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Everything from jazz, funk and soul, to indie and electronic. Has broadcasted on 1BTN and Totally Wired Radio for over 5 years and supported DJs including Gilles Peterson and Jo Whiley.

Never before heard blues from 1969!

According to the original 1955 liner notes to Clifford Brown & Max Roach, the announcement that Clifford Brown and Max Roach had begun recording and playing together sent shock waves throughout the jazz community and predictions ran rampant about how the two might shape bop to come.

Closer, the group's second and final album arrived the year after their debut in July 1980 on Factory Records, following Ian Curtis' death two months earlier.

Chip Wickham is a jazz musician and producer who divides his time between Spain, UK and the Middle-East and who has made a name for himself with a series of beautifully crafted solo albums that draw equally on the hard swinging spiritual jazz of Roland Kirk, Yusef Lateef and Sahih Shihab, alongside the music of British jazz legends such as Tubby Hayes and Harold McNair and the more contemporary sounds of Jazzanova, Kyoto Jazz Massive and Robert Glasper.

Gaining traction in the UK clubs, that single, plus its follow-up, ‘Feel Free’, found Soul II Soul soundtracking the “Second Summer of Love”, and their third single, ‘Keep on Movin’’, finally got people dancing up and down the country as the band’s burgeoning fanbase went overground. Taking the group into the Top 5, ‘Keep on Movin’’ was followed by ‘Back to Life (However Do You Want Me)’, whose infectious groove reached the UK No.1 spot and went Top 5 across the Atlantic. As these singles’ parent album, Club Classics Vol. One, became a UK chart-topper and a US Top 20 (under the name Keep on Movin’), Soul II Soul set the pace for British soul music, inspiring countless homegrown acts that have followed. Marking its 35th anniversary, the album now returns to vinyl in a picture-disc edition featuring the group’s signature Funki Dredd logo.

For the last 30 years, as Warp’s longest-serving signing, George Evelyn has remained a constant presence at the forefront of contemporary music.

Following the underground success of their 2019 Coastal County, the duo returns with a new installment that expands their instrumental universe.

Young Fathers return with Cocoa Sugar - the twelve track album is released via Ninja Tune and follows the group’s previous two albums; 2014’s Mercury Prize-winning Dead and 2015’s White Men Are Black Men Too

Wewantsounds is delighted to announce the release of Ryuichi Sakamoto's classic LP "Coda", issued in Japan in 1983 as a solo piano version of the "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence" soundtrack.

Coke is a sensational crossover record, that draws from a sea of different influences. Fans of early Santana, garage-pysch, Nu Yorican and Latin-funk productions should all investigate this cherished album - it will have something for you.

Over the course of the last five years, the Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio have established themselves as the world's premier funky organ trio.

One of the lost classics of the '60s, a psychedelic masterpiece drenched in colour and inspired by life, love, poverty, rebellion, and, of course, 'jumpers, coke, sweet mary jane'. it was the real deal, he was compared to Dylan, Billboard gave the album 4 stars and then it sunk without trace.

15 Heavy Funk Rarities. Cold Heat is Eothen “Egon” Alapatt’s a follow-up to the famous Funky 16 Corners set he curated in the early 2000s.

With their 2010 debut Crooks & Lovers being a near perfect, small wonder of post-dubstep bliss, British electronic music duo Mount Kimbie tackle the difficult sophomore release.

Cole World: The Sideline Story is the debut studio album by rapper J. Cole.

Here we find Colin gathering the essence of the last 15 months, reflecting the positivity and feedback from his previous compilations for ZR and his Worldwide FM show.

'Jazz Dance Fusion Volume 3' is a combination of tracks that had previously evaded a release on vinyl and a reflection of the reaction that the new music was getting in his DJ sets and Radio show.

Colin Curtis is back! with another finely curated selection of the best Jazz Dance Fusion records he could find.

indigo jam unit, a Japanese super heavy jazz dance fusion supergroup, are set to release their specially compiled album in the UK for the first time. They are renowned for their unique blend of hard-hitting piano and percussion-driven jazz.

On the heels of the viral success of a handful of early songs, London singer/songwriter and poet Arlo Parks makes her full-length debut.

In a career spanning over 50 years James Brown became known as a progenitor of funk music and influencing the development of many other genres. All his hit songs, hidden gems and collaborations are now bundled on Collected.

Daniel Elms’ new album reveals the composer at his most vulnerable, presenting deeply personal compositions that reflect moments from childhood to revelations in adulthood.

Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy serves up a second helping of Balearic Breakfast with another phenomenal compilation for Heavenly Recordings.

A relentlessly curious DJ, producer, radio presenter, curator, remixer, audiophile and host, Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy is unquestionably dance music’s renaissance woman.

A relentlessly curious DJ, producer, radio presenter, curator, remixer, audiophile and host, Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy is unquestionably dance music’s renaissance woman.

For most artists who are discovered behind the mixing boards, making the transfer from producer to MC proves a daunting task. Fortunately for Kanye West, his verbal skills more than rise to the challenge of his consistently superior beats.

Collins and Collins were the American brother and sister duo (Bill and Tonee) who released the self-titled album in 1980, which was their first and final release.

For the first time on coloured vinyl is a reissue of iconic British 80’s band Culture Club’s second album ‘Colour By Numbers’, originally released in October 1983.

Follow up to Sending My Love debut, and now remasetred and remixed with additional tracks, Mancunian trumpeter Matthew Halsall teams up with labelmate Nat Birchall, pianist Adam Fairhall, bass player Gavin Barras and alternating drummers Gaz Hughes and Marek Dorcik for an album of melodic and often meditative jazz. 

Piero Zuffi made this bizarre film set in the seedy underbelly of Off-Broadway productions, hippie communities, S&M bars and bike gangs. 

One of THE great jazz quartets of all time: Coltrane (tenor & soprano), McCoy Tyner (piano), the earth-shaking Elvin Jones (drums) and Steve Davis (bass, though 'Trane's band would most often feature Jimmy Garrison and sometimes Reggie Workman), playing a blues-inspired program of originals.

another of the great (and unjustly overlooked compared to his impulse years) atlantic recordings from coltrane. a mixture of trane originals and standards, this is a real beauty. 

The final album by the Clash's original Strummer / Jones incarnation originally released in 1982.

Come Ahead is Primal Scream’s 12th full length record. 11 new songs that find Bobby Gillespie preparing to release some of the most personal songwriting of the band’s career.

Artists like Jalen Ngonda come around once in a lifetime, so it is our privilege and distinct pleasure to announce the release of his debut album Come Around and Love Me.

Come Away With ESG - This is the 35-year anniversary release of the classic genre-busting debut album by the Bronx sisters ESG.

First-ever release of "Come Down" as a 12"!

Originally released in 1996, Come Find Yourself is the debut album by New York’s finest, Fun Lovin’ Criminals.

With the panache of a circus sideshow barker, Richard James continues to push the boundaries of digitalia, fashioning easily one of the most interesting and unique catalogs in the canon. Freaky stuff indeed.

What a beauty here. A proper re-issue of Minnie Riperton debut album on GRT, originally puvlished in 1970.

In order to record the compositions on his critically acclaimed 2022 release Gold, Alabaster DePlume instilled a culture of creativity by leading his ensembles in spontaneous composition and development.

Recorded in 1970 with legendary producer steve rowland (Pretty Things, the Cure). Back in 1971, Coming from Reality was Rodriguez's last gasp, the follow-up to Cold Fact and the final album he was allowed to record for the Sussex label. 

One of hundreds of compilations that have attempted to summarize the unashamed provocateur's 40-year recording career, this Wrasse Records release is perhaps the most comprehensive since 2006's Anthologie.

After cutting these sides Baker and Evans would go their separate ways and these recordings remain the only testimony of their subtle and elegant musical interactions.

The albums recorded by serge gainsbourg between 1958 and 1968 were all originally mixed in mono - in the 1960s, that was the standard for sound. In order to respond to the evolution of listening standards, these discs were subsequently subjected to stereophonic mixes.

Miles Davis (1926-1991) and Bill Evans (1929-1960) were two of the major luminaries in jazz history.

Brand new full length album release from acclaimed rapper Open Mike Eagle.

For 16 years, the third Dr. Dre album was supposed to be The Detox, but that once-mythical, canceled LP was replaced by Compton: A Soundtrack by Dr. Dre, a supposedly final effort that was "inspired" by the N.W.A. biopic Straight Outta Compton

Computer World captured the band right at the moment when its pioneering approach fully broke through in popular music, thanks to the rise of synth pop, hip-hop, and electro. 

The second in Jazz Room's occasional pure Latin releases, this underground masterpiece first emerged in 1980 and is an outstanding example of the classic era Nu Yorican El Barrio underground sound!

Formed of Laura Lee on bass, Mark Speer on guitar, and Donald “DJ” Johnson on drums; Khruangbin’s sounds are rooted in the deepest waters of world music infused with classic soul, dub and psychedelia. Their 2015 debut album ‘The Universe Smiles Upon You’ was heavily influenced by 60’s and 70’s Thai cassettes the band listened to on their long car journeys to rehearsal in the Texan countryside. ‘Con Todo El Mundo’ takes inspiration not just from South East Asia but similarly underdiscovered funk and soul of the Mediterranean and the Middle East, particularly Iran.

Pan Amsterdam blends experimental hip-hop, jazz, funk and electronic influences, resulting in shapeshifting, genre-defying tracks.

John Carroll Kirby follows up his Stones Throw debut My Garden with a vinyl release of a collection of ambient pieces for piano.

This epic Afrobeat album contains just one eponymous track clocking in at just over 25 minutes in length, and beginning with a mysterious and psychedelic musical interplay between Fela on organ and Tony Allen on drums. 

Cuban-born percussionist Cándido de Guerra Camero, also known simply as Candido backed numerous jazz acts since the 1950s.

Following their departure from Lee "Scratch" Perry's Black Ark label and production, "Congo Ashanti" is the group's first release since "Heart Of The Congos."

Congo's turbulent and exhilarating '70s: Nightclubs and dancefloors were packed to the brim in the capital, Kinshasa. Exuberant crowds, still giddy from independence a decade prior, grooved to the sounds of the country`s classics. In fact the whole continent was submerged into the Congolese Rumba craze.

The Maghreban has been making Dance music and related genres under various names since the mid 90s, spanning Jungle, Hip Hop, Rave, House and Techno; on labels like Versatile, Black Acre, Eglo Records, R&S Records and his own Zoot Records.

Confident, exploratory and often jaw-droppingly sublime, this incredible album properly announces Caoilfhionn Rose’s arrival as a fresh creative force for 2024.

A Tele Music Classic from 1972, Pierre-Alain Dahan's Continental Pop Sound is of those library albums with something for everyone.

On their first album together since Maze of Woods (2015), Matthew Robert Cooper (Eluvium) and Mark T. Smith (Explosions in the Sky) further their creative curiosities as Inventions and release the beautiful new record A Continuous Portrait.

Originally released in 2003, Marcos Valle's Contrasts combined early noughties production techniques with his trademark Brazilian songwriting brilliance.

The Austrian music duo Kruder and Dorfmeister, consisting of Peter Kruder and Richard Dorfmeister, launched a world career in the 1990s.

Miles Davis' quintet was formed in 1955 and is widely regarded as one of the greatest combos in jazz history.

Cool Rasta is an album by The Heptones, which consisted of Earl Morgan, Barry Llewellyn, and Leroy Sibbles.

This small, friendly pub is a calm, modest option just off the Western Road strip

Full of interesting arrangements, Pino Donaggio's score for this Italian movie from 1974 sees its first reissue since the original release.

I just wanna share good music with good people

It was Flying Dutchman that put out some of Lonnie Liston Smith and the Cosmic Echoes's most vital work. Despite their groundbreaking albums, though, they are often overlooked by hardcore jazz nuts and we cannot work out why.

Cosmic Slop is the fifth studio album by Funkadelic, released in July 1973 on Westbound Records. 

The Zodiac - Cosmic Sounds is a collaborative concept album on the theme of the signs of the Zodiac released by Elektra Records in November 1967.

For 26-year-old Steve Ellison's deservedly hyped third album, Flying Lotus loosened the reins and set out to make Cosmogramma, which his label, Warp, promoted as a space opera of sorts.

Released at the height of his cosmic creative powers, ‘Cosmos Nucleus’ finds Panamanian saxophonist Carlos Garnett expanding his bold vision of jazz as liberation, healing, and outerspace expression.

Following the huge success of 2018’s Kokoroko EP’ and the sensational Abusey Junction, Could We Be More is an expansive and ambitious debut album that speaks to the force of Kokoroko.

Over a year since the release of their exhilarating debut Could We Be More, Kokoroko present a new collection of remixes of tracks from their first album.

Lady Wray makes her highly anticipated return with Cover Girl, her third album on Big Crown Records.

Between 1976 and 2019 we worked with over 200 different bands and artists, creating many hundreds of covers, all with a story... the book covers (sorry) just some of them. Full colour throughout

The album includes a pair of covers: Parton’s “Jolene” and The Beatles’ “Blackbird.” It also includes collaborations with Miley Cyrus (“II Most Wanted”), Post Malone (“Levii’s Jeans”), and Shaboozey (“Spaghettii”).

Cracker Island is the eight studio album from Gorillaz, an energetic, upbeat, genre-expansive collection of 10 tracks featuring yet another stellar line-up of artist collaborators: Thundercat, Tame Impala, Bad Bunny, Stevie Nicks, Adeleye Omotayo, Bootie Brown and Beck.