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For Thee Sacred Souls, the first time is often the charm. The band’s first club dates led to a record deal with the revered Daptone label; their first singles racked up more than ten million streams in a year and garnered attention from Billboard, Rolling Stone, and KCRW

Universally regarded as one of the greatest collaborations between the two most influential musicians in modern jazz (Miles Davis notwithstanding), the Jazzland sessions from Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane should be recognized on other levels. While the mastery of the principals is beyond reproach, credit should also be given to peerless bassist Wilbur Ware, as mighty an anchor as anyone could want. These 1957 dates also sport a variety in drummerless trio, quartet, septet, or solo piano settings, all emphasizing the compelling and quirky compositions of Monk.

Abacothozi were formed in 1973 by bassist Berthwel Maphumulo, formerly of the Elite Swingsters.

Recorded with two different ensembles, Thembi was a departure from the slowly developing, side-long, mantra-like grooves Pharoah Sanders had been pursuing for most of his solo career.

Berlin-based British composer, percussionist, and instrument maker Bex Burch was invited to spend a month in the US by International Anthem in Summer 2022. 

There'll Never Be Another You was recorded live in Zagreb, Croatia, in 1985.

There’s A Riot Goin’ On is an influential masterpiece of darkly psychedelic funk.

This album represents Curits Mayfield in his prime as a composer.

São Paulo-born DJ & producer in Brighton. Spins samba, funk, Latin & reggae.Hosts OBA on Slack City Radio.

A spirit-lifting, soul-stirring devotional that effortlessly unites house, funk, soul, RnB and hip-hop influences, Things Are Getting Better hears the LA-based vocal group reach new heights to spread a message of faith and togetherness in troubled times.

Things Fall Apart was a turning point for the Roots, the record where they figured out what kind of band they could be. Both its themes and its eclectic mix of sounds resonate in the current moment.

Moloko’s third album Things to Make and Do marks a shift in the sound of the duo, with tracks more reliant on live musicians. The first single The Time Is Now became Moloko’s biggest hit, peaking at number two in the UK.

James Brown had several incredibly talented 'funky divas' in his late '60s and early '70s stable, including Vicki Anderson and Marva Whitney. But as great as those two powerhouse singers were, Lyn Collins was the strongest hit maker of that funky JB era.

Jitwam is an already accomplished, beatmaker who brings even more goodness on this new album.

Soft Machine released their third album Third in 1970. It is a double album with each side of the vinyl consisting of a single long composition. Its music explores the emerging Jazz Fusion of the type present on Miles Davis' Bitches Brew, which was released just a few months earlier.

Portishead's third LP...

I collect music of any genre that catches my ear, and love sharing what I've found

"Third Vibration" was released alongside the band's Spring tour: 'Ashes Tour 2024'.

This is a new half-speed master exclusively for RSD and part of the Two Tone Records 40th Anniversary celebrations.

Originally released in 1974 and was one of the first albums to showcase Pablo's unique use of the melodica.

Legendary American musician Brian Jackson announces his first solo album in over 20 years, produced by Phenomenal Handclap Band founder Daniel Collás and released on BBE Music. 

Wewantsounds presents a tracks recorded between 1970 and 1973 and showcasing the label's superb blend of Funk, Soul and Jazz.

Backed by a group of hand picked musicians, the whole album is exclusively the work of three young men who are trying to bring back some freshness and raw funk into the current flash-in-the-pan songs being recorded in this country.

This Is Mod is part of a new series aimed at vinyl buyers who wants a genre specific compilation to excite their ears. Two sides of fantastic music, at an affordable price, cherry picked from Ace and its associated catalogues.

This release presents the seminal Ornette Coleman album This Is Our Music (Atlantic SD1353) in its entirety, featuring the wonderful piano-less quartet with Don Cherry, Charlie Haden and Ed Blackwell. The group consisted of modern players working with the same concept: a freer way of playing jazz, which transcended the strict confines of melody, harmony and rhythm. They would create a whole new idiom by constructing music via the interplay of simultaneous collective improvisation. Coleman had made his debut on records in February/March 1958 with the LP Something Else!!!!. The quartet of Coleman/Cherry/Haden and Billy Higgins on drums was heard on The Shape of Jazz to Come and Change of the Century.

Track Listing Sweet Music, Soft Lights and You Now Is the Time for Love Pt. 1 I'll See You in Hell First Love Highjacker I Can Fly It Hurts So Good See Saw Affair Lightin' Up Three Lonely Guys Spells & Incantations (With Debbie Lindsay) Midnight Affair When I Had You, Baby

Appearing first in the UK in 1968, This Is Soul was an immediate success. 

This Is Speedometer showcases the sounds of one of the UK's premier acts in the deep funk scene of the early noughties for the first time on the long player format.

“This Is Street Funk” is part of a new series aimed at vinyl buyers who want a genre specific compilation to excite their ears. They will appeal to long-standing, discerning music acolytes and recent converts alike. Two sides of fantastic music, at an affordable price, hand-picked with TLC from Ace and its associated catalogues.

Kenny Dorham is one of the all time great jazz trumpeters.

It must be difficult to have released a classic so early in one’s career.

Public Service Broadcasting release This New Noise, the newly remixed and remastered live recording of their acclaimed 2022 BBC Proms show at London’s Royal Albert Hall, via Test Card Recordings.

Trammps, originally released in 1984. The Trammps, hailing from Philadelphia, were a prominent fixture in the disco scene of the 1970s. Consisting of Earl Young, Harold Wade, Jimmy Ellis, Robert Upchurch, and Stanley Wade, they were known for their infectious grooves and energetic live performances. The Trammps earned their place in music history with hits like “Disco Inferno” and “Hold Back the Night”, but also “Shout” and “Move” became disco classics.

This Wasn’t Meant For You Anyway marks a remarkable shift in Lola’s sound as an artist. Recorded in LA and produced by friend and collaborator Solomonophic (Remi Wolf, Brockhampton, Dominic Fike), This Wasn’t Meant For You Anyway is a multi-faceted, fearless concept.

The ultra-rare holy grail masterpiece by Elcados originally released by EMI-Nigeria in 1973 and recorded by Kayode Salami.

Taking a short sabbatical from their journey into the spiritual stratosphere and beyond, Work Money Death landed on terra firma just long enough to record a follow up to the critically acclaimed "The Space In Which The Uncontrollable Unknown Resides Can Be The Place From Which Creation Arises".

Written and produced by Kieran Hebden.

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

"Through Time and Space", as the title implies, reveals an awareness and knowledge of hip-hop history, and is another chapter ahead in this ever-changing and captivating continuum.

One of the stellar recordings of the jazz-rock fusion era. 

One of the finest Wu Tang moments and Method Man's best solo effort. The production is dark and menacing with that thick 36 chambers sound and every track is killer.

Debuts on Black Friday. Never issued in this form. The compilation features a collection of small run releases and private press releases. All long out of print and impossible to find. 3000 pressed worldwide. Now-Again’s follow up to one of its most well-loved compilations, Forge Your Own Chains, and this, as the title hints, a recollection and rumination of what might befall the human race made especially salient by the past year’s trials and tribulations as performed by prison funk ensembles, Krautrock legends, Turkish teenagers, Icelandic prog-rock bands and even E-40’s uncle, the man to first distribute No Limit, and the creator of this album’s title track, St. Charles “Chucky” Thurman.

The 7th studio album by Brazilian jazz legend Antônio Carlos Jobim, Tide was released in 1970 on A&M Records.

One of the hardest-working singer-songwriters in the game is named Katie Crutchfield.

Volume 1 of the classic Trojan series, reissued here on vinyl.

In this world, nothing is certain except taxes, death and Confidence Man.

With original vinyl copies fetching at least £100 second hand, Scott Walker’s 1995 avant-garde masterpiece ‘Tilt’ gets a welcome reissue for Record Store Day 2024 on 140gram vinyl.

Mr Bongo reissue of this 1977 LP by one of the great figures of Brazilian music.

An icon of Brazilian popular music, Tim Maia was a musical polymath and prolific recording artist best known for introducing American soul to the Brazilian music scene, pioneering the sambalanço style by blending elements of soul, funk, rock, and samba.

Mr Bongo reissue of this 1977 LP by one of the great figures of Brazilian music.

Lee Moses was a huge talent and if he'd had the big hit album he richly deserved, 'Time and Place' would've been it.

Released ahead of the start of Oasis Live ’25, Time Flies is made available for the first time on vinyl since it was first pressed in 2010.

Two years after the Dave Brubeck Quartet’s ground- and time-signature breaking Time Out (1959), this classic quartet (Brubeck, piano, Paul Desmond, alto sax, Eugene Wright, bass, and Joe Morello, drums) would continue its jazz experiments in a series that was often inspired by abstract paintings. Time Further Out: Miró Reflections was the group’s attempt at a “jazz interpretation” of Miró’s 1925, a visually kinetic work featuring a prominent string of numerals descending from the upper edge of the canvas.

Wildfire was a household name in Tropical Island music circles due to their excellent albums and performances throughout Trinidad, Tobago, the Caribbean and US Virgin Islands and French Guadeloupe.

Critics believe the Zombies were ill-served during the 1960s, that they deserved a higher place in public affection.

Second only to Kind of Blue by Miles and Jazz Samba by Stan Getz, as the most commercially successful jazz record of all time (it even contained a single for the pop charts, Paul Desmond's magnificent Take Five'), Brubeck brilliantly popularised jazz and offered it as a palatable alternative to Bobby Vee

Timeless – The All-Time Greatest Hits contains 21 certified classic tracks from one of the world’s most commercially successful and acclaimed bands in the history of popular music.

Timeless is the third solo studio album by Kaytranada.

Goldie’s 1995 debut ‘Timeless’ is often described as one of the greatest dance music albums of all time.

Influential dj, producer, radio-presentator and founder of the Acid Jazz, Talkin' Loud labels MBE Gilles Peterson has handpicked 11 of his jazz favourites from the immense catalog of the Dutch jazz Timeless label.

Collection of jazz favourites from the Dutch jazz label Timeless Records (which celebrates its 50th Anniversary in 2025) compiled by world reknown jazz collector, labelboss, radio-jock and DJ Gilles Peterson.

Timeless is one of electronic music’s most critically acclaimed and influential albums.

Timepeace was recorded in 1998 after a 15 year long career break and won the United Nations's Time For Peace award for outstanding artistic achievement contributing to world peace.

Replacing Curtis Mayfield in The Impressions was always going to be a difficult transition, but Curtis sought solace with fledgling singer and songwriter Leroy Hutson.

An early snapshot of an extraordinary musician at a young age, TLC & Friends was recorded in October 1981 when Terri Lyne Carrington was only 16 years old.

The Cinematic Orchestra are back with a definitive new album that explores a timeless question of vital importance in 2019 - what to believe?

This is activism expressed through gorgeous music that breaks down barriers by encouraging that most powerful emotion: connectedness

PinkPantheress’ debut mixtape 'to hell with it' marked the anti-popstars seismic arrival. Released in 2021, the project fused bedroom pop, jungle, drum & bass and UKG, introducing these sounds to a new generation through her saccharine vocals and diaristic lyrics about obsession, hopelessness, friendship, and loneliness.

The dense and complex follow-up to good kid, m.A.A.d city is wry, theatrical, chaotic, ironic, and mournful, often all at once. Credit: Pitchfork

One of five new Sault masterpieces.

Reissued for the first time outside of Brazil, Todos Os Olhos is one of the most important Brazilian records of all time.

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

'Tokyo Dreaming' is a superb selection picked from the highly collectible Nippon Columbia label and its Better Days sub-label. For the occasion, we've teamed up with journalist and Japanese music expert Nick Luscombe who was granted rare access to the much-guarded Nippon Columbia's vaults for a masterful selection encapsulating the fascinating sound of Tokyo in the late 70s and 80s. 

A stylish selection of city pop, funk and modern soul from Japanese label Nippon Columbia, selected by DJ Notoya and featuring cult classics and rarities by Hiroshi Sato, Hatsumi Shibata, Hitomi 'Penny' Tohyama & many more.

If there is a year zero for the introduction of reggae music to Japan, you’d be forgiven for thinking it was 1979 when Bob Marley and the Wailers toured the country, trailed by an entourage of journalists, photographers and fans ready to spread the message of the music into all corners of Japanese society.

Diving deeper into the story of Japanese reggae pop, Tokyo Riddim Vol. 2explores an electronic, new wave and often experimental sound unlike anything Japan or Jamaica had ever heard before.

No genres, no borders, only vibes and timeless beautiful records.

This year’s offering for Record Store Day by The Who is the original soundtrack album used in the 1975 Tommy film.

Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds Series presents this 180-gram LP edition of Ornette Coleman’s second album Tomorrow Is The Question!.

Hill Collective is a jazz ensemble based in Brighton, UK. Led by saxophonist and composer Pete Piskov, the group offers a fresh musical attitude, employing modern improvisation techniques and nuanced compositions - a soulful, avant-garde addition to the bustling UK jazz landscape.