sextet), Evans had his own chord voicings and a lyrical yet swinging style. A strong start to a signifcant career

Lady Sings the Blues is an album by the American jazz vocalist Billie Holiday, released in December 1956. It was Holiday's last album released on Clef Records; the following year, the label would be absorbed by Verve Records. Lady Sings the Blues was taken from sessions taped during 1954 and 1956. It was released simultaneously with her ghostwritten autobiography of the same name.

Experience the timeless elegance of Bossa Nova with Luz de Corcovado, a newly compiled vinyl celebrating the genius of Joao Gilberto, affectionately known in Brazil as O Mito ("The Legend").

The final album recorded by Coltrane under his own supervision for Atlantic Records.

Roots is his third album on revered German imprint Sonar Kollektiv.

Mahalia Jackson was the link between ‘Empress of the Blues’ Bessie Smith and ‘Queen of Soul’ Aretha Franklin. Yet, she was not a Blueswoman, considering the Blues to be ‘songs of despair – Gospel songs are the songs of hope’.

1979 township disco funk masterpiece from one of South Africa’s most prolific bands of that era.

"Destination Unlimited" triumphs in pushing artistic boundaries, leaving an indelible mark in the vast expanse of musical expression. An essential experience for avid music explorers.

Following the success of the inaugural all-Jiri Jiri edition, Batov Records returns with the second instalment of its Give Me Disco series, once again curated by label co-founder and globe-trotting selector DJ Kobayashi.

Naya Beat presents ‘Select Remixes and Reworks 2', a selection of new and exclusive dancefloor remixes. Putting a South Asian twist on the classic disco 12” remix format, Naya Beat have given some of dance music’s most exciting producers access to their storied back catalogue.

When a passionate DJ and crate digger intuitively selects music for a DJ compilation, without artistic compromise and without the burden of trends, AfroMagic vol.2 emerges from the depths of his soul.

In addition to the great and uniquely inventive music on the album, what strikes the listener is the excellent standard of the lyrics, written by such prominent poets as Capinam, Ferreira Guller, and of course Veloso himself.

Gil Evans began recording his own albums during 1958-59 thanks to the success of his first collaboration with Miles Davis, Miles Ahead, in 1957.

Acid Jazz continue to explore The Ballistic Brothers’ catalogue via an exciting remix project with renowned remixer Dominic Dawson. A New York house style dub of ‘Come On’ leads the way and Dominic shakes Acid Jazz’s spiritual jazz roots with a take on the Alice Coltrane-approved ‘A Love Supreme’.

Acid Jazz presents the next instalment of the ‘Spring Revisited’ series, in collaboration with Ace Records. Continuing the theme of top dance DJ and producer talent exploring the Spring Records catalogue, NYC’s ‘45 Queen’ Natasha Diggs takes on Millie Jackson’s ‘What Went Wrong Last Night’ over two sides.

Barry Adamson, original member of Magazine and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and a celebrated solo artist and composer, returns with the soundtrack to ‘SCALA!!!’, the acclaimed documentary chronicling the history of London’s most infamous independent cinema.

Out Of/Into, the all-star collective that began its life as the Blue Note Quintet in celebration of Blue Note Records’ 85th anniversary.

The first reissue of Tony Scott's iconic "Manteca" album originally released in 1973.

Phylipe Nunes Araujo's songs are as rich and varied as the diverse landscapes they were written in.

"Oh hell! This is this year's touch of self indulgence", Dean Rudland compiler of many a dancefloor friendly compilation, both here and at previous places of fitful employment such as Blue Note and Acid Jazz, is trying to explain his latest BGP release.

The next instalment in the classic DJ-Kicks series is a selection of rapturous house, blissed-out breaks, and transcendent rave from the high priestess of the motherbeat herself, Chicago’s Eris Drew