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Former Customs clerk Roy Reid thrilled the Jamaican music scene as a toaster, his effortless rhymes establishing a reputation on the Supreme Ruler of Sound in his native Spanish Town and later on various Kingston sets, including King Tubby’s.

Not your typical DJ album by any means, the music equals the toasts and vice versa – an essential release for a dub fan or a Big Youth supporter. Re-mastered at Abbey Road Studios, London. Out of print for over 20 years!

This edition strikes a darker contrast with the sunnier aspects of Volume One.

Dream Manifest is the latest visionary statement from GRAMMY-nominated trumpeter, composer, and producer Theo Croker—a transcendent sonic journey blending jazz, soul, electronica, and Afro-futurist storytelling into a genre-fluid experience.

Reissue of the sought-after deep/spiritual jazz album, the first time it’s been pressed from the master tapes. All analogue lacquer by Bernie Grundman.

Acid jazz legend Chris Bangs returns with a brand new album for 2024, following his early-2023 release Firebird, and 2022’s collaboration with Mick Talbot Sumthin’ Else.

Nabihah Iqbal shares her long awaited new album ‘DREAMER’. Five years on since the London-born artist, curator, broadcaster and lecturer's debut ‘Weighing Of The Heart’ was released and two years in the making, ‘DREAMER’ is Nabihah’s rawest and most reflective work to date.

XL Recordings release a new Burial 12" “Dreamfear / Boy Sent From Above”. 

Acclaimed musician, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Kutiman returns with 'Dreams In Aspamia' - a stunning new 6-track EP of dreamy, instrumental cinematic funk, rich with trip-hop, jazz, and global music textures

Dreamstate is Kelly Lee Owens fourth studio album. The new album will be her first released at new label home dh2 - a brand new electronic music imprint at renowned independent label Dirty Hit being spearheaded by George Daniel of The 1975.

The words ‘hit’ and ‘soundtrack’ seldom appear in the same sentence, but the soundtrack to Nicolas Winding Refn’s cult classic film “Drive” (starring Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan) was truly a smash hit upon release.

Lonnie Smith’s 1970 album Drives was a showcase of the organist’s sense of adventure and indomitable groove.

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

Little Simz releases Drop 6 her new five track EP. Drop 6 is her first solo release since the mercury nominated Grey Area album.

Drums in Dub features eight tracks of instrumental Dub delight, specially designed for the 1970s Dub connoisseur.

Debut released in 1958.

Horace Andy [a.k.a.Sleepy] must process one of the sweetest and most distinctive voices in reggae music.

Michael Campbell started out as an engineer with the Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation and made reggae history presenting his Dread At The Controls radio program, after which he embarked on a successful career as an innovative performing artist, producer and bona fide dubmaster.

The debut Creation Rebel album, originally released on pre-On-U Sound label Hitrun in 1978.

Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare are simply known all around the world as Sly and Robbie. They were the musical drum and bass backbone of Reggae since the early 1970's.

The entire of Dark Side of the Moon recreated into a dub classic by the Easy Star All-stars featuring Sluggy Ranks, Frankie Paul, Dr Israel, the meditations etc.

This tour-de-force of turntablism, proto-hip-hop, polyrhythms, and b-boy electro, sprung from the disruptive and fertile mind of punk architect Malcolm McLaren, finally gets the much needed reissue treatment that it so rightly deserves.

For this classic encounter, the only collaboration ever between Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, Duke sat in with the John Coltrane Quartet for a set dominated by Ellington's songs

The classic 1962 album Duke Ellington & John Coltrane showcased the rising jazz saxophone innovator performing alongside the long-established piano institution. 

"Dummy" is the debut album of the English band Portishead, released in 1994. The album is a blend of various genres such as trip-hop, jazz, and electronica, and features the haunting vocals of lead singer Beth Gibbons.

Fire up the barbecue, crack a Dragon Stout, mix up yer Guinness punch, carry out whatever cliched act of Caribbeanism you can think of, because a new Roots Manuva album is here! And with artwork from the legendary Tony McDermott.

Dusty Springfield was one of our greatest pop singers. From 60s hits like ‘I Only Want To Be With You’, ‘Son of a Preacher Man’ and ‘You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me’ to her 80s collaboration with the Pet Shop Boys and beyond, she was a musical pioneer and the very essence of authentic white soul.

As electronic musician Lorenz Brunner sketched his vision for the first Recondite full-length on Ghostly in five years he took a step back to assess who and where he was as an artist.

Kronstad 23 returns with Dødehavet, the Norwegian quartet’s third album and first release on Batov Records. Continuing their instinctive, analogue-led approach, the record sits between cinematic jazz and psychedelic rock, threaded with Scandinavian folk and wider global influences. Recorded live to tape with minimal preparation and no modern studio intervention, Dødehavet captures a band working on feel, interaction and momentum rather than polish or precision.

In anticipation of the 35th anniversary next year one of electronic music´s most influential recordings, the legendary E2-E4, from 12.12.1981 does get an official rerelease by Manuel Göttsching on his own Label MG.ART.

Early brought together a series of formative recordings from the late 70s and early 80s, for an America-only vinyl release in 2005.

Impressed is partnering with Burning Rope Records & Faction Records to bring you an exclusive Australian pressing of James Vincent McMorrow's debut album - Early in the Morning, celebrating it’s 15th anniversary and his forthcoming tour.

Ata records is pleased to announce the release of early works: funk, soul & afro rarities from the archive, a compilation of tracks that were recorded at the very outset of the label

One of five new Sault masterpieces.

The last in his capitol trilogy, Earth Rot is visionary composer / arranger / producer David Axelrod’s third album.

Augustus Pablo is a reggae legend, one of the greatest purveyors of dub music and instrumental reggae; East Of The River Nile' is a reggae classic named by Mojo magazine as one of the 50 greatest reggae albums of all time.

Soul, funk and rock recorded by US Army Servicemen during the height of the Vietnam War and released as a recruitment tool by the US Army.

BBE Music is proud to present the next instalment in the J Jazz Masterclass Series: ‘East Plants’ by Takeo Moriyama, one of Japan’s finest jazz drummers.

Easter is the first record Patti Smith recorded after the year-and-a-half break that was caused by her fall from a stage in January 1977.

This is the first stop on Sven Wunder’s musical journey. Wunder takes the listener around the easternmost part of the Mediterranean Sea.

Originally released in 1962, jazz multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef’s Eastern Sounds fuses hard bop with middle eastern music.

This collection of songs by Lead Belly was assembled by Folkways founder Moses Asch from recordings made in the early to mid-1940s, and it focuses primarily on Lead Belly’s observations on the hate and racism that permeated America and the world during this turbulent period of history.

The single was originally scheduled to be the first release from her 1993 album Red Shoes, but was cancelled in favour of “Rubberband Girl”.

A landmark recording from one of Ghana’s great musical architects, Ebo Taylor’s 1977 self-title release marked the first solo LP by the legendary guitarist, arranger, and composer after years behind the scenes shaping the sound of modern highlife.

At 88 years of age, the Ghanian highlife and afrobeat pioneer Ebo Taylor travelled to the US for the very first time to perform at the now iconic Jazz Is Dead concert series, selling out venues across the country. It was during this time that Ebo recorded a psychedelic afrobeat album alongside Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad.

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...

A dazzling 11-track journey through the rich, handpicked gems of Numero’s finest.

Northern soul floor fillers of the Eccentric variety.

Operating in the farthest margins of L.A.’s cutthroat music business from 1961-1991, Mel Alexander’s Consolidated Productions was among the longest running Black-owned independent record conglomerates of the 20th century.

From 1967-1980, Kansas City’s Forte Records captured nearly every iteration of popular Black music.

In 2005, while making his Saturday morning yard sale rounds around town, collector Blake Oliver stumbled upon a box of curiously marked tapes.

After the fall of the Deep City label, Rocketeers bandleader Frank Williams set up shop under the name of his twin daughters Saadia and Giwada and got to work reinventing the Miami Sound.

From a humble storefront studio located in a shoeshine parlor on Norfolk, Virginia’s Church Street, Noah Biggs built a world.

Operating in a basement studio at the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, pipeline man Howard Neal and his appropriately named Shoestring label was Alton, Illinois’ answer to a question no one asked.

Lost in the soot and fallout from Youngstown, Ohio’s infamous Black Monday steel industry collapse was Tony March’s cross-generational Tammy label.

Atlanta’s original Eccentric Soul labels, Jesse Jones’ Tragar and Note concerns captured critical regional R&B, soul, and funk from 1968-1976.

What exactly is Spiritual Soul anyway? At the confluence of congas and Fender Rhodes, the Civil Rights Movement and vegetarianism, jazz-funk and gospel-soul, a Black-to-the-land movement in song sprung forth in the 1970s.

Growing up in the sound system culture of Leeds in England, George spent a fiver, courtesy of his mum, on a battered old speaker box he named “Echo45”. That box led him to Kevin Harper, a founding member of Nightmares on Wax, a chance meeting that would change the course of his life.

Live recording on one side, etched on the other.

Italian house was the first, anticipating the irruption of the digital scenarios that have forever changed 'making art', to redefine, to redraw a map that did not exist, that of the 'young' sound that shifted its creative trajectories from the megalopolises overseas (with all their urban poetics) to the Italian province.

An hour long, 11 track compliation of "Paradise House"

A compilation of the finest early ’90s underground club sounds presented by Eddie Piller and Dean Rudland.

Following the hugely popular first Acid Jazz (Not Jazz) release in 2022, label-heads Eddie Piller and Dean Rudland return with a second vinyl outing - We’ve Got A Funky Beat.

Eddie Piller Presents British Mod Sounds of the 1960s' is the follow up to 'The Mod Revival'. The 2LP set features 34 tracks and was curated by Acid Jazz Records and Modcast founder Eddie Piller.

While the recordings on Eddie Piller's latest release maybe familiar to diehard fans of great '60s music, the story behind it will be new to many but is well worth telling - and hearing - all the same.

Analog Africa have put together their 31st compilation here, and it's another essential, well curated overview of a fantastic funk sound.

Surprise Chef’s music is based on evoking mood; their vivid arrangements utilize time and space to build soundscapes that invite the listener into their world.

Edwin Birdsong’s self-titled album was released in 1978 on Philadelphia International Records at the height of the Disco craze. By this time, Edwin was a major player at PIR and a talented songwriter and producer as well.

Efil4Zaggin, is about as close as you can come to a death metal/hip-hop hybrid. People will get hurt here.

Can in 1972 firing on all cylinders and at their most rhymthically inventive bringing funk grooves together with kosmische psychedelic trance. 

Egostrip Book 1 is a beautifully designed collection of Dan Lish’s stunning character illustrations from the world of hip hop and beyond.

Egostrip Book 2 is a beautifully designed, expansive continuation of Dan Lish’s visionary character illustrations that pay homage to the vibrant world of Hip Hop and beyond

“One of the most unique and dramatic albums in all of global jazz music.” Francis Gooding, The Wire

El Michels Affair reimaginging Liam’s Ekundayo Album. Produced by Leon Michels. Also includes three unreleased vocal tracks from the Ekundayo sessions.

A groundbreaking album, "El Maja" was released by The Robin Jones Seven in 1972.

"El sonido bastardo", the first album by the enigmatic collective Danzón El Gato, establishes a fascinating dialogue between jazz, funk and roots music. Formed in the underground hotbed of Madrid's experimental scene, its members have decided, this time, to start from the groove in order to explore tradition.

For the past ten years, all roads Shepherd has followed have been slowly leading to 'Elaenia' - an album with roots deep in his formative years, and one that draws upon everything Shepherd has done so far.

Nucleus's Elastic Rock is undisputedly a milestone in Jazz-Rock. A beautiful and vital debut album, it was first released on Vertigo in 1970.

LCD Soundsystem release Electric Lady Sessions, their new 12 Track live album recorded at the titular New York City studio.

Bursting with ideas and energy, Jimi Hendrix's second album release of 1968 (following Axis: Bold As Love) was a double album set that showcased virtually everything the guitar genius had to offer.