Hotter than July is the nineteenth studio album by Wonder, originally released on Motown's Tamla label in September 1980, featuring hit songs including Happy Birthday.

'Sunlight' by Herbie Hancock is a 1978 jazz-funk, fusion album. It features Hancock's vocals through a vocoder as well as performances by drummer Tony Williams and bassist Jaco Pastorius.

Reissue, originally released in 1962. 

Miles Davis Live From Free Trade Hall in Manchester.

First released in 1989, Amandla is the third collaboration between Miles Davis and producer/bassist Marcus Miller, after Tutu (1986) and Music from Siesta (1987), and their final album together. 

Yaya Bey unveils her latest studio album Ten Fold via Big Dada.

Miles Davis’ first truly influential project as a leader—which produced a series of recordings between 1949 and 1951 that helped shift the course of improvised music—was publicly underappreciated for almost ten years.

2023 sees the return of multi-talented Norwegian producer Espen Horne to Wah Wah 45s, after a 24 year hiatus.

Over the past few years Acid Jazz has released a series of reissues from the enigmatic ‘Albarika Store’ – a goldmine of records from Benin, West Africa from the late ‘60s through to the early ’80s. 

Following in the footsteps of his famed brother Madlib, Oh No has become one of the most celebrated independent hip-hop artists of the 21st century. 

Tron: Legacy Reconfigured is a remix album of music by Daft Punk, originally released 5 April 2011.

By 1995 The Ballistic Brothers already had their hooks into us through the club anthem 'Blacker' and the two 'vs. Eccentric Afros'EPs on Delancy Street.

The band’s breakthrough record It’s My Life saw the arrival of producer and multi-instrumentalist Tim Friese-Greene, who became a significant creative force in the band and an unofficial fourth member for the remainder of its existence.

Blue Note Re:imagined II once again infuses the spirit of the new UK jazz generation into the legendary label’s iconic catalogue.

An ahead-of-it’s-time synth exploration which somehow combines the essence of new-age minimalism, early Detroit techno and the warmth of traditional songwriting.

Skeewiff are masters of turning all-time classic into unique modern reworks.

Kalita are excited to announce the first ever reissue of student medical group the IgG Band’s highly sought-after 1980 soul, funk and disco grail ‘Ultra/Sound’.

Outlaw is a set of songs that exist in a place bordered by jazz, rock, and funk.

Following Far Out's reissue of Agustin Pereyra Lucena Quartet's La Rana, the label continues its memorialisation of the late, great Argentinian guitarist's music, with the first ever direct from tape, audiophile reissue of Pereyra Lucena's self-titled debut album from 1970.

Another stunning compilation compiled by Bob Stanley. Latin Freestyle was a dizzying, passionate, ultra- modern music.

Despite the series of radical shifts that underpinned its creation, Scritti Politti's second album Cupid and Psyche 85 achieved the virtually impossible.

Under The Sun is the follow-up to the astonishing Roots and contains yet more absolutely essential Nucleus material. Originally released on Vertigo in 1974, Under The Sun was never re-pressed and of course those original copies are now very tricky to score. Like all the Nucleus records, it’s aged ridiculously well and this Be With re-issue, re-mastered from the original analogue tapes, shows off just why this deserves to be back in press.

Gregory Porter’s new release Still Rising, due out November 5, is an exquisite collection of musical delights. The first disc includes four brand-new tracks, two new arrangements, three new covers, and nine of Porter’s most loved Blue Note tracks. The second disc features notable duets including songs with Moby, Jamie Cullum, Jeff Goldblum, Renée Fleming, Dianne Reeves, Lalah Hathaway, Laura Mvula, Lizz Wright, and others. The new song and first single from the album “Dry Bones,” written and produced by Troy Miller (Diana Ross, Rag’n’Bone Man, Emeli Sandé), is available to stream or download today.

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...

Volume 4 of the Hot Sauce compilation LPs dedicated to the Trojan related UK labels between 1965 and 1975.

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

Following the first in a series of his classic recordings reissued in collaboration with Awesome Tapes From Africa, Mergia assembled a band and began performing live again after many years driving a cab in Washington, DC.

The genius that is Tony Allen departed this mortal world in April of 2020, but not without leaving an unmatched legacy that crossed oceans and borders, bridging cultures and forging a sound that changed music.

This excellent 1965 album from the always versatile Yusef Lateef runs the gamut musically.

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 1967 set, recorded live at Boston’s Jazz Workshop, showcases virtuoso guitarist Szabó.

Dinner Party is the super-group of Terrace Martin, Robert Glasper, 9th Wonder, and Kamasi Washington, a collection of some of Hip-Hop’s finest current producers and contributors. 

Keyboardist, producer and songwriter Joe Armon-Jones shares his most elevated solo project to date, ‘All The Quiet’. A galvanising statement of intent, traversing jazz, funk, dub, hip hop and soul music, entirely written, produced and mixed by Armon-Jones himself.

Abandoning the straightforward rhythms and instrumentation of its predecessor, 2003's Rounds, Everything Ecstatic sees Kieran Hebden (aka Four Tet) take on freestyle jazz to channel his anxious electronica.

Bobbi Humphrey scored her biggest hit with her third album Blacks and Blues, an utterly delightful jazz-funk classic that helped make her a sensation at Montreux.

This 20-track album features many highlights from Olivia Dean’s debut album, ‘Messy’

Killer and cult shamisen electro funk from 1985 Japan! 

This is the story of how a tiny label from New Jersey changed the course of music history not once but twice. Cheri Records was established in 1974 in New Jersey and run by one Boo Frazier. Cheri's output was limited, producing a catalogue of just eleven releases between the years 1974 and 1982. On the face of it, this appears to be insubstantial output. However, if you dig a little deeper, the quality released on Cheri Records reveals an exceptional legacy of groundbreaking music.

Music drawn from the Modern and Kent labels of Los Angeles.

Jazz dance album from 1965 from this great jazz organist.

In a changing, unpredictable and turbulent world, something we can always rely on is a new Orb album, with the next holiday-for-the-head never far away.

The official soundtrack to Jean-Cosme Delaloye's documentary about the life and career of Detroit techno pioneer Carl Craig

Though not the most prolific of album artists, Bush's works make up in impact what they lack in frequency.

"Il corpo" is the last one of Luigi Scattini's trilogy, which started with "La ragazza dalla pelle di luna" (1972) and then continued with "La ragazza fuoristrada" (1973).

If ‘Alma’s Cove’ was Yuuf’s invitation to drift into a dreamlike escape, ‘Mt. Sava’ is where the horizon opens wider - a panoramic journey that climbs through shifting grooves, textured atmospheres and cinematic sound.

“L’amour à folie” is Amadou & Mariam ‘s final album.

A deeply personal and sonically rich project, Cubico sees Ria stepping forward as a producer and instrumentalist, blending R&B, neo-soul, and jazz with introspective songwriting that explores love, self-discovery, and emotional growth.

Gilles Peterson-championed cinematic maestro SHOLTO returns with his third album in three years.

In June 1964, Grant Green recorded his blazing post-bop session for Solid, an album that would go unreleased until 1979 as Blue Note had success with the guitarist’s soul jazz outings of the time.

PinkPantheress’ debut mixtape 'to hell with it' marked the anti-popstars seismic arrival. Released in 2021, the project fused bedroom pop, jungle, drum & bass and UKG, introducing these sounds to a new generation through her saccharine vocals and diaristic lyrics about obsession, hopelessness, friendship, and loneliness.

Tame Impala’s fifth full-length album, Deadbeat. On it, Parker sculpts a collection of wickedly potent club-psych explorations as a vehicle for some of his most direct, brain-wormy songwriting to date, recasting Tame Impala as a kind of future primitive rave act in the process.

Amplified Heart was Everything But The Girl’s million-selling and critically acclaimed seventh studio album.

Pink Floyd’s debut album, released in 1967, features the original line-up of Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, Richard Wright and Nick Mason.

This is the seventh Pink Floyd studio album and was originally released in 1972. It is the soundtrack for the French film 'La Vallée', by Barbet Schroeder.

Next up in Mr Bongo's Groove Merchant Records reissue series, we present the only solo album saxophonist Ramon Morris recorded as a bandleader.

In addition to being one of the best jazz drummers of all time, Max Roach was a long-time civil rights activist. 

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

Relics is Pink Floyd’s first compilation album and includes singles, B-sides and tracks from their first three albums; The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, A Saucerful of Secrets and More.

Led by one of the great guitarists, Peter Green (1946-2020), Fleetwood Mac (initially Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac) formed in 1967 after Green left John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers.

Wewantsounds is delighted to present the first retrospective of Saravah Records, one of the most influential French labels founded in Paris by singer, songwriter and producer Pierre Barouh in 1966.

Labi Siffre burst onto the UK’s blossoming singer-songwriter scene with his debut album in 1970, alongside contemporaries like Elton John, Bill Fay and Mike D’Abo. Featuring early hit “Make My Day” and “A Little More Line”, the album was arranged and produced by Ian Green, noted 60s hit arranger.

he album features the iconic track "For What It's Worth," which became a defining anthem of the 1960s counterculture. The band's original lineup included Neil Young, Stephen Stills, Richie Furay, Bruce Palmer, Dewey Martin, and others.

The now-classic duet of ‘Peace On Earth / Little Drummer Boy’ with David Bowie from Bing Crosby's 1977 television special, ‘Merrie Olde Christmas’ is back on a brand new, collector's edition, picture disc 12” vinyl.

Marking 26 years since his last album, Hip Hop icon and culture’s greatest storyteller Slick Rick returns with Victory, a groundbreaking visual album dropping June 13, 2025, via Idris Elba’s 7Wallace label and Mass Appeal.

What’s Going On Live is an exciting new 2LP release from Motown/UMe, originally recorded on “Marvin Gaye Day” in Washington, D.C., Gaye’s hometown, one year after the release of his groundbreaking album.

One of the most expansive instrumental Hip Hop series to date, MF DOOM’s lauded Special Herbs collection assembles a mountainous collection of his beats, ranging from series exclusives to slightly reworked favorites he produced for himself and others

One of the most expansive instrumental Hip Hop series to date, MF DOOM’s lauded Special Herbs collection assembles a mountainous collection of his beats, ranging from series exclusives to slightly reworked favorites he produced for himself and others

One of the most expansive instrumental Hip Hop series to date, MF DOOM’s lauded Special Herbs collection assembles a mountainous collection of his beats, ranging from series exclusives to slightly reworked favorites he produced for himself and others

Arthur Russell's most extraordinary work, originally released in 1986, World Of Echo is a deeply intimate and meditative work of awe-inspiring grace and remains a timeless work of sublime beauty. 

First volume of remastered singles by the British rock band, taken from the albums they released between 1987 ('Sonic Flower Groove') and 2000 ('XTRMNTR'). Tracks include 'Velocity Girl', 'Loaded', 'Movin' On Up', 'Rocks', and many more…

One of the most expansive instrumental Hip Hop series to date, MF DOOM’s lauded Special Herbs collection assembles a mountainous collection of his beats, ranging from series exclusives to slightly reworked favorites he produced for himself and others

Tracklist Pow R. Toc H 0:33 Astronomy Domine 3:55 The Scarecrow 2:02 The Gnome 2:08 Matilda Mother 3:18 Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun 3:29 Reaction In G 0:37 Flaming 2:36 Vegetable Man 3:25 Scream Thy Last Scream 3:41 Jugband Blues 3:51 Pow R. Toc H 4:30 Green Onions 1:56...

Motown producer and songwriter Norman Whitfield assembled The Undisputed Truth to further explore the psychedelic soul he had been developing with the Temptations on songs like ‘Cloud Nine’ and ‘Psychedelic Shack’

In 1987, Pet Shop Boys released their second album Actually, which became another huge hit album for the duo, debuting at the number 2 spot on the UK Albums Chart upon its release.

Sam Cooke, inventor and true King of Soul, recorded Mr. Soul in the same year as Night Beat, and seems to be its more adult counterpart, with soulful ballads taking up most of the album.

The album is a fusion of highlife and soul.

Smokey 2LP with limited edition Obi Stip to celebrate the labels 35 year anniversary

Impressed are thrilled to be presenting The Bamboos Best, a compilation in celebration of twenty five year anniversary of the formation of The Bamboos.

- For all fans of the Wamono series! - All tracks selected by DJ Yoshizawa Dynamite. Includes the first ever vinyl release of The Peanuts' "Ohara Bushi" track, originally released only on tape in 1970. - Fully licensed King Records masters. - Mastering and lacquer cut by Jukka Sarapaa at Timmion Cutting Lab, Helsinki, Finland. - 180g heavy vinyl pressing, reverse board jacket.

Ajomasé is the groundbreaking debut album by legendary Nigerian percussionist Gasper Lawal. Originally released in 1980. Lawal’s style was forged through decades of high-level percussion work with the likes of Stephen Stills, Barbra Streisand, George Clinton & Funkadelic, Manfred Mann, Alexis Korner, Vangelis and Ginger Baker’s Air Force band.