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1970s Jamaica suffered an unprecedented stretch of political turmoil and violence, and as the country’s economy and morale collapsed, reggae and its offshoots exploded worldwide.

Daniel Avery described Ultra Truth as an album "about looking directly into the darkness, not running away from it."

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’.

This debut is a must-have for all true funk afficionados.

Slow and low is the name of the game and no one’s sad shtick is more seductive than Madame Melancholia herself, Lana Del Rey.

A beautiful deep-soulful-folky Brazilian album from 2018 by the Bahian vocalist Luedji Luna. 

Emma-Jean Thackray, an outstanding figure in the UK jazz scene, releases Um Yang, her long-dreamed project dedicated to the Taoist philosophy of duality and harmony.

Renowned Italian spiritual jazz master, DJ, producer, guitarist, and bandleader Nicola Conte proudly presents his new album Umoja via London based label Far Out Recordings.

Fifth studio album featuring Malcolm Catto, D'Alma, Idd Aziz and Modou Touré. Includes the singles Sua Alma, In The End and Afande. 

Unapologetic Expression captures the radical spirit of a vital British musical movement

Unapologetic Expression captures the radical spirit of a vital British musical movement

The Blondie guitarist charts his drug-fuelled journey from young punk to pop pioneer with charming nonchalance

Ludus Pinsky (Lapo Lombardi) and Alexander Robotnick (Maurizio Dami) are Italcimenti, a fuzz project seeking to re-construct the way to heavy-cement music, so sadly famous in the early 80s.

During the latter half of the seventies very few came close to emulating the success of the productions of Joe Gibbs and Errol Thompson.

Z Records continues its commitment to unearthing the obscure and long forgotten tracks from the last 40 years through the ever-popular Under The Influence series.

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.

There is more variety than expected on the fine set with some cookers, ballads, waltzes, and even some hints at classical music.

Undun is an existential re-telling of the short life of one Redford Stephens (1974-1999).

Unhalfbricking, originally released in 1969, was a transitional album for Fairport Convention, as vocalist (and American folk-rock enthusiast) Ian Matthews left midway through the recording.

His 1965 masterpiece 'Unity' featured a cast of modern jazz masters with Woody Shaw on trumpet, Joe Henderson on saxophone, and Elvin Jones on drums.

Silky Steps hustles towards the scene trailblazed by Nile Rodgers, and currently held by the likes of Jungle, L’imperatrice and Parcels.

Dj Pippi & Willie Graff present their sophomore LP Universal Language, continuing their pioneering experiments with the Balearic sound.

Unknown Pleasures, the debut studio album from Joy Division, was first released in 1979 on Factory Records.

After the bilingual charms, international genre-spanning adventures and picture postcard images of pan-European culture of their debut album ‘Can We Do Tomorrow Another Day?’, Galen & Paul now share the new EP ‘Uno Más’.

Rewarding as it was for most lovers of 1983 and Los Angeles, Cosmogramma was so complex and knotted that Steven Ellison's next step could have gone beyond the challenging and into the self-parodic.

The mysterious Sault return with album number three that was announced when the whole album was played on BBC 6 Music’s Gilles Peterson’s show.

Filled with jazz solos and politically-charged lyrics, it appers to be a companion piece to Butterfly, rather than a standalone record. All of the tracks are untitled, save for the date they were recorded.

The dubstep artist follows his critically acclaimed debut with the even richer*,* more complex, and more enveloping Untrue, a record of reverb-heavy and mournful songs that feel almost like beautiful secrets being whispered to a listener.

Released in 1982, Upstairs at Eric's is the groundbreaking debut album by Yazoo.

Remastered from the original tapes & pressed on loud double vinyl! Hot of the success of Jay-Z’s Reasonable Doubt, producer extraordinaire Ski was on fire when he flipped Dynasty’s “Adventures In The Land of Music” for Camp Lo’s breakout 1996 smash single “Luchini aka This Is It”.

Issued in January 2015, dedicated to the late Amy Winehouse and featuring the smash hit ‘Uptown Funk’, Uptown Special was Ronson’s first UK number one album, also going top five on the US Billboard 200.

Overflowing with positive vibes, memorable melodies, and irresistible rhythms, this essential feel-good collection is guaranteed to get feet moving, fill dancefloors and spread joy any time of the year.

Between the late '60s and early '80s, design house Hipgnosis created some of the most iconic and ubiquitous album artwork of all time.

V continues Bing Crosby’s legacy of iconic holiday duets—marking 47 years since Bing Crosby’s last cross-generational collaboration with David Bowie in 1977.

Signed to Matthew Halsall's Gondwana Records and championed by DJs from Mike Chadwick to Gilles Peterson and Jamie Cullum, GoGo Penguin's skittering break-beats, telepathic interplay and a penchant for anthemic melody all contribute to a sound that's wholly their own.

In the midst of the UK house rave-olution of the early-’90s, London’s V4 Visions imprint documented the confluence of street soul, deep house, swingbeat, and jungle sounds emanating from the clubs and pirate radio signals. 

Stu Larsen is an Australian Indie/Folk singer/songwriter who has recently teamed up with good friend Mike Rosenberg AKA Passenger, to produce the debut full length release of "Vagabond"

Released in 1983, Sandra Sa‘s Vale Tudo is one of the essential Brazilian-boogie-funk records of the era. Pure class throughout, with a dream team of incredible musicians and producers behind the scenes.

It's five years since we first released Yosi Horikawa's 'Vapor' album. To commemorate the occassion, we're releasing the album on vinyl for the very first time, also including a previously unreleased bonus track, 'Yoggo'.

On Variables, his second release for ANTI-, Alfa achieves his most fully realised, expressive musical work to date, coupling his keen ear for looping, memorably emotive piano melodies with intuitive grooves and a free-flowing jazz improvisation.

First time on vinyl for many years. For 2003's Vaudeville Villain MF Doom took on yet another pseudonym. Where MF Doom drew from Doctor Doom, Viktor Vaughn drew from the Doctor's government name, Victor von Doom. The influence of superheros and supervillians however goes much deeper than the nom de plume, the silver age sci-fi vibe is present, musically, throughout Vaudeville Villain. Long out of print on vinyl, Get On Down presents this landmark of Doom's career as a double gatefold LP for RSD 2022.

When the Velvets recorded this debut, they were best known as the protégées of Andy Warhol (who designed the sleeve), and as a grating, combustive live band.

This is dub poetry: bold and musical, funny and furious.This collection brings together the work of nine inventive and brilliant poets who defined and drove the dub poetry genre.

Renowned for his infectious charm in the booth and an expert ear for funk, soul and disco rarities, the 11 producer who cut his teeth making maximum impact dancefloor groovers is now taking an introspective new direction.

Heavily influenced by Motown and Stax soul sounds, Version is the second studio album by British DJ and producer Mark Ronson, a triple platinum success in the UK that is by far his most successful and helped to win him the BRIT Award for Best British Male Solo Artist.

The pioneer of toasting Ewart Beckford, better known by his stage name U-Roy, is a Jamaican vocalist.

One of Bernard Herrmann's most iconic suspense scores now available on vinyl.

Million selling album originally released in 1999 on Jive Records.

Available on vinyl for the first time, this is a superb collection of Dolly's greatest hits / fan favourites. A 20 song album across a double vinyl set. Includes 9 To 5, I Will Always Love You, Islands In The Stream, Jolene, Here You Come Again and many more

Very Necessary is the fourth studio album by American hip hop group Salt-N-Pepa, first released in October 1993.

Re-issue of an extremely now rare 45 from 1977 that sells for £1,000 if you can find an original copy.

Very Tall, released in 1961, features the first partnership between Oscar Peterson and vibraphonist Milt Jackson.

Vespertine isn't so much a departure from her previous work as a culmination of the musical distance she's traveled; within songs like the subtly sensual "Hidden Place" and "Undo" are traces of Debut and Post's gentle loveliness, as well as Homogenic and Selmasongs reflective, searching moments.

Simon Jefferis debut album, Vibrations. Featuring Rosie Lowe, Abhi The Nomad, Shunaji, Dylan Jones, David Mrakpor, Ife Ogunjobi, Natty Reeves, Sheldon Agwu and Ben Vize. Brixton based polymath Simon Jefferis has been setting mouths ajar with his expertly crafted, atmosphere-heavy beats over the past few years. With his reputation as both a talented instrumentalist, and adaptive producer steadily circulating through the city’s hip hop undercurrents, 2020 sees Jefferis return to rising label DeepMatter with his debut LP Vibrations.

New Orleans' Hot 8 Brass Band toast their 20th Anniversary in typical roof-raising style, with a series of releases and live dates to celebrate this significant and incredibly hard-won milestone. 

Bolbec, brand new project of childhood friends and multi-instrumentalists Axel Concato and Barth Corbelet, present their debut record, "Victime De L'aube”, on Batov Records. Drawing on their wide blend of musical tastes, from spiritual jazz and folk to classical and electronic sounds, to create an imaginary soundtrack that could easily sit beside the best of Piero Piccioni or Michel Legrand. The album features the duo playing over a dozen different instruments between them, with some heavyweight support from the Nostalgia 77 rhythm section.

Victorialand, Cocteau Twins’ fourth album, was released in spring 1986. The largely acoustic, non-percussive album was made with Elizabeth and Robin, while Simon was working on This Mortal Coil's second album.

Dive into the epic quest for the golden VHS, a powerful artefact that will open the doors of fiction!

The trio's debut album, "Live from St. Hanshaugen," was recorded in Liv's living room just a week after they started playing together. 

Classic 1970 Psychedelic Blues, 6th Studio Album. Produced by Johnny Otis, the album features the Muddy Waters/Elmore James' song "Rollin' and Tumblin'" recorded with and without Alan Wilson's harmonica leads.

Kerala Dust was formed in London in 2016. Growing up on the sounds of Can, The Velvet Underground and Tom Waits while spending blurry mornings in nightclubs, the band combines those disparate influences of psychedelic rock, blues and techno into one.

This is the second part of Virgin Ubiquity: Unreleased Recordings 1976-1981and is again packed with tracks that are far more than unreleased findings from the cutting room floor. Each one serves as another feather in the bow of the virtuoso Ayers, who combined jazz, funk, soul and disco in magical and unique ways throughout his career. In doing so he laid down a precursor to acid jazz and hip hop. These are tracks that show off his dynamic, liquid rhythm sections and mellifluous keys, as well as the vocal talents of a range of collaborators who touch on soaring and sensuous highs as well as more gravel and earthy lows. Essential.

After three weeks of hard freeze, of slipping on mutt-stained patches of frost and iced Brooklyn gutters, with December's cigarette butts still suspended in February's frozen amber puddles, the cold snap finally snapped, and thermometers inched above zero degrees. Just to feel the sun cut through the blustery wind promised the approach of spring, and it was then that I relied on vibraphonist Roy Ayers to help soundtrack and celebrate warm weather's imminent return. Best known for "Everybody Loves the Sunshine", Ayers and his vibes are like those same solar rays on your skin; for me, this batch of grooves was a salve for staving off seasonal depression. Credit: Pitchfork

Long before becoming an icon of funk, acid jazz, and R&B, Roy Ayers was a promising young jazz vibraphonist.

Vision Songs Vol 1 (1984) is the Laraaji album like no other, located at the intersection of new age and gospel. 

This sophomore record sees the group reimagine what an ‘ensemble’ can do: expanding into a shifting collective, where human relationships between artists underpin far-ranging, stunningly ambitious and emotionally-heavyweight compositions.

Coldplay's fourth studio album sees the band emerge from the success of 2005's X&Y with the same hunger that has gained them global success ever since 2000's Parachutes.

Viva Soul! A strictly vinyl celebration of soulful music with underplayed sounds from around the world!

The title of Tom Skinner’s first release under his own name is a reference to cellist Abdul Wadud’s ultra-rare 1978 solo album ‘By Myself’, which Skinner listened to repeatedly during lockdown. Wadud’s album was privately pressed on his own label, Bisharra, and whilst Skinner’s title uses the more conventional spelling of this common Arabic name, they both have the same intention or meaning: it translates as ‘good news’, or ‘the bringer of good news’.

Earl Sweatshirt and The Alchemist’s joint album Voir Dire is released via Tan Cressida / ALC / Warner Records. 

Intimate early recording by Malian icon. Awesome Tapes From Africa the label began over 10 years ago with the reissue of Nahawa Doumbia’s Vol. 3.

An Evangelist's Guide to Late 20th Century Underground Music

Volcano follows Jungle’s previous album Loving In Stereo, which proved to be a landmark moment for the acclaimed UK duo.

Leif Maine and Jackson Mathod release Volte-Face. This collaboration marks a bold new chapter in contemporary jazz, blending traditional and modern elements with great artistry and a willingness to explore many genres on one project.

Legendary trumpeter Miles Davis was still near the start of his storied career when he cut the three sessions that comprise his Blue Note recordings in 1952, 1953, and 1954.

Eight-track VOLUME 2 showcases an ever expanding side of MRCY: a maturing sound full of punchy instrumentation, enveloping orchestration and lyrical honesty.

Dur-Dur Band emerged in the 1980s, during a time when Somalia's contribution to the creative culture in the Horn of Africa was visible and abundant.

Bola’s music melds sheer force of spirit with a sound not often heard by ears outside the remote Upper East Region of Ghana.

The Jefferson Airplane's sixth album Volunteers was released in 1969, a mere two year since their monumental psychedelic hippie rock album Surrealistic Pillow [MOVLP034]. A politically charged album, Volunteers mainly dealt with the injustice of the Vietnam war.

'Voodoo' hit store shelves on January 25th 2000, just a few weeks after the new year celebrations to end them all.