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Today's club culture all started with Northern Soul and its roots in the Mod all-nighter scene of London clubs.

The recording of the 1968 album The Notorious Byrd Brothers was a labour of love; it's more experimental and progressive than their previous works and is considered one of the best albums they made.

Footshooter's album 'The Oasis' sits at the crossroads between jazz and broken beat. Peppered with collaborations, the album includes new single "Cycles (feat. James Mollison)" as well as previous singles "Here To Learn (feat. Andre Espeut)" and "Obelisk (feat. Natty Wylah & brother portrait)".

The Off-Season is the sixth studio album by American rapper J. Cole. It charted at number 2 in the UK when it was released on May 14, 2021 by Dreamville Records, Roc Nation and Interscope Records. 

Old-school spot with a tiny courtyard, pub menu and Sunday roasts, plus craft beer and 40+ gins

The overlooked 2018 boogie masterpiece from Detroit maestro Amp Fiddler and jazz/funk virtuosos Will Sessions is finally back on vinyl!

First Word Records is very proud to welcome the return of the inimitable Kaidi Tatham, with his 5th album for us, entitled 'The Only Way'. Kaidi Tatham is a legendary multi-instrumentalist born in the Midlands and based in Belfast.

Composer, clarinetist, singer & spiritual jazz soothsayer Angel Bat Dawid descended on Chicago's jazz & improvised music scene just a couple years ago.

The Orb's legendary debut LP...

The Original Sound of Burkina Faso follows the hugely successful The Original Sound of Mali compilation released in March this year, also on Mr Bongo.

Those of us deeply entranced by Malian culture, and, in particular, the immense hypnotic beauty of Malian music, have put together a selection of songs from across the country.

Restoring, reissuing and contextualising iconic tracks from Ousmane Kouyate & Ambassadeurs Internationaux, Rail Band, Les Messagers du Mali, Mystere Jazz de Tombouctou and many more, the second compilation in this series dives ever further into the richness of post- independence music emanating out of Mali. One in which traditional foundations and instrumentation, blended with modern musical advances and influence.

Real deep funk with a psychedelic nudge.

The Paris House is a French-styled cafe-bar on the Brighton-Hove border with live music at it's very core.

The Party's Over was the debut album by Talk Talk. It was released in 1982 and produced by Colin Thurston, who was a former engineer for David Bowie but was better known for producing Duran Duran's first two albums.

The Pentangle was the 1968 debut album of the band Pentangle: Terry Cox, Bert Jansch, Jacqui McShee, John Renbourn and Danny Thompson. It brought together their separate influences of folk, jazz, blues, early music and contemporary song-writing. One of the band’s most commercially successful albums, it reached number 21 in the British charts.

Original soundtrack to Wes Anderson’s new film The Phoenician Scheme.

The album includes the classic songs Astronomy Domine, Lucifer Sam and Interstellar Overdrive. One of the seminal psychedelic rock albums of the 1960s.

40th anniversary remastered edition of the classic soul album from 1981.

Recorded and released in 1969, Herbie Hancock’s last Blue Note album The Prisoner is a powerful but overlooked masterpiece.

Recorded in 1967 but not released until 1978, Lee Morgan’s The Procrastinator stands in hindsight as one of the monumental achievements of the trumpeter’s prolific late-60s output.

The Psychedelic Scene, a compilation of various artists, brings together some of the pivotal pieces that shaped the unique energy of the psychedelic era.

The Queen Is Dead is the Smiths' great leap forward, taking the band to new musical and lyrical heights.

Made of groovy tunes and dance killers, this album could be the crazy soundtrack of a 60s hippie village on the South China Sea.

Following the critical and commercial success of their debut album last year and 18 months' extensive touring and festival appearances, Public Service Broadcasting release their eagerly anticipated second album, 'The Race For Space'.

Emerging from 6 years of sonic exploration, SBTRKT (pronounced 'subtract'), is an electronic music artist based in London, UK known for his synaesthesiac production.

Originally released in 1989 the album that spawned the hits She Drives Me Crazy, Good Thing and Ever Fallen In Love took the band to No.1 in the charts on both sides of the Atlantic and won the band two Brit Awards.

The Real McCoy is the seventh album by jazz pianist McCoy Tyner and his first released on the Blue Note label. 

London Grammar release a limited edition of The Remixes exclusively for Record Store Day.

Sampa The Great creates a sense of home on her debut album - The Return. A characterful record, its reference points range from classic hip-hop to ancient Southern African sounds.

Bt the first Funk Soul Sisters compilation struck a rich seem of soulful funk, and funky soul and this time round we think we have bettered that.

Re-released for the first time since 1974, this is the sequel to the classic 1973 'Bongo Rock', which became a foundation of rap and popular music, up to the present day.

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised is a compilation album by American poet Gil Scott-Heron. It was released in 1974 by Flying Dutchman Records and titled after Scott-Heron's 1971 song of the same name

Milton Banana 'Miltinho', plays drums accompanied by The Oscar Castro-Neves Orchestra

The Richest Man In Babylon’ is the third studio album by American electronic music duo Thievery Corporation. It was first released in 2002 by ESL Music.

Originally released through RCA Victor on 6th june 1972, 'Ziggy Stardust' was David Bowie's fifth album, co-produced by Bowie and Ken Scott.

London-based keyboardist and composer Greg Foat is back with his new album, 'The Rituals of Infinity'. Greg's first memory with the piano goes all the way back to his Aunt's house at aged 3 - where he fell off the piano stool.

The Room is a collection of folkloric pieces from various regions around South America, as interpreted by Fabiano do Nascimento and Sam Gendel, on 7-string nylon guitar and soprano saxophone, respectively.

The Round Georges is a warm and friendly local, who pride ourselves with being a meeting place for our community.

The legendary jazz harpist's most enduring set, 'The Rubáiyát of Dorothy Ashby' reconfigures the template for jazz vocal albums, fusing hard bop with the sublime spiritualism Alice Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders channeled in the '60s and '70s.

The Score is the second and final studio album by the hip hop trio Fugees.

Following up on the massive worldwide success of their debut album 55, Bacao Rhythm & Steel band is back with another heavy duty offering.

Pussyfoot Records is back with a brand new E.P after popping out to get milk 15 years ago. 'The Shape Of Cats To Come' mixes the original Pussyfoot crew with some heavyweight up and comers, creating a journey through genre and sound.

180g vinyl pressing. On this highly influential 1959 album, ornette coleman's unique writing style and idiosyncratic solo language forever changed the jazz landscape. On classics such as "Lonely woman", "Congeniality", and "Focus on sanity", coleman used the tunes' moods and melodic contours, rather than their chords, as a basis for his improvisations. In so doing, he opened up jazz soloing immensely and ushered in new freedoms—both individually and collectively. Lest these innovations sound too dry or abstract, it must be noted that both coleman and trumpeter don cherry play with a deep-felt emotion and joy that is as infectious today as it was then. This is truly an essential jazz recording, marking the end of one era, providing the blueprint for the next.

On August 22nd, 2006 J Dilla’s ‘The Shining’ will serve as a testament to the fact that legends never die.

Australian 9-piece Spiritual Jazz group Menagerie announce their highly anticipated fourth album 'The Shores Of Infinity' - representing the 3rd LP to be released by Freestyle Records from the Melbourne-based Jazz ensemble, founded by producer, songwriter, guitarist, DJ and recording artist Lance Ferguson (The Bamboos, Lanu, Rare Groove Spectrum, Machines Always Win).

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.

The Silver Cord, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard's 25th studio album is a full-hearted and purposeful embrace of electronic equipment and electronic music in its own right.

Where most 'greatest hits' albums fall down at least once there can be no argument that this collection delivers the bangers and nothing but.

Keyboardist and composer Weldon Irvine is among the most celebrated jazz-funk artists of all time.

The 12-track Skatalites album do make for a tidy sampler of some of the best sides the group cut for producer Duke Reid during the last days of Jamaican R&B and the early ska period.

Heavyweight double vinyl repress. Eminem's breakthrough into the mainstream. It was pretty much all or nothing for him at this point, and the huge success of the album, lead by the single 'My Name Is', catapulted his career forward. The album is noted for its cartoonish and overly violent lyrics as well as its sharp lyricism. The production - masterminded by Dr. Dre but also helmed in large doses by Marky and Jeff Bass, along with Marshall himself - mirrors his rhymes, with their spare, intricately layered arrangements enhancing his narratives, which are always at the forefront. A stonewall classic.

The 20th Anniversary of The Slim Shady LP. The updated Expanded Edition including bonus tracks, rarities, acapella’s, freestyles, and instrumentals.

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

Through their prolific remix work in the last decade, Erol Alkan and Richard Norris have brought psychedelic music to the dance floor.

Two months after recording his masterpiece Speak No Evil, saxophonist Wayne Shorter was back in the studio recording The Soothsayer featuring Freddie Hubbard, James Spaulding, McCoy Tyner, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams.

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

This compilation focuses on the sort of Latin soul records made by Nuyoricans in a very small window in the late 60s, before it was blown away by the onslaught of the golden years of salsa.

Alberto Baldan Bembo (1938-2017), also known as “Ali” Ben Djamballa, Bedan, Blue Marvin or Shorty

First time ever on vinyl for one of Ali Farka Toure's greatest albums. 

Oscar Jerome hibernated to make what became The Spoon, his second album.

"The Stone Roses" is the debut studio album by the British rock band The Stone Roses, released in 1989. It is widely regarded as one of the greatest albums in British music history.

When the Carpenters first toured Japan, a journalist mistakenly referred to Karen as the 'lead sister' of the band.

In 1968, Don Cherry had already established himself as one of the leading voices of the avant-garde.

The Sunset Violent began in a disused frat house in the American Yucca Valley.

The Survivors' Suite, recorded in 1976, is the crowning achievement of Keith Jarrett's "American Quartet" with Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden and Paul Motian, and one of the all-time enduring masterpieces in the ECM catalogue.

The Tastemaker charts the singular life of a man who has been at the beating heart of music's most iconic moments for over sixty years.

Movie masterpiece The Third Man is particularly known for a few things: the striking play of shadows on the streets of Vienna, Orson Welles’ scene-stealing appearance in the last ten minutes, and Anton Karas’s fantastic score for solo zither.

Arguably one of the most acclaimed and loved bands of the past 20 years, by both fans and their musical peers alike, The Beta Band formed in St. Andrews, Scotland, in 1996.

The Tokyo Blues is an album that reflects Horace Silver's deep musicality, cultural curiosity, and love for the blues.

Midlake's second album, The Trials of Van Occupanther, jumps with both feet into the '70s of Laurel Canyon troubadours and soft rock balladeers.

Touching on influences from Air to Bonobo, The XX to DJ Shadow, ‘The Trip’ guides you down a road less travelled meandering through Downtempo, Electronica & Trip Hop with a few Jazzy twists & turns.

Röyksopp's 'The Understanding' double vinyl reissue. Originally released on 1st July, 2005.

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’

‘The Universe Smiles Upon You’ was recorded at their spiritual home, a remote barn deep in the Texas countryside where their first rehearsals took place. The band listened to a lot of different types of music on the long drives out to the country but their favourites were 60s and 70s Thai cassettes gleaned from the cult Monrakplengthai blog and compilations of southeast Asian pop, rock and funk. This had a heavy impact on the direction of the band, the scales they used and the inflection of the melodies; which coupled with the spaciousness of the Texan countryside culminated in Khruangbin forming their exotic, individual sound.

Madlib's solo debut LP as Quasimoto, an alter ego of the acclaimed producer. The album was conceived and recorded by Madlib during a week-long psilocybin mushroom binge.

Alan Braxe reissues his 2004 cult classic compilation album The Upper Cuts on Smugglers Way. 

The Upsetter is a rocksteady, reggae compilation that was originally released in 1969 on the Trojan label.

An instrumental Suite based on a day in their home town of Ventnor on the Isle of Wight. Featuring local musicians and field recordings of bird song and pubs, this album captures the essence of life in this seaside town.

Velvet Underground's self-titled third album seemed like the debut of a new band. John Cale had left (replaced by Doug Yule) and the group became, for all intents and purposes, Lou Reed's back-up band.