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Pure Wicked Tune is a mixtape-style collection of extracts & cut-ups, taken from DIY cassette recordings featuring rare groove and "soul blues" soundsystems playing at early morning house parties and blues dances - mostly in South & East London - between the mid 1980s & early 90s.

The DNA of Purple Rain can be felt throughout pop culture at large. It is a timeless body of work with an immortal resonance exemplified by smashes such as Let’s Go Crazy, When Doves Cry, Darling Nikki, the title track Purple Rain and more.

Elvin Jones’ 1968 Blue Note debut Puttin’ It Together marked the start of a new chapter in the master drummer’s career following his six years with the seminal John Coltrane Quartet, and Coltrane’s death in 1967.

Jaga Jazzist return with their new album Pyramid, where the legendary Norwegian eight-piece takes a deep dive into post-rock, jazz and psychedelia influences.

Quadrophenia is both more ambitious and less accessible than Tommy, the first and most well known rock opera.

Quality Control is the second studio album from the alternative hip hop group Jurassic 5.

True to form, the record is unapologetically raw and finds her returning to jamming on her machines - “trying to create something powerful without using too many instruments and layers.” ​

Born on a Gangster Star flirts with a pop sensibility, but through the prism of Shabazz Palaces’s fire and fury.

The UK’s Official Albums Chart has compiled a list of the 60 top-selling albums. Queen’s 1981 Greatest Hits takes the number-one spot by a landslide, being the only album to break 6 million sales on the chart.

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’.

Compilation from the Queen of Soul

That Japan's breakthrough record Quiet Life was released in both 1979 and 1980 is uniquely fitting for a band who were about to step out of the glam rock, post punk shadows of the late 70s and deliver an as yet genre-less record that would come to define the 80s.

"Quit to Play Chess" is the final studio album of Cola Boyy, who tragically passed away in March 2024 after winning the hearts of neo-disco and funk enthusiasts, from Los Angeles to Paris, from Coachella to London.

His Warp debut, R Plus Seven, often feels like a microcosm of that approach; these shape-shifting songs hold together more because of Lopatin's bold sonic palette than any unifying concept. Aside from the opening track, "Boring Angel," he downplays the drones that made up the heart of his earlier work (and Replica, to a lesser extent) in favor of bright, briskly applied tones that, on the surface, seem like the opposite of his usual modus operandi. This fragmentation could be seen as a variation of Replica's choppy recontextualizing, though the results are dizzying rather than hypnotic: "Americans" hops from environmental sounds to zapping synths to cheery strings to choral vocals in what feels like the musical equivalent of a series of smash cuts. 

Despite being a vital cog in the machinery of underground UK dance and electronics since at least 2004 (when he released his 'No Tricks' debut), it's fair to say that it's only in the last few years he's made the shift from cult concern to acknowledged auteur of some repute.

Kraftwerk embrace the atomic age with mixed emotions. surfing on sine waves, scanning the stratosphere for stray radio signals, they plug themselves into a buzzing grid of energy and communication.

Four decades after it lit up college radio and launched R.E.M.’s remarkable career, “Radio Free Europe” is sending out a brand-new signal.

Gatefold jacket, double colored vinyl version of Radiodread, which was originally released in 2006.

High-quality vinyl old school jacket faithfully reproducing the iconic “mermaid” design from the 1973 release.

Formed by drummer Bill Curtis in 1970, the Fatback band started off as a funk band although when disco began to break in 1974, they added that four-to-the-floor wrinkle to their sound to serve up some classics.

Following the success of King Of Rock, Raising Hell (1986) raised more than just a massive revenue stream by selling over three million albums worldwide. It's a well known fact that the record, produced by rock/ hip hop production pioneer Rick Rubin, raised the bar for hip hop albums in general.

Following the release of the critically acclaimed Random Access Memories 10th Anniversary Edition earlier this year, Daft Punk unveils a new iteration of their Grammy-award winning Album of the Year.

Daft Punk’s new album, Random Access Memories, finds them leaving behind the highly influential, riff-heavy EDM they originated to luxuriate in the sounds, styles, and production techniques of the 1970s and early ’80s.

A visual and cultural history of hip hop, charting its meteoric rise from underground trailblazer to global tastemaker

As Lance says: "Some of these versions can almost be looked at as DJ re-edits, sometimes we're extending what may be a really short track into something longer, or teasing out the elements in a song that really make it work on a dance-floor. It's essentially what someone does with a club re-edit, except we went the extra step and re-recorded the whole thing with a live band"

Rare Pleasure is prolific LA-based musician and producer Mndsgn’s third full-length album for Stones Throw, following Body Wash (2016) and Yawn Zen (2014). 

Leon Vynehall returns with new album Rare Forever, the follow up to 2018's critically acclaimed debut Nothing Is Still.

Cosmic Rock present a reissue of the self-titled album by Rasputin's Stash, originally released in 1971.

Rastafari: The Dreads Enter Babylon 1955-83 charts the many links between reggae music and the Rastafarian faith.

Produced entirely by Bob Marley & the Wailers and mixed by longtime Marley associate Errol Brown, this Jamaican version will be on vinyl for the first time.

For the next reissue in Mr Bongo's Cuban Classics series, we look to Raul Gomez's entrancing 1977 Instrumental album.

Son House was one of the musicians to play a profound role in the development of both successive black and white blues players.

30th anniversary of Neneh Cherry’s classic hit album Raw Like Sushi (1989),“an unorthodox and brilliantly daring blend of R&B, rap, pop, and dance music”.

A majestic and magnetic classic where every track is a surefire winner.

Ray Charles At Newport is a 1958 live album of Ray Charles' July 5, 1958 performance at the Newport Jazz Festival.

RE:VERSAL is a home for pioneering dance and electronic music, featuring classics, gems, and rarities from the world’s largest music archive.

Using the arrival of the Spice Girls as a jumping-off point, this fascinating new narrative will explore, celebrate and contextualise the thus-far-uncharted period of British pop that flourished between 1996 and 2006.

The album has cemented its place in hip-hop history and has since gone on to achieve 6x platinum certification in the US, selling over 3.5 million copies, and has achieved platinum status in the UK as well.

The album that reinvented East Coast rap for the gangsta age, Ready to Die made the Notorious B.I.G. a household name.

On September 8th 2003, David Bowie made history with the biggest ever live and interactive music satellite event the world had ever seen.

Recorded Live at Oil Can Harry's is a live album by US jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal, featuring four pieces recorded at Oil Can Harry's (a nightclub in Vancouver) on August 13, 1976.

Having established a legacy as one of the most highly regarded contemporary UK Jazz musicians of the past decade, Newham-based pianist Alfa Mist’s discography boasts such stone cold classics as ‘Antiphon’ ‘Bring Backs’ and ‘Nocturne’.

Smoove & Turrell return to the fold with their seventh studio album, once again showcasing their commitment to creating quality songs, with meaningful lyrics shining through in every single one.

The Magic City is the third album in the Red Hot & Ra series. This entire album was imagined, produced & curated by Meshell Ndegeocello.

Fela Kuti lives on! This is the 10th Anniversary reissue of the classic tribute album pressed on opaque banana yellow and opaque red vinyl benefiting the Red Hot organization. 

Floating Points began as the solo project of Sam Shepherd before it became clear the immersive, intricate nature of his music demanded expansion.

Lonnie Liston Smith was one of the most important musicians to emerge in jazz in the 1970s. His 1975 album ‘Expansions’ is one of the foundation stones of modern dance music and his recordings have been sampled by many of the biggest artists in the world.

To mark Record Store Day in 2024 Universal Music Recordings and Decca Records are making Jazz guitarist Amancio D’Silva’s album ‘Reflections (The Romantic Guitar Of Amancio D’Silva)’ available again for the first time since it was released in 1971, on limited edition clear vinyl.

The 2LP package in a gatefold cover, featuring stunning photos and detailed liner notes by Dave Hendley, is available again for a limited time in a special edition!

Jackie Mittoo’s ‘Reggae Magic’ is a new collection from the great Jackie Mittoo. The album features a mixture of classic tunes and rarities from the period 1967-74, when Mittoo was at the height of his musical powers.

The Ethiopians was one of Jamaica’s most popular bands during the late ska, rocksteady and early reggae periods. 

The band’s second album and their first album to reach No. 1 in the UK, it features the band’s first two no. 1 hit singles – Message in a Bottle and Walking on the Moon (expanding their spacious, dub-reggae sound).

Anchored by the laid-back G-funk anthem 'Regulate,' Warren G's appropriately titled Regulate...G Funk Era embodies the mid-'90s era of Cali sunshine, endless blunts, and switch-hittin' lowriders with a welcome and somewhat surprising sense of kind-heartedness.

Rejoice is a very special collaboration between Tony Allen, the legendary drummer and co-founder of Afrobeat, and Hugh Masekela, the master trumpet player of South African jazz.

Relaxin’ with the Miles Davis Quintet is in every way a masterpiece.

Los Angeles-based producer and DJ Captain Planet returns with his sixth full-length album, DIG—a high-energy project that channels the global spirit of his world-renowned DJ sets. Having lit up clubs and festivals across Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, and the U.S., Captain Planet is celebrated for his ability to fuse Afro, Latin, and Caribbean traditions with hip-hop, dancehall, and electronic funk. With over two decades of experience, he delivers a sound that is as eclectic as it is unifying, built to move dance floors worldwide.

Originally released in 1995, Dah Shinin’ remains one of the most celebrated albums of hip hop’s golden era. Includes two essential remixes — "Wrekonize" and 'Sound Bwoy Bureill" — plus the previously unreleased “Nuttin’ Move But Da Money,” officially available for the first time after years on white label.

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

A soulful rework story – from an edit to an official release.

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

Headed by the great Curtis Mayfield, The Impressions provided a critical link between '50s R&B and '60s soul.

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

Frederiksberg Records is proud to announce the long-awaited reissue of Ambonisye Lord Shepherd’s 1981 debut album, Evidence For Real — a deeply personal and spiritual fusion of Soul and Jazz that has remained a hidden treasure for more than four decades.

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of their iconic album ‘Inspiración Espiración’, Gotan Project revisit the work that redefined the international music scene by blending traditional Argentine tango with modern electronic music.

Two years before the legendary trumpeter mysteriously fell from the window of a Dutch hotel, he delivered this high-level live performance on a stage in Bologna, Italy, in 1985.

Making Music is available as a limited edition of 3000 individually numbered copies on translucent red vinyl and includes an 8-page booklet.

Tom Caruana Remixes from classic Masta Ace albums such as Slaughtahouse, Sitting On Chrome, The Falling Season, plus more obscure cuts. With features by Guru, Wordsworth, Phonte, Edo G, Large Professor, Torae & Stricklin.

ROADS VOL.3 is the third installment of Thylacine's iconic ROADS series, recorded in the heart of the stunning landscapes of Namibia, in his caravan studio. A true sonic journey, this album immerses the listener in a unique universe, where every note tells a story of landscape, emotion, and authentic experience.

Secular Music Vol 1’ is the first installment in a triptych of albums by multi-limbed live dance music outfit Girls Of The Internet.

Sîn’ is crafted in a musical language built on melodic palimpsests, via an array of digital, electric, and acoustic instruments.

25 years on from the release of their debut album Lost Souls, Doves are proud to present So, Here We Are – a collection of the band’s best, hand-selected from their six studio albums and more. A compilation that spans a quarter of a century of meticulously fabricated songs of melancholic euphoria from the Manchester trio. Celebrating a musical career that covers more than a million albums sold, including three UK No.1- charting modern classics, a Mercury Music Prize nomination and sold out tours of the most prestigious venues, such as London’s Royal Albert Hall, Manchester Apollo as well New York’s storied Hammerstein Ballroom.

The album also heralded a dramatic maturation in the band's music, away from the synth-pop brand with which it was unjustly seared following the debut, and towards a complex, enveloping pop sophistication.

A cult classic underground hip-hop collaboration between legendary MC Kool Keith and producer Godfather Don, defining the ’90s indie rap sound.

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

Kraak & Smaak Announce New Album Velvet Seas.

Delve into the quirky and psych-tinged world of Brazilian pianist, composer and multi-instrumentalist Mauricio Fleury.

After years out of print, this classic 2017 album is back on 2LP vinyl. Loyalty Is Royalty features appearances by Method Man, Redman, Sean Price, RZA, GZA, Prodigy, KXNG Crooked, Inspectah Deck, Cappadonna, and more.

ATA Records go from strength to strength with their recent issues, Work Money Death’s People of the Fast Flowing River and The Sorcerers’ Other Worlds and Habitats. 2025 sees the release of the fourth volume of their regular soundtrack series, the Library Archives. An honest and forthright homage to the golden age of library recording, this new release is no exception – with nods to David Shire, Roger Webb, 60s/70s Hollywood, early anime and golden era video games.

Black Jesus eXperience’s ‘Time Teling’ explores the fragility of life, the preciousness of time and the importance of hope, love, joy, and community.

When people think of Yacht Rock—those smooth, sun-drenched sounds that once drifted from Californian radio stations in the late '70s and early '80s—they rarely imagine it echoing through rehearsal rooms in Hamburg or Linz. Yet even far from the Pacific coastline, the appeal of shimmering chords, laid-back grooves, and polished production found fertile ground.