Chip's back for more, partnering with Lovemonk once again to enchant and heal with his cosmic, spiritual jazz.

SBTRKT's debut album

Ten Numero-minted, dancefloor-ready dive bombers from disco’s all-too-brief heyday, previously swept under the rug by the whitewashed glitz and glam of the era. Chugging grooves, bubbling synths, soaring strings and sonorous voices are guaranteed to light up your night, on living room rugs and da...

Strut release the new album Symphonie Pacifique by UK jazz pianist, Greg Foat.

The ‘imaginary’ soundtrack to the adventures Of Kindaichi Kosuke, the cult detective book series by writer Seishi Yokomizo is on many DJ want-lists.

With two critically acclaimed compilations already under his belt, DJ / collector miche returns to Mr Bongo with the third instalment of his With Love series

Translated from Spanish as 'The Shade', Chip Wickham's debut album La Sombra drops after a 25-year career touring, recording and experimenting across three decades of jazz, funk, soul, hip-hop, Latin and electronica.

Two months after recording The Sidewinder, trumpet legend Lee Morgan was back in Van Gelder Studio in February 1964 creating his masterful sextet album Search for the New Land with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Grant Green, Reggie Workman, and Billy Higgins.

In celebration of its 10th anniversary, we're excited to announce the first ever vinyl edition of Arthur Verocai’s 2007 masterpiece Encore. The album features 11 original Verocai compositions with guest musicians including Azymuth, Ivan Lins and a nine-piece string section.

First Word Records are very proud to bring you a new album from Don Leisure with Amanda Whiting.

The legendary collaboration between master percussionist Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah and producer Adrian Sherwood return with their first new studio album in twelve years.

With the help of standout additional artists Miles Davis, Art Blakey, Hank Jones and Sam Jones, this is a record with a deep musical heritage and plenty of fine moments.

One of the most influential rap albums of all time, Eric B and Rakim's Paid in Full only continues to grow in stature as the record that ushered in hip-hop's modern era. 

Late Night Tales reissues the classic and hard-to-find ‘Late Night Tales: Jamiroquai’, compiled by none other than Jay Kay himself.

The Beatles devised, wrote and directed a television film called Magical Mystery Tour which was broadcast on BBC Television at Christmas, 1967.

After last year's Scacco Al Maestro, the 2 tribute-albums dedicated to "il maestro" Ennio Morricone, Calibro 35 are back with a new studio album of original material. Clear Vinyl in 1000 copies only,

For fans of The Streets, Kano, Ghostpoet, Mos Def, MF DOOM, Aesop Rock, Talib Kweli, Run The Jewels.

The album is consistently named in magazine polls as one of the greatest albums of all time.

Another vital album from Hendrix, containing some of rock's molten milestones. There's the fluid psychedelia of "Castles Made Of Sand", the viciously funky "Little Miss Lover", and the so-beautiful-it-hurts "Little Wing".

Reissue of the classic debut album.

Chet Baker Sings is unique in that the nimble artist sets aside his trumpet in several of the tracks, using only his vocals—and even scatting some of the improvised solos in a style that sounds very much like his lyrical trumpet playing.

Donny Hathaway's third solo studio album, 'Extension of a Man', followed the soul singer's lauded 1972 collaboration with vocalist Roberta Flack.

Compiled by label founder Dom Ore Miles Away: One is a collection of tracks that spans continents, era and genres. Rooted in soul this compilation features recordings from legendary musical figures side-by-side with perhaps lesser-known soulful gems – all beautifully bought together in one cohesive long player

An excellent drummer who has appeared in many types of settings, Idris Muhammad became a professional when he was 16.

Kamasi Washington releases his new album, Fearless Movement, via Young. Washington calls Fearless Movement his dance album.

Arriving on a wave of well-earned hype rooted in tight chops and a confident swagger, the Strokes offer a rock and roll antidote to the plague of boy bands, teen divas, and petulant rap-rock outfits.

Could you think of any other film producer that picks better soundtracks than the widely revered Quentin Tarantino?

Kenny Beats releases his debut album LOUIE.

After the massive success of 'Pablo Honey' or, more specifically, the single 'Creep' - had made them a household name, most had written Radiohead off as one-hit wonders. 

Funeral For Justice is the new album by Mdou Moctar. Recorded at the close of two years spent touring the globe following the release of 2019 breakout Afrique Victime, it captures the Nigerien quartet in ferocious form.

Jay-Z made damn good albums before The Blueprint, as well as some afterwards. But The Blueprint remains the album where everything came together. He was able to satisfy his audience, the critics, and the skeptics, while making a timeless album. For this album, he was everything he was supposed to be. Credit: Albumism

Fat Albert Rotunda is the venture into jazz-funk by keyboardist Herbie Hancock.

A Single Woman is an album from 1993 by singer, pianist, and songwriter Nina Simone. It was her last album. In 1993, A Single Woman was placed 3th in the Top Jazz Albums.

Nina Simone made her first trip into the studio in New York during 1957 to record her debut album Little Girl Blue.

Recorded in early 1971, Curtis / Live! finds Curtis Mayfield in top form at the intimate Greenwich Village club The Bitter End.

It was the sound of post-independence Nigeria, a time of celebration and wealth but, ultimately, of political oppression. 

Production on Born Sinner began just a week after the release of Cole’s debut studio album, Cole World: The Sideline Story.

The Jamaican musical group Toots & the Maytals can be considered as one of the best known and most important ska and rocksteady groups of all time.

Fat Freddy’s Drop hit the ground running with new studio album SLO MO, a bass-heavy blast of redemption and resolution.

Released in 1975 and produced by Lawrence Lindo aka Jack Ruby, Burning Spear's magnificent Marcus Garvey album set the benchmark for Roots Reggae and is still widely considered the greatest collection of its kind ever to see issue.

"This important album, Monk's first after a long absence from the recording studio, is a stunning reaffirmation of his power as a performer and composer. It is a brilliant and absorbing program of five Monk originals and three standards (and they might just as well be originals, so startling is their transformation at his hands). This is a beautiful album in every respect." - Pete Welding, DownBeat Magazine

Finished in 1998, unreleased until 2000, and featuring reworked material that dates back to the trio's earliest years, Fantastic Vol. 2 is practically a retrospective of Slum Village's career.

With the panache of a circus sideshow barker, Richard James continues to push the boundaries of digitalia, fashioning easily one of the most interesting and unique catalogs in the canon. Freaky stuff indeed.

Blue Note Re:imagined returns this year with a new 16-track compilation featuring fresh takes on music from the illustrious Blue Note vaults recorded by a heavyweight line-up of the UK jazz, soul and R&B scene’s most hotly-tipped rising stars.

Joy In Repetition’ covers Hot Chip’s work, from their landmark EMI/DFA debut, ‘The Warning’, and traces their artistic evolution up to the present day.

Celebrating the photography of Robert Doisneau, 25 years after his death.

Hendrix flew into London from New York on September 23rd 1966 with his new manager Chas Chandler and within a couple of days started auditioning for The Experience. 

1975 LP by Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes featuring vocals of Teddy Pendergrass

Michael Jackson's Thriller is the bestselling album of all time, with 45 million worldwide sales powered by eight grammy awards.

Wewantsounds continue its extensive Meiko Kaji reissue program in partnership with Teichiku Records and Meiko Kaji herself, with the release of Gincho Wataridori, her debut album from 1972.

Sahra Halgan, Somaliland's iconic singer, freedom fighter, and cultural activist, returns with third album Hiddo Dhawr, a culmination of enduring friendship and global exploration

Like an out-of-control firecracker, Iggy Pop has made his often erratic way through a musical career since the sixties, beginning with The Stooges; then a series of solo albums, and an ever-widening list of interesting collaborations with both major stars and unknowns.

Nina Simone: The Montreux Years is released as part of a brand new Montreux Jazz Festival and BMG collection series “The Montreux Years”.

At long last: the classic Steely Dan catalog is back on vinyl.

This DJ-Kicks is the latest instalment in Quantic’s ever-evolving artistic trajectory, an accompaniment to those moments when the gloaming disappears into darkness. Will Holland’s longstanding dedication to a full range of melodic and percussive expression alongside continued musical collaboration is what makes his edition of DJ-Kicks such a rare beauty.

Pink is the closest thing to a "proper" club record that Kieran Hebden has produced in his 14 years as Four Tet.

Reverence is the groundbreaking debut album by Faithless, originally released in April 1996.

The complete Dilla instrumentals from the classic album pressed on randomly mixed colored vinyl.

Quentin Tarantino established himself as one of the few filmmakers to effectively use pop music with his first film Reservoir Dogs, a movie where the music was integral to the success of the film yet also worked well as a collection of songs. Jackie Brown, Tarantino's long-awaited third feature, finds him exploring new territory, creating an homage to blaxploitation flicks as well as a surprisingly subtle character study and love story, and its soundtrack appropriately finds him in new territory as well.

Singularity is the proper follow-up to Jon Hopkins' 2013 breakthrough Immunity, a spellbinding album of highly intricate, glitchy techno which nevertheless felt organic, and even classical at times.

Carried by its almost impossibly infectious eponymous opening track, The Sidewinder helped foreshadow the sounds of boogaloo and soul-jazz with its healthy R&B influence and Latin tinge.

Pan Amsterdam blends experimental hip-hop, jazz, funk and electronic influences, resulting in shapeshifting, genre-defying tracks.

First Word Records is very proud to bring you a brand new EP from Amanda Whiting, entitled 'Can You See Me Now?'

hopefully ! - a life-affirming exploration of fatherhood, childhood and alternative music, marking Loyle Carner as you’ve never heard seen or heard him before.

Chic is the self-titled debut album by Chic, released on Atlantic Records in 1977. 

The ambitious album, intended as somewhat of a sequel to Ready to Die, picking up where its predecessor left off.

Although The Smiths continued to improve over the course of their career, the songs here are vital and alive, making sure that their debut remains startling and exciting to this day

Born to an African-American opera singer and a Jamaican footballer who played for Celtic in Glasgow, Gil Scott-Heron was a ground-breaking musician and writer whose melding of poetry, soul and political activism paved the way for the arrival of rap and prefaced neo-soul by some decades.

It’s a special, but also a strange sensation to be releasing an album of one of your early musical heroes. I first discovered The Movers on my very first “record safari” in 1996. My destination was Bulawayo, in southern Zimbabwe, and to get there I had to travel via Jo’burg. While in town I stopped at a store called Kohinoor, in search of Mbaqanga – also known as Township Jive – and found a few tapes which I listened to non-stop on the bus that carried me to the land of Chimurenga Music. One of these cassettes included the songs “Hot Coffee” and “Phukeng Special” which instantly became part of my daily life. Twenty-five years later I’m still grooving to them.

Roots Manuva released ‘Run Come Save Me’ in 2001, a groundbreaking album that solidified his place in the pantheon of hip-hop greats. The body of work also features hit single ‘Witness (1 Hope)’, which become an anthem and is often cited as one of the greatest UK hip-hop tracks of all time.

Thematic, resonant, addictive and perfectly formed, it's a thrillingly coherent statement piece. Additional artists featured include Erykah Badu, Grey Reverend, Cornelia and Szjerdene.

Yaya Bey is one of R&B’s most exciting storytellers. Using a combination of ancestral forces and her own self-actualization, the singer/songwriter seamlessly navigates life’s hardships and joyful moments through music.

Sounds Beyond Barriers One of the most politically charged terms of the 20th century, the Iron Curtain was a metaphor for political and cultural division. In a post-war telegram Winston Churchill referred to the fault line that ran through Europe between East and West as "an Iron Curtain is drawn down upon their front. We do not know what is going on behind".

Japanese Funk, Boogie and City Pop from King Records 1974-88 selected by Dj Notoya

In the early 1980s, a particular alchemy between new musical technologies and significant social, cultural, and political transformations in Ghana gave rise to a new style of highlife.

Rising from the wreckage of a war torn planet, Czarface joins forces with MF Doom in the epic Czarface Meets Metal Face! Blending Doom's trademark abstractions and Czarface's in-your-face lyrical attack.

"Men in Love is a collaborative concept album by Irvine Welsh and The Sci-Fi Soul Orchestra, exploring the complexities of love, relationships, and the human condition. The album blends classic Motown and disco influences with contemporary electronic dance production, creating a unique and powerful sound that is both nostalgic and fresh.

Beck returns with his first album of new material since 2008′s critically-acclaimed 'Modern Guilt'.

1991's Out of Time was the album that catapulted R.E.M. from an indie favourite to one of the biggest bands in the world.

This is one of Nina Simone's more subdued mid-'60s LPs, putting the emphasis on her piano rather than band arrangements.